Fnatic vs Evil Geniuses

fnatic ranked #4 from Sweden are clashing against team Evil Geniuses ranked #3 from United States in the StarSeries i-League Season 8 that has 16 teams competing for the prize pool of $500,000. The tournament is played on LAN in Belek, Turkey, and this is best of 3 type of match.

Map highlights for team fnatic in the previous three months: Overpass is at 80,0% win rate on five played maps - WON/TIE/LOSS - 4/0/1, Nuke 75,0% on four played maps 3/0/1, Inferno 72,7% on 11 played maps 8/0/3, Dust2 66,7% on six played maps 4/0/2, Mirage 66,7% on nine played maps 6/0/3, and Train with 66,7% win rate on six played maps 4/0/2.

fnatic played 36 maps and won 26, in other words, they played 16 matches and won 13. In September, they played five maps and won three, converted they played two games and won one.

Pistol performance in the last 30 days only on offline (LAN) events & tournaments goes to team E.G. who have 58,6% win rating over team fnatic who have 51,5% total.

Map performance for team Evil Geniuses in the last three months: Overpass is at 100,0% win rate on two played maps - WIN/DREW/LOST - 2/0/0, Dust2 88,9% on nine played maps 8/0/1, Inferno 81,8% on 11 played maps 9/0/2, Mirage 80,0% on five played maps 4/0/1, Nuke 71,4% on seven played maps 5/0/2, Train 60,0% on five played maps 3/0/2, and Vertigo with 50,0% win rate on two played maps 1/0/1.

Evil Geniuses played 31 maps in October and won 23, converted, they played 14 matches and won 11. During September, they played ten maps and won nine, in other words, they played four games and won all four.

OK, so that FURIA win against G2 was quite unexpected, but i guess the G2 squad isn't yet used to the two new Serbian players. fnatic played their innitial match against team Imperial 2-0 (9-16 on Train, 16-14 on Inferno), then they lost to Renegades with 2-0 (9-16 on Mirage, and 13-16 on Inferno). They played against mousesports and won 2-0 (19-17 on Train, and 16-12 on Inferno), then they won against team MIBR and won 2-0 (16-10, Inferno, Mirage 16-10), and then they won against team Vitality with 2-0 (16-7 on Inferno, and 16-12 on Nuke). Their last match was agaisnt G2 where they won 2-1 (16-11 on Overpass, 14-16 on Dust2, and 16-12 on Mirage).

On the other side, E.G., won their first match with 2-0 (16-8 on Inferno, and 16-10 on Dust2), then they played against NiP and lost 1-2 (4-16 on Dust2, 16-14 on Nuke, and 4-16 on Inferno). They played against Heroic and won 2-1 (17-19 on Inferno, 16-7 on Overpass, and 16-10 on Nuke), then they played against FURIA and won 2-0 (16-12 on Mirage, 16-13 on Train), then they won against NiP 2-0 (16-11 on Inferno, and 16-9 on Dust2). Their last match was against Renegades, where they won 2-0 (16-5 on Inferno, and 16-12 on Mirage).

Let's see some stats for this tournament so far: fnatic are 3rd TOP rated team with 1,10 rating on 13 played maps, while Evil Geniuses are 1st with 1,12 rating on 14 played maps. The best players for fnatic are Brolland with 1,25 rating, and flusha who has 1,20 rating. The best player for EG is Ethan who has 1,26 rating on 14 played maps. Distribution of played maps: Inferno was played 17 times, Mirage x15, Nuke x11, Train x11, Dust2 x9, Overpass x7, and Vertigo x2. This benefits EG to be honest because their best maps are D2, Mirage, and Inferno.

Head-to-head these two teams played a lot of maps, and the score is 6 wins for fnatic while EG has two wins (some of those wins are from the period while they were branded as NRG).

I willl go with EG to win here, they are a beast at the moment, so they should take this 2-0.

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