Adrenaline Cyber League 2018 is a small CS:GO LAN event that features 4 fairly strong teams and has a prize pool of $100,000. The tournament takes place in Moscow between May 23rd and May 24th and offers great CS:GO betting opportunities.
Virtus.pro hasn’t looked great this year, going through a rough period and ultimately having to make one roster change after years of conservatism. The team’s only notable result was a 2nd place finish at V4 Future Sports Festival Budapest 2018. The replacement of TaZ with MICHU has certainly led to some improvements, but as a whole, Virtus.pro still has a lot of work to do if it wants to rejoin the higher echelons of professional CS:GO.
AVANGAR is a small-championship tier 2 team with little to no experience at the highest level of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Perhaps its most important result this year was its participation at ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018, where unfortunately it finished just 17th out of a total of 23 teams.
Going into this match at Adrenaline Cyber League 2018, Virtus.pro is definitely favorite to win but it will have to perform at a decent level.
Betway puts the odds at 1.60 – 2.20 in favor of Virtus.pro, giving AVANGAR a lot of respect and clearly taking into account VP’s poor form and inconsistency.
Betting prediction: Virtus.pro to win.
After several months of disappointments, SK Gaming parted ways with TACO and then brought in one of Cloud9’s best players, Stewie2K. However, the language barrier between him and the rest of the Brazilian roster quickly became apparent as SK Gaming suffered crushing defeats at the hands of much weaker opponents.
The team finished 9th – 12th at DreamHack Masters Marseille 2018, 13th – 16th at Intel Extreme Masters XIII Sydney and then finally had its first decent result in 4 months, finishing 5th – 6th at ESL Pro League Season 7 Finals. Right now, SK Gaming is clearly on an upward trend and is slowly but surely recovering its former strength. So just like Bitcoin after it’s hit a bottom, SK will likely rise pretty fast in skill in the weeks to come.
On the other side, Gambit Esports used to be a pretty strong CIS team, finishing 9th – 11th at ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018. After that result, Gambit went on a steep decline for a few months but has recently resurfaced with good results at DreamHack Masters Marseille 2018 (3rd – 4th) and DreamHack Open Tours 2018 (3rd – 4th).
All things considered, this will likely be a very close match but SK Gaming is still slightly favored, having defeated important teams such as NiP in its last CS:GO event.
Betway puts the odds at 1.35 – 2.95 in favor of SK Gaming, seeing a much bigger gap between these teams than it actually is the case. Based on this, you may want to bet a smaller amount on the underdog here and rely on an upset, as Gambit Esports has at least a 40% chance to win this match.
Betting prediction: SK Gaming to win (slightly favored).
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