Macko Esports vs Dusty Prediction: Bet on the Icelanders

On Monday, August 29, the first match of the first day of the EU Masters 2022 Summer tournament will take place. Macko Esports and Dusty will face off in this matchup.

The Amazon European Masters 2022 Summer (EU Masters Summer 2022) is the tenth edition of Europe's premier semi-professional tournament, featuring 11 European League of Legends (ERL) regional leagues. Each ERL sends its best regional competitors to represent their country. The EU Masters serves as a secondary level of competition under the LEC and is the successor to the Challenger Series. In the main event, 16 competitors compete to become the crowned champions of the LEC Secondary Round and the €150,000 prize pool between them. This tournament takes place from August 29 to September 25, 2022.

Macko Esports: The curse of the group stage is in force

Macko Esports starts this tournament immediately from the main stage, as they took first place in the regional stage. The group for the Italian organization was not the most pleasant. Any team can easily defeat the guys, but the factor of the Bo1 format can help. The first opponent for Macko Esports will be Dusty, who also went straight to the main stage.

We have seen Macko Esports at the EU Masters, even three times. The first time they took part in the main stage of the EU Masters Spring 2021 but failed to reach the playoffs there, finishing the group stage in third place. Already in the summer stage of the EU Masters, Macko Esports again reached the group stage, but no wins in six matches instantly sent the Italians home. In 2022, the organization could not make it straight to the main stage of the EU Masters Spring but reached the Play-in stage. As in previous years, the organization failed to make it out of the group, thus leaving the tournament in its first days.

Macko Esports is an Italian team formed through a merger with Racoon. The organization began playing in the PG Nationals in 2021, where it fairly quickly grabbed the lead, thereby taking the podium at every tournament. Macko Esports did not do well at the EU Masters unlike the Italian league. The organization could not make it past the group stage, which put a crimp in the more prestigious spots. In early 2022, Macko Esports couldn't make it out of first place in the PG Nationals; thus the organization had to play the Play-in stage at the EU Masters, which the guys failed. Macko Esports had already won the summer split, thereby advancing to the main stage of this EU Masters.

Dusty: Debut performance at the EU Masters

To the surprise of many, Dusty managed to take first place in their region, thereby entering the EU Masters not only on the main stage but also in quite a nice group for them. The debut match at this tournament will take place against Macko Esports, which should not make it very difficult.

We hadn't seen Dusty at the EU Masters yet, as the organization only ranked third in the last split, and even before that, the results were even worse. Now Dusty is in such shape that they can make at least the playoff stage and at most reach the top 4.

Dusty is a young team from Iceland, which was created in March 2019. They started their way in the Icelandic Esports league, where they took second place in the first season and first place in the second. Next, the team gets to the Nordic Championship, where the Icelanders do not succeed at first. With time the guys managed to drag themselves into 3rd-4th place, and from there, they got into the NLC. The last season wasn't too bad for Dusty. Despite three losses in a row in Week 1 and Week 2. The squad recovered a bit, winning two games and then catching a string of 4 very important wins in a row after losing to JDXL. They were able to make the playoffs from fourth place but could only make it to third place, losing to Bifrost in the semifinals.

Expert Betting Tips

Our bookmakers do not have a lot of bets for this confrontation, so you can bet on a Macko Esports victory for 3.42, and on the victory of Dusty - for 1.30.