Match Prediction: OpTic Gaming - VGJ.Thunder | Dota 2
China Dota2 SuperMajorThe collective have met approximately two months ago during the tournament StarLadder ImbaTV Invitational Season 5 and twice the guys from OpTic Gaming won. Initially PPD and Co turned out to be stronger at the group stage and then they defeated the Chinese collective by the score of 3:1 at the grand final.
OpTic Gaming are a rather strong team which was proved by their win at StarLadder ImbaTV Invitational Season 5 and the second place at ESL One Birmingham 2018. The collective are in a very good play shape and they will be extremely, as they hold the ninth place in the list of the best teams and they need only 135 points to get to The International 2018.
Within several last months, VGJ.Thunder managed to get the second place at The Bucharest Major, GESC: Indonesia Dota2 Minor and StarLadder ImbaTV Invitational Season 5, and thanks to that they got the eighth place in the list of the best teams having 1935 DPC points. The collective have to get more points than OpTic Gaming at this championship in order to get to TI8 without passing the regional qualifiers.
Bookmakers think that OpTic Gaming are the favourite of the battle and set the coefficient of their win of 1.66, while VGJ.Thunder’s triumph is evaluated as 2.2. We also think that PPD and Co have more chances to win as VGJ.Thunder have not been seen at the major events since 15 April.