mousesports vs Gambit Esports

ESL One Cologne 2018,

It's been a while since my last tip, but I decided to wait until some more tier 1 play came around in order to have well-versed and meaningful tips to give. Starting now we take a look at two teams that will be playing a best of one in the first round of the group stages of ESL One Cologne 2018. The two teams are that of Mousesports and Gambit.

Mousesports :

After placing second in the previous international LAN of ESL One Belo Horizonte, Mousesports have decided to drop the support player of Styko for a more potentially powerful position filler: Snax of Virtus Pro. With Virtus Pro struggling to find solidity in the current roster, the organization decided to open up the players to be traded. Mousesports jumped on this opportunity and quickly snatched up the secondary AWPer and highlight pistol round player that is Snax. At the cost of the lowest performing member Styko, this seems like a good pick-up, but only time will tell how the new Polish member will help Mousesports solidify themselves back into the top 3 teams in the world.

Mousesports's map pool looks like this; Mirage is 13-9, Inferno is 11-7, Train is 10-4, Nuke is 6-3, Cache is 4-2, Dust 2 is 3-3, and Overpass is 2-3

Gambit :

Gambit has been trialing the newest member of the roster ever since the team decided to let Seized former Na'vi rifler go. Mir of Vega Squadron has been fulfilling his role and has just recently become apart of the active lineup in full. Gambit still struggling to find the success they had during the Krakow Major last year this should be a good game to test the capabilities against a more top-tier team that is Mousesports. I feel they will be able to put up some fight, however, the win-loss record in recent times has not been in the positives. Gambit is currently 51 wins to 61 losses in the past three months.

Gambit's map pool looks like this; Train is 13-18, Mirage is 9-11, Overpass is 10-8, Inferno is 6-4, Cache is 4-5, Nuke is 4-4, and Dust 2 is 2-4

Map Pick/Ban :

This is a best of one series, so each team will ban out three maps and decider will be the one map left over. Going of win record alone, Mousesports will ban out Train, Overpass, and Dust 2. While Gambit will ban out Inferno, Cache, and Nuke. Leaving Mirage as the leftover decider map.

Final Thoughts:

Both of these teams have a relatively new member to the squads and therefore I cannot see either team being in full force coming into this game. However, I do see more of an upswing in Mousesports considering when they replaced Styko is was not for underperformance, but because the available player of Snax could create more opportunity to bring back near-lost rounds I feel Mousesports should be able to escape from this match cleanly. Medium bet on Mousesports.