Match Prediction: Movistar Riders - Betera Esports | CS2 (CS:GO)
ESL Challenger League Season 46: EuropeWelcome to EGamersWorld.
The Counter-Strike 2 competition continues with ESL Challenger Season 46. And it's still the group stage of the championship, where slots for ESL Pro League Season 19 are up for grabs.
We're talking about the so-called Mid Group. This is a basket where teams in Double-Elimination grid reveal the strongest who will play in the play-offs of the championship.
This time we are talking about ESL Challenger Season 46 Mid Group, and more precisely about the lower part of this group. Movistar Riders and Betera Esports will play there.
Let's assess the strength of each team in this matchup to determine the one that will advance further down the grid into the semi-finals, showcasing their prowess on renowned CS2 gambling sites.
Let's go.
Movistar Riders uniform
Let's open our match analysis with a look at the Movistar Riders form. In this match, they will play as favourites.
Among the many events Movistar Riders mostly attended small championships with a very dubious pool of participants, but there were also 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, dav1g, Martinez, JUST, adamS.
Movistar Riders played a number of small events like CCT Online Finals #2 and qualifiers for IEM Masters Sydney 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. MR Ledge defeated 9z Team 2-1. Later MR lost to Vp, and in the play-offs Roobet Cup came after the victory over 9z Team in the decisive match of Group B.
However, they failed to go far in the Roobet Cup. Movistar Riders finished in the top 8 after losing to Monte.
ESL Challenger League Season 46 is quite difficult for MR. The team had a lot of trouble in the first group stage, finishing 2-3, losing to 9INE, 1WIN and Betera.
Finding themselves in Mid Group Movistar Riders
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.
Form of Betera Esports
We continue the match analysis with the analysis of Betera Esports form. In this match they will have to play as a number two.
Betera Esports is a typical TIR-2 team. Previously they were known by the tag Iron Branch, but this autumn they found a new home in the form of Betera. Among the results for Iron Branch are a lot of B-tier tournaments and all sorts of qualifications.
For example, while still Iron Branch, they had the experience of playing against ENCE at the Elisa Invitational Spring 2023, where they lost without a chance. There were also all sorts of ESEA Cash Cup events and so on. They were also frequent guests of CCT series tournaments, where they play exactly the same teams that are just going through combat smoothing. We didn't show any special results anywhere.
Before playing at ESL Challenger Season 46 they attended the local tournament HardPlay Cup 7. There, playing against self-similar mixes, they reached 4 out of 8 places.
- Betera Esports lineup: lollipop21k, MaSvAI, Ganginho, sad, nifee.
Of the five, lollipop21k is the better known performer, having previously played for Nemiga, 1WIN, Iron Branch. He is also a kind of headliner of the lineup with a rating of 1.09. The most combative can be called Ganginho, who has a rating of 1.12.
After the top 4 at the local tournament Betera started playing at ESL Challenger Season 46, where they got there with ESL Challenger Relegation Season 45. And, by the way, they are playing well so far.
In the first group stage, the one with baskets A-D, Betera took the top 3 in their group. They were ahead of 9INE and 1WIN.
In the Mid Group ESL Challenger Season 46 they have already played 2 matches. The first, against PARIVISION, they won 2-1, and then lost to EYEBALLERS with the same score on the scoreboard.
Betera Esports Mapple
Betera Esports' best card remains Vertigo. It has been played 5 times and won in 3 maps. Next comes Mirage, already with 7 games and 4-3 stats.
The neutral choices for Betera Esports are Nuke and Ancient. There are only 6 maps and the score is 3-3 on each map.
The worst are Overpass (2-3) and Inferno (1-2).
History of head-to-head meetings between Movistar Riders and Betera Esports
The teams have already crossed paths with each other directly at ESL Challenger Season 46. In the group stage match, Betera were stronger, outscoring MR 2-0.
Predicted result of Movistar Riders vs Betera Esports at ESL Challenger Season 46
After playing in the group stage, this match doesn't look like an easily predictable one. In such cases I am inclined to bet "both scores", which can be interpreted as a total of +2.5 at The International in the manner of CS.
Bottom line: total +2.5.