Team Spirit vs Virtus.pro: BLAST Open Spring betting guide

Steven Rondina Published 23/03/2025

The BLAST Open Spring group stage is starting to wind down and two of the teams left in the playoff hunt are Team Spirit and Virtus.pro.

While the upper bracket finalists both get a spot in the playoffs, the lower bracket finalists aren’t so lucky. They have to win their way through the finals in order to earn their spot. That’s the case with Virtus.pro and Team Spirit.

Both squads have fought their way through BLAST Open Spring’s lower bracket, but only one of them will be able to get out of the group stage.

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Team Spirit vs Virtus.pro match overview

Team Spirit and Virtus.pro are facing off in a best-of-three match in the BLAST Open Spring 2025 group stage on March 24, 2025. The two teams are facing off for a spot in the event’s playoffs. The winner will head to the event’s quarterfinals, while the loser is eliminated.

Team Spirit vs Virtus.pro in-depth team analysis

Team Spirit roster and recent results

Team Spirit opened BLAST Open Spring with a layup of a match, but took another upset loss to MOUZ. The squad got its footing back by taking a key victory over FaZe Clan, but will have to defeat regional rival Virtus.pro in order to advance further.

donk remains the star of Team Spirit’s roster:

• Håvard “rain” Nygaard
• Helvijs “broky” Saukants
• Finn “karrigan” Andersen
• Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski
• David “frozen” Čerňanský

Team Spirit map pool

Team Spirit has a winning record across all seven of CS2’s active duty maps. The only maps where it has a winrate below 60% are Anubis, Ancient, and Nuke.

Virtus.pro roster and recent results

Virtus.pro has taken a long road to the BLAST Open Spring group B lower bracket finals. It started the event with a 2-1 victory that saw two of the maps go to overtime. It took a relatively quick loss to Team Vitality to drop to the lower bracket, but stayed alive with a brutally long match against Team Falcons. This included a 24-round opener, a double-overtime map two, and a triple-overtime map three.

Virtus.pro’s roster at BLAST Open Spring stands as follows:

• Evgeniy “FL1T” Lebedev
• Petr “fame” Bolyshev
• Denis “electroNic” Sharipov
• Timur “FL4MUS” Maryev
• Kaisar “ICY” Faiznurov

Virtus.pro map pool

Virtus.pro has been struggling on Mirage and Anubis in 2025, going 1-4 on the maps. Its go-to has been Dust 2, where it’s 6-2. The team refuses to play on Nuke.

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Team Spirit vs Virtus.pro head-to-head record

Team Spirit and the current iteration of Virtus.pro have played against each other just once, with Team Spirit winning 2-0 at IEM Katowice 2025. The last time they played prior to this was June 2024 at the BLAST Spring Final. Spirit won that match 2-0 as well.

Team Spirit vs Virtus.pro betting odds snapshot

Team Spirit is a huge 1.14 favorite against Virtus.pro for their BLAST Open Spring group stage matchup. The moneyline on Virtus.pro is a massive 5.45. This shows that bookies still have a great deal of confidence in Team Spirit.

Team Spirit vs Virtus.pro betting picks & predictions

Core picks

• Team Spirit takes a long time, or a short time, to win
  • There are two ways to look at both teams’ form of late; Virtus.pro has been dragging things out against tougher teams while Spirit has been able to run through overmatched opponents
• Team Spirit wins 2-0 (1.64)
  • Team Spirit might get dragged into deep waters, but it still hasn’t been losing many maps

Prediction

Team Spirit should be able to take the win over Virtus.pro. Virtus.pro has proven itself to be extremely scrappy, but scrappiness isn’t enough. Team Spirit is still exclusively losing to top-five teams, and VP doesn’t make that cut.

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Steven Rondina is a true lifelong gamer. His earliest memories are of playing video games, and he has continued playing them throughout his life with no plans to stop any time soon. Steven’s favorite franchises in gaming include Pokemon, Dark Souls, and Counter-Strike. He has previously published with Bleacher Report and other gaming outlets.

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