Team Spirit vs Deboosters Prediction: Warm-up game for TI10 champions

On Wednesday, July 20, the first game day of a charity Dota 2 tournament in the UAE will kick off with a hefty $4,000,000 prize pool. Team Spirit and Deboosters will play in one of the matches of the second wave of the first game day.

The Riyadh Masters 2022 is a Dota 2 LAN tournament that will take place July 20-24, 2022. The ten strongest teams from around the world will compete for $4,000,000. In addition to cash prizes, the teams will have an international show of strength before the U.S. majors start in early August.

Team Spirit should not be fooling around in this tournament. The TI10 champions are not showing their best game form right now, and there's no better place to pick it up than here. The strongest team in the world was in fact only in January and February, where in the CIS league they were simply tearing everyone apart. The first problems came during the spring tour. But let's face it, the world situation had a strong effect on the team, and the regional league held in a hurry was mostly overcome and Team Spirit went to the majors in Sweden.

But at the first international event of the year, the Spirits failed. The 9-12th place was really deserved, because what the CIS team demonstrated at that tournament was a collapse, which was emphasized by the players themselves, promising not to make such mistakes in the summer. It is noteworthy that the winner of TI10 has not yet been guaranteed a place in the next International, so the upcoming major is extremely important for Spirits.

And the players of Team Spirit were selected for the second major from the third lane of the summer regional league, where they lost in the replay first to VP, and then to NaVi. The game of this team continues to be very unstable, so it is important for the guys to improve it right in the UAE, so as not to get another failure in the Majors, a ticket to the TI10 quals and not to get inadvertently knocked out by some Mind Games.

Deboosters is a local Arabic team that often invites big European players before a big tournament. This time Malik from PuckChamp from Kazakhstan will play for the home team at the Riyadh Masters 2022. He'll be assisted by Bulgarian carry PLEB, who has never played in the top teams, so it's probably not a true "help".

If the Arab team wins at least a map against anyone, that would be fantastic. In fact, it is not clear why the organizers let such a weak team to the tournament with the world's top. Do you want to see your own team? So Arabian sheiks sponsor European Nigma, why not invite them? But the current Deboosters line-up looks like a fancy punching bag for an athlete, and it'll get a good kicking from the whole Group B.

The first map will not please with frags, so bet on Total Under 45.5 frags for 1.80. I don't believe in the Arab team's ability to make many frags of Team Spirit players at all.

On the second map, there will be another Under, so bet on Total Under 45.5 frags for 1.80.