ESports betting -CS:GO, DOTA 2, LOL, Valorant - discussion thread

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Just seen they are currently playing in the DreamLeague Season 23 Southeast Asia open qualifiers.
Bleed Esports going up against Made in Philippines and MAG.Indonesia vs Team Bocil.

Non-stop action as the DL championship what seemed to be just last week.

Yeah, we've seen the season 22 of DreamLeague and now, we're about to see the season 23 and this open qualifiers are already on a roll. Sadly, about the Bleed Esports which is a known strong team just lost to Made in the Philippines with unknown players. As there will be two winners in the closed qualifers, there goes these matches that will happen by tomorrow and whoever wins on each of those matches will go be qualified then.

• Execration vs Interactive PH
• Made in the Philippines vs MAG.Indonesia

[arallmuus]

Aside from the ongoing qualifiers, there's a minor online tournament scheduled later today, and I saw a few good teams participating like Team Liquid, Team Spirit, and PSG.Quest. I'll observe for now because we could expect to see the stronger teams go for experimental drafts.

Thats really a 'minor' tournament if we compared it to the teams that actually participated in it. Tier 1 team lik Team Liquid and Team Spirit are participating and yeah the prize on top is only $50k though. I can understand if Team Liquid participated because they uses Timado as Stand-in so probably they are trying new roster or trying new stuff up but Team Spirit is competing as well with their original roster so thats kinda weird.

Anyway, Im glad Nigma ended up winning the Elite League qualifiers. Next stop fixture would be DreamLeague season 22 qualifiers and then The Elite League. I could swear that all these new tournaments name kinda give me the headache, whats up with calling the tournament The Elite League though lol

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Imperial esports were so close to bring a first major win for sportsbet but so far so good as this team is very talented and can grow a lot. Meanwhile , the other brazilian team had a rough day today with Furia losing against Lynn Vision...a team who had x7 odds to win before the game started 

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Anyway, Im glad Nigma ended up winning the Elite League qualifiers. Next stop fixture would be DreamLeague season 22 qualifiers and then The Elite League. I could swear that all these new tournaments name kinda give me the headache, whats up with calling the tournament The Elite League though lol

With the way PSG.Quest performed at the online tournament, we might see Nigma Galaxy potentially qualifying at another tournament. I honestly think the tournament name is fine, maybe they wanted it to be similar to a popular league in sports like the Premier League.

Imperial esports were so close to bring a first major win for sportsbet but so far so good as this team is very talented and can grow a lot. Meanwhile , the other brazilian team had a rough day today with Furia losing against Lynn Vision...a team who had x7 odds to win before the game started 

I saw that match earlier while watching the GamerLegion match, it's unbelievable to see Furia on the brink of elimination after the first day of the PGL Major.

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Imperial esports were so close to bring a first major win for sportsbet but so far so good as this team is very talented and can grow a lot. Meanwhile , the other brazilian team had a rough day today with Furia losing against Lynn Vision...a team who had x7 odds to win before the game started  

Was watching some of the open stage qualifiers from Copenhagen earlier today and seen Apeks playing. They are good and will be facing Imperial Esports tomorrow bright and early:
https://www.hltv.org/matches/2370611/imperial-vs-apeks-pgl-cs2-major-copenhagen-2024-opening-stage

Heroic did beat Imperial by a close margin, so yeah the Sportsbet.io team are improving and just hope they can make it far in this Major once it gets started as these were the opening stage matches.

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Imperial esports were so close to bring a first major win for sportsbet but so far so good as this team is very talented and can grow a lot. Meanwhile , the other brazilian team had a rough day today with Furia losing against Lynn Vision...a team who had x7 odds to win before the game started  

Was watching some of the open stage qualifiers from Copenhagen earlier today and seen Apeks playing. They are good and will be facing Imperial Esports tomorrow bright and early:
https://www.hltv.org/matches/2370611/imperial-vs-apeks-pgl-cs2-major-copenhagen-2024-opening-stage

Heroic did beat Imperial by a close margin, so yeah the Sportsbet.io team are improving and just hope they can make it far in this Major once it gets started as these were the opening stage matches.

True true. Brazilian cs is shifting from Furia being the best team towards Imperial Esports being the best brazilian cs team right now and I love it.

Now , a bit of news from Dota 2 scene where Team Spirit just lost the series against VP and I must say this patch is really not suiting Spirit at all and I'm afraid they won't perform great this year.

[arallmuus]

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With the way PSG.Quest performed at the online tournament, we might see Nigma Galaxy potentially qualifying at another tournament. I honestly think the tournament name is fine, maybe they wanted it to be similar to a popular league in sports like the Premier League.

Nah its still too early to conclude that. Nigma Galaxy kinda reminded me of Manchester United, when you thought that they had it then somehow they could lose the next game lol. Anyway aside from The International, the best tournament name for me would be Animajor lol. I kinda love that tournament though and Im hoping that they could bring it back somehow

Betting on this game tomorrow, I hope Team Spirit ended up winning 2-0 tomorrow. Its been a while since I win a dota2 ticket

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Nah its still too early to conclude that. Nigma Galaxy kinda reminded me of Manchester United, when you thought that they had it then somehow they could lose the next game lol. Anyway aside from The International, the best tournament name for me would be Animajor lol. I kinda love that tournament though and Im hoping that they could bring it back somehow

You have a point there. Nigma Galaxy can underperform when it matters the most, and I lowered my expectations on PSG.Quest too much when they just started playing with their new captain.

That would be a miracle if WePlay suddenly announces a tournament, but with the scene on the decline we might not see it happen again, and from what i've heard they're more focused on organizing streamer events.

BOL on the ticket, i'll be betting on VP to win the finals as I think Entity got lucky with the matchups and avoided Team Spirit throughout the tournament.

[rdbase]

Imperial esports were so close to bring a first major win for sportsbet but so far so good as this team is very talented and can grow a lot. Meanwhile , the other brazilian team had a rough day today with Furia losing against Lynn Vision...a team who had x7 odds to win before the game started.

Was watching some of the open stage qualifiers from Copenhagen earlier today and seen Apeks playing. They are good and will be facing Imperial Esports tomorrow bright and early:
https://www.hltv.org/matches/2370611/imperial-vs-apeks-pgl-cs2-major-copenhagen-2024-opening-stage

Heroic did beat Imperial by a close margin, so yeah the Sportsbet.io team are improving and just hope they can make it far in this Major once it gets started as these were the opening stage matches.

True true. Brazilian cs is shifting from Furia being the best team towards Imperial Esports being the best brazilian cs team right now and I love it.

Now , a bit of news from Dota 2 scene where Team Spirit just lost the series against VP and I must say this patch is really not suiting Spirit at all and I'm afraid they won't perform great this year.

Imperial Esports are doing quite well this tournament in the opening stage.
They beat ENCE convincingly then beat Apeks.
These are just BO1 maps so far but the RMR13 seems to suit their teams fast pace better.

So they are on a roll starting this tour in the PGL Majors.

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You have a point there. Nigma Galaxy can underperform when it matters the most, and I lowered my expectations on PSG.Quest too much when they just started playing with their new captain.

Few more days until we know how good the current Nigma is. Pretty much the same situation for them on the MENA qualifiers, PSG.Quest is the only team they need to watch out for

BOL on the ticket, i'll be betting on VP to win the finals as I think Entity got lucky with the matchups and avoided Team Spirit throughout the tournament.

Well I know for a reason now that Im cursed and yeah Team Spirit didnt even win the game let alone -1.5. I cant seems to win this dota2 betting and yeah I guess you guys should bet on the contrary to what I bet LOL. Its so sick and I guess Im shifting to cs2 again for now. Im not sure if Im going to jinx ur bet by betting onto it as well, might resulted in another loss for me though LOL

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BOL on the ticket, i'll be betting on VP to win the finals as I think Entity got lucky with the matchups and avoided Team Spirit throughout the tournament.

Well, Entity got really lucky as they have ended up with the $50k grand prize for this finals as they've beaten Virtus.Pro from game 2-4. The first match was won by VP but then it ends there.

Few more days until we know how good the current Nigma is. Pretty much the same situation for them on the MENA qualifiers, PSG.Quest is the only team they need to watch out for

Yeah, we'll see them in less than 2 weeks as the start of the Elite League and most of the teams that are going to participate this tournament are prominent and strong teams. As for PSG.Quest, they've released and didn't took ammar on their team and that's why it seemed to be a downgrade for them when they took Tobi instead. But that's the management decision and these guys have been into various international tournaments and shown that they're also a strong team and contender for most of the toughest teams in the world. Three teams to look out for the MENA, Nigma, Falcons, PSG.Quest but there will be some more of it in the future for sure as this region is one of the richest and many royals are wanting to invest into esports and they'd surely give a decent salary for the pro teams or players that will want to play under their region as their representative in the global competition.

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Well, Entity got really lucky as they have ended up with the $50k grand prize for this finals as they've beaten Virtus.Pro from game 2-4. The first match was won by VP but then it ends there.

VP got lucky in the first map with Entity picking Meepo against a Gyro carry lineup. After the second and third maps I knew my ticket was about to lose, they cooked up much better drafts and outplayed VP throughout the series.

Anyway, another org is stepping into the Dota scene (Leviatan) and they're currently competing in the SA qualifiers with Chris Luck as their temporary position 2 player. The SA qualifiers are only getting stacked at this point, and I wonder how cheap is the operation cost given so many orgs are willing to give it a shot.

https://twitter.com/LeviatanGG/status/1769793663742226472

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VP got lucky in the first map with Entity picking Meepo against a Gyro carry lineup. After the second and third maps I knew my ticket was about to lose, they cooked up much better drafts and outplayed VP throughout the series.

Im actually glad that I didnt bet on it but honestly I was so close on betting for it so I might have jinxed it abit  . I guess most unexpected result could happen in a lower tier tournament like this though, never would I have expected Team Spirit to actually lose. I thought they would atleat secure that 3rd place especially against Team Liquid

Anyway, another org is stepping into the Dota scene (Leviatan) and they're currently competing in the SA qualifiers with Chris Luck as their temporary position 2 player. The SA qualifiers are only getting stacked at this point, and I wonder how cheap is the operation cost given so many orgs are willing to give it a shot.

https://twitter.com/LeviatanGG/status/1769793663742226472

The SA region is packed with all these teams though, these new organizations planning to get into dota2 scene should really consider The MENA region instead

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I can't believe Spirit lost 1st map against Nemiga gaming but this shouldn't come as a shock because Spirit really struggles this patch with their hero pool and I doubt anything can change for them until next patch. Sure , they will improve a lot but as long as their hero pool is not in the current meta of dota 2 , them as a team won't perform great either.

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Imperial are playing Gamerlegion in a few hours to keep their run into PGL Majors at Copenhagen.
https://www.hltv.org/matches/2370626/imperial-vs-gamerlegion-pgl-cs2-major-copenhagen-2024-opening-stage

They lost yesterday against Ecstatic 2-1 but hopefully can rebound today against GL and stay in the top of these opening stage matches.

[ralle14]

The SA region is packed with all these teams though, these new organizations planning to get into dota2 scene should really consider The MENA region instead

That's possible if there was a decent stack similar to what we're seeing in the SEA region and can pressure the other good teams.

Imperial are playing Gamerlegion in a few hours to keep their run into PGL Majors at Copenhagen.

After Imperial threw the first map away I thought it'll be a 2-0 sweep for GL. I grabbed their live odds after they bounced back on Mirage, we'll see if they can complete the reverse sweep.

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Imperial are playing Gamerlegion in a few hours to keep their run into PGL Majors at Copenhagen.
https://www.hltv.org/matches/2370626/imperial-vs-gamerlegion-pgl-cs2-major-copenhagen-2024-opening-stage

They lost yesterday against Ecstatic 2-1 but hopefully can rebound today against GL and stay in the top of these opening stage matches.

Imperial did it bro! What an amazing series right ? From almost winning 1st map ( 9-3 ) to losing it in OT , then winning 2nd map on mirage without giving GL reasons to believe they can win map2 and finally we moved to Nuke where Imperial are simply masterclass on this map and it was a well deserved victory!

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Well, Entity got really lucky as they have ended up with the $50k grand prize for this finals as they've beaten Virtus.Pro from game 2-4. The first match was won by VP but then it ends there.

VP got lucky in the first map with Entity picking Meepo against a Gyro carry lineup. After the second and third maps I knew my ticket was about to lose, they cooked up much better drafts and outplayed VP throughout the series.

Yeah, that first map was even hard for VP and it took long since it's gonna be a farm game.

Anyway, another org is stepping into the Dota scene (Leviatan) and they're currently competing in the SA qualifiers with Chris Luck as their temporary position 2 player. The SA qualifiers are only getting stacked at this point, and I wonder how cheap is the operation cost given so many orgs are willing to give it a shot.

https://twitter.com/LeviatanGG/status/1769793663742226472

Nice, it's good to see that more orgs are coming to the Dota 2 professional scene. Unlike the last TI was it or the other one when many professional teams that are known to other esports have been gone and stepped away like Fnatic, EG and other known ones. And that's why it's always welcoming to see such new orgs rise and hire pro players too. They have lost to Esterbacks and I think that's fine because they're still trying to take the tempo for each of them. This is just hard for the new teams and they need to develop players communication and relationship but compared to the whole development program of teams that they'll start it out with non pro players, it will cost them a lot of money and more time. More tournaments on them there in SA and they'd be able to make it. Leviatan has got all of its players experienced, I am not just sure if Chris Luck will be their main stay as position 2 but they should be fine staying there in the SA if they're with him because he's more familiar with the region and the teams that they're going to be with onto their next tournaments so, hiring someone like him who's also a good position 2 and known globally.

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Another massive victory from Imperial against VP but I must say VP can't win forever with that saving strategy but the current meta of CS is to save where even 4 vs 5 so in the long term , I can already see VP winning a major. Until then , I'm super curious to see how Imperial will do in this major but also if G2 can finally win something with Niko because the guy deserves a trophy!

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FURIA is back to another 0-2 start again lol, the bad seeding fucked them and it only got worse because a few good teams dropped their opening match.

Another massive victory from Imperial against VP but I must say VP can't win forever with that saving strategy but the current meta of CS is to save where even 4 vs 5 so in the long term , I can already see VP winning a major. Until then , I'm super curious to see how Imperial will do in this major but also if G2 can finally win something with Niko because the guy deserves a trophy!

I also didn't expect Imperial to beat VP, but they're unfortunate to get paired by Spirit with a 13-2 scoreline, and out of the teams with the same record they have to face Vitality later today.  

The DreamLeague S23 qualifiers are also becoming interesting with Spirit eliminated by 1win and Aurora getting knocked down to the lower bracket, which means we could see a few new teams this upcoming season.