Team Liquid vs Astralis

Astralis ranked #1 from Denmark are facing Team Liquid ranked #3 from North America in the IEM Chicago 2018 that has 16 teams competing for the prize pool of $250,000. This tournament is played on LAN in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

This is best of 5 * Grand Final type of match.

Astralis map highlights in the previous three months: Nuke is at 100,0% win rate on 12 played maps 12/0, Train 83,3% on 12 played maps 10/2, Inferno 80,8% on 26 played maps 21/5, Dust2 76,9% on 13 played maps 10/3, Overpass 75,0% on 16 played maps 12/4, and Mirage 64,3% win rate on 14 played maps 9/5.

Liquid map performance in the last three months: Cache is at 75,0% win rate on 20 played maps 15/5, Inferno 72,7% on 22 played maps 16/6, Nuke 66,7% on six played maps 4/2, Mirage 61,1% on 18 played maps 11/7, Dust2 37,5% on eight played maps 3/5, and Overpass 25,0% on four played maps 1/3.

Pistol performance in the previous 30 days only on offline (LAN) events goes to Liquid who have 73,7% over Astralis who have 56,7% total.

Astralis played 17 maps in November and won 11, converted, they played 12 games and won eight. In October they played 40 maps and won astonishing 35 maps, insane performance from this Danish team. In September they played 29 maps and won 24, converted, they played 20 games and won 17. In August they played seven maps and won four, converted, they played three games and won two.

Liquid played 15 maps in November and won eight, converted, they played seven games and won four. In October they played 40 maps and won 26, converted, in September they played 23 maps and won 19, converted, they played 12 games and won ten.

Astralis won against MVP PK 16:8 and after that defeated team North 2:0, but lost to FaZe 0:2. Then they faced team mousesports and won 2:0 and barely won in a very tough match against team fnatic 2:1. Liquid won against team Luminosity 16:11 and then won against mousesports but lost to fnatic 2:1. Later on, they won against LDLC 2:1 and 2:1 against FaZe.

Liquid is the 1st TOP team on this tournament with 1,13 rating on 13 played maps. Their best player is Twistzz with 1,26 rating on 13 played maps. Astralis is the 3rd TOP team with 1,08 rating on ten played maps. Most-played maps on this tourney so far are Mirage x13, Inferno x12, Cache x9, Train x9, Nuke x6, Dust2 x5, and Overpass x5. So this benefits slightly team Liquid.

I believe Liquid will at least win one map here at least.