Fnatic vs Talon Esports Prediction: Who will suffer their first defeat this summer?

On Thursday, June 23, the third week of play in the third round of the South East Asia Regional DPC Dota 2 League will continue. Fnatic and Talon Esports will play in the only match of the next game day.

DPC SEA 2021/2022 Tour 3: Division I is an online Dota 2 tournament that will run from June 08 to July 14, 2022. The top eight teams from the Southeast Asian region will battle it out for $205,000. On top of the cash prizes, the teams will battle it out for three straight promotions to the majors and the all-important DPC points needed to qualify for T11.

Fnatic: The road to the top of the table

Since TI10, there have been squad changes as Armel, an experienced player who played for TNC Predator for over three years, has moved to the mid position while Jaunuel, the former star of OB Esports x Neon, has moved to the top five. In January, a full team synchronization took place, and Fnatic once again emerged as a powerful Asian force.

At the end of the first DPC league, the boys managed to make a comeback and get into the Majors zone, which was canceled at the last minute. In the second DPC league, there were no such problems. The Asian powerhouse quietly took the top 3 in their region and prepared for the majors.

In Sweden, as part of the group stage, the Fnatic team was haunted by the magic of numbers. This team finished with a 2-2-2 stat in the first stage, which did not allow them to start in the wingers. In their first playoff game, the boys got a very familiar opponent - T1, who they beat 2-1. And then there was the game with OG (1:2), which should have ended with a victory as well, but on the third map, the Europeans were able to cumulate a giant deficit, and after that, OG was unstoppable. Fnatic finished the majors in 7th-8th place, which is pretty good overall.

In the summer tour, the SEA favorite team started with two victories: over Nigma Galaxy SEA (2-1) and RSG (2-1). Yes, the team is not without mistakes, even against inferior opponents, but so far, the result has been stable with only victories.

Talon Esports: How long will the invulnerability last?

So far, the guys from Talon Esports have been very impressive with their play. After three games, the 23savage team is the leader of the table and goes with 100% result. Yes, all games have been finished 2-1, and the encounter with Fnatic does not promise to be short.

The Talon Esports players beat their opponents from Polaris Esports (2-1) in the first match of the summer tour. They failed to cope with the feisty debutant of the elite and Nigma Galaxy SEA (2-1), who took one map at all because 23savage and Co decided to experiment on the second map and were close to flipping an easy draft with their not the best choice of heroes. The first high-profile summer success for this squad was a 2-1 win over BOOM, which underlined that the entire squad is aiming for the summer majors in the USA.

Talon Esports is a Hong Kong-based eSports organization that broke into the world of Dota 2 in November 2021. It started out ambitiously: the signings of Fly and Gabbi sounded formidable, but the star-studded line-up couldn't even make it out of the second division, prompting the "stars" to leave the project immediately. It wasn't the first time the team made it through the open qualifiers. In the first round, they became the fifth team in the lower leagues altogether, but the organization did not immediately shut down the project. It just started to act differently, forming the squad differently, which had an effect.

The big move of 23savage from the T1 first position was an important aspect that helped the squad to finish second in the second division at the end of the second DPC league spring round and get a ticket to the elite, where the boys are going to show their power if we can call it that. The squad has not changed since the spring season. The team has not played anywhere else and has been systematically preparing for their debut in the elite.

Expert Betting Tips

It is difficult for me to imagine this game without three maps, so I propose to catch the odds of 1.90 on Total Over 2.5 maps.

Fnatic will still win the match for 1.63.

And for the fans of risky bets with high odds, I suggest paying attention to the correct score of 2:1 in favor of Fnatic for 3.30.