Movistar Riders vs. Renegades Preview & Prediction - Free 10/26 CS: GO

Movistar Riders and Renegades will cross paths at the first round of PGL Major Stockholm 2021 Challengers Stage. The tournament has 16 teams and only 8 teams will make it to the Legends Stage.

Movistar Riders Team Stats and Latest Results

Movistar Riders is ranked 15th in the world ranking and has been among the top 30 teams for 4 weeks. The Spanish team played the ESEA Premier Season 38 Europe in September and finished 13-14th. At the same time, they finished 5th at the IEM Fall 2021 Europe, 9-16th at the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2021, and 1-2nd at the ESL Masters Spain Season 10. The team has also qualified for the ESL Masters Spain Season 10 Finals which starts on Nov 12th. Considering their performance in the last 8 matches, they won 6 matches and hold a win rate of 64.7%.

Map performance in the last 3 months shows that the team has been impressive on Inferno (80.0%), Nuke (76.5%), Vertigo (63.2%), and Overpass (57.1%). On the other hand, they failed to impress on Ancient (42.9%), Mirage (25.0%), and Dust2 (0.0%). The team has a line-up that consists of alex (1.09), mopoz (1.06), DeathZz (1.02), SunPayus (1.18), and dav1g (0.89).

Renegades Team Stats and Latest Results

Renegades is ranked 40th in the world ranking and has been among the top 30 teams for 61 weeks. The team was invited to the PGL Major Stockholm 2021 Challengers Stage based on Oceania RMR. Meanwhile, they have attained an excellent performance in their previous events. They finished 7-8th at the ESEA Premier Season 38 Australia, won the DreamHack Open September 2021 Oceania, and also won the IEM Fall 2021 Oceania. At the IEM Fall 2021 Oceania, they were awarded $5,500 plus 2500 RMR Points. In the last 8 matches, they won 7 matches and hold a win rate of 91.7%.

Map statistics over the last 3 months shows that the team has attained an impressive performance on Inferno (100.0%), Mirage (100.0%), Overpass (100.0%), Nuke (83.3%), Vertigo (80.0%), and Dust2 (75.0%). The team roster consists of Sico (1.12), aliStair (1.16), INS (1.26), Hatz (1.07), and malta (1.03).

Movistar Riders vs. Renegades H2H Record

The opponents have never met in any tournament and this will be their first head-to-head encounter.

Movistar Riders vs. Renegades Betting Preview

It is time for the Movistar Riders to take on their foes in this match. The Renegades are coming off an impressive 5-match win streak and will be looking forward to increasing their win streak! It may not seem like much but between these two teams, we should expect more than 2 maps when they cross paths. Renegades has an advantage on 5 maps while Movistar Riders lead on 2 maps and has a 3-match win streak. Based on this, we would advise bettors to go for over 2.5 maps.

The Pick: Over 2.5 maps.