Match Prediction: Team Secret - Newbee | Dota 2
Epicenter XLThe teams Newbee and Secret play together quite often and at last five matches Puppey and Co got the win over their opponents three times. Their last meeting was held as a part of the tournament The Bucharest Major 2018 approximately two months ago but there the Chinese collectives turned out to be the strongest.
Team Secret are one of the strongest teams at the moment, holding the third position in the rating of the teams with the biggest number of points Dota Pro Circuit within the play season (4710 points). In 2018, the collective managed to win Captains Draft 4.0 and DreamLeague Season 9, and also to finish in 3 at ESL One Genting 2018. As for the major tournaments, there “Secrets” have worse results - the team participated in three champions which were marked “major”, but they were not be able to achieve better results than the fifth place.
Meanwhile, Newbee are having a play decrease even though it has not resulted in a problem for the collective from the Heavenly Empire while holding the fifth position in the rating of the teams with the biggest amount of the received Dota Pro Circuit points within the play season (2220 points). We should mark that the team LGD Gaming are situated at the bottom of the table but performing successfully, they are able to replace Newbee from the fifth position.
This year Sccc and Co visited six championships and four of them helped them to get the rating points: victory at ESL One Genting 2018 and 3-4 place at StarLadder i-League Invitational Season 4, The Bucharest Major and DreamLeague Season 9.
The bookmakers think that Team Secret are the favourite of the meeting and set the coefficient of their win of 1.4 Meanwhile, the triumph of Newbee is evaluated as 2.5.
We do not completely agree with such a division of the powers because of the game practice of each of the teams - Newbee played their last official meeting literally five days ago during Dota 2 Professional League, where they ended up with the second place. The last match of Team Secret took place approximately three weeks ago at Dota 2 Asia Championships 2018.
To sum up, we think that the game will be intense and equal - the teams are more likely to play on all the three maps, but the guys represented the interests of Newbee will appear to be stronger.