G2 vs Team Falcons: PGL Bucharest finals CS2 betting odds, tips

Luke Warr Published April 12, 2025

The PGL Bucharest grand finals match is now set and it’s a pairing that fans and bettors have been waiting for; G2 Esports vs Team Falcons.

Team Falcons scooping up Nikola “NiKo” Kovac from G2 is probably the biggest roster signing in Counter-Strike over the last few years. But ahead of PGL Bucharest, word broke that the team wasn’t stopping there. Now, potential new teammates are set to face off in the event’s finals.

G2 Esports vs Team Falcons match overview

G2 Esports and Team Falcons will play in the finals of PGL Bucharest on April 13, 2025. As with other recent PGL Counter-Strike events, the tournament will be contested as a best-of-five series. The winner of the event receives the $200,000 grand prize while the loser takes home $93,750.

G2 Esports vs Team Falcons in-depth team analysis

G2 Esports roster and recent results

G2 Esports entered PGL Bucharest surrounded by reports that its roster is set to be gutted by Team Falcons. It hasn’t shown on-server, though. The team was lights-out in the group stage, beating Team GamerLegion, Rare Atom, and Complexity Gaming to secure a spot in the finals. The playoffs weren’t much of an issue either, with the team taking 2-0 wins over Virtus.pro and Complexity Gaming once again.

The G2 roster has looked especially strong in the tournament, dropping just one map across its five matches so far:

• Nemanja “huNter-” Kovač
• Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov
• Mario “malbsMd” Samayoa
• Janusz “Snax” Pogorzelski
• Nikita “HeavyGod” Martynenko

G2 Esports map pool

G2 has been particularly strong in 2025 on Dust 2 and Inferno. These are the team’s two most frequently played maps, and it has an 83% and 73% winrate respectively. The team is roughly even elsewhere, but it has taken to instantly banning Train.

Team Falcons roster and recent results

Team Falcons looked doomed in PGL Bucharest. The team was the first one to take an upset loss from Complexity Gaming, and was then handed another L by Team GamerLegion. The squad was able to rebound with wins over Pain Gaming and Rare Atom, but left many aghast when it won out of the group stage by beating The MongolZ.

It pulled GamerLegion in the playoffs, and won the rematch with a 2-1 score. Team Falcons then punched its ticket to the finals by beating FaZe Clan in what could be this roster’s last event:

• Emil “Magisk” Reif
• Nikola “NiKo” Kovač
• René “TeSeS” Madsen
• Damjan “kyxsan” Stoilkovski
• Abdulkhalik “degster” Gasanov

Team Falcons map pool

Team Falcons has a close-to-even record across five of the six maps it plays on. The one exception is Mirage, where it has a comfortably positive record at 7-4 in 2025.  The one map it doesn’t play on? Anubis.

G2 Esports vs Team Falcons head-to-head record

G2 Esports and the current Team Falcons roster have only played against each other once. That came at IEM Katowice 2025, with G2 Esports winning 2-1.

G2 Esports vs Team Falcons betting odds snapshot

G2 Esports is the decisive betting favorite in the PGL Bucharest finals. The moneyline on G2 stands at 1.52 against Team Falcons’ 2.51. Bookies are definitely favoring G2 here, though the 2.51 line shows that Falcons isn’t being completely counted out.

G2 Esports vs Team Falcons betting picks & predictions

Core picks

• Correct map score bets
  • PGL having best-of-five finals means that there are some potentially big wins, like picking G2 to win 3-0 at 4.03
• G2 wins (1.52)
  • The 1.52 line on G2 winning is a juicy one, given how the picks and bans will likely see G2 have the chance to play on both Inferno and Dust 2

Prediction

G2 Esports should be able to take a fairly clean win over Team Falcons. While the future of these teams isn’t really clear, G2 looks to be considerably better right now. There’s a reason that Falcons reportedly wants to pick up some of its players, after all.

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