Match Prediction: Team Spirit - Evil Geniuses | Dota 2

The group stage at Lima Major 2023 is gaining momentum. The duel of the third stream of games is next in line, which will bring several top confrontations at once.

One of these matches will be a duel between Team Spirit and Evil Geniuses. Both teams are contending for the top seed in the playoffs, and therefore will struggle to score points, especially in face-to-face confrontations.

Spirit, who took second place at DPC 2023: EEU - Upper Division, played the first day of Lima Major 2023 with a score of 2-2, which is not a perfect debut.

Evil Geniuses, in their Peruvian guise, played only 1 match, but today they will play two at once. They are temporarily on the 5th line of the standings with 1-1 statistics on maps.

We figure out which of the teams will be able to improve their performance, if there is one, and how the game will end.

Team Spirit Uniform

Despite not the most confident debut, Team Spirit is still the favorite of the game. I don't quite agree with this.

Bookmakers estimate their chance of winning with odds around 2.5. Not a panacea for bo2, but food for thought, for sure.

It is not entirely clear why Team Spirit is given such a credit of trust. Yesterday, the team looked really sluggish, even in the won series.

Team Spirit roster

We attribute not the most confident game to the Spirit roster. After the departure of TORONTOTOKYO, the team enlisted the support of Larl, but failed to solve the problems to the end.

Team Spirit Players

• Yatoro
• Larl
• collapse
• Mira
• Miposhka

Naturally, you will not be fed up with one midlaner. The newly arrived player plays to the best of his ability, that is, he is healthy, which cannot be said about his teammates.

The duo Collapse and Mira stand out in particular. As for me, Spirit's hardline is now dipped and does not pose a significant threat to opponents

Team Spirit Performance

Team Spirit made it to the Lima Major taking second place in the home league.

The Miposhk-i team won 6 matches, losing the last match. In the finals of Eastern Europe, TS lost to BB in a bright bo3 confrontation, where the main problem of the current roster came out.

She appeared in Spirit during two other tournaments: BB Xmas Show and BB Universe - Comics Zone. Both of Spirit's commercial championships finished in second place.

In the first game, Spirit played against Team SoloMid. The team managed to win with a score of 2-0, but I will not call the match a cakewalk.

The second game was against Gaimin Gladiators. Here Spirit lost, which is rather strange, because in the last head-to-head matches they had an advantage.

Evil Geniuses Form

On the other side of the barricades will be Evil Geniuses. The hosts of the Peruvian Major will play as an outsider.

I repeat, it is not entirely clear why the alignment of forces is such. Evil Geniuses played the only match against a very serious opponent and took the map there, but the gap from Spirit is actually twofold.

The bookmaker evaluates the chance of EG with odds around 4.5. As for me, the figure is too big and does not correspond to the real state of affairs.

Evil Geniuses line-up

The combat composition of the Peruvians has not yet fully turned on. The group stage is a time of experimentation, and therefore EG will make mistakes - that's a fact.

EG Players

• Pakazs
• Chris Luck
• Wisper
• Matthew
• pandaboo

We have seen that this five can play DotA. We saw it at The International 2022, and also at the Regional League, where we took second place.

So far, we haven't seen anything outstanding in Lima Major 2023, but it's not the time either: we have only 1 match behind us, it will be better in the future. But it is not exactly.

Performance Lima Major 2023

EG made it to the Lima Major from second place at DPC 2023: SA - Upper Division. Above them were beastcoast - another favorite of the tournament.

EG played the regular season with a 6-1 record. The only defeat happened in the 3rd week match against beastcoast.

That game was not easy for bc. The fight lasted 2 maps, but the first was delayed by 42 minutes, and the second by 60.

In the first match, Evil Geniuses played against PSG.LGD. In that match, EG confidently won the first game, and then decided to take Venomancer, which led to the defeat.

Heroes Evil Geniuses

Everything in the pool for EG is pretty standard, according to the canons of patch 7.32. However, there are some idiosyncratic choices.

The most picked character is Rubick. Appeared 11 times and won 9 matches.

Monkey King (8 games, 87% wins), Mars (8 matches, 62% wins), Timbersaw (7 games, 100% wins), Silincer (7 matches, 100% wins) are popular.

History of personal confrontations

This match will be the debut face-to-face confrontation. Previously, the teams had not played official matches before.

Match outcome

The match promises to be hot and I don't see a clear winner here. In the first matches, he does not emerge.

The most logical choice for me would be +1.5 in favor of Evil Geniuses. I'm sure they will improve during the tournament, and picking up a card from the current Spirit is a feasible task.

Result: +1.5 on Evil Geniuses.