On February 11, semifinal matches will be held at the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2023 CS:GO tournament. In the first match of the game day, Natus Vincere will come together with the Heroic team. Analysts of the betting company PARI in this confrontation prefer the team from Denmark. The match in the best-of-3 format starts at 17:30 Moscow time.For Heroic, this will be the first match in the IEM Katowice 2023 playoffs - the team took first place in its group, so it immediately received a ticket to the semifinals.
During the championship, the Danish team gave only one card to the opponents, and the 19-year-old star of the team, Jacob Jabbi Nygaard, became the best player of the group stage according to individual indicators. Experts estimate the probability of success of Heroic in a match against NAVI by a coefficient of 1.70. But it should be borne in mind that in the last three face-to-face matches that took place last year, Heroic was consistently inferior to the Ukrainian team.
NAVI defeated Outsiders 2-0 in the previous round (16:13 on Overpass and 16:12 on Inferno). Last year, at the IEM Katowice tournament, the team also reached the semifinals, but at this stage it was stopped by the G2 roster. You can bet that NAVI will be able to improve last year's result and get to the finals with a coefficient of 2.15.
PARI clients are confident in the victory of Heroic — about 73% of the total volume of bets on the outcome of the meeting falls on the Danish team.
It is curious that the Ukrainian team once again completed the series within the framework of IEM Katowice 2023 for two cards — the team has never had to play on a desider during the tournament. Analysts estimate the probability that only two cards will be played in the match against Heroic with a coefficient of 1.87. A higher coefficient can be obtained if you bet on a specific account — bets are accepted for a "dry" NAVI victory for 4.00.
In both quarterfinals of IEM Katowice 2023, the first cards turned out to be extremely tense and equal: NAVI and Outsiders spent 29 rounds to determine the winner, and Liquid and Vitality spent 36 rounds. Therefore, we can expect something similar in the Heroic vs NAVI match. For example, for a total of more than 28.5 rounds on the first card, experts give a coefficient of 2.75.
The largest bet among PARI's clients for the upcoming match is 300,000 rubles for the victory of Heroic with a coefficient of 1.70.
Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2023 takes place from February 1 to February 12 in Poland. The winner of the Heroic — NAVI match will advance to the championship finals, and the loser will leave the event and receive $ 80 thousand. The IEM Katowice playoffs take place at the Spodek Arena.
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