Match forudsigelse: OG - G2.iG | Dota 2

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The big Dota 2 event continues. ESL One Birmingham 2024 continues.

The play-offs stage is heating up at the first LAN Dota 2 tournament of the season. In the lower grid of the main stage we are waiting for the match OG - G2.IG.

Let's try to find out who from the pair G2.IG - OG will be stronger and continue their performance at ESL One Birmingham 2024, and who will have to finish their performance at the first LAN-tournament of the season.

Let's go.

G2.IG Form.

Let's open the match analysis with an analysis of G2.IG's match form. In this match, the Chinese club is playing the number one, and the odds for G2.IG to win are at around 1.7.

In the first round of DPC 2023 Invictus Gaming took the top 6, almost losing their place in the top division, but they got through. Naturally, Major e was out of the question.

In the second round of DPC 2023: China Upper Division there was no talk about Major e either, but somehow Invictus Gaming got there. The team made it to the top-3 in the home league, only to fall to the ground with a bang: at Berlin Major 2023 Invictus Gaming finished in the top-18.

The third season of DPC gave hope for an IG comeback. IG went to Bali with a top-2 DPC in their pocket, but the curtain came down. The team finished top-18, thus failing to confirm their status as the top-2 team in China.

• IG lineup: Monet, NothingToSay, JT-, BoBoKa, xNova.

After a series of failures, which can be attributed to the failure at the qualifiers for The International 2023, IG completely rebuilt the roster, inviting all the top players from the region. Now the team has a lot of potential to fulfil.

The renewed G2.IG squad showed great results in the group stage of ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023. The Chinese took the top 1 in Group B Ledgeiv on only one map. In the first play-offs match, G2.IG faced Gaimin Gladiators. In an intense match, one of last season's top teams, GG, proved to be stronger and closed out the series with a 2-1 score.

Falling to the bottom set of Kuala Lumpur 2023 the team lost to BB Team and left the championship. As a result, G2.IG finished in the top 8 at the first major tournament of the season.

Next, G2.IG played 3 qualifying tournaments. BB Dacha 2024: CN and SEA Closed Qualifiers, where they finished top 8, DL Season 22: China Qualifier, where they finished top 2 and ESL One Birmingham 2024: China Closed Qualifier, where they finished first.

DreamLeague Season 22 G2.IG got off to a terrible start. The team played two series and lost both of them with the score 0-2. The second day was much better - already two draws. However, it didn't allow them to stay afloat: after the third game day, where G2.IG played a draw with BB and lost to Azure Ray, the team lost their chances to qualify for the play-offs.

After the failure at DreamLeague Season 22, G2.IG played two qualifying events: DreamLeague Season 23 China Qualifier and PGL Wallachia. They couldn't make it to the first one, but they will go to Romania after winning the qualifiers against Azure Ray.

The last tournament before the ESL One Birmingham 2024 was Elite League, where G2.IG took the top 8, Ledge and Gaimin Gladiators.

ESL One Birmingham 2024 started with a borderline top-4 finish in Group A, which allowed G2.IG to advance to the lower play-offs. Already there, the first opponent for Monet and company was Xtreme Gaming, which IG defeated in a long, but not to say that a hard Bo3 series.

The most popular heroes of G2.IG

IG's most sought-after pic is Timbersaw. The character has appeared in the team's games 5 times and has a 60% win rate.

Other picks include Spirit Breaker (4 matches, 75% wins), Medusa (4 matches, 75% wins), Silencer (4 matches, 50% wins).

There was also Void Spirit (3 matches, 100% wins), Brewmaster (3 matches, 100% wins), Monkey King (3 matches, 66% wins).

OG Form

We continue our match analysis with an analysis of OG's form. In this match, they are playing the number two side with win odds around 2.1.

At DPC 2023: WEU Division 1 Tour 1, OG were unable to guarantee themselves a top-4 finish and as a result missed out on The Lima Major 2023. Things seemed to pick up during the second round of DPC 2023: WEU Division 1. Then OG made a strong-willed comeback and made it to the Top 4 after tiebreaks.

At the Berlin Major, the team played with two stand-ins and made it to the top 6, but it seems that those stand-ins were the secret to their success. After returning to regular season matches with a full roster, OG looked critically bad, but at the last moment they improved.

At DPC 2023: WEU Tour 3, OG Long Team went down to the wire, but managed to keep their place in the top division by finishing in the top 5 in the third round of the professional season. By the way, at the last DreamLeague S19 OG also took 5th place and this is an indicator, but it is unlikely to be repeated in the new season.

• OGroster: Timado, bzm, Wisper, Ari, Ceb.

After a year-long extravaganza, Ceb is the new OG player. OG resorted to their ultimatum weapon during DreamLeague Season 20, but it didn't help them and OG finished in the top 20.

After DreamLeague Season 20, OG attended another championship of a larger calibre, the Riyadh Masters 2023. Unfortunately for them, they ended it on a Minor note - in TOP-14.

"Closed" the season with a performance at the closed Western European qualifiers for The International 2023. The once two-time world champions failed to make it through the most competitive qualifiers and as a result OG flew past The International.

After failing to qualify for the year's biggest tournament, OG finished in the top 4 at DL Season 21 and ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023 Western Europe Closed Qualifier.

2024 started the year with a run at BB Dacha 2024 Dubai and a top-2 finish at DreamLeague Season 22 Qualifiers. Then they finished 2nd place at ESL One Birmingham 2024: WEU Qualifiers and Top 12 at BB Dacha Dubai 2024.

Later OG visited DreamLeague Season 22, where they managed to reach the top 6, which is not entirely bad. After that, OG played qualifiers at DL Season 23 and PGL Wallachia, where they were close to winning, but failed there and there. Before playing at ESL One Birmingham 2024, OG played at Elite League, where they finished in the top 10.

ESL One Birmingham 2024 OG started off with a solid performance in the group stage, winning Group B. In the first round of play-offs they met BB Team, but they couldn't take more than 1 map.

Most popular OG characters

Among favourite OG characters: Keeper of the Light (6 matches, 83% wins), Phantom Lancer (5 matches, 60% wins).

Among the most successful: Crystal Maiden (4 matches, 100% wins), Underlord (4 matches, 100% wins), Alchemist (3 matches, 100% wins), Storm Spirit (3 matches, 100% wins), Void Spirit (3 matches, 100% wins).

History of head-to-head meetings OG - G2.IG

The teams have played each other twice. Once OG won, and the second match ended in a draw.

Predicted result of the match OG - G2.IG at ESL One Birmingham 2024

In this match we can expect a spirited dota. Both teams play very flexible, but I like G2.IG better in this respect. OG are too dependent on a comfortable draft, and G2.IG may not give that and that's why my bet is in favour of the Chinese.

Bottom line: G2.IG wins.