NRG vs Team Liquid

NRG ranked #11 from the United States are facing team Liquid ranked #5 also from the United States in the ECS Season 5 Finals that has eight teams fighting for a prize pool of $660,000. The tournament is held on LAN in London, United Kingdom.

This is a best of 3 semi-final match.

NRG has been first in Group B with two matches, two wins and a round difference of +20 and six points. Team Liquid was second in Group A with three matches played, two wins, one loss and a round difference of +6 and six points.

Map highlight for team NRG: Dust2 is at 63,9% win rate on 36 maps, Inferno 61,8% on 68 maps, Mirage 60,6% on 99 maps, Overpass 55,0% on 60 maps, Nuke 54,5% on 22 maps, Train 52,5% on 61 maps, Cache 44,8% on 67 maps, and Cobblestone 40,0% on 70 maps.

Map performance for team Liquid: Cache is at 64,4% win rate, Cobblestone 64,0%, Inferno 62,4%, Overpass 57,3%, Mirage 57,1%, Train 57,1%, Dust2 51,6%, and Nuke 38,5% win rate. Distribution of played maps: Mirage x161, Cobblestone x139, Cache x118, Train x112, Inferno x109, Dust2 x93, Overpass x82, and Nuke x39.

Pistol performance surprisingly goes to NRG who have 54,4% over Liquid who have 53,3%.

Let's see some map stats for NRG eSports:

Played 12 maps in June --- won eight. Played six games in June --- won five. Played 21 maps in May --- won ten. Played ten games in May --- won four.

Now, stats for team Liquid:

Played seven maps in June --- won four. Played four games in June --- won two. Played 30 maps in May --- won 19. Played 16 games in May --- won 11.

Stats for this tournament:

NRG is the single best/top team so far in this competition with 1,42 rating on two maps. Their best players are nahtE with 1,78 rating on two maps, CeRq with 1,65 rating on two maps, FugLy with 1,28 rating on two maps, and Brehze with 1,26 rating on two maps.

Team Liquid is the 4th best team so far with 1,12 rating on four played maps. They don't have any best players over minimum 1,23 rating.

OK, so we have NRG who are literally on fire, and team Liquid with NAF and TACO to carry. This will be one hella of a game! Distribution of maps played: Inferno x4, Cache x4, Mirage x3, Overpass x2, Train x1, and Nuke x1. This benefits both teams, cine Cache is Liquids best map and NRG is very good on Inferno. Let's check previous games and who stands out: NRG defeated G2 16-4 on Mirage, the best players were Cerq and Fugly. Then they surprisingly defeated FaZe on Cache 16-8, best players were Nahte and Cerq. Team Liquid defeated fnatic 16-14 on Cache where NAF and Elige shined. Then they lost to fnatic 6-16, after that they again faced fnatic and won 2-0. Elige and Twistzz shined. So we can see that both teams have good players that are constantly in positive KDA ratio, that is good since all players have good and bad days. Since both teams are from North America they played a lot of times together; the score is 13 wins for NRG and 12 wins for team Liquid, NRG 2-1 won the last match in StarSeries i-League Season 5. A lot of people are saying that NRG's momentum is fading, but the first rule of betting is bet on the streak if someone is winning five games or 10 games in a row, don't bet that they will lose, but i really think they can't win against team Liquid. The prize pool is just too big at the moment for any team to lose. The loser gets $65k, and the winner gets $120k or $250k, you do the math.

My final bet will be over 2,5 maps.

This will be a huge bet, so check for more sources if you don't like my bet. Good luck to all who bet and don't forget to gamble responsibly!