Ninjas In Pyjamas vs Vici Gaming

Ninjas in Pyjamas or simply "NiP" ranked #14 are clashing against ViCi Gaming ranked #35 from China in the IEM Katowice 2019 Main Qualifier that has 16 teams competing for the prize pool of eight spots at IEM Katowice. The tournament is played on LAN in Katowice, Poland.

This is best of 3 type of match, the loser will get eliminated, and the winner will advance further towards IEM Katowice 2019 New Legends stage.

Map performance for NiP in the previous three months: Train is at 66,7% win rate on three played maps - WIN/DRAW/LOSS - 2/0/1, Mirage 50,0% on four played maps 2/0/2, Nuke 50,0% on two played maps 1/0/1, Inferno 33,3% on three played maps 1/1/1, and Overpass with 20,0% win rate on five played maps 1/0/4.

Map highlights for ViCi Gaming in the last three months: Dust2 is at 50,0% win rate on two played maps - WON/TIED/LOST - 1/0/1, Mirage 50,0% on eight played maps 4/0/4, Train 50,0% on four played maps 2/0/2, Overpass 50,0% on six played maps 3/0/3, Inferno 41,7% on 12 played maps 5/0/7, and Nuke with 0,0% win rate on one played map 0/0/1.

Pistol performance in the previous 100 days goes to team NiP who are just slightly above ViCi with 52,0% win rating while ViCi has 50,0% total.

NiP played six maps in February and won three, converted, they played four games and won two. During December they played five maps and won none, but they had one tied map versus FaZe on Inferno 15-15. During November they played six maps and won three, converted, they played three games and won two.

ViCi played five maps and won two, in other words, they played four games and won two. In January they played 20 maps and won 11, converted, they played 11 games and won five. December was eight maps and two wins, converted, they played five games and won one.

OK, so NiP won yesterday, and now they are in the upper part of the table with four played matches, round difference of +8 and a 2-2 score, while ViCi are just below them with four played maps, round difference 0 and a 2-2 score. The winner advances and the loser is eliminated tough match if you ask me. NiP looked pretty weak yesterday, first map was tied, and very close, in the second map they won with a nice difference, but Mirage was also very close. On the other side, we have ViCi who played only in IEM qualifiers and their loss against Vitality was a hard one, in the first map they fought very well, but they just had no luck. Their win against Cloud9, fnatic, North, offer me comfort that they can snatch one map from NiP just like Vega Squadron did. I will go alongside with everyone else who is betting on +1,5 handicap on ViCi Gaming.

Good luck to all who bet, and don't forget to gamble responsibly!