Aladeen here bringing you an Aladeen prediction!

Now if it is one game i'm 99.99% sure about, it's this one. As you can see here: http://gyazo.com/922293e24627e1cbfc50eb751ed6dead the only map 3dmax have been able to take off cphw recently is nuke. I feel that overall, CPHW are a better team and have alot to prove this tourny. Watching them play against nV (the best team in the world right now), I can say they played pretty well seeing as how CPHW are just a T2 team. I didn't expect CPHW to get more than 3-6 rounds that entire series, and in my eyes, they over performed. And to be honest, 3DMAX wasn't playing to great against Titan, Titan i feel just played that bad.

Lounge odds: 46-54 favoring 3DMAX, my odds 65-45 favoring CPHW
This should be an easy game for CPHW, I feel 3DMAX tend to just underperform at LANs and online, and I honestly wouldn't rate them a T2 team, maybe a high T3 team imo, but thats getting a bit off topic. All of the players on CPHW are individually skilled and if one or 2 players underperform, I feel acillion can bring them up.

Looking at the lineups, we can see
for CPHW: Acilion, HUNDEN, smF, Friis, Snappi
for 3DMAX: xartE, KHRN, stonde, natu, disturbed

The best player here is AcilioN with a 1.08 rating and a 1.09 KD, which is very good considering that they've been playing strong teams recently, they've managed to take a map off Na'Vi recently, they went 10-16 against VP on Inferno, 16-12 against mousesports, they took a game to overtime on Cobble against Dignitas (which I feel is Dignitas' best map, or at the very least, a very very strong map for them).

On the other side of things, 3DMAX have been strugling to take maps off teams such as LGB, FS3, and VOX.

source: http://www.csgonuts.com/

All in all, I feel that the players on CPHW are more individually skilled than the players on 3DMAX. Really the only weak player on CPHW is HUNDEN but really they hardly rely on HUNDEN in my opinnion.

CPHW have a stronger map pool; their best maps i feel are Overpass, Cobblestone, Inferno, Nuke, and Mirage (I feel for this match up, this is how they would feel aswell), while only seeming to be weak on Dust 2 really. If Overpass and Cobblestone (assuming they get 2 picks) are their picks, I will say imediatly that CPHW has it in the bag, and If one of these 2 maps is in, I feel it is almost a garunteed map (keep in mind, in the past, CPHW used to be able to give VP a run for their money on cobblestone, and if CPHW still had worldedit as their main awper, I would consider them one of the best Cobble teams as of right now).

My bet: High on CPHW as I dont see 3DMAX taking 2 maps off CPHW what so ever. Here is a screenshot: http://gyazo.com/c164dc70d5ceaa4b49eb7f608aa7b330

I have alot riding on this, but I feel that CPHW should take this, but be prepared for 3DMAX to get maybe a map off CPHW.

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