?This Wednesday, Joo “Zest” Sung-wook and Alex “Neeb” Sunderhaft will lock horns in Group B of the DreamHack SC2 Masters Winter Season Finals.
The latest StarCraft II betting odds have Zest as a clear favourite, but we wouldn’t be so quick to write off Neeb. For while Zest has achieved far more this year, he is also the type of player who could have an “it’s an online tournament” kind of day.
Zest’s only previous meeting with Neeb in 2021 came back in January, when the Korean won 2-1 to take his career head-to-head record to 7-2. Neeb’s most recent win against Zest happened in 2018 during the IEM Season XII World Championship.
Neeb enters this match with only two wins from his last eight outings, which isn’t great, but we have to remember that Neeb won against Riccardo “Reynor” Romiti twice in October (2-0, 2-1) and holds an excellent 68.8% win rate in Protoss vs Protoss match-ups.
Zest is a much better player on paper, but he has had a few blunders in online tournaments this year, so there’s a chance he slips again. Neeb to win at $5.00 is worth a small play, but we’re taking the outsider with a map advantage.