ENCE and Party Astronauts will meet in the final group stage match of ESL Challenger Katowice 2023 for the final slot to the play-offs stage.

It is known that the winner will play FORZE, who could even compete with ENCE. However, here it is obvious that the European team will dictate their terms, although this championship does not make any sense for them.

As for Party Astronauts, their performance against South Africa has shown that all is not so bad, but it is still far from the level of the next opponent. So here I would lean on a smashing victory for the ENCE team.

ENCE's form

The fourth team in the world rankings played frankly poorly in the main stage of the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023, where they registered only one victory over Bad News Eagles back in the first round.

On the other hand, the European side put up a solid performance in the last IEM Dallas 2023, where they picked up several good wins, adding to that by defeating MOUZ in the Grand Final.

As for Long Sogpeg in the group stage of ESL Challenger Katowice 2023, here ENCE marked a victory over Bravado Gaming, but followed by an unexpected Ledge to Virtus.pro and made things difficult for themselves.

ENCE's latest results:

• A 2-1 win over Astralis.
• Victory over FaZe Clan with a score of 2-1.
• 2-0 win over MOUZ.
• Beat Bravado Gaming 16-11.
• Defeat to Virtus.pro by a score of 17-19.

Top ENCE scores:

• Nuke - 82% wins.
• Ancient - 71% wins.
• Anubis - 62% wins.
• Vertigo - 60% wins.
• Mirage - 50% wins.

It should be remembered that the European squad continues to reject Inferno.

Party Astronauts uniforms

The 57th ranked team in the world managed to fall in the ESEA Cash Cup series championships and failed to play well in the regional qualification for Gamers8 2023.

Next up, Party Astronauts went down in the play-offs of ESL Challenger League Season 45 North America, where they suffered two losses, finishing 7th-8th in the championship.

As for Long Saugus in the group stage of ESL Challenger Katowice 2023, the North American squad failed to defeat Virtus.pro but just managed to beat Bravado Gaming (but with problems).

Latest Party Astronauts results:

• Defeat to ATK by a score of 15-19.
• A 0-2 loss to Nouns.
• 0-2 loss to Wildcard.
• 13-16 defeat at the hands of Virtus.pro.
• Beat Bravado Gaming 2-1.

Party Astronauts top scorers:

• Inferno - 69% wins.
• Nuke - 67% wins.
• Ancient - 62% wins.
• Mirage - 60% wins.

In turn, the North American team gives up maps Anubis.

ENCE - Party Astronauts encounter statistics

The teams have not met before.

Forecast for the match ENCE - Party Astronauts

I won't even say anything, because everything should be clear to everyone. It's surprising that ENCE lost to Virtus.pro at all, but at least in overtime at least it doesn't hurt so much.

As for Party Astronauts, the North American squad can already be commended for beating Bravado Gaming, but it certainly hasn't deserved more so far.

So in this case I would recommend to bet on ENCE to win 2-0.