When they announced the top three prizes, I thought I heard the host saying el che at one point, and then I saw the spelling was different at the end.

Yup, it was buwaytress, I wasn't sure if it was him at first because I don't know the exact spelling, anyway congrats to him.  

And now it's done, I guess i'm from the future.  

There are a bunch of situations where gamblers can easily forget their gambling money for quite a while and let it sit in their account. In my case, I had a bunch of winnings together with my deposit sitting around in my account back then for a few weeks because of my luck from winning a promotion or raffle. People can quickly become busy so we can't blame them if they still have money sitting at their gambling accounts.

This is what i'd also do if the minimum is not that high or i'll send a small deposit to reach the minimum and then clear the deposit rollover.

I also saw that on the sidebar, it was nice to see the promo being brought back for the Olympics.

Thanks for the reminder, i'll try to join in later today, and nice work on converting your free bet.

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The winners of the Euro 24 giveaway just got posted earlier and I think I saw one familiar name at the end.

With those odds, I agree that it's better to skip and wait for the playoffs. The alternative bet is probably to take 3DMAX handicap rounds assuming it'll be a close match that can potentially go to OT.

ENCE is still on the verge of not qualifying based on their current standings, but they should dominate against True Rippers and edge out The Mongolz in the tiebreakers if both teams win their series and finish with a 3-2 record.

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I'll dive in for a bit of League of Legends as we have a couple of LCK matches today and i'm still not confident in betting on the Elite League and the Skybet tournament. FearX takes on BRO in the LCK and BRO is currently the worst team in their league while FearX is looking competitive after recently winning against good teams like T1 and KT Rolster.

I still can't believe the team wasted so many points in the second half of the season. 

Same, I had mixed feelings about the idea after reading it the first time, then the more I think about it the more it doesn't sound as bad.

I agree, better sit back and wait for the next few days until some of the weaker teams get eliminated in the swiss and round-robin stage. Favorites like Team Liquid don't care if they drop a map as it's all about winning their series and getting the clean 3-0 to qualify a day early for the next round.

Also, it sucks that the viewing experience isn't accessible since there's no official English broadcast from the organizers.

It's easily a scam because as you've mentioned casinos will never disclose the results and it's only a coincidence if someone does manage to win their crash games from these signal groups.

If it was possible then we could see casinos closing down, i'd imagine it's similar to how tipsters sell their predictions, but it's worse because the information they provide isn't reliable.

Some of them probably turned it down because they got invited to the Snow Ruyi tournament first, and it's scheduled to start around the same week as Elite League.

I remember Team Liquid has the best outright odds to win the Elite League around 2.10 which is crazy. Then again it makes sense to redeem themselves after their heartbreaking loss against Gaimin Gladiators in the finals of the Riyadh Masters.

This is not what I expected from Cloud9, but Entity got the most out of this move since I can still recall their roster was in shambles after the DPC ended.

There's also Arteezy moving away from the competitive scene and Shopify Rebellion got Pakasz as their new carry with Saberlight subbing in for MC for the Elite League. Now i'm a bit looking forward to how their roster will perform with a different carry.

From 3/4 spots relegated or promoted and upping it to 5 is great, Division 2 will get more competitive than ever. I enjoyed going back and forth through the announcement treating it like a patch note from a game.

Also, welcome to the newcomers who made it in Division 3 and russeras who'll be on evaluation.

The buying and selling of club spots is a nice addition. The permanent fee sounds discouraging, but it shouldn't be a problem if you can always finish at the top of your Division.

That special I took last week won despite the result ending in a draw as I only need 2 goals per match. 



I noticed that we'll have a bunch of Champions League qualifying matches later, so here's my bet on Fenerbahce Istanbul to win the first leg (@1.77). The odds are nice even without the price boost, I checked the others and they mostly have them a bit lower(@1.69).

There are little upsides to going through a gambling addiction to say it can be viewed positively, and we already have a better term for it.

I'm with you on this part while the first part you mentioned about regularly earning through betting is just wishful thinking. It's always good to set a goal, but in gambling, it'll do more harm than good if you prioritize earnings that highly then it can potentially transition to chasing losses.

Having one bad session shouldn't discourage you from playing slots unless you don't enjoy the game after giving it several chances. I had countless bad experiences with slots, but it took me a while before it made me quit and move to sports betting. If I usually have those bad experiences, I only put them on my avoid list and then move on to another slot game. Still, I don't blame you for quitting, there are games where you sometimes have to draw the line if it's not fun anymore.

G2 can't catch a break these past few days after the CS2 and Valorant team lost their big matches yesterday, and now it's their LoL team as they also lost to Fnatic.



It's going to be a battle for second place for the remaining teams as Team Falcons' lead will only get wider at this point, they have so many squads participating in every other EWC.

It is nice to end the tournament on a solid sweat-free win, even though the lower-bracket experience was brutal with the upsets. 

Next week there's a Blast Premier tournament, it's one of the few recurring CS2 tournaments worth following since it's like the EPT equivalent in CS2. After that, you have IEM Cologne next and it's a much bigger tournament with teams fighting for more circuit points and the tournament winner qualifies for the World Finals.

Even though Riyadh Masters just ended, we have Elite League to look forward to, and the same as last time they'll go through the Swiss stage, so at least we don't have to deal with another set of matches ending on draws.

NaVi completed the reverse sweep after a close OT loss in the first map, while G2 didn't have enough steam and only got six on the next two maps.

I thought Team Liquid could keep it competitive in the first map when I heard Tundra's coach share insights behind their draft to stop the early power spike of Gaimin Gladiators, but for some reason, they always end up playing behind.

I'll try to help with the temporary updates as there's not much activity with the BTC counterpart.

Added three campaigns (Stake, Secureshift, and Vave) and updated Seabet's link to the last round.

This meta is so good for them with the deadly snowball lineups like the Broodmother and Beastmaster cores we saw from the first game and the other series they've played.

Team Liquid tried to ban some of those heroes (Enchantress, Chen, Broodmother) in the next maps and it was still not enough, they had too many options to fall back on.

I was also hoping to see the series at least reach four maps, but Team Liquid was probably demoralized after losing the first two maps as it was all Gaimin Gladiators.

I'm also siding with Gaimin Gladiators in this grand finals, but I will go for their map handicap to push the odds slightly higher.

I'd still assume Team Liquid will struggle against Gaimin Gladiators and I don't think the momentum from their win against Team Falcons would change the outcome of this series.

I used to follow a few prediction sites because they started great, offering reasonings and stats about their predictions, then later on they'll encourage you to take their paid predictions. At one point I paid for predictions which I fully regret because they kept handing out winners back then until they ran out of luck and their record got worse. Eventually, I found something better so I stopped going after prediction sites and these guys put more effort into their free predictions.