NRG vs Fnatic

NRG ranked #11 from the United States are clashing against team fnatic ranked #10 from Sweden in the IEM Sydney 2019 that has 16 teams competing for the prize pool of $250,000, this tournament is played in Sydney, Australia.

This is best of 3 match that is played on LAN.

Map performance for team NRG in the previous three months: Dust2 is at 100,0% win rate on three played maps - WON/TIED/LOST - 3/0/0, Train 100,0% on seven played maps 7/0/0, Mirage 72,7% on 11 played maps 8/0/3, Overpass 71,4% on seven played maps 5/0/2, Inferno 42,9% on seven played maps 3/0/4, Cache 40,0% on five played maps 2/0/3, and Nuke with 33,3% win rate on six played maps 2/0/4.

(map = one map like Dust2 & game/match = best of 3 or best of 5 like 2-0 or 2-1 meaning it is one game)

They played four maps in May and won all four, that is two games which they won. In April they played 18 maps and won 12, converted, they played nine matches and won six. In March they played 16 maps and won ten, in other words, they played seven games and won five. In February they played eight maps and won four, converted, they played six games and won three.

Pistol performance in the recent 100 days both on online & offline (LAN) tourneys goes to team NRG who have 56,0% win rating over team fnatic who have 43,2% total.

Map highlights for team fnatic in the last three months: Cache is at 100,0% win rate on five played maps - WIN/DREW/LOSS - 5/0/0, Mirage 70,0% on ten played maps 7/0/3, Train 66,7% on three played maps 2/0/1, Inferno 50,0% on 12 played maps 6/0/6, Overpass 41,7% on 12 played maps 5/0/7, Nuke 37,5% on eight played maps 3/0/5, and Dust2 with 28,6% win rate on seven played maps 2/0/5.

They played 11 maps in May and won six, converted, they played four matches and won three. In April they played 19 maps and won ten, converted, they played eight games and won five. In March they played 20 maps and won 11, in other words, they played nine maps and won four. In February they played seven maps and won three, converted, they played four games and won one.

OK, so the winner here will advance towards the grand final where they will face the winner of Liquid vs MIBR and Liquid is leading with 1-0. NRG's road here was nicely paved; they won against ViCi Gaming 16-4 on Mirage, then they surprisingly won against Clan FaZe 2-0 (16-12 on Train, 16-11 on Mirage), and then they won against MIBR 2-0 (16-4 on Nuke & 16-11 on Overpass). They are the 2nd TOP team with 1,26 rating on five played maps, and their best players are "Brehze" 2nd TOP player 1,50 rating, and "Ethan" 4th with 1,40 rating on five played maps. fnatic, on the other hand, has had some rough time in this tournament, but they managed to overcome every obstacle (more or less) and grab that semi-finals match. They won their first match against Team Heroic 16-7 on Train but then lost against MIBR 0-2 (4-16 on Nuke & 9-16 on Overpass), that was pretty much devastating for them, so they moved towards lower brackets to fight against Chiefs where they won 2-1 (14-16 on Dust2, 16-9 on Mirage & 16-4 on Inferno). Then they fought against one more Australian team Grayhound and won 2-1 (16-2 on Overpass, 16-19 on Mirage, and 16-12 on Inferno). Their last match was against their nemessis opponent Ninjas in Pyjamas (abbrevation NiP) where they won 2-1 (16-9 on Cache, 23-25 on Overpass & 22-20 on Dust2). This match against NiP was very very hard. After all those matches fnatic are ranked as 5th TOP team with 1,07 rating on 12 played maps, insane! Head-to-head in this matchup goes to team fnatic who have four wins, but three out of those four were sooo close and went into overtime.

I believe that this will also go in under 2,5 maps, same as the Liquid vs MIBR match but just to make sure i will bet on NRG to win, the odds are pretty much the same.

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