Team Vitality vs Astralis Prediction: who will turn out to be stronger?

Prediction for the match between Team Vitality and Astralis which will take place on September 25. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

The Bumblebees will try to close the negative emotions of the fans in Copenhagen. Before the autumn BLAST final, the team played in Malta, at the ESL Pro League Season 20, where they sensationally lost to Eternal Fire (1:2) in the quarter-finals. The defeat against the Turks not only left Team Vitality without a trophy, but also dropped from the top spots in the HLTV and Valve ratings. The closest opportunity to return to the top is BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2024.

Throughout 2024, it's hard to call the Bumblebees' results bad, they almost never fall below 5th-8th place. Often the team reaches the semifinals or finals, ZywOo is actively fighting for the top 1 of the world, Team Vitality is stable in the top 5 of HLTV. These are all good achievers, but not for the organisation. They want to be always first, always dominate the servers, and such random defeats from Turks are perceived very negatively by the fans. All five Bumblebees are in decent shape: statistically, after ZywOo, Spinx and flameZ are playing well, but apEX is giving apEX more and more often. There is always mezii on the back-up - the Briton rarely has high numbers, but he is quite stable in his positions. Team Vitality has a well-tuned game structure that has been worked out over the years, and they have a star who can turn any match around.

The team has no outright weaknesses, but there are occasional glitches. And speaking of face-to-face matches with Astralis, it's the Danes who can add to the Bumblebees' difficulties. This year, Team Vitality has never lost to Astralis, but three times they played all three cards and came from 0:1 down in the series. Therefore, the match will be a priori difficult for ZywOo and company, but the Bumblebees always come out of these duels victorious.

Before BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2024, the Danes made a rather loud substitution: cadiaN officially joined the team instead of br0, who was sick. All the most scandalous personalities of Heroic's last squad were gathered, one of the Danes got sick very suddenly and couldn't play in front of his home stands, cadiaN ‘generously conceded to AWP’ device and will master the role of rifler. Another brilliant move by the management may once again lead to a resounding failure. Or it could lead to success.

Either way, Astralis has launched a global realignment. CadiaN plans to become a full-fledged ingame leader, and the device will focus on the sniper role. However, there are some moments. Firstly, cadiaN is a specific captain, and will build his own game structure, regardless of Astralis' past builds. Secondly, the old Astralis blueprints were working, and device as an ingame leader was quite good, the team reached the semi-finals of tier-1 tournaments. A lot will come down to the personal egos of the players - whether the Danes are willing to sacrifice personal ambitions to come up with a unified system. We will just remember that when stavn and jabbi first moved to Astralis and played other people's roles, they showed a disgusting performance. We don't know how Casper will play on the server now, or if there will be any conflict of positions.

After all, cadiaN will just start mastering full rifler positions, that takes time too. But the upside is that the cadiaN/stavn/jabbi trio have a lot of experience playing together, and if all past conflicts are truly behind us, the synergy in the team will remain at the same level as with br0, if not even improve. Unlike the champion version of Heroic, there's also a top sniper, and Staehr plays very well. Maybe not now, not at the autumn BLAST finals, but in the future this five can even win trophies.

Let's be honest - all the global rebuilds in the initial stages make it difficult to extract a result, especially at the tier-1 level. Even though Astralis have consistently won the first map in head-to-head encounters, we can't hope for success for the Danes now. They will play together with cadiaN for the first time, they will get used to each other on the server anew. The Bumblebees have no such problems, and they should not create any problems for themselves and go into the playoffs of the autumn BLAST final.