Imperial and Team Outsiders will play their opening match at the IEM Cologne 2022 Play-In. The game will start on the 5th of July at 11:15 UK time.
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Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction #1: OutSiders to win – 1.40.
Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction #2: Total Rounds Over 25.5 – 1.66.
The OutSiders is the favourite for the match. The Russian team must show that they did not make a mistake with the substitutions and can pass the team from the American region.
I think the teams will need at least 26 maps.
Imperial had shown mediocre results before this tournament and was unable to find stability, but has now found optimal form. The team has been in a boot camp for a long time, so it is not surprising that they have found a common ground. We should stress that in the last four games they were successful.
Imperial beat Entropiq (2-1), OutSiders (2-1), and Eternal Fire (2-1). In their last encounter, however, they proved their superiority over Cloud9 with a 2-0 win, playing with substitute k1to. It is worth mentioning that the team does not currently have more than a 60% win rate on any map.
OutSiders is slowly coming back to form. The team does not play as confidently as before but still makes it to the finals of major tournaments. It should be noted that in this championship OutSiders had to deal with such powerful opponents as OG (2:1), ENCE (2:0), and Astralis – 2:1.
In the confrontation with the Astralis, the European mix was defeated on the opening map, but pulled themselves together and won the remaining two maps without too many problems, without giving up more than 11 rounds.
In our opinion, the teams will take to the field with the following line-ups:
Imperial: fnx, FalleN, boltz, fer, VINI.
OutSiders: Jame, Qikert, FL1T, n0rb3r7, fame.
fer from Imperial and Jame from OutSiders are our highlighted players in the match.
Who won the last meeting between these clubs?
The teams have not met each other.
Where will this fixture be played?
The match will be played online.
Which bookmaker has the best odds for this game?
We recommend checking out the odds for Imperial vs OutSiders at Sportsbet.io and VBet.