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A review of the big commercial tournament of the summer - DreamLeague S20 - continues with a betting tee on the Team Aster - BB Team match. The game is the final match of day 3 of the tournament.
And the game will be The International heresy on several counts. First, the tournament importance factor: This is an important event for the two sides, as they have not shined on the international stage this year. Secondly, the regional clash between Eastern Europe and China has yet to develop seriously this season.
We will try to figure out which team will be stronger in this crucial match and improve their standings ahead of the new DreamLeague Group Stage 2 round.
Let's go.
BB Team Form
We continue with our match-by-match analysis of the BB Team's form. In this match, they will play as favourites.
The bookmakers confirm the pre-match position. The odds for a BB Team victory are estimated at around 1.5.
Truth be told, it's rather surprising to see such an advantage for the Eastern European team. After all, throughout the year, the BB have shown an "average" game at best.
In the first season of the regional league, the BB Team topped the standings, easily outclassing their arch-rivals Spirit and HR. However, their success was quickly overshadowed by their performance in the Lima Major 2023, where the BB did not manage to make it out of the group.
Several inconclusive events later, the BB Team started to play in the second division of the DPC. This time the situation changed dramatically, from top 1 to top 3, but on the international stage, everything was stable: another failure to get out of the group at Major e.
The third DPC season was held under the slogan "it's time to get our own back", but somehow it didn't work out, something didn't go well and as a result it ended up in TOP-2. Again, sort of a landmark, but if you compare Western and Eastern Europe, the top 2 in the former is much more prestigious than the BB achievement.
- BB Team line-up: Nightfall, gpk, Pure, Save, TORONTOTOKYO.
Only with the start of DreamLeague Season 20 did the BB Team become more like a top club. At this tournament, the BB look serious, even though they weren't originally supposed to play here. That's what a successful event does to a team.
In the first group stage of DreamLeague Season 20, the team finished top-2 in their group. In the opening game of the second round of DreamLeague S20, BB Team outplayed the best team in the world - GG - and that's already an indicator.
The most popular BB Team characters
The most used BB Team character is still Storm Spirit (5 matches, 60% wins). In addition the team plays Primal Beast and Pugna in position 4, and both heroes have 4 matches and 100% wins each. In spades was Enchantress (4 matches, 25% wins), Beastmaster (4 games, 0% wins).
Team Aster form
In the first round of DPC 2023 Team Aster 'gave away' the regional lead, Ledgeiv on the PSG.LGD. Following a top-2 at DPC 2023: China Upper Division, Team Aster went to Peru, where they played an "average" game, with Monet and company finishing in the top-8.
In the second round of DPC 2023: China Upper Division Team Aster finished in the Top 4, which was already noticeably worse than last time. However, it was enough to qualify for the Berlin Major 2023. At the Berlin tournament, SumaiL, the club's current star, made his debut for Aster. Truth be told, the debut was not the most successful (Top 8), but as a test for the new mid-laner - fine.
Before that, Aster played at DreamLeague S19. In DreamLeague S19, Aster were in the top 9-10. Then, after some frustrating tiebreaks, they failed to make it out of the group.
After that was DPC 2023: China Tour 3. The home league ended in third place for Aster, which can hardly be called a successful result.
- Team Aster members: Monet, SumaiL, Xxs, BoBoKa, Siamese C.
In general, in this tournament, Aster is not doing very well. Especially their regional counterparts, PSG.LGD, who are nominally in the top 2 in China, but the DreamLeague gives the opposite impression.
In the first DL S20 group stage, Team Aster were in the relegation zone until the last day, but then a game against Entity followed by a win for Aster happened.
However, with Long Soppeg in the second group stage of the DreamLeague S20 Aster lost the opening game against 9 Pandas. Time to pick up the pace if they want to make it to the play-offs.
Aster's most popular heroes
Rubick appeared most often in spades - 6 matches, 50% wins. Keeper of The Light, Storm Spirit (5 games, 80% wins) were also picked.
There was Monkey King, Underlord, Terrorblade, Pugna (4 matches, 75% wins each).
History of head-to-head encounters between Aster - 9 Pandas
The teams have previously played each other 4 times. According to the results, absolute parity: 2 draws and one win for each side.
Match outcome
In this encounter, I expect a fight and believe in a full-fledged Bo3. We've seen the Pundas often throw in with unnecessary fixtures, and Aster will put the wheel with Morph on the centre line.
All in all, my bet is total +2.5.
Bottom line: total +2.5.
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ExecrationWatch match
