Team Spirit against European giants – CIS enters the battle at DreamHack Masters

Team Spirit – a chance to gain a foothold in the top

ESL One: Road to Rio revealed that Team spirit – One of the strongest teams in the region. The chopper roster has been showing good results for a long time, but at the first qualifying tournament the major exceeded all expectations: Spirit beat all the tops of our region, and she couldn’t meet only with Natus vincere.

Now the team has to fight with European teams. During quarantine, Spirit already participated in a major championship with Old World tops, and not to say that it showed itself so badly: at ESL Pro League Season 11, the Spirit lineup was the penultimate in Group A – wards Certus lost Ninjas in pajamas, Astralis and Godsentbut could handle ENCE eSports and Team vitality.

Spirit rivals in the group are serious, and bookmakers in our country do not particularly believe: in the match with Fnatic Spirit was given a coefficient of 2.63 (you can follow the match here), and for the upcoming game with Faze clan – 2.48. But I believe that Spirit has a chance to compete almost for the first place in the group, and all because rivals in the quartet have a lot of problems. First things first.

FaZe – who will replace olofmeister?

Recently, FaZe looks intimidating: the team confidently won nine of the last eleven matches, and there were very strong European rosters among the rivals (in the last two, FaZe lost, but G2 and Astralis are not shameful to lose). It would seem that FaZe finally figured out the roles, coldzera returned to its former form, and Niko proved that he does not need success karrigan. That’s right, but the team still had a weak link. May 23, FaZe announced that olofmeister for the second time in his career, he goes inactive: the Swede burned out.

You can understand Kaibier: he is already 28 years old, recently his rating does not even reach 1, and the support role, most likely, is at odds with the ambitions of the best player of 2015. There is no doubt: olofmeister will return. But it’s far from the fact that it was in FaZe that there were rumors that olof wants to play in the Swedish team again.

But back to FaZe. It is unclear who will replace the Swede. Apparently, the 16-year-old Lithuanian will be the stand Bymaswhom NiKo noticed in the FPL: at the end of 2019, the Bosnian even called him the most promising young player in the world. It seems that now this is the best option: the team has a starry and experienced trio of NiKo – coldzera – rainas well as young broky, which is absolutely not lost against the background of status partners (someone will even say that he is the best in the lineup). On paper, such a setup is very suitable for Bymas.

In my opinion, in the long run, FaZe will be fine. NiKo will find an approach to the newcomer (the case with broky confirms this), and by the fall the team will be one of the favorites of the major. But DreamHack Masters for FaZe starts today, and it is likely that the roster will not shoot right away. This means that the chances of Team Spirit and other teams increase.

Fnatic – strong but unstable

Fnatic is still one of the three strongest teams in the world, but ESL One: Road to Rio was terrible for the Swedes. After winning the ESL Pro League, few could expect Golden and the company to take only 12th place in the qualifying tournament for the major: Fnatic finished lower Team heretics, Copenhagen flames, Ence and even Movistar riders.

The team plays very unstable: once exterminating everyone with Krieg Brollan noticeably passed flusha and Jw failed in turn, and KRiMZ was far from being as good as on the EPL. However, according to the latest game on ESL One: Road to Rio, it was clear that Fnatic was not very concerned about the result (the game was in the top 11), now everything should be different.

It is unlikely that Fnatic should expect that “clown fiesta” that she showed in recent matches on Road to Rio. The bookmaker also believes in the Swedes: in all games of the group stage they are considered the favorites, even in the match with FaZe, where Fnatic is given the odds to win 1.75. The team will definitely fight, but without working on the bugs, it’s still nowhere, otherwise the mousesports will suffer the Swedes. Let’s hope that Fnatic will begin rehabilitating only after playing with Spirit.

GODSENT – a new contender for the top 10?

Godsent can rightly be called the main dark horse of the tournament and the scene as a whole. The other day, the team made a long-awaited substitution: a lover of conspiracy theories was removed from the composition Maikelele, and in his place they took a young sniper Farlig from Copenhagen Flames.

The roster GODSENT looks very promising, questions, perhaps, can arise only to the leader-leader. KRYSTAL has never been a top player and is unlikely to become one, but hardly a team now needs to exclude a German. Although he shows a weak individual game, he nevertheless performs the lion’s share of the job: it is dangerous to transfer the duties of a captain to someone young.

On Road to Rio, the GODSENT roster entered the top 7 and, on the whole, performed very well, and now everything should only get better. But still, a replacement is a replacement: the players have yet to get used to each other, and Farlig will definitely need some time to adapt. Odds confirm this: Parimatch analysts consider GODSENT an outsider of the group, the lowest quotation for Europeans is given in the game with Spirit – 2.35.

As you can see, Spirit’s rivals are quite serious, but they have enough problems: the team has a real chance to prove themselves in the European arena.

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DreamHack Masters Spring 2023 for teams from Europe runs from May 19 to June 14. The prize fund of the competition is $ 160 thousand, of which $ 54 thousand will go to the winner. On May 28, Natus Vincere will begin the performance at the championship.