Match Prediction: Gaimin Gladiators - Team Liquid | Dota 2
PGL Wallachia Season 1Welcome to EGamersWorld.
We continue to follow the action at PGL Wallachia Season 1. The play-offs are heating up at the big $1,000,000 tournament.
Let's talk about the final match of the first game day. It is a derby between Gaimin Gladiators and Team Liquid.
We are trying to figure out which of the teams will be stronger and at the end of the match will earn the victory needed to get into the next round of play-offs.
Let's go.
Gaimin Gladiators jersey
Let's open our match analysis with an analysis of the Gaimin Gladiators' form. In this match they are playing the number one with odds to win at around 1.8.
At the DPC 2023 Tour 1 WEU Division 1, the team took the top 2, which opened the way for them to The Lima Major 2023. The first Major season of the tournament was a trailblazing triumph for the Gladiators. Gaimin Gladiators won the tournament without losing a single map in the championship play-offs.
The next DPC cycle in the home league ended even worse than the previous one. Then GG lost to tiebreaker for the top 2, but more than compensated for the failure with a performance on the international stage. Even twice.
On the eve of Long Copega DPC 2023: Tour 3, GG took the championship in two international arenas. They won the $1,000,000 DreamLeague S19 and The Berlin Major 2023, defending their status.
In the third round of the domestic league, Gaimin Gladiators were expectedly one of the top contenders to win the league, but failed to get the regional championship. At the end of DPC 2023: WEU Tour 3 GG took 2nd place, but they made it to the Major, and that's the main thing.
- Gaimin Gladiators lineup: dyrachyo, Quinn, Ace, tOfu, Seleri.
There was also DreamLeague Season 20, where in the first group stage GG felt like they played half-heartedly. Nevertheless, they made it to the next stage and then won the grand final.
After winning DreamLeague Season 20, Gaimin Gladiators won another title. This time it was the Major a Champions Cup again. At Bali Major 2023, GG were once again beaten by Team Liquid in the grand finals.
GG had high chances to finish all the big tournaments of the year with victories, but at Riyadh Masters 2023 they were unlucky. In the first round of play-offs "gladiators" fell to the lower play-offs grid, where at the stage of TOP-4 Ledge or Talon Esports and left the championship.
Before The International 2023, GG visited DreamLeague Season 21. There they showed not the best performance, having played the championship at the TOP-8 stage. After The International 2023, GG performed well, despite losing the TI 2023 Grand Final against Team Spirit. Next, GG had a top-2 finish at ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023 and a top-6 finish at BB Dacha Dubai 2024.
Gaimin Gladiators made an appearance at DreamLeague Season 22, where they managed to finish in the top 5. Next up was the Elite League tournament, where they again finished in the top 6.
Before playing at PGL Wallachia Season 1, GG played at ESL One Birmingham 2024, where they finished in the top 12. At the Romanian tournament itself, GG went 3-1 in the play-offs.
Most popular Gaimin Gladiators heroes
The most frequent pick was Rubick. The character has appeared in the GG pick 8 times and has an 87% win rate.
Next came Pangolier (6 matches, 83% wins), Doom (6 matches, 66% wins), Keeper of the Light (5 matches, 80% wins), Ember Spirit (5 matches, 80% wins).
We also took Ember Spirit (4 matches, 100% wins), Terrorblade (4 matches, 75% wins).
Team Liquid uniforms
We continue the match analysis with the analysis of Team Liquid's form. In this match, Liquid are playing as number two with odds to win around 2.1.
At DPC 2023: WEU Division 1 Tour 1 Liquid did not lose a single match, and then took the top 2 at The Lima Major 2023, while playing with substitutes. More than decent.
The second round of the DPC was as similar to the previous round as possible. Liquid again took the Top 1, but now with only one loss in the table. On the international stage, Liquid shone again, but were still overshadowed by Gaimin Gladiators, who took their second Major a Champions Cup of the season.
In their third season, Liquid were no longer able to cement their supremacy. "Liquid" fell to fourth place, but it was good enough to pass at Bali Major 2023, which in the case of the past at The International 2023 Team Liquid does not play any role.
- Liquid lineup: miCKe, Nisha, 33, Boxi, Insania.
After the disappointing result at DreamLeague Season 20, where Team Liquid fell out of the first group stage, there was a feeling that Bali Major 2023 would be held for "Liquid" on the "Mypognye" notes. However, Liquid decided to switch on and play to the full.
And they almost succeeded: they took the top 2, losing in the grand finals to Gaimin Glaidators! Again. Third time at a Major tournament in a year.
Riyadh Masters 2023 Team Liquid started at the Play-In stage, as they surprisingly didn't collect enough ESL ranking points. They finished the Play-In with a 3-1-1 score and second place in Basket A, and then played the group stage with a 3-3-1 statistic, advancing to the top set of play-offs.
At the end of the biggest tournament of the year, Team Liquid finished in the top 2, which can't be called a bad result. Unlike the top-10 at DreamLeague Season 21, which was after the Riyadh Masters 2023 and before Longsong The International 2023.
Team Liquid made it to the next round of the group stage pretty confidently from Group B. "Liquid" took the top 1 by taking a 3-1-0 lead in the series.
In the play-offs seeding match, Liquid faced Evil Geniuses. The Peruvians are not happy at this The International 2023, from which they expectedly lost 0-2 against Liquid.
In the first round of play-offs LIquid met Talon Esports. They won on class, taking two maps. What is true, further went not according to plan: a loss from Spirit and then Gaimin Gladiators, already at the bottom of the table. At the end of the main event of the year Team Liquid took the top 6.
The new season began with a performance at Kuala Lumpur 2023, where they reached TOP-2. In 2024 they played everywhere they could. They also went to BB Dacha and made it to the TOP-2 (lost in the final to Falcons), played on DL Season 22. DreamLeague Season 22 was definitely not a priority, as Liquid were so out of shape that they didn't make it out of the group stage.
There was the 1win series tournament, where Ledge or Spirit went 1-2 in the grand finals and Elite League, where they finished top 4.
At ESL One Birmingham 2024, Team Liquid finished in the top 6, with Ledge beating future champions Falcons. PGL Wallachia Season 1 the team started with a win over G2.IG, then lost 2 series to Xtreme and Shopify Rebellion before beating MOUZ. Finally, they beat their counterparts from Secret, thus making it to the play-offs with a score of 3-2.
Team Liquid's most popular heroes
In the top picks for Team Liquid is Crystal Maiden with 7 games and 6 wins.
In addition to Crystal Maiden, Doom (4 matches, 100% wins), Sven (4 matches, 75% wins), Skywrath Mage (4 matches, 75% wins) are the picks.
Rubick (4 matches, 25% wins), Void Spirit (3 matches, 100% wins), Underlord, Pangolier, Storm Spirit have 3 matches each and all have 2 wins.
History of head-to-head meetings between Team Liquid and Gaimin Gladiators
This year Liquid and GG have played each other 5 times. Liquid have won 4 out of 5 matches.
Predicted result of Team Liquid vs Gaimin Gladiators at PGL Wallachia Season 1
In this match I don't expect the highest level of Dota 2. In my opinion, both teams are playing far from their best, which was evident during the group stage. And this is a good prerequisite to see a full-fledged Bo3.
Bottom line: total +2.5.
Gaimin Gladiators is the 10th team of the world ranking. At the recent game events the organisation shows though good, but still not the most convincing result. Especially against the background of their performances in the 23rd year. At BB Dacha Dubai they could only get to the 6th line. DreamLeague Season 22 was a little better. As a result - 5th place. The same result was achieved at Elite League - 5th place. ESL One Birmingham 2024 turned out to be quite deplorable for the team. They took the last place, but to be fair, the fight was extremely hard.
Team Liquid is the 4th team of the world ranking. At BB Dacha Dubai the guys managed to get the 2nd place, showing very good form, but still gave the title to Falcons in the finals. It seems that after such a result they did not train much and already at DreamLeague Season 23 they have played only for the 14th place. For Elite League it is obvious that they were preparing, because the outcome was worthy. We climbed to 4th place. A little worse performance at ESL One Birmingham 2024, taking the 5th place.
According to the history of meetings, of course, TL is the favourite, but by watching the matches I liked GG much better. I'll take my chances and take their win.
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Prediction: GG wins!
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Bookmakers & Statistics
Team Liquid are listed as the favorites of the match in the majority of bookmakers and odds on them are equal to 1.891. Gaimin Gladiators, in turn, are the outsiders of the match. Odds on their victory are about 2.475.
Team statistics in recent matches
Last Matches | Gaimin Gladiators | Team Liquid |
5 matches (wins) | 4 | 3 |
10 matches (wins) | 4 | 5 |
Also it makes sense to remember the statistics of the matches between the teams. The competitors have held 25 matches. And Gaimin Gladiators won 12 times while Team Liquid correspondingly became the winner 12 times.