Valiance vs SK Gaming Prime Prediction: Bet on Favorite

On Thursday, September 1, the sixth match of the EU Masters 2022 Summer fourth day will take place, with Valiance and SK Gaming Prime facing off.

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.

Valiance: everything is bad

 Roster:

• ArcaneTeddy — David Kingston (Top Laner);
• kingggggg — Luka Kralj (Jungler);
• Diva — Filip Dadić (Mid Laner);
• Paladin — Ivan Delač (Bot Laner);
• Postkassen — Johannes Moeller Thuesen (Support).

Valiance was able to advance to the main stage by winning the regional tournament, but it's not that simple, the region not being very strong, and the guys were sent to a group where the opponents are a head higher. It will be very difficult to reach the playoff stage, but there is always a chance. The first opponent for Valiance were Team BDS Academy, who left no chance for the guys. On day two, Valiance faced Team Heretics, making their score in the group 0-2. The next opponent will be SK Gaming Prime, who are very hard to beat.

Valiance have already played in the EU Masters. That was twice, but both times they were not very successful. The organization came in second place at the regional stage, which sent them to the Play-in stage only, where Valiance did not make it out of the group, leaving the tournament rather quickly. That was the case in 2020 and early 2022. This time, Valiance was able to win the final, which sent the guys straight into the main stage of the EU Masters.

Valiance is a Croatian cybersports organization formerly known as CR4ZY until their rebranding in June 2021. The organization appeared in the Esports Balkan League since Upper Echelon announced disbandment, and CR4ZY took their place. At that time, the organization was able to finish second, thus reaching the EU Masters. The guys did not make it through the Play-in stage, leaving the tournament in 21st-24th place. In 2021, the organization took 3-4th place which was not enough to qualify for the EU Masters. In 2022, the organization placed second again, thereby qualifying for the EU Masters, but again could not make the Play-In stage. Valiance won the summer split, thus getting into the main stage of the EU Masters, which is the record for them at the moment.

SK Gaming Prime: time to wake up

Roster:

• Alois — Alois Nelissen (Top Laner) Eckas — Edgaras Strazdauskas (Jungler);
• Phantomles — Kim Storm (Mid Laner);
• Gadget — Ilya Makavchuk (Bot Laner);
• Seal — Fabian de Lint (Support).

SK Gaming Prime started the EU Masters with the Play-In stage and immediately showed they are at least in the top-16 of this tournament. They lost only once in six matches. The knockout match went pretty smoothly. 2-0, against White Dragons, took the Germans into the main stage. From the first day, SK gaming Prime began to have problems. In the opening match, the guys lost to Team Heretics, which already slightly distanced the organization from the playoff stage. On Day 2, SK Gaming Prime faced Team BDS Academy, having no chance to win, 0-2. Now the Germans are to face Valiance, who are also 0-2 in the group. If SK Gaming Prime are to come back, they have to wake up.

SK Gaming Prime has only appeared at the EU Masters once. That was in 2019, when the guys finished second on the Premier Tour Spring 2019, thus starting the EU Masters from the Play-In stage. The team made it to the playoff stage without much trouble, where they sent home LDLC OL and Fnatic Rising but lost in a resounding 0-3 final against Misfits Premier. After that, SK Gaming Prime did not appear at the EU Masters.

SK Gaming Prime is SK Gaming's academic roster, but they have also been performing very well. For SK Gaming Prime, 2019 was a year of dominance in the Prime League. At all but the summer splits, they were in 2nd place, and at the EU Masters, which was held before the summer split, SK Gaming Prime also snatched a silver medal. But after these achievements, there was a strong decline. In the summer, they are in 5th-8th place, and in 2020 they are already in 9th-10th place in both splits. They have to play qualifiers to get back into the Prime League. By the way, they haven't had a problem with that. In the league itself, SK Gaming Prime showed an average result, finishing 5th-6th in the spring and winter and 4th in the summer. This season SK Gaming Prime had four replacements, leaving only Alois from the old roster. The spring season was not the most successful for the renewed roster, but the guys came together quite strongly in the last two weeks. The only problem was that they got together too late. After finishing in 7th place, SK Gaming Prime missed the playoffs of the spring split one step away. Before the summer split, the organization switched mid and snappers.

SK Gaming Prime began the first week of the summer split with a loss against Wave Esports. Finish this week, the guys were also supposed to lose, but in a tense battle, SK Gaming Prime was able to snatch the victory from UOL Sexy Edition. The second week started with a loss against Schalke 04, but a win, against BIG, at the end of the week brought the guys to a 2-2 score. SK Gaming Prime started the third week with a win against MOUZ. On the second game day, the guys met with Eintracht Spandau, which they could defeat in a tight encounter, thus breaking their win streak. On the fourth week the guys met E WIE EINFACH and GamerLegion. E WIE EINFACH was unable to face the win-hungry SK Gaming Prime. On the second game day, SK Gaming Prime easily defeated GamerLegion, thereby reaching a 6-2 score, which is close to first place in the overall standings. In week five, SK Gaming Prime first wins PENTA 1860 but then comes a loss against Wave Esports. Week 6 also goes without consistent wins. First, SK Gaming Prime loses to Unicorns of Love Sexy Edition and then beats Schalke 04. The same thing happens again in Week 7. SK Gaming Prime lost to BIG but defeated MOUZ in an important match, thus securing a playoff berth. At the beginning of the eighth week, SK Gaming Prime met with Eintracht Spandau, which they were able to beat, thus solidifying third place in the overall standings. After that, they played three more matches in a row and qualified for the playoffs in second place. The playoffs themselves were awful. After losing 0-3 in two consecutive games, SK Gaming Prime finished third in the season, thus qualifying for the play-in stage of the EU Masters.

Head-to-head encounters

This is going to be the first-ever encounter between the teams.

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