🕹️ Esports 🎮 Prediction & Discussion Thread

[batang_bitcoin]

Did anyone watch the TNC versus Ares Gaming match yesterday? A lot of fans can't accept that TNC lost on the first game. TNC was devastated during that match.
What the fans are calling out is that Ares Gaming seems to be performed shady due to some smoke-breaking plays and hook shots without rocker flare and vision of clockwerk.

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[Globb0]

Hey guys. Another day I couldn't find much to back.

I went with these 2 conservative tickets.




Im tending towards watching CS the most

[Trofo]

Hey guys. Another day I couldn't find much to back.

Slow day as far as eSports go, I just had Gambit youngsters in the morning and Team Adroit combined with some Europa league later tonight. Adroit game just finished and it was very crazy DOTA game, we had almost 3 kills per minute for the most of 3rd map. Never seen short DOTA game with this many kills.

[tomahawk9]

What the fans are calling out is that Ares Gaming seems to be performed shady due to some smoke-breaking plays and hook shots without rocker flare and vision of clockwerk.
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surely it was just salty fans, no? i haven't read anything controversial about this match

Hey guys. Another day I couldn't find much to back.

I couldn't find anything either cuz the good games started so damn early  

hmm, i think i'm gonna take a 3 day break from csgo and just wait for the Dreamhack Open next saturday.
but before this thing starts, I might put some money on DH open outrights, odds are pretty nice https://buff.bet/en/esports/outright

[batang_bitcoin]

What the fans are calling out is that Ares Gaming seems to be performed shady due to some smoke-breaking plays and hook shots without rocker flare and vision of clockwerk.
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surely it was just salty fans, no? i haven't read anything controversial about this match

I have watched the game and I felt the same but I'm not salty as I find the opponent too careful and good in clashes. They had a 1-game tiebreaker a while ago and TNC won the game.
Well, there's this feeling but good-game to the boys and Ares Gaming is pretty good IMO if there's no proof of what's being thrown to them.

[ralle14]

Early bet today since the LCK is back and i've been eyeing this one since last week Damwon to win vs GenG @1.6 even though the head to head favors Gen G i'm confident with Damwon taking this one and I don't think itll stop anytime soon knowing they could take the first seed which i've mentioned before. This is a very crucial match for them as well since Gen G and T1 are the only ones that could stop them from finishing first while the rest are teams they should take down pretty easily.

They'll face Cr4zy later today, their odds are at 1.6 which is not bad considering the head to head results favoring 4Zoomers 3-1-1 in the last 5 series.

nice tip. Too bad the match started and odds dropped to 1.40
i'm watching it rn, game 1 and cr4zy have the net worth advantage and they're 26-15, looks to me like they'll take first game game 1 for cr4zy

It looked good at the start but they got outdrafted and lost their lanes then everything snowballed in favor of Cr4zy. 

[Globb0]

Aha and both those conservative parlays came through. Im grinding up. x5 now on last re-fund.

And still nothing is much exciting me. Just to keep up the momentum I searched out this crappy pair of bets.




Good luck

[finaleshot2016]

<...> The important thing is, popular teams are already playing it and it's mainstream in different platforms.

Yeah, the top esports team know that there's potential in Valorant, it's just a matter of time now cuz you don't wanna end up like Apex Legends (showed some promise for a while but ended up being forgotten   ) some major tournaments are starting to pop up (liquipedia has a few in A-tier here), so it's possible that in Q4 this year or Q1 next year we'll see the first S-tier tournament

Well, Apex Legends is kinda different from Valorant, it's a battle royale and all FPS players are still interested in the CS:GO type of match even it got launched and mainstreamed. I used to play Apex legends for 3 seasons, and obviously battle royale aren't suitable in betting platforms because it's hard to know who's gonna win if the drops on a certain area are RNG. Definitely, a good team will still lose if they have a fight with a gold armor team while wearing white armor. Anyways, many people are already thinking that Valorant is almost the same with CS:GO, I doubt it will have the same future with Apex Legends and besides, they have different game developers and I know that Riot Games will spend millions of money to make the game last longer as they did on the league.

Another thing is that Valorant is still a new game and one of the best way to keep your game for a long time is having a bind with the community. As CSGO have ways to tell what they want like making maps, Valorant don't have that. Well, Valorant in their first release have their bonds too but some players are worrying how the maps are so claustrophobic and not that well-made.

As I said, it is still a new game so obviously there will be a lot of development that will happen through time. Still, I don't see CSGO going down because of Valorant.

As I'm saying, it has a solid community right now and it doesn't need to wait for it to be popular because it is currently popular. The fact that ex-pro CSGO players are shifting into Valorant, the game is good and it will definitely build a good community because they have fans, and popular teams on the pro scene are also making teams at Valorant which definitely has massive supporters. I don't think that maps are so claustrophobic, i played it many times and already played competitive, it's easy to adapt to the environment 'cause I'm a real player of online games.  I didn't even mention that CS:GO will have downfall just because of Valorant, as a gamer, I still see them as a different game and there are plenty of people who still prefer CS:GO. What I'm pointing about is, Valorant has already those requirements.
Did you hear about shroud? King of the Reddit who's good at FPS games? There are many rumors that he's one of the lineups of C9 in Valorant. I hope there are no more excuses about having a good community 'cause if they're really fans of eSports, they know how influensive shroud is. And besides, there are many famous CS:GO players out there on the Valorant pro scene. Even it's just a rumor or lets assumes that it's not true, the community of Valorant was really huge right now so I don't get it why the game needs support, did they knew the capabilities and power of Riot Games, oh c'mon.

[tomahawk9]

Did you hear about shroud? King of the Reddit who's good at FPS games? There are many rumors that he's one of the lineups of C9 in Valorant.
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yeah i saw that the other day. If it's true, then every C9 match, and any tourney they're competiting on in the future, are guaranteed to have at least 100k viewers, and a high viewership numbers means more sponsors = more money to everyone involved (Riot Games, C9, tournaments, sportsbooks)...pretty amazing what a single streamer guy can do 

but here's an article from Forbes explaining Why Shroud Will Not Become A Full Time ‘Valorant’ Pro

[finaleshot2016]

Did you hear about shroud? King of the Reddit who's good at FPS games? There are many rumors that he's one of the lineups of C9 in Valorant.
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yeah i saw that the other day. If it's true, then every C9 match, and any tourney they're competiting on in the future, are guaranteed to have at least 100k viewers, and a high viewership numbers means more sponsors = more money to everyone involved (Riot Games, C9, tournaments, sportsbooks)...pretty amazing what a single streamer guy can do  

but here's an article from Forbes explaining Why Shroud Will Not Become A Full Time ‘Valorant’ Pro

Forbe's article is just an opinion of them, I read it and it states that it's because of the salary wasn't high. Their basis isn't that accurate, how can they knew the pros' monthly, that's a confidential thing and it's very impossible to know. They also compare the monthly of $25,000 to shroud's monthly on streaming at mixer, and we knew that mixer already shut down their streaming platform. So I guess that this is one of the reasons why shroud is going back again in Valorant. The article also stated that the Valorant's championship prize isn't that high like TI's pot money to live for the rest of your life, which is another inaccurate basis because there is still no report on how much is the championship prize.

The highest that I've seen is $200,000 which is a tournament for the opening of the game, what more in the championship? As you can see in LoL's Worlds championship prize, it already reaches $2m, I think Riot games will do the same thing by making a lot of negotiations and sponsors. And besides, their mother company is Tencent games, they can easily make huge pot money.

[Globb0]

Pulled off 2 out of 3 of my Parlays for yesterday. Just a single team loss across all the cards. 


Usual carp for today, not a lot. But backing something to watch all day.

[erikoy]

Did you hear about shroud? King of the Reddit who's good at FPS games? There are many rumors that he's one of the lineups of C9 in Valorant.
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yeah i saw that the other day. If it's true, then every C9 match, and any tourney they're competiting on in the future, are guaranteed to have at least 100k viewers, and a high viewership numbers means more sponsors = more money to everyone involved (Riot Games, C9, tournaments, sportsbooks)...pretty amazing what a single streamer guy can do 

but here's an article from Forbes explaining Why Shroud Will Not Become A Full Time ‘Valorant’ Pro

This is the reason why he wanted not to play on the pro.

Shroud has frequently said he will not return to pro play, as it is a stressful and difficult life. When you consider his other option is to sit at home and play games, which will make him even more money, then it seems like a no brainer

Of course even myself would also decide not to play with pro knowing that I can still earn in the way he had been doing at all. He stated really true that playing in pro makes life more stressful and it is not really an environment that he wanted to. The pressure is really up in pro games opposite to the play he had made on where viewers loves to watch. He's game play is all about for fun and not really for a tournament.

[Trofo]

Had a nice little ticket going on today:


If you are wondering everything passed except for Winstrike. Did somebody watch that game? I know I am still quite new to CS but I never saw 6 extra times played before. Winstrake should have gotten this in regular time, had two match points as CT with full buy and managed to lose them. Then they were almost always playing catch up in those extra times.

[morvillz7z]

Did somebody watch that game?

I had that game in my 2-way parlay (+Syman ml), didn't watch it, i was only refreshing my phone to see the score every 5 mins, it took an extra hour for them to finish. Winstrike had the lead at 29-27 and then lost 4 straight rounds. Bums just couldn't close it.

This was my go-to strategy all week, pick the favorites to win in bo1, it worked yesterday and the day before.

Too bad for your betslip, that would've been nice 9.49 win. I can never get myself to have more than two games in my parlays, way too risky, no matter the odds.

[Trofo]

that would've been nice 9.49 win. I can never get myself to have more than two games in my parlays, way too risky, no matter the odds.

Absolutely agree, anything more then double or max treble is way too risky. This was my morning low stake ticket. I am working from home at the moment due to covid restrictions and since I have a PC with 3 monitors and need only one for work I try to find some morning games to make time go by faster.

My high stake ticket today is Champions League double but that is text for some other thread

[Globb0]

Hanging in there today

[tomahawk9]

Ok, CSGO bettors, we have DH Open, Malta Vibes playoffs and FunSpark, all starting today...here are my picks:

Izako Boars ML at 1.72 odds https://i.ibb.co/6RCrWxv/soez.png
acca: MAD Lions +1.5 + AVEZ -1.5 + +forZe ML + Chaos ML at 4.96

We also have the ESL One Thailand 2020: Americas in dota and some matches in the LEC summer, so, another acca it is:
Misfits - G2 under 27.5 kills + Fnatic ML + CR4ZY ML vs Thunder Predator at 4.50

Good luck!
EDIT* BIG lost map 1 to Endpoint, germans could've started the comeback but lost to pistols in the last round lolol

[Globb0]

OK I had another bit of a crazy day (with a plan lol)


5/10 parlays still alive.

[Trofo]

Ok, CSGO bettors, we have DH Open, Malta Vibes playoffs and FunSpark, all starting today...here are my picks:

Took some of your predictions and they pretty much rektd all my tickets Most was for beer money multi tickets but Izako Boars made a dent in the bank. Didn't fare better on my early picks either so counting on evening games to get me back to zero.

No matter, new day tomorrow new chance to take something away from the bookies.

[tomahawk9]

Took some of your predictions and they pretty much rektd all my tickets <...>

yeah, not a good start, my only win was a single ML thx to Syman crushing Team Secret https://i.ibb.co/vmLJYfT/w.png

but it's only day 1, though...gonna kick off sunday with a single and then we'll see from there:


@1.82 odds