Xtreme Gaming vs Wildcard Gaming Prediction: Chinese to have no problems

The last chance qualifier for The International 2022 begins on Saturday, October 8. Xtreme Gaming and Wildcard Gaming will battle it out in the second round of group stage.

The International 2022: Last Chance Qualifier is a qualifier for The International 2022, the year's main event in Dota 2. Twelve teams from around the world will be competing for two slots in the main tournament. Last Chance Qualifier, like the entire TheInternational 2022 tournament, is a LAN tournament that will take place in Singapore.

Xtreme Gaming: a passable game for the Chinese

Team Liquid is a much more formidable opponent for Xtreme Gaming than this American team Wildcard Gaming. Though for these two teams it will be the first international LLAN under these tags, you should always remember what big names will come to the server to represent this particular Chinese team. I do not see a chance for the Americans, the easiest 2-0 from the favorite, which to the final match, on this game day, with Virtus.pro will come as much as possible unscathed.

Xtreme Gaming is still the main Chinese mystery, because this squad has not yet played in any international tournament this season. Moreover, this tag is newly formed and the last chance qualifier is the first international test for these players under the Xtreme Gaming brand. That said, this team has real masterminds of the game with tremendous experience. Just look at one mid laner Paparazi or the experienced trio of old eLeVeN, let's not forget about the most experienced pair of supports in the face of Pyw and Dy. The only weak link of Xtreme Gaming is young carry lou who joined the top team for the first time.

Xtreme Gaming DPC began the 2021/22 cycle in the second division. In the Winter Regional League, the team became the champion among the second echelon squads of China and got a ticket to the elite. After that, the team strengthened with old eLeVeN and carry lou. With the new roster, the team shone at the Intel World Open Beijing (2nd place) and OGA Dota PIT Season 6: China (1st place).

Xtreme Gaming started the spring round of the regional league as one of the favorites. In the spring, the team finished second and third in the regional finals, which were staged in China due to teams from that region missing the Swedish major. In the summer, the Chinese team finished third in their league, but due to visa issues, Xtreme Gaming declined to participate in the American major and fully prepared all summer for the Chinese regional qualification for TI11. In the qualification itself, Xtreme Gaming reached the final, where they lost without a chance to RNG (0-3). At the Last Chance Qualifier, the Chinese squad of Xtreme Gaming is the main contender for one of the two slots in the group stage of TI11.

Wildcard Gaming: trying to show what they got

Wildcard Gaming is a solid middling in the North American region for whom participating in The International 2022: Last Chance Qualifier is a historic achievement. Wildcard Gaming is a North American eSports organization that decided to break into Dota 2 in December 2021. WG acquired the D2 Hustlers squad, which had a good track record in the North American arena.

This team had a real opportunity to grab a top 3 in the first and second regional leagues, but WG lacked somewhere experience, and somewhere luck in these regional battles at the end of the season. And in the end, the team settled for only fifth place in the winter and 4th place in the spring. The squad fell just a little short of qualifying for the regional finals and the major, but continued to play in the same lineup, moving toward their main goal of qualifying for TI11.

The American squad finished the summer tour of the elite regional DPC league in fifth place, once again being left out of the International, and even more so, the home major. The guys from WG obviously worked on their mistakes and did their best to get into the Top 3 of the regional qualifiers for TI11, and they did it! But we'll be frank, this is the main outsider of the current Last Chance Qualifier.

Head-to-head encounters

The teams haven’t played each other yet.

Expert Betting Tips

Xtreme Gaming will win both maps, and you can be confident betting on Xtreme Gaming’s Frags Handicap (-34.5) for 1.83 at 1xbet.

We expect Xtreme Gaming to contribute to Frags Total Over (95.5) for 1.83 at Bet365.