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We continue to watch the action on the DreamLeague S24 stage. Only the first group stage is heating up, and there will be two of them at once. This is such a fun format of DreamLeague Season 24.
Let's talk about Basket A, where Xtreme Gaming and Gaimin Gladiators, among others, are fighting for the next stage. Both teams are at the top of Group A.
Let's see how the match between Xtreme and Gaimin Gladiators will end and whether either of the sides will be able to earn important points ahead of the slot allocation in the next round.
Let's go.
Gaimin Gladiators uniform
Let's open the Gaimin Gladiators vs Xtreme Gaming match with an analysis of GG's form. In this match GG will play as favourites with odds to win at around 1.7.
At the DPC 2023 Tour 1 WEU Division 1, the team took the top 2, which opened the way for them to The Lima Major 2023. The first Major season of the tournament was a trailblazing triumph for the Gladiators. Gaimin Gladiators won the tournament without losing a single map in the championship play-offs.
The next DPC cycle in the home league ended even worse than the previous one. Then GG lost to tiebreaker for the top 2, but more than compensated for the failure with a performance on the international stage. Even twice.
On the eve of Long Copega DPC 2023: Tour 3, GG took the championship in two international arenas. They won the $1,000,000 DreamLeague S19 and The Berlin Major 2023, defending their status.
In the third round of the domestic league, Gaimin Gladiators were expectedly one of the top contenders to win the league, but failed to get the regional championship. At the end of DPC 2023: WEU Tour 3 GG took 2nd place, but they made it to the Major, and that's the main thing.
- Gaimin Gladiators lineup: watson, Quinn, Ace, tOfu, Seleri.
There was also DreamLeague Season 20, where in the first group stage GG, as it felt, played half-heartedly. Nevertheless, they made it to the next stage and then won the grand final.
After winning DreamLeague Season 20, Gaimin Gladiators won another title. This time it was the Major a Champions Cup again. At Bali Major 2023, GG were once again beaten by Team Liquid in the grand finals.
GG had high chances to finish all the big tournaments of the year with victories, but at Riyadh Masters 2023 they were unlucky. In the first round of play-offs "gladiators" fell to the lower play-offs grid, where at the stage of TOP-4 Ledge or Talon Esports and left the championship.
Before The International 2023, GG visited DreamLeague Season 21. There they showed not the best performance, having played the championship at the TOP-8 stage. After The International 2023, GG performed well, despite losing the TI 2023 Grand Final against Team Spirit. Next, GG had a top-2 finish at ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023 and a top-6 finish at BB Dacha Dubai 2024.
Gaimin Gladiators made an appearance at DreamLeague Season 22, where they managed to finish in the top 5. Next up was the Elite League tournament, where they again finished in the top 6.
Before playing at PGL Wallachia Season 1, GG played at ESL One Birmingham 2024, where they finished in the top 12. At the Romanian tournament itself, GG entered the play-offs with a 3-1 record.
In the first round of the PGL Wallachia Season 1 playoffs, GG's opponent was Team Liquid. Despite having a nominal advantage, GG failed to take advantage of it and win: 2-1 in Liquid's favour. It seems that after losing to their historical rival GG were unable to recover, as they were demolished by BOOM in the next match, closing the series with a score of 2-0.
GG became the first team from Group A of DL Season 23 to qualify for the play-offs. They also made it to the play-offs and reached the grand finals, but Ledge and Falcons.
Later, GG found themselves in the grand finals again, but only at The International 2024, where they lost to Liquid 0-3.
At DreamLeague Season 2024, Long Sogpeg started with a win over Nigma Galaxy, and then drew with PARI. Then GG had matches against BB (1-1) and Team Liquid (0-2). Thus before the match with Xtreme Gaming GG has 2-2-1.
Most popular Gaimin Gladiators heroes
The most frequent pick was Rubick. The character has appeared in GG's pick 8 times and has 87% wins.
Next came Pangolier (6 matches, 83% wins), Doom (6 matches, 66% wins), Keeper of the Light (5 matches, 80% wins), Ember Spirit (5 matches, 80% wins).
We also took Ember Spirit (4 matches, 100% wins), Terrorblade (4 matches, 75% wins).
Xtreme Gaming uniforms
We continue the analysis of the match Gaimin Gladiators - Xtreme Gaming. In this match, the Chinese club will play as an outsider with odds to win around 2.1.
At DPC 2023: China Upper Division Xtreme Gaming were ranked in the top 5. For a team with such a roster, that result was not just unacceptable, but rather terrible.
The deplorable state of Xtreme Gaming became even more evident after The Lima Major 2023, where Paparazzi and company did not qualify. At the tournament in Peru, only Aster and PSG.LGD showed some promise, while Knights and Ehome, who Xtreme Ledge played in their home league, were suspected of using cheats and ceased to exist after Lima.
However, Xtreme managed to pull itself together. The team called up the experienced Kaka for the fourth position and started to play. Xtreme won their home league with this squad. In this lineup they travelled to Berlin, where they made it to the group stage of The Berlin Major 2023. However, they finished in the top 12, which is not very good.
The third round was a nightmare for Xtreme. They finished in the top 5, which is not a critical indicator, but for teams of Paparazzi and company's level, not making it to the Major with not the strongest competition is a failure.
- Xtreme Gaming lineup: Ame, Xm, Xxs, Pyw, 天命.
Before Long Sogpeg Riyadh Masters 2023, Xtreme Gaming invited XinQ to join the team. The PSG.LGD legend was supposed to strengthen the roster, but the output Xtreme got was about the same as the previous championships - Top 16.
They made their debut at The International 2023 - China Qualifier with a match against Aster.Aries. Despite 2-0 on the scoreboard, Xtreme Gaming still had to deal with Aster's youth. They also looked good throughout the qualifiers, but Xtreme was not enough for the grand final: Azure Ray celebrated their victory and passage to the TI.
The new competitive year started with a performance at BB Dacha Dubai 2024, where they took TOP-8.
They played at DreamLeague Season 22, where they reached the TOP-3. After that, Xtreme Gaming won the Elite League.
The series of successful championships was interrupted at ESL One Birmingham 2024. There Xtreme Gaming made it to the play-offs, but failed to jump above the top 8.
Xtreme Gaming shined at PGL Wallachia Season 1. The Chinese didn't lose a single map until the grand finals, where they let their guard down: Team Spirit beat Xtreme Gaming 3-2, thus "stealing" the well-deserved title from Ame and company.
Xtreme played at DreamLeague Season 23, where they finished in the top 4, and at Riyadh Masters 2024, where they finished in the top 8. A month later came the home Clavision: Snow Ruyi, where Xtreme Gaming became champions. However, at one of the most important tournaments of the year - The International 2024 - they took TOP-6, which can be considered a good result for modern China.
As of 30 October 2024, Xtreme Gaming are 1-4-0. Which is true, before the match against GG, Xtreme will play against Liquid.
Most popular Xtreme Gaming heroes
The most popular hero of Xtreme Gaming is Storm Spirit. Paparazzi played him 5 times, but won only 2 matches.
We also took Alchemist (4 matches, 75% wins), Phoenix (4 matches, 50% wins), Keeper of the Light (4 matches, 25% wins), Rubick (4 matches, 25% wins).
There was also Pangolier, Underlord, Pugna, Dragon Knight. All heroes appeared 3 times and won 2 matches each.
Head-to-head history of Gaimin Gladiators - Xtreme Gaming
In the season 2024 the teams played each other 5 times: three times Xtreme won, 1 match was won by GG and one match ended in a draw.
Predicted result of Xtreme Gaming vs Gaimin Gladiators at DreamLeague Season 24
Xtreme Gaming and GG look about the same in this tournament, but I see more prospects for Gaimin Gladiators, but in Bo2 I will not risk to name the winner of the series.
Bottom line: draw.
