Valiance vs BIG

Valiance ranked #21 from Serbia are clashing against team BIG ranked #1 from Germany in the DreamHack Masters Dallas 2019 Europe Closed Qualifier that has eight teams competing for the prize pool of 2 spots at DHM Dallas. This tournament is played online.

This is best of 3 type of match.

Valiance map performance in the previous three months: Overpass is at 100,0% win rate on one played map - WIN/DRAW/LOSS - 1/0/0, Nuke 90,9% on 11 played maps 10/0/1, Cache 83,3% on 12 played maps 10/0/2, Mirage 75,0% on 28 played maps 21/0/7, Dust2 68,4% on 19 played maps 13/0/6, Train 68,4% on 19 played maps 13/0/6, and Inferno with 37,5% on 16 played maps 6/0/10.

BIG map highlights in the last three months: Cache is at 75,0% win rate on eight played maps - WON/TIED/LOST - 6/0/2, Train 66,7% on three played maps 2/0/1, Dust2 57,1% on seven played maps 4/0/3, Mirage 33,3% on six played maps 2/0/4, Inferno 33,3% on three played maps 1/0/2, and Overpass with 20,0% win rate on five played maps 1/0/4.

Pistol performance in the previous 100 days both on offline & online events goes to team BIG who have 63,3% win rating, over team Valiance who have 55,8% total.

Valiance played 32 maps in March and won 22, converted, they played 17 games and won 12. In February they played 37 maps and won 28, converted, they played 22 games and won 15. In January they played 37 maps and won 24, converted, they played 18 games and won 11.

BIG played two games in March and won one. In February they played 21 maps and won 11, converted, they played nine games and won five. In January they played seven maps and won three, converted, they played three games and won one.

OK, so we have a nice qualifier on our hands, teams are pretty much equal with HellRaisers and G2 standing out. Only the first two teams (finalists) will get the ticket for DHM Dallas, so we can expect good fights here since both Heroic and ex-3DMAX already fell out taking the 7-8th spot. Valiance had a good run at the start of March, but as soon as they ranked better, they received tougher opponents, meaning they had some hard matches which they lost. BIG had the same faith during the IEM Sydney qualifiers, and at the later stages they slowed the tempo and started loosing. It is very questionable what will happen here because teams tend to figure out tactics for different tournaments. Head-to-head these two teams played once in a best of three, and the score was 1-2 for BIG, and that was in February this year.

My thoughts here are that this will go in over 2,5, but there is a big chance that BIG will throw down and leave this tourney to focus on other ones.

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