MAD Lions vs. mousesports Preview & Prediction - Free 8/20 CS:GO Betting Picks
MAD Lions and mousesports played on twelve maps against each other. They met twice at the ICE Challenge 2020, once at the IEM Katowice 2020, once at the DreamHack Masters Spring 2020 Europe, and the last time at the BLAST Premier Spring 2020 Europe Showdown.
Their next match will be played on the 21st of August 2020 in the Group A lower bracket round 1 Bo3, at the ESL One Cologne Europe (Online) tournament. Vanquisher advanced to the semifinals, where they are waiting for the winner of the Sprout vs. OG clash. The ESL One Cologne Europe has a $325,000 prize pool divided into all sixteen participants. The first place comes with an amazing $150,000 reward.
The MAD Lions are in desperate form and have seven defeats in a row. That's why the win rate of 35.3% in the last three months is not surprising. In June, MAD Lions had signed a sponsorship deal with a Chinese betting company DYVIP. Not long after, they released “Bubzkji” and signed Paweł Mocek “innocent”. The current lineup is “AcilioN” Asger Larsen, “acoR” Frederik Gyldstrand, “sjuush” Rasmus Beck, and “roeJ” Fredrik Jørgensen. “acoR” has the best rating in the squad (1.13) and 0.77 kills per round.
In their last match at the ESL One Cologne 2020 Europe, MAD Lions lost against Complexity 2-0. The only player with a positive score for the MAD Lions was a newcomer to the squad, Pawel Mocek with a rating of 1.09 and 83.6% KAST. They have a negative score on almost all maps. On Nuke (50.0%), Mirage (44.4%), Vertigo (33.3), Train (28.6%), Inferno and Overpass (25.0%).
mousesports have been quite active at the tournaments this summer. Worth mentioning is the participation at the Gamers Without Borders 2020, where they took second place and an incredible cash prize of $500,000. They have already confirmed participation at the ESL Pro League Season 12 tournament, at the beginning of September. mousesports have a win rate of 21.4%, and they suffered four defeats in a row.
In previous months, they played on Dust2 seven times and were defeated on each occasion. On Nuke they won three times and lost two battles. A few days ago, mousesports announced that a Lithuanian youngster Aurimas Pipiras “Bymas” joined the team as the sixth player. The coach Allan "Rejin" Petersen has five more players available: Finn "karrigan" Andersen, Chris "chrisJ" de Jong, Özgür "woxic" Eker, David "frozen" Čerňanský, and Robin "ropz" Kool.
Pick: Map handicap -1.5 mousesports (148 @GG.BET)
The terrible series of defeats for the MAD Lions makes it clear to us who is the favorite in this match. After the drubbing in the first round, mousesports must play better against a lower-ranked opponent. I think they will smash their opponents with 2-0.
