Match Prediction: Evil Geniuses - Team Liquid | Counter-Strike (CS2)

Evil Geniuses and Team Liquid will compete for the right to take the first place at the IEM Road to Rio 2022 American RMR, and at the same time break into the "legends" of the upcoming IEM Rio Major 2022.

No matter how cool the Evil Geniuses have been playing lately, for me the Liquids are the favorites of the fight, because it seems that Team Liquid knows how to outplay such a painfully familiar opponent.

On the plus side, Evil Geniuses has a very limited selection of maps, which affected the recent ESL Pro League Season 16. Well, if you look at the statistics, Team Liquid is leading by a wide margin here - 7 maps won against 1.

Evil Geniuses Form

The 22nd team in the world ranking performed well in the recent ESL Pro League Season 16, where they stopped one step away from reaching the playoffs. And there the team began to gain with each match and could well compete.

As for the start at IEM Road to Rio 2022 Americas RMR, here Evil Geniuses managed to get three victories in a row, showing their desire to return to the major.

Yes, in the last match against 9z, the team had some problems adapting to Dust 2, but in general, Evil Geniuses deservedly ended up in the match for the 1st place.

Evil Geniuses latest results:

• Victory over Movistar Riders with a score of 2:0.
• Defeat from FURIA with a score of 0:2.
• Victory over Nouns with a score of 16:7.
• Victory over FURIA with a score of 16:14.
• 2:1 victory over 9z.

Best Evil Geniuses cards:

• Overpass - 80% of wins.
• Mirage - 75% of wins.
• Nuke - 60% win rate.

It is worth recalling that the North American team has stopped appearing on the Vertigo map.

Form Team Liquid

The fourth team of the world ranking even reached the semi-finals of the same ESL Pro League Season 16, showing excellent growth during the championship, as well as in general training.

As for the start at IEM Road to Rio 2022 Americas RMR, here the North American team managed to get on the nerves of the fans a couple of times, first of all, almost losing to MIBR.

However, in general, Team Liquid played brighter than many other opponents, for which they got a chance to immediately break into the "legends" of IEM Rio Major 2022.

Latest Team Liquid results:

• Victory over Cloud9 with a score of 2:1.
• Defeat from Vitality with a score of 2:3.
• Victory over TeamOne with a score of 16:6.
• Victory over MIBR with a score of 19:16.
• Victory over Complexity with a score of 2:1.

The best maps of Team Liquid:

• Mirage - 86% of wins.
• Inferno - 82% of wins.
• Ancient - 75% of wins.
• Dust 2 - 67% of wins.
• Vertigo - 50% of wins.

In turn, the Team Liquid team has long abandoned the Nuke map.

Statistics of Evil Geniuses vs Team Liquid meetings

As part of the current season, the teams held four meetings:

• The victory of Team Liquid within BLAST Premier Spring Groups 2022 with a score of 19:17.
• Team Liquid won the PGL Major Antwerp 2022 Americas RMR with a score of 2:0.
• The victory of Team Liquid in the closed qualifiers for IEM Dallas 2022 with a score of 2:1.
• The victory of Team Liquid within the framework of ESL Pro League Season 16 with a score of 2:0.

Well, most often the teams played on the Inferno map (three times).

Prediction for the match Evil Geniuses — Team Liquid

I see no point in explaining anything, since Team Liquid usually copes with Evil Geniuses without difficulty, which they proved two weeks earlier. Of course, "Evil Geniuses" reached the peak of their form, but it seems to me that this is not enough. Therefore, in this case, I would recommend betting on the victory of Team Liquid with a score of 2:0.