As part of the first gaming day of the ESL Pro League Season 16 Conference, MIBR will fight against cowana. The winner will get the opportunity to fight in the decisive match for reaching the main stage of ESL Pro League Season 16 with a prize pool of $835,000. For this reason, the upcoming match between MIBR and cowana will be quite important, although the teams have the right to make mistakes.
MIBR uniform
MIBR consists of chelo, exit, Tuurtle, JOTA and brnz4n, who are currently ranked 23rd in the list of the best teams according to HLTV.
Recently, MIBR, namely at the end of May-beginning of June, took part in two events, Pinnacle Cup Championship 2022 and ESL Challenger League Season 41 North America. In the championship from Pinnacle MIBR showed a rather weak performance. There, in the fight against BIG in the Bo1 match, they were defeated with a score of 7-16, and in the Bo3 confrontation with Heroic, they failed to take a single card. As a result, the team took the 7th-8th position in the standings, which is the worst possible result.
As for the earlier tournament, in the ESL Challenger League, the team showed a better game and beat Carpe Diem, BHOP, Axolotls and Mythic, however, it is obvious that the level of the above teams falls far short of BIG and Heroic, which MIBR could not defeat.
History of recent MIBR meetings
Pinnacle Cup 2022
MIBR 0-2 Heroic
MIBR 7-16 BIG
ESL Challenger League Season 41 North America
MIBR 2-0 Mythic
MIBR 2-1 Axolotls
MIBR 2-1 BHOP
MIBR 2-0 Carpe Diem
MIBR 0-1 Strife
MIBR 1-2 Bad News Bears
Best MIBR cards
Nuke - 75%
Overpass - 66.7%
Dust 2 - 63.2%
Inferno - 61.5%
Vertigo - 60%
Ancient - 60%
As a result, we see that MIBR play quite well on many maps. Of the entire map pool, they cannot play only Mirage, on which they have a 25% win rate.
cowana play uniform
The cowana roster includes kRYSTAL, stfN, HS, kolor and maty. At the moment, esports players have not achieved much success and HLTV ranked them at number 94 in their list of the best CS:GO teams in the world. It can be seen with the naked eye that the level of cowana play is significantly different from MIBR.
The last time the team performed on the professional stage was at the end of April. A month and a half has passed since then and, to put it mildly, the players may not be in their optimal shape. In addition, the teams that the players played against are also on a different level, which is different from the MIBR that cowana will have to fight against. The team played in the ESL Meisterschaft Spring 2022 Finals, where they beat NLG 2-1 in the semi-finals, and after that they lost the fight against Sprout with a score of 0-2.
Match history
ESL Meisterschaft Spring 2022 Finals
cowana 0-2 Sprout
cowana 2-1 NLG
Best cowana cards
Inferno - 75%
Dust 2 - 60.0%
Head to head meetings between MIBR and cowana
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Conclusion
MIBR is a team that is two heads higher than cowana in terms of the level of play. We absolutely agree that betting experts estimate the chances of Brazilians to win at 80% or higher, which is equivalent to a market win at odds of 1.15. I propose to consider betting on Handicap -1.5 in favor of MIBR (aka Exact Score 2-0 in favor of MIBR). The gap between the teams is quite large and there are assumptions of an easy game for MIBR. Of course, cowana may surprise you, but given that they haven't performed on the CS:GO stage for a month and a half, and their level of play in general, the likelihood of such an event is extremely small. Let's not forget about the rather modest pool of cowana cards, which can also play a cruel joke with them.
Final bet: Handicap -1.5 in favor of MIBR with odds of 1.55/Exact score 2-0 in favor of MIBR with odds of 1.55
