Gentle Mates and SAW will meet in the semifinals of the lower grid of VALORANT Challengers Ascension 2023: EMEA, where they will literally fight for the right to stay at this championship.
It's worth recalling that the French team confidently made it through the group stage, but, as I suspected, started to lose momentum afterwards, as they stopped coming up with something new.
In turn, the Portuguese are quite stable on the diѕtution. Yes, both teams didn't come up with anything at the play-offs, but nobody expected anything from them. Well, in this case, I'd bet on the victory of SAW team.
Gentle Mates uniforms
The seventh team of the European ranking won both regional splits of VALORANT Challengers 2023 France: Revolution, showing very confident play at the season diѕtuncation.
Moreover, Gentle Mates played quite well in the group stage of VALORANT Challengers Ascension 2023: EMEA, where they defeated Team Falcons, Case Esports and FOKUS, but also Ledgeila Apeks.
At the Long Circuit play-offs the French team failed to cope with the other favourite, suffering an expected defeat to Acend and falling to the bottom of the championship.
Latest Gentle Mates results:
- A 2-0 win over Team Falcons.
- A 2-0 win over Case Esports.
- A 2-1 win over FOKUS.
- A 0:2 loss to Apeks.
- Defeat by Acend with the score 0:2.
Best results of Gentle Mates:
- Split - 89% wins.
- Haven - 83% of wins.
- Fracture - 80% wins.
- Lotus - 58% wins.
- Ascent - 50% wins.
It should not be forgotten that the French team does not usually appear on the Pearl card.
SAW shape
The fourth team of the European ranking became the winner of the Long Song VALORANT Challengers 2023 Portugal: Tempest Split 1, after which they also took the second split of VALORANT Challengers 2023 Portugal: Tempest.
As for the performance in the group stage of VALORANT Challengers Ascension 2023: EMEA, SAW quickly defeated Digital Athletics, CGN Esports and Dsyre, but fell short against Acend in the last round.
Moreover, at the Long Cognege play-offs, the Portuguese team similarly Ledgeil Apeks, thus falling to the bottom net. Still, it seems to me that the team showed itself a bit brighter in the championship disttution.
SAW's latest results:
- A 2-1 win over Digital Athletics.
- A 2-1 win over CGN Esports.
- A 2-1 win over Dsyre.
- A 0:2 loss to Acend.
- A 0:2 defeat to Apeks.
Best SAW results:
- Ascent - 100% wins.
- Lotus - 80% wins.
- Haven - 80% wins.
- Pearl - 67% wins.
- Fracture - 50% wins.
- Split - 50% wins.
In turn, the Portuguese team usually does not appear on the Pearl card.
Statistics of meetings Gentle Mates - SAW
Previously, the teams have not met.
Prediction for the match Gentle Mates - SAW
Here we can consider the Total on map 2.5 more, as the teams are roughly equal. And yet, as I noticed earlier, the French team slightly drops from match to match.
Moreover, on an individual level, SAW is much less questionable, as the Portuguese team is well within the TIER-1.5. Well, the Gentle Mates have already done well to get this far.
Therefore, in this case I would recommend betting on a win for SAW.
