Match Prediction: North - NRG | CS2 (CS:GO)
StarSeries i-League Season 6The last time when the collectives met happened at the beginning of June at the StarSeries i-League Season 5 competition and then NRG eSports turned out to be stronger winning over their opponents by the score of 2:1.
We can say for sure that North failed at FACEIT Major: London 2018, as the guys didn't aim for the 17-19 place. And even despite the fact that the collective had won DreamHack Masters Stockholm 2018 one week before - MSL and niko got inactive immediately after the Major, and their places were taken by gade and cadiaN. After the replacement, the roster managed to win the qualifiers for Esports Championship Series Season 6 - Europe. At the current championship, North defeated OpTic Gaming at the first match by the score of 16:07 on the map “Overpass”.
Meanwhile, NRG eSports perform pretty well but at the final of the qualifiers they weren't themselves and often lost against the clear outsiders. Not a long time ago, the guys managed to overcome the qualifiers for EPICENTER 2018 - Wild Card, but they got the 3-4 position at the final part of ESL One: New York 2018. At the SLTV tournament, the roster defeated Vega Squadron at the extra rounds which was pretty difficult. The meeting resulted in 19:17 for the North American collective.
Bookmakers think that North are a questionable favourite of the battle and set the coefficient of their win equal to 1.7, while the triumph of NRG eSports is evaluated as 2.1. We will lean towards the North American collective as we think that they have a better teamwork and they are stronger at this period of time.