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]]>Team Skyfire are slated to meet the new-look Chiefs Esports Club this Thursday in the fourth matchweek of ESEA Season 34: Premier Division – Australia.
Chiefs have been in full rebuild mode since February, when they released their old lineup and signed the entire Genuine Gaming squad. That project came to nothing, however, as the Australian esports organisation decided to part ways with Jordan “SkulL” Newland, Daryl “Mayker” May and Chris “Junxx Moseley last Friday.
Chiefs have since added Jay “soju-j” Jeong and Charlie “zeph” Dodd to the roster alongside Tom “apocdud” Henry and Hugh “HUGHMUNGUS” Anderson. As they have yet to sign a fifth player, head coach Yaman “yam” Ergenekon acted as a stand-in for Tuesday’s 16-7 victory over Rooster.
Apocdud was the player to watch in that match, as he finished with an impressive 1.60 rating. Not far behind was zeph on 1.47, Yam and soju_j both secured 1.26 ratings, while HUGHMUNGUS recorded a respectable 1.14.
Team Skyfire enter this bout sitting 11th in the ESEA S34: Premier Division – Australia standings with a 3-2 record. Alec “Noisia” Gulabovski and his crew defeated Mako (16-12), Justice (16-6) and Overt (16-14), but they fell short against PC419 (14-16) and TRUCKERS (7-16).
Like Chiefs, Skyfire rebuilt their roster not too long ago. At the start of the month, they acquired Noisia, Mohammed “MoeycQ” Tizani, Mehmet “tot” Kayf and Colter “Dirty” Barstad from i sleep. Their latest addition came on Thursday, when Skyfire signed former Paradox Gaming player Edward “Chub” Lee.
Skyfire have played four games since Chub’s arrival, all of them at ESL ANZ Champs Season 11: Open Qualifier #2. There, they defeated Blessed Esports (19-16), Overt (16-10) and run it back bruv (2-0) en route to the grand finals, where bruv had their revenge with a 2-1 victory.
Looking at raw statistics, Team Skyfire are in a better vein of form and sit higher in the CS:GO esports global rankings. Yet they enter this bout as massive underdogs, and there is a reasonable explanation for that.
For although Chiefs have an incomplete squad with no runs on the board, they are still the stronger team. Yam alone is more experienced than the whole Skyfire roster, while the impressive showing from apocdud and co. against Rooster on Tuesday suggests they will have no issues with Skyfire.
Online fixtures can be difficult to predict, but there is no reason to expect an upset here. Chiefs will need some time to gel and reach their full potential, but they should win this fixture with ease.
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]]>Chiefs Esports Club and Team Skyfire will meet during Week 9 of ESEA Season 33: Premier Australia in a rematch of last Saturday’s Asia Minor Championship – Rio 2020: Oceanic Closed Qualifier clash, where Chiefs emerged victorious. They will enter Wednesday’s bout with an impressive 9-3 record next to their name, which puts them in a very favourable spot to secure a playoffs berth.
On February 3, Chiefs signed the entire ex-Geniune Gaming CS:GO roster and with that acquired Hugh “stat” Anderson, Chris “Jinxx” Moseley, Tom “apocdud” Henry, Jordan “SkulL” Newland and Daryl “Mayker” May. Because Chiefs replaced the entire roster mid-season, their placement in the ESEA standings is based on the combined performance of Genuine and the new-look Chiefs from February 3 onwards.
So far this ESEA season, Chiefs have defeated Team Esper, Formidable, MC ESPORTS, FURY, Incept eSports, Paradox Gaming, Ground Zero Gaming, ROCK CANDY and Airborne Esports Club. They failed to see the same success against Trident Esports, ORDER and most recently against Avant Gaming, who bested them during Week 7.
Chiefs recently participated at ESL Australia & NZ Championship Season 10, where they defeated Eimi Fukada FC (2-0) and lost to Avant (1-2). Prior to that, Chiefs also made an appearance at the Asia Minor Championship – Rio 2020 Closed Qualifiers, where they were swept by ORDER in the lower bracket finals to finish in third place.
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Team Skyfire, owned by Proda Computers, signed the former Bizzare Gaming roster in late January. While fighting under the Bizzare banner, Matt “Mizzy” Webster and co. lost to Renegades on the opening day of the season before claiming three commanding wins over Formidable, Trident and ROCK CANDY.
Since taking on the ex-Bizarre roster, Skyfire have defeated MC ESPORTS, Airborne Esports Club, Incept eSports, PC419 and Team Esper while losing to Madlikewizards, ORDER, FURY and Paradox Gaming. That leaves them with a respectable 8-4 record ahead of Week 9.
Like Chiefs, Skyfire participated at ESL Australia & NZ Championship Season 10. They failed to make an noise, however, as a 1-2 defeat against ORDER a 0-2 sweep by Rooster saw Skyfire crash out of the tournament in round one. Skyfire also took a swing at the Asia Minor Championship – Rio 2020 Closed Qualifiers, but a 0-2 quarter-final defeat to ORDER and a 1-2 loss against Chiefs meant they ended the event at the bottom of the standings.
Chiefs met with Skyfire on Saturday, March 7, only four days before their upcoming clash at ESEA, which gives us a great insight into how this match will play out.
Their meeting at the Rio Major Asia Minor Oceania Closed Qualifiers ended with a hard-fought 2-1 win for Chiefs, who edged past Skyfire with a 19-17 overtime win on Train. Although Chiefs produced a remarkable comeback from 8-14 down on the final map, it’s concerning that they found themselves in such a situation to begin with.
Skyfire ran away with the first map in that series, with Mayker and company going down 2-16 on Inferno. While it would be hard to argue Chiefs did not deserve to win, their overall performance was rather uninspiring.
Esports bookmakers have Chiefs priced as favourites, but the odds look a little lopsided. On form, it is hard to understand why Skyfire are priced as high as +227.
Considering they put up a solid fight against Chiefs only a few days ago, it’s hard to pass on this opportunity to back the outsider. A +4.5 kills handicap on Team Skyfire at -119.05 is also a viable bet here.
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