Match Prediction: Monte - Wildcard | CS2 (CS:GO)
Thunderpick CS:GO World Championship 2023Ukrainian team Monte will start its performance at the Thunderpick World Championship 2023 in Group B with a confrontation with the American club Wildcard Gaming. For the Americans this tournament will be the first major competition in the history of the team. The format of the match is bo3. Do Wildcard Gaming have a chance of success? We will find out very soon.
In this betting thread you will find out how the participants of this match perform in the course of the current year, how they spent their previous professional tournament, as well as how this match will end.
Monte's form
Monte are having an extremely busy playing year this year, constantly competing in various online events and qualifying for bigger tournaments. In January, third place in the European Pro League Season 5 brought the club $3,000 in prize money. The team did not qualify for the Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2023, winning the Open Qualifier, but finished in 5th-6th place at the Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2023: European Qualifier. The next European Pro League season ended more favourably for Monte. The victory brought the team $11,000. Since the second half of March sdy and his team have been systematically gaining momentum. The Ukrainian club won CCT West Europe Series #2, ESL Challenger League Season 44: Europe and CCT Central Europe Series #5, earning a total of $64,000 in prize money.
April for Monte was marked by a silver medal at CCT Central Europe Series #6. Further successful performances at CCT series tournaments in May pale before the participation of Ukrainians in the only and last Major tournament of this year on CS:GO - BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023. The team sensationally reached the Champions stage and lost to GamerLegion in the quarter-finals of the tournament with a score of 0:2. The 5th-8th place at the Major event brought the players $45,000. Before participating in Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2023, Monte tried to qualify for the LAN tournament Gamers8 2023. In the Gamers8 2023: Last Chance Qualifier, the Ukrainian team failed to advance far. In the first match of the qualifiers sdy and the team faced Espionage, to whom they lost on the map Nuke with a score of 12-16 and left the qualification. 9th-12th place at IEM Cologne 2023 provided the team with $16,000. Also worth noting is the 3-4th place in the standings of such tournaments as CCT Central Europe Series #7, CCT East Europe Series #1 and Pinnacle Cup V, which in total brought the Ukrainian team $15,000 in prize money. And at CCT North Europe Series #7 Monte won silver medal, earning another $15,000. At RES Eastern European Masters: Fall 2023 the Ukrainian club took the 5th-6th place and was left without prize money. In ESL Pro League Season 18 Monte managed to get into the top-4 and earn $50,000.
Before participating in the tournament from Thunderpick Monte played in the LAN-championship Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023. There, the team made it to Group B. Their first match against Complexity Gaming in the quarterfinals of the upper grid, the Ukrainian team Ledge was defeated 9-13 on the Anubis map and fell to the lower grid. There, Monte defeated Grayhound Gaming on two maps in a row (Nuke - 13-5, Anubis - 13-11) and made it to the semi-finals. A full bo3 series against Fnatic ended with a victory for sdy and his teammates (Overpass - 10-13, Anubis - 13-4, Vertigo - 13-6). In the rematch for the play-offs Monte again Ledge and Complexity Gaming with the result 0:2 and left the tournament. The 7th-8th places provided the players with $6,000 in prize money.
Statistics of Monte's recent results:
- 2-0 win over OG
- 2:1 win over B8
- 0:2 loss to Complexity Gaming
- 2:1 win over Fnatic
- 2:0 win over Grayhound Gaming
Wildcard Gaming uniforms
North American team Wildcard Gaming appeared on the professional CS scene after the organisation signed Detonate at the end of April this year. The first months of their existence WG participated in small online tournaments, where we can highlight the 5th-6th place at ESL Challenger League Season 45: North America, which provided the players with $2,500, and the bronze medal at ESEA Cash Cup Circuit 2023: North American Finals, where Wildcard Gaming earned $7,000 in prize money. Cryptic and his teammates prevailed at Thunderpick World Championship 2023: North American Series #1 to win the $20,000 top prize and a trip to Thunderpick World Championship 2023. After passing the open qualification for the ESEA Pre-Season Circuit 2023: North American Final on the second attempt, Wildcard Gaming took the first place in the tournament and received another $10,000. The American team tried to qualify for the Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023, but failed to qualify for the regional open qualifiers. After that Wildcard Gaming continued to take part in smaller events, earning a thousand or two dollars from time to time. Qualification for the ESL Challenger at DreamHack Winter 2023: North American Qualifier ended with WG in fourth place.
The previous professional tournament for Wildcard Gaming team was ESEA Cash Cup: Europe - Autumn 2023 #2. The online championship from ESEA with a symbolic prize pool of $4,000 was unsuccessful for Cryptic and the team, to put it mildly. In the first match of the grid the American club faced Russian mix heartless, which was defeated by Ledgeil on the Anubis map with the result 7-13. The 9th-16th place at the tournament did not bring any earnings for the players.
Wildcard Gaming latest results stats:
- Defeat by sYnck with the score 0:2
- Defeat by heartless with the score 7-13
- 2:0 win over Zero Tenacity
- 2:1 win over Badass Gaming
- 0:2 loss to Evil Geniuses
Match history of Monte vs Wildcard Gaming
The participants of this match have not played against each other on the professional scene before.
Predicted result of the match Monte - Wildcard Gaming
Wildcard Gaming perform at a much lower level than the Ukrainian team. In fact, Thunderpick World Championship 2023 is their first serious test. Let's bet on the victory of Monte team with the score 2:0.