Salt the Earth won with a clear draft edge backing them up (-483), turning their statistical advantage into the expected result.

Salt the Earth fields a noticeably stronger squad by leaderboard rank (★14569 vs ★19580), giving them a tangible individual skill advantage heading into this match.

The matchup matrix leans in favour of Salt the Earth (-483), though the draft is far from one-sided — execution will matter more than the numbers suggest.