Selectah vs. Team Excellency Preview & Prediction - Free CS:GO Betting Picks 7/27

Selectah and Excellency will meet in the swiss round 1 of the Nine to Five 2, and Excellency is a strong favorite in this best of three map clash. These sides have never met before.

The Russian team Selectah is the youngest team at this tournament as they formed only a couple of days ago and didn’t play a single match so far. Still, except for Raven, who doesn’t have previous CS:GO experience, all the other players of the lineup represented other teams in the past.

Although Excellency is not a very experienced team, we do know a lot more about them. The European side beat Orgles5 and Lilmix in the qualifying stage to reach the main event, and they are favorites to start it with a victory. Excellency won three two of the previous six matches and has a 33.3% win rate in the last three months. During that period, Excellency didn’t suffer a loss on Vertigo and played well on Train (60.0%), while they are winless on Overpass and Dust2, and were not good enough on Inferno (25.0%).

Pick: Excellency to win (-189 @PINNACLE)

We don’t have information about Selectah and I don’t think they will get a victory in their first-ever match. Excellency is far from being in a good form, but they did record a couple of wins to make it to this tournament, so I am giving them a slight advantage in this one. Even though I wouldn’t be shocked if the rookies get a win, getting one map here would be a solid start for them. Back the favorites.