Match Prediction: Team Secret - Tundra Esports | Dota 2
DreamLeague Season 22: Western Europe Closed QualifierWelcome to EGamersWorld.
DreamLeague Season 22: WEU Closed Qualifier continues on our screens. In case anyone forgot, there are 8 teams playing for two tickets to DreamLeague Season 22 - the first ranking tournament of the renewed professional Dota 2 environment.
Among the contenders for the main tournament are Secret and Tundra. They are also the main contenders for the main tournament. However, since they start the road to Main Event with a face-to-face match, the chance for both teams to get there is rapidly decreasing.
Let's try to figure out which of the teams will be stronger and make it to the next round of the DreamLeague Season 22: WEU Closed Qualifier, and who will go to play in the lower part of the tournament.
Let's go.
Tundra Esports uniforms
Let's open the match analysis with an analysis of Tundra Esports' form. In this match they will play as favourites with odds to win at around 1.4.
In the first cycle of DPC 2023, Tundra only made it to the top 4 via tiebreaker, finishing the season in the top 3. This gave them an opportunity to play at The Lima Major 2023, which they failed, finishing in the Top 12.
Things got better in the second DPC cycle. Tundra had re-matches again and again they did well, except now it was a Top-2 division match. Things also got better on the international stage at ESL One Berlin Major 2023, where the reigning world champions from The International finished in the top 6.
In the third cycle, DPC Tundra returned to the top of the competitive dota. The reigning World Champions of The International finished in the top 1 in their home league.
Tundra attended DreamLeague Season 20, but they didn't have much zeal to win there. The team failed to make it past the first group stage, finishing in the top 9-10.
At Bali Major 2023, Tundra had a forced stand-in. Saksa left the squad due to illness, but it didn't stop Tundra from reaching the top 3 of the tournament.
In Riyadh, Tundra again resorted to Aui for the same reason. With him they were able to pass the group stage and survive in round-robin tiebreaks. As a result, they managed to reach the top-12 of the Riyadh Masters 2023, but were knocked out of the tournament by Gaimin Gladatiators.
Before The International 2023, Tundra visited DreamLeague Season 21. There, the team somehow made it to the top 6, where they were knocked out by OG.
Tundra Esports finished the first day at the top of the standings. Topson and company finished 5-1 on maps: they won the series against TSM and Talon, but gave the map to Keyd Stars. Next - the same confident performance and TOP-1 in their group in the end.
After going through the group stage with confidence, Tundra Esports looked very disappointing in the main event. The team lost to Nouns 0-2 in the play-offs seeding match and fell to the bottom of the net, where they fell to Entity 0-2, thus finishing The International 2023 in the top 16.
- Tundra Esports roster: Pure, Topson, MinD_ContRol, 9Class, Whitemon .
With a revamped roster, Tundra Esports qualified for the DreamLeague Season 22 indoor qualification. They easily won the open stage and thus made it here.
Tundra Esports' most popular characters
Among the most popular characters in Tundra spades is Techies. The character has been picked 9 times, and his winrate is at 66%.
Next is Bloodseeker, who has been picked 8 times. His win rate is 50%. Batrider (7 matches, 71% win rate), Doom (7 matches, 57% win rate), Timbersaw (6 matches, 66% win rate) were also picked.
Team Secret uniforms
We continue the match analysis by analysing Team Secret's uniform. In this match they will play as a number two, with odds to win around 2.8.
After reaching the finals of The International 2022, Secret made some changes to the squad, but the performance was critically affected. So critical that Secret completely failed in the first DPC season, falling to the second division.
In the second cycle of DPC Secret played in the second division. There Puppey's team won the league, which was expected, but still.
The return to the first league was supposed to be a triumph, but in reality it turned out to be a flop. Secret were awful and the outcome of their game was a relegation back to the second division.
After losing the first division of Western Europe, Team Secret played in two commercial tournaments. These were DreamLeague Season 20 and Riyadh Masters 2023.
Both championships Secret, to put it bluntly, failed. At DreamLeague Season 20, Puppey and company finished in the top 12, as they did at Riyadh Masters 2023.
The last event before BB Dacha was the Western European qualifiers for The International 2023. Secret looked good through the qualifiers, but still couldn't break through the most competitive region, ending up in the top 4.
At BB Dacha, SumaiL joined Puppey and that did the team good. Secret made it through the group stage and won the first round of the top set, shutting out beastcoast 2-0.
In the match to qualify for the BB Dacha Grand Final, Secret played against GG. The match ended with an expected win for GG on two maps. Having got to the bottom net Secret finished their performance at BB Dacha by defeating PSG Quest.
After the successful tournament came a series of qualifying events. Secret tried their best to qualify for a major international event, and they did. After two open qualifications and a closed stage of qualifiers, Puppey and company went to ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023, where they played quite well. The final top-8 ranking hints at the ability of Secret's current roster to put on a pretty decent performance.
- Team Secret roster: Crystallis, Kordan, BOOM, Ekki, Puppey .
At first glance, the roster looks pretty questionable, but it takes time anyway. The DreamLeague Season 22: WEU Closed Qualifiers, by the way, were invited by the organisers.
The most popular Team Secret heroes
Mirana, Tusk and Primal Beast are among the most chosen heroes of Secret. All of them have 6 matches and 83% wins.
In addition, Monkey King and Ember Spirit appeared in spades (5 games each and 100% wins). Death Prophet also played 5 matches, however she won 4 matches.
Also Jakiro (3 matches, 100% wins), Enchantress (3 matches, 100% wins). Abaddon (2 matches, 66% wins), Broodmother (2 matches, 100% wins).
History of head-to-head meetings between Tundra and Secret
The teams have played each other in the past. Total score of the games: 2-1 in favour of Tundra, and one draw.
Predicted result of the match Secret - Tundra Esports
In this match I expect an even game, no matter how it seems before its Long Sogpeg. Tundra's revamped roster has already gained the necessary experience at the qualifiers here, and also at the BB tournament in Dubai. All in all, I'm expecting a full-fledged bo3.
Bottom line: total +2.5.
Tundra (former TSM) is the 14th team in the world ranking. The organisation was not satisfied with the performance of former TSM and decided to change the team again. Now Pure, Topson, Mind_Control, 9Class and Whitemon are in the team. Maybe now we will have more success.
Team Secret is the 8th team of the world ranking. Unfortunately, they failed to get through the European qualifications for The International 2023, taking only the 4th place. Of course, after such a performance Puppey could not leave everything as it was and the team left Armel and Fbz. They were replaced by old MidOne and their former player BOOM, despite his very controversial performance in the previous period in the organisation. This line-up didn't last long and the previously mentioned MidOne goes inactive, along with Yamich and they are replaced by Kordan and Ekki.
Tundra defeated Secret 2 0 in the last bout. Why would the result change now?
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Prediction: Tundra wins!
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Bookmakers & Statistics
Tundra Esports are listed as the favorites of the match in the majority of bookmakers and odds on them are equal to 1.241. Team Secret, in turn, are the outsiders of the match. Odds on their victory are about 5.348.
What the team performance statistics say
Last Matches | Team Secret | Tundra Esports |
5 matches (wins) | 4 | 2 |
10 matches (wins) | 8 | 6 |
Gamblers will definitely be interested in the statistics of personal meetings between the teams. The teams played 15 matches with each other before. In these battles Team Secret got 4 victories while Tundra Esports managed to take 10 matches.