BIG Academy vs. GamerLegion Preview & Prediction- Free 2/17 CS: GO

The rivals will cross paths at the Swiss round 4 in the Thunderpick Bitcoin Series 2022 tournament. Both teams have a 1-2 record and this means that the losing team will be eliminated from the tournament. The group stage is played in the best of 3 format.

BIG Academy Team Stats and Latest Results

BIG Academy is ranked 67th in the world ranking. The academy team was invited to the ongoing tournament based on their performance at the Thunderpick Bitcoin Series 2022 Closed Qualifier where they emerged first. At the same time, they finished 2nd at the recently concluded WePlay Academy League Season 3 tournament and were awarded $20,000. At the group stage of the ongoing Thunderpick Bitcoin Series 2022, they defeated Enterprise (2:0) but lost to Dignitas (0:2) and SINNERS (0:2). Over the last 3 months, the team attained a win rate of 57.9% and won 4 out of their last 8 games.

Map performance in the last 3 months shows that the team has been impressive on Overpass (100.0%), Nuke (66.7%), Vertigo (55.6%) and Inferno (54.5%). On the other hand, the team was deplorable on Ancient (0.0%) and Dust2 (0.0%). The team’s line-up currently includes prosus (1.08), s1n (1.03), Krimbo (1.16), Aqua (0.96), and hyped (1.01).

GamerLegion Team Stats and Latest Results

GamerLegion is ranked 26th in the world ranking and has been among the top 30 teams for 9 weeks. At the group stage of the ongoing Thunderpick Bitcoin Series 2022 tournament, the Swedish team lost the first 2 matches to SKADE (0:2) and Sprout (0:2) but bounced back to win their third-round against BLUEJAYS (2:0). GamerLegion is part of the ongoing Pinnacle Winter Series 2 and has won their first 2 matches. Considering their performance in past tourneys, they finished 3rd at the ESEA Premier Season 39 Europe and 16-18th at the Pinnacle Winter Series 1. They won 4 out of their last 8 games and hold a win rate of 63.9%.

Map win statistics in the last 3 months shows that the team attained a decent win rate on Mirage (78.6%), Nuke (62.5%), Overpass (58.8%), and Ancient (52.9%) but failed to impress on Vertigo (44.4%), Inferno (38.5%), and Dust2 (0.0%). They have used 1 line-up since April 2021 that includes Zero (1.01), RuStY (1.05), iM (1.13), eraa (1.06), and isak (1.01).

BIG Academy vs. GamerLegion H2H Record

The opponents have never met in any tournament and this will be their first H2H encounter.

BIG Academy vs. GamerLegion Betting Preview

GamerLegion is coming to this matchup on a 3-match win streak and 41 places ahead of BIG Academy in the world ranking. Nevertheless, we cannot overwrite BIG Academy because they also won 4 out of their last 8 matches and holds a win rate of 57.9%. Considering the fact that BIG Academy recently finished second at the WePlay Academy League Season 3 tournament, we expect an interesting game when the 2 cross paths. Therefore, we will avoid predicting the winner in this match and go for over 2.5 maps.

The Pick: Over 2.5 maps.