paiN Gaming vs. Brazen Preview & Prediction- Free 5/24 CS: GO

paiN Gaming vs. Brazen Preview & Prediction- Free 5/24 CS: GO

The opponents will clash at the group stage (Group A) in the ESL Challenger League Season 41 North America tournament this Tuesday. The 2022 ESL Challenger League Season 41 North America is an online CS: GO league powered by ESEA which also provides a prize pool of $50,000. The group stage matches are played in the round-robin Bo3 series.

paiN Gaming Team Stats and Latest Results

paiN Gaming is ranked #19 in the CQ-Esports Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Ranking and has a CQ.Score of 1739. At the group stage of the ongoing ESL Challenger League Season 41 North America, the team has won 3 out of its 4 matches and is currently on top of Group A. Their last match took place at the ongoing ESL NA tournament on May 19, 00:09. paiN Gaming lost to the Gaimin Gladiators with a score of 2:0. Considering their performance in past events, they won the BLAST Premier: Spring American Showdown 2022 tournament which ended on May 01, 2022 and was awarded $20,000. The team also finished 7th at the PGL Major Antwerp 2022 Americas RMR and 3-4th at the IEM Dallas 2022 North America Open Qualifier 2. They managed 8 wins from the last 10 games and has attained a win rate of 68.3% over the past 3 months.

Map win statistics over the past 3 months show an impressive win rate on Vertigo (81.2%), Dust2 (76.9%), Nuke (66.7%), and Overpass (57.1%). On the other hand, they failed to impress on Ancient (50.0%), Inferno (42.9%), and Mirage (36.4%). paiN Gaming has maintained its current line-up for the last 2 months and it consists of PKL (1.05), hardzao (1.09), NEKIZ (1.08), nython (1.16), and biguzera (1.15).

Brazen Team Stats and Latest Results

Brazen is currently unranked in the CQ-Esports Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Ranking. Since the beginning of the year, the team has played 2 matches and managed 5 wins from its last 10 matches. The team’s last match took place at the PGL tournament on March 13, 2022, and Brazen lost to Snakes DenGG with a score of 0:1. They finished 5-6th at the ESEA Premier Season 39 North America Relegation and 5-8th at the PGL Major Antwerp 2022 Americas RMR NA Open Qualifier 2. Over the last 3 months, the team has attained a win rate of 50.0%.

The team’s best-played maps consist of Overpass (66%-win rate). On the other hand, they failed to impress on Inferno (33%), Nuke (33%), Dust2 (0%), Vertigo (50%), Mirage (50%), and Ancient (33%). Team members includes grape (0.98 player rating), Danejoris (0.98), RZU (1.00), D4rtyMontana (0.96), and Mesamiduck (0.62).

paiN vs. Brazen H2H Record

The rivals have never met in any tournament and this will be their first H2H meeting.

paiN vs. Brazen Betting Preview

paiN Gaming will find this game easy. Teams’ recent performance shows that paiN has an advantage of 4 wins while Brazen has 2 wins. At the same time, paiN has a better ranking in the CQ-Esports Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Ranking and a more experienced line-up. Brazen is unranked at the moment.

The Pick: paiN Gaming to win.

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