🕹️ Esports 🎮 Prediction & Discussion Thread

[STT]

CIS team always have good aim but fall down in other ways, still its unexpected.  Hobbit is world champ major winner but I dont know the others are of the same standard to be pulling off this victory and not even 3 maps.



I was busy today and just as well I was because I would have bet 3 maps here but only after also betting Astralis so doubt I would have made anything as the 3 maps odds was 1.93x so not great but lucky I had to go so skipped.   Have to remember VP is kinda good, not just a faint memory of the old team.   Nice day for anyone who guessed underdogs

[Avirunes]

Out of the blue CIS teams are dominating the Counter Strike scene. Where did that come from? VP, Gambit and Team Spirit are playing some world class CS and at least one team CIS team is going to make it to the Grand Finals. Mad Scenes.

Correct. Shocked me also.. but maybe it's all other teams playing not the usual CS. Yesterday Astralis didn't have any replies to VP's tricks but VP actually pulled off so many tricks from their hat- fakes, multiple rounds with early aggression and that is what made them find opening after catching Astralis on surprise. If you check the match again you will find Virtus Pro pulled off all the tricks while being in T side and Astralis had no answers for that. Astralis were playing like usual but VP had done their homework and they defeated Astralis to advance to semis.

[hanspeter77]

Late rin the IEM Katowice Team spirit vs Gambit esports ists hard to say who winn Gambit esports play very good the last matches, had dont think that they are so good.
Team liquid vs Virtus.Pro Virtus is the better team a little bit butt Team liquid can win maybe virtus hab an bad day 

[ralle14]

Looks like another underdog is about to win with Gambit taking their map pick and already leading 9-1 in the second map.

The series between Liquid and VP seems like a coinflip since both of them were able to take down the top teams but Liquid were able to take down Navi while VP struggled with them at the start of the group stage. With that said i'm taking Liquid @2.29, VP might have the better results sweeping teams 2-0 during their lower bracket run but I still see some value on the side of Liquid as they're capable of doing the same thing.

[Avirunes]

Looks like another underdog is about to win with Gambit taking their map pick and already leading 9-1 in the second map.

I am waiting for the spike in the ranks of both the teams. They have really defeated some good ranked teams to come here.

The series between Liquid and VP seems like a coinflip since both of them were able to take down the top teams but Liquid were able to take down Navi while VP struggled with them at the start of the group stage. With that said i'm taking Liquid @2.29, VP might have the better results sweeping teams 2-0 during their lower bracket run but I still see some value on the side of Liquid as they're capable of doing the same thing.

I am actually looking forward to this one. It will be exciting to watch as to find if Liquid had done their homework well with VP and tricks and also if VP has some new tricks with going all out against Astralis yesterday.

Surely gonna be a tight match.

[vennali]

I was expecting a close game between VP and Liquid but it seemed like a quick 2-0. Stewie2k had a off day today.. not finding any impact whatsoever. He couldnt catch a break, getting almost always tagged mid doors while crossing towards B by awp and then VP converging on the poor 2 defenders on B, time and time again. Liquid just got out strated. Generally you expect Liquid players to have the best aim in the game but even that didnt work out. Jame came out massive after a disappointing quarter finals. Yekindar and Buster looked sharp as usual and they outdueled Liquid almost every time.

[Avirunes]

Yekindar is doing great job for Virtus.pro and Jame was absolute beast yesterday. They gave Liquid no room and were punishing them with everything. Jame was hitting every shot in yesterdayy match, and I think he achieved some record for Mirage yesterday with AWP kills I guess. Well that's not it only have anyone of you seen an AWP'er entry fragging going into bomb site like nothing to worry about? well Jame was doing that and was having quite success at that also lol .

[hanspeter77]

Next match for today Gambit Esports vs Virtus.Pro that gone be an great match.
im dont think ever that Gambit come so far 
butt they play very good this session.

[vennali]

Next match for today Gambit Esports vs Virtus.Pro that gone be an great match.
im dont think ever that Gambit come so far 
butt they play very good this session.

I still think VP will take it home, Sh1ro might be the clutch king but Jame, quikert, Yekindar have all been in some amazing form. Yekindar barely misses anything its unbelievable how good he is. Also, There's Buster and Sanji and they are no slouches. For Gambit, Ax1Le has been amazing but overall I feel VP have a lot more quality and their strats have been on point.

[tomahawk9]

huh, so this is what happens when i don't post my daily picks here, eh? unlucky day for me on soccer tickets, but esports? 4/4 wins! 👀 my best record in months i think...let me brag a little bit, yeah?









gonna share my next pick tho:

bookies don't seem to care that FPX will be playing with a new sub that's coming from their academy (because the main sub for BO, Tian, just sucks) and they have Funplux ML at around 2.00 odds...surely the JDG odds will get slashed, they should be the heavy favorites here...right?

[ralle14]

For me it's the opposite, soccer gave signs of life on my bankroll with a couple of wins while esports not so much.  

bookies don't seem to care that FPX will be playing with a new sub that's coming from their academy (because the main sub for BO, Tian, just sucks) and they have Funplux ML at around 2.00 odds...surely the JDG odds will get slashed, they should be the heavy favorites here...right?

They're still not convinced on FPX's last two losses since it's all against good teams, maybe this series will be the decider.

Anyway I already took JDG @1.87 boosted to 1.93, it's really hard to skip on those odds even though JDG dropped a map against TT on their last series they still kept that map very close.

[hanspeter77]

Next go  Team One vs Winstrike should be a easy match for winstrike
Movistar Riders vs AGO Gaming my Favortie the Riders.
GODSENT cs SinnerS im bet on GODSENT they should win.

[Trofo]

For me it's the opposite, soccer gave signs of life on my bankroll with a couple of wins while esports not so much.  

bookies don't seem to care that FPX will be playing with a new sub that's coming from their academy (because the main sub for BO, Tian, just sucks) and they have Funplux ML at around 2.00 odds...surely the JDG odds will get slashed, they should be the heavy favorites here...right?

They're still not convinced on FPX's last two losses since it's all against good teams, maybe this series will be the decider.

Anyway I already took JDG @1.87 boosted to 1.93, it's really hard to skip on those odds even though JDG dropped a map against TT on their last series they still kept that map very close.

Where do you guys read such news about eSports? Maybe better that I did not read this piece of news before though. This way I had a very small bet on JDG to win, and a bit larger bet on JDG to win at least a map. If I knew about that sub I would be in for high stake and lost much more  

Of course they lost 2:0 and screwed all our tickets. I watched first map and they were simply out drafted in that one and never had chance to do anything.

[tomahawk9]

I've updated the calendar in the OP!

btw, ESL Pro League Season 13 groups have been released https://twitter.com/ESLCS/status/1366402993051025408



what do you guys think? Ez for who? I think either Mouse or NiP will make it very far in this tourney, i'm talking maybe the semifinals. MIBR could also be the dark horse

Anyway I already took JDG @1.87 boosted to 1.93, it's really hard to skip on those odds even though JDG dropped a map against TT on their last series they still kept that map very close.

well, that was a devastating blow! that 2nd game was painful to watch, while watching the stream i actually said out loud "wtf is this??!" lol i don't remember seeing JDG getting stomped like that Beichuan is one a hell of an improvement over Tian. And here i thought FPX were going to start going down the league table withot BO

Where do you guys read such news about eSports?

for LoL news, reddit (and sometimes twitter) is the place to go because of how fast they translate the articles

[ralle14]

Yeah that performance from JDG was like their all time low both games weren't even close as they all lost the laning phase.

The games today is so risky but i'm slightly confident Suning getting the 2-0 on TT since they beat IG last week. They're in the same situation as IG in terms of consistency but their opponent seems a bit weaker if we look at the teams they've beaten.

what do you guys think? Ez for who? I think either Mouse or NiP will make it very far in this tourney, i'm talking maybe the semifinals. MIBR could also be the dark horse

The teams that I could see advancing on the playoffs are

Group A : Heroic, BIG and FPX
Group B : Vitality, NiP and Faze
Group C : NaVi, Gambit and Furia
Group D : VP, Liquid and Astralis

Also the quick roster changes these past few days between OG, FPX and Heroic is so surprising to see.

Sunny taking ChrisJ's position on FPX
Niko leaving Heroic and joining OG
Heroic signing two new players

[hanspeter77]

Tomorrow start the ESEA Priemier Divison Europe with some great matches
Apeks vs GamerLegion my favortie Apeks they win the last matches an play very well
Hellraisers vs Wisla Krakow im bet in Hellraisers butt its risky
Sproud vs Nexus for Sproud they should eb an easy match.

[ralle14]

Feels great to break my losing streak yesterday thanks to Suning and Sofm.

Today I got WE -1.5 vs LGD @1.4 not much to say about this one since the record of both teams likely shows the outcome of this series and for me WE is a level above LGD.

The other series is just too unpredictable with how the odds are so one sided for RA (@1.13) the handicap is tempting but in their last two series they've dropped maps against teams that are sitting on the bottom of the standings.

[Trofo]

The other series is just too unpredictable with how the odds are so one sided for RA (@1.13) the handicap is tempting but in their last two series they've dropped maps against teams that are sitting on the bottom of the standings.

That is why I took handicap but against Rare Atom @2.3. That seems like a big value bet to me since eStar is bad but hopefully they are good enough to take one map here. I also feel like that break from the games sort of shuffled the cards a little.

What is happening with DOTA games on Sportsbet? Elephant game is greyed out (not available for betting) for whole morning and other games come into the offer very late.

[tomahawk9]

a bit of sad news for those who follow Broodwar  the ASL will no longer be supported in English

I started watching competitive brood war last year with the ASL Season 10 thx to @tokeweed's posts, and i actually enjoyed watching it, so i was looking forward to Season 11 and the friendly banter plus good commentary from the two casters Tasteless and Artosis, but, now what? watching it in korean AND in some crappy ass platform like Afreeca freaking sucks :/

The other series is just too unpredictable with how the odds are so one sided for RA (@1.13) the handicap is tempting but in their last two series they've dropped maps against teams that are sitting on the bottom of the standings.

this is when having a bookie offering other markets like Total Kills, Total Towers destroyed or Total Drakes comes in handy 

What is happening with DOTA games on Sportsbet? Elephant game is greyed out (not available for betting) for whole morning and other games come into the offer very late.

typical Betradar

[mezzaluna]

DOTA 2:

The upcoming Singapore Major already caused some things to break up even though its only the first DPC Season. Its really sad to see some teams break up even though it was expected. From North America: we have already see Peter Dager posting that he is not part of the team anymore and DNM posted that he is also currently looking for a team even though there are still no proper announcement that the team has broken up. From SEA: TNC released their two non-Filipino players which is sad because of the camaraderie that they have spent but internet connections are not really great within SEA.

Both teams did not qualify for the major and maybe they thought its time to rebuild.