VERTEX and 00 Nation as part of the ongoing BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2022 North America will fight each other for the right to become the fourth semi-finalist, where it will be possible to make their way to the grand final. 00 Nation rightly have the status of the clear favorite of the meeting here, and according to experts from the bookmaker, the chances of their victory are 81%, which equates to a coefficient of 1.15. Let's deal with the question of whether it is worth betting on the victory of the favorite here or whether you need to choose some kind of alternative.
VERTEX play uniform
Australians from VERTEX are now in 77th place in the world ranking according to HLTV. The team is currently taking part in two parallel tournaments, ESL Australia & NZ Championship Season 15 and LPL Pro League Season 11. In both cases, they show a fairly confident performance and so far have not suffered a single defeat either there or there. In addition, in the two previous events, namely the closed pre-qualification for BLAST Premier and the qualification there, the team did not know defeat. Thus, now the team has a series of 9 victories. The only thing that does not flatter this team is that the level of opponents leaves much to be desired and falls far short of the 00 Nation they will have to face in the next confrontation.
The VERTEX map pool is also impressive. The team does not have a single map where the performance would be worse than 57.1%. Their best cards are Overpass and Vertigo. There, the performance is 75% and 71.4%, respectively, and with 4 and 7 cards played, this indicator is quite good and objective. At Mirage, the band performs with 100% performance, but only 2 times were played there. Dust 2 and Nuke have a lower success rate, namely 66.7% and with 3 maps played. Overall, VERTEX only has 2 strong cards, Overpass and Vertigo. I'm not sure about the performance of the team at the rest of the battlefields.
History of recent VERTEX meetings
ESL Australia & NZ Championship Season 15
- VERTEX 2-0 Rooster
- VERTEX 2-1 Antic
- VERTEX 2-0 KRAKEN
LPL Pro League Season 11
- VERTEX 2-0 Nut-E
- VERTEX 2-0 CAMO
VERTEX card statistics
- Mirage (2 cards) - 100%
- Overpass (4 cards) - 75%
- Vertigo (7 cards) - 71.4%
- Dust 2 (3 cards) - 66.7%
- Nuke (3 cards) - 66.7%
- Inferno (7 cards) - 57.1%
00 Nation uniform
I like 00 Nation a lot more. The team consists of coldzera, TACO and other esportsmen. Coldzera and TACO are quite famous players who kept all CS:GO teams in the world at bay in 2016, while coldzera was named the best player of 2016 and 2017. There is no doubt about the individual abilities of the players of the team, which is now in 25th place. The team recently took part in IEM Road to Rio 2022 Americas RMR and took 4th place in the standings there. The team first lost in an equal match against 9z Team, and after that 3 matches against Isurus Gaming, Imperial Esports and Complexity Gaming were won.
There are 3 maps in the 00 Nation pool where they show good performance. We are talking about Inferno, Ancient and Nuke, where the win rate is 100%, 100% and 75% respectively with 4, 3 and 4 matches played. The team also performed at Overpass and Vertigo, but none of the attempts to win was successful.
History of recent meetings 00 Nation
IEM Road to Rio 2022 Americas RMR
- 00 Nation 2-1 Complexity Gaming
- 00 Nation 16-11 Imperial Esports
- 00 Nation 16-10 Isurus Gaming
- 00 Nation 16-19 9z Team
00 Nation Map Statistics
- Inferno (4 cards) - 100%
- Ancient (3 cards) - 100%
- Nuke (4 cards) - 75%
- Overpass (3 cards) - 0%
- Vertigo (1 card) - 0%
Conclusion
Here 00 Nation looks like a clear favorite to win for me. Yes, VERTEX have been showing rather confident performances lately, but it's worth understanding that the level of opponents they played against is significantly lower than what 00 Nation will show. All 3 maps where 00 Nation show brilliant performances do not like VERTEX and the Aussies will not be able to outbid all the maps and they will have to play where they do not like. The same can be said about the Brazilians. VERTEX play great on Mirage, Overpass and Vertigo, where 00 Nation don't risk playing again. Nevertheless, due to the fact that the teams are at completely different levels of the game, 00 Nation should win a landslide victory. If we add to this the professional assessment of experts from bookmakers, then the confidence in the exact score of 2-0 in favor of 00 Nation becomes even greater. The odds for such a market is 1.55 and I think that this is the rate that will look best here.
Final bet: 00 Nation to win 2-0 at odds of 1.55
