CS:GO is back after we lost our final slate of the week last week. Damn Valve and their constant need to update stuff! This week we get a funky bonus…or curse…or well interesting twist. This week we will see one team play two matches against two different teams. To put this into football terms, let’s say you want to play Tom Brady in a game against Miami. Not a bad match up and he can easily get 25 points. Now imagine once that game was over Tom Brady and the Patriots are going to face the New York Jets in the same day. Not only will Tom Brady get those 25 points from Miami, but he is going to also get any points earned from facing the Jets! If I were to tell you that all of this was going to happen, that New England was going to get points for the same slate, but got to play two games to earn them why wouldn’t you roster them?

Well this slate will give us that scenario, only without the fatigue that comes from playing football. This slate gives up 5 teams, and one of those teams will face two teams, and score points from both of them. Don’t believe me, let me show you.

“UNBALANCED NUMBER OF MATCHES FOR ONE TEAM IN A CONTEST

There are frequent times where one team may play more than another on a given day. We may or may not decide to include all matches in a day. In the event we do include a team who plays twice or more while others play less games, this is intentional and up to you to determine if those extra games will result in higher points for the players you select. We may also choose not to include the additional matchups. Be sure to check the list of games included in any contest you join. These will not change once a contest has started.”

See told you, that quote comes straight from Alphadrafts section on rules and scoring. So if they say they include the match, and that we will get points from both we should take advantage of that. The only real downside here is we can only select 3 players or 2 players and the team. For this match I am doing a bit of a combination in my LUs. I will be giving 2 sample LUs at the end, one with team and one with 3 players. Regardless the hardest part of knowing which player to select will be which ones go off in both games. We will get into that a little bit further down.

Before we cover the two for one matches I want to focus on the one match we get two power houses facing each other and on a normal slate this game might even offer us a lot of fantasy goodness. This slate however will make things much easier because we will not need to select much from either team.

The odds makers from CSGO Lounge are giving Envy a massive percent to win both of these matches. The first map sees Envy an 81% favorite and the second is 79% favorite. I do not know why VP has been struggling so much this season, but I would say it is worth going with the odds makers this week. KennyS is a stud, but he has not been his normal self the last few games. It doesn’t mean that he won’t go off, but I do not love him for his salary with the way this slate is set up. Use him if you want because if his AWP is on, he will easily pay for his salary, but I would focus on other studs. NBK and Happy however should be good for a few solid scores and their salary is nice. NBK was hot at the Barcelona event this weekend, and I hope he keeps that up. Happy is always solid, and because he is the guy that lurks, he often gets a few free and easy kills. Happy is the stud play from this match up, and NBK is a smart play for 7600. From VP’s side NEO is still the only player with a plus 1 KDA and the only player worth rostering from VP. I am not saying that no one from VP will have a big game, but they are too hard to figure out right now to make it worth it.

Now on to the real interesting part of this slate. Mousesports will be facing two opponents, and the only thing I really wish was we had seen them last week on Thursday. Currently mousesports is ranked 10th in the world. They will be facing G2 and Ninjas in Pyjamas, and both will be favored to win their matches. G2 is ranked 8th in the world, and NIP is ranked 6th. To be honest if the odds were not as close in the match against G2 I might be a little worried to play Mouz. In the first map G2 is 66% favored, but only 51% in the second. That coin flip really has me excited, and even the 66% to 34% in the first map is not so big that I worry.

In the second match NIP is a 75% favorite to win on the first map. With the 2nd map being a little closer and again 66% to 34%. Again the second map being closer takes a little of the edge off when selecting Mouz players. If there was only one match tomorrow, I would probably fade Mouz in favor of NIP in this match. NIP is a solid team filled with a lot of skill players, but I do not think they will shut down Mouz completely. When you add in the points from G2 they should easily be worth the play.

ScreaM is a head shot stud, who can be played any slate against any team. The rest of his team is solid to roster, but I personally only really like ScreaM from G2. If G2 does win one or both of the maps I think most will have good scores, but not as good as the other options from this slate.

Any time you can find a player with a +1 KDA they are a solid play, when you find a whole team that is +1 KDA it’s a special thing. NIP is my favorite team in play from this whole slate, and I wish they were the ones playing in the 2 headed match. They are not, but still anyone from NIP should be able to pay for their salary. I really like the value side from friberg at 7,100 with a KDA of 1.3. Against Dig he was good for 41 points, but it is important to know that on one map he had 39 points and only 2 on the 2nd map. That is risky, but that is why he is a value play.

For mousesports everyone can be rostered because of the double headed match. There are some that stand out however. NiKo is a stud with a 2.1 KDA and for 8400 he would be a steal with only one match to play. Nex and Spiidi are also worth the play with their higher KDA. It is hard to know which player is going to give us the biggest boost in both matches, but those three will be solid starting option and they do offer us great value with Spiidi at 7400. Denis is also worth playing at 1.4 KDA at 7200 with him playing the two matches.

If you want to play a risky GPP type play you could also fade all but NiKo from mouz as there should be plenty of people who play mouz. If the team does struggle in both or one match you could focus on players from NIP, Envy, and G2. If mouz does go bust G2 and NIP will have great days, and put you in a place to finish high.

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