eSports | Evil Geniuses vs Fluxo - Oct 21 | 17:30 UTC

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Game info Evil Geniuses vs Fluxo

 

Evil Geniuses and Fluxo will compete this Friday, October 21, in the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2022 North America quarterfinals. Returning to being competitive on the international stage, the North Americans of Evil Geniuses arrive as one of the favorites for the BLAST title. As for the brazilians from Fluxo, they just showed a good level of play in their last appearance, valid for the ESL Challenger Rotterdam. Even though this match marks the teams' debut in the competition, it is already a qualifying and eliminatory match, so that it will be played in MD3 format (best of three maps). The match is scheduled to take place at 17:30 UTC.

 

How do BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2022 North America works?

 

In principle, the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2022 North America is a championship that will bring together some of the best teams in the Americas, emphasizing complexity, which is the highest ranked among the eight participants in the world and appears as a great favorite for the title. We will also have the reformulated Evil Geniuses in the dispute for the cup, which surprised them in their last appearances for presenting good results.

 

The competition will be held online in the United States and will last five days (October 19-23). In addition to the teams mentioned above, we cannot fail to mention the Brazilian representatives who also have chances of title; we are talking about 00Nation, MIBR, Team One, and Fluxo. Running on the outside will also be the Australians from VERTEX to close the list of participants.

 

Evil Geniuses

At first, the Evil Geniuses team appears in this confrontation after reaching their main objective of the second half of the year, which is the classification for the Major of Brazil. Before analyzing the most recent matches of the North Americans, it is worth remembering the current situation of the team in the last tournaments. After years without achieving positive results in relevant competitions, the team finally achieved some important victories against renowned organizations on the international stage.

 

In the last competition, valid for the IEM Road to Rio 2022 Americas RMR, Evil Geniuses surprised even their most optimistic fans since, in the third round of the tournament, they had already won the spot for the Major do Brasil with three consecutive victories over Nouns, from the best team in Brazil, Furia, and from the best organization in Argentina, 9z Team, respectively. Finally, claiming the spot in the Legends Stage of the Major, they ended up losing to their fellow countrymen from Liquid and will join the Challengers Stage.

 

Fluxo

On the other hand, the Fluxo team appears in this clash after being eliminated in the ESL Challenger Rotterdam group stage. Before analyzing the results of the Brazilian team in the last competition, it is worth remembering the current situation of the squad in relation to the main tournaments in the scenario. After being left out of the season's main competition, the Major do Brasil and the team managed to qualify for important championships, such as the ESL Challenger Rotterdam and BLAST itself.

 

In their last appearance, for ESL Challenger Rotterdam, they failed to advance from the group stage. However, contrary to what many might imagine, the performance of João "felps" Vasconcellos' team was excellent in the tournament. As much as they were eliminated early, they suffered only defeats to the seventh-best team in the world in their trajectory, the Outsiders team, where even losing, they gave a lot of work to their opponents, who had to win in overtime in the two duels that had against the Russians.

 

And what is your opinion about this game? Who will be the winner?
 
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[jorzg01]

I think the evil genius will win because he wants to show that he is at a high level, after having lost some tournaments.