![]() Evgeniy ‘FL1T’ Lebedev, with an individual rating of 1.50 was the best player in the tournament by quite a margin. They were among the top teams at the conference season, finishing with an overall team rating of 1.30. Unlike their opponents in this game, they have their fair share of experience playing in global events and that will definitely give them the edge going into this game. At the ESL Pro League Conference season they seeded 1st-4th, beating Falcons Esports 2-0 in the final round to book their spot in the main tournament. In the IEM they coasted through the play-ins, but then slipped from upper bracket to lower bracket to elimination. At the Roobet Cup they crashed after losing both their matches in the group stage and finished bottom of their pool. ![]() They didn’t do great at the Roobet Cup nor at the Intel Extreme Masters XVII – Cologne, in both cases seeding last between 13th-16th. Outsiders, better known to most of us as Virtus.pro, acquired the neutral tag after their parent group’s links to certain Russian companies and individuals were sanctioned by the American and European governments.ĭespite being mired in controversy, they haven’t let it affect their game too much, generally maintaining the same standard of play they always have. Outsiders Looking To Move On From Recent Past ![]() The lessons and experience gained from playing at this level, no matter where they finish in this ESL, will be worth gold for this young side. While they’ve performed moderately well at some C-tier and B-tier tournaments in Portugal, winning the Circuito Retake Season 4 and the Master League Portugal Season 9, it’s been a long time since they’ve managed to qualify for bigger tournaments.īut they have a young, ambitious team the average age of their roster is 22, and it speaks volumes that they’ve made it this far for the first time in years. In the last three months FTW have won 13 and lost 15 of their games, their roster as a whole averaging a kill-death ratio of 0.91. Rui ‘vts’ Soares was signed as head coach in the last couple of months as well. ![]() Three new faces joined their roster in June, André ‘Ag1l’ Gil, Renato ‘stadodo’ Gonçalves, and Francisco ‘kst’ Fragoso. This granted them entry into the group stage, along with MIBR, Endpoint, Eternal Fire, Outsiders and HEET. They were beaten 9-16 by 1PIN in Inferno, and a single game ended their hopes of qualifying for the European qualifiers in Malta.įTW managed to find themselves at the ESL on account of their qualification through the Pro League Conference Season 16 in June, where they seeded 5th-6th. In the European RMRs at the IEM Road to Rio, they crashed out in their very first game and seeded 33rd-64th. For the Win Esports Out of FormįTW haven’t been at the top of their game lately. It’s been a while since FTW have played any of those, and they need to be prepared to face the cream of the crop at the ESL. Outsiders don’t have much to write home about either, but they’ve still managed to at least qualify for the major S-tier tournaments this year. ![]() The betting market believes that the odds of FTW winning this game are very slim. Outsiders For The Win Esports vs Outsiders Prediction The coming week sees the teams from Group B – favourites Faze Clan, along with G2 Esports, BIG, Outsiders, MIBR and FTW Esports – playing their first games in the ESL, and the top three will progress to the next stage. NAVI was surprisingly below par, losing their last three games of the group to the teams who were knocked out. Team Spirit, Ninjas in Pyjamas and Endpoint were eliminated. Team Vitality’s perfect unbeaten run saw them topping the group, followed by Fnatic and Natus Vincere. Some of the results from Group A were unexpected but fascinating, however in the end the three qualifiers were the same as most had predicted. Group B of the ESL Pro League will kick off their group stage matches this week.
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