Gaimin Gladiators vs Xtreme Gaming Prediction: Who Will Leave Tournament?

Prediction for the ESL One Birmingham 2024 match, which will take place on April 23rd. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

The Gladiators are on the verge of failure. They lost to OG (0:2) and had a hard-fought draw with Tundra Esports (1:1), which shows that the team is in a pretty bad spot. Now, all the Gladiators need to do to compete for the playoffs is win a few more games. 

It looks like their problems run deeper than just a slump. After The International 2024, the team decided to keep playing, even though they should've been resting. A loss in the ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023 final against Azure Ray led to poor performances in 2024. The Gladiators haven't dropped below fifth place at Dash 1 tournaments, but that's not what we expected from the second-strongest team in 2023. Group stages are a separate issue for the dyrachyo team. At Elite League, they made the playoffs at the last moment. In DreamLeague Season 22, the second group stage was pretty intense. There was a funny moment with a tormentor that prevented the Gladiators from entering the top four.

The dyrachyo team is unique in that in the playoffs, they can transform and play a completely different, more aggressive playstyle. But the team has been struggling, making a lot of mistakes in both micro and macro play in the group stage. It doesn't matter who comes out against the Gladiators—the point is that the team needs to find a way to win.

The Chinese are also in a tough spot. In Birmingham, Xtreme Gaming started the group stage with two losses to OG and Heroic (0:2 each). They're the main contender for elimination from ESL One Birmingham 2024. 

The Chinese were in some tough fights and could have done better on the first day. Ame didn't get a KDA 2 average per map, and along with Dy, he's getting close to the ESL One Birmingham 2024 individual rankings. Xtreme Gaming's drafts were the same as those in Elite League, but it was hard to adjust to the different approaches from Heroic and OG. XinQ said things like bright lighting and long waits for matches could have affected the team. That's something to think about because any unpleasantness can impact the final result unfavorably.

However, in the match against Gaimin Gladiators, no one will turn on the lights the way Xtreme Gaming needs to. The conditions are the same, and the history of personal meetings shows that the Chinese team did better in 2024. But the Gladiators will try to make up for the loss in the DreamLeague Season 22 final, and it'll be interesting to see if the team can handle such a challenge.

Both teams should be fighting for the playoffs, but after this game, one will surely leave the tournament if they don't get an acceptable result in the first matches of the second game day. It's hard to pick a favorite in this series, but we will definitely see a minimum number of individual errors.