What to expect from M80 v. BESTIA

The Americas RMR at the Perfect World Major is getting closer and closer, but before M80 begins their extensive EU bootcamp, they’ve got to warm up at the Thunderpick World Championship.

As the lone North American roster at the event, excluding Legacy, which technically qualified via the NA qualifier, M80 begins its run in Berlin against the Argentinian BESTIA roster.

M80 comes in hot

Fresh off a first-place finish at ECL S48, M80 is looking to build up even more momentum before heading to the RMR. Over the last month, the trio of Elias "s1n" Stein, Fritz "slaxz-" Dietrich, and Mason "Lake" Sanderson have each averaged a 1.20 or higher on the new HLTV 2.1 rating. All this while only losing one best-of-three series.

In great form
Had their breakout in Europe
Ahead of schedule, according to management

Also read: SyykoNT: "ECL pulled us back to NA when we should be out in Europe"

BESTIA with no time to rest-ia

BESTIA enters Thunderpick fresh off their own ECL run in South America, but they tragically finished just shy of an ESL Pro League spot after losing in three maps to MIBR in the lower bracket final. They’re pretty inexperienced internationally and against NA; their last match against a non South American roster was against Wildcard at the PGL Copenhagen RMR.

Could either be motivated or in the dumps after missing out on Pro League
Little experience internationally
Two-headed dragon in luchov and tomaszin

Previous matchups

The last time these two teams played was Challenger Atlanta 2023, but with almost completely different rosters.

Likely Vetoes

BESTIA bans Vertigo
M80 bans Nuke
BESTIA picks Mirage
M80 picks Anubis
BESTIA bans Dust2
M80 bans Inferno
Decider is Ancient

M80 v. BESTIA is scheduled for October 24th at 08:30AM.

Thunderpick World Championship 2024

Bo3

M80

0 - 2

BESTIA

All maps

M80	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating 2.1
Michael 'Swisher' Schmid	27 - 24	+3	77.8	62.5%	0.97
Ethan 'reck' Serrano	21 - 27	-6	86.5	53.1%	0.83
Elias 's1n' Stein	13 - 26	-13	60.7	68.8%	0.71
Fritz 'slaxz-' Dietrich	16 - 24	-8	48.7	50.0%	0.59
Mason 'Lake' Sanderson	10 - 30	-20	56.9	43.8%	0.43

BESTIA	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating 2.1
Tomas 'tomaszin' Corna	35 - 13	+22	109.2	93.8%	1.95
Nazareno 'naz' Romero	27 - 16	+11	86.1	87.5%	1.49
Nicolás 'Noktse' Dávila	24 - 17	+7	83.3	78.1%	1.33
Luciano 'luchov' Herrera	25 - 18	+7	83.8	81.2%	1.32
Mauro 'zock' Da Silva	20 - 23	-3	69.7	84.4%	1.04