Прогноз на матч: PSG Quest - Talon Esports | Dota 2

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Riyadh Masters 2023 is finally official! The seemingly endless qualifying stages and round-robin bo2 madness has been dosed off after all and now the play-offs stage of the tournament begins.

The biggest prize pool of the year is still at stake - $15,000,000. There are 12 teams left in the race for the $4,000,000 top prize. Quest Esports and Talon Esports are among them.

The clubs will open the main stage of the tournament with a Bo3 match. The winner of the match will move on to the semifinals, while the loser will drop to the lower grid where they will play against PSG.LGD.

Let's try to figure out which of the teams is worthy to continue in the top set of play-offs, and who will fall to the bottom of the net, deprived of the only chance to make a mistake.

Let's go.

Quest Esports uniforms

Let's start analysing the play-offs and this match by looking at the Quest Esports uniforms. In this match, the team will play as favourites.

Bookmakers are still confident in the ability of Quest. The odds for their victory in the first Bo3 of the tournament are at 1.45.

Such a figure serves as a great compliment for Quest, but it is well deserved. The club has gained a lot of momentum in the second half of the year and seems to be a contender for the title of top team.

Quest Esports have been one of the big revelations of the season. It was hard to imagine them in the top 4 Major, but they are here.

They started their rise to the top of Major a with a top-5 finish at DPC 2023: WEU. Then the team was one map short of reaching the Berlin Major 2023, but not enough.

In the third round of DPC 2023: WEU Tour 3 the team again showed a top game and that time they had enough. It was enough for the top 3 of the tournament, and as a result, they made it to The Bali Major 2023.

• Quest Esports roster: TA2000, No!ob, Malik, OmaR, kaori.

During the Bali Major 2023 Quest Esports showed from the very beginning of the tournament that they did not come there to rest. The team finished top-1 in their group and then went to play in the top set of play-offs. In the end, Quest's jaunt through The Bali Major 2023 ended with them in 4th place.

Having travelled to the Riyadh Masters 2023 with a replacement in the lineup, Quest Esports did not lose their team scilll. In their Play-In group the team took a confident first place, losing only 1 match out of 5.

The group stage of the Saudi tournament also proved to be no match for Quest. Residents of Western Europe confidently took the top 1 in Group A, thereby guaranteeing themselves passage to the top play-offs.

The most popular Quest Esports characters

Among the most popular Quest characters are Shadow Demon (14 matches, 71% wins), Snapfire (14 matches, 64% wins), Techies (12 matches, 83% wins).

Also playing with Undying (9 games, 77% wins), Templar Assassin (8 matches, 50% wins).

There's also Silencer (7 games, 100% wins), Medusa (7 games, 100% wins), Doom (7 matches, 85% wins), Enchantress (7 matches, 71% wins).

Talon Esports uniforms

We continue the match analysis with the analysis of Talon Esports match form. In this match the team will play in the status of an outsider.

Bookmakers are not very excited about Quest, but they are not going to bury the residents of Southeast Asia. The odds for a win are estimated at around 2.5.

This is a very workable situation and Talon can clearly fight for the win. I'm sure the pre-match position of the teams would have been much more even if Talon had not been very erratic throughout the year.

The team made it to the top 1 of the region and also reached the heights at Lima Major 2023: in the first round of SEA the team took 3rd place, at The Lima Major 2023 the same top 3, and in the next round they won the home league.

However, what followed was chaos. The first signs of Talon's fickleness were at DreamLeague S19, when after a solid The Lima Major 2023, the team finished top-12 at a major international event.

At the next Major, The Bali Major 2023, Talon finished in the top 8 before a very mediocre performance at DPC SEA 2023 Tour 3: Division 1, finishing in 4th place in their home league.

The last tournament before the Riyadh Masters 2023 was DreamLeague Season 20. There the team finished in the top 4.

• Talon Esports roster: 23savage, Mikoto, Jabz, Q, Oli .

At the Riyadh Masters 2023 Talon Esports got straight into the group stage, and all thanks to the rating from ESL. Talon Esports did well in the group stage, finishing in the top 4 and making it to the upper play-offs.

The most popular Talon Esports characters

The most popular Talon Esports character is Tiny. The team swaps his positions, but most often he is sent to position 4. The character has 8 matches and 87% wins.

Next are Natures Phophet (7 games, 100% wins) and Io with Leshrac, who was also picked 7 times and won 6 matches.

Clockwerk (100% wins) and Morphing (60% wins) appeared 5 times each.

History of head-to-head matches

Previously, the teams have not played each other in official matches. This match is the first face-to-face match.

Match outcome

Apparently, we are waiting for a rather brisk Dota 2. Quest, playing with substitutes, haven't lost a bit since The Bali Major 2023, and Talon seems to have remembered how to play great Dota.

Given the play-offs stage, I expect maximum commitment from both sides. In my opinion, this match is unlikely to end 2-0, so I see Talon as the safest bet.

Bottom line: +1.5 on Talon Esports.