Team Heroic vs Space Soldiers

Team Heroic ranked #17 from Europe (mix) are facing Space Soldiers ranked #18 from Turkey in the DreamHack Open Austin 2018 that has eight teams competing for a prize pool of $100,000.

This is a best of 3 semi-final match.

Heroic was first in Group A with two matches played, two wins and a round difference of +11 and six points. Space Soldiers were second in Group B with three matches played and two wins, one loss, a round difference of +2 and six points.

The winner of this match will play against the winner of Rogue vs. Fragsters, and both Heroic and Space Soldiers are better teams than those two, so yeah, this will be interesting.

Map highlights for team Heroic: Nuke is at 68,5% win rate, Mirage 55,2%, Overpass 54,3%, Cobblestone 53,4%, Train 52,8%, Inferno 43,5%, Cache 22,2% and Dust2 with only 9,1% win rate. Their most played maps are Train x89, Mirage x87, Overpass x81, Nuke x73, Inferno x62, Cobblestone x58, Dust2 x11, and Cache x9.

Map performance for team Space Soldiers: Cache is at 70,6% win rate, Cobblestone 68,1%, Mirage 64,1%, Train 61,1%, Dust2 60,9%, Overpass 60,8%, Inferno 53,9%, and Nuke 48,1% win rate. Distribution of played maps: Mirage x142, Cobblestone x141, Cache x126, Train x113, Inferno x76, Dust2 x64, Overpass x51, and Nuke x27.

Pistol performance goes to Heroic, who have 62,0% win rate over Space Soldiers who have 50,0% total.

Team Heroic has played 19 and won only eight maps in May, converted, that is eight played games, and they won just three. Space Soldiers have played 16 and won seven, turned in games, that is seven played games, and they won three.

OK, so so far on this tournament Space Soldiers are the second top team with 1,07 rating on five maps. Their best players are XANTARES of course, with 1,21 rating on five maps on 4th place, and Calyx who is 7th with 1,16 rating on five maps. Most-played maps on this tournament are Inferno x5, Mirage x4, Dust2 x3, Nuke x3, Cache x2, Overpass x1, and Train x1. From these stats, we can see that this benefits team Heroic since Mirage and Nuke are their best maps. In the last 25 matches, team Heroic has won 15 and lost 10 with a win ratio of 60% and average opponent rank of #71,96. Space Soldiers have won 12 and lost 13 with a win ratio of 48% and average opponent rank of #37,04. I think the odds here should be 50-50, since both teams are at the same level, at this moment of course. Heroic is in a small disadvantage since they have friberg as a stand-in and Space Soldiers have a bit more experience and XANTARES of course, he is like s1mple, insane player. I personally don't like one person show gameplay, but what can you do when XANTARES is one whole level above his teammates. Anyway, these two teams played four times, and the core is 3-1 in favor of Space Soldiers. The most important thing in this matchup is the fact that both these teams are better than the opponent they will face in "le grand finale". That is why i believe this is a 50-50 match, basically a coin flip. Looking at previous games for both teams i must admit that Space Soldiers look more favorable. So that is the reason i will bet on Space Soldiers.

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