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We continue our analysis of DPC 2023: EEU Upper Division Tour 3 and now we'll take a betting tip on Team Spirit - UALEIKUMNIHAO. Let's face it, the match is not the most heresy, but certainly important.
The fact is that the race for The International 2023 continues and Team Spirit obviously want to be among the participants who will go directly to the main tournament of the year. To do so, they need to score points in their home league, as Spirit have been blatantly unlucky in the majors.
UALEIKUMNIHAO, on the other hand, would like to retain their place in the top division, and that requires scoring against serious contenders like Team Spirit.
We'll try to see which team will be stronger, and which one will earn the important DPC points.
Let's begin.
Team Spirit uniforms
Let's start with the analysis of Team Spirit's form. They'll play this game as clear favourites.
There's no point in challenging the pre-match position. It's already clear that the Dragons are a few goals better than their future Kazakh counterparts, and the odds on their victory are negligible: somewhere on the level of 1.05.
To be fair, it's more a question of their rivals, rather than Team Spirit themselves. In the 2023 season, the champions of The International 2021 are not playing on 1.05 against worthy opponents.
For the year, Spirit's best result was in the Top 8 at The Lima Major 2023. Spirit managed to get there thanks to a TOP-2 on DPC 2023: Tour I in Eastern Europe, and also in the first round of DPC Spirit played in the commercial event BB Universe Comicz Zone, where they reached the grand final.
In the second round, the Spirit repeated the success of last season, finishing in 2nd place in their home league. However, in the international arena, this time the luck was much less fortunate.
Spirit finished DreamLeague S19 in 9th-10th place, failing to qualify for the second group stage. Before the third round, the Spirit visited the Berlin Major 2023, but there they were disappointed once again: Top 12, failing to make the medal list and earning neither money nor DPC points.
- Team Spirit: Yatoro, Larl, Collapse, Mira, Miposhka.
A little surprisingly, Spirit reached the third round of the DPC without any changes to the line-up. Some changes were called for, but the management decided to bend the line and it seems to be good.
The third round of the DPC will start for Spirit here. The Dragons have not had a match in the third round before.
Team Spirit's most popular characters
Team Spirit's top most-chosen characters are led by Crystal Maiden. The character has appeared in the peak 6 times and has an 83% win rate.
In addition to CM, Disruptor and Underlord are both valued, having been spiked 5 times each with an 80% win rate. There was also Skywrath Mage (4 matches, 100% wins), Doom (4 matches, 75% wins), PL, Viper, Slark, Riki appeared 3 times each and has 100% wins.
There's not much point in looking out for heroes, as Spirit can afford to take liberties in this match. However, I don't believe we'll see anything much different from the default.
UALEIKUMNIHAO uniform
Continuing the review of the match with a parsing of the playing shape of Kazakh team UALEIKUMNIHAO. In this match they are an outsider with a huge lead.
Bookmakers estimate the odds of UALEIKUMNIHAO to win at around 8.5. I think the reasons are clear.
The main reason is that UALEIKUMNIHAO are newcomers to the top DPC division. Spirit, a top-two team in the league and a team with a poor but shaky record in the international arena, means it's obviously not just difficult, but nearly impossible for the Kazakhs to play here.
But it's too early to write them off. Anyway, they finished in TOP-2 in the second division, so they are worthy of something.
- Line-up of UALEIKUMNIHAO: Palantimos, CHIRA_JUNIOR, Shergarat (Vladimiri), B1ka, Mary_y.
That's the line-up with recognizable nicknames. In contrast to Team Spirit, UALEIKUMNIHAO already received some combat experience directly from DPC 2023: EEU Upper Division Tour 3.
The Kazakh team played three matches and lost all three. In one of them, by the way, against 9Pandas, UALEIKUMNIHAO unexpectedly clawed back a card that can be used as a kopium for the following bet on them +1.5. The other two games, against One Move and Nemiga Gaming ended in uncontested defeat.
The most popular UALEIKUMNIHAO characters
The most frequent picks for UALEIKUMNIHAO were Treant Protector (21 matches, 76% wins), Enigma (15 matches, 73% wins), Death Prophet (15 matches, 83% wins), Natures Prophet (12 matches, 83% wins).
There was also Undying (11 matches, 63% wins), Disruptor (10 matches, 70% wins), Rubick (10 matches, 60% wins).
It's hard to estimate what will help UALEIKUMNIHAO beat Spirit. Perhaps again Viper on the tee as it was against 9Pandas, however it is hard to believe all that.
History of UALEIKUMNIHAO - Team Spirit
Previously, the teams have not played each other in official matches. This match will be the teams' debut head-to-head encounter.
Result of the match
Everything was decided in this encounter before it ended. You can, of course, believe in an outcome similar to what we saw with 9Pandas, but, frankly, more faith in a clean win for the Spirit, who need to get points in every match.
Bottom line: a 2-0 win for Spirit.
