🕹️ Esports 🎮 Prediction & Discussion Thread

[Jossque]

We are seeing some surprise results in the Paris major rmr group B matches. I think it was quite surprising that Monte and 9INE started the group with 2-0 after the first day. I think the opponents of these teams were also very difficult, but they managed to defeat their opponents. Monte team beat both ence and c9. 9INE managed to defeat G2 and BIG. We can say that we saw unexpected performances from both teams. The other teams that made 2/2 were not surprising names that could be expected. These were vitality and heroic.

[passwordnow]

On their week 1, they've got 2 matches and all of them got 2-0 as results. So far, that's a good start for them for having an entire new squad for pos 2, 3 and 4. If it's not for Puppey, fans of Team Secret will be gone honestly. But, they're still a top tier team and many tier 1 teams are struggling on division 2 and that's deciding them on what type of team they are. It's just so hard to win games to the point that these are pro teams, having hard times. There's still week 2 and week 3 remaining for the WEU Division 2 tour and more games for Team Secret.

One might think that Team Secret will easily dominate Division 2, but I see that have good competition there. Ancient Tribe is currently leading the group with 3 wins. They even swept Old G in their match, and it is a quick match as well. I think this team will give Team Secret a headache when they meet each other this weekend.

I expected Old G to come on top of Division 2 but they are slowly slipping. They are beaten by unknown teams. Are they not that strong that they can't get out of Division 2?

It's okay for Ancient Tribe to be at the top for week 1 since they've got 3 matches while for Team Secret, they've got 2. But later on, is the start of week 2 and we'll see Team Secret match against D2 Hustlers.
As for Old G, that's okay, the tournament has just started for them but they're approaching to the 2nd week and this is a serious tournament that shall bring 2 teams on this division 2 into division 1.

[ralle14]

It's okay for Ancient Tribe to be at the top for week 1 since they've got 3 matches while for Team Secret, they've got 2. But later on, is the start of week 2 and we'll see Team Secret match against D2 Hustlers.
As for Old G, that's okay, the tournament has just started for them but they're approaching to the 2nd week and this is a serious tournament that shall bring 2 teams on this division 2 into division 1.

Now Team Secret just got their first loss from D2 Hustlers, after going up 1-0 they tried drafting around Armel's TA in game 2 but it didn't work as D2 Hustler's midlaner was just dominating Armel throughout the last two games.

With that shaky performance, they might get their second loss against Ancient Tribe and that could potentially stop their road to getting promoted back to Div 1. I hope they can bounce back and win against PuckChamp in their next series though so we'd get good odds for the Ancient Tribe series this weekend.

[execijutiere]

I must say that I saw an unexpected result in the 9ine vitality match. Vitality played badly as a team. 9ine really beat the teams they beat with a good fight. They beat G2, Vitality and BIG teams respectively and managed to get the major spot. I don't know if we can say that Polish cs is maybe coming back, but let's state that they are a team in form these days. I honestly haven't seen a Polish team playing so well after VP.

[arallmuus]

so we'd get good odds for the Ancient Tribe series this weekend.

Speaking of Ancient Tribe, this team plays well so far and I might be tempted to pick -1.5 on their next game




Bet on this in the meantime, Alliance should be good enough to pull 2-0 against ITB especially when ITB had lost all their 3 games so far.

[execijutiere]

Heroic, on the other hand, barely beat monte. I expected Heroic to have an easier win, but they had a hard time beating monte.
In the Astralis-Spirit match, astralis won. Astralis is not bad as a team but they need to change some things. They don't have a strong roster like before and they are aware of that. Spirit, on the other hand, has young and talented players. Astralis used their experience to win this match and eliminated spirit.

[passwordnow]

It's okay for Ancient Tribe to be at the top for week 1 since they've got 3 matches while for Team Secret, they've got 2. But later on, is the start of week 2 and we'll see Team Secret match against D2 Hustlers.
As for Old G, that's okay, the tournament has just started for them but they're approaching to the 2nd week and this is a serious tournament that shall bring 2 teams on this division 2 into division 1.

Now Team Secret just got their first loss from D2 Hustlers, after going up 1-0 they tried drafting around Armel's TA in game 2 but it didn't work as D2 Hustler's midlaner was just dominating Armel throughout the last two games.

With that shaky performance, they might get their second loss against Ancient Tribe and that could potentially stop their road to getting promoted back to Div 1. I hope they can bounce back and win against PuckChamp in their next series though so we'd get good odds for the Ancient Tribe series this weekend.

What a series, it was 2-1 and D2 Hustlers is a team that all of these opponents should take notice. Looking at the draft, it seems that in game 3 they were out-drafted. I also wish that they'll win against PuckChamp and I think that this will be a winnable game for them, actually all of them but it just so happens that even in division 2, teams are not that weak. They're all potential teams to go to the ladder to division 1. But whoever deserves it shall deserve and get it. I guess most teams here are looking upon AT and D2 Hustlers as their toughest opponents.

[execijutiere]

Tomorrow may be the last chance for our Turkish representative eternal fire to get a ticket to the major.I expect EF, who will face Aurora, to win in this match.Even if it is not 2-0, it can win 2-1.The aurora team, which lost 16-14 against G2 and Heroic, should not be underestimated.If it is so difficult for teams at this level, we can say that eternal fire is waiting for a difficult encounter.It is more like 2-1 if EF wins, not 2-0.

[Balmain]

9INE continues undefeated in RMR qualifiers. I'm talking about the teams they have won so far, they have not lost any losses, BIG, Vitality and G2. They play really well. They gave Vitality a tough time today. Hades AWM battles often win. This difference is part of the reason they won the Anubis map. While magisk did great things in Vertigo, Apeks' decisions and actions were not good at all. EF Cloud9 and Vertigo lost 10-0 in overtime, which is very sad. Tomorrow they will play a bo3 match with Aurora. This match will be good for the Challengers Stage if they win.

[boltz]

We have 2 series of 3 way tie-breaker so tomorrow should be one hell of a day when it comes to Dota 2 games.

In first series I do see Aster and Execration going further as I still find hard to trust NA dota and NA drafts in general so that's why I don't see TSM moving further and they also didn't win a series in DreamLeague yet.

In second series ...oh , hard to chose because Beastcoast really plays well man and as long as they draft good , every team has problems against them , including Liquid today who dropped first map. It might be hard ...but we might say goodbye to OG tomorrow. 

[Peanutswar]

Nigma galaxy once again announce their greatest comeback which is miracle makes again in the game and many people expecting that the Nigma now makes a good run, yes it is but it will not last long after their match against Talon they really play good and we see unusual games again came from miracle- but after they manage to win the series of 2-0 they face now one of the dominating team which is team liquid they makes them eliminated in the game and the funny thing here is Miracle- becomes now standin again.

[sunsilk]

Nigma galaxy once again announce their greatest comeback which is miracle makes again in the game and many people expecting that the Nigma now makes a good run, yes it is but it will not last long after their match against Talon they really play good and we see unusual games again came from miracle- but after they manage to win the series of 2-0 they face now one of the dominating team which is team liquid they makes them eliminated in the game and the funny thing here is Miracle- becomes now standin again.

Yes. Nigma Galaxy is already out of the DreamLeague.

The comeback of Miracle didn't do any good on them and still, they're out of it. The sets of the teams that qualifies for the Stage 2 of DL was almost done, we still got some tiebreakers waiting ahead.

Talon Esports is also out and I think this make sense because they need to prepare for the Berlin Major. While Execration is on a tiebreaker against Team Aster.

[execijutiere]

Tomorrow neither NiP or Astralis will qualify for the major. Honestly, it's hard for me to predict who will win outright as both teams are very winnable. I will say that for some reason I see Astralis as the favorite. blameF and dev1ce are an unstoppable duo when they play well. With that in mind, I expect Astralis to win, but I'm not so sure about taking bets. Looking at the last match between them we can see this clearly. Dev1ce and blameF played very well. But the only change will be that konfig will be in nip roster

[passwordnow]

I am now watching the tiebreaker match between Aster and Execration, it's still on the first map and it seems that Execration is leading the game. Whoever wins the game will still have a match against TSM. This is quite confusing to me but in Group A, three teams are fighting for the last remaining slot for Stage 2. While on Group B, it's gonna be OG, beast coast and Team Spirit that are fighting for two slots and only one team will be kicked there.

[len01]

I am now watching the tiebreaker match between Aster and Execration, it's still on the first map and it seems that Execration is leading the game. Whoever wins the game will still have a match against TSM. This is quite confusing to me but in Group A, three teams are fighting for the last remaining slot for Stage 2. While on Group B, it's gonna be OG, beast coast and Team Spirit that are fighting for two slots and only one team will be kicked there.

the Aster and Execration matches are interesting matches because if you look at the performance statistics, the two teams have almost the same abilities. but in map 1 Execration dominates this match and in my opinion Aster will surprise Execration through Hero Enigma chosen by the Aster team.
even though in this match both teams are very strong but I prefer Aster who is more experienced in various matches and has performed well in the previous matches. looks like I chose the Aster team in this match.

[Peanutswar]

Nigma galaxy once again announce their greatest comeback which is miracle makes again in the game and many people expecting that the Nigma now makes a good run, yes it is but it will not last long after their match against Talon they really play good and we see unusual games again came from miracle- but after they manage to win the series of 2-0 they face now one of the dominating team which is team liquid they makes them eliminated in the game and the funny thing here is Miracle- becomes now standin again.

Yes. Nigma Galaxy is already out of the DreamLeague.

The comeback of Miracle didn't do any good on them and still, they're out of it. The sets of the teams that qualifies for the Stage 2 of DL was almost done, we still got some tiebreakers waiting ahead.

Talon Esports is also out and I think this make sense because they need to prepare for the Berlin Major. While Execration is on a tiebreaker against Team Aster.

There some pro players to telling that the nigma will only rise up because of the miracle show and some of them is right imagine the nigma can't even manage to win at the Ti if there's no miracle and matumbaman we saw them already with a good play and if you check MC performance once he gets rekt in the game he can't manage anymore to play and also with the decision making of kuro takes too much serious in-game but in draft quite not effective due to having an improper counters.

[execijutiere]

Eternal Fire lost their last chance.Eternal Fire lost despite having a close match on the map chosen by aurora.They lost 19-15 on the Mirage map and fell behind 1-0.The second map was the anubis map chosen by EF.EF won the match with a nice comeback on T Side, brought the situation to 1-1 and went to the decider map. I can say that taking the Pistol round on the decider map and detonating the bomb with milliseconds was perhaps the breaking moment of the match.EF did not improve their game much, but if they had solved the bomb there, maybe we could be talking about different things right now.

[ralle14]

There some pro players to telling that the nigma will only rise up because of the miracle show and some of them is right imagine the nigma can't even manage to win at the Ti if there's no miracle and matumbaman we saw them already with a good play and if you check MC performance once he gets rekt in the game he can't manage anymore to play and also with the decision making of kuro takes too much serious in-game but in draft quite not effective due to having an improper counters.

I've read that top thread posted in the subreddit, it was Dyrachyo who made the comment about Nigma Galaxy struggling to find success even with Miracle back in because more than half of the team is always underperforming.

There are also rumors saying that Sumail will be standing in for Team Aster in the major, that would be fun to watch and I could even see them getting a better placement if Sumail can perform well together with their players.

[judas]

Eternal Fire's start to the RMR was really promising in fact. Defeating Astralis that much comfortable and nearly defeating Cloud9 as well. Their performance against Cloud9 was pretty impressive until getting 9-0 ahead against them. After Cloud9 started to win rounds Eternal Fire started to lose their concentration slowly. This has been their main problem so far and they still can't create a solution for this.

This situation is behind their elimination in the RMR as well. Otherwise they could have at least defeated Aurora today. They had concentration problems at one point again and couldn't prevent an upset by 2-1 at the end. Honestly Aurora weren't playing that impressive. They were even making simple mistakes so I can't call their effort well. Eternal Fire just handed over the victory to them.

[execijutiere]

Ence defeated their opponent 2-0 and became another team that continued on their way to get a ticket to the major tournament.They had a nice performance increase after Nertz arrived and they will want to continue this momentum.
Although Vitality lost the first map, they came from behind to win the match and we can say that they became another team that got a paris major ticket.We could not see any reaction from the BIG team against the excellent play of Zywoo and spinx.In this way, vitality won 2-1.
In the last match of the day, in the C9-G2 match, G2 was the side that played well as a team and I have to say that they deserved it.They built a really good team and if they continue to protect it, success can come one after another.