NRG vs Team Liquid

NRG ranked #8 from the United States are facing against their homeland opponents team Liquid ranked #3 who come from the same state/continent in the SuperNova CS: GO Malta that has eight teams competing for the prize pool of $150,00. This tourney is played in Saint Julian's, Malta on LAN.

This is best of 3 * Grand Final type of match.

NRG map performance in the previous three months: Overpass is at 81,2% win rate on 16 played maps 13/3, Inferno 73,9% on 23 played maps 17/6, Train 61,5% on 13 played maps 8/5, Mirage 58,8% on 17 played maps 10/7, Nuke 57,1% on 14 played maps 8/6, Cache 44,4% on nine played maps 4/5, and Dust2 33,3% win rate on three played maps only 1/2.

Liquid map highlights in the last three months: Cache is at 75,0% win rate on 20 played maps - 15/5 WIN/LOSS, Inferno 70,4% on 27 played maps 19/8, Mirage 60,9% on 23 played maps 14/9, Nuke 50,0% on eight played maps 4/4, Dust2 33,3% win rate on nine played maps 3/6, and Overpass with 28,6% win rate on seven played maps 2/5.

Pistol performance in the previous 50 days only on offline events (LAN) goes to team Liquid who have 62,9% win rating, over team NRG who have 59,2% total.

NRG played one game in December, and they won it against HellRaisers 2-0 (16-9, 16-4). In November they played 37 maps and won 23, converted, they played 18 games and won 12. During October they played 42 maps and won 28, in other words, they played 39 games and won 26. In September they played 14 maps and won eight, converted, they played six games and won three.

Liquid played one match in December, and they won it against Team BIG 2-0 (16-10, 16-14). During November they played 29 maps and won 13, converted, they played 16 matches and won eight. In October they played 40 maps and won 26, converted, they played 37 matches and won 24. In September they played 23 maps and won 16, converted, they played 12 matches and won ten.

OK, so far NRG was 2nd in Group A with three games played, two wins, one loss, a round difference of +10 and six points. Liquid was 1st in the same group with two played matches which they won, a round difference of +13 and six points. Later on in the playoffs, Liquid won against team BIG 2-0, and NRG won with the same score against team HellRaisers 2-0. Looking at the head-to-head matches the score is 20 wins for NRG while Liquid has 19, three maps went to overtime so we can see that these two teams don't joke around, they play to win. Wow, this is the first Finale for Team Liquid without them facing Astralis, so i believe they will completely stomp NRG here.

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