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Match preview · Stake Ranked Episode 5

magic vs BIG — match preview

27 October at 12:00 Oslo · by the CS Edge model

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Best of 3 (LAN)

magic come in ranked #26 in the world, BIG #37.

magic meet BIG at Stake Ranked Episode 5. 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.

magic — recent form

1 wins in their last 5 matches we covered.

L vs The MongolZ — 0–2 21 October at 11:10

W vs Liquid — 2–0 20 October at 14:00

L vs PARIVISION — 0–2 19 October at 19:20

L vs GamerLegion — 0–2 28 September at 13:00

L vs Ninjas in Pyjamas — 1–2 27 September at 17:20

Across everything we have covered: magic won 9 of 21, and our own call was right in 10 of 21.

BIG — recent form

3 wins in their last 5 matches we covered.

L vs PARIVISION — 0–2 21 October at 17:05

W vs The MongolZ — 2–0 20 October at 16:20

W vs PRIVATE — 2–0 19 October at 14:10

L vs Astralis — 1–2 3 October at 12:00

W vs fnatic — 2–1 1 October at 14:30

Across everything we have covered: BIG won 7 of 15, and our own call was right in 10 of 15.

Head to head

These two have met once in matches we covered.

W vs BIG — 2–0 3 September at 14:00

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.

magicBIG
60%5 maps Cache 54%13 maps
56%9 maps Dust2 50%4 maps
14%7 maps Mirage 50%10 maps
50%6 maps Inferno 75%8 maps
-0 maps Nuke 67%3 maps
50%18 maps Ancient 43%7 maps
25%4 maps Anubis -0 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.

magic ban most often: Nuke 92%, Cache 30%, Anubis 23%

BIG ban most often: Anubis 44%, Nuke 42%, Dust2 38%

Line-ups

Player rating: ★ top · high · average · low

magic
★ lattykk lattykk1.20
sFade8 sFade80.91
MaSvAl MaSvAl1.04
AW AW0.96
tenzy tenzy1.08
BIG
tabseN tabseN0.99
faveN faveN1.02
★ blameF blameF1.22
gr1ks gr1ks1.11
JDC JDC1.00

Also at Stake Ranked Episode 5 that day

Inner Circle vs Nemesis 27 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.

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