Maelstorm has predicted the outcome of Group B at ESL Kuala Lumpur 2023

Commentator and analyst Vladimir Maelstorm Kuzminov gave his prediction and analysis on the outcome of Group B of the upcoming ESL Kuala Lumpur 2023 Championship. The favorites Team Liquid and Team Falcons. Maelstorm told about it in his Telegram channel.

Group B ESL Kuala Lumpur 2023: Prediction and analytics on teams

Team Liquid

Crushed everyone in the quals in 20-40 minutes and generally looked great. There is a problem though. 33 didn't make it to the tournament and SaberLight took his place. Nevertheless, I think that the Czech will not spoil the weather in the group, which will not be very easy.

Team Falcons

After an average start, they went to the finals of Pinnacle and looked like a tier-1 team among t2s, which is generally true. A fusion of youth and experience. As I said earlier they have two paths, success with zero or failure and disband. So far I see more of the first option.

LGD

Another new roster. I don't know how this organization manages to do it, but they put together great lineups time after time. niu is in the lineup and that's already good, I don't expect them to be top 1, but I do expect a solid fight and getting to the top. I'll admit, other than the offliner my blind faith is only in the org. If they don't do well this year, China is everything.

G2.IG

G2 or IG, somehow passed the quals, although they fell out of the first openqual, and there were almost no competitors in the closed ones. Superstar lineup, but for the most part already closer to retirement. All players are cool, in 2017 it would have been a tier-0 team, but now, it's a reincarnation of Azure Ray last year, although AR eventually managed, but they looked more powerful. All in all it's either the sunset of all players' careers or their swan song. And if the latter, it could be a good performance, but I don't have much faith in their longevity.

9Pandas

Qualifiers went by with hookah and music. Only Rodjer could not go and it's a big minus, and in general I do not believe in the success of this five. Okay, in the best case I'm ready to believe that they can hold this tournament well, but any stability in such a lineup is out of the question, on the other hand, is it needed and will this lineup be somewhere else, maybe they need only 1 tournament? For now.

Team Undying

Exes TSM with one substitution. The team is average, you should not relax against them, but at The International they were disappointing in some places, they were not ready at all. They won the qualifications, but their opponents were only nouns and they passed with a squeak. In general, I want to put them in the red zone against their competitors.

Recall that earlier we wrote a forecast from Maelstorm on Group A, where he singles out BetBoom Team as favorites and Blacklist International.