TI13 has arrived, The International 2024, and with it the top 16 teams are finally being tested on the grandest stage in all of Dota 2. While it’s just the group stage, we’re already seeing some incredible match-ups and competition, with top teams like Team Spirit and Gaimin Gladiators pushing their opponents to the limit.
Still who should back to win these groups and matches? We’ve put together an analysis of the TI13 groups and who we think will take the victories in each.
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We’ve placed Gaimin Gladiators behind Xtreme Gaming in this list, because historically Gaimin has often held back in Group Stages to test out strategies or is just slow to start. Xtreme on the other hand are much more reliant on a high bracket position, and the favorable matches it will give them, so we expect them to take the lead.
In the head-to-head, we’d pick Gaimin, but on overall points and match score, Xtreme should edge it out. 1W are likely the superior team to Heroic, but don’t be surprised if Heroic can pull of some surprising wins.
Before Saksa was announced as a replacement, we’d have put Tundra top of this slightly middling group. With no stand out super team in this lineup, and no one we’d pick to win The International, we’ve gone with G2 x iG to take the win, with Tundra close behind. Talon just hasn’t showed the quality that’s needed for international competition, and Cloud9, formerly Entity, are just a step behind the rest of their WEU competition.
In what should be a sweep for the Falcons, BetBoom will provide the most challenge. We’d love to see Team Zero take a game off Falcons but it seems unlikely. Nouns, despite being perhaps the best NA team in years, will still likely fall short of strong WEU and Chinese talent, in an especially cruel group drawn.
Head-to-head, we wouldn’t mind betting on Team Zero, especially when they’ve got the talent and drive to take games off a shaky BetBoom and a slipping Falcons.
Team Spirit at TI are a different force all together. They’ve got comparatively easy pickings in this group draw, and should easily handle beastcoast and Aurora. Still, Team Liquid are likely to do the same, but will really struggle against Spirit. Ultimately, we could see this group going to either Liquid or Spirit.
Against one another, we’d expect Spirit to always come out on top. Beastcoast are the wildcard in this, expect them to potentially take games of Spirit and Liquid.
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