Neon Esports vs. Team SMG Preview & Prediction- Free 2/22 DOTA 2

This Tuesday, Neon Esports and Team SMG will meet at the group stage of the 2022 BTS Pro Series Season 10 Southeast Asia tournament. The prize pool of this event adds up to $50,000 and the best team will be awarded $20,000. The round-robin is played in the best-of-two format.

Neon Esports Team Stats and Latest Results

Neon Esports is ranked #28 in the CQ-Esports Dota 2 Ranking and has a CQ.Score of 1585. The team won 3 out of their last 10 games and drew their last match at the ongoing 2022 Oceanic Esports Dota Championships against LBZS (1:1). The team is also part of the ongoing 2021 Dota Pro Circuit S1 - SEA Upper Division and has won 6 out of their 8 matches at the round-robin. They won the Moon Studio Kagura Championships which ended on 17th January 2022 and were awarded $6,400. Over the last month, the team has played 2 matches, lost all of them and climbed 11 positions in the ranking. Neon Esports won 3 out of their last 10 matches and hold an all-time win rate of 63%.

The Philippine team currently has a 46% on the map (Default 5v5). At the same time, their roster consists of skem (78% all-time win rate), PlayHard (63%), JaunuelJ (63%), Yopaj (67%), and Natsumi- (64%).

Team SMG Team Stats and Latest Results

Team SMG is ranked #25 in the CQ-Esports Dota 2 Ranking and has a CQ.Score of 1618. At the ongoing 2022 BTS Pro Series Season 10 Southeast Asia, the Malaysian team has drawn 1 and lost 1 match. They won 4 out of their last 10 games and hold an all-time win rate of 64%. Team SMG finished 3rd at the DPC SEA 2021/22 Tour 1: Regional Finals tournament which ended on February 13th 2022 and was awarded $15,000. The team was also featured at the 2021 Huya Dota2 Winter Invitational and were eliminated at the lower bracket semifinal. Over the last month, the team has played 7 matches, won 1 of them and climbed 3 positions in the ranking.

Their best-played map (Default 5v5) has a win rate of 61% and their line-up includes Bimbo (55% all-time win rate), Roddgee (63%), MidOne (60%), Moon (68%), and Ahfu (66%).

Neon Esports vs. Team SMG H2H Record

The opponents have met once. They crossed paths at the Moon Studio New Year Showdown in February 2021 and Team SMG won 2:0.

Neon Esports vs. Team SMG Betting Preview

This is going to be a close matchup because both teams have equal strengths in terms of win rate and their positions in the CQ-Esports Dota 2 Ranking. Team SMG has a slight advantage on the maps but this is not sufficient to make a prediction in their favor. Since the match takes the best-of-two format, we expect each side to snatch 1 map.

The Pick: Draw