Match Prediction: Movistar Riders - Virtus.pro | CS2 (CS:GO)
Roobet Cup 2023Welcome to EGamersWorld.
Title Counter-Strike is on pause, but that doesn't mean it's not there at all. Fortunately, for fans of the discipline there are local championships, but with good linups of the participants. There's such a thing at the Roobet Cup, for example.
The $250,000 championship is in the group stage. Today we will talk about the match for the play-offs between Vp and Movistar Riders.
We will try to find out who of the roughly equal teams will go to the play-offs, and who will go to the desiderider of Group B.
Let's go.
Form Vp
Let's open the match analysis with an analysis of Vp's form. In this match they are the number one side, with odds to win at around 1.3.
Vp played in three TIR tournaments at the beginning of the year. These were BB Playlist. Urbanistic, BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR A, and also BB Playlist. Freeddom. At the two "home" championships from BB Vp were in the top 8, but at the European RMR everything was even less happy - top 14.
Then Vp made a breakthrough by winning at ESL Challenger Katowice 2023. The victory there allowed them to qualify for ESL Pro League Season 18.
Among the victories, CCT Online Finals #2 is also worth mentioning. They beat Team Spirit in the grand finals and earned $100,000, which is pretty good.
- Vp lineup: Jame, FL1T, fame, n0rb3r7, mir.
Before ESL Pro League Season 18 Vp visited Gamers8, where they didn't get further than the top 8, and Dunav Party LAN, where in the grand finals they got revenge for their defeat on CCT by Spirit.
In the first match of EPL Season 18, Vp's opponent was Team Liquid. The match, as expected, ended in a full-fledged, combative Bo3 with Vp winning 2-1.
Next up, VP played G2 Esports and legitimately Ledgeili, though they fought back and took the map. The defeat sent Vp to the lower grid, where they first beat Eternal Fire and then outplayed Liquid again, thus reaching the EPL play-offs.
Vp did not manage to play in the main stage. Vp lost their first match against 9z Team, which was a rather unexpected result. At the end of the EPL S18 Vp finished in the top 16.
Things are going well at the Roobet Cup. Vp won their first match against their compatriots from Spirit with a score of 2-1.
Vp Mapple
The best map for Vp remains Ancient, where Vp won 3 maps out of 3 played. The most frequently played map is Overpass, where Vp have played 11 maps and won 9 of them.
In the pool there is a good Anubis (3-1 on maps), Mirage (6 wins in 9 matches) and Inferno (7 wins in 11 games).
The worst choice for vp is Vertigo. It has 44% wins with 9 matches.
Movistar Riders form
We continue the match analysis with Movistar Riders form. In this match, they are playing the number two with odds in the region of 3.
The Spanish club has had a hyper busy year. However, busy doesn't always mean productive.
Among the many events Movistar Riders mostly attended small championships with a very dubious pool of participants, but there were also some quite prestigious events. Among those worth mentioning are CCT Central Europe Malta Finals, where MR took the top 4 and Elisa Invitational Winter 2023, where they also finished in the top four.
When it comes to the top events, last season of the ESL Pro League was definitely one of them. At ESL Pro League Season 17 Movistar Riders were ranked in the top 16 and they have already repeated this result, and to break it it is enough to win the only Bo3.
- Movistar Riders roster: mopoz, ALEX, Martinez, JUST, adams.
Movistar Riders played a number of small events like CCT Online Finals #2 and IEM Masters Sydney qualifiers before the ESL Pro League Season 18 Long Conference, where they didn't find success. Movistar Riders won the RTP Arena Cup 2023, boosting their morale before the ESL Pro League Season 18 Long Sogpeg.
The Pro League itself is going extremely well. Movistar Riders made it to the second round of play-offs by advancing to the final of the top grid in Group A: they beat FURIA and GamerLegion 2-0, but Ledge and Vitality 0-2.
In their first match Movistar Riders faced 9Z Team. The equal match ended logically, on the 3rd map, but in favour of the Spaniards from MR.
MR's next and last match at ESL Pro League Season 18 was a match against ENCE. The Finnish top club slammed the Spaniards without much difficulty and as a result Movistar Riders left the championship in the top 8.
Prior to the Roobet Cup MR played at the BLAST Premier: Fall European Showdown, where they didn't reach any great heights. Departure in the top 8, with 8 participating teams - you can understand.
There was also ESL Challenger at DreamHack 2023: European Qualifier, where in the match for the grand finals MR Ledge and Frenchmen from Looking4Org.
At the Roobet Cup they debuted with a victory. They defeated 9z Team 2-1.
Movistar Riders Mappool
The most successful map for Movistar Riders is Nuke, where the Spaniards have 3 wins and 1 loss. Next comes Vertigo with a score of 2-1 and Ancient with a score of 3-2.
Neutral choices are Inferno and Anubis. Both maps have been played 4 times and on both maps the stats are 2-2.
The worst situation is on Overpass, where MR won 2 matches out of 6.
Mirage are not playing.
History of head-to-head meetings Vp - Movistar Riders
The last time the teams played each other was in 2022, so we will not use this data.
Predicted result of Vp vs Movistar Riders at Roobet Cup 2023
Group B looks very competitive and every team here can beat each other. At least this is evident from the results of the first round of matches, where all series ended with the score 2-1. I think this match will not be an exception and the teams will once again play a full-fledged Bo3.
Bottom line: total +2.5.