🕹️ Esports 🎮 Prediction & Discussion Thread

[passwordnow]

and it's sad that the LGD won't be participating this year's TI when they've been participating it for more than a decade.  

The org had some financial problems and it's why their squad hasn't been producing enough good results, but still, they qualified for the other tournaments.

That's true, I don't know how that happened when they're always part of the biggest prize pool tournaments and they always end up with some good placing. But I don't know how their operation expenses are and I have no idea how to operate an organization so basically, it's really a lot of concern for them to budget everything. I guess that from their situation right now, they can produce greater talents and have a development program for the future not just for their organization and team but also for their region as there's a need to produce a lot of new talents on this new era.

[boyptc]

South America TI Qualifiers has started. I've got three countable teams in here, Heroic, Leviatan and Boom Esports.

But sadly, Boom Esports is currently on the low bracket and this is going to be a tough way for them. While the two others are currently moved on to the next bracket at the top.

And they're going to face each other tomorrow so someone is going to the lower bracket too.

[ralle14]

South America TI Qualifiers has started. I've got three countable teams in here, Heroic, Leviatan and Boom Esports.

But sadly, Boom Esports is currently on the low bracket and this is going to be a tough way for them. While the two others are currently moved on to the next bracket at the top.

And they're going to face each other tomorrow so someone is going to the lower bracket too.

I'd also put beastcoast as one of the few teams to look out for since they performed well on the Riyadh Masters qualifier after beating Boom Esports twice.

Boom Esports will require a perfect run to qualify for TI, and so far the teams that qualified are from the upper bracket. They'll be the first one if they pull it off and it won't be easy as they could face Leviatan and beastcoast in the deeper rounds.

[boyptc]

South America TI Qualifiers has started. I've got three countable teams in here, Heroic, Leviatan and Boom Esports.

But sadly, Boom Esports is currently on the low bracket and this is going to be a tough way for them. While the two others are currently moved on to the next bracket at the top.

And they're going to face each other tomorrow so someone is going to the lower bracket too.

I'd also put beastcoast as one of the few teams to look out for since they performed well on the Riyadh Masters qualifier after beating Boom Esports twice.

Yeah, bc is also a good one although they've got a different roster this time and their former TI roster have been scattered already.

Boom Esports will require a perfect run to qualify for TI, and so far the teams that qualified are from the upper bracket. They'll be the first one if they pull it off and it won't be easy as they could face Leviatan and beastcoast in the deeper rounds.

They have a tougher road than everyone else on this qualifiers. Anyway, I'm not expecting them to survive this tough competition there but I hope that they'll prove me wrong.

[emrecemsan]

There is the BLAST Premier Spring Final recently on CS2.

Here is the current bracket:



G2 were eliminated in the group stage already after losing to Spirit and Vitality. However I wasn't expecting FaZe to say an early goodbye.    Now in the semi finals there are 2 teams that previously secured their places in the World Final: Spirit and Natus Vincere. Because of that I would like to see Vitality or Virtus.pro winning the Spring Final to secure a place.

I have missed the odds of Spirit v Vitality series. It is 1.70 for Natus Vincere and 2.00 for Virtus.pro now. I think it is worth giving Virtus.pro a shot. As a reminder, they already beat Natus Vincere once in last Major (2-0).

[ralle14]

I have missed the odds of Spirit v Vitality series. It is 1.70 for Natus Vincere and 2.00 for Virtus.pro now. I think it is worth giving Virtus.pro a shot. As a reminder, they already beat Natus Vincere once in last Major (2-0).

The pre-live odds are the same for the Spirit vs. Vitality, with Spirit hovering around 1.70 while Vitality is at 2.10~. In the end, Team Spirit took out Vitality on Anubis. Vitality had a good 4-0 start in the T-side, then gave up four consecutive rounds to Team Spirit which shouldn't happened knowing Anubis is very T-sided.

I agree with Virtus.pro's value odds, but i'll take NaVi after seeing them show up during the groups.

[emrecemsan]

The pre-live odds are the same for the Spirit vs. Vitality, with Spirit hovering around 1.70 while Vitality is at 2.10~. In the end, Team Spirit took out Vitality on Anubis. Vitality had a good 4-0 start in the T-side, then gave up four consecutive rounds to Team Spirit which shouldn't happened knowing Anubis is very T-sided.

I agree with Virtus.pro's value odds, but i'll take NaVi after seeing them show up during the groups.

Yes, Spirit made a really good comeback after losing the first map.    Congrats on your win mate by the way. It wasn't like a big deal for Natus Vincere to win by 2-0. 

They were really good on Anubis and Mirage both. Virtus.pro performed way worse than I expected. The team contribution in frags were really poor.



Today in less than an hour, we have the grand final: Spirit @1.48 v Natus Vincere @2.50. Both sides reached this stage without losing any match. I think 2.50 looks nice to bet on the underdog here. Both of them are in very good shape in the end.

[passwordnow]

I am following the Closed TI Qualifiers of the Eastern Europe and I think that we're going to see the child prodigy, satanic of Yellow Submarine on TI. Although they're not yet qualified but they're at the top of the bracket for which they're going to face 1win for the semi finals before finally entering to the grand finals. Both teams has a better chance since whoever lose on this match are going to the lower bracket while waiting for the two series that will end from there below. The current series and matches that we'll wait aside from these two that I've mentioned at the upper bracket finals, are these from the lower bracket;

• NaVi versus L1GA TEAM
• 9Pandas versus Night Pulse

Of course NaVi is a known team and their current roster are also known to the world. We've got some other familiar names like V-Tune in NP and definitely we won't miss 9Pandas but both of these teams are in the lower bracket and they have to get through the hardest route to get into the grand finals.

[ralle14]

I am following the Closed TI Qualifiers of the Eastern Europe and I think that we're going to see the child prodigy, satanic of Yellow Submarine on TI. Although they're not yet qualified but they're at the top of the bracket for which they're going to face 1win for the semi finals before finally entering to the grand finals. Both teams has a better chance since whoever lose on this match are going to the lower bracket while waiting for the two series that will end from there below. The current series and matches that we'll wait aside from these two that I've mentioned at the upper bracket finals, are these from the lower bracket;

With VP already eliminated by L1ga team, we could see another new team in TI. I guess Yellow Submarine has a good chance of making it in since they had an impressive lower-bracket run in the Riyadh qualifiers beating 1win before falling short against NaVi.

Today in less than an hour, we have the grand final: Spirit @1.48 v Natus Vincere @2.50. Both sides reached this stage without losing any match. I think 2.50 looks nice to bet on the underdog here. Both of them are in very good shape in the end.

Team Spirit got the 3-1 win, but it was still a tight series that could've gone either way since NaVi lost a bunch of crucial rounds in the second half of the first two maps.

[passwordnow]

I am following the Closed TI Qualifiers of the Eastern Europe and I think that we're going to see the child prodigy, satanic of Yellow Submarine on TI. Although they're not yet qualified but they're at the top of the bracket for which they're going to face 1win for the semi finals before finally entering to the grand finals. Both teams has a better chance since whoever lose on this match are going to the lower bracket while waiting for the two series that will end from there below. The current series and matches that we'll wait aside from these two that I've mentioned at the upper bracket finals, are these from the lower bracket;

With VP already eliminated by L1ga team, we could see another new team in TI. I guess Yellow Submarine has a good chance of making it in since they had an impressive lower-bracket run in the Riyadh qualifiers beating 1win before falling short against NaVi.

And with the current update today, NaVi eliminated L1GA team. And on the other side, Night Pulse won the first match against 9Pandas. This is just so wow, and you're right mate that we're going to see some new teams for this qualifier going to have their ticket to TI. And if it's not a new team then we'd see new roster if ever NaVi survives with all of this. So, for overall of it, definitely new faces that we're going to see representing EEU although they've got already is one team that is qualified from their region through direct invite and that's BetBoom.

And going on with the South America region, it seems that it's taking forever with their qualifiers. Two days from now, when these two regions are done with their qualifiers then we're going to see the SEA and Western Europe qualifiers on the go. I'm so excited and they're all strong teams, tier 1 or tier 2. No tiers IMO should be classified with all of them as being on the qualifier is already likely an achievement but that doesn't stop there.

[boyptc]

Dota 2 EEU - TI Qualifiers

9Pandas survived.

9Pandas are going to face Yellow Submarine and this is going to be the lower bracket finals, whoever wins here gets to the grand finals for 1win.

In the SA, currently, the game is live with Leviatan (Kpii's team) and Boom Esports and this is the 3rd and decider game. Whoever losses, will be eliminated. Too many teams we won't see this TI.

[ralle14]

9Pandas are going to face Yellow Submarine and this is going to be the lower bracket finals, whoever wins here gets to the grand finals for 1win.

In the SA, currently, the game is live with Leviatan (Kpii's team) and Boom Esports and this is the 3rd and decider game. Whoever losses, will be eliminated. Too many teams we won't see this TI.

That lower bracket final in the EEU qualifiers should go in the way of Yellow Submarine because the h2h favors them, but 9Pandas did manage to beat Navi while Yellow Submarine struggled against them.

The SA qualifier matches for today already ended with Boom Esports and Cuyes Esports advancing to the lower bracket semis, while the upper bracket final ended with Heroic winning and securing the first SA spot.

I agree, they have a lot of decent teams, but it is what it is since their best team always struggles in the bigger tournaments.

[boyptc]

9Pandas are going to face Yellow Submarine and this is going to be the lower bracket finals, whoever wins here gets to the grand finals for 1win.

In the SA, currently, the game is live with Leviatan (Kpii's team) and Boom Esports and this is the 3rd and decider game. Whoever losses, will be eliminated. Too many teams we won't see this TI.

That lower bracket final in the EEU qualifiers should go in the way of Yellow Submarine because the h2h favors them, but 9Pandas did manage to beat Navi while Yellow Submarine struggled against them.

The SA qualifier matches for today already ended with Boom Esports and Cuyes Esports advancing to the lower bracket semis, while the upper bracket final ended with Heroic winning and securing the first SA spot.

I agree, they have a lot of decent teams, but it is what it is since their best team always struggles in the bigger tournaments.

That was hell of two regions at the same time for this day. On the EEU region, it was too easy for the 1win by beating 9Pandas in a straight 3-0 to their road to TI.

And on SA, it was just finished and I thought that Boom Esports are going to win it with their medusa tiny but it seems that beastcoast was the better team today.

Good luck and congratulations to 1win and beastcoast. This has now finally ended the qualifiers for these two regions.

[passwordnow]

I have bet for OG and lost it but that's fine but what's surprising is that they might forfeit this TI qualifiers because of not having a full roster. There are PGL rules about it and they're only allowed to sign a stand-in for one day. They've released a statement about this because Ceb's wife is laboring for their baby so, Ceb is likely to choose to support her wife than to support the team for this qualifier.

[ralle14]

I almost got my hopes up when Nigma Galaxy won map two then PSG.Quest easily takes the third map.  

I have bet for OG and lost it but that's fine but what's surprising is that they might forfeit this TI qualifiers because of not having a full roster. There are PGL rules about it and they're only allowed to sign a stand-in for one day. They've released a statement about this because Ceb's wife is laboring for their baby so, Ceb is likely to choose to support her wife than to support the team for this qualifier.

That's unfortunate for the OG squad, and without Ceb their chances just got smaller after that loss against Entity.

Then again, they have no other choice but to respect the rules and that means Navi Juniors are lucky to get the free win and advance to the lower semis.

[passwordnow]

I have bet for OG and lost it but that's fine but what's surprising is that they might forfeit this TI qualifiers because of not having a full roster. There are PGL rules about it and they're only allowed to sign a stand-in for one day. They've released a statement about this because Ceb's wife is laboring for their baby so, Ceb is likely to choose to support her wife than to support the team for this qualifier.

That's unfortunate for the OG squad, and without Ceb their chances just got smaller after that loss against Entity.

Then again, they have no other choice but to respect the rules and that means Navi Juniors are lucky to get the free win and advance to the lower semis.

Yeah, this Navi Juniors are easy to be taken down by them. But in honor of the rules set by the organizers PGL/Valve, they really need to have the complete roster. Let's see because it's just 15 minutes from typing this if they'll appear complete or that statement was already done for and they're going to forfeit this qualifier. That's just too sad, there's too much love from all the fans for OG despite that they don't have the original roster from the 2-time TI champs. Ceb was the remaining one and he's needed to be there but I like him in all aspects of being him except being trashtalker in the pub and he knows what to set his priorities first and that's his family.

[ralle14]

Ceb was the remaining one and he's needed to be there but I like him in all aspects of being him except being trashtalker in the pub and he knows what to set his priorities first and that's his family.

I guess we're wrong after seeing them play earlier today, but instead, they're the ones who got eliminated.  

For the last day of the qualifiers, i'm going to hop on the TNC train, I didn't expect them to have this high of an odds against Execration as they're relying mostly on the Zeus mid and I don't know what would be their other option once it gets fully banned throughout this series. With the given odds, I had to skip the moneyline and take the handicap as the alternative, most of the series ended in 2-0s so whoever wins should likely sweep the series.

[arallmuus]

For the last day of the qualifiers, i'm going to hop on the TNC train, I didn't expect them to have this high of an odds against Execration

Woah gratz on snatching this 2x odds. Too bad I didnt even pay attention to this thread due to the euro hype lol but they lost to Aurora though. Fun fact, PH used to rule the SEA region and it used to be alot of Filipinos representative on TI but now we only have 1 this year. There was 3 last year and 5 players 2 years ago

Anyway, There isnt going to be any top tier tournaments or qualifiers left until Riyadh isnt it? so anything good on cs2?

[passwordnow]

Ceb was the remaining one and he's needed to be there but I like him in all aspects of being him except being trashtalker in the pub and he knows what to set his priorities first and that's his family.

I guess we're wrong after seeing them play earlier today, but instead, they're the ones who got eliminated.  

Yeah, I didn't thought that Ceb was there on time and will play for the team after his wife gave birth. But then, even he was there. We have belittled NaVi Juniors and they're able to eliminate them and at the same time, the qualifiers for WEU has been concluded. These two teams were able to take the two slots.

• Upper bracket - Entity
• Lower bracket - Tundra Esports

For the last day of the qualifiers, i'm going to hop on the TNC train, I didn't expect them to have this high of an odds against Execration as they're relying mostly on the Zeus mid and I don't know what would be their other option once it gets fully banned throughout this series. With the given odds, I had to skip the moneyline and take the handicap as the alternative, most of the series ended in 2-0s so whoever wins should likely sweep the series.

They've won 2-0 against the Execration but too bad that they're able to lose against the Aurora Esports 2-0 as well. I think that if Aurora took the first slot and won against Talon Esports, and this was Talon and TNC. I think that it was a different story but then, better luck next season TNC.

[ralle14]

They've won 2-0 against the Execration but too bad that they're able to lose against the Aurora Esports 2-0 as well. I think that if Aurora took the first slot and won against Talon Esports, and this was Talon and TNC. I think that it was a different story but then, better luck next season TNC.

I was close to taking their handicap against Aurora, and i'm glad I skipped because Aurora is still at another level.

That lower bracket finals from Tundra went as expected and props to Quest for the free odds. Even though they dropped a map it felt like they trolled in the second map by picking TB support after that, they went back to serious mode in map three.

Anyway, There isnt going to be any top tier tournaments or qualifiers left until Riyadh isnt it? so anything good on cs2?

Thanks and yes, there's not much interesting going on within the next few weeks for Dota while CS2 is in the offseason with the roster shuffles.