Aurora and MOUZ NXT will meet in the first round of play-offs BetBoom Playlist Freedom 2023. It's already known that the winner will go to BIG, which is wow The International is heresy.
To be fair, logically there should be an easy outing here for the Russian squad, which although it has slowed down, The International is still more yeretic than some academy out there.
And there's nothing good to say about MOUZ NXT either, as the youngsters are interrupted by average wins. So here I would lean on the Aurora team to win.
Aurora's form.
The 35th ranked team in the world rankings did quite well in the main stage of the BetBoom Playlist Freedom 2023, where they suffered just one defeat at the hands of Looking4Org of France.
Along the way, Aurora managed to make it to the quarterfinals of CCT South Europe Series 4, where after beating the Poles from Anonymo, the boys didn't make it to the game with Astralis.
What's more, the Russian squad continue their performance in CCT 2023 Online Finals 1, where after losing to Into the Breach they managed to rectify themselves with a win over Meta.
Aurora's latest results:
- A 2-1 win over 9 Pandas.
- 2-0 win over Anonymo.
- 0-2 defeat for Astralis.
- Defeat to Into the Breach by a score of 0-2.
- 2-0 win over Meta.
Aurora's best scores:
- Ancient - 86% wins.
- Nuke - 79% wins.
- Mirage - 55% wins.
- Inferno - 50% wins.
It is worth recalling that the Russian team has long refused to use Vertigo maps.
Form MOUZ NXT
The 94th team of the world ranking at the end of April managed to fail at the MistGames Heroes of Lofoten 2023 with a questionable and unstable game.
After a brief respite, the European side stormed into the BetBoom Playlist Freedom 2023, where they even managed to lose to Spirit Academy and ex-Copenhagen Flames, but still made it to the play-offs.
Along the way, MOUZ NXT also managed to qualify for the group stages of CCT North Europe Series 5 and CCT West Europe Series 4 without losing a single match in the closed qualifiers.
MOUZ NXT latest results:
- A 2-0 win over PROSPECTS.
- Victory over idcgofast with a score of 2-0.
- 2-0 win over Ambush.
- Beat Genk 2-1.
- Beat Zero Tenacity 2-0.
MOUZ NXT's best hits:
- Nuke - 75% wins.
- Vertigo - 59% wins.
- Ancient - 54% wins.
- Inferno - 50% wins.
- Mirage - 50% wins.
In turn, the European team does not appear on the Anubis map.
MOUZ NXT - Aurora encounter statistics
In the current season the teams have played one meeting - on CCT North Europe Series 3 the victory went to Aurora (2-1).
Forecast for Aurora vs MOUZ NXT
In February, the teams played Inferno, Ancient and Overpass. But if the first went for the "mice", the other two without a chance went to the Aurora boys.
Clearly, MOUZ NXT can surprise, especially with five wins in a row. But the opponents in recent matches do not inspire confidence, and the youngsters do not shoot well in big matches.
Therefore, in this case, I would recommend betting on a win for the Aurora team.
