Royal Bandits vs Fnatic Academy

Royal Bandits ranked #91 from Turkey are facing fnatic Academy ranked #114 from Europe (mix) in the X-BET.co Invitational 3 that has 16 teams competing for the prize pool of $7,000.

This is a best of 1 *Group C opening match.

Map performance for team Royal Bandits in previous three months: Mirage is at 60,0% on five played maps, Dust2 50,0% on two played maps, Inferno 42,9% on seven played maps, Cache 33,3% on three played maps, Overpass 25,0% on four played maps, and Cobblestone 0,0% on one played map.

Map highlights for team fnatic Academy in the previous three months: Mirage is at 100,0% on three played maps, Inferno 50,0% on ten played maps, Nuke 50,0% on two played maps, Train 50,0% on four played maps, Overpass 50,0% on two played maps, and Cache 0,0% on three played maps.

Royal Bandits have played five maps in July and won only one in overtime against Valiance 22-20. In June they have played nine maps and won four, converted, they played nine games and won four (they were all Best of 1 game formats).

fnatic Academy has played 11 maps in July and won eight, converted, they played four maps and won four. In June they played nine maps and won three, converted, they played five games and won two.

This will be very hard for these two teams since they will face better opponents as x-kom and SuperJymy so the winner here can really make a difference for the next match and positioning in the group. I believe fnatic Academy will win here, and they have more games played and some sketchy twitter announcements from Royal Bandits that some players will be benched and that the team will soon disband (not my source).

Good luck to all who bet, and may the odds be ever in your favor!