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We continue to keep an eye on what's happening at ESL Pro League Season 20. The International is all about what's going on in the group stage.
To be more specific, we are watching the games in Group D. There the second "middle" group is getting ready for the second "middle" group, which will be opened by FURIA - Red Canids.
Derby of Brazilian teams promises to be hot and "dirty" in terms of performance. Let's try to understand how this match will end and who will make it to the next round of the ESL Pro League "middle grid", and who will have to fall into the net of the last chance.
Let's go.
FURIA Form.
Let's open the FURIA vs Red Canids match with an analysis of FURIA's form. In this match they play the number one side with odds to win at around 1.2.
Furia have travelled to over 10 tournaments over the year, but the successes have been mediocre. Their most high-profile win was a Top 1 at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: American RMR, which gave them a mark at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023.
Furia finished the only Major of the season on a Minor note. G2 Esports failed to rise above the top 16. The misfortunes of the Brazilians did not end there.
Before the ESL Pro League Long Season, the team failed the following events: IEM Masters Dallas 2023 (TOP-12), Thunderpick World Championship 2023 (TOP-16), and Gamers8 2023 (TOP-16).
- FURIA line-up: yuurih, skullz, KSCERATO, FalleN, chelo.
Just before the ESL Pro League Season 18 Long Round, FURIA played at Pinnacle Cup V, where they managed to reach the Top 2. This was the most breakthrough result since the American RMR.
At ESL Pro League Season 18 FURIA played in Basket A. They got to the bottom net after the first round, and from there they went to the last chance net after the second round. There they cameback, defeating Grayhound and GamerLegion, thus getting their slot in the play-offs.
However, they didn't manage to play in the play-offs. In the first round FURIA ran into MOUZ, who became the champions of the prestigious event. As you have already guessed, FURIA lost and with a score of 0-2.
Next, the Brazilians played at a few more events. It was BLAST Premier: Fall American Showdown, with a top-4 for FURIA after losing to Complexity, and also BGS Esports 2023, with a win there.
FURIA entered the Roobet Cup 2023 play-offs pretty confident. They won Group A, ending their two matches with a win.
In the opening match of the Roobet Cup 2023 play-offs FURIA played against Apeks. The Europeans put up a fight, twice taking 11 rounds per card, but it wasn't enough: Furia won 2-0.
Next, FURIA faced Vp in the semi-finals, where they finished their journey to Roobet Cup 2023. After a top-4 finish there, they repeated the result at PARI, Please.
In their opening match at Elisa Masters Espoo 2023, FURIA started with a win over Complexity. Next was a play-offs match against Apeks, where the Brazilians failed to build on their success and lost 0-2.
In the final match of the group stage FURIA played against MOUZ. Being the underdog, the Brazilians managed to oust one of the main contenders to win the Elisa Masters Espoo and qualify for the play-offs. In the end, FURIA performed very well and took the tournament championship by beating Apeks (3-1) in the grand final.
Next were BB Dacha where FURIA finished top-6, top-24 at IEM Katowice 2024, top-6 at RES Western European Masters: Spring 2024 and then qualifiers for top tournaments. And if at the qualifiers for IEM Dallas Furia was unlucky, they lost in the final 9z, but at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: American RMR the team managed to win and qualify for the PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major from the American region.
At the tournament itself, FURIA are looking pretty bad so far. FalleN and company lost to their former teammate coldzera in Legacy, as well as Lynn Vision, and managed to win only against KOI, who have already left the championship.
In the next match at PGL CS 2 Copenhagen Major 2024 FURIA beat ENCE. And they beat ENCE 2-0, without much of a chance. In the match for the Elimination Stage they beat sAw, but then they failed to control: at the end of the Elimination Stage Furia won 2-3 and left the World Championship.
Before the ESL Pro League Season 19, FURIA played at IEM China 2024, where they finished top-12. In the first round of ESL Pro League Season 19 FURIA opened with a match against Liquid and Ledge played the Americans with the score 1-2. Then - even more The International heresnier: match against forZe, where FURIA being the favourite went 0-2, and also lost their peak with the score 0-13. In the next match they met BNK and at least there they won on class. However, they failed to reach the top 20.
Before playing at EWC 2024, they played at several Minor CCT tournaments, where they didn't achieve much. At the Esports World Cup 2024 they performed very well, reaching the play-offs and taking the card from MOUZ.
IEM Cologne 2024 FURIA started from the Play-In stage, where they first beat Imperial, but then Ledge and Liquid in the match for the group stage. However, they managed to qualify at the second attempt after defeating Heroic. In the first match of the group stage Ledge and Vitality, and later they left the championship at the TOP-16, Ledge defeated Team Liquid in the decisive match.
ESL Pro League Season 20 FURIA started with a win over Falcons (2-1), but then Ledge and Vitality (0-2).
FURIA Mapple
Vertigo remains FURIA's best map, the Brazilians have played there 5 times and won in 3 maps. Next comes Mirage, already with 7 games and 4-3 stats.
Neutral choice for Furia will be Nuke and Ancient. There the Brazilians have 6 maps and the score is 3-3 on each.
The worst is Overpass (2-3) and Inferno (1-2).
Red Canids uniforms
We continue the match analysis with an analysis of the Red Canids' form. In this match they are playing as an outsider with odds to win at around 4.2.
Red Canids have played in a lot of online tournaments and qualifiers. Red Canids were ranked Top 8 at EPL S17: SA Conference - Open Qualifier, Top 16 at IEM Rio 2023: SA Open Qualfiier, Top 16 at CCT South America Serie #4.
In February this year Red Canids finished TOP-8 at TG Masters Spring 2023 and TOP-4 at CCT South America Series #5, which can be called the best result for the year.
- Red Canids roster: DeStiNy, hardzao, nython, dav1deuS, venomzera.
In the middle of the year Red Canids played in a number of tournaments, where they showed good, as for themselves, results. I'm talking about TOP-4 at ESL Brasil Premier League Season 14, TOP-2 at Dust2 Brasil Liga Season 1.
Before appearing at CCT Online Finals #5, Red Canids won Copa BetBoom 2023 and EPL World Series: Americas Season 4. There were still less successful CBCS Invitational 2023 and CBCS 2023 Season 3, Top 8 and Top 4 respectively.
CCT Online Finals #5 Red Canids faced off against Into The Breach. One of the fastest progressing teams of the year, ITB won 2-0. Next, Red Canids faced off against Vortex and eventually knocked them out of the tournament, winning their match 2-0.
Next, Red Canids played against Sprout. Being the underdogs in that match, the Brazilians unexpectedly outplayed their opponents, and did so with a score of 2-0. However, they failed to move further into the top 8.
In the 2024 season, the Brazilian club played a lot, but mostly in TIR-2 tournaments. These included RES, CBCS and other tournaments. Everywhere somewhere in the middle of the standings and only occasionally, as in the EPL World Series: Americas Season 7, managed to take the top 1.
ESL Pro League Season 20 Long Co-headlined with a loss to Vp (0-2) and then won against ENCE (1-2).
Red Canids Mapple
Red Canids' best team is Mirage. They played 12 matches and won 9 of them.
Next was Overpass with 8 matches and 5 wins. Nuke (7 matches, 4 wins), Inferno (9 matches, 5 wins). Worse goes to Ancient with 3 wins in 6 matches, and worst of all was Anubis. His Red Canids have been picked 7 times, but have played with a winrate of 42%.
Not playing on Vertigo.
History of head-to-head meetings between FURA and Red Canids
Previously the teams have not played each other in official matches.
Predicted result of Red Canids vs FURIA at ESL Pro League Season 20
On paper FURIA is a few goals higher than Red Canids, and in reality they should have no problems. Red Canids managed to pull out a win in this EPL match against ENCE, and FURIA outplayed Falcons. All in all, I see a clean win for FURIA here.
Bottom line: 2-0 win for FURIA.
