FaZe Clan vs Heroic: BLAST Austin Major CS2 betting odds, tips

The BLAST Austin Major is going to be a do-over for the Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyljev era of FaZe Clan, but the team will have start that with another do-over against Heroic.

FaZe Clan took a relatively quick elimination at IEM Dallas. While that was meant to be a coming-out party for FaZe Clan and s1mple, losses to Team Liquid and Heroic forced the team out of the event early. There were some asterisks attached to those losses, but what are the team’s chances in this match?

FaZe Clan vs Heroic match overview

• Tournament: BLAST Austin Major
• Stage: Group Stage 2
• Game: Counter-Strike 2
• Format: Best-of-one

Betting tip: In a best-of-one setting, it’s worth betting on FaZe Clan to look better than the team that ate a narrow loss to Heroic in IEM Dallas.

FaZe Clan vs Heroic in-depth team, match analysis

FaZe Clan made a Hail Mary play ahead of the BLAST Austin Major by adding CSGOAT s1mple to its roster. Making the splashiest possible signing is a classic FaZe Clan maneuver but s1mple has shown that he can drag even a dysfunctional team to good placements on his own. And s1mple on a functional team? Well, that’s the best recipe for success in all of Counter-Strike.

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IEM Dallas was supposed to be fans’ first taste of this iteration of FaZe Clan, but Håvard “rain” Nygaard sat out of the event to attend to family matters. Despite playing with a substitute and going without a proper boot camp, s1mple showed that he still has the ability to carry a team. Not only that, but there were some great demonstrations of chemistry between s1mple and former teammate Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski.

The big question for FaZe now is whether the team has the legs for a run longer than their sprint out of Dallas. The full lineup is in Austin and they’ve had the opportunity to practice. They can show what they’re made of against Heroic.

Heroic was the team that punched FaZe’s ticket out of Dallas with a hardfought 2-1 win. While Heroic didn’t convert its win over FaZe and company into a playoff berth, the team has looked very good in the BLAST Austin Major so far. The team’s performance has looked much cleaner than its previous win over FaZe, which was defined by wacky “FaZe magic” clutches.

Though Heroic has improved, FaZe has also likely pulled together in a way that can carry them to victory.

Rosters and roles

Map pool

• FaZe Clan is just about even on almost every active duty map so far in 2025. The exceptions are Ancient and Nuke, where the team has about a 60% win rate on Nuke and Ancient. Most of that is without s1mple though, and s1mple is historically very strong on Train.
• FaZe has generally avoided playing on Train since its return to competitive Counter-Strike, but that might change with s1mple on the team.
• Heroic has a 50% win rate or better across the six maps it plays, and is closer to 70% on Mirage, Dust 2, and Anubis. The team bans Inferno.

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Key stats

Stats reflect all the teams’ matches in the calendar year of 2025.

FaZe Clan vs Heroic head-to-head record

Heroic rolled out an all-new roster in January 2025 and the only time it has competed against FaZe Clan was the aforementioned 2-1 win for Heroic in IEM Dallas.

FaZe Clan and Heroic recent match history

FaZe Clan debuted s1mple in IEM Dallas and competed in BLAST Rivals Spring prior to that.

• Heroic: 2-1 loss
• BC.Game Esports: 2-0 win
• Team Liquid: 2-0 loss
• MOUZ: 2-0 loss
• FlyQuest: 2-0 win

Heroic posted a quick 3-0 run through the first BLAST Austin Major group stage and played in IEM Dallas prior to that.

• FlyQuest: 2-1 win
• NRG: 1-0 win
• Chinggis Warriors: 1-0 win
• Aurora Gaming: 2-1 loss
• FaZe Clan: 2-1 win

FaZe Clan vs Heroic betting odds snapshot

Lines pulled from gg.bet at 4:05 pm MT on June 6, 2025.

Best picks

• FaZe Clan wins pistol rounds @ 1.87 – FaZe is a definite cut above Heroic when it comes to pistol rounds, and the team should be even better after adding s1mple.
• Map 1 over 22.5 rounds @ 2.30 – Heroic and FaZe Clan are both capable of mounting some wild comebacks.
• FaZe Clan wins @ 1.87 – Heroic needed everything it had to take out a FaZe Clan that plug-and-played s1mple without practicing, and had a substitute on top of it. Heroic has looked more polished in Austin, but FaZe Clan should also come in with a sharper edge than it had in Dallas.

Prediction

FaZe Clan wins 1-0

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