INFINITE are the side here despite being priced as the underdog, and the statistical gap is the reason. A 1.27 team rating versus ex-RUBY's 1.11, 88.3 ADR versus 81.4 and a KAST of 78.4 versus 71.5 are not small differences at this tier. These are the gaps you see between teams at clearly different quality levels. The market has INFINITE as the dog based on ranking alone, but INFINITE sit at 48 and ex-RUBY at 68 and the performance numbers back the ranking gap up emphatically. INFINITE's Ancient at 78% across 9 maps is their decisive weapon. ex-RUBY's Ancient is 41% across 22 maps, one of their worst surfaces by a significant margin. INFINITE can lock in Ancient and start the series with a near-free map. The thing the public is missing is that ex-RUBY's recent four-match win streak came against G2 Ares, RUSTEC, CYBERSHOKE and Acend, a run against teams ranked 84, 117, 73 and unranked. INFINITE just beat Virtus.pro in a Bo3. The quality of opposition in ex-RUBY's form window is considerably softer than it appears on paper. INFINITE's round swing of 2.32 versus ex-RUBY's 0.23 also tells us which team plays big rounds and which team grinds close. We treat this as a low-conviction speculative play given the consensus_weak reference, but the directional case for INFINITE is real and the underdog price makes it interesting enough for fifth spot on the card.