February 26th Cloud9 will face Outsiders in the final match of Group A at the ESL Pro League Season 17 CS:GO tournament. Both teams have already guaranteed their participation in the championship playoffs, but the team that wins this match will go straight to the quarterfinals. Analysts of the betting company PARI believe that Cloud9 will be the favorite of the meeting. The best-of-3 match starts at 18:00 Moscow time. In the last match, Cloud9 created a small sensation — the team interrupted the 16-match winstreak of G2 Esports, which won the last two major LAN tournaments.
In that match, a phenomenal result was shown by C9 sniper Dmitry sh1ro Sokolov, who finished the series with statistics 57/19. At the moment, sh1ro is the best player of the tournament with an average rating of 1.77. Taking into account all factors, experts give a coefficient of 1.55 for Cloud9 to win this match. The probability that C9, as in the previous two matches at the tournament, will be able to get a "dry" victory is estimated by a coefficient of 2.65.
Outsiders also won the previous two matches at the tournament with a score of 2-0, but its opponents were less formidable than Cloud9. Now Outsiders continue to adapt to a new member of the team, who has not always performed consistently. The Outsiders' chances of winning the match against C9 are estimated by experts at a coefficient of 2.45. But at the score of 2:0 in favor of Outsiders, they give a quote of 4.70.
PARI clients bet on Cloud9 — about 97% of the total volume of bets on the outcome of the meeting falls on this team.
In previous matches at the tournament, Cloud9 easily dealt with opponents on the first cards: 16:6 against G2 and 16:5 against EG. Therefore, you can pay attention to the bet on the victory of Cloud9 on the first card with a handicap on rounds (-5.5) — a coefficient of 2.90.
The largest bet among PARI's clients for the upcoming match is 200,000 rubles to win Cloud9 at a coefficient of 1.55. The player added this option to the express of four events with a total coefficient of 5.43.
ESL Pro League Season 17 runs from February 22 to March 26 in Malta. The tournament involves 32 teams divided into four groups. Teams are raffling off a prize pool of $850 thousand and tickets to IEM Cologne 2023 and BLAST World Final 2023.
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