Ninjas In Pyjamas vs Astralis

Ninjas in Pyjamas ranked #14 from Sweden are facing team Astralis ranked #1 from Denmark in the DreamHack Masters Stockholm 2018 that has 16 teams competing for a prize pool of $250,000. The tournament is held in Stockholm, Sweden and it is played on LAN.

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

Map performance for team NiP in the previous three months: Dust2 is at 100,0% win rate on one played map, Overpass 80,0% on ten played maps, Nuke 75,0% on eight played maps, Train 62,5% on eight played maps, Mirage 60,0% on five played maps, Cache 33,3% on three played maps, Inferno 22,2% on nine played maps.

Map highlights for team Astralis in the last three months: Dust2 is at 100,0% win rate on three played maps, Nuke 100,0% on seven played maps, Train 100,0% on two played maps, Overpass 80,0% on five played maps, Mirage 71,4% on seven played maps, and Inferno 71,4% on seven played maps.

Pistol performance goes to Astralis who have 64,5% over Ninjas in Pyjamas who have 53,8% win percentage.

NiP has played four maps for the whole month of August and won three, converted, they played two games and won both of them, losing only one map to team Ghost. In July they played 20 maps and won 12, converted, they played ten games and won six. In June they played 18 maps and won nine, converted, they played seven games and won three.

Astralis has played seven maps in August and won six, converted, they played three games and won two. In July they played 16 maps and won 14, converted, they played eight games and won seven. In June they played only six maps and won all six, converted, they played four games and won all four.

Ninjas in Pyjamas were first in Group B with two matches played, two wins, a round difference of +12 and six points. Astralis was second in Group A with three matches played, two wins, one loss a round difference of +30 and six points. Further on NiP defeated team Heroic 2-0 and Astralis defeated MIBR. If we take a look at stats we can see that NiP is the first top team at this tournament so far with 1,21 rating on six maps, their best players are f0rest with 1,38 rating, and REZ with 1,40 rating on six played maps. Team Astralis is the 2nd top team with 1,18 rating on nine played maps, and their best player is device with 1,28 rating on nine played maps. Distribution of played maps: Train x11, Mirage x9, Inferno x9, Dust2 x6, Nuke x6, Overpass x4, and Cache x3. There is really no doubt this will be a good match to watch, both teams played very well in this tourney so far, and yes it seems that NiP played with low tier teams in their previous matches, but they still won and showed some great performance.

My bet here will be Astralis +1,5 handicap.

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