BLAST Rivals Spring 2025 betting picks – Wednesday, April 30

BLAST Rivals Spring 2025 kicks off on Wednesday, April 30, with the first four group-stage fixtures. Wildcard will look to upset the surging Team Vitality, MOUZ face off against paiN Gaming, Team Spirit clash with FlyQuest, and FaZe Clan meet with Team Falcons for the third time this season. Check out our Counter-Strike 2 betting picks for the four games with esports odds, courtesy of Stake.com.

Team Vitality are the hottest Counter-Strike 2 team in the world, having picked up the last four S-Tier tournament titles and the ESL Grand Slam Season 5 title to boot. Since getting knocked out of BLAST Bounty Spring 2025, Vitality have won 21 straight games, which includes 16 clean sweeps.

Wildcard have not come close to reaching the same heights this season. Their only tournament win came in January when Wildcard won Frost and Fire Europe, although they did well earlier this month by making their way through the North American BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 qualifiers.

Considering the form Vitality have been showing of late, they should never be losing to the world’s no.29 team. However, Wildcard are no pushovers and with fatigue slowly setting in for the Bees, we like our chances with the underdogs with a 13-round handicap.

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Like the first match of the day, the clash between MOUZ and paiN Gaming is expected to be very one-sided. The best Counter-Strike 2 betting sites are giving MOUZ an 82% implied probability of winning the game, which is a big number but a justifiable one.

MOUZ have been in great shape since late February with a gold medal from PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, two runner-up finishes at ESL Pro League Season 21 and BLAST Open Spring 2025, and a semifinal appearance at Intel Extreme Masters Melbourne 2025. PaiN Gaming were also present in some of the recent S-Tier tournaments, but they have not placed higher than top 14 since reaching the knockout stage of PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025.

MOUZ are in much better shape, and they’ve swept paiN Gaming once before this season. The rematch should not end any differently.

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Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 champions Team Spirit, got overshadowed by Team Vitality this season, having failed to keep up the pace with the ESL Grand Slam Season 5 champions. However, Spirit have left a positive mark in the four LAN events they’ve attended, which includes a semifinal run at BLAST Open Spring 2025.

Ranked no.26 in the world, FlyQuest claimed the tag of Oceania’s top team by making it through the Oceanic and Southeast Asian BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 qualifiers. However, their performances in international events left a lot to be desired – with early eliminations from ESL Pro League Season 21 (17th-19th) and IEM Melbourne 2025 (ninth-12th).

As the latest betting odds suggest, there’s a massive gap between the two squads. Even though favourites do slip, Spirit are very consistent in trashing weaker opponents.

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The clash between FaZe Clan and Team Falcons is expected to be the closest of the four BLAST Rivals Spring 2025 Day 1 fixtures. Yet even in this affair, it is hard to go against the favourites.

Team Falcons have looked completely rejuvenated of late, and the fact that they forced Team Vitality to overtime on map five of IEM Melbourne 2025 in their first tournament with Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov is a good indication of where they’re trending.

FaZe Clan are very shaky this season, struggling to keep up with the top dogs. They placed third in PGL Bucharest 2025, which looks promising on paper, but when faced with stronger opponents, FaZe regularly crumble.

FaZe Clan will find some momentum at one point, but in the shape they’re now, they can be happy if they win one map off the surging Falcons.

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