February 11 at the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2023 CS tournament:Semi-final matches will be held there. In the second match of the game day, the favorite of the G2 Esports championship will meet with Team Liquid. The winner will advance to the final, where he will compete for the trophy on February 12. Analysts of the betting company PARI consider G2 a clear favorite in this match. The best-of-3 match will start at 21:00 Moscow time. G2 looks phenomenal at the start of the new season — in 2023, the team won all the matches and did not give a single card to the opponents.
At IEM Katowice 2023, following the results of the group stage, three G2 participants entered the top of the best players at once. The overall winstreak of the team, which stretches from the end of 2022, has already reached ten matches. Taking into account all the factors, analysts give a coefficient of 1.25 for the victory of G2. The last time the m0NESY team gave a card to opponents was back in December 2022. Therefore, experts consider the most likely outcome of the match to be a "dry" G2 victory — a coefficient of 1.95.
Team Liquid started the season unconvincingly, so few expected that the North American team would be able to show something at IEM Katowice 2023. However, the roster not only reached the playoffs of the tournament, but also quite unexpectedly beat Team Vitality, making one of the brightest comebacks of the tournament on the first map — from the score of 2:13 on the Overpass map. However, analysts do not really believe that Liquid will be able to perform another feat — a 4.00 coefficient is given for the victory of the roster over G2. PARI clients are absolutely confident in the victory of G2 — more than 99% of the total volume of bets on the outcome of the meeting falls on the favorite.
The last three series with the participation of Team Liquid were delayed by three cards. Experts estimate the probability that a similar scenario awaits the audience in the upcoming match by a coefficient of 2.07.
In the last match at IEM Katowice 2023 — against NAVI — the G2 team gave only eight rounds to the opponents. There was a similar big gap in rounds in the last face — to - face confrontation between G2 and Liquid - the score was 16:7. Given the high playing form of G2 at the moment, we can fully expect that the team will dominate the score in this match as well. For example, on the first card, you can bet on G2 with a handicap of -6.5 rounds — such an outcome is estimated by a coefficient of 3.05.
The largest bet among PARI clients for the upcoming match is 156,000 rubles to win G2 with a coefficient of 1.28.
Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2023 takes place from February 1 to February 12 in Poland. The winner of the G2 — Team Liquid pair will meet Natus Vincere or Heroic in the final. The champion of the event will receive $400 thousand and a ticket to IEM Cologne 2023.
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