In their opening match at the candidates stage in Rio de Janeiro at the IEM Major 2022, the German BIG team will compete with FURIA from Brazil.
BIGThe German team approached the tournament in an extremely controversial form and raises big questions with their game.
The last time the German team played on October 20 at the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2022 Europe tournament. In the quarterfinals of the BIG tournament, they failed and very unexpectedly lost to the modest European team Sangal in the VO3 format game – 16:11 Dust2 (their peak); 9:16 Inferno and 16:19 Vertigo.
FURIABut the Brazilian team last played on the seventh of October.
At the LAN tournament IEM Road to Rio 2022 Americas RMR FURIA played quite confidently. In the fourth round of the tournament, in the match for reaching the candidates stage, FURIA confidently dealt with her compatriots from the paiN team in the VO3 format – 16:8 Nuke (the opponent's peak) and 16:13 Vertigo.
ForecastIn this match, FURIA is considered by the bookmakers to be a pretty clear favorite.
However, in a game of the VO1 format, there can be quite any outcome if the German team can bring the peak to a more successful map for itself. At the same time, a good fight should still turn out here, and therefore we suggest that you put more than 26.5 rounds on the total.