🕹️ Esports 🎮 Prediction & Discussion Thread

[ralle14]

Is there going to be 3-peat?  

Not sure about a 3-peat since there's so many good teams between the CN, SA and SEA region but we'll see if they have a surprise strategy heading in the tournament.

I wanted to take Faze later on but unfortunately stake doesn't have the odds so I ended up taking Navi @1.5 instead.

I can't comment on Astralis and navi match, Astralis is not the old invincible astralis, navi can win if they plays really well and coordinately

I mean Navi is expected to win since they have the better form and even though Astralis could still pull an upset it looks like they're regressing.

[Avirunes]

It's a beautiful Sunday and there are many competitive matches. Faze team won 2-0 against vitality on mirage and dust2 maps. Currently, the heroic-furia match is being played live. I thought it would be easy for heroic, but it's not quite like that. There are 4 more games today, I think gambit and big will go one up. I can't comment on Astralis and navi match, Astralis is not the old invincible astralis, navi can win if they plays really well and coordinately

Vitality weren't able to hold the lead in first map and gave in too easily to Faze and as for 2nd map Faze had a good lead and right when VItality were making comeback in second map Twistzz pulled off a crazy deagle round in the last crucial rounds to make it easy for Faze. It was close but honestly Vitality should have done better.

Right now I have money on Virtus. Despite some poor performances in past week , I think they still would be back on track in this IEM Cologne and so far they are playing good against BIG.

[Beparanf]

Is there going to be 3-peat?  

Not sure about a 3-peat since there's so many good teams between the CN, SA and SEA region but we'll see if they have a surprise strategy heading in the tournament.

I wanted to take Faze later on but unfortunately stake doesn't have the odds so I ended up taking Navi @1.5 instead.

This is just like TI8 which they are underdog due to many strong team by that time. I saw the post game interview of Sumail and this the first time that I saw him saying that he feels no pressure on playing with OG. A disciplined and humble Sumail will be the key for OG success. I believe Sumail miss playing TI with a compose team that's he is very happy and confident this time. OG has a shot on this 3peat since they have a lot of experience competing TI.

[SUPERSAIAN]

It's a beautiful Sunday and there are many competitive matches. Faze team won 2-0 against vitality on mirage and dust2 maps. Currently, the heroic-furia match is being played live. I thought it would be easy for heroic, but it's not quite like that. There are 4 more games today, I think gambit and big will go one up. I can't comment on Astralis and navi match, Astralis is not the old invincible astralis, navi can win if they plays really well and coordinately

Vitality weren't able to hold the lead in first map and gave in too easily to Faze and as for 2nd map Faze had a good lead and right when VItality were making comeback in second map Twistzz pulled off a crazy deagle round in the last crucial rounds to make it easy for Faze. It was close but honestly Vitality should have done better.

Right now I have money on Virtus. Despite some poor performances in past week , I think they still would be back on track in this IEM Cologne and so far they are playing good against BIG.

a legendary 4k(3hs) from twistzz ... Remember, he did this in the eco round.

4k deagle    

Remaining matches navi-astralis, faze-heroic. favorite teams on bet sites are navi and heroic. I bet my money for navi and faze, waiting for the match..

[batang_bitcoin]

Is there going to be 3-peat?  

Not sure about a 3-peat since there's so many good teams between the CN, SA and SEA region but we'll see if they have a surprise strategy heading in the tournament.

Yeah, it's going to be uncertain for now. But they've shown how good they are despite the roster change after the 2-TIs that they've taken. And the 2 new boys on their rosters, they're also heavy weights, Sumail who also became a TI champ while Saksa who's also a runner up with past TI.
This is making my mind more exciting and btw, there's a new venue for the upcoming TI, it's on Bucharest, Romania.

[STT]

Navi should win it but at over odds 5 to 1 for Astralis I can think of worse underdog type bets to take.   Navi are doing their best of perhaps forever while Astralis are in recovery after losing core members but my reason for optimism is Astralis dont give up they are probably one of the best disciplined teams in the game for those reasons and that Navi arent flawless I'll put some outside bet on them.

They lost pistol despite being very careful good plan, they got ran over anyway; odds went to 10 then

[tomahawk9]

are we gonna have a 3 month break until The International? other than the i-League which resumes next week with the playoffs, is there any other high tier event coming up?  

IEM cologne is taking a few days off, so i guess i'll just focus on LoL.
I'm off to a good start this week thanks to FoFo's orianna carry in game 2.

Same orianna on the hands of DoinB deleted everyone in game 3 tho

tomorrow, LNG need to bounce back after two consecutive defeats. It's team WE so i think they'll take the win

Navi should win it but at over odds 5 to 1 for Astralis I can think of worse underdog type bets to take.

s1mple on Inferno finished with as many kills as 3 astralis players combined and had a 2.2 rating...literally a one man army

[Trofo]

tomorrow, LNG need to bounce back after two consecutive defeats. It's team WE so i think they'll take the win

Missing stuff to bet on so trailing your pick for tomorrow. Looks good to me.

This was a hard Monday, during the weekend we had final matches in Copa, Euro and Wimbledon, like that is not enough even T1 qualifiers ended at the same time and now we have DOTA break. Will have to get back into LoL and CS and lower tier tennis

[ralle14]

are we gonna have a 3 month break until The International? other than the i-League which resumes next week with the playoffs, is there any other high tier event coming up? 

For dota there's not much so LPL and LCK is my go to during the weekdays but once we near the weekend there's a bunch like OWL playoffs, COD League and regional matches on Rainbow Six but I don't follow the scene too much so I usually stick to league.

Not sure about LNG they lost to a bottom tier team then you have Team WE with mixed results even though they're 4-4 atm it's hard to underestimate this team I feel like this one is a toss up so i'd go with o2.5 maps.

[hanspeter77]

    hot weekend with great cs:go matches im a bit sad BIG lost an they are out of the match
butt im now that Ninjas was to good for BIG.
Gambit Esprots lost the last match WOW butt G2 play very strong they earnt it to win.
Faze win vs Heroic  hopefull Faze get a comeback, 3 jears ago Faze was the best team in the world 

[tomahawk9]

tomorrow, LNG need to bounce back after two consecutive defeats. It's team WE so i think they'll take the win

Missing stuff to bet on so trailing your pick for tomorrow. Looks good to me.

i feel for the biggest memefluke team of this season and paid the ultimate the price. It's all downhill from here, they're gonna go back to where they belong which is bottom half of the standings
We'll recover that stake soon, don't you worry

i'd go with o2.5 maps.

Nice. Team WE were terrible lately with 1W in the last 4 games so i thought it was the perfect opportunity for flukeNG to secure another win 

[zanezane]

Missing stuff to bet on so trailing your pick for tomorrow. Looks good to me.

This was a hard Monday, during the weekend we had final matches in Copa, Euro and Wimbledon, like that is not enough even T1 qualifiers ended at the same time and now we have DOTA break. Will have to get back into LoL and CS and lower tier tennis

I think that my money would be reserved for the upcoming The International, pretty sure that there's going to be a lot of people especially in the DOTA2 community that's going to be anticipating this long awaited match ups and this is welcoming because there's going to be new teams playing and new meta will surely make things different than the last time.

[ralle14]

I feel like there's a bit of value on the over once again as Ultra Prime (eStar) is on the rise taking down V5 and LNG while OMG lost to stronger teams (EDG and Suning) as expected.  

These two teams have the same firepower with a slight edge on OMG so i'm expecting both teams to grab a map win and push this series to the distance.  

[hanspeter77]

In 2 Days start the next round of quarterfinals Virtus.Pro vs Astralis  the winner of this match play in the halffinals vs G2 Esports
Im think Astralis will win this match, and Gambit vs FaZe Clan im wish FaZe the best butt im dont think they win maybe they win 1 round butt not more.

[Trofo]

i feel for the biggest memefluke team of this season and paid the ultimate the price. It's all downhill from here, they're gonna go back to where they belong which is bottom half of the standings
We'll recover that stake soon, don't you worry

Really hope so, not so much about the stake, I am missing the action. After a month with plethora of options now I can't make a double ticket I feel good about. Withdrawal is hitting me hard

I think that today is the first day in last 5 years when I did not play a serious ticket. Just spent one free bet of 0.25 mBTC I had to because it would expire otherwise. Made an x5 multi with some CS:GO and tennis games. Lost it of course.

[ralle14]

Surprised to see that the LCK favorites today aren't one sided like it was back then so i'm taking my chances on T1 and DK to win parlayed both @1.89 DK seems like a guarantee win as long as they don't go for a surprise role swap. T1's series on the other hand is somewhat close to a coinflip since both teams need the win to keep their playoff chances but i'm hoping we'd see the T1 that took down GenG last week.

[tomahawk9]

I think that today is the first day in last 5 years when I did not play a serious ticket. Just spent one free bet of 0.25 mBTC I had to because it would expire otherwise. Made an x5 multi with some CS:GO and tennis games. Lost it of course.

i'm still able to find events to place some bets on like south american football (copa libertadores) finally resumed after a 2 month break. There's also lot of LoL action and IEM cologne will be back tomorrow (:

i know you need your Dota fix so you'll be glad to know that there's an interesting tournament starting very soon https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Dota_2_Champions_League/2021/Season_2

Surprised to see that the LCK favorites today aren't one sided like it was back then so i'm taking my chances on T1 and DK to win parlayed both @1.89

LCK clown fiesta reaching its peak in game 1 of DK - NS  Almost 50 kills and a ton of errors everywhere (Shoemaker was so bad). Entertaining af

i went with the NS handicap there and it paid off

1.7 was good value. Nongshim and gori have been superb this season, plus their last meeting with DK a few weeks ago finished 2-1 NS. Could they be the DK's kryptonyte?

[hanspeter77]

Next goes for today European Development Championsip IN.GAME vs Boys without Pyjamas realy funny name had the boys butt they have noch chance to win.
No Org vs Infinity Gaming im think No Org will win they play better butt Infinty is not too bad they can win butt im dont think.
MAD Lions vs forZe im wish Mad Lions will win butt im dont think forZe play very good and they will win.

[batang_bitcoin]

Is there any fans of Vikin.GG for Dota 2 in here or impressed with their performances for the past tournaments? Well, they now ended their journey with that roster and now the team itself has departed for that roster. I guess the players are strong and they can still continue with that roster having a new sponsor or just stay just them just like the other teams. They got a good future and only has to improve more for the next minors and majors and maybe the next year's TI.

[ralle14]

Is there any fans of Vikin.GG for Dota 2 in here or impressed with their performances for the past tournaments? Well, they now ended their journey with that roster and now the team itself has departed for that roster. I guess the players are strong and they can still continue with that roster having a new sponsor or just stay just them just like the other teams. They got a good future and only has to improve more for the next minors and majors and maybe the next year's TI.

Not a fan but i've been following them during their rise in the scene, surely the players will still continue in the pro scene but I guess the org might pick up a new roster and maybe the same goes for the players since it all went downhill after they changed their offlaner. We'll probably see more teams disband or players leaving their current teams in the near future.

Staying away from the handicap today and going for a safer play with Afreeca to win @1.42 vs Fredit Brion, my only reason for taking this pick is that Afreeca improved quite a lot because last season they're usually winning the laning phase but couldn't stabilize most of the time during the mid to late game.