Hi guys, we reached the semifinals!
As you know, the matches are iG vs NaC and SeVn vs Reunited. Now, let's see how each team came this far in the tournament.
Internet Gangsters managed to go through playoffs with relative ease, making no mistakes and having a perfect score of 11 wins with no losses. Their opponents, Not a Clan, did not have as clean of a run, scoring 7 wins and 4 losses, but still they represent a big threat, as most of them used to play in iG's lineup not long ago. Defenitely a great match!
In the other bracket we find Team Sevn, a team that played very well during the playoffs, except in the last couple of matches, where they fell short against iG and most notably against Reunited, against which they lost 15-0. Still, they managed a respectable score of 9 wins and 2 losses. This is their chance to revenge the loss. Reunited on the other hand are a great team, fielding top notch players from various countries. They also scored 9 wins and 2 losses during the playoff, losing only to iG and sVs.
Do you have any predictions? Write them below, it should be fun.
Sevn vs REUNITED
Hard to say both sides have highly skilled players but I think the map picks here are the key.
Game 1 Inner : I think will be close but REUnited will take it.
Game 2 Breach: I can't see Sevn losing this one
Game 3 Intercept : Hard to say I think this is not one of the stronger maps for Sevn so hard to say who wins.
IG vs NAC
This matchup is actually really interesting, both sides know each other really well and scrim a lot with each other.
Game 1 Shadowstep
NaC lost this scrim against IG on this map 8-7 if I remember correctly. It was close match with both sides doing stupid mistakes and getting to know the map.
On the match day Shadowstep will be key to this Semi Finals. I think IG has to win it to get to the Finals.
Game 2 Checkout
NaC has probably scrimmed this map with IG 5-6 times and has not lost yet even once. So will be really interesting to see how IG will change their play and counter NaC on checkout. I think we will take this map
Game 3 Inner
This map will be a coin toss :D Really hard to say who will take this map. I believe we will but we'll see :D
Semi Finals will be really interesting and hope the matches could be streamed by someone.
Looking at the teams, the experience and who spends time playing/practising:
- IG beats NAC with no much effort based on NACs lack of experience and on the other hand IGs experience as a team (plus also seems the only team that actual has some maps prepared);
- REUNITED vs SEVN should be a balanced game due to SEVN high experience and also due to REUNITED having good individual players.
I expect IG vs REUNITED at the finals though.