Match Prediction: Outsiders - Heroic | Counter-Strike (CS2)

Outsiders and Heroic will play in the first round of IEM Rio Major 2022. While the Russian team performed well at the Challengers Stage, Heroic watched it all from the outside and prepared.

To put it bluntly, there is a very possible sensation here, as the Outsiders are famous for winning such tight matches, especially in BO1. This happened at the RMR tournament in a face-to-face meeting, just as the team recently defeated Vitality.

On the other hand, the Danish team still cannot boast of much stability, invariably creating problems for themselves out of the blue. Therefore, here I would prefer to pay attention to the Outsiders.

Form Outsiders

The eighth team of the world ranking just recently became the winner of the ESL Challenger at DreamHack Rotterdam 2022, where, in general, they showed a good game.

However, at the start of IEM Rio Major 2022, the Russian team suffered a sharp defeat from MOUZ, failing to get into the game. Fortunately, Outsiders returned to the fight and closed IHC, and then beat Vitality,

Well, in the last round, the team drove fnatic very confidently, despite all the problems. In general, the Outsiders accelerated right during the tournament, and the guys' game looks quite good.

Latest Outsiders results:

• Victory over ENCE with a score of 2:0.
• Lost to MOUZ with a score of 6:16.
• Victory over IHC with a score of 16:12.
• Victory over Vitality with a score of 16:12.
• 2-0 victory over fnatic.

Best Outsiders cards:

• Vertigo - 100% wins.
• Overpass - 100% wins.
• Dust 2 - 70% win rate.
• Ancient - 60% of wins.
• Mirage - 50% of wins.

Do not forget that the Russian team continues to ban the Nuke map.

Form Heroic

The seventh team in the world ranking managed to fail in the frames of ESL Pro League Season 16, where they lost to NAVI in the first round of the playoffs and went to rest.

Then the Danish team took part in IEM Road to Rio 2022 Europe RMR B, where they had some adventures. First of all, Heroic managed to lose to Outsiders, but at least further knocked out a ticket to the “legends”,

Of the latter, the team became the winner of BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2022 Europe, where they did not lose a single map. And in general, the winning streak of the Danes stretched for seven matches.

Heroic's latest results:

• Victory over Vitality with a score of 2:1.
• Victory over OG with a score of 2:1.
• Victory over ECSTATIC with a score of 2:0.
• Victory over Sangal with a score of 2:0.
• Victory over Astralis with a score of 2:0.

Best Heroic Maps:

• Ancient - 100% win rate.
• Nuke - 86% of wins.
• Inferno - 82% of wins.
• Mirage - 57% of wins.
• Vertigo - 50% of wins.

In turn, the Danish collective Heroic is still refusing the Dust 2 map.

Match statistics Outsiders — Heroic

Within the framework of the current season, the teams held two meetings:

• Heroic win at IEM Katowice 2022 with a score of 2:0.
• Outsiders win at IEM Road to Rio 2022 Europe RMR B with a score of 16:12.

I would like to note that at the last RMR tournament the teams played on the Mirage map.

Prediction for the match Outsiders — Heroic

An interesting meeting where teams can play on four maps at once - Inferno, Mirage, Vertigo and Overpass. So it's hard to say in advance who will have a slight advantage.

However, in general, I am more inclined to choose Outsiders, which dries the game very well and breaks the opponent. As for Heroic, the Danes haven't played for a long time, so it's hard for me to cling to concrete facts.

Well, in this case, I would recommend betting on the victory of the Outsiders team.