SAW vs. BLINK Preview & Prediction- Free 2/09 CS: GO
The opponents will cross paths at the third round of the group stage in the ongoing Thunderpick Bitcoin Series 2022 tournament. The Thunderpick Bitcoin Series 2022 is an online CS:GO tournament with a prize pool of $75,000. The group stage is played in a Swiss Bo3 format.
SAW Team Stats and Latest Results
SAW is ranked 42nd in the world ranking and has been among the top 30 teams for 23 weeks. At the group stage of the ongoing Thunderpick Bitcoin Series 2022, the Portuguese team has defeated SINNERS (2:1) but lost to SKADE (0:2). Considering their performance in past events, they finished 13-14th at the ESEA Premier Season 39 Europe, 2nd at the ESEA Premier Season 39 Europe Relegation, and 13-15th at the Pinnacle Winter Series 1. They have attained a win rate of 44.4% over the last 3 months and won 4 out of their last 8 games.
Map win statistics in the last 3 months indicates that the team attained a decent win rate on Ancient (68.4%) and Dust2 (55.6%). On the flip-side, they failed to impress on Inferno (45.5%), Nuke (40.0%), Overpass (16.7%), and Vertigo (12.5%). The team has a line-up that consists of JUST (1.08), MUTiRiS (1.07), stadodo (1.09), rmn (1.04), and arki (0.98).
BLINK Team Stats and Latest Results
BLINK is currently unranked in the world ranking. The team has recently undergone some challenges and the management needed to act swiftly to remain competitive. Recently, their top players: Rigon "rigoN" Gashi and Sener "SENER1" Mahmuti announced they will no longer be playing with the Kosovar team despite their recent success. The players could not come to terms with the organization to renew their contracts. But when we consider the team’s past events, they have been impressive. They finished 3-4th at the Pinnacle Fall Series 3, 4th at the ESEA Premier Season 39 Europe, and 19-20th at the Pinnacle Winter Series 1.
BLINK’s best-played maps include Mirage (64%), Train (56%), Dust2 (52%), Inferno (67%), and Ancient (70%). On the other hand, their worst played maps are Vertigo (46%), Nuke (33%), and Overpass (40%). Their current roster consists of sinnopsyy (1.01), gxx- (1.06), 2high (0.54), gulito (0.87), and Caley (0.78).
SAW vs. BLINK H2H Record
There is only 1 H2H meeting between the opponents. They clashed at the ESEA Premier Season 37 Europe tournament in June 2021 and BLINK won 2:1.
SAW vs. BLINK Betting Preview
The exit of 2 top players from BLINK has significantly affected them and it will take time before they build another squad and challenge for top tournaments. SAW lost their last 2 matches while BLINK is coming to this matchup on a 3-match losing streak. A comparison of the teams’ performance on the maps shows that SAW leads on 5 maps while BLINK takes on 2 cards. Therefore, we are predicting a win for SAW.
The Pick: SAW to win.
