Although the closed qualifiers for The International are an important event and cause a lot of excitement, they cannot do without walk-through matches. These will be the fights in the first rounds of the lower bracket.
Until teams of the caliber of Nigma, Liquid, OG, Tundra and other TOPs fall there, they will remain so. There is nothing you can do about it.
Whatever one may say, at the qualifiers there will almost always be a clear favorite and even more obvious outsiders. However, nobody canceled the miracle.
We have already seen how in the CIS the teams from the lower division gave "heat", reaching the final of qualifiers and almost winning there. Perhaps something similar will happen in our case?
In the first match of the lower bracket, the Chicken Fighters will play through the No Bounty Hunters. We are trying to figure out what to expect from the match and whether it is worth waiting for something at all.
Chicken Fighters uniform
As usual, we begin the analysis with the form of the nominal favorite. Here they are Chicken Fighters.
However, in such matches, the status of the favorite is a very dubious thing. Still, the level of play of the teams of the Chicken Fighters No BH class is far from ideal, and we are not talking about stability.
Chicken Fighters is a direct confirmation of this. It would seem that the team has assembled quite well, but the results leave much to be desired.
Chicken Fighters Latest Results
- Win over IVY 1-0
- Win over IVY 1-0
- 0-1 loss to the Hellbear Smashers
- Beat PuckChamp 2-0
- Loss from HellRaisers with a score of 1-2
As we can see, the team is "storming". They seem to win, but, again, there is no confidence in CF.
Form No Bounty Hunter
With No Bounty Hunter, the situation is virtually identical. The international mix gave hopes of becoming a "strong" mix at the junction of TIR-2 and TIR-3 stages, but so far it is far from that.
Given the importance of qualifications, the word “yet” can be read as “at all”. After all, with almost 100% probability, after the qualifiers, we will no longer hear about such a No Bounty Hunter lineup.
No Bounty Hunter Latest Results
- Lost to Irr with a score of 0-1
- Lose to Trident Clan 0-2
- Draw against V Gaming 1-1
- Lose at Cascade eSports 0-1
- Lose at V Gaming 0-2
As we can see, lately No Bounty Hunter is not encouraging, to put it mildly. They lose to everyone in a row, and what can we say about games against at least a few teams played.
Personal meeting history
Previously, Chicken Fighters and No Bounty Hunter managed to play quite a few official matches with each other. So far the Chicken Fighters are in the lead with a score of 3-2.
The outcome of the fight
Looking at the performance of the teams, we can conclude that No Bounty Hunter is on the verge of collapse. In mid-June, 2 players left the team, whose place was taken by not the most eminent performers.
Chicken Fighters also had replacements, but the main backbone of the Swedes remained. I think they are in clear favor and should cover No BH 2-0.
Outcome: the Chicken Fighters win 2-0.
