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Match preview · Stake Ranked Episode 4

Luminosity vs BIG — match preview

2 October at 17:00 Oslo · by the CS Edge model

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Best of 3 (LAN)

Luminosity come in ranked #30 in the world, BIG #27.

Luminosity meet BIG at Stake Ranked Episode 4. 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.

Luminosity — recent form

3 wins in their last 5 matches we covered.

W vs B8 — 2–0 1 October at 12:00

L vs 3DMAX — 2–3 23 September at 18:45

W vs B8 — 2–0 22 September at 15:25

W vs BBL — 2–0 19 September at 13:00

L vs B8 — 11–13 17 September at 15:20

Across everything we have covered: Luminosity won 6 of 12, and our own call was right in 8 of 12.

BIG — recent form

2 wins in their last 5 matches we covered.

W vs fnatic — 2–1 1 October at 14:30

L vs G2 — 1–2 9 September at 10:10

L vs BETBOOM — 0–2 8 September at 11:30

L vs magic — 0–2 3 September at 14:00

W vs paiN — 2–0 2 September at 21:00

Across everything we have covered: BIG won 5 of 11, and our own call was right in 7 of 11.

Head to head

No meeting between Luminosity and BIG 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.

LuminosityBIG
-2 maps Cache 67%9 maps
29%7 maps Dust2 67%3 maps
80%5 maps Mirage 25%8 maps
57%7 maps Inferno 62%8 maps
57%7 maps Nuke 67%3 maps
67%6 maps Ancient 50%10 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.

Luminosity ban most often: Cache 67%, Anubis 59%, Mirage 41%

BIG ban most often: Anubis 54%, Nuke 53%, Dust2 38%

Line-ups

Player rating: ★ top · high · average · low

Luminosity
lux lux1.01
AZUWU AZUWU1.00
Rainwaker Rainwaker1.09
★ afro afro1.15
★ yxngstxr yxngstxr1.15
BIG
tabseN tabseN1.06
faveN faveN1.00
★ blameF blameF1.19
gr1ks gr1ks1.10
JDC JDC1.03

Also at Stake Ranked Episode 4 that day

B8 vs fnatic 2 October at 14:30

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 Luminosity predictions and results
All BIG predictions and results

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