Spirit vs. Fiend, Preview, & Prediction - Free 7/15 CS: GO
The opponents meet at the quarter-finals of the Pinnacle Cup II tournament this Thursday. Spirit will debut the tournament while Fiend has progressed from the group stage. The winner in this match will progress to the semi-finals while the loser will be eliminated.
Spirit Team Stats and Latest Results
Spirit is ranked 13th on the global ranking and has been among the top 30 teams for 84 weeks. They have been invited to the Pinnacle Cup II tournament to start at the quarter-finals. She won the Winstrike CIS Spring Cup 2021 - BLAST Premier Qualifier in March and was awarded $25,000 plus a spot at the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown 2021. At the same time, the Russian team managed to finish third at the recently concluded StarLadder CIS RMR 2021 where they received $12,000 plus 1750 RMR points. Considering their last 8 matches, they won 3 matches and lost 5. Their win rate stands at 55.2%.
Map statistics in the last 3 months show that the team has been impressive on Dust2 (84.2%) and Overpass (70.0%). On the other hand, they had an average display on Mirage (50.0%) but failed to impress on Nuke (45.5%), Train (33.3%), Ancient (33.3%), Inferno (25.0%), and Vertigo (0.0%). The team lineup consists of chopper (1.02), mir (1.20), sdy (1.12), degster (1.18), and magixx (1.04).
Fiend Team Stats and Latest Results
Fiend is ranked 27th on the world ranking and has been among the top 30 teams for 58 weeks. At the Pinnacle Cup II tournament, they were invited to the second stage. At the second stage, they defeated Young Ninjas in round 1 of the group stage, DBL PONEY, MIBR, and Young Ninjas at the playoffs round 1. On the other hand, they failed to defeat Sinners and HAVU. In other tournaments, they finished 5-8th at the Spring Sweet Spring 3 and 9-12th at the Elisa Invitational Summer 2021. They won 4 matches out of their last 8 and have a win rate of 74.0%.
Map win rate in the last 3 months shows that the team has been impressive on Ancient (83.3%), Mirage (77.8%), Overpass (65.2%), Dust2 (61.9%), Nuke (61.1%), Train (58.3%), and Inferno (55.6%). On the flip side, they lost all their matches on Vertigo (0.0%). They have a relatively new team that consists of bubble (0.99), v1c7oR (1.05), dream3r (1.22), REDSTAR (1.16), and h4rn (1.22).
Spirit vs. Fiend H2H Record
There is one head-to-head record between Spirit and Fiend. They met at the DreamHack Masters Spring 2021 and Spirit won 2:1.
Spirit vs. Fiend Betting Preview
In this match, Fiend is the favorite to progress to the next stage of the tournament because they have a better performance on Mirage, Inferno, Nuke, and Ancient. On the other hand, Spirit takes on Dust2 and Overpass. At the same time, Fiend has a 3-match win streak and for this reason, we believe Fiend will win this match.
The Pick: Fiend to win.
