NaVi vs Team Spirit: BLAST Open Spring 2025 playoffs betting tips

Steven Rondina Published 24/03/2025

The BLAST Open Spring 2025 playoffs will kick off with a pair of intraregional matches, with Eastern Europe being represented by Team Spirit and NaVi.

The BLAST Open Spring group stage wrapped and saw a number of surprises along the way. One of the big ones was Team Spirit being forced to work its way through the lower bracket. The top-ranked squad ultimately survived by beating Virtus.pro, but the road didn’t end there.

Now, Team Spirit has to knock off another squad from their region. Here are the key details on Team Spirit vs NaVi in the BLAST Open Spring 2025 playoffs, and how to bet on it.

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Team Spirit vs NaVi match overview

Team Spirit and NaVi will play against each other in the BLAST Open Spring 2025 playoffs on March 28, 2025. The winner will advance into the semifinals to face Team Vitality, while the loser is eliminated. The match is set to be a standard best-of-three.

Team Spirit vs NaVi in-depth team analysis

Team Spirit roster and recent results

Team Spirit was one of the favorites to win BLAST Open Spring, but things went awry when the team took a surprise loss to MOUZ. Despite that setback, Spirit remained alive in the event and cleared the group stage by defeating FaZe Clan and Virtus.pro. Team Spirit’s star-studded roster highlighted by donk will compete in this match:

Leonid “chopper” Vishnyakov
Boris “magixx” Vorobyev
Myroslav “zont1x” Plakhotja
Danil “donk” Kryshkovets
Dmitriy “sh1ro” Sokolov

Team Spirit map pool

Team Spirit doesn’t really have any weaknesses when it comes to maps. Over the last six months, the worst case for the team is having a winrate around 60%, which is the case on Anubis, Ancient, and Nuke. Its best map by a mile is Dust 2, where it has an 83% winrate during that same block of time.

NaVi roster and recent results

NaVi worked its way through the upper bracket of the BLAST Open Spring group stage by beating Furia and The MongolZ in a pair of tough matches. That guaranteed the team a playoff spot, but it landed in the semifinals after losing to Eternal Fire in the upper bracket finals.

NaVi and Aleksib will ride onto the server for this one:

Aleksi “Aleksib” Virolainen
Valerij “b1t” Vakhovsjkyj
Justinas “jL” Lekavičius
Mihai “iM” Ivan
Ihor “w0nderful” Zhdanov

NaVi map pool

Over the last 12 months, NaVi has a 66% winrate or better on Dust 2, Anubis, Ancient, and Mirage. It’s close to 50-50 on both Nuke and Inferno, though.

Team Spirit vs NaVi head-to-head record

Team Spirit and NaVi have played against each other nine times since February 2024. Team Spirit has won seven of those matches. Their most recent match was in IEM Katowice 2025, with Spirit winning 2-0. Spirit has come out on top in their last three encounters, with NaVi unable to win a single map during that stretch.

Team Spirit vs NaVi betting odds snapshot

Team Spirit is a solid favorite over NaVi for their upcoming match. The moneylines stand at 1.4 against 2.89, suggesting that Navi has a slim chance of winning. Their chances aren’t nil, though.

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Team Spirit vs NaVi betting picks & predictions

Core picks

Team Spirit wins 2-0 (2.31)
- The last two matches between these teams ended in a 2-0 win for Spirit, so a 2.31 line on that seems like a solid proposition
Team Spirit wins quickly
- When NaVi loses, it tends to lose fairly quickly, making something like NaVi wins under 7.5 rounds on map one a solid value at 3.12

Prediction

Team Spirit should be able to beat NaVi. Spirit is still the top-ranked team in the world. It’s also specifically strong against NaVi. This one should be pretty straightforward.

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