G2 Esports
This battle does not have any clear favorite so we will look at the statistics of the performance of the teams in the last two months.
100 Thieves is holding the tenth place in the world rating according to HLTV and they finalize the Top Ten. The last official match they participated in was played a pretty long time ago which was on 5 December last year. Lack of practice of performing in the competitive arena is unlikely to affect the Australians well. Then they lost a meeting with Fnatic by the score of 0-2 and took the 7-8 place at ESL Pro League Season 10. AN interesting and important fact is that the roster was assembled on 30 September 2018 and since then it has not been changed. The esportsmen have been playing together for almost a year and a half and it can have a good or bad influence on the players. On the one hand, they have got used to each other, on the other hand, lack of intensity can relax them at the match against G2 Esports.
Now G2 is placed on the eighth position in the list of the best CS:GO teams according to HLTV which is two positions higher than 100 Thieves. At the end of last year, the European team won Champions Cup Finals and earned $150,000. This is a great indicator especially if we take into account the fact that roster was assembled on 30 September last year when huNter and nexa left CR4ZY and joined the team. The last official matches were held on 9 January at the European closed qualifier for IEM Katowice 2020 where G2 beat MAD Lions and AGO. If the latter does not bring out many emotions, in the case of MAD Lions, we should highlight the good growth of the performance of the Danish team and it means that it was not difficult to defeat them which is proved by the score of the match 2-1.
All the facts point out G2’s superiority over 100 Thieves. Before you choose your favorite, you should take into account another not the least of the factors. G2 is a team that is very dependant on morale. If they start domination from the very beginning, the players are very likely to win the battle but if anything goes wrong, the French can fall apart. 100 Thieves has not been noticed to follow the line. The esportsmen are capable of making a comeback and cold-blooded premeditation. Due to this fact, the Australians seem to have more chances to win. As we have already said at the very beginning, it is pretty difficult to define a clear favorite taking into account only bare facts. So, as the match is held in Europe, the division which is natural for G2, we will lean to the outcome when the French players are becoming the winners.
Experts from booksports companies evaluate G2’s victory as 1.92, and the odds for 100 Thieves equal 1.82. As we can see, the difference is not significant, so we consider that taking some risk in order to get more profit in the case of G2 becoming winners is more reasonable. If you want to reduce the risks, you can opt for the outcome Handicap +1.5 of a map (for G2). The odds for this result has been shaped 1.33, ad its likelihood is very high.
