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We continue our long overdue farewell to DPC 2023: WEU Division 1 Tour 3 betting contest with a match between Team Liquid and Quest Esports. The teams will open the tiebreaker in Western Europe and battle it out for the top 3 region.
To be fair, we shouldn't expect any revelations from the match. The game solves absolutely nothing for one of the sides, and for the other side it only formally makes sense.
Liquid are already at The International 2023 and they don't really care whether they are top 3 or top 4 in the region. They were selected for the IO Bali Major 2023 and don't need DPC points.
Quest Esports, on the other hand, wouldn't mind earning a couple of dozen extra DPC points. However, these would only be important to them if they triumph in the IO Bali Major 2023, which they already went to regardless of the result of this match.
However, this is The International is a heresy dota because the teams playing are from Western Europe and the teams who participated in the last Major in the season. Good teams.
Let's find out how this match will end and who will finish in the top 3 of the championship.
Team Liquid form
Let's begin our analysis of the match by taking a look at Team Liquid's form. They will play this matchup as a favorite.
Bookmakers continue to believe in Team Liquid. The odds on the Liquid's victory are at 1.5.
Liquid remain favourites despite minor flaws. All thanks to their near benchmark play all year long.
Liquid did not lose a single match at DPC 2023: WEU Division 1 Tour 1, and then took the Top 2 at The Lima Major 2023, although they played with substitutes. More than worthy.
The second round of the DPC was as similar to the previous one as possible. Liquid again took the Top 1, but now with one defeat in the table. On the international stage, Liquid were again shining, but still overshadowed by Gaimin Gladiators, who took their second Major Cup of the season.
- Liquid's line-up: miCKe, Nisha, zai, Boxi, Insania .
Team Liquid played their third season of DPC 2023 worse than the previous ones. Once again, the main reason for Liquid's failures in the third DPC round is the absolute irrelevance of the situation for the Liquid.
Team Liquid's most popular heroes
Team Liquid has Crystal Maiden in the top picks with 7 games and 6 wins.
In addition to Crystal Maiden choose Doom (4 games, 100% wins), Sven (4 games, 75% wins), Skywrath Mage (4 games, 75% wins).
Rubick (4 matches, 25% wins), Void Spirit (3 matches, 100% wins) appear in spades, Underlord, Pangolier, Storm Spirit each have 3 matches and all have 2 wins.
Liquid has the sporting The International erse to play in this match. It was Team Quest who inflicted a defeat on Liquid in their last DPC main match and it would be nice to get even.
Quest Esports form
Quest Esports will be facing off against Liquid in the teabaggers. In this match, they will be playing in underdog status.
That's what the bookies are hinting at. They are estimating Quest's chance of victory at odds in the region of 2.6.
Quite a working figure, considering that Quest are showing a very chippy Dota in the new season, or they wouldn't have made it to the last Major of the year. However, Quest were already showing a lively Dota before the Long Cog third round.
They showed this good game in the second division of the first round of DPC 2023. They then managed to triumph in the second league and as a consequence reach the first division.
Last DPC 2023 season, being already in the top division, they inconvenienced almost all the top teams in the region. They almost managed to qualify for the Major, but at the crucial moment the then Ooredoo Thunders fell apart, losing to OG in tiebreaks and finishing in the top 5.
- Quest Esports: TA2000, No! ob, ATF, OmaR, kaori.
ATF joined Quest Esports in the new season. The former OG star blended into the roster and is now looking very harmonious at number three on the Quest roster. It wasn't without his help that the team reached the Major, but it was Quest's superior teamwork that did the trick.
Quest Esports' most popular heroes
Clockwerk (3 matches, 100% wins), Pangolier (2 matches, 100%), Silencer (2 matches, 50%), Death Prophet (2 matches, 0 wins), Rubick (2 matches, 0%). Not forgetting the signature Morphling.
Quest Esports played Team Liquid in their last match before the Long Sogpega tiebreaks. Thanks to that win they are here, but that's all secondary. The main thing is that Quest are going to the Major .
History of head-to-head encounters
The teams have previously played each other twice. One was won by Liquid, the other by Quest Esports.
Result
In this matchup, my preference is for Liquid. Despite losing a head-to-head encounter in the last week of DPC, the Liquid will be able to repay Quest and take the series. That time the Quest played probably the most important series of their career, and for the Liquid it was just an ordinary day. I think it's going to be different now.
Bottom line: Liquid win.
