Tomorrow night, the fourth season of CEVO Professional for 1.6 will begin play. With a lot of the focus on the recent move to Counter-Strike Source by a lot of the top teams, this league seems to be lost in the mix. The reality is that this is still the premiere online league in the nation for Counter-Strike. Can Team Pandemic repeat as champions? Can some of the teams successfully compete in both 1.6 and Source? Will any of the new teams contend for the championship? These are all questions that will take time to answer.

To start off, we'll give our predictions of the Week 1:1 matches that will be played on de_train. This is now a regular feature on TeamPandemic.net with a different member of the Counter-Strike team giving his guest predictions each week. This week Jonny "Ph33R" Schwan will give his incite about the matches.

Home Team (0-0) aZn habibi foogs pham hostile Away Team (0-0) zid Des1re hanes eng exodus	Edward Chang With the addition of aZn, the other u5 guys are going to prove that they deserved having such a beast on their team. Look for them to make a strong showing to the 1.6 community, as well as their sponsors, that u5 is a force to be reckoned with, even with the transition to Source. No one has really seen JMC perform on the 1.6 scene as of late, as they already had a CEVO-P spot secured by their performance last season. JMC also seemingly is one of the only high profile teams that didn’t make any roster moves. However, it seems like JMC has been playing a lot of Source lately and they definitely showed it in their first source match. In the end, this is still a 1.6 match, so look for u5 to come out with this one. Prediction: United 5 defeats Jax Money Crew 18-12
	Jonny "Ph33R" Schwan U5 has undergone a roster change and has been playing a lot of source lately and hostile hasn't been around much for practice. Meanwhile, we have JMC who has been in the shade of the shadows lately. I haven't seen much practice going for either of the teams, but I look for u5 to upset JMC 16-13. Prediction: United 5 defeats Jax Money Crew 17-13
Home Team (0-0) steno smoog1er cody evolution lim Away Team (0-0) broodex crock fiercemind rulER fuzion-	Edward Chang Like u5 getting aZn, I see Flow picking up smoogler as a huge improvement in their organization. Smoog showed he was back, leading his x6 boys into battle against NiP at CPL and coming out on top. Meepins has always been one of those teams that sticks around never doing much, but they surprised me making it through the CEVO-P placement tourney. They destroyed e7 and soundly defeated a strong Turmoil team to finish the tournament with a 2-0 record and a spot in CEVO-P. However, I still feel with some practice, Flow’s lineup definitely outweighs Meepins’, and I’ll give Flow the victory here. Prediction: Flow Gaming defeats Meepins 18-12
	Jonny "Ph33R" Schwan In this match we find two teams in Flow and Meepins that have been working on their game, but to be honest I see Flow just being the more dominant team and should take it with ease Prediction: Flow Gaming defeats Meepins 23-7
Home Team (0-0) jame^s pinekone mehler LuckeyTed Perez Away Team (0-0) Ph33R Daffsta mastern00k s0nNy kEEN	Edward Chang Revolution Sports is another one of those teams that I expected to be run into the ground in the placement tourney, but managed to do well. After barely beating npu 20-19, they rebounded to simply dominate Flow’s strong lineup 16-4. However, Pandemic has been playing strong like always, and look for keen to drop some bombs in his homecoming. No Prediction
	Jonny "Ph33R" Schwan It should be fun to play james and company again and I think we should be able to take them down again unless luckeyted is goin lucky~ No Prediction
Home Team (0-0) grt tr1p shaguar stevenson lari Away Team (0-0) ninespot pyrite dsingh rockyte s.kiM bautista	Edward Chang I personally feel that EG is the one team that benefited the most from the huge roster moves being made recently. With the addition of arguably North America's best strat caller in tr1p and Canadian beasts grt and shag, they are in great shape. x3o has also made a strong showing at their sponsored LAN's tournament and in the CEVO-P placement, but EG is no random east team. Interestingly enough, EG had to play its only Canadian rivals in the Placement tourney, easily beating both IDNM and eMg to cruise into CEVO-P. x3o definitely earned their spot as they lost to Turmoil, squeaked by e7, beat IDNM and then defeated Flow to earn the 7 seed. Prediction: Evil Geniuses defeats x3o Gaming 20-10
	Jonny "Ph33R" Schwan EG has undergone a roster change as well and since I believe in chemistry and roster changes have a huge effect on that, I see this being a really close match. x3o has been practicing a ton as of late and could easily upset EG, but I don't really see it happening. Prediction: Evil Geniuses defeats x3o Gaming 16-14
Home Team (0-0) tOyMaCHiN3 theNuT thoMz dutchfoo happa Away Team (0-0) da bears cbz dominator ionZ m4gic	Edward Chang Yes you read right. Even with dominator in the match for zEx, I predict a win for Netfragz. In my eyes, cbz is not in his best Counter-Strike form and m4g1c hasn't been playing up to par lately. Netfragz always does solid online, including playing online from LAN (Intel 5k's). Look for beN (theNut) to drop some bombs. However, I’m not too sure on how ready NF is, and happa might be rusty. This match is definitely the hardest one to predict, as both teams are pretty unpredictable in their online matches, so it’s pretty much a coin toss. Based on their past CEVO-P performances, the choice should be zEx but I'm going to with intuition while keeping this as close as possible. Prediction: Netfragz defeats zEx 16-14
	Jonny "Ph33R" Schwan zEx has picked up a new player. I forgot who, but someone said he was in 3D at one point... ahh who am I kidding they got dominator the deer hunta! with zEx having a new lineup as well, it could hurt them in this match. If Phil K and company go insane, I could see netfragz making it close. Prediction: zEx defeats netfragz 16-14

Good luck to all the teams and come back Thursday when we post the predictions for the Week 1:2 Matches.

** The opinions stated above are those of the predictors and not necessarily reflective of the views of the organization as a whole. **