Match Prediction: Team Falcons - BetBoom Team | Dota 2
ESL One Birmingham 2024Welcome to EGamersWorld.
Big Dota 2 is back on our screens after a rather lengthy hiatus. It's back with the ESL One Birmingham matches.
ESL One Birmingham 2024 will feature 16 teams playing, which will be split into 2 teams. They will end up playing for $1,000,000 and ESL Pro Tour points. Among the participants are Team Falcons and BB, who will play in the first round of Group A.
We'll be looking into whether either team can earn a win in the bo2 series or if it will end in a draw.
Let's go.
Falcons Form
We open our match analysis with an analysis of the Falcons' form. The best team in the world will play in this match as favourites with odds to win at around 2.4.
Falcons are a Saudi club that is preparing to conquer esports as a whole. The process is still underway, but even this Dota lineup is already hinting at plans to stay here for a long time.
In general, the tag is not new, but they were not able to achieve special fame. All they did was to play at the local Saudi eLeague. They played there in 2020, with TOP-6 and in 2021, with TOP-3 and TOP-1 respectively.
After a pause of a year, decided to return to the professional scene after Valve cancelled the DPC system. Burst in with a bang.
When assembling the roster, they went with the "golden roster" principle. We managed to snatch two Tundra Esports players and The International 2023 champions Skiter and Sneyking, Cr1t, who previously played for Shopify Rebellion and previously for EG, ATF, who showed good performance last season in PSG Quest and before that in Nigma with OG, and closed everything with promising mid laner Marl1ne.
In the MENA region, where Falcons are based, this squad has no competition even at the skilla level. As it happens, the Falcons have already clinched their ticket to Kuala Lumpur 2023.
First, they passed the open qualification without any difficulty, and then, again without much trouble, slammed the closed part of the qualifiers. In the final, by the way, they beat PSG Quest by a score of 3-1. What one and two are doing in the MENA region is not entirely clear, but come on.
At Pinnacle: 25 Year Anniversary Show Falcons look very confident so far, which is to be expected. They have already earned their place in the play-offs by coming out of Group B in first place without losing a single game in three matches.
The Falcons started their appearance in the Pinnacle play-offs: 25 Year Anniversary Show with a first round match against Level Up. An easy win took the Falcons to The dudley boys and there the Falcons got their first and only loss of the tournament. They were beaten by The dudley boys, who were given a rematch by the Falcons in the grand final.
In the end, the Pinnacle: 25 Year Anniversary Show Falcons took first place and earned $50,000. The triumph at the local championship was the Falcons' first win in the discipline. But not the last.
After winning at Pinnacle, Falcons finished top 6 at ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023 and then started to dominate. In 2024, they won 3 qualifiers: at BB Dacha, at DreamLeague Season 22 and ESL One Birmingham at their home in the MENA region.
Just before competing at DL Season 22, Falcons became BB Dacha champions, earning $400,000.
After the Falcons played at DreamLeague Season 22. They showed the highest level of play and pocketed another trophy by beating BB 3-0 in the grand finals. They also made it to the Elite League finals, but they couldn't win there: Xtreme Gaming were stronger and won the final 3-1.
The most popular Falcons heroes
Io (6 matches, 66% of wins), Death Prophet (5 matches, 60% of wins), Chen (5 matches, 60% of wins), Dawnbreaker (4 matches, 75% of wins), Earth Spirit (4 matches, 75% of wins) appeared most often in spades.
BB Team uniforms
We continue our match breakdown with an analysis of BB Team's match form. In this match, they will play as an outsider at odds of 4.
In the first season of the regional league BB Team were ranked in the top 1, very confidently running over their main opponents Spirit and HR. However, the success was quickly overshadowed by their performance at Lima Major 2023, where BB failed to make it out of the group.
A few inconclusive events later, BB Team began play in the second division of the DPC. This time the situation changed dramatically, from top 1 to top 3, but on the international stage everything was stable: another failure to get out of the group at the Major e.
The third season of DPC was held under the slogan "it's time to get back", but somehow it didn't work out, something didn't go well and in the end - TOP-2. Again, kind of significant, but if we compare Western and Eastern Europe, TOP-2 in the first case is much more prestigious than BB's achievement.
- BB Team composition: Nightfall, gpk, MieRo, Save, TORONTOTOKYO.
BB Team's moment of glory was DreamLeague Season 20. Having got to the tournament quite by chance (they replaced Execration), the Eastern European residents managed to make it to the grand final of the tournament, where they beat Gladiators, but eventually lost with the score 2-3.
After a solid group stage at The Bali Major 2023 with a 4-2-2 from BB, Eastern European Resident made it to the top set of play-offs. There the team outplayed Tundra Esports, but due to a tournament rules violation that result was cancelled. As a result, Bali Major 2023 ended for BB Team in the top 12.
After the last Major tournament of the season BB Team attended a number of other events. Among them is the Riyadh Masters 2023. At the biggest commercial tournament of the season, BB Team made it to the top 6, which is pretty good.
In addition to the Riyadh Masters 2023 BB Team also made an appearance at the BB Dacha. The tournament from the main sponsor BB Club finished without having started: BB Team failed to get out of the group and as a result finished in the top 8.
In the group stage of DreamLeague Season 21 BB Team played in Group B. They managed to take the 2nd place, passing only Team Spirit.
BB visited The International 2023. Then the team managed to reach the top 6, but they were knocked out of the tournament by Azure Ray.
At ESL Kuala Lumpur 2023 BB played the group stage neutrally, playing all matches in a draw. This allowed them to advance to the play-offs, where BB looked much better than they did in the group: 2-0 against Tundra Esports and 2-0 against G2.IG. However, BB Team went on to face Team Liquid and ended up in the top 4. Next BB Team played at BB Dacha Dubai 2024, where they reached the Top 3.
At the end of the first day of games at DreamLeague Season 22 BB Team took the first place in their group. They won against GG and played a draw with Vp. Further the situation for BB was not worse: on the second day they closed Azure Ray with the score 2-0. Despite two draws on the third day, this did not prevent them from advancing to the second group stage of the tournament.
BB Team started the second stage of DreamLeague Season 22 with victories from OG, Xtreme Gaming and Shopify Rebellion. As a result, they reached the grand finals, where they were run over by Falcons with a score of 3-0. Things were much worse at Elite League: Top 12.
The most popular BB Team characters
The most used BB Team character remains Storm Spirit (5 matches, 60% wins). The team also plays with Primal Beast and Pugna at position 4, and both heroes have 4 matches and 100% wins each. In spades was Enchantress (4 matches, 25% wins), Beastmaster (4 games, 0% wins).
History of head-to-head meetings between BB Team and Falcons
This will be the 6th face-to-face meeting between the teams. Previously 4 matches were won by Falcons, and only 1 game ended in a draw.
Predicted result of the match Falcons - BB Team at ESL One Birmingham 2024
In this match my sympathies are on the side of Falcons. They are much more stable than BB, have a good understanding of meta, can play sticky and therefore will earn the win. Also, they have been beating BB Team consistently.
Bottom line: Falcons win.
Team Falcons is the 1st team of the world ranking. The Arab organisation took Skiter, ATF, Malrine, Cr1t and Sneyknig under its wing. They had no difficulties in qualifying for ESL One Kuala Lumpur, passing both open and closed qualifications without defeat. Only Quest Esports managed to compete with them in the decisive match for a slot, but they couldn't stop them. But unfortunately at the tournament they reached only 5th place, but considering that it was only the first major tournament for the team, it was a pretty good result. Qualifications for BB Dacha Dubai are going well for the organisation. The only slot goes to them. In the same manner are the qualifications for DreamLeague Season 22. And the qualifications for ESL One Birmingham 2024 are also unchanged. Everywhere they take the only slot. Extremely well perform at BB Dacha, where they manage to beat all the tops and be at the top of the table. DreamLeague Season 22 was no exception, where the team won again. At Elite League they could not get the trophy again, they lost in the final to XG.
BetBoom Team is the 3rd team of the world ranking. Extremely stable performance shows the organisation at the last major tournaments, but just a little bit short of the coveted championship. At BB Dacha Dubai they won the 3rd place, which is very worthy. At DreamLeague Season 22 they showed even more convincing performance, earning the 2nd place in the final table. Elite League was not the best. They got only 12th place, but it's not surprising. The team didn't prepare for the tournament at all, as they said afterwards.
It is not known how responsibly the teams will approach the tournament, but considering that both organisations are not guaranteed to qualify for the Riyadh, I assume that we will see some effort. I think I can see a BB head-to-head.
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Prediction: +1.5 BetBoom!
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Bookmakers & Statistics
All bookmakers have agreed that Team Falcons is the favorite. This can be noticed because odds on them are 3.55. This number in the favor of BetBoom Team amounts 5.843. Respectively, the last ones are the underdogs of the upcoming match.
What the team performance statistics say
Last Matches | Team Falcons | BetBoom Team |
5 matches (wins) | 3 | 2 |
10 matches (wins) | 7 | 2 |
It will also be necessary to mention the history of face-to-face meetings between the opponents. The competitors have held 5 matches. In these matches Team Falcons won 5 times, BetBoom Team active consisits of 0 wins.