ESL Pro League Season 9 Americas continues on Tuesday with a Group B clash between eUnited and Cloud9.
Cloud9 have made a lot of roster changes already in 2019. In March, Robin “flusha” R?nnquist left the team as Maikil “Golden” Kunda Selim returned to the starting lineup. Later in the month, Ronald “Rambo” Kim joined as coach and Soham “valens” Chowdhury became the new Head of Data Science, while Daniel “vice” Kim was signed and Fabien “kioShiMa” Fiey was let go. René “cajunb” Borg arrived in April, thus completing the starting roster. At the beginning of May, Rambo left the team and valens once again became the head coach.
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Those changes have done nothing to improve Cloud9’s form. Their last LAN tournament was BLAST Pro Series Madrid 2019, where they barely won against Giants and lost all other matches to ENCE, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Natus Vincere and Astralis.
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Like C9, eUnited have also shuffled the deck in recent months. They started early in January, letting Brandon “Ace” Winn go after his contract expired. A couple of days later, Skyler “Relyks” Weaver left the team and was replaced by Will “dazzLe” Loafman. Pujan “FNS” Mehta was also gone by the end of the month.
In February, eUnited refused to renew the contracts of Michael “dapr” Gulino and Will “dazzLe” Loafman and they were let go. To complete their roster, they acquired Edgar “MarKE” Maldonado, Anthony “vanity” Malaspina and Victor “food” Wong from Swole Patrol, while Armeen “a2z” Toussi signed on as their new coach.
eUnited have won only three matches out of their last 10, although that run includes clashes with some better teams like Furia, AVANAGR, NRG, MIBR and Renegades. They lost both matches at their last LAN event, IEM Sydney 2019, going down 16-13 against NiP and 2-0 against MVP PK.
eUnited vs Cloud9 betting predictions
Cloud9 are priced around $1.70 to win the match, which is fair. They do have some firepower and an OK in-game leader, but it is difficult to back them with any confidence after so many roster changes.
Both teams are in somewhat shaky form, so there is a good chance we will see all three maps played. Over 2.5 maps is paying around $1.88 at online bookmakers, which is high enough for us to recommend a bet on it.
Prediction: Over 2.5 maps – Best odds at GG Bet
]]>The ESL Pro League Season 9 Americas began on April 12 and will run until May 23.
Today we are looking at a Group B match between Ghost and compLexity.
The last match Ghost Gaming played was on March 23 at the DreamHack Masters Dallas 2019 North America Closed Qualifier, where they were eliminated from the tournament by EnvyUs.
They played a total of five maps, losing to Denial 2-0 and to EnvyUs 2-1.
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If we go back to February 2019, they attended the IEM Sydney 2019 North America Closed Qualifier, where they managed to win some games against teams like Bad News Bears and Luminosity, but they were eventually eliminated 2-0 by eUnited in BO3 match. Their most recent roster change was an addition of Ryan “freakazoid” Abadir in place of Yassine “Subroza”‘ Taoufik.
Although their results are not exactly fantastic, Ghost Gaming have been steadily improving and this is an excellent opportunity for them to start their ESL campaign with a win.
compLexity Gaming had a number of roster changes since their amazing run at the London Major 2018. In December, they benched Jacob “yay” Whiteaker and Bradley “ANDROID” Fodor, released their coach Ronald “Rambo” Kim and signed Australian player Ricky “Rickeh” Mulholland and announced that n0thing will stand-in for the team through IEM Katowice 2019, which was a complete disappointment for them, although they did manage to beat their NA rivals NRG.
About a month ago, they announced that Hunter “SicK” Mims had joined their team and thus ended Jordan “n0thing” Gilbert’s stand-in period with the team.
It was announced just a couple of days ago, that n0thing will once again play as a stand-in, but this time it’s in place of Rickeh, who is having VISA issues.
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Looking at their most recent tournament, they attended DreamHack Masters Dallas 2019 North America Closed Qualifier, where they managed one win against Singularity, and two losses against FURIA and EnvyUs.
The last time these two teams met was on 20.10.2018 at the ESL Pro League Season 8 North America in two BO1 matches, where compLexity managed to win the first match on Nuke with the score line of 16-6, but Ghost managed to bounce back on the Inferno and win the map 16-8.
Ghost v compLexity ultimate winning & betting predictions
Looking at the Over/Under market, there is some value backing the Over 2.50 maps. These NA matches are often close and unpredictable and with two teams with pretty shaky form, we could be in for a long match, where all three maps are played.
For our betting prediction, we have to go with Ghost Gaming.
It is true that these NA derbies can go either way, but with the current roster problems compLexity is having, betting on Ghost Gaming seems like a better option.
Prediction: Ghost Gaming to win at GG Bet
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