The lower bracket teams are already gearing up for their match tomorrow at 4:00 AM. Read on to see the latest betting odds, previous match results, notable stats, key players, and personal picks and predictions.
Betting Lines
Evil Geniuses to win (1.77)
business associates to win (1.82)
Evil Geniuses +1.5 Map Handicap (1.19)
business associates +1.5 (1.23)
Over 2.5 (1.85)
Under 2.5 (1.75)
Previous Match Results and Statistics
Evil Geniuses started the tournament with a win against. The team then suffered three straight losses before winning their last match of the group stage against Thunder Predator who were unable to find a win in the tournament. Though it may be uncharacteristic for the considered top team in the American region, it is worth noting that EG’s current roster include stand-ins Ryoya and BuLba for their star midlaner Abed and offlaner RAMZES666 because of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. The underdogs, business associates, only won two matches as well during the group stage. They won against Thunder Predator and EG.
These two teams faced-off last May 29 in a matchup that saw business associates complete a reverse sweep against EG. During game 1 of this series, Arteezy continued his streak of games with no deaths from their match against beastcoast where he amassed a whopping 36 kills and 22 assists without suffering any death. Game one was all about Arteezy’s Queen of Pain who ended up with 18/0/7 KDA, ending the first game in just 30 minutes. With the absence of Abed, Ryoya must step up his game and provide a consistent performance as their safe lane carry as I see him being outcarried by position 1 players from other teams.
Moo had plans of spoiling Arteezy’s party though as he led the team in mounting a comeback as their safelane carry. In both games 2 and 3, Moo farmed at an impressive rate of 745 and 756 GPM respectively ending the both games with more thank 30K net worth. His combined KDA for both the games his team won was 28/5/29. EternaLEnvy must also bring his A-game as the second core of business associates. In addition, the supports could very well be the difference makers here if Sneyking and Brax pick heroes with big impact AOE skills such as Earthshaker, Enigma, and Mars.
Predictions
This match-up is once again without a heavy favorite reflected by the small difference in the betting odds as both teams share the same win-loss record in this tournament. It would be exciting to see these two teams face-off again as fatigue could very well be a factor in their previous meeting.
The winner could very well be decided as to whether Arteezy or Moo gets to go online earlier in the game. Similar to their previous match, a sweep is not to be expected here either so I would be going with the OVER 2.5 pick.
As both teams find themselves at the brink of elimination, us fans are the true winners here as we are guaranteed another exciting series of competitive DOTA.
