Japaleno vs goodjob

Team Japaleno ranked #42 from Sweden are playing against GoodJob ranked #100 from Belarus in the PMU Challenge 2018 that has eight teams competing for a prize pool of $5,960 + four spots at LAN finals.

This is a best of 3 quarter-final match. The winner advances to the offline finals.

Map performance for team Japaleno: Dust2 is at 100,0% win rate, Inferno 85,7%, Cache 66,7%, Train 63,6%, Overpass 54,5%, Nuke 50,0%, Cobblestone 50,0% and Mirage 45,0% win rate. Their most played maps are Mirage x20, Train x11, Overpass x11, Cobblestone x10, Inferno x7, Cache x3, Nuke x2, and Dust2 x1.

GoodJob map highlights: Dust2 100,0% win rate, Mirage 56,6%, Inferno 54,3%, Cache 53,8%, Cobblestone 40,0%, Overpass 34,4%, Nuke 27,3%, and Train 0,0% win rate. Distribution of played maps: Mirage x53, Inferno x46, Cache x39, Cobblestone x35, Overpass x32, Nuke x11, Train x4 and Dust2 x1.

Japaleno has played seven maps in June, they won six and converted in games they played four games and won all four. In May they played seven maps and won all seven, converted, they played five games and won all five.

GoodJob has played seven maps in June and won six, converted in games they played three games and won all three. In May they played only one game against Space Jam where they lost 6-16.

OK, there is no doubt that Japaleno is a better team in this matchup. They played more games in previous weeks/months, and they are on a winning streak. GoodJob has also won several last games, but those matches were against worst ranked teams and mostly nonamers as the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive fans call bad teams. The most likely score here will be an over 2,5 maps. The winner qualifies for the final tournament, so both sides will do their best to perform at the adequate level. My personal opinion is that GoodJob will surrender this game, since traveling from Belarus to a tournament that has little to no prize pool all the way in Paris, France is not cost-efficient for them. IMO.

My bet here will be a win for Japaleno.

Good luck to all who bet and may the odds be ever in your favor.