Match Prediction: Gaimin Gladiators - Team Falcons | Dota 2
DreamLeague Season 22Welcome to EGamersWorld.
The DreamLeague Season 22 group stage is heating up. We are still following what is happening in Group A, where the battles for a place in the play-offs of the first ranking tournament of 2024 continue.
Gaimin Gladiators and Falcons are among the contenders for the play-offs. Quite serious names, but both clubs may not make it to the main stage, especially considering the first games of the Long Cory Days DL S22.
Let's try to understand how this match will develop and whether either team will be able to improve their situation in the standings.
Let's go.
Falcons shape
Let's start the match with the analysis of the Falcons' form. In this match the team is playing at odds of 1.8, which means that the game will be even.
Falcons are a Saudi club that is preparing to conquer esports as a whole. The process is still underway, but even this Dota lineup is already hinting at plans to stay here for a long time.
In general, the tag is not new, but they were not able to achieve special fame. All they did was to play at the local Saudi eLeague. They played there in 2020, with TOP-6 and in 2021, with TOP-3 and TOP-1 respectively.
After a pause of a year, decided to return to the professional scene after Valve cancelled the DPC system. Breaking in with a leg.
- Falcons roster: skiter, Malr1ne, ATF, Cr1t, Sneyking.
The roster was assembled according to the "golden roster" principle. We managed to get two players from Tundra Esports, and at the same time champions of The International 2023 Skiter and Sneyking, Cr1t, who previously played for Shopify Rebellion and previously for EG, ATF, who showed a good performance last season in PSG Quest and before that in Nigma with OG, and closed everything with a promising mid laner Marl1ne.
In the MENA region, where Falcons are based, this squad has no competition even at the skilla level. As it happens, the Falcons have already clinched their ticket to Kuala Lumpur 2023.
First, they passed the open qualification without any difficulty, and then, again without much trouble, slammed the closed part of the qualifiers. In the final, by the way, they beat PSG Quest by a score of 3-1. What one and two are doing in the MENA region is not entirely clear, but come on.
At Pinnacle: 25 Year Anniversary Show Falcons look very confident so far, which is to be expected. They have already earned their place in the play-offs by coming out of Group B in first place without losing a single game in three matches.
The Falcons started their appearance in the Pinnacle play-offs: 25 Year Anniversary Show with a first round match against Level Up. An easy win took the Falcons to The dudley boys and there the Falcons got their first and only loss of the tournament. They were beaten by The dudley boys, who were given a rematch by the Falcons in the grand final.
In the end, the Pinnacle: 25 Year Anniversary Show Falcons took first place and earned $50,000. The triumph at the local championship was the Falcons' first win in the discipline. But not the last.
After winning at Pinnacle, Falcons finished top 6 at ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023 and then started to dominate. In 2024, they won 3 qualifiers: at BB Dacha, at DreamLeague Season 22 and ESL One Birmingham at their home in the MENA region.
Just before competing at DL Season 22, Falcons became BB Dacha champions, earning $400,000.
The first day of the DreamLeague Season 22 group stage Falcons went 2-2, which is not bad, but not particularly good either. On the second day, Falcons drew and extracted a win, thus coming in at 1 win and 3 draws.
Most popular Falcons heroes
Io (6 matches, 66% wins), Death Prophet (5 matches, 60% wins), Chen (5 matches, 60% wins), Dawnbreaker (4 matches, 75% wins), Earth Spirit (4 matches, 75% wins) appeared most often in spades.
Gaimin Gladiators uniforms
We continue our review of the Gaimin Gladiators vs Falcons match with an analysis of GG's form. In this match they play the first number one, with odds to win at around 1.8. Parity.
At the DPC 2023 Tour 1 WEU Division 1, the team took the top 2, which opened the way for them to The Lima Major 2023. The first Major season of the tournament was a trailblazing triumph for the Gladiators. Gaimin Gladiators won the tournament without losing a single map in the championship play-offs.
The next DPC cycle in the home league ended even worse than the previous one. Then GG lost to tiebreaker for the top 2, but more than compensated for the failure with a performance on the international stage. Even twice.
On the eve of Long Copega DPC 2023: Tour 3, GG took the championship in two international arenas. They won the $1,000,000 DreamLeague S19 and The Berlin Major 2023, defending their status.
In the third round of the domestic league, Gaimin Gladiators were expectedly one of the top contenders to win the league, but failed to get the regional championship. At the end of DPC 2023: WEU Tour 3 GG took 2nd place, but they made it to the Major, and that's the main thing.
- Gaimin Gladiators lineup: dyrachyo, Quinn, Ace, tOfu, Seleri.
There was also DreamLeague Season 20, where in the first group stage GG felt like they played half-heartedly. Nevertheless, they made it to the next stage and then won the grand final.
After winning DreamLeague Season 20, Gaimin Gladiators won another title. This time it was the Major a Champions Cup again. At Bali Major 2023, GG were once again beaten by Team Liquid in the grand finals.
GG had high chances to finish all the big tournaments of the year with victories, but at Riyadh Masters 2023 they were unlucky. In the first round of play-offs "gladiators" fell to the lower play-offs grid, where at the stage of TOP-4 Ledge or Talon Esports and left the championship.
Before The International 2023, GG visited DreamLeague Season 21. There they showed not the best performance, having played the championship at the TOP-8 stage. After The International 2023, GG performed well, despite losing the TI 2023 Grand Final against Team Spirit. Next, GG had a top-2 finish at ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023 and a top-6 finish at BB Dacha Dubai 2024.
At DreamLeague Season 22, GG Long Sogpeg had a very disappointing showing. GG finished the first day 1-3, losing to BB and drawing with Azure Ray. The second day was much better, with a win against Vp and a draw with OG.
Most popular Gaimin Gladiators heroes
The most frequent pick was Rubick. The character appeared in the GG peak 8 times and has 87% wins.
Next came Pangolier (6 matches, 83% wins), Doom (6 matches, 66% wins), Keeper of the Light (5 matches, 80% wins), Ember Spirit (5 matches, 80% wins).
We also took Ember Spirit (4 matches, 100% wins), Terrorblade (4 matches, 75% wins).
History of head-to-head meetings Falcons - Gaimin Gladiators
This season the teams have played each other twice. Both times at the Dubai Dacha tournament and both times Falcons won.
Predicted result of the match Gaimin Gladiators - Falcons at DreamLeague Season 22
Taking into account the pre-match odds and the position of the teams in the standings, I would say that there will be a draw. Falcons are nominally better and have an advantage in head-to-head meetings, but the Bo2 format introduces its own adjustments.
Bottom line: draw.
Gaimin Gladiators - 4th team of the world ranking. Everyone's favourite Gladiators. At The International 2023 they climbed almost to the very top, but to defeat Spirit in the grand finals was beyond the guys' capabilities. It was also decided to keep the roster as it was, which is not surprising. Throughout 2023, the team's performance was at the highest level. At ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023 they took a confident 2nd place, but the title was lost to AR. Did not participate in the qualifications for all tournaments because they received direct invites everywhere.
Team Falcons is a new team of MENA region with an extremely promising squad. The Arab organisation took Skiter, ATF, Malrine, Cr1t and Sneyknig under its wing. Without much difficulty they passed through the qualifications for ESL One Kuala Lumpur, passing both open and closed qualifications without defeat. Only Quest Esports managed to compete with them in the decisive match for a slot, but they couldn't stop them. But unfortunately at the tournament they reached only 5th place, but considering that it was only the first major tournament for the team, it was a pretty good result. Qualifications for BB Dacha Dubai are going well for the organisation. The only slot goes to them. In the same manner are the qualifications for DreamLeague Season 22. And the qualifications for ESL One Birmingham 2024 are also unchanged. Everywhere they take the only slot. They perform extremely well at BB Dacha, where they manage to beat all the tops and find themselves at the top of the table.
The feeling is that Falcons are playing rather loose in the tournament. GG are not in the best shape of course, but I think they will be able to pick up the card, that is to say, they will be able to win.
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Prediction: Draw!
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Bookmakers & Statistics
All bookmakers have agreed that Team Falcons is the favorite. This can be noticed because odds on them are 2.925. This number in the favor of Gaimin Gladiators amounts 4.622. Respectively, the last ones are the underdogs of the upcoming match.
How the teams played in the last matches
Last Matches | Gaimin Gladiators | Team Falcons |
5 matches (wins) | 1 | 3 |
10 matches (wins) | 2 | 4 |
The statistics of personal battles between teams is also important for successful bets. The competitors have held 2 matches. In these battles Gaimin Gladiators got 0 victories while Team Falcons managed to take 2 matches.