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]]>SKADE and Team LDLC will clash for the first time in their history on Thursday in the third round of the WINNERS League: Europe Invite Division.
SKADE will look to improve upon their third-fourth finish in the previous season of the WINNERS League and obtain their first title since April, when the Bulgarians won SECTOR: MOSTBET Season 2. Although Teodor “SPELLAN” Nikolov and his team put up an impressive performance at MOSTBET, where they lost only one match throughout the whole tournament, they have struggled to show any encouraging results since.
SKADE’s best result in the past two months came at ESEA Season 33: Advanced Division – Europe, where they finished fourth. As for their results in May, SKADE finished last at #HomeSweetHome: Week 3 and SECTOR: MOSTBET Season 3, and ninth-12th in the fourth, fifth and sixth weeks of #HomeSweetHome. SPELLAN and Alex “Rainwaker” Petrov also participated at Red Bull Flick: West Europe, where they were eliminated in the first round.
SKADE enter this match with a 4-6 record from their last 10 fixtures and a 6-14 record from their last 20, which does not inspire much confidence given the ordinary quality of their opposition in that time. Although SPELLAN and co. defeated Complexity Gaming (16-14) last Wednesday in the opening match of #HomeSweetHome: Week 6, the American side are known to struggle in best-of-one (Bo1) fixtures.
Team LDLC come into this clash with two new members in Alexandre “bodyy” Pianaro and Aurélien “afroo” Drapier. The newest arrivals have replaced Logan “LOGAN” Corti and Kilian “Gringo” Garcia, who were benched last Friday after a run of poor performances.
Outside of a runner-up finish at Assembly Winter 2020 and a semi-final appearance at ESL Championnat National Summer 2020, LDLC have not seen much success since the turn of the year. The latter of those events can hardly be considered an achievement anyway, since it was a B-Tier national tournament that did not feature any strong teams besides Team Heretics.
Things have not improved for LDLC in recent weeks either. They failed to make any noise at the Hellcase Cup #8 and CS:GO Fight Night tournaments, where they were eliminated in the group stage.
It should surprise nobody that LDLC have plummeted in the CS:GO esports global rankings. They are now ranked 78th in the world, which is a far cry from their 53rd place in April and 12th place in November 2018.
Both teams have struggled of late, but the betting odds heavily favour SKADE due to Team LDLC’s disastrous performance at ESEA Season 34.
The newest additions afroo and bodyy both failed to impress in their club debut on Monday, which suggests they will need a couple of weeks to integrate. That, however, does not explain why the odds on LDLC are so high.
Ali “hAdji” Ha?nouss has played exceptionally throughout the last three months. He is averaging a 1.17 rating overall and 1.41 rating in the WINNERS League, which is far above all of his teammates and everyone on SKADE’s roster.
Additionally, SKADE enter this match on a 1-5 run on their best map, Inferno, while LDLC hold a substantial win-rate advantage on their favourite map, Dust II (67% – 43%).
Betting on LDLC to win is still a bit too risky for our liking due to the shaky performance from bodyy and afroo in their debut. However, the French squad should at least keep this one close and not lose by more than three rounds.
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]]>Chaos EC and Team Singularity will meet in the closing quarter-finals fixture of the WINNERS League Season 3 – NA Invite Division. The two North American squads will duke it out in a best-of-three (Bo3) series in a bid to secure a meeting with Swole Patrol in the semi-finals.
Chaos earned their spot in the playoffs with a flawless run through the group stage, where they did not lose a single match. While two wins came via forfeits from Team One and Monstars, Chaos made easy work of the other sides, with the only team that caused them any issues being eUnited (22-20).
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Since the WINNERS League group stage finished back in November, Chaos have participated in WESG 2019 NA as well as IEM Katowice NA open and closed qualifiers.
Chaos bested LiViD Gaming (16-2, 16-5) at WESG NA to secure a ticket for the main event and managed to keep their momentum going into the IEM Katowice open qualifiers, where they defeated two stacks and eUnited to secure a spot in the closed qualifiers. There, however, Chaos failed to make much noise, crashing out after suffering 0-2 defeats against Complexity and MiBR.
Chaos finished their busy schedule with a win against New England Whalers on Wednesday, January 15, in round one of the WINNERS League playoffs.
Unlike Chaos, who cruised through the WINNERS League group stage, Singularity had moments where it seemed like they would not make the cut. Fortunately for Atle “Atle” Stehouwer and his men, everything fell into place when it mattered.
SNG pocketed four forfeit wins against Bushido Boyz, Good Game PR, Team Hyper and Rebirth Esports in the group stage, meaning SNG won only one match against Faintz and lost their two remaining fixtures against MAC-51 and Riot Squad Esports.
Since their last match in the group stage of the WINNERS League, SNG have participated in both stages of IEM Katowice American open qualifiers. There, they defeated Recon 5 and Man I Love Fragging but lost to Riot Squad and Just For Fun, thus failing to lock in a spot in the closed qualifiers.
SNG also made an appearance at Mythic Cup 5 at the start of January, where they lost to Rugratz in the semi-finals. Their poor streak continued at the DreamHack Open Leipzig 2020 NA qualifiers, where they crashed out of the event with a quarter-final defeat to Complexity.
On a more positive note, SNG defeated Rep Gang in round one of the WINNERS League playoffs last Thursday to push their win rate for the last three months to 54.5%.
Both teams made some major changes at the start of 2020. Singularity parted ways with Will “dazzLe” Loafman and Jordan “Zellsis” Montemurro on Friday, meaning they currently have only three members on the active roster. Chaos benched Gage “Infinite” Green and signed the controversial British AWPer Owen “smooya” Butterfield, who left BIG at the start of the year.
Esports bookmakers have Singularity priced as slight favourites for the first-ever meeting between these two rosters.
Due to the recent departure of their players, Singularity will play this match with three stand-ins. Shahzeeb “ShahZaM” Khan and Hunter “SicK” Mims are on loan from Complexity, alongside eUnited rifler Kaleb “moose” Jayne.
While those three are without a doubt an upgrade, we have to consider there will be a lack of any real synergy in the team.
Chaos have only one new arrival in smooya, who has averaged a 1.31 rating in his three games with Chaos. That figure leads us to believe he will do just fine with his new team.
This will be a very close bout. While the new additions to SNG could, in theory, carry the team to a victory, we would not count on that happening. Chaos have an advantage in terms of team synergy and that alone should give them the needed edge to win here.
Prediction: Chaos EC to win – -106.38 at BetOnline
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