Team Liquid vs. 100 Thieves Prediction on August 4, 2023

Match info

The League Championship Series (LCS) Summer 2023 split for League of Legends (LoL) is now on its bottom set of the main stage. We’re specifically referring to Team Liquid vs. 100 Thieves’ do-or-die match, which will begin on Thursday, August 4, at 2 p.m. local time (PDT) at Riot Games Arena in Los Angeles, California, USA. It counts toward the First Round of the Lower Bracket.

Meeting statistics

The match is in a bo5 format. The victor moves on to the next round of Playoffs, where it’ll face the loser of the duel between Cloud9 and Evil Geniuses. The loser of this then drops to the among-the-6 position in the Championship.

Let’s find out which of the teams is better deserving of moving on to the main stage’s next round and who’ll have to give up their hopes of making it to Worlds 2023.

The current form of Team Liquid

Let’s begin the prediction with a review of Team Liquid’s performance. The North American-Dutch title club will play as the favorite in this match. Before the game, League of Legends bookmakers clearly declared such a position of Team Liquid.

One of the key teams in general in the LCS is Team Liquid. But it’s apparent that they’ve been having problems lately. While the club routinely placed first in the regional league in 2022, winning LCS Lock, Top 3 and Top 4 at LCS Spring 2022 and LCS Summer 2022, respectively, followed. Then came a shift in the scenario in 2023 for them. They placed 8th at LCS Spring 2023, which is well below the standard of such a premier club.

The squad changed the central league player after the dismal LCS Spring. Eain Stearns “APA“, who had previously played for Team Liquid Challengers, was the newbie. Team Liquid placed 4th in the standings after the group stage of the LCS Summer 2023. They got 10-8, moving on to the opening round of the Playoffs.

Liquid took on NRG in the first game of the LCS Summer 2023 Playoffs. The newcomer club achieved a victory with great ease: 3-1. Team Liquid’s most popular champion, also most frequently sent to the top line, is Kenen (3 matches, 100% wins).

The current form of 100 Thieves

With a betting tier on the 100 Thieves jerseys, we resume our analysis of the bottom grid match of the LCS Summer 2023 Playoffs.

The team is playing catch-up in this tournament. Although there’s a gap, it’s not as deep as it seems. Yet, compared to Team Liquid’s odds, 100 Thieves have higher odds to win this game by bookies, putting them in the position of outsiders. 100 Thieves had a successful season last year. The squad placed in the Top 8 at the LCS Lock-In 2022, and it afterward considerably improved. They placed in the Top 2 at both LCS Summer 2022 and LCS Spring 2022. This ensured their participation in Worlds 2022, however, they were unable to advance past the Top 14.

Lim Hyeon-seung “Quid“ and Kim Chan-ho “Ssumday“, who joined the club in May of this year, were the most recent arrivals. This worked out well for the squad. In the LCS group stage, 100 Thieves finished just outside the Top 8. As a result, the squad advanced to the Lower Bracket Playoffs. The most popular champion of 100 Thieves is Sion (4 games, 100% wins), who appears in the top lane.

Head-to-head encounters:

The teams are equal in 2023. Each has 2 victories after 4 games.

Match analytics

We wouldn’t anticipate an eye-catching League of Legends battle given the two teams’ overall levels of play. There’ll undoubtedly be numerous scrapes on both sides. We think Team Liquid will prevail as the victor. The updated 100 Thieves lineup appears to be lacking some bite. It seems doubtful that their group-stage failure will be overcome in the first round of the bo5 playoffs.

In the end, we suggest placing bets on Total Maps – Under 3.5 at odds of 2.74 on WELTBET.

Results of the forecast

Successful forecast. Team Liquid vs. 100 Thieves 1:3