🕹️ Esports 🎮 Prediction & Discussion Thread

[execijutiere]

Team Rooster is one of the weakest members of this group. I doubt they can even win. We saw in the fight against Pain that they are weak. Pain is a strong team and had to beat such an opponent anyway. The next match is OG-Vitality. OG is also a strong team but vitality has changed players and jackz seems to have gotten used to his new team quickly. I expect Vitality to win.

[dbshck]

NiP, on the other hand, struggled against a strong Brazilian team but managed to win. NiP has a good roster but I feel like they need some time if this roster is to remain stable.

Yep, definitely not in the same tier as FaZe right now, I expect an easy 2-0 for FaZe. Putting my money on Viality and FaZe for today's matches.

Team Rooster is one of the weakest members of this group. I doubt they can even win. We saw in the fight against Pain that they are weak. Pain is a strong team and had to beat such an opponent anyway. The next match is OG-Vitality. OG is also a strong team but vitality has changed players and jackz seems to have gotten used to his new team quickly. I expect Vitality to win.

Both Rooster and Grayhound seem weaker than their Brazilian counterpart. If this continues we'll get an Australian derby between Rooster and Grayhound in the first Last Chance match on Saturday. Especially as 00Nation looked quite decent against OG yesterday so they should be able to beat Grayhound in LB match tonight.

[execijutiere]

NiP, on the other hand, struggled against a strong Brazilian team but managed to win. NiP has a good roster but I feel like they need some time if this roster is to remain stable.

Yep, definitely not in the same tier as FaZe right now, I expect an easy 2-0 for FaZe. Putting my money on Viality and FaZe for today's matches.

Team Rooster is one of the weakest members of this group. I doubt they can even win. We saw in the fight against Pain that they are weak. Pain is a strong team and had to beat such an opponent anyway. The next match is OG-Vitality. OG is also a strong team but vitality has changed players and jackz seems to have gotten used to his new team quickly. I expect Vitality to win.

Both Rooster and Grayhound seem weaker than their Brazilian counterpart. If this continues we'll get an Australian derby between Rooster and Grayhound in the first Last Chance match on Saturday. Especially as 00Nation looked quite decent against OG yesterday so they should be able to beat Grayhound in LB match tonight.

If Grayhound and Rooster meet, Grayhound will be the winners. Rooster is the weakest link in the group and I don't think they can win a match. It's a great achievement for them to get this far. On the other hand, I think we will watch Vitality-Faze as the upper bracket final match in the group.It's hard to know the winner but I think Vitality is one step ahead this time.I wonder if it will be as I expect.

[Balmain]

Team Rooster is one of the weakest members of this group. I doubt they can even win. We saw in the fight against Pain that they are weak. Pain is a strong team and had to beat such an opponent anyway. The next match is OG-Vitality. OG is also a strong team but vitality has changed players and jackz seems to have gotten used to his new team quickly. I expect Vitality to win.

Jackz is a very experienced player he will strengthen the Vitality team. The impact was felt immediately in the OG match. They only have five rounds into OG's first chosen anubis map, as if they hadn't worked at all. Vitality played like deathmatch on this map, they were just running, each player's aim is really strong. When I looked at the breakout leaderboard, Zywoo was KD 20-4. The Vitality team did not have much difficulty in the Vertigo map either. They won the series 2-0 and Zywoo was the biggest factor so comfortable matches. He did a total of 44 kills on both maps and only died 16 times.

[execijutiere]

Team Rooster is one of the weakest members of this group. I doubt they can even win. We saw in the fight against Pain that they are weak. Pain is a strong team and had to beat such an opponent anyway. The next match is OG-Vitality. OG is also a strong team but vitality has changed players and jackz seems to have gotten used to his new team quickly. I expect Vitality to win.

Jackz is a very experienced player he will strengthen the Vitality team. The impact was felt immediately in the OG match. They only have five rounds into OG's first chosen anubis map, as if they hadn't worked at all. Vitality played like deathmatch on this map, they were just running, each player's aim is really strong. When I looked at the breakout leaderboard, Zywoo was KD 20-4. The Vitality team did not have much difficulty in the Vertigo map either. They won the series 2-0 and Zywoo was the biggest factor so comfortable matches. He did a total of 44 kills on both maps and only died 16 times.

Zywoo is really an amazing player.S1mple and Zywoo have already been in a race for a few years.Jackz is an experienced player who has played in top teams, so we can say that he adapted quickly.OG didn't show much presence on the anubis map he chose.Vitality was the better team and they knew how to win. The player who stood out in the OG team was Degster with his awpers, but his performance was naturally not enough.Zywoo played a big role in winning the match with a nice stat.

[jakelyson]

NiP, on the other hand, struggled against a strong Brazilian team but managed to win. NiP has a good roster but I feel like they need some time if this roster is to remain stable.

Yep, definitely not in the same tier as FaZe right now, I expect an easy 2-0 for FaZe. Putting my money on Viality and FaZe for today's matches.

I expected Vitality to win their match against OG but I did not expect them to win so easily. They breeze through Anubis just giving OG 5 rounds. On the second map, Vertigo, OG showed some resistance and played better, but Vitality still got the win. They are way too strong against OG right now.

Next match is NIP vs Faze. Faze is favored to win but @ 1.27, I do not think it is worth it to bet on.

[execijutiere]

NiP, on the other hand, struggled against a strong Brazilian team but managed to win. NiP has a good roster but I feel like they need some time if this roster is to remain stable.

Yep, definitely not in the same tier as FaZe right now, I expect an easy 2-0 for FaZe. Putting my money on Viality and FaZe for today's matches.

I expected Vitality to win their match against OG but I did not expect them to win so easily. They breeze through Anubis just giving OG 5 rounds. On the second map, Vertigo, OG showed some resistance and played better, but Vitality still got the win. They are way too strong against OG right now.

Next match is NIP vs Faze. Faze is favored to win but @ 1.27, I do not think it is worth it to bet on.

Vitality recently made a roster change and jackz came instead of dupreeh.This change may have been made for the sake of the team's agreement.The fact that Jackz adapted immediately shows this.It must be said that they are a really strong team now.I take this crushing win against OG as normal.OG could not settle the team for some reason.They mixed, but I think there are disagreements between the team.They are all talented players, but with different countries, maybe they have problems with the agreement.They may need a little more time. I think Faze will beat NiP.I think NiP is a rebuilt team after all.A few players have changed and there will be an adaptation process.So I can say that faze is the heavy favorite and I don't think it will be a difficult match for faze.

[sunsilk]

Time for team's to reshuffling as the new update for Dota 2 patch 7.32e has been released as promised.

https://www.dota2.com/patches/7.32e

There's also another hero named "Muerta": Dota 2’s new hero Muerta is now available, bigger 7.33 patch release date revealed.

And there will be a new update by next month. That was a quick release and will be followed up by another patch.

Just because of that LINA hero spam on Lima Majors then this current patch did really make out some overhaul or simply nerf out this hero which cd and atk speed had been decreases out which is really that
sad specially for those die hard users of this hero and its true that this current hero Muerta is really that on carry type which its been labeled on that category which is something that would be
spam out on normal or ranked matchmaking or being on an autopick 

It's not that sad at all, nerfing is always expected when it becomes a popular hero and that's what Valve is doing every single major or minor that happens. It will be followed up by another update by the month of April and let's see what it will be.

I've tried to play Muerta and I thought that it's an agi hero but it's an int instead.

What could be the next heroes that will be always be picked in the next tournaments? With what GG did for Witch Doctor, I guess that it will be part of the new meta that it will be considered as another strong offlane hero, maybe.

Yup, Witch Doctor is still strong since he received a slight buff on his W and maybe we'd see more meme hammer combo as it's now viable to more heroes after the casting time reduction.

For now, it's hard to say who could be the go-to hero in the competitive scene as we're only a few days into the patch and I barely play pubs but my guess would be Juggernaut, OD, Clinkz, and maybe SK as some of them received one or two good buffs that could push them higher in the priority list.

We'll see it then, currently, I am just enjoying the pubs and surprisingly that almost any hero is gonna be in good meta but we shall see what the pros will do about it with their pub games.

[execijutiere]

Just as I thought, Faze defeated NiP with easy. I knew NiP's roster wasn't settled after a tough win against Pain, and we can see that there are big problems within the team, as they started 12-3 down on both maps. It should be said that they suffered a crushing defeat especially in the ancient map.It is sad that a team like NiP, which has achieved great success in its time, has been defeated like this.Because it was one of the teams that I loved and supported at the time.I can say that NiP could not recover after the roster with GeT_RighT.

[CLS63]

This Sunday there is going to be a matchup between FaZe and Vitality in the upper final of Group C in the ESL Pro League. FaZe are favoured obviously and their performance recently has really been brilliant. In this matchup they are quite advantageous as well actually. Because they are better than Vitality on many maps. It is up to FaZe to make use of this advantage and be the victor.

When we check their head-to-head stats we clearly see that FaZe have a huge superiority to them. I think they can benefit from this psychological dominance too. I still expect a 2-1 result though as Vitality are not doing bad lately.

[dothebeats]

Alright, just after the Lima major and those that have been too curious and were aware of the cheating that Team Knights did during the qualifiers, there's now an action that's been made by Valve and Perfect World. And they're not the only players from that team has been banned, there are too many of them. There goes the lifetime ban for players and those that have the duration of 1 year and 2 years ban.
Refer to this list for those players: Knights and EHOME Players Amongst 46 Banned From Dota 2 Pro Circuit

It's good that they're making a somewhat swifter action right now. I remember that some of the cheating accusations a few years back that took months before Valve acknowledged and then the situation just died down and IIRC this is also for a Chinese team. Having said that, there isn'tthat much that can be done for these players except to hand over these bans for them to realize the gravity of their actions. Less players in the active pool = more chance for a lot of new teams to grab.

1+ month without competitive Dota that is worth watching, I'll start focusing my sights on CS:GO once more.

[arallmuus]

1+ month without competitive Dota that is worth watching, I'll start focusing my sights on CS:GO once more.

A month? nah, the DPC is back in 3-4 days depending on the region and it start with the division 1

many of them. There goes the lifetime ban for players and those that have the duration of 1 year and 2 years ban.
Refer to this list for those players: Knights and EHOME Players Amongst 46 Banned From Dota 2 Pro Circuit

Lol, whats with all the majority of the China region player banned though. I guess cheating to make your way up to play for a DPC team is quite a thing there huh. Well atleast Knights player made it to the Major then made a joke out of themselves by getting their ass beat by most team from the group stage before Valve decided to ban them

[execijutiere]

Two matches will be played today. The first match will be pain-og. Pain is a strong team but not strong enough to beat OG. I think OG team will beat Pain even if it's hard, it won't be an easy match. 3 maps can be played.
The other match is the Grayhound-NiP match. I expect NiP to win this match, albeit difficult, as well as a heavy defeat against Faze. Grayhound is the strong team of Australia and will push NiP.

[passwordnow]

Alright, just after the Lima major and those that have been too curious and were aware of the cheating that Team Knights did during the qualifiers, there's now an action that's been made by Valve and Perfect World. And they're not the only players from that team has been banned, there are too many of them. There goes the lifetime ban for players and those that have the duration of 1 year and 2 years ban.
Refer to this list for those players: Knights and EHOME Players Amongst 46 Banned From Dota 2 Pro Circuit

It's good that they're making a somewhat swifter action right now. I remember that some of the cheating accusations a few years back that took months before Valve acknowledged and then the situation just died down and IIRC this is also for a Chinese team. Having said that, there isn'tthat much that can be done for these players except to hand over these bans for them to realize the gravity of their actions. Less players in the active pool = more chance for a lot of new teams to grab.

1+ month without competitive Dota that is worth watching, I'll start focusing my sights on CS:GO once more.

There's no turning back, they've chosen their path and just destroyed their Dota 2 career. They know the consequences for doing such activities that are against the management and cheating is not tolerated by Valve I agree with you that they're acting quickly this time. Going back to CS:GO actions, although some minor Dota 2 tournaments are still there.

many of them. There goes the lifetime ban for players and those that have the duration of 1 year and 2 years ban.
Refer to this list for those players: Knights and EHOME Players Amongst 46 Banned From Dota 2 Pro Circuit

Lol, whats with all the majority of the China region player banned though. I guess cheating to make your way up to play for a DPC team is quite a thing there huh. Well atleast Knights player made it to the Major then made a joke out of themselves by getting their ass beat by most team from the group stage before Valve decided to ban them

It's a combination of many cheating involved like those hotkeys that they're using while they play, map hack for which most games and qualifiers are made online so it's easy for them to abuse it, and as well as the known "322". Well, they deserve it and looking at some articles online, I've read that only 2 teams remain in division 2. Let's see how the China region will fill those removed spots.

[Mauser]

ESL Pro League Season 17 is my main focus for the weekend and next week. There were some surprises in the last few matches, a big one was Grayhound beating NiP 2-1. I thought NiP would win that one easily, but I misjudged them. Today Grayhound is playing against paiN which is going to be interesting. Even though paiN is the clear favourite for the match I am going with Grayhound for this one. The other match today is 00Nation vs Rooster, which should the Brazilians be winning easily. Another big surprise was 00Nation losing against Grayhound and OG. Both coldzera and TACO are two great players and hopefully they will pull it around. The last match today is OG vs NiP which is probably the most interesting one, they are both good teams and it's going to be a close one. It's an all or nothing match, the losing team will be out of the Series. I will go with NiP for the match, it could go either way though.

[Jossque]

Yesterday there were 2 matches whose outcome surprised me. The first one is of course Pain vs OG.When I look at the OG team, I think that it was a mixed team of young players, all talented from each other, but due to inexperience, such a defeat was taken. Otherwise, I think that OG's players are much stronger and more talented than Pain.Of course, this defeat is not very important for them, but it was proof that some lessons were learned. The other match was NiP losing to grayhound. While NiP won 16-2 on the map grayhound chose, they failed to show this success on other maps and were defeated as a result.I think that NiP's roster is not settled and they still need time and I want to think that this roster will achieve great success over time.Otherwise, NiP will be dragged into a collapse.I hope that the roster is strong now, but there is a disagreement between the players and this will be resolved soon.

[Kapokala]

Yesterday there were 2 matches whose outcome surprised me. The first one is of course Pain vs OG.When I look at the OG team, I think that it was a mixed team of young players, all talented from each other, but due to inexperience, such a defeat was taken. Otherwise, I think that OG's players are much stronger and more talented than Pain.Of course, this defeat is not very important for them, but it was proof that some lessons were learned. The other match was NiP losing to grayhound. While NiP won 16-2 on the map grayhound chose, they failed to show this success on other maps and were defeated as a result.I think that NiP's roster is not settled and they still need time and I want to think that this roster will achieve great success over time.Otherwise, NiP will be dragged into a collapse.I hope that the roster is strong now, but there is a disagreement between the players and this will be resolved soon.

Yet performance of NIP did not surprise me at all. I do not know how Aleksib, after getting benched in 3, teams before, is still taken seriously to tier1 teams. G2, OG, all of these squads, full of such great players (maybe NBK was not as good) failed even in major qualifications. How far this can go? Australian CS was always the one getting roasted around the whole world, only Dexter achieved something. Losing to such team as Grayhound, with 1 map lead, and also 9:6 lead on 2nd map, mirage, is a sign to move on with such IGL as AleksiB is. He just can not perform such as he used to back in the days, when he was in Ence.

[Kapokala]

As well as ESL Pro League goes. This is the season of upsets. And IT will only continue. To me, tier1 (that includes max top10 teams in the world does not exist anymore). Only Heroic is actually pretty consistent with their form, but always do lose in finals (major, IEM katowice). We do need source2 that will finally implement huge changes in the game. Nerfing AWP, or SSG won't do a thing, if we won't change movement, boosts, atleast half of map pool. Look at Nuke right now. It used to be fully CT sided map for a few years. In 2022 its Like 60/40 CT map, that played well, could convert into 30/70 T sided map. Valve makes cosmetial changes, but it stll does not improve lvl of sportship.

[dbshck]

ESL Pro League Season 17 is my main focus for the weekend and next week. There were some surprises in the last few matches, a big one was Grayhound beating NiP 2-1. I thought NiP would win that one easily, but I misjudged them. Today Grayhound is playing against paiN which is going to be interesting. Even though paiN is the clear favourite for the match I am going with Grayhound for this one. The other match today is 00Nation vs Rooster, which should the Brazilians be winning easily. Another big surprise was 00Nation losing against Grayhound and OG. Both coldzera and TACO are two great players and hopefully they will pull it around. The last match today is OG vs NiP which is probably the most interesting one, they are both good teams and it's going to be a close one. It's an all or nothing match, the losing team will be out of the Series. I will go with NiP for the match, it could go either way though.

Didn't expect those upsets at all. Especially for NiP, they look really dominant in the first map (Ancient) which is Grayhound's picks. It's surprising to see two big dogs facing each other in an elimination match. I'm also placing my bet on NiP. Good luck with our bet

As well as ESL Pro League goes. This is the season of upsets. And IT will only continue. To me, tier1 (that includes max top10 teams in the world does not exist anymore). Only Heroic is actually pretty consistent with their form, but always do lose in finals (major, IEM katowice).

G2 also looks consistent, aside from their recent 2-0 loss against Cloud9. Personally, I hope to see more upsets like these, as they make the scene even more competitive and thrilling to watch.

[sunsilk]

Armel and Yamich are the two addition for Team Secret. They've announced it a few hours ago that they'll be the replacement for resolution and zayac.

Puppey has said something about these two players.

Team Secret's tweet: Our captain Puppey shares some perspective on our recent additions to the squad.