Nexus vs Fnatic Academy

Nexus ranked #62 from Romania is playing against fnatic Academy ranked #85 from Europe (mix of players) in the GOCASE Challenge that has 16 teams competing for a prize pool of $10,000.

This is a best of 1 Swiss round 4 (teams with a 2-1 record). The loser is eliminated.

At this moment these two teams are really close to each other. fnatic Academy is 5th with three matches played, two wins, zero ties/draws, and one lost match with round difference of 0 and six points. Team Nexus is just below them on the 6th spot with the same score of three games played, two wins, zero ties and one loss, but their round difference is -4, and they have six points.

Nexus defeated Vexed 16-10, then they lost to LDLC 3-16, and after that, they beat Izako Boars 16-13.

fnatic Academy defeated Game Agents 19-15, then they defeated Singularity 16-11, and after that, they lost to x-kom 7-16.

Map highlights for team Nexus: Dust2 is at 100,0% win rate, Cache 63,2%, Mirage 61,3%, Cobblestone 55,7%, Overpass 52,2%, Nuke 50,0%, Inferno 47,4% and Train 40,9% win rate. Maps they play mostly on are Mirage x106, Cobblestone x79 and Cache x68.

All players from fnatic Academy have only 15 maps played together, so i will try to take advantage of all the stats i can find.

Map highlights for team fnatic Academy: Cache is at 65,7% win rate, Cobblestone 63,0%, Inferno 58,3%, Mirage 51,5%, Dust2 50,0% and Overpass 50,0%. Their worst maps are Train with 45,5%, and Nuke 44,4% win rate. They play mostly on three maps, and those maps are Cache x35, Mirage x33, and Cobblestone x22.

Nexus has not had a good time in April, especially in the second part of the month where they won only one game in last 9. They played a total of 29 games and won 15. Since this is a best of one, let's see their performance in this format: Only six matches in April and only two wins.

fnatic Academy has played only 15 games in April and won 9 of them. Their best of one score is: 8 games and five wins. Before April their last official match was in July 2017.

Since the odds heavily favor fnatic Academy, i will place a low bet on Nexus. I am watching them right now as they are playing against Game Agents, the score is 13-13 and Nexus is throwing some good and quality rounds. They may beat fnatic and go to relegations.

This should be a small bet so be careful what you bet and on who. Good luck to all who follow!