Some matches you feel, some you count. For Imperial vs BESTIA at BetBoom Storm Season 4 we did the counting: world ranking, three months of form, head-to-head and every map either team can realistically play.
✅ Nuke strength: 77% winrate over 13 maps is a strong tactical pick
✅ Reliably steers the veto to Mirage (61% pick rate)
✅ Strong recent form: 15 wins in last 21 (71%) shows momentum
❌ Practically never plays Ancient (100% banned), reducing veto flexibility
✅ Mirage strength: 80% winrate over 5 maps is a strong tactical pick
✅ Reliably steers the veto to Dust2 (94% pick rate)
✅ Strong recent form: 14 wins in last 21 (68%) shows momentum
❌ Only 33% winrate on Inferno over 6 maps — exploitable in the veto
❌ Heavy Anubis ban usage (82% bans) limits their map bargaining
❌ Weak head-to-head (20% versus Imperial) undermines matchup confidence
Imperial and BESTIA have met 10 times in the period we track — Imperial 8, BESTIA 2.
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.
Nuke — BESTIA's pick
Inferno — Imperial's pick
Mirage — the decider
All Imperial predictions and results
All BESTIA predictions and results
Statistical model estimates, published for entertainment. Match data: HLTV.org.