Team Aster vs Entity Gaming Prediction: the Opponents to Share the Points

The group stage of The International 2022 kicks off on Saturday, October 16. Team Aster and Entity Gaming will face each other in the first games of the tournament.

The International 2022 is the year's main event in the cybersports discipline of Dota 2. This year's top 20 teams will battle it out in Singapore from October 15-30, 2022. The prize fund of the eleventh tournament in the tournament's history is more than 14 million dollars.

It took the Chinese organization a long time to find the optimal lineup to achieve great results. The Stars performed excellently at domestic tournaments and regional DPC leagues, but at the majors and The International Series events, it was as if the players were being replaced. They struggled to make it out of the group stages and stayed outside the top 8. But that changed dramatically in 2022 with the arrival of Ori and Siamese. The team's results didn't deteriorate inside China, but Aster rose solidly at the last major in Arlington. The Stars finished in the top 3 of the tournament, losing only to the eventual winner Team Spirit. At ESL One Malaysia, the team reached the finals a little later, losing in Wo5 to OG.

Team Aster's style appeals to spectators who like to see hard-core players tearing up the entire map. Monet was in space form at Arlington and was a top-3 player in the tournament on a vast pool of farming heroes. BoBoKa remembered his second youth, and now the meta is favorable for his signature Earth Spirit.

In the first match in Singapore, Team Aster made peace with Tundra Esports, which had problems a couple of months ago. So far, the Chinese are playing high-damage strategies, practically ignoring the characters with a save. A lot of emphasis is put on farming Monet, and if you manage to stop his farming, it becomes much easier to play against the Stars. Since Entity practices non-standard characters in main roles with early-game options, the Chinese will have to work hard in space for their carry.

Fishman has been working very hard on his game for a couple of years now. He's now the captain of a ruthless team that has rolled through the European indoor qualifiers for The International 11. Entity Gaming has not lost a single card, preventing Team Liquid and Team Secret from qualifying for Singapore directly.

The team has been in good shape since the summer. At the PGL Arlinghton Major 2022 and ESL One Malaysia, they finished in 5th-6th place, which is not bad for a team with tier-2-level names. No one previously believed in Stormstormer, but on signature Batrider and Invoker he performs cool stuff and often wins the midrange against better-known opponents. But the main weapon in Entity Gaming's arsenal right now is a young and hungry to win Pure. After the scandalous kicking from Virtus.pro Fishman believed in the Russian carry, and he justifies himself. In 63 maps his win rate is 66%, his average KDA is 6.63, and his Shadow Fiend has become a qualification nightmare and a new meta for his position mates. That's the kind of demon the Belarusian captain has up his sleeve.

In the meeting against beastcoast Entity Gaming was not shy in its choice of heroes, preferring to build an aggressive style of play through active characters. Fishman was already picking for Pure Pudge and Slardar, Naga Siren for Tobi, and Sven for Kataomi. Obviously, the Belorussian was preparing such strategies for the tournament, but had already experienced problems once in the mid-game and was unable to coordinate his comrades for a cummerbund. In the group stage, the teams are fumbling for the mark, so Dmitry will show the audience more than one more interesting preparation. Only Team Aster is much stronger than the Brazilians, which means that the punishment for mistakes in the drafts will be faster and tougher.

The teams play with fundamentally different styles. The European team takes more risks, while the Chinese team plays according to a well-established script. Entity Gaming can pick up one map in the series and draw the series. Both teams are averaging over 25 fractions per map. It can be assumed that for the two cards, total kills will hit the mark of 97.5.