The last to enter the possibly decisive battle of their careers will be the teams from the European region. A region in decline.
The region, which will receive 3 tickets to the main tournament of the year. And for the latter there will be a serious struggle.
Nigma, OG, Liquid, ViKin.gg, Tundra - only one team from all the “tops” will be able to break through to TI. And it's not a fact that it will be one of the aforementioned clubs.
However, more on that later, but now OG and ViKin.gg are on our agenda. Hot Dota starts already in the first round of qualifiers and should continue until the last one.
Will it be so, or not quite - we will find out very soon. In the meantime, let's try to predict the outcome of this fight.
Form OG
Let's start with the main dish of both a specific match and all qualifiers. Of course it's OG.
The current two-time world champion played the fool for the whole of 2021, in his usual style. But as is often the case, swimming with the flow does not notice the pitfalls.
This happened with OG, who missed two majors, played so-so regional leagues and went to play in the closed qualifiers. Recently, OG has “come to their senses”.
OG Latest Results
- Defeat to Virtus.pro with a score of 0-2
- Defeat Team Liquid 2-0
- Defeat Nigma 2-1
- Defeat Quincy Crew 2-0
- Lost to Alliance 0-2
At the last ESL One Summer 2021, OG showed signs of life. In the course of the championship, OG defeated the main competitors of the qualifiers in the person of Liquid and Nigma, which should already inspire optimism.
ViKin.gg Form
The disciplined ViKin.gg will resist the "slack" wizards from OG. Those same ViKin.gg, who offendedly left the elite division in the first season and managed to return there after the second season.
They showed discipline at ESL One Summer 2021, but this was not enough. However, before the closed qualifiers there is still time to tighten up personal performance, which is sometimes lame.
ViKin.gg Latest matches results
- Defeat Nigma 2-0
- Lose at T1 0-2
- Defeat Team Unique 2-0
- Defeat AS Monaco Gambit 2-0
- Lost to Alliance 0-2
Basically, at ESL One Summer ViKin.gg flew away from the TI members, Alliance and T1. They also outplayed Nigma, who will compete with them for the last ticket to The International.
Personal meeting history
In recent years, OG and ViKin.gg have often crossed paths in official matches. In 5 games, OG won 3 times, and ViKin.gg celebrated their triumph twice.
Match outcome
ViKin.gg are not whipping boys, so I think we will have an exciting match. I'm not really sure about the victory, but I think they will squeeze the map from OG.
Although, it is likely that OG will "cut down" their "pre-Tiaev" mod and close ViKin.gg with a score of 2-0. So far, blindly, I think 2-1.
Outcome: OG won 2-1.
