DreamHack Open Anaheim is just around the corner, and just by looking at the team lineups, you’ll know this will be one hell of an event. Day 1 is expected to be very chaotic as it will start with the following matchups:
- MiBR vs Complexity
- North vs ForZe
Head To Head
The above matches are sure to be tense, but if you had to compare them, you’ll realize that the match of the day will be North vs ForZe. These 2 teams have only played each other once before, which was in April 2018, and it resulted in North winning the series 2-1 in their favor. However, their rosters have changed drastically since then and both teams have improved greatly.
Recent Performance
In regards to recent performances, ForZe had an excellent showing in the DreamHack Open Anaheim 2020 European Closed qualifier, winning against strong teams such as Winstrike, CR4ZY, and Heroic.
As for North, their recent results haven’t been extremely promising. In their most recent event, DreamHack Open Leipzig 2020, North won their opening match vs Sprout with a clean 16-4, and later that day lost to MAD Lions 16-10. They had one more chance to qualify for playoffs by playing versus Heroic the following day, but the score resulted in 2-1 in Heroic‘s favor.
Team News
On the 17th of January North revealed that they are bringing back Mathias “MSL” Lauridsen to the starting roster. MSL brought leadership and structure to the danish team, and was also an exceptional awper, so definitely a good pick up for them.
Following their recent performance, on the 11th of February, North decided to bring in Jimmy “Jumpy” Berndtsson as the team’s new head coach. Even though we still haven’t seen any matches from North with their new coach, we can already assume that they have been trying to adapt to their new style as quickly as possible for DreamHack Open Anaheim.
Prediction
ForZe has shown lots of promising results all through 2019, especially in December, grabbing the 1st place at DreamHack Open Winter 2019, and winning matches against Evil Geniuses and Virtus.pro during Epicenter.
Even with North‘s recent roster changes, it doesn’t change the fact that they have been a pretty inconsistent team, especially when playing against the top 5-20 teams in the world. In regards to maps, ForZe has displayed a strong showing on more tactical maps, such as Train, Inferno, and Nuke. Whereas North are more comfortable picking more aim based maps such as Dust 2 and Mirage. No matter the map is chosen, the match is sure to be a great one. The Odds on GGbet are 1.97 for ForZe to win this one.
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