NAVI Junior vs. BIG Academy, Preview, & Prediction - Free 7/18 CS: GO

The first round of the WePlay Academy League Season 1 tournament is scheduled for July 19, 2021. The first 3 teams at group play will get an automatic spot in LAN Finals. The remaining teams will battle for the one post at the brackets.

NAVI Junior Team Stats and Latest Results

NAVI Junior is ranked 137th on the global ranking. Since the year started, they have shown a hot and cold performance because they were positioned 166th in January and rose to 55th in May before dropping again. Considering other events, they finished 13-15th at the LOOT.BET Season 9, 9-16th at the BLAST Rising 2021, and 9-11th at the Elisa Invitational Summer 2021 Regionals. Out of their last 8 matches, they won 3 and lost 5 matches. They have a win rate of 33.3%.

Map win rate in the last 3 months shows that the team has been impressive on Train (66.7%) and Dust2 (60.0%). They displayed an average execution on Overpass (50.0%) but failed to impress on Mirage (28.6%), Vertigo (28.6%), and Inferno (0.0%). The team lineup consists of Aunkere (1.14), fear (0.95), m0NESY (1.21), pogor3lov (0.88), and Synyx (0.88).

BIG Academy Team Stats and Latest Results

BIG Academy is a project which was initiated by the parent team “BIG” in 2018 to create an influx of qualified players in the German Counter-Strike scene. ALTERNATE aTTaX was also part of the project. The team has been inactive since November 2020 and will be coming back with a quality lineup. The last tournament where they featured was at the Nine to Five 6 Dawn in November 2020 where they finished 13-16th.

Since the team has not played in the last 3 months, there are no map statistics but we expect an interesting matchup. We believe BIG Academy will take a portion of the $100,000 academy league. The team lineup consists of glaVed (1.13 rating), NIKZEj, Aqua, LapeX, and pr1metapz. Alexander “glaVed” Pletz came from the German side SSP.

NAVI Junior vs. BIG Academy H2H Record

Both teams have never met in any tournament and this will be their first head-to-head meeting.

NAVI Junior vs. BIG Academy Betting Preview

NAVI Junior is on the downswing because they lost 5 out of their last 8 matches. At the same time, they failed to win a single map on Inferno after 8 matches. BIG Academy will be playing their first match so we can’t assess their performance yet. For this reason, we predict NAVI Junior will win this round.

The Pick: NAVI Junior to win.