The rosters of compLexity Gaming and Team Empire haven’t met for last several months because of rather unstable results in the regional arena - the teams rarely managed to win at the qualifiers in their regions.
Team Empire perform rather commonly and managed to visit only three minor tournaments: Captains Draft 4.0, StarLadder i-League Invitational Season 4 and DreamLeague Season 9, so they were able to get no rating points. We should mark that at the end of 2017 the roster won the international tournament состав ROG MASTERS 2017 and earned $117,000, but the championship couldn’t receive confirmation from Valve, so the points Dota Pro Circuit were not one of the prize there.
The management of the organization were not satisfied with the situation in the roster within several months, so the collective made the decision to change the player of the position “carry” - the young talent Aibek «Naive-» Tokaev replaced Aleksander «Nix» Levin. The Kazakh esportsman performed only at the qualifiers for ESL One Birmingham 2018 and finished in 2 letting Natus Vincere win the grand final.
During this championship, the players of Team Empire held the match against Team Liquid and lost it by the score of 2:0. But we shouldn’t ignore the team for sure as they played with KuroKy and Co who represent one of the best teams on the modern professional stage and the Russian collective played rather well and had a chance to get one of the maps in their active.
compLexity are the middle in North America and in 2018 and managed to visit ESL One Katowice 2018, ESL One Genting 2018, Captains Draft 4.0, StarLadder i-League Invitational Season 4, The Bucharest Major and win qualifiers for EPICENTER XL in their region. At all the mentioned championships, the roster could achieve nothing more than 5-6 places, so the guys couldn’t get any rating points. That’s why the collective decided to change the captain and asked Kyle «Kyle» Freedman to leave and replaced him by Martin «Saksa» Sazdov who will be playing at the upcoming tournaments.
During EPICENTER XL, the team played a match against FlyToMoon and let them win by the score of 0:2. The Russian collective is in a very good play shape while the guys were affected by the lightning which struck the airplane at the airport where the guys were to fly so the flight was delayed and after they landed in Moscow, their luggage turned out to have been sent with another flight so all the devices of the players arrived later.
The bookmakers think that the guys from Team Empire are unmistakable favorites and set the coefficients of their win of 1.7, while the triumph of compLexity is evaluated as 1.9. We also think that the guys from Russia have more chances to win due to the absence of flights and the bookmakers’ centers give very good coefficients, and taking into account the recent loss from FlyToMoon, Fn and Co must be confident about their powers.
