Heroic vs. Evil Geniuses Preview & Prediction- Free 4/01 CS: GO

The opponents will play their second match of the group stage (Group D) in the ESL Pro League Season 15 tournament this Thursday. The group winners will advance to the quarter-finals while the 2nd and 3rd placed teams in each group go to the first round of playoffs. The prize pool of this event adds up to $823,000 and group stage matches are played in the Round-robin Bo3 series.

Heroic Team Stats and Latest Results

Heroic is ranked #5 in the world ranking and has been among the top 30 teams for 102 weeks. The Danish team won the first round of the group stage in the ongoing ESL Pro League Season 15 tournament against Complexity with a score of 2:0. Considering their performance in past events, the team finished 4th at the BLAST Premier Fall Final 2021, 7-8th at the BLAST Premier World Final 2021, 3-4th at the IEM Katowice 2022, and won the Pinnacle Winter Series 3. Over the last 3 months, the team has attained a win rate of 77.8% and won 7 out of their last 10 games.

Map win statistics over the last 3 months show an impressive performance on Mirage (100.0%-win rate), Vertigo (100.0%), Overpass (80.0%), and Inferno (66.7%). On the other hand, they failed to impress on Nuke (50.0%) and Ancient (50.0%). The line-up consists of sjuush (1.06 player rating), stavn (1.12), TeSeS (1.09), refrezh (1.03), and cadiaN (1.10).

Evil Geniuses Team Stats and Latest Results

Evil Geniuses is ranked #48 in the world ranking and has been among the top 30 teams for 32 weeks. The team lost their first match in the ESL PRO tournament to Astralis with a score of 2:0. The team failed to win any match at the PGL Major Stockholm 2021 and BLAST Premier Spring Groups 2022. Their last achievement was 10th place in the 2022 BLAST Premier: Spring Groups tournament, which finished on February 06, 2022, and earned $ 5,666. The team managed a 37.5%-win rate over the last 3 months and won 3 out of their last 10 games.

Map win statistics in the last 3 months shows that their best-played cards are Mirage (100.0%-win rate) and Nuke (100.0%) but failed to impress on Overpass (50.0%), Inferno (40.0%), Vertigo (0.0%), and Dust2 (0.0%). Their line-up includes Brehze (1.11 player rating), Stewie2K (0.99), autimatic (1.11), RUSH (1.02), and CeRq (1.08).

Heroic vs. Evil Geniuses H2H Record

There have been 2 H2H meetings between the opponents and Evil Geniuses won in all the matches. Their last encounter was at the group stage of IEM on June 04, 2021.

Heroic vs. Evil Geniuses Betting Preview

Heroic is the favorite to win this upcoming meeting. Heroic won their first round of the group stage in the ESL Pro League Season 15 tournament while Evil Geniuses lost. Considering their performance on the maps, Heroic leads on 5 cards while Evil Geniuses don't have an advantage in any of the cards. Besides, Heroic has a 4-match win streak while Evil Geniuses lost their last 2 matches. Therefore, we are predicting a win for Heroic.

The Pick: Heroic to win.

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