T1 vs Nigma Galaxy SEA Prediction: The favorite must turn on

On Thursday, June 16, the second game week of the Southeast Asia Regional DPC Dota 2 League's third round will continue. The only match of the next game day will be between T1 and Nigma Galaxy SEA.

DPC SEA 2021/2022 Tour 3: Division I is an online Dota 2 tournament that will run from June 08 to July 14, 2022. Eight of the strongest teams from the Southeast Asian region will compete for $205,000. In addition to cash prizes, teams will fight for three major titles and the important DPC points needed to qualify for T11.

T1's first game of the summer tour was a bit awkward. The favorite lost the match to a player from the second division, emphasizing their incredible decline, which is simply visible to the naked eye. The guys had the same kind of start in the spring, so it shouldn't come as a surprise. Fortunately, in the spring, T1 was quickly included and took the top 3, and this summer, it is desirable to be included already with the game against Nigma Galaxy SEA. Otherwise, it will be difficult to save this split.

After their successful performance at The International 2021 (7-8th place), the T1 team is consistently in the top 3 of their region, but with each round, it becomes more and more difficult to stay in the lead. At the end of the winter and spring rounds of the regional league, T1 was third in the table. In winter, they were second in the regional finals, and in spring, they went to the Majors in Sweden, where they performed rather poorly because many people are used to T1's stable good performance in lanes and Europe in general. But that was before TI10...

The players returned home to rest after a disappointing departure (9-12th place) from the majors. It is unlikely that any of them spent much time preparing strategies ahead of not the most important tour. However, the summer DPC points are needed for the team to not worry about their participation in TI11.

T1 didn't start playing the DPC league in the spring, so I don't expect a perfect Dota on the favorite's first or second map. You can see that this T1 squad is tired, and the results of the guys are declining. The cardinal replacements are coming, but most likely, their bosses will hold them only after TI11, where the result on the major can already be perceived as unsatisfactory, the more so the tournament will be held in Singapore, in front of the native audience.

Nigma Galaxy SEA stands out very negatively among Asian elite teams. Arab sheiks well sponsor the Singapore squad, but the results are not paying off so far. It's clear that Nigma Galaxy is more interesting with its European roster, and they've left the Asian squad as a reference to the past. The team's backbone has been together for a long time, but the results are far from impressive, although the team solved its main task in the spring - to remain in the elite, ranked fifth.

To perform better, the team made one substitution. A 29-year-old Thai player named Boombui did not want to go down to the second division with his previous team, Motivate.Trust Gaming came to the position of the fifth. The guy had quite a few successful dashes to 2-3 Asian tournaments in 2019-2020, so this boosts Nigma Galaxy SEA.

In the opening game of the summer tour, the Asian Nigma Galaxy SEA lost in an equal struggle to the collective Fnatic (1:2). Still, for that match, this squad can not berate itself because it was a battle with one of the favorites of the entire region. The subsequent game was against a fundamentally important opponent Polaris Esports, which were overcome with a score of 2-1. Talon (1:2) was another crucial opponent, but Asian Nigma Galaxy SEA could not defeat their opponent, suffering their second defeat of the season. Remarkably, they looked extremely weak in the game, although they took the second map. With T1, I don't expect these guys to win…

T1 team should be highly motivated, so I advise to take their victory with a handicap (-1.5) on the maps; the odds for this are 1.86.

On the first map, I expect from the teams Over 48.5 frags for 1.80.

T1 will win the second map with a handicap (-11.5) frags for 1.81.

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