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We continue to watch the action at ESL Pro League Season 21, where the fate of Stage 2 participants is being determined. There, in the second stage, title teams such as G2, NaVi, Spirit and so on are already waiting for their future opponents.
Heroic and Nemiga are among the contenders for the next stage. However, both clubs are quite far away from reaching the next stage: Heroic and Nemiga are in the 1-2 basket and it will be the last match for one of the teams.
Let's find out who of the Heroic - Nemiga pair will be stronger and keep the chance to advance to the second stage of ESL Pro League Season 21, while the loser will leave the tournament.
Let's go.
Heroic uniforms
Let's open the Heroic vs Nemiga match with an analysis of Heroic's form. In this match they play as favourites with odds to win at around 1.3.
Heroic have looked very good in the 2023 season. They played consistently in TIR-S tournaments and were a significant force.
Heroic had a streak of great tournaments. It was top 2 at IEM Rio 2023, top 4 BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 and IEM Dallas 2023. Heroic went on to win the BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2023 and also finished in the top 3 of the BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023
- Heroic roster: SunPayus, LNZ, yxngstxr, xfl0ud, tN1R.
Before their performance at Gamers8 Heroic attended another prestigious tournament - IEM Cologne. Being one of the main contenders to win the German tournament, the Danes made it to the play-offs of the competition, but there they couldn't move further than the first round. Heroic lost to Astralis in the first round of the IEM Cologne play-offs with a score of 0-2.
At Gamers8 they debuted with a match against Falcons. In general, the game ended predictably, but the French gave a fight, especially on the first map (Mirage 22-18 in favour of Heroic). The second one went to Heroic with the score 16-10.
In the previous match Heroic met GamerLegion. Despite GL's seemingly idle position in that match, they were able to grind the nerves of the Danes and take the map, but still lost in the end.
Heroic finished off Gamers8 with a match against ENCE. The Danish club again failed to beat the Finns and left the major championship at the top-4 stage.
In the first match at ESL Pro League Season 18, the team played against Rooster. The Australians offered no resistance and took 6 rounds in two games.
Next was BIG - another passable opponent for Heroic, but it was not to be. The Danes lost 0-2, losing on Ancient with a score of 23-25 and on Inferno with a score of 13-16.
Heroic got into the last chance net after a 0-2 loss at MOUZ. So from the "achievements" so far, a win over the raw Roosters and that's it. It looks very deplorable. And it ended no better: Heroic Ledge and Monte crashed out of ESL Pro League Season 18.
Next up was Roobet Cup 2023, where Heroic finished in the top 12. After unsatisfactory performance at EPL and Roobet Cup Heroic played not better at Thunderpick World Championship 2023 and BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023. There, it was top-8 and top-6 respectively.
Heroic face many challenges in the 2024 season. They still attend top tournaments, but the performance is much worse: Top-16 at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024, Top-8 at IEM Chengdu 2024, Top-28 at ESL Pro League Season 9, Top-6 at IEM Dallas 2024 and Top-8 at YaLLa Compass 2024.
Later, the series of appearances at various championships continued, with Heroic playing at both BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2024 (Top 12) and IEM Cologne 2024 (Top 20) and BLAST Premier: Fall Showdown 2024 (Top 16). In October 2024 Heroic were close to finally taking the championship title, reaching the final of Elisa Masters Espoo 2024, but Ledgeili ENCE in the grand final.
Before appearing at European RMR B, Heroic played at Thunderpick World Championship 2024, where they finished top 2, losing to MongolZ in the grand final.
At European RMR B, Heroic Long Sogpeg started with a win against PARIVISION. Next was a loss to BIG, followed by a win against NiP. At PW Shanghai Major 2024 they qualified thanks to a win over Passion UA.
Going straight into the Elimination Stage, Heroic beat BIG and FaZe on their way to the basket 2-0. In the match to advance to the play-offs Heroic Ledge or MongolZ. In the play-offs match Ledge and Spirit. However, they managed to pass to the main stage after defeating the reigning world champions NaVi. However, in the first match of the play-offs Heroic were defeated by G2, who knocked Heroic out of the championship race.
In the 2025 season, Heroic attended BLAST Bounty Spring 2025, where they finished in the top 8. This was followed by an appearance at IEM Katowice 2025 with an even more disappointing result, and more specifically a top-20 finish.
In the course of ESL Pro League Season 21 Heroic were 1-1. Later, after a loss to 3DMax, they found themselves in a 1-2 tie.
Heroic's Mappool
Heroic's best map is Nuke. There the Danes have 5 wins and 0 losses.
They like to play Overpass, where they lost only once. In three months on Overpass - 5-1.
One of the most frequently played and yet successful maps is Inferno. Heroic has a 9-3 statistic here. Going well on Ancient as well, where Heroic has 3-1 on matchups.
Nemiga Form
We continue the analysis of the match Nemiga - Heroic with the analysis of Nemiga's form. In this match they play as Underpassdogs with odds to win at around 3.3.
Nemiga are a mid-table side at best, but no more than that. They've spent the entire year playing all sorts of qualification tournaments, and before that they played in B and C-tier tournaments, only occasionally making a splash at championships like IEM Chengdu 2024.
For example, in the 2023 season the team won ESEA Season 45: Main Division - Europe, but then - everything was sad: only TOP-8 at the championships of all kinds of Influencers and nothing serious. The breakthrough came in the 2024 season.
We started with open qualifications for PGL Major Copenhagen 2024, where we failed twice, finishing in TOP-32, and later - qualifiers for IEM China 2024. Nemiga Gaming managed to make it here for the third time after failing at the first open qualifiers with Top-64, and then Top-2 at the second qualifiers, which turned into a win at the main qualifiers.
- Nemiga Gaming line-up: 1eeR, khaN, riskyb0b, Xant3r, zweih.
Success at the qualifiers for IEM Chengdu 2024 did not turn into something stable. They took TOP-64 at the qualifiers for IEM Dallas 2024 and TOP-3 at ESEA Season 48: Advanced Division - Europe.
At IEM Chengdu 2024 Nemiga Gaming did what was expected of them: TOP-12. Later there was an appearance at Thunderpick World Championship 2024: European Series #1 with the final TOP-8 there. Also, Nemiga Gaming became the champions of RES European Series #2, winning $50,000.
Probably the most successful tournament for Nemiga in the season was RES Regional Champions, where the team managed to take the first place, earning $150,000.
In the 2025 season Nemiga showed more "stable results" for themselves. They placed TOP-32 at BLAST Bounty Spring 2025, TOP-12 RES Showdown Spring 2025: Closed Qualifier, IEM Dallas 2025, TOP-8 at CCT Season 2 European Series #17.
Directly at ESL Pro League Season 21, Nemiga Long Sogpeg were coming off two losses, but escaped with a match against Mindfreak.
Nemiga Gaming Mapple
Nemiga's favourite card remains Inferno. The Eagles have played it three times in the last 3 months and won all their games there. Things are also good on Nuke: Nemiga won 3 Nuke games out of 4 played.
Among the good options are Vertigo and Ancient, where Nemiga has 2 wins in 3 games.
The most undesirable map is Mirage. Nemiga has played it 6 times, but they have won only once.
History of head-to-head meetings between Heroic and Nemiga Gaming
In the season 2024 the teams played each other once, in Bo1 match. Then Nemiga won.
Predicted result of the match Nemiga - Heroic at ESL Pro League Season 21
Despite the position of the two teams (deplorable) I don't think that there are equal teams here. I can see how Heroic should be able to handle Nemiga without much trouble. However, judging by the way the situation is unfolding in ESL Pro League Season 21, I wouldn't be surprised to see a different result.
Bottom line: Heroic wins.
