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Match preview · RLG Tesla Cup 2026

B8 vs Alliance — match preview

28 October at 09:00 Oslo · by the CS Edge model

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Best of 3 (LAN)

B8 come in ranked #22 in the world, Alliance #29.

B8 meet Alliance at RLG Tesla Cup 2026. The model has not priced this one yet — it waits for the map veto, because which maps get played moves the number more than anything else on this page. What follows is what we already know about both teams.

B8 — recent form

1 wins in their last 5 matches we covered.

L vs K27 — 1–2 27 October at 09:00

L vs fnatic — 0–2 2 October at 12:00

L vs Luminosity — 0–2 1 October at 12:00

L vs Luminosity — 0–2 22 September at 15:25

W vs M80 — 13–9 17 September at 19:30

Across everything we have covered: B8 won 14 of 21, and our own call was right in 13 of 21.

Alliance — recent form

1 wins in their last 5 matches we covered.

L vs FaZe — 0–2 27 October at 11:55

L vs PRIVATE — 0–2 20 October at 11:00

L vs The MongolZ — 0–2 19 October at 11:00

L vs fnatic — 0–2 3 October at 15:00

W vs Astralis — 2–1 1 October at 17:30

Across everything we have covered: Alliance won 4 of 12, and our own call was right in 4 of 12.

Head to head

No meeting between B8 and Alliance in our records yet — this is the first one we cover.

The map pool

Win, pick and ban rates over the last three months. This is where a series is often decided before it starts — a team can steer the veto onto a map the opponent rarely plays.

B8Alliance
60%5 maps Cache 0%4 maps
67%9 maps Dust2 0%4 maps
46%13 maps Mirage -2 maps
50%6 maps Inferno 44%9 maps
67%3 maps Nuke 67%3 maps
71%7 maps Ancient 50%6 maps

How they veto

The maps each side removes most often. Two teams that ban the same map hand the series to a third one neither wanted.

B8 ban most often: Anubis 86%, Nuke 43%, Cache 36%

Alliance ban most often: Mirage 77%, Cache 44%, Nuke 17%

Line-ups

Player rating: ★ top · high · average · low

B8
★ npl npl1.15
s1zzi s1zzi1.05
kensizor kensizor1.10
esenthial esenthial1.13
alex666 alex6660.97
Alliance
upE upE0.86
bobeksde bobeksde0.98
avid avid0.91
★ eraa eraa1.06
twist twist0.93

When the prediction goes up

Our call publishes before kickoff, never after — that is the whole point of keeping a public record. When it does, this page fills in with the probability for each team, the per-map calls once the veto is done, and afterwards the result and whether we were right.

More on these teams

All B8 predictions and results
All Alliance predictions and results

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Statistical model estimates, published for entertainment. Match data: HLTV.org.