SKADE will play Spirit Academy in the first round of the BLAST Rising 2021 group stage. Whose side will the luck be on?
SKADE
The Bulgarian team closes the top twenty of the strongest teams in the world, although it is not always possible to achieve positive results. For example, the team did not qualify for the IEM Summer 2021, having failed the closed qualifiers, in which it lost in the first match. It was not possible to break through to Flashpoint 3 - 3 games, 2 losses. But the European Development Championship 3 guys from SKADE brought themselves to the asset, because they won it, finishing with a 3-0 statistic.
Spirit Academy
The team from the CIS works not only for the future, but also wins tournaments, albeit modest ones. For example, Spirit Academy triumphed in the Ghetto eGames Cup 3, and before that took second place in the REPUBLEAGUE TIPOS Season 1 tournament. Quite confidently, the shooters from the Spirit Academy showed themselves at the Stream.me Gauntlet: CIS vs EU #15, finishing second. Of course, all these successes can hardly be taken seriously, because each of these events can not be attributed to the list of prestigious, but you need to start somewhere. And at BLAST Rising 2021, there is a great opportunity to make a bigger statement, as the level of resistance here is much higher, and the opponents are more serious.
Forecast
SKADE is much stronger, and Spirit Academy only gains experience and gradually increases the level of skill. I do not think that the Bulgarian team will face problems in the first match of the group stage.
