GamerLegion vs. HONORIS Preview & Prediction - Free CS:GO Betting Picks 7/20

GamerLegion and HONORIS will face each other in the Group A opening match of the Nine to Five #2 CS:GO tournament. The online CS:GO event features twenty-eight teams competing for a $50,000 prize pool. The top eight teams advance to the playoffs where they compete in a single-elimination best-of-three series. The first-placed team receives $35,000 in prize money.

GamerLegion Preview

GamerLegion’s roster includes players from Sweden and the United Kingdom. The mixture of young and talented players on this squad makes it a viable candidate to quickly rise through the CS:GO ranks. Currently ranked 71st, GamerLegion has a lot of ground to cover.

With a 1.21 rating, mezii is the best player on the squad. The youngster has some amazing movement and extremely precise firepower. He deals an astonishing 85.4 damage per round, making him one of the highest-impact players on the squad.

GamerLegion’s map pool is a problem for the squad as they lack a deep map pool and often come out at a disadvantage in the map veto stage. Overpass is one of the most-played maps for the team, but it still has only a 50% win-rate on this map.

The team has lost four of its last five matches, many of these matches going the distance of thirty rounds. These two teams have never faced each other.

HONORIS Preview

HONORIS has a Polish CS:GO squad comprising former veteran CS:GO players such as Taz and NEO. The team has a lot fo experience, especially due to the presence of this iconic duo. However, the players lack form and their current performance has seen the team fall down to the eight- third rank.

HONORIS has a deep map pool an the only map where the team does not hav a presence is Overpass. Vertigo is the best map for the team with a 40% win-rate on this map. The team’ sT side presence makes it a formidable opponent against some of the best team sin the world. Just like GamerLegion, HONORIS too has lost four of its last five matches against teams like CR4ZY, HellRaisers, Endpoint and ALTERNATE aTTaX.

Pick: GamerLegion ML (-202 @ Pinnacle)

Despite its lack of proactive, GamerLegion has been in much better form compared to HONORIS. GamerLegion’s recent matches include bouts against significantly better teams such as Syman Gaming, Wisla Krakow and others. The team managed to take these opponents to the distance of nearly thirty rounds every time, although it was not enough.