Moving on to the ESL One Birmingham 2024 group stage schedule next with betting tir for the G2.IG - BB Team match.
Welcome to EGamersWorld.
The big Dota 2 is about to return to our screens. The first LAN tournament of 2024 - ESL One Birmingham 2024 - will kick off on 22 April.
Birmingham will feature 12 teams battling it out for the championship title, $1,000,000 in prize money and plenty of EPT points, which are the centrepiece prizes this season. The winner will receive $300,000 and 6,400 EPT points, but it's a long way off. The group stage needs to be finalised first.
Let's talk about Basket A, where we've already reviewed the first round of games. Let's move on to the next stream of matches with a betting thread for the BB Team - G2.IG match.
Let's go.
BB Team Form
We open the match breakdown with an analysis of BB Team's match form. In this match they will play as favourites with odds to win at around 2.
In the first season of the regional league BB Team took the top 1, very confidently running over their main opponents Spirit and HR. However, this success was quickly overshadowed by their performance at Lima Major 2023, where BB failed to make it out of the group.
A few inconclusive events later, BB Team began play in the second division of the DPC. This time the situation changed dramatically, from top 1 to top 3, but on the international stage everything was stable: another failure to get out of the group at the Major e.
The third season of DPC was held under the slogan "it's time to get back", but somehow it didn't work out, something didn't go well and in the end - TOP-2. Again, kind of significant, but if we compare Western and Eastern Europe, TOP-2 in the first case is much more prestigious than BB's achievement.
- BB Team composition: Nightfall, gpk, MieRo, Save, TORONTOTOKYO.
BB Team's moment of glory was DreamLeague Season 20. Having got to the tournament quite by chance (they replaced Execration), the Eastern European residents managed to make it to the grand final of the tournament, where they beat Gladiators, but eventually lost with the score 2-3.
After a solid group stage at The Bali Major 2023 with a 4-2-2 from BB, Eastern European Resident made it to the top set of play-offs. There the team outplayed Tundra Esports, but due to a tournament rules violation that result was cancelled. As a result, Bali Major 2023 ended for BB Team in the top 12.
After the last Major tournament of the season BB Team attended a number of other events. Among them is the Riyadh Masters 2023. At the biggest commercial tournament of the season, BB Team made it to the top 6, which is pretty good.
In addition to the Riyadh Masters 2023 BB Team also made an appearance at the BB Dacha. The tournament from the main sponsor BB Club finished without having started: BB Team failed to get out of the group and as a result finished in the top 8.
In the group stage of DreamLeague Season 21 BB Team played in Group B. They managed to take the 2nd place, passing only Team Spirit.
BB visited The International 2023. Then the team managed to reach the top 6, but they were knocked out of the tournament by Azure Ray.
At ESL Kuala Lumpur 2023 BB played the group stage neutrally, playing all matches in a draw. This allowed them to advance to the play-offs, where BB looked much better than they did in the group: 2-0 against Tundra Esports and 2-0 against G2.IG. However, BB Team went on to face Team Liquid and ended up in the top 4. Next BB Team played at BB Dacha Dubai 2024, where they reached the Top 3.
At the end of the first day of games at DreamLeague Season 22 BB Team took the first place in their group. They won against GG and played a draw with Vp. Further the situation for BB was not worse: on the second day they closed Azure Ray with the score 2-0. Despite two draws on the third day, this did not prevent them from advancing to the second group stage of the tournament.
BB Team started the second stage of DreamLeague Season 22 with victories from OG, Xtreme Gaming and Shopify Rebellion. As a result, they reached the grand finals, where they were run over by Falcons with a score of 3-0. Things were much worse at the Elite League: top-12.
In the first match of ESL One Birmingham will be playing against Falcons and in that match I betting tiri a BB loss.
The most popular BB Team characters
The most used BB Team character remains Storm Spirit (5 matches, 60% wins). The team also plays Primal Beast and Pugna at position 4, and both heroes have 4 matches and 100% wins each. In spades was Enchantress (4 matches, 25% wins), Beastmaster (4 games, 0% wins).
Form G2.IG.
We continue the match breakdown with an analysis of G2.IG's match form. In this match, the Chinese club plays the second number, which can be easily explained by their "sluggish" performance.
In the first round of DPC 2023 Invictus Gaming took the top 6, almost losing their place in the top division, but they got through. Naturally, Major e was out of the question.
In the second round of DPC 2023: China Upper Division there was no talk about Major e either, but somehow Invictus Gaming got there. The team made it to the top-3 in the home league, only to fall to the ground: Invictus Gaming finished in the top-18 at Berlin Major 2023.
The third season of DPC gave hope for an IG comeback. IG went to Bali with a top-2 DPC in their pocket, but the curtain came down. The team finished top-18, thus failing to confirm their status as the top-2 team in China.
- IG lineup: Monet, NothingToSay, JT-, BoBoKa, xNova.
After a series of failures, which can be attributed to the failure at the qualifiers for The International 2023, IG completely rebuilt the roster, inviting all the top players from the region. Now the team has a lot of potential to fulfil.
The renewed G2.IG squad showed great results in the group stage of ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023. The Chinese took the top 1 in Group B Ledgeiv on only one map. In the first play-offs match, G2.IG faced Gaimin Gladiators. In an intense match, one of last season's top teams, GG, proved to be stronger and closed out the series with a 2-1 score.
Falling to the bottom grid of Kuala Lumpur 2023 the team lost to BB Team and left the championship. As a result, G2.IG finished in the top 8 at the first major tournament of the season.
Next, G2.IG played 3 qualifying tournaments. BB Dacha 2024: CN and SEA Closed Qualifiers, where they finished top 8, DL Season 22: China Qualifier, where they finished top 2 and ESL One Birmingham 2024: China Closed Qualifier, where they finished first.
DreamLeague Season 22 G2.IG got off to a terrible start. The team played two series and lost both of them with the score 0-2. The second day was much better - already two draws. However, it didn't allow them to stay afloat: after the third game day, where G2.IG played a draw with BB and lost to Azure Ray, the team lost their chances to qualify for the play-offs.
After the failure at DreamLeague Season 22, G2.IG played two qualifying events: DreamLeague Season 23 China Qualifier and PGL Wallachia. They couldn't make it to the first one, but they will go to Romania after winning the qualifiers against Azure Ray.
The last tournament before the performance at ESL One Birmingham 2024 was Elite League, where G2.IG took the top 8, Ledge and Gaimin Gladiators.
The first opponent of the Chinese at ESL One Birmingham 2024 is Liquid. I expect a draw in that match.
Most popular G2.IG heroes
The most sought-after IG pic is Timbersaw. The character has appeared in the team's games 5 times and has a 60% win rate.
Other picks are Spirit Breaker (4 matches, 75% wins), Medusa (4 matches, 75% wins), Silencer (4 matches, 50% wins).
There was also Void Spirit (3 matches, 100% wins), Brewmaster (3 matches, 100% wins), Monkey King (3 matches, 66% wins).
History of head-to-head meetings G2.IG - BB Team
The teams have played each other twice. One match was won by BB Team, and the second ended in a draw.
Predicted result of BB Team vs G2.IG at ESL One Birmingham 2024
In this match I expect an even game. Despite BB Team's nominal advantage, IG don't look like the whipping boys they are. I'll bet on a drawn card from them.
Bottom line: +1.5 on IG.G2.
