Match Prediction: Virtus.pro - NiP | Dota 2

The collectives met with each other approximately two weeks ago at the Maincast Autumn Brawl tournament and then the guys from “Virtus.Pro” turned out to be stronger winning over their opponents by the score of 2:1.

Virtus.Pro were one of the strongest teams in the 2017/2018 rating season and the world championship resulted in the 5-6 position for them so they decided not to change the active roster.  After the reshuffle period, the team managed to win the qualifiers for The Kuala Lumpur Major and became the champions of Maincast Autumn Brawl, performing with a substitute, which proves their good shape. We should mark that “Bears” won all the ESL tournaments where the participants had a chance to win a Mercedes car, so their seriousness shouldn't be talked out. At the current competition, the CIS roster won over Forward Gaming, but couldn't oppose to Team Aster.

Ninjas in Pyjamas appeared in the middle of this year and now they look  like a strong collective. They managed to get the second place at the qualifiers for The Kuala Lumpur Major, providing themselves with a trip to the LAN, to win GG.Bet Invitational Season 1 and to get placed on the 3-4 position of Maincast Autumn Brawl. At ESL One Hamburg 2018, the team took the third place having one victory and one loss - PPD and the team defeated EVOS Esports, but they couldn't beat Team Aster.

Bookmakers think that Virtus.Pro are the favourites of the competition and set the coefficient of their win equal to 1.8, while the triumph of NiP is evaluated as 7. We also suppose that “Bears” are more likely to win especially if we take into account the win over the roster of PPD a week ago having a substitute.