500 and ENCE will meet in the fourth round of the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Europe RMR B, where they will play for the right to linger in the championship and fight for another chance to go to the majors.
To be frank, the Bulgarian team have nothing to do next as it's not even funny. And 500 has no structure and game at all, so there is absolutely nothing to catch.
On the other hand, sAw's side also still can't find their game. But on the background of such an opponent, you can't even bother. So here I would lean on a resounding victory for the ENCE team.
Form 500
The 44th ranked team in the world has shown nothing on the same BetBoom Playlist Urbanistic 2023 and then crashed out of the CCT North Europe Series 4 quarterfinals.
It should not be forgotten that the Bulgarian team also failed in the CCT Central Europe Series 5, at the same time dropping out of the open qualification for IEM Dallas 2023.
As for the performance at the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Europe RMR B, here 500 was marked by one victory over Team Spirit (everything is clear with them), but also had nothing against Heroic and BIG.
500's latest results:
- Victory over 9INE with a score of 16-11.
- Defeat to GODSENT by a score of 13-16.
- Defeat to Heroic by a score of 8-16.
- 16-11 win over Team Spirit.
- 8-16 defeat at the hands of BIG.
Top 500:
- Ancient - 61% wins.
- Inferno - 53% wins.
- Overpass - 52% wins.
Let's not forget that the Bulgarian team hasn't played Vertigo for a long time.
ENCE Form
The ninth team in the world rankings managed to reach the semi-finals of ESL Pro League Season 17, although in some places the guys showed far from the most confident game. However, even in the ½ finals, sAw's wards had problems that led to their defeat at the hands of Cloud9.
As for BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Europe RMR B, ENCE managed to lose quickly to Monte and FORZE. And both times the team gave away the initiative, for which they received from the outsiders.
Fortunately the day before, the European side managed to outplay themselves to beat iNation. However, even in this situation, the boys were slim, as Mirage could fly into the Serbian box.
ENCE's latest results:
- A 2-1 win over Vitality.
- A 1-2 loss to Cloud9.
- Defeat at the hands of Monte, 11-16.
- 14-16 defeat at the hands of FORZE.
- 2-0 win over iNation.
ENCE's best scores:
- Ancient - 80% wins.
- Mirage - 75% wins.
- Nuke - 67% wins.
- Vertigo - 55% wins.
- Overpass - 50% wins.
In turn, the European team has once again stopped playing on the Inferno map.
500 - ENCE encounter statistics
Last season the teams played one meeting - at Pinnacle Winter Series 2 the victory went to ENCE (2-0).
Forecast for the match 500 - ENCE
Continuing the rhetoric of the cancellation of the Bulgarian team, which does not need any special introduction. And with two matches, 500 proved their utter helplessness, while Team Spirit just got lucky.
ENCE, on the other hand, need to step up, and the game with iNation was the first sign of things to come. In addition, the European team is much more experienced in terms of LAN play.
So in this case I'd recommend betting on ENCE to win 2-0.
