Vici Gaming vs Team Secret Prediction: What Surprises Does Puppey Have for the Chinese Squad?

The International 2022: Last Chance Qualifier is a qualifying tournament for The International 2022, the upcoming main event of the year in the cybersports discipline Dota 2. Twelve teams worldwide will compete for two slots in the main tournament. Last Chance Qualifier, like the entire tournament, The International 2022 takes place in LAN format in Singapore. Dota 2 fans need to be patient and get ready for the action.

The "last chance" qualifier for The International 2022 begins on Saturday, October 8. Vici Gaming and Team Secret will face off in the second round of group-stage games.

Vici Gaming: the Chinese Dark Horse

The first game of this Chinese team was in the Last Chance Qualifier, and Team Secret was the opponent at once. We wouldn't like to start precisely with the bout against Puppey, but thankfully in the group stage, we can stretch ourselves because no one will leave the qualification at the end of it. Yes, the Chinese need to perform successfully in the group to get a place at the top table, where there will be the right to make a mistake, but it doesn't change the principal thing; the primary battle VC is not now, so we can breathe.  

In this DPC cycle, the Vici Gaming team is not even close to the last year's squad. It is not sure that the current VG players will even make it to the main tournament of the year as the result of the first qualifying game day shows. The new squad, in late 2021, was assembled around yoyo, but the newly formed squad failed in the course of the regional DPC leagues - it did not make it to The International 2022. The Vici Gaming team made a number of lineup changes ahead of the tournament, which will be the last ticket to Singapore. The three and four of the squad were updated.

On the third position is now b a b, who has not glimpsed in professional teams for a long time, the last time he played in Blaze in 2020. On the four began to play for VG Fade, who since the end of last year represented the team Invictus Gaming, with which until then was involved in the second divisions of the Chinese championship. In March this year the team signed Yang to the third position, who is known for his performance Elephant and just the early Vici Gaming, so, in fact, returned to the organization of a pupil of the team. The game he clearly did not worsen, but it is still far from ideal.

Team Secret: Pulling Out the Blanks

The 2021/22 DPC cycle for Team Secret was extremely problematic. Puppey finished all three regional leagues outside the European majors and only got to Singapore thanks to regional qualification, in which the team finished second, losing to Entity (0-3) in the final. 

For a long time, Clement tolerated his team's failures in the regional leagues, but still began to reshuffle the team in May. In May, Team Secret said goodbye to its curry SumaiL, signing Crystallis from Entity to replace him. One lineup reshuffle didn't help success in the summer regional league round, so Puppey made another reshuffle before the regional classifications at TI11. Since the Riyadh Masters 2022 tournament, the team has been playing with Zayac, who came in fourth instead of YapzOr, and with the Resolut1on triple instead of iceiceice. The transfer of the latter greatly enhanced the team's game, although Resol has not played anywhere for a long time, and in Team Secret he plays not in the usual position of the kerry, but the three.

Team Secret led by Puppey is one of the main favorites for this qualification and it is extremely important for the European team to beat such opponents as Vici Gaming that can always surprise in such tournaments. Clement hasn't missed The International yet, but it's still Last Chance Qualifier, which is hard to call a full-fledged TI11.

Expert Betting Tips

For this match, we offer the following options: W2, TO (93.5), and IT2O (54.5).