CDEC Gaming vs Aster.Aries: The Aster will give a serious fight to the favorite

The next game of the Chinese DPC league’s second division will be played on Monday, 26 April. CDEC Gaming are on a championship schedule and should confidently outplay Aster.Aries.

Dota Pro Circuit 2021: S2 - China Lower Division is the second regional DPC league in China. The leagues are divided into first and second divisions, with eight teams taking part in each. In the first division, the battle is on for four majors and a prize pool of $205,000. In the second division, the teams are competing for two places to the elite division for next season and a prize pool of $75,000. The games run from 12 April until 23 May 2021.

The CDEC Gaming team is extremely upset with the results of the second division of the DPC league of the first season. They were extremely close to replaying for the last slot to reach the top division, but the Dalanjing Gaming team was disqualified in the last round and their matches were canceled. You can blame the Whales, of course, but CDEC can be upset only with themselves because they had a real chance to beat RNG and be in the elite of China, but alas.

At the FMWH Dota2 Championship Season 3 off-season tournament, the team was among the participants after passing the qualifications, but in the group, they saw it as the weakest link, until SAG decided to take up the old one - to merge everyone in a row. This circumstance allowed CDEC to calmly enter the playoffs, along the way also beating Vici Gaming, which became the main sensation of the entire group stage, but in the end, the guys were content with only a place in the TOP-8.

The team started the second season of the DPC league as one of the favourites. They beat Xtreme Gaming (2-0), Dragon (2-0) and Demon Slayer (2-0), but will this steady play continue? The toughest games begin for CDEC, which will demonstrate the team’s real strength.

Team Aster.Aries is the youth squad of Team Aster that has been competing in various TIR-3 tournaments in China. Throughout February, the boys competed at the Moon Studio New Year Showdown and made it to the FMWH Dota2 Championship Season 3 tournament via qualification, in which they defeated Team Phoenix 2-0 and 2-1 twice. The young players also put up a good fight against the CDEC team, which, although they lost by a score of 1:2, managed to squeeze one map out. These teams are the leaders of the second division of the DPC league.

The youngsters played great at the FMWH Dota2 Championship Season 3 tournament, finishing in the top 6 of the tournament. The Aster youth team made it to the DPC league through the open qualifiers, confidently taking down several teams. The Aster.Aries team is capable of surprising this season, certainly, they should not be a contender for relegation. Yes, the guys lost to Team MagMa (0-2) and Phoenix Gaming (1-2), but they also surprised with their victory over LBZS (2-1), capable of surprising today.

I expect three maps in this match, so I recommend betting on TO 2.5 maps at odds of 2.32.

Fans of big odds should take note of the exact score of the match - 2-1 in favour of CDEC Gaming, the odds are 3.40.

On the first map, Aster.Aries’ individual kill total will be over 18.5 kills, odds are 1.87.