HAVU managed to scrape through a super close match yesterday, but the overall picture hasn’t changed much — they’re still inconsistent and lacking the firepower to convincingly handle emerging CIS lineups. K23 are one of those dangerous young Russian mixes that seem to improve every series. Riding a five-match win streak and sitting over 70 spots higher in the HLTV rankings, they enter this one as clear favorites. • K23 are often aggressive style and better fraggers might overwhelms slower, more methodical teams like HAVU. If the Russians start hot, especially on T-side, this could get out of control quickly. HAVU might keep it close on their preferred maps, but the raw skill and tempo difference should be too much to handle over a best-of-three. • K23 are huge favorites here so we have to give a few rounds as handicap, but we remain confident. At least 7 round match win gives us 1.65 odds.