🕹️ Esports 🎮 Prediction & Discussion Thread

[Trofo]

What a series between these two, action packed all the time. Lead switching from side to side in this 3rd map. My money is now on Mouz since they were better team all the time but Liquid suckered punched them in 2nd map. This one is still anyone's game. Will be a though one.

This series is surely delivering the nonstop brawls. Earlier, Liquid got me sweating my over on that second map as I didn't expect them to struggle that much, even with a troll draft from Mouz. 

Anyway, the game is not over, but I think it's safe to say congrats as this one's a wrap for Mouz since all of the damage on Liquid is all on the Kez, and the other cores just fell off right away.

Ridding the Mouz wave all the way today, now placed another bet on Mouz to win against Spirit. I don't think they are favorite but @3.1 odds seems like a value for me. This game is slightly in favor of Spirit for me so decided to gamble a bit on those juicy odds. Even took Mouz -1.5 @5.5   That one is seriously pushing it.

over 3.5 maps should be free money here but too small odds for me.

[teddybear]

Ridding the Mouz wave all the way today, now placed another bet on Mouz to win against Spirit. I don't think they are favorite but @3.1 odds seems like a value for me. This game is slightly in favor of Spirit for me so decided to gamble a bit on those juicy odds. Even took Mouz -1.5 @5.5   That one is seriously pushing it.

over 3.5 maps should be free money here but too small odds for me.

It's Mouz's first ever finals at a S tier tournament. While Spirit are known for going into deep runs. Game 1 about to start and Mouz have a better draft(imo). They need to win game 1 for a fair chance of winning the finals.

[passwordnow]

It's Mouz's first ever finals at a S tier tournament. While Spirit are known for going into deep runs. Game 1 about to start and Mouz have a better draft(imo). They need to win game 1 for a fair chance of winning the finals.

Waah, game 1 goes to Team Spirit. Too many mistakes done by Mouz but that's a close fight still for me. I think that they are not outdrafted, it's that Team Spirit just played better and Mouz made a lot of mistakes. Their hero is a team fight hero whilst for Team Spirit, when mouz each of them gets eliminated, they have the advantage and I think that yatoro have been practicing that drow in the pubs.

[ralle14]

Waah, game 1 goes to Team Spirit. Too many mistakes done by Mouz but that's a close fight still for me. I think that they are not outdrafted, it's that Team Spirit just played better and Mouz made a lot of mistakes. Their hero is a team fight hero whilst for Team Spirit, when mouz each of them gets eliminated, they have the advantage and I think that yatoro have been practicing that drow in the pubs.

Mouz easily bounced back in the next two maps, but Spirit quickly tied it up after the fourth map. That final map was a nice outdraft from Mouz, as Spirit struggled in several engagements trying to burst the enemy Timber, and they had no choice since the pure damage he deals is too problematic.

Ridding the Mouz wave all the way today, now placed another bet on Mouz to win against Spirit. I don't think they are favorite but @3.1 odds seems like a value for me. This game is slightly in favor of Spirit for me so decided to gamble a bit on those juicy odds. Even took Mouz -1.5 @5.5  That one is seriously pushing it.

Congrats to you guys. I went the other way with Spirit, and I had to let it ride for the double winnings if only they clutched that final map.

[passwordnow]

Waah, game 1 goes to Team Spirit. Too many mistakes done by Mouz but that's a close fight still for me. I think that they are not outdrafted, it's that Team Spirit just played better and Mouz made a lot of mistakes. Their hero is a team fight hero whilst for Team Spirit, when mouz each of them gets eliminated, they have the advantage and I think that yatoro have been practicing that drow in the pubs.

Mouz easily bounced back in the next two maps, but Spirit quickly tied it up after the fourth map. That final map was a nice outdraft from Mouz, as Spirit struggled in several engagements trying to burst the enemy Timber, and they had no choice since the pure damage he deals is too problematic.

I agree, that last map it was Timber that gave them all the headache. He's dealt them a lot of damage despite that Team Spirit has got underlord and DK, still their thickness didn't succeed with Timber and slardar. It was an unorthodox draft as well with that gyro support. Everyone did great as well with that final map. Congratulations to Mouz for taking this first tournament as their title and also to the bettors here including me that have won on this final series. And after this tournament, we'll move to Blast Slam V. Another good LAN tournament with tier 1 teams again in Chengdu, China.

[ralle14]

The Starladder Major also kicked off earlier today, and the results are so unexpected because all of the favored teams (Parivision, FaZe, Legacy, B8, GamerLegion) already have a loss after the first day.

I agree, that last map it was Timber that gave them all the headache. He's dealt them a lot of damage despite that Team Spirit has got underlord and DK, still their thickness didn't succeed with Timber and slardar. It was an unorthodox draft as well with that gyro support. Everyone did great as well with that final map. Congratulations to Mouz for taking this first tournament as their title and also to the bettors here including me that have won on this final series. And after this tournament, we'll move to Blast Slam V. Another good LAN tournament with tier 1 teams again in Chengdu, China.

Those tanky cores from Spirit were countered so hard by the Timber, and they probably doubled down on the idea that it'll be a Gyro carry, but Mouz pulled the bait and switch with the MK carry in the last pick.

[execijutiere]

Pick'ems are likely to go up in smoke again in the major tournament. NRG, playing with the FaZe coach, lost, and none of my 3-0 pick'ems will come true. I really don't understand FaZe—what's their problem?
Maybe the real problem is Karrigan, but no one wants to solve it. They need to accept that Karrigan is no longer a good IGL. That way, achieving success will be much easier.

[ralle14]

Pick'ems are likely to go up in smoke again in the major tournament. NRG, playing with the FaZe coach, lost, and none of my 3-0 pick'ems will come true. I really don't understand FaZe—what's their problem?
Maybe the real problem is Karrigan, but no one wants to solve it. They need to accept that Karrigan is no longer a good IGL. That way, achieving success will be much easier.

Their rookie player Jcobbb did his best by putting up multi-kills on the CT side, but they quickly fell off once they got to the T side, and they're somewhat playing 4v5 with broky bottom fragging on their end.

At the same time, what a run from NRG going 2-0 with their coach, still, this final hurdle is always the tricky part because it'll be best of threes from here on out. At least one NA team is guaranteed to go through since they'll have an NA derby with M80 in the 2-0 bracket.

[execijutiere]

Pick'ems are likely to go up in smoke again in the major tournament. NRG, playing with the FaZe coach, lost, and none of my 3-0 pick'ems will come true. I really don't understand FaZe—what's their problem?
Maybe the real problem is Karrigan, but no one wants to solve it. They need to accept that Karrigan is no longer a good IGL. That way, achieving success will be much easier.

Their rookie player Jcobbb did his best by putting up multi-kills on the CT side, but they quickly fell off once they got to the T side, and they're somewhat playing 4v5 with broky bottom fragging on their end.

At the same time, what a run from NRG going 2-0 with their coach, still, this final hurdle is always the tricky part because it'll be best of threes from here on out. At least one NA team is guaranteed to go through since they'll have an NA derby with M80 in the 2-0 bracket.

I think it's entirely due to Karrigan. Jcobb has been performing well since he arrived, but we can say that Broky has also been lacking at times.
In the NRG-M80 matchup, I see M80 as having a slight advantage because they seem to play better as a team. Gamerlegion hasn't shown the performance I expected so far.

[passwordnow]

I agree, that last map it was Timber that gave them all the headache. He's dealt them a lot of damage despite that Team Spirit has got underlord and DK, still their thickness didn't succeed with Timber and slardar. It was an unorthodox draft as well with that gyro support. Everyone did great as well with that final map. Congratulations to Mouz for taking this first tournament as their title and also to the bettors here including me that have won on this final series. And after this tournament, we'll move to Blast Slam V. Another good LAN tournament with tier 1 teams again in Chengdu, China.

Those tanky cores from Spirit were countered so hard by the Timber, and they probably doubled down on the idea that it'll be a Gyro carry, but Mouz pulled the bait and switch with the MK carry in the last pick.

Yeah, that's a tricky pick but I think that they have anticipated that gyro could also be a support but they chose to rely on tanky heroes. Anyway, the Blast Slam V group stage games have already started, I have missed a few games and I'm still trying to bet but stake is giving me an error about doing it again a few minutes later, I'll edit this if I was able to bet for some games since we've got a lot on the first day.

[Balmain]

When it comes to bo1, things can get tough for some good teams on just one map. I looked at the match results today, and here's what happened. Stage 1 started poorly for Faze, with losses to Faze-NRG and Faze-NIP. I'm thinking of starting to follow the matches more closely in Stage 2, but I'm just skimming for now. It's nice to place bets on majors; the excitement of majors is something else entirely.

[arallmuus]

The Starladder Major also kicked off earlier today, and the results are so unexpected because all of the favored teams (Parivision, FaZe, Legacy, B8, GamerLegion) already have a loss after the first day.

Since Im not really familiar with cs2, I guess Im gonna wait until atleast stage 2. Probably stage 3 so I could bet on few favourites for some good odds, its really bad on dota2 Blast Slam right now with BO1 as well so yeah nothing good to really bet on for now

Those tanky cores from Spirit were countered so hard by the Timber, and they probably doubled down on the idea that it'll be a Gyro carry, but Mouz pulled the bait and switch with the MK carry in the last pick.

Whatever they were trying to pull, Im gonna expect more from Mouz in Blast Slam although it wont be the same as they were playing with different players in PGL Walachia but their draft were quite good though.

[execijutiere]

Flyquest comfortably defeated Fluxo and completed Stage 3 with a 3-0 score, successfully advancing to Stage 2. I was torn between Flyquest and Gamerlegion and chose Gamerlegion, but once again my choices let me down. Because of Gamerlegion, perhaps all my predictions would have changed. Flyquest is another team that excels at team play and might be the only team on the Australian side striving to stay strong.
They managed to defeat NRG in M80 and also emerged as another team with a 3-0 record. We can say that their performance has been improving recently. If NRG hadn't played with their coach, I could have placed them at 3-0, but Daps playing instead of nitr0 prompted a change in my choices.

[passwordnow]

OG lost to Mouz again, it seems that Mouz can't be defeated by them yet. Still, I've bet on their next 2 games because I think that they'll bounce back and won't allow this 2nd day not to win any of their remaining games. Also, I've bet for Tidebound against Execration, I just don't feel betting on them even if they've won against Tearlaments yesterday.

[passwordnow]

1-2 yesterday.  


I am betting on the last series of the day, it's with Yakult Brother's and Execration, I wanna take a gamble with XCTN but I don't think that's what I have to do. So, my bet really goes with the YkBros and hopefully, before this day ends I'm able to take another win since I'm still down and skipped most games today.

[execijutiere]

FaZe managed to win against Fluxo despite the difficulty and advanced to the next stage. FaZe shouldn't have struggled so much to win their matches. Something doesn't feel right, especially after jcobbb and twistzz joined; it feels like there's a drop in performance. For Fluxo, it was a truly disappointing outcome. They had a 2-0 lead, but after losing the next three matches, they unfortunately had to say goodbye to the tournament.

[ralle14]

I am betting on the last series of the day, it's with Yakult Brother's and Execration, I wanna take a gamble with XCTN but I don't think that's what I have to do. So, my bet really goes with the YkBros and hopefully, before this day ends I'm able to take another win since I'm still down and skipped most games today.

Nice try, but Execration had the easier draft in that game. Even though Yakult's draft was still decent, with the stacking negative armor on Slardar and Weaver, there was still a lot of pressure riding on that Enigma to land a good black hole.

FaZe managed to win against Fluxo despite the difficulty and advanced to the next stage. FaZe shouldn't have struggled so much to win their matches. Something doesn't feel right, especially after jcobbb and twistzz joined; it feels like there's a drop in performance. For Fluxo, it was a truly disappointing outcome. They had a 2-0 lead, but after losing the next three matches, they unfortunately had to say goodbye to the tournament.

That was a wild comeback from FaZe because it started to look like Fluxo was about to close it out after winning the second pistol round and extend their lead 10-4.

From what I've seen with FaZe, some of their individuals are just inconsistent to the point where they're forced to play 4v5 every round because one player is always sitting at 50 ADR or worse.

[passwordnow]

I am betting on the last series of the day, it's with Yakult Brother's and Execration, I wanna take a gamble with XCTN but I don't think that's what I have to do. So, my bet really goes with the YkBros and hopefully, before this day ends I'm able to take another win since I'm still down and skipped most games today.

Nice try, but Execration had the easier draft in that game. Even though Yakult's draft was still decent, with the stacking negative armor on Slardar and Weaver, there was still a lot of pressure riding on that Enigma to land a good black hole.

My gut was right in there, and that seems to be an easy game for Execration. That slardar + weaver combo is actually good but Exe's aggressive playstyle made them tap out.


Oh well, still betting on the live game of OG against Yandex with this 3.6 odd and later on with Team falcons and Mouz, I'd give it a try with Mouz. Kind of risky bets but it's proven that no one is secured on these games, underdogs/favorites, they're all just the same and can show some surprising games.

[arallmuus]

Oh well, still betting on the live game of OG against Yandex with this 3.6 odd and later on with Team falcons and Mouz, I'd give it a try with Mouz. Kind of risky bets but it's proven that no one is secured on these games, underdogs/favorites, they're all just the same and can show some surprising games.

Yeah its true, no team is really a favourite on bo1 game like this but Mouz over Falcons is actually quite interesting. I wouldnt say that they are good but so far they won the game that they were supposed to win so atleast they are within expectation

Trying risky / parlay here, I guess I got robbed for only 2.31x odds. Ill go with Falcons to even out the bets against yours . As for Team Tidebound, not really a fan of them but I need them to win for  BSFL so yeah

[passwordnow]

Oh well, still betting on the live game of OG against Yandex with this 3.6 odd and later on with Team falcons and Mouz, I'd give it a try with Mouz. Kind of risky bets but it's proven that no one is secured on these games, underdogs/favorites, they're all just the same and can show some surprising games.

Yeah its true, no team is really a favourite on bo1 game like this but Mouz over Falcons is actually quite interesting. I wouldnt say that they are good but so far they won the game that they were supposed to win so atleast they are within expectation

Any team can win and both of these teams are good, Team Falcons as TI winners and Mouz as the recent champion for the PGL Wallachia.

Trying risky / parlay here, I guess I got robbed for only 2.31x odds. Ill go with Falcons to even out the bets against yours . As for Team Tidebound, not really a fan of them but I need them to win for  BSFL so yeah

Good luck with that bet, Mouz and Team Falcons are currently playing. It's with Malrine's huskar and then yamich's pudge. As for the two chinese teams, I think that TT is stronger than YKBros.