Young Ninjas vs. VP.Prodigy, Preview and Prediction-Free 8/19 CS: GO

The opponents meet at the Round of 32 in the Malta Vibes Knockout Series 1 tournament this Thursday. The winner of this match will play K23 at the Round of 16 while the loser in this match will be eliminated.

Young Ninjas Stats and Latest Results

Young Ninjas is currently among the top 50 teams on the global ranking. The Swedish team finished 2nd at the recently concluded WePlay Academy League Season 1 and progressed to the WePlay Academy League Season 1 Finals where they will play fnatic Rising on 27th August. At the same time, they finished 3-4th at the GameGune 23 tournament and 1-2nd at the Elisa Invitational Summer 2021 Regionals. Considering their performance in the last 8 matches, they won 7 and lost 1 match. They have a win rate of 54.0%.

Map performance in the last 3 months shows that the team has been impressive on Train (100.0%), Overpass (71.4%), and Inferno (58.3%). On the other hand, they failed to impress on Mirage (46.2%), Ancient (40.0%), Nuke (36.4%), Vertigo (28.6%), and Dust2 (0.0%). The team line-up includes Sapec (1.03), ztr (0.97), phzy (1.07), Mann3n (0.63), and Ro1f (0.95).

VP.Prodigy Stats and Latest Results

VP.Prodigy is ranked 137th on the global ranking. The Russian team has displayed a deplorable performance since the year began and this is linked to the fact that they have been inactive for the better part of the year. They played the Snow Sweet Snow 1 Regionals tournament in January then took a long break then came back at the Spring Sweet Spring 3 Regionals in June. At the group stage of the Spring Sweet Spring 3 Regionals, they failed to progress to the playoffs after winning 1 out of their 3 matches. Meanwhile, they have won 3 out of their last 8 matches and holds a win rate of 33.3%.

Map performance in the last 3 months shows that the team has been impressive on Nuke (100.0%). They had an average performance on Vertigo (50.0%) and Mirage (50.0%) but failed to impress on Overpass (33.3%), Dust2 (20.0%), and Ancient (16.7%). They have maintained one line-up since March that consists of RuFire (0.83), BloodyK (0.94), r3salt (0.99), cheerful (1.00), and lom1k (1.10).

Young Ninjas vs. VP.Prodigy H2H Record

The opponents have met on 3 occasions and Young Ninjas has 2 wins. The last meeting was at the WePlay Academy League Season 1 and Young Ninjas dominated.

Young Ninjas vs. VP.Prodigy Betting Preview

In this matchup, Young Ninjas is the best team to progress to the next stage based on the fact that they lead on Mirage, Inferno, Nuke, Overpass, and Ancient. At the same time, Young Ninjas have a better line-up compared to their opponent.

The Pick: Young Ninjas to win.