DFSGhost 
CS:GO Slate Summary: Nineto Five (3am EST)
- 2 matchups on DK
- Best of 3 series
CS:GO Slate Overview
Game #1: BIG Academy(+137) vs 9INE (-188)
The first matchup on the CS:GO slate sees BIG Academy – not to be mistaken for BIG, one of the best teams in the world – taking on 9INE. BIG Academy bans Inferno first at a 50% rate while 9INE bans Train first at a 100% rate over the past three months so we probably won’t be seeing those maps here. BIG Academy will likely turn to Nuke with their first pick, however, since 9INE plays fairly well there, it’s possible they look to choose Overpass instead. 9INE will likely stick to their typical first pick, Dust2, where they have a 60% win rate to BIG Academy’s 20%. PANIX leads the way for BIG Academy with a 1.18 K/D and 0.78 kills per round in the past month, with Krimbo also having impressive statistics in his own right with a 1.10 K/D and 0.75 kills per round in the past month. For 9INE, Izzy is our primary target; he sports a 1.27 K/D and 0.81 kills per round in the past month and is a good pay up option featured in this first CS:GO matchup.
TopTargets (9INE): Izzy ($8,400), xfl0ud ($7,800), QutionerX ($7,000)
TopTargets (BIG Academy): PANIX ($7,200), Krimbo ($8,000), prosus ($6,600)
Game #2: LDLC (-188) vsSinners (+137)
The second game of the CS:GO slate sees the 75th ranked LDLC taking on the 83rd ranked Sinners; the former do have the better form ranking, but the latter are coming in having won four of their past five series. LDLC bans Mirage first at a 52% rate while the Sinners ban Train first at a 44% rate so it is unlikely we see either map here. LDLC will likely turn to Dust2 with their first pick, which they do 42% of the time, despite riding a 4-map losing streak simply because the Sinners have only played there twice in the past three months. I expect the Sinners to counter with Overpass, which they select first at a 31% rate and have a 67% win rate on six maps played. With either team likely to ban Vertigo in the final banning phase, one of Nuke or Inferno will be the map leftover, where both teams are fairly even in terms of winning percentage, albeit LDLC has a much larger number of maps played in the past three months. Both bodyy and hAdji make for great targets if stacking LDLC; the two have K/D ratios of 1.12 and 1.16, respectively, while both contribute 0.79 kills per round over the past month. On the flipside, beastik is the main guy we want in our SIN stacks and even makes for a good one-off to make our CS:GO lineup construction different than others in large field tournaments; he has a 1.35 K/D and 0.85 kills per round in the past month, and despite being in only 85 maps played, his statistics are impressive for someone priced so low on the CS:GO slate.
Top Targets (LDLC): bodyy($8,600), hAdji ($7,600), SIXER ($7,000)
Top Targets (SIN): beastik($6,000), NEOFRAG ($8,200)
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