by BLAST Open Spring 2025 kicks off on Wednesday, March 19, with the first three fixtures of the Counter-Strike 2 esports tournament. Here are our CS2 betting picks for MOUZ vs Team Falcons, Team Vitality vs Astralis, and FaZe Clan vs Virtus.pro, with esports odds courtesy of top bookmakers in United States.
MOUZ vs TEAM FALCONS CS2 BETTING & MATCH DETAILS |
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| Best Odds: | MOUZ -178.57 at BetOnline | Falcons +141 at BetOnline |
| When: | March 19, 2025 | 14:30 CET |
| Watch Live: | Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/BLASTPremier) |
Despite reaching the ESL Pro League Season 21 finals, MOUZ are not among the title favourites, priced at +1000 in BLAST Open Spring 2025 outright betting markets. However, while MOUZ are not given a high likelihood of winning the event, they are expected to start the tournament with a win.
Team Falcons had a bit of a resurgence at PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, where Nikola “NiKo” Kovač secured their first podium finish of the season — albeit with a loss to MOUZ in the final. They struggled in the second stage of ESL Pro League S21, however, crashing out in 9th-11th place with losses against 3DMAX, Eternal Fire, and MOUZ.
Even with those recent head-to-head results, Team Falcons are not to be underestimated. They have shown just how dangerous they can be when NiKo and Abdul “degster” Gasanov are on top of their game. The latter had a rough showing at the ESL Pro League (0.91), but one bad tournament should not make Falcons +141 underdogs.
Team Falcons to win
TEAM VITALITY vs ASTRALIS CS2 BETTING & MATCH DETAILS |
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| Best Odds: | Vitality -588.24 at Bovada | Astralis +396 at BetOnline |
| When: | March 19, 2025 | 17:00 CET |
| Watch Live: | Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/BLASTPremier) |
Vitality are the team to watch at BLAST Open Spring 2025, where they will look to follow up back-to-back wins at ESL Pro League Season 21 and Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2025. Astralis, on the other side, can feel happy to be here after a rough start to the season.
The Danes have not won a LAN event since 2019, but they performed well at PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 with wins against The MongolZ and FaZe Clan in the playoffs. They’ve accomplished far less than Vitality, but there are good reasons to take a small position on the outsiders.
Vitality have played six best-of-three series this month and are coming fresh off a demanding schedule at ESL Pro League Season 21, so some fatigue might be setting in. It will likely not be enough for an upset, but we can give Astralis one map.
Astralis +1.5 maps
FAZE CLAN vs VIRTUS.PRO CS2 BETTING & MATCH DETAILS |
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| Best Odds: | FaZe -222.22 at BetOnline | VP +170 at BetOnline |
| When: | March 19, 2025 | 19:30 CET |
| Watch Live: | Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/BLASTPremier) |
The top Counter-Strike 2 betting sites are giving FaZe Clan a 69% implied probability of beating Virtus.pro. That is a high number for a team who have not played a match in nearly a month and lost their last two games against Astralis and Team Falcons.
While FaZe Clan should never be taken too lightly, the same can be said for Virtus.pro with their firepower, which can match any of the top CS2 teams in the world. Virtus.pro have not accomplished much this season, however, and played their last match on February 18, when they lost to MOUZ at PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025.
This is a clash between two rusty teams with a lot to prove. At best, this is a coin-flip match, so we will happily side with Denis “electroNic” Sharipov and co. to take down FaZe and get back on track.
