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Park “Dark” Ryung-woo and Jang “Creator” Hyun-woo last met in April during GSL Season 1: Code S, when Dark won 2-0, adding his second head-to-head victory of the year (2-0). Moreover, it marked his 17th straight H2H victory against Creator, who last won this affair in July 2017.

Even though Dark and Creator are both elite players, it isn’t easy to make a case for the underdog due to their long and one-sided history. Moreover, Dark has been very efficient into Protoss with a 13-8 record (61.90%) over the last 21 games and has a perfect 2-0 (4-0) record from the first round of the group stage.

And if that is not enough to confirm Dark as a heavy favourite, he also won DH SC2 Masters 2022 Valencia at the start of the month, securing the top spot in the Korean ESL Pro Tour standings and earning a direct invite to IEM Katowice 2023 main stage. This is Dark’s game to lose.

A mirrored matchup that has historically favoured the older of the two sees Lee “Bunny” Jae-seon clash with Kim “Cure” Doh-wook for the second time in 2022. The two Korean StarCraft II esports pro players last met in the first season of GSL Code S, when Cure won 2-0, improving his all-time head-to-head record to 11-4.

This also explains why he enters this bout as a $1.57 favourite; however, Cure has not looked too sharp in the first round of the group stage, losing to Park “Dark” Ryung-woo (0-2) and Shin “RagnaroK” Hee-beom (1-2). Bunny has done better, but he won only against Jang “Creator” Hyun-woo (2-0), so his record is hardly more impressive.

Cure should win, but he is not a good bet at $1.57, nor would we trust him to win without dropping a map. A 2-1 victory for the 27-year-old seems like the most likely outcome and is a solid bet at the offered SCII betting odds.

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?It’s been nearly two months since Eo “soO” Yun-su returned to the professional StarCraft II scene after completing his military service, and while he has struggled for the first couple of weeks, soO seems to be in solid form. Most notably, he won ITaX Super Series #81 at the start of the month and enters this bout with a 4-1 record (6-1 including two team events).

So even though soO has yet to find his old form, he is improving and shouldn’t be underestimated. Still, it makes sense for the esports bookies to price him as an underdog against Joo “Zest” Sung-wook, who beat soO 4-1 during ITaX Super Series #80 at the end of May.

Zest has since placed six games and won all but one against Byun “ByuN” Hyun-woo, who beat him 2-1 on Sunday. Besides his past success against SoO, Zest is also very efficient in Protoss vs Zerg matchups with a 60.52% career win rate, which he further improved to 70.59% over the last 51 outings. On the other side, soO has a 61.36% career win rate into Protoss, albeit only a 55.84% across his previous 77 (43-34) and has lost two of his last five ZvP games.

Zest should win, but he shouldn’t be priced at only $1.25, and we aren’t too excited about backing him with a -1.5 map handicap at $2.00 either. Instead, we’ll trust soO to win at least one map and force a three-map series at plus money.

Byun “ByuN” Hyun-woo last met with Lee “Bunny” Jae-seon in December 2021, when he claimed (2-1) his 10th head-to-head victory (10-6) and third consecutive. However, they have not met once since then, so we would take the past results with a grain of salt.

Still, it makes sense for ByuN to be priced as the favourite. He is in terrific form, with just one defeat from his last nine outings and just two since the start of June (12-2). Bunny’s figures are a bit worse with two defiant from his last nine, but he had to face tougher opponents.

It’s also important to note that Bunny has been phenomenal in PvP matchups of late, with a 78.95% win rate over the last 19 bouts (15-4). Albeit 19 games is a fairly small sample size, so hardly more impressive than ByuN’s 69.50% career win rate in mirrored matchups.

At the offered SCII esports betting odds, there is no value backing either player on the moneyline, so we’ll settle for overs. Byun should win, but he has dropped at least one map in PvP matchups in three of his last four outings.

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