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Your pastie link doesn’t work.

This is working for me:
$myslug = 'my-test-group';
if ( bp_has_groups('type=single-group&slug='.$myslug) )

For some reason, you have to add the type as “single-group” as well.

If you’re just trying to get the group avatar of one group… just use bp_group_avatar() (view the params in bp-groups-templatetags.php) or bp_core_fetch_avatar() (view params in bp-core-avatars.php).