Team NKT vs. DRIFT Gaming Preview & Prediction- Free 3/02 CS: GO

The rivals will cross paths at the group stage (Group A) of the 2022 ESL Challenger League Season 40 Asia-Pacific tournament this Wednesday. The 2022 ESL Challenger League Season 40 Asia-Pacific in an online CS: GO league powered by ESEA which also provides a prize pool of $50,000. The group stage is played in the best-of-three series.

Team NKT Team Stats and Latest Results

Team NKT is ranked #62 in the CQ-Esports Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Ranking and has a CQ.Score of 1580. The Indonesian team won 7 out of their last 10 matches and currently holds an all-time win rate of 67%. At the group stage of the ongoing 2022 ESL Challenger League Season 40 Asia-Pacific tournament, the team has defeated CatEvil (2:0) and ARTiSAN Esports (2:0). Considering their performance in past events, they were part of the 2021 Funspark ULTI : Asia Playoffs 2 and were eliminated at Bracket - LB Semifinal by Checkmate (2:0). They also won the 2021 eXTREMESLAND Festival. Over the last month, the team has played 7 matches, won 4 of them and climbed 25 positions in the ranking.

Map statistics shows that the team has attained a decent win rate on Overpass (71%), Inferno (61%), Nuke (62%), Mirage (66%), and Vertigo (54%). On the other hand, they failed to impress on Dust (46%). The team has a line-up that consists of XigN (1.09 player-rating), ImpressioN (1.02), dobu (1.17), xccurate (1.07), and kntz (0.94).

DRIFT Gaming Team Stats and Latest Results

DRIFT Gaming is ranked #262 in the CQ-Esports Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Ranking and has a CQ.Score of 1354. The Russian team is relatively new in the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Esports and has played 3 matches where they failed to win in any of the games. They have lost to Moon Esports (0:2), ARTiSAN Esports (1:2), and CatEvil (1:2). Since the Russian team is yet to win any match, their all-time win rate stands at 0%.

The team hasn’t been impressive on the maps. They attained a 33%-win rate on Inferno but failed to win any map played on Mirage (0%), Overpass (0%), Dust2 (0%), and Ancient (0%). Current DRIFT Gaming line-up is unknown.

Team NKT vs. DRIFT Gaming H2H Record

Teams had no previous encounters and will cross paths for the first time this Wednesday.

Team NKT vs. DRIFT Gaming Betting Preview

Team NKT is currently in better shape than the opponent. They have won their first 2 matches at the group stage of the 2022 ESL Challenger League Season 40 Asia-Pacific tournament while DRIFT Gaming has lost all their first 3 matches and are rock bottom of Group A. Additionally, Team NKT has an advantage on the maps.

The Pick: Team NKT to win.

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