🕹️ Esports 🎮 Prediction & Discussion Thread

[tomahawk9]

Evil Geniuses create a 15-man csgo team 👀 https://www.hltv.org/news/33953/eg-sign-carpe-diem-party-astronauts-rosters-announce-plans-to-create-fluid-15-man-team

The main problem for NA is in their strategy and discipline seems like.  The euro teams are robots of destruction in comparison.  Maybe EG have got the right idea.

I've seen a lot of comment saying that EG are taking the right step with this and that it has the potential to be something huge for the NA scene in the long-term, but i genuinely can't see how a 15-man roster is gonna help EG let alone the entire region  

There's also an IEM promo going with stake (first map insurance) in case you guys might want to play it safe.

thanks
but, seriously, the Stake team really need to come up with a new csgo promo,, it's the same one all the time lol 😂🤣

FURIA - G2, i'm going with over maps x1.9, Vtg Furia, Inf G2 and then the decider which could be Ancient or Mrg
*EDIT alright, no more FURIA in my tickets
*EDIT nvm, i love Furia 

[savetheFORUM]

Evil Geniuses create a 15-man csgo team 👀 https://www.hltv.org/news/33953/eg-sign-carpe-diem-party-astronauts-rosters-announce-plans-to-create-fluid-15-man-team

The main problem for NA is in their strategy and discipline seems like.  The euro teams are robots of destruction in comparison.  Maybe EG have got the right idea.
  They got the premier team for major, a lower team for many other leagues and Im not sure on the 3rd team but younger players select most likely but I havent checked all the players.

Having a bigger team has both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is obviously that you can replace a non-performing player based on a certain type of matchup or rest a player after a particular map. If I am not mistaken I have seen teams do this a lot, they rest a player for a particular map and get them back for maps they thrive on.

The disadvantage though is that the team loses its synergy and starts focusing too much on stats because the players are always mindful of the fact that someone is waiting once they make a mistake, they get replaced. You can see why Astralis was such a force back then because they had a fixed roster and immaculate synergy between them all.

[boyptc]

10 will be eliminated at the early phase and then the 20 will go and play for the playoffs.

Im not sure where do you guys both got this from but it will be 20 teams to begin with and only 16 will be going through the playoffs stage.

There will be a last chance qualifiers and aside from the secured 18 slots(6 regional slots, 12 DPC slots), there will be 2 winners from the last chance qualifiers that will get into the groupstages. Before the playoffs, there's the group stages and that's the elimination process that shall end 4 teams during the group stages so it ends with 16 teams left for the playoffs.

I hope that I explained it well.

Everyone's hype on this news about the TI12 and then there's still the Arlington major that's about to come, well. We have just forgotten that there's one to come before this comes.

We'll have DPC before that though, schedules has been released though with some region like WEU starting off at 7th June. So basically few more days before we have something great to bet on

Yup and this is where most teams are going to adjust their rosters and play style to secure a DPC point that shall make them qualify for the upcoming TI.

The location of the upcoming even of TI is very favorable to SEA fans. I'm sure that it will be sold out fast considering how huge the Dota2 community on SEA. So I'm not vaccinated yet due to my health condition so it's impossible for me to book a ticket and flight even if I want too.

This Covid-19 ruined my dream on watching live TI. I hope SEA teams will win on this TI.

Many are still unvaccinated but good for those fans that can fly to Singapore as they're living nearby. Honestly, it's one of my thing to watch the TI but I don't know when. I'm probably good to watch the whole coverage then. 

[STT]

FaZe clan vs Cloud9 Faze in my favortie. they are better in the gameplay butt cloud9 was a bit underrated the last jears we will see what happen.

Im watching it now and its very close so I put down 3 maps.  However C9 is struggling on their own map pick which can sometimes mean both theirs and the opposing teams maps slip despite in theory being close, a team needs to have definitive advantage on their own planned map at least.    So yea Faze favorites rightly in the odds despite even score half time first map. 
  I did bet C9 on the nice 'underdog' odds they have, they can win one map just hope they let me cash out with strength as Im not confident overall tbh

[edgycorner]

Holy shid, are you guys watching this? Someone check Twistzz's PC for hacks
this is so unreal, I have 5k+ Hours in CS:GO and never have I witnessed something like this
https://clips.twitch.tv/NeighborlySillyMinkCoolStoryBob-kGnrMWdp0LMuR4uP
This play surpasses Coldzera's 4k AWP hold at B apartment with jumpshots

[ralle14]

thanks
but, seriously, the Stake team really need to come up with a new csgo promo,, it's the same one all the time lol 😂🤣

I agree, it would be nice to have a double winnings promo like they with their other sports for example, if X player hits X yards/points/etc but for CSGO it'll be frags,  but I wouldn't mind taking another insurance. 

I also started losing hope on Furia after the first half of the second map lol then OT happened, Furia gets the second map and the momentum shifts to their side heading to the decider map and completes the reverse sweep.

[Balmain]

In this tournament, two favorite teams were eliminated in the quarter-finals, and it is progressing very interestingly. Ence easily eliminated Furia in the semi-finals and made it to the final. Soon, the BIG-Cloud9 match starts, cloud9 is my favorite in this match, but I can't be sure because there were very unexpected results in this tournament. Let's see who will be Ence's opponent in the final.

[tomahawk9]

Holy shid, are you guys watching this? Someone check Twistzz's PC for hacks
this is so unreal, I have 5k+ Hours in CS:GO and never have I witnessed something like this
https://clips.twitch.tv/NeighborlySillyMinkCoolStoryBob-kGnrMWdp0LMuR4uP
This play surpasses Coldzera's 4k AWP hold at B apartment with jumpshots

yeah that was sick. Twistzz had some pretty great moments yesterday, too bad the rest of the team could't keep up

I also started losing hope on Furia after the first half of the second map lol then OT happened, Furia gets the second map and the momentum shifts to their side heading to the decider map and completes the reverse sweep.

they looked pretty bad yesterday, but i expected them to bounce back with a strong performance against one of the hottest teams right now...delusional 💩

that's the end of my winning streak

[STT]

I was tempted by the 3 maps thing, I had already bet ENCE as they are clearly ahead of most teams currently (it was still very close).   Nuke is one of the best maps for ENCE and Snax, I thought Furia picked it but Vertigo was theirs and close loss so unlucky you nearly got 3 maps.   They got 3 Polish players presently, not sure Snax is restricted by some sanctions problem via his org or not but he is about the best stand in any team has integrated.  Snax said he is reminded of his old VP days, they were giant slayers so good omens  Yep think I will side with them for tomorrows game

[edgycorner]

yeah that was sick. Twistzz had some pretty great moments yesterday, too bad the rest of the team could't keep up

I still remember his last bullet headshot clutch with a CZ on Nuke during 2018 major against astralis like yesterday. That dude has the best first shot accuracy, no one comes close.

yea, they looked weak af. They weren't the same team, that we saw last month.

I was tempted by the 3 maps thing, I had already bet ENCE as they are clearly ahead of most teams currently (it was still very close).   Nuke is one of the best maps for ENCE and Snax, I thought Furia picked it but Vertigo was theirs and close loss so unlucky you nearly got 3 maps.   They got 3 Polish players presently, not sure Snax is restricted by some sanctions problem via his org or not but he is about the best stand in any team has integrated.  Snax said he is reminded of his old VP days, they were giant slayers so good omens  Yep think I will side with them for tomorrows game

Not sure why mouz kicked him, right after they won IEM NY with him. He's a beast. Now he's going to win IEM Dallas with Ence and still going to get kicked(since he's a stand-in lol). Unlucky guy.

Final is a bo5, safe bet would be over 3.5. Each team is getting at least one map for sure!

[ralle14]

Does anyone like ENCE @2.33 to win the grand finals?

This series feels like a toss-up after Cloud9 struggled against BIG yesterday on their map pick before getting that reverse sweep. While ENCE on the other side, are looking good so far and it doesn't look like Snax is holding the team back given his good performance. Also, Cloud9 struggled against Furia during the group stage but ENCE took down Furia 2-0.

[tomahawk9]

Final is a bo5, safe bet would be over 3.5. Each team is getting at least one map for sure!

over 3.5 @1.4 odds last night was superb value. No chance we see a 3-0 sweep ... but you never know 👀

Does anyone like ENCE @2.33 to win the grand finals?

good value
it went down to @2.2 odds so i'll just use the other SB sportsbook


i hope Snax stays in ENCE after today's grand final, he's been fantastic in this tournament. I would drop Maden and replace him with Snax. Main roster: Hades, Snax, Spinx, Dycha, Snappi,, oof! they would win everything 

[sunsilk]

I've checked the roster updates for teams on Dota 2 and for the last week of May, a lot of things has happened. Everyone is getting prepared for the upcoming major and qualifiers.

Watching right now, Grand Finals: Virtus.Pro and No sorry. Excited to watch again ramzes on a finals game. As of typing this, it's the first game for the bo5 series.

This is for the tournament on D2CL: Season 11

[Balmain]

Does anyone like ENCE @2.33 to win the grand finals?

This series feels like a toss-up after Cloud9 struggled against BIG yesterday on their map pick before getting that reverse sweep. While ENCE on the other side, are looking good so far and it doesn't look like Snax is holding the team back given his good performance. Also, Cloud9 struggled against Furia during the group stage but ENCE took down Furia 2-0.

Even the grand finale has started, I am late to bet but if I had done it, 2.33 is a good odds I could have taken this risk for the ENCE team. In the first map Mirage, ENCE chose this map and they play a really good game on this map, I think it would be a good start for other maps if they don't get stuck on the Mirage map. Other maps will continue as overpass, ancient, vertigo and dust2.

[tomahawk9]

as everyone expected (?) it's gonna be a quick 3-0 for Cloud9 in the grand final. RIP my mbtc. Thank you, ENCE

[hanspeter77]

LOL cloud 9 was so strong today they win each map, they go back to the roots an come in top form.
since a long time BIG dont go out befor the semi finals begin  thats very cool.
its a bit sad for Ence they play so good the whole competion.

[edgycorner]

Final is a bo5, safe bet would be over 3.5. Each team is getting at least one map for sure!

over 3.5 @1.4 odds last night was superb value. No chance we see a 3-0 sweep ... but you never know 👀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWFmU_Zl2hc

[ralle14]

as everyone expected (?) it's gonna be a quick 3-0 for Cloud9 in the grand final. RIP my mbtc. Thank you, ENCE

Same reaction lol, profits down the drain but at least it was a quick loss instead of ENCE giving us false hopes.

Looking forward to tomorrow's division 1 games (mainly OG vs Secret). Also, today is the start of the lower division but i'm not confident to bet on any matches so i'll just observe the teams for now.

[sunsilk]

Looking forward to tomorrow's division 1 games (mainly OG vs Secret). Also, today is the start of the lower division but i'm not confident to bet on any matches so i'll just observe the teams for now.

Nice, that's a debut for the first match for WEU. And there are slots for the Arlington major for this tour 3 of DPC.

4 slots for the WEU
3 slots for the EEU
4 slots for China
3 slots for the SEA
2 slots each for North and South America

Source: https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Main_Page

It is interesting also for the NA as they only have 2 slots for the Arlington major and only 4 teams from 8 that I know the roster. Well, guess would be EG and .

The problem is if EG chokes on this one, they won't get a slot.

[Balmain]

as everyone expected (?) it's gonna be a quick 3-0 for Cloud9 in the grand final. RIP my mbtc. Thank you, ENCE

Same reaction lol, profits down the drain but at least it was a quick loss instead of ENCE giving us false hopes.

Looking forward to tomorrow's division 1 games (mainly OG vs Secret). Also, today is the start of the lower division but i'm not confident to bet on any matches so i'll just observe the teams for now.

ENCE has been really good around here for a long time. They grinded and moved up to the second place in the overall ranking. I was hopeful in this tournament too, but Cloud9 won a very comfortable victory. It looks better if more teams join the competition to place a bet. Usually there would be teams that won Navi and Faze tournaments. I see it as a good thing that other teams are now pushing Navi and Faze.