SKADE vs. HellRaisers 6/4 Preview & Prediction - Free CS:GO Betting Picks

Match Spread: SKADE -2.5

Total: 26.5

Week 6 action in the Regular Season portion of the ESEA MDL Season 34: Premier Division - Europe continues as SKADE will do battle with HellRaisers. The Regular Season features nine weeks of action with a round-robin league format. Each match in the Regular Season will be a best-of-one-map battle, and the top eight teams will advance to the Playoffs.

SKADE Preview

HLTV World Record: 50th

Record: 4-4

SKADE has been one of the better teams for a while now due to their consistency. They won't win every single match, but SKADE is never an easy outing. Overpass has been the team's best map in the more recent months with a 63.6% win rate over the last three months. Something to keep an eye on is the fact that Inferno and Mirage are the only other two maps in which they have a win rate of over 50% on during this same period.

Rainwaker and dennyslaw have been the carriers of the team lately. Over the past three months, Rainwaker has averaged 0.77 kills and only 0.66 deaths per round while dennyslaw averaged 0.72 kills with 0.66 deaths per round over this period. A problem for SKADE has been registering headshots, which can make the world of difference in a match. However, Rainwaker and dennyslaw have shown ability to clutch in situations to bail the team out.

HellRaisers Preview

HLTV World Ranking: 66th

Record: 5-5

HellRaisers continues to be on a slow but steady ride through the HLTV world rankings despite less than spectacular results recently. Something about HellRaisers that stands out is they do typically win the matches that they are expected to win. Inferno is arguably the team's best map with a 5-2 record over the past three months. They've also won the only game they've played on Nuke, but one round isn't enough exposure to put faith into.

HellRaisers has a unique situation going on statistically. They don't have any players that particularly stand out from another on a statistical level but yet they continue to win matches on a somewhat regular level. JlaYm has a nice average of 0.7 kills per round over the past three months, but he has died 0.77 times per round during this same period. HellRaisers has to play well as a team if they want to win, and they will need someone to take the reigns and lead the team.

Pick: SKADE Spread/Handicap -2.5 Rounds (+100 @ Bovada)(2 units)

My play on this match is with SKADE on the spread. I feel as though HellRaisers has been lucky on more than one occasion, while SKADE has been consistent. SKADE also has a much wider variety of a map pool, and this is key when it comes to best-of-one-map matches. Rainwaker and dennyslaw are a hell of a one-two punch, and they will carry their team to a nice and easy victory here. Simply put, HellRaisers is not a team that I have any faith in. SKADE will win this match and cover the two and a half round spread also.