The start of the ESL Pro League Season 18 playoffs is upon us and it's time to make your predictions for the upcoming matches. Today we have Danish killing machine Astralis vs Turkish players from Eternal Fire! Who should win this confrontation?
Team Form
It should be clarified that the teams last met 4 months ago and then the winners were Astrais with a score of 2:1!
But if we look at the individual statistics of the players, we can see that Astralis is 5% more successful in overpowered kills, while Eternal Fire is 7% more likely to hit the head.
But such a small difference will not play a big role in the match, so we should take a closer look at the map pool of this confrontation.
Map pool
We have a very interesting story developing here. First of all, Ancient, Mirage, and Anubis should not be considered as potential maps for this match at all.
That leaves only Nuka, Inferno, Vertigo, and Overpass to go on!
Astralis should pick Overpass, as this is the map where they have a big advantage! Namely a 71% win percentage over 21 maps.
But for Eternal Fire it makes sense to pick Nuke, as the Turks play not only from shooting, but also have a good strategic background, and as we know Nuke is about strategy.
Inferno and Vertigo look as random as possible when played by these teams, so we should expect one of these maps as Decider!
Still, we bet that Astralis will win this meeting with a score of 2:0.
The playoff bracket looks like this:
EPL S18 takes place from August 30 to October 1 in Malta. Teams play for a prize pool of $850k. The champion will also get slots to BLAST Premier: World Final 2023 and IEM Katowice 2024. You can follow the schedule and results of the tournament at the link.
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