FaZe Clan vs Passion UA StarLadder Budapest Major 2025: Best odds, picks

Steven Rondina Published 06/12/2025

FaZe Clan is hanging on by a thread in the StarLadder Budapest Major, and CS2 bettors will have to weigh their chances against Passion UA in the final round of groups.

Passion UA has arguably established itself as North America’s top Counter-Strike 2 team at this point. Hard-fought, five-match runs in the second and third group stages included wins over regional rivals Team Liquid and M80. The big question now is if it can take a big win over an entrenched top team in FaZe Clan. Should you bet on them pulling it off, though?

FaZe Clan vs Passion UA match overview

• Tournament: StarLadder Budapest Major
• Stage: Stage 3, Round 5
• Game: Counter-Strike 2
• Format: Best-of-three

Our CS2 betting tip: Passion UA has posted a respectable run at the expense of some comparatively flimsy competition. The team has shown it can punch up, but it hasn’t shown that it can reach high enough to take down FaZe Clan in a best-of-three series.

Our FaZe Clan vs Passion UA pick: FaZe Clan wins at 1.47 odds.

FaZe Clan vs Passion UA in-depth team, match analysis

FaZe Clan has had an awkward 2025, either thanks to or demonstrated by its perplexing and fairly regular roster moves.

The organization has a history of shuffling together superstars from around the globe to underwhelming results. That was seen with serviceable, but only serviceable, runs by Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski and Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev. Though FaZe made an out-of-character decision to bring in a hot upstart in Jakub “jcobbb” Pietruszewski, it returned to form by bringing back Russel “Twistzz” Van Dulken.

jcobbb and Twistzz haven’t yet proven themselves to be transformative figures for the team, but FaZe hasn’t looked much worse off either. That still leaves the team as a fringe top-10 contender, which is shown by how it has largely handed its losses to high-end competition.

Passion UA has been able to get some good wins in the Budapest Major and hit some high notes when its roster was sponsored by Complexity. Still, it hasn’t shown enough to get the nod in a best-of-three against this caliber of competition.

Key stats

Stats include all matches played by both teams in 2025.

FaZe Clan vs Passion UA betting odds snapshot

CS2 betting odds pulled from GG.BET at 5:30 pm MT on December 6, 2025.

FaZe Clan vs Passion UA betting picks and predictions

FaZe Clan is a decided favorite here, but there’s a decent return in a straight moneyline bet on them.

The big question here is whether the match will wind up coming down to a 2-0 or a 2-1 score. Passion UA’s map preferences are basically a reversal of FaZe, who have actively avoided Overpass and Train in recent months, while those maps are actually Passion UA’s go-to picks. Their win rates on other maps are mostly similar, but with FaZe facing generally stronger competition. There’s a big jump in the return in map score bets on FaZe, with the line on a 2-0 FaZe win being 2.45 while 2-1 is 3.24.

Worth taking a good look at is any line related to FaZe Clan winning pistol rounds. FaZe has been stronger throughout the yea but over the last three months, the win rates are skewed 56.6% to 41.0%.

FaZe Clan vs Passion UA Prediction

Our pick: FaZe Clan as the match winner at 2-0 at 2.45 odds at GG.BET.

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