The MongolZ vs M80 Tips & Predictions – BLAST Open Spring 2025

By Tit Krajnik

19 Mar 2025

Tit Krajnik 19 Mar 2025

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The MongolZ vs M80 Counter-Strike 2 betting preview for Thursday, March 20, 2025, in the first round of Group B at BLAST Open Spring 2025 (17:00 CET)
The MongolZ are heavily favourited
M80 are not expected to win, but they have a chance to steal a map

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The MongolZ vs M80 Predictions

The MongolZ and M80 will clash on Thursday, March 20, in the opening round of Group B at BLAST Open Spring 2025, marking their first meeting of the season. As a much higher-rated team, MongolZ are expected to crush M80, but the Mongolian squad might not be as dominant as expected.

The MongolZ vs M80 Predictions
Head to Head
The MongolZ Form
The MongolZ Squad & Team News
M80 Form
M80 Squad & Team News

The MongolZ are billed as 1.15 favourites to defeat M80, which gives them an 87% chance of beating M80 and 61.7% of a 2-0 sweep. Those are very high numbers and somewhat justifiable following MongolZ’s solid showing at ESL Pro League Season 21.

However, at these prices, M80 to take a map are a very inviting choice from a betting perspective, as even though they’ve not accomplished as much, M80 can bite.

M80 are much lower rated
This is MongolZ’s game to lose
M80 are not likely to win, but they can do some damage

Head to Head

The MongolZ and M80 have yet to meet this season.

The MongolZ Form

The MongolZ are the third-highest rated team attending BLAST Open Spring 2025 and rightly considered one of the main favourites to win the event. They are enjoying a solid start to the season, having finished top-four at Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2025, fifth-eighth at PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, and made another semifinal at ESL Pro League Season 21 earlier this month.

At ESL Pro League Season 21, The MongolZ defeated GamerLegion, G2 Esports, 3DMAX, and Natus Vincere. Still, they could not make it past Team Spirit and Team Vitality, who eliminated them in the semifinals.

Despite the bittersweet ending to the tournament, The MongolZ showed up, played well, and proved they belong among the best teams in the world. So it comes as no surprise that they’re expected to have an easy time against M80 this Thursday.

The MongolZ Squad & Team News

The MongolZ have not made any roster changes.

Garidmagnai "bLitz" Byambasuren
Sodbayar "Techno4K" Munkhbold
Usukhbayar "910" Banzragch
Ayush "mzinho" Batbold
Azbayar "Senzu" Munkhbold

M80 Form

M80 are one of the outsiders attending BLAST Open Spring 2025 after an early elimination from ESL Pro League Season 21.

M80 had an explosive start to the tournament, with wins against FlyQuest (2-0) and paiN Gaming (2-0), but then lost the next three against SAW (1-2), 3DMAX (0-2) and FURIA (1-2), thus failed to reach the second stage and placed 17th-19th.

Prior to their ESL Pro League campaign, M80 showed good form, with a silver medal from ICE Invitational 2025 and Ace North American Masters Spring 2025. Yet that means very little after M80’s rough displays in the international event, suggesting they are unlikely to make it very far.

M80 Squad & Team News

M80 have not made any roster changes.

Michael "Swisher" Schmid
Ethan "reck" Serrano
Fritz "slaxz-" Dietrich
Elias "s1n" Stein
Mason "Lake" Sanderson

Verdict

The MongolZ v M80

The MongolZ are rightly priced as the favourites to defeat M80, who have looked fairly toothless in their recent international competitive endeavours. But I can not look past M80 on the map handicap at 2.20.

The MongolZ are the better team, but they have recently finished their ESL Pro League Season 21 campaign, are likely fatigued from the demanding schedule, and have likely not put in much preparation for this match and instead got ready for other, tougher opponents.

While I’m not underestimating The MongolZ and their chances to win, M80 have had some decent showings recently and should be in a good spot to force at least one close map.

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