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The Thunderpick World Championship 2024 matches don't seem to be coming to an end. And it's still the group stage.
Back to Group A, where Vp and OG will play their match. The teams will be playing for their lives.
We're trying to see who will be the winner and make it to the play-offs, and who is destined to kiss goodbye to the prospect of winning $500,000 for winning the Thunderpick World Championship 2024.
Let's go.
Vp Form
Let's open up the Vp vs OG match with an analysis of Vp's form. In this match they will play as favourites with odds to win at around 1.2.
At the beginning of last year Vp played in three TIR-A tournaments. These were BB Playlist. Urbanistic, BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR A, and also BB Playlist. Freeddom. At the two "home" championships from BB Vp were in the top 8, but at the European RMR everything was even less happy - top 14.
Then Vp made a breakthrough by winning at ESL Challenger Katowice 2023. The victory there allowed them to qualify for ESL Pro League Season 18.
Among the victories, CCT Online Finals #2 is also worth mentioning. They beat Team Spirit in the grand finals and earned $100,000, which is pretty good.
- Vp lineup: Jame, FL1T, fame, n0rb3r7, electronic.
Before ESL Pro League Season 18 Vp visited Gamers8, where they didn't get further than the top 8, and Dunav Party LAN, where in the grand finals they got revenge for their defeat on CCT by Spirit.
In the first match of EPL Season 18, Vp's opponent was Team Liquid. The match, as expected, ended in a full-fledged, combative Bo3 with Vp winning 2-1.
Next up, VP played G2 Esports and legitimately Ledgeili, though they fought back and took the map. The defeat sent Vp to the lower grid, where they first beat Eternal Fire and then outplayed Liquid again, thus reaching the EPL play-offs.
Vp did not manage to play in the main stage. Vp lost their first match against 9z Team, which was a rather unexpected result. At the end of the EPL S18 Vp finished in the top 16.
Things are going well at the Roobet Cup. Vp won the first match against their compatriots from Spirit with a score of 2-1. Next up was a battle with Movistar Riders to qualify for the Roobet Cup 2023 play-offs, which ended 2-0 in Vp's favour, a solid 2-0.
The Roobet Cup 2023 itself was the pulse of Vp's triumph. They beat Monte 2-1 in the grand final, earning their first major win in a long time. Later there was Thunderpick World Championship 2023, where Vp also reached the final, but failed to beat FaZe and as a result - 0-2.
Before playing at BB Dacha Vp played at ESL Challenger Winter. There they reached the top 4, losing in the semi-finals to the future champions from Monte. BB Dacha itself was a very successful event for Vp: there they reached the finals and lost to Spirit 2-3 in a close series.
Just before the BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024, where Vp were partnered with BLAST, they played the ESL Challenger at DreamHack Atlanta 2023, where they won the championship, beating Apeks 2-0 in the grand finals.
On their way to the Group D finals, Virtus.pro defeated BIG and Cloud9. The former 2-0, the latter 2-1. In the grand final of their group at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024, Vp beat BIG again and again with a score of 2-0, thus earning themselves a place at the spring finals. Next up was IEM Katowice 2024, where Vp failed, finishing in the top 20.
Vp made it to PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen, finishing in the top 2 at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European RMR A. In addition, they made it to IEM Dallas 2024.
Directly at the World Championship Long Competed from the Elimination stage. First lost to Imperia, but then beat paiN and Heroic, which brought them to 2-1. Next, they lost to Eternal Fire and G2 Esports, which led to Vp's elimination from the Major tournament.
IEM China 2024 Vp are doing quite well. In the top set of Group B, they took turns beating American teams Wildcard (13-1) and then FlyQuest (2-1). In the play-offs seeding match, Vp lost to the best team in the tournament, Astralis, 2-0.
In the main stage of IEM China 2024, Vp played against G2 Esports and lost, thus finishing in the top 6 of the tournament.
After the top 6 at IEM China 2024 Vp attended three more tournaments, two of which were very prestigious. So they played ESL Pro League Season 19 at TOP-8 and IEM Dallas 2024 at TOP-12, and in between they made it to the Top-6 at BB Dacha.
In Group B at BLAST Premier: Spring Finals 2024 Vp played to a top-3 finish, which got them into the playoffs. Next, they made it to the top 4, but there Ledgeili NaVi.
EWC Vp started with a match against Complexity Gaming, where they won 2-0. Making it to the play-offs the team faced Vitality and came out stronger, winning 2-1. Next up was a match against G2, a loss and top 4 in the end.
Vp played at BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2024, where they failed miserably: top 16. Later, they "consolidated their success" at IEM Cologne 2024, making it to the Top 16. They also played at BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2024, where they took TOP-4. They also played at ESL Pro League S20, where they failed everywhere and everywhere, finishing the tournament in the top 16. They also played at the Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2024, where they finished in the top 6.
At the Thunderpick World Championship 2024 OG Long Co-angled with a loss to OG and then knocked Falcons out of the tournament.
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The best map for Vp remains Ancient, where Vp won 3 maps out of 3 played. The most frequently played map is Overpass - where Vp played 11 maps and won 9 of them.
In the pool there is a good Anubis (3-1 on maps), Mirage (6 wins in 9 matches) and Inferno (7 wins in 11 games).
The worst choice for vp is Vertigo. It has 44% wins with 9 matches.
OG Form
We continue the breakdown of the match OG - Vp with the analysis of OG's form. The European club will play as the number two with odds to win at around 2.7.
Before IEM Cologne 2023, OG failed to qualify for the last chance at Gamers8 and also finished top-12 at BLAST Premier: Fall 2023 Groups.
- OG roster: F1KU, MoDo, Chr1zN, Buzz, M1key.
The latest replacements in the form of FASHR, k1to and Regali joining the team a month ago are not paying off yet. The Frenchman and the German have ratings below 0.89 and 0.94 and this is the worst among the team, which, however, does not shine with bright personalities.
Despite the dismal statistics of the players in recent months, in the first match against 9INE OG looked good, although they failed to get the win. They lost to the Poles on Overpass with a score of 17-19.
Cologne itself did not end well for the Europeans. OG lost to NaVi in the last chance set, and then prematurely left the championship.
After failing at a major event, OG took to playing everything. Mostly small tournaments: CCT Online Finals #2, CCT East Europe Series #1, Pinnacle Cup V, IEM Sydney 2023 qualifiers, Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #2, CCT Online Finals #3 with BLAST Premier: Fall European Showdown 2023 and CCT North Europe Series #8. I purposely didn't separate these andVent and lumped them together as OG dissolved on them everywhere else. In the best case it was top 6, like at the qualifiers for IEM Sydney, and in the average case it was top 8.
They also played at Roobet Cup 2023, where the team finished top-12. This was followed by BLAST Premier: World Final 2022, where the OGs pleasantly surprised by reaching the Top 4.
In the 2024 season, there were no high-profile results like Top 4 at BLAST Premier: World Final 2023. The maximum heights were the top-4 of BLAST Premier: Spring Showdown 2024 and the top-4 at BLAST Premier: Fall Showdown 2024. There were also lower class tournaments like Fall Groups 2024 with a top-8 and Thunderpick World Championship 2024: European Series #2.
In the first match at Thunderpick World Championship 2024, they beat the same Vp and then Ledge or 3DMAX.
OG Mappool
The only map OG has won in the last 3 months is Mirage. They were winning against BIG, but there were 2 losses later.
They tried to make something up on Inferno and Ancient, but they lost twice there, and then there was Overpass and a loss on it.
Vp - OG
The teams have already played each other in this tournament. OG won.
Predicted result of OG vs Vp at Thunderpick World Championship 2024
I see the logical result of this match as a full-fledged Bo3. Not for nothing the teams played so for the first time, so I bet on the total +2.5.
Result: total +2.5.
