OpTic Gaming vs Cloud9

The most interesting match on ECS Season 5 North America today is the one between Cloud9 and Optic. This is an online tournament hosted in North America.

OpTic

Rank: 36

Matches: 504

Won: 288 Draw: 0 Lost: 216

Win ratio: 1.33

Opponent avg. rank: 35.29

Cloud9

Rank: 8

Matches: 871

Won: 554 Draw: 0 Lost: 317

Win ratio: 1.75

Opponent avg. rank: 34.14

Out of 5 last matches, Optic won only 1 and Cloud9 won 4.

But Optic had better opponents, SK 4 times to be exact.

Lineups:

Optic:

ShahZaM

stanislaw

cajunb

k0nfig

gade

C9:

autimatic

RUSH

tarik

FNS (from CLG)

??? (still not confirmed)

There is no pressure like on LAN tournaments and experience is not a key factor in this kind of matches.

Further, Cloud9 is collapsing, 2 best players and MVPs from the last Major are missing, Stewie2k went to SK and Skadoodle is currently inactive and he is no longer C9 player. RUSH stepped in as a fourth player and we still don't know who would be the fifth.

They play 2 best of one matches, first Inferno (Cloud9 pick) and second Overpass (Optics map of chose).

I would bet on the second match, Cloud9 is not bad on Overpass but this is not the original C9 formation and they had not had any time to practice new strats with the new team members.

There is a great chance that Optic wins here today and I won't miss it. My tip here is a medium 7/10 bet on Optic Gaming.

GL & HF :D