FURIA vs. Liquid Preview & Prediction - Free 8/16 CS:GO Betting Picks
FURIA and Liquid will face in the Best of 3 Grand Final at the DreamHack Open Summer 2020 North America (online). DH Summer NA has a prize pool of $ 90,000, where the winner takes home $35,000, while the runner-up will collect the amount of $20,000. A total of eight teams participated in this tournament, and all participants won a certain amount of money. 3rd and 4th place received $ 8,750 each, 5th and 6th place $5,000 each, while 7th and 8th place teams got richer by $3,750. FURIA and Liquid advanced to the semis as winners of their groups.
FURIA enters this grand final with a series of three wins in a row. In the previous three months, they played very well and achieved a win rate of 71.4%. In that period, they played almost perfectly on Mirage 85.7% (6 wins / 1 loss) and very good on Train and Overpass (66.7%). On all other maps, they have a positive score but haven’t played on Dust2.
The Brazilians have great individuals on their team. Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato dominated in the semi-finals against Chaos (2-0), with a 1.44 rating, the highest number of kills (46), and most damage (92.4). HEN1 was also impressive, with 42 kills and 1.27 rating. Over the last six months, FURIA has won several titles. They were first at the DH Masters Spring 2020 NA, ESL Pro League Season 12 North America, finished second at BLAST Premier Spring 2020 Americas ShowDown, ELS one: Road To Rio – North America and DreamHack Open Anaheim 2020.
Liquid has a current win streak of three and a win rate of 52.6% over the last three months. Note that these statistics include a month break in between 04/07/2020 and 08/08/2020. During that period, they played in several tournaments: Showmatch CS: GO, DreamHack Masters Spring 2020 - North America, BLAST Premier Spring 2020 Americas Finals, and cs_summit 6 North America. They went the furthest at DH Summer Open North America, where they were defeated in the finals by today's opponents FURIA (3-0). At those tournaments, they were excellent on Overpass (80.0%) and Nuke (75.0%) but failed to win on Cache and Tuscan (0.0%). On their way to this final, their last obstacle was TeamOne, after beating Chaos and Ze Pug Godz in the group stage. Liquid cleaned them up on Inferno (16:5) and struggled a bit on Dust2 (16:12) in semis. Keith 'NAF' Markovic was the best Liquid player in that game with 45 kills and 1.49 rating.
Pick: Total maps over 2.5 ( 109 @GG.BET)
This grand final match is their ninth duel. They played a total of 19 maps (FURIA leads 12-7). It is a real treat when we have both teams from the top 10 (FURIA #8, Liquid #10) in the Grand final. Bookmakers put Liquid in the position of a slight favorite but I will not play on the winner of the match. Although Liquid is in the position of a slight favorite, I will not play on them because FURIA hasn’t lost a single map at this tournament. That’s why I am going with 2.5 maps because this derby will bring a lot of excitement and will not be settled in straight maps.
