Fnatic vs Astralis

fnatic ranked #26 from Sweden are clashing against team Astralis ranked ofc #1 from Denmark in the IEM Chicago 2018 that has 16 teams competing for the prize pool of $250,000. This tournament is held in Chicago, Illinois, USA and it is played of course on LAN.

This is best of 3 * Semi-final type of match.

Map performance for team fnatic in the previous three months: Overpass is at 75,0% win rate on four played maps, Inferno 43,8% on 16 played maps, Dust2 37,5% on eight played maps, Cache 33,3% on six played maps, Mirage 31,2% on 16 played maps, and Train 25,0% win rate on 12 played maps.

Map highlights for team Astralis in the last three months: Nuke is at 100,0% win rate on 12 played maps, Train 83,3% on 12 played maps, Inferno 80,0% on 25 played maps, Dust2 75,0% on 12 played maps, Overpass 75,0% on 16 played maps, and Mirage 69,2% on 13 played maps.

Pistol performance in the last 50 days only on offline events goes to team Astralis who have 57,7% win rating over fnatic who have 36,4% total.

fnatic played 14 maps in November and won eight, converted, they played 11 games and won six. During the month of October, they played 32 maps and won only ten. In September they played 16 maps and won five, converted, they played nine games and won only two.

Astralis played 14 maps in November and won nine, converted, they played 11 games and won seven. During October they played 40 maps, and all were best of 1 format, they won 35, astonishing record! In September they played 29 maps and won 24, converted, they played 20 games and won 17. In August they played seven maps and won four, converted, they played three games and won two.

So far in this tournament, there have been some weird scores and results. fnatic in upper bracket defeated BIG 16-9, and then defeated eUnited 2-0. After that match, they defeated team Liquid 2-1. All these matches were from the upper bracket. Astralis defeated MVP PK 16-8 and then defeated their homeland team North 2-0, but after that, they were demolished by Clan FaZe 2-0 (7-16, 15-19), NiKo was raining bullets on everyone. The winner of this match will play against the winner of Clan FaZe vs Team Liquid. These two teams played four matches head-to-head and all were win by Astralis in 2018. When we take a look at stats we can see that of course Astralis is 1st TOP team with 1,12 rating on seven played maps, their best plater is dupreeh with 1,21 rating on seven played maps. fnatic is ranked as 3rd top team with 1,11 rating on six played maps. Their best players are KRIMZ who is 1st with 1,28 rating on six played maps and Brollan who is 8ght with 1,18 rating on six played maps. Distribution of played maps so far: Mirage x11, Inferno x10, Train x9, Cache x8, Nuke x6, Overpass x5 and Dust2 x4.

If we look ar fnatic from another perspective, we can see that they had a lot of roster changes this year. draken left in October but they added Brollan who is playing very good and twist. Only two tournaments they were 1st were in March when they won WESG 2017 and IEM World Championship. Astralis, on the other hand, had only one change in February when Magisk joined back with the team, so yeah, they are pretty much the best at this moment. All six tournaments they played this year they won, cashing in more than $4,189,134, insane amount, and performance during this year.