Astralis vs Cloud9

Astralis ranked #1 from Denmark are clashing against team Cloud9 ranked #20 from the United States in the IEM Katowice 2020 that has 16 teams competing for the prize pool of $500,000. This tournament is well famous and played on Katowice, Poland on LAN.

This is the best of 3 quarter-final type of match.

Astralis map performance in the last three months: Overpass is at 100,0% win rate on two played maps - WON/TIED/LOST - 2/0/0, Nuke 77,8% on nine played maps 7/0/2, Inferno 75,0% on eight played maps 6/0/2, Train 75,0% on four played maps 3/0/1, Dust2 40,0% on five played maps 2/0/3, and Vertigo with 0,0% win rate on two played maps 0/0/2.

They played five maps in February and won one, converted, they played two matches and won none. In January they played no game, but in December they played 19 maps and won 14, in other words, they played eight games and won seven. During November, they played six maps and won five, converted, they played three games and won all three.

Cloud9 map highlights in the previous three months: Nuke is at 100,0% win rate on one played map - WIN/DREW/LOSS - 1/0/0, Vertigo 100,0% on one played map 1/0/0, Inferno 83,3% on six played maps 5/0/1, Overpass 83,3% on six played maps 5/0/1, Dust 2 66,7% on six played maps 4/0/2, and Train with 0,0% win rate on one played map 0/0/1.

They played 21 maps in January and won 16, in other words, they played ten matches and won eight.

OK, so the winner here will advance to clash against the winner of NiP VS Vitality. Of course, the odds are favoring Astralis since they are, in fact, Astralis and Cloud9 played only games in January, so that is not something worth betting on them. I will go with Astralis to win here.

Good luck to all who bet, and don't forget to gamble responsibly!