Cloud9 vs Gambit Esports

Cloud9 ranked #4 from the United States is Clashing against Gambit ranked #17 from Kazakhstan in the DreamHack Masters Marseille 2018. This tournament has 16 teams competing for a prize pool of $250,000. It is held in Marseille, France and played in LAN.

This is a best of three quarter-final match.

Cloud9 was first in group A with two matches played, two wins and round difference of +7. Gambit was second in group D with two games played and two wins and one loss with round difference of +6. Cloud9 is the 5th ranked team with 1,07 rating on 3 maps and Gambit is at 8th place with 1,05 rating on 5 maps.

Map highlight for team Cloud9: Season 100,0% win rate, Train 71,0%, Dust2 65,3%, Mirage 64,8%, Cache 64,4%, Cobblestone 64,1%, Overpass 62,2%, Inferno 55,0% and Nuke 52,9% win rate.

Map highlight for team Gambit: Dust2 is at 63,4% win rate, Overpass 61,8%, Inferno 57,8%, Nuke 55,9%, Train 55,2%, Mirage 53,0%, Cache 51,5% and Cobblestone is at 50,0% win rate.

Map distribution for both teams:

Cloud9 favors Mirage x21 and Inferno x24 while Gambit favors Overpass x21 and Train x16. The third map for Cloud9 is Cache with x13 and for Gambit Cobblestone x13.

Cloud9 plays very good Counter-Terrorist side on Overpass 60,9% win and on Train 65,7% win. Their best Terrorist sides are on Mirage 54,4% and Train 54,5% win.

Gambit has a good CT side on Nuke 55,4% and Nuke 55,3% win. Their best T sides are on Cache 53,5% and Mirage 49,5% win rate.

Pistol performance goes to Cloud9 who have 51,2% over Gambit who have 46,9%.

Best of 3 win percentage for Cloud9 is 67,3 and for Gambit 32,7.

Let's look at the matches. Cloud9 has played 25 games in April and won 20 matches! Most of those matches were Best of 1. Gambit has played 38 games in April and won 15 of them.

Personally i think this will be a 2-0 for C9. They have performed way better than Gambit and signing FNS looks like a real deal, he is precise, focused and fitted right with the team. But since there is much money involved, and people who follow my predictions bet real money, i must calm my heart and predict purely based on stats and with no emotions involved.

So let's see: Odds heavily favor Cloud9, very reasonable since Gambit has been underperforming as of late + FNS has proven himself as a good player. Entering this match a player with the highest rating in the previous three months is Timothy "autimatic" Ta who has 1,21 rating, 83,3 ADR, Impact 1,21, KAST 73,8%, DPR 0,63 and 0,80 KPR. Cloud9 entered this competition with a win against G2 22-20, tough match, both sides had good rounds, and the only experience of individual players prevailed, and C9 won. Next game was cream de la cream, a 2-0 win against one of the most favorited teams to win the tournament, FaZe. The first map was Overpass 16-13 and second was Mirage 16-14. This launched C9 to the top of the group A, and now they are facing Gambit. Gambit is just Gambit; they can always surprise as they did at Katowice one year ago. But now they look shaky. They entered this tournament with a loss from Liquid 7-16, then they surprisingly won against Space Soldiers 16-7, and they again played VS Liquid and won 2-1. The winner of this match is playing against the winner of Natus Vincere VS mousesports, and that would probably be NaVi since they are already leading 1-0.

My final bet is Gambit to take at least one map.

Good luck to all who bet and don't forget to gamble responsibly.