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

[ralle14]

However , I wouldn't risk any money to bet on this league because even if I know almost all the Dota 2 pro teams , some of them will tend to try new heroes to find new heroes to draft before TI starts...

I agree, better sit back and wait for the next few days until some of the weaker teams get eliminated in the swiss and round-robin stage. Favorites like Team Liquid don't care if they drop a map as it's all about winning their series and getting the clean 3-0 to qualify a day early for the next round.

Also, it sucks that the viewing experience isn't accessible since there's no official English broadcast from the organizers.

[rdbase]

@ralle14
Yeah remember boltz mentioning about this since the very start of the tournament that the livefeeds were really bad. And it seems they hadn't fix it or don't really care to do it.
This really would impact the exposure of their tournament to the organizers and might reconsider going back. But they have money to pay those who decide where they are held. So maybe the latter in that statement above.

On to CounterStrike: Over in Copenhagen between July 29-August 4 we will have Blast Premier Fall groups.
Of the sixteen teams participating they will be split into four double-elimination groups. With the four remaining advancing to the BLAST Fall Final.
https://www.hltv.org/news/39457/blast-premier-fall-groups-teams-format-schedule-talent-prizes-fantasy

In the Sky Esports tournament, Mongolz dispatched Aurora quite easily with a pure domination session on map 2.

We will see Eternal Fire going up against 3DMAX next and ENCE vs True Rippers and BLEED vs Parivision.
Haven't heard of any of these teams except for ENCE & BLEED.
But it should be something for those interested in some CS2 action until those teams come together in Denmark early next week.

[passwordnow]

Wow , I had no idea Elite League 2 will start so early! I thought it will be in August but we are already day 1 of the tournament and it seems we have around 12 hours of non-stop Dota because it's 12AM and we still have games to see so that is amazing. However , I wouldn't risk any money to bet on this league because even if I know almost all the Dota 2 pro teams , some of them will tend to try new heroes to find new heroes to draft before TI starts...

That's pretty much is happening right now but this tournament is still to be taken seriously as the prize pool is still decent. While Clavision Snow Ruyi tournament is about to come next two days from now, there are also notable teams there. Today, the Elite League 2 is on the day 2 and there is still a lot of games but lesser compared to yesterday games and tomorrow.

Anyway, I've got a first blood of my bet and I lost. Oh my Cuyes, I've bet on them yesterday and now they've won against Boom Esports however, I bet for Boom instead of them. They betrayed me!! hahaha. 

[arallmuus]

I agree, better sit back and wait for the next few days until some of the weaker teams get eliminated in the swiss and round-robin stage. Favorites like Team Liquid don't care if they drop a map as it's all about winning their series and getting the clean 3-0 to qualify a day early for the next round.

Yeah I always hate bo2 group stage but tons of possibility could happen in swiss stage as well and aside from that, normally the odds on swiss stage sucks so bad because most of the teams are not even tier 2 teams so yeah

Also, it sucks that the viewing experience isn't accessible since there's no official English broadcast from the organizers.

Dang, an $800k tournament with $200k prizepool based on viewership has no english broadcast. This is probably the biggest flop tournament of the year. How are they even expecting fans to watch the game with no English commentary, most would probably switch out to another channel after like 10 minutes of watching

[ralle14]

Dang, an $800k tournament with $200k prizepool based on viewership has no english broadcast. This is probably the biggest flop tournament of the year. How are they even expecting fans to watch the game with no English commentary, most would probably switch out to another channel after like 10 minutes of watching

I agree it's a big mistake to not have an English broadcast even if it's not that high-quality as they've probably spent most of their budget on the other broadcasts.

Yeah I always hate bo2 group stage but tons of possibility could happen in swiss stage as well and aside from that, normally the odds on swiss stage sucks so bad because most of the teams are not even tier 2 teams so yeah

The odds got better today as we had a few good matchups like Team Liquid vs Shopify Rebellion and OG vs Heroic, but it's such a fiesta that I think it's better to bet on something else. 

[boltz]

However , I wouldn't risk any money to bet on this league because even if I know almost all the Dota 2 pro teams , some of them will tend to try new heroes to find new heroes to draft before TI starts...

I agree, better sit back and wait for the next few days until some of the weaker teams get eliminated in the swiss and round-robin stage. Favorites like Team Liquid don't care if they drop a map as it's all about winning their series and getting the clean 3-0 to qualify a day early for the next round.

Also, it sucks that the viewing experience isn't accessible since there's no official English broadcast from the organizers.

So true! Not having an english channel for the games really make the watching experience a bit awkward and I tend to watch it just because I do love Dota 2. However , yesterday Cap managed to stream a few games and do live commentary with SVG and that was awesome because his channel had at some point more viewers than the official ones. Hopefully this trend will still go on today with Cap&SVG or maybe other streamers like Gorc will make the same thing.

[ralle14]

So true! Not having an english channel for the games really make the watching experience a bit awkward and I tend to watch it just because I do love Dota 2. However , yesterday Cap managed to stream a few games and do live commentary with SVG and that was awesome because his channel had at some point more viewers than the official ones. Hopefully this trend will still go on today with Cap&SVG or maybe other streamers like Gorc will make the same thing.

That sounds like the best alternative i'll try to tune in to his co-stream next time I have the change since I do enjoy their casting duo, earlier I had to watch through the Russian streams for the most part because of their clean UI.

I guess we'll be having competitive dotes all day long now that the Snow Ruyi tournament is starting today. Hopefully, the viewing experience will be significantly better with bkop and johnxfire representing the English broadcast.  

[boltz]

So true! Not having an english channel for the games really make the watching experience a bit awkward and I tend to watch it just because I do love Dota 2. However , yesterday Cap managed to stream a few games and do live commentary with SVG and that was awesome because his channel had at some point more viewers than the official ones. Hopefully this trend will still go on today with Cap&SVG or maybe other streamers like Gorc will make the same thing.

That sounds like the best alternative i'll try to tune in to his co-stream next time I have the change since I do enjoy their casting duo, earlier I had to watch through the Russian streams for the most part because of their clean UI.

I guess we'll be having competitive dotes all day long now that the Snow Ruyi tournament is starting today. Hopefully, the viewing experience will be significantly better with bkop and johnxfire representing the English broadcast.  

True true! Also it seems that Snow Ruyi is only in Chinese commentary but we do have Knox or other great casters who will provide English commentary on their own so that is a + for them as streamers and also they do have a chance to grow their channel.

We just saw Nigma Galaxy finally winning a series against a top tier 1 team and who would have thought Xtreme Gaming will be the one who will fall under Nigma ? Because I personally didn't gave any chance to Nigma to win this series , especially without Miracle and Kuroky playing but this should give a glimpse that Kuroky is indeed a problem for his team and maybe it's time for him to step out of Dota 2 pro scene ?

[arallmuus]

The odds got better today as we had a few good matchups like Team Liquid vs Shopify Rebellion and OG vs Heroic, but it's such a fiesta that I think it's better to bet on something else. 

I guess Im betting on total team kill for today.

Both OG and SR has been quite dominating so this is actually 50 50



First 15 minutes of the game is going to determine wether I win my bet or not, thats what I totally dislike on total team kill but it worth a shot

We just saw Nigma Galaxy finally winning a series against a top tier 1 team and who would have thought Xtreme Gaming will be the one who will fall under Nigma ? Because I personally didn't gave any chance to Nigma to win this series

Yeah although I could consider this as one of their lucky win, sometimes they win against top team once in a while but to win against XG is actually quite a feat. I totally cant wait for their next game

[ralle14]

Both OG and SR has been quite dominating so this is actually 50 50

Congrats on cashing OG's m1 kill handicap, they're so good at dismantling teams weaker than them, they also won the second map, but the kill score wasn't as one-sided as the first map.

We just saw Nigma Galaxy finally winning a series against a top tier 1 team and who would have thought Xtreme Gaming will be the one who will fall under Nigma ? Because I personally didn't gave any chance to Nigma to win this series , especially without Miracle and Kuroky playing but this should give a glimpse that Kuroky is indeed a problem for his team and maybe it's time for him to step out of Dota 2 pro scene ?

I also didn't expect the win coming from Nigma Galaxy, now it'll be an all-out fight for the upper bracket semis as the other teams won't be that easy to beat, and we could maybe have a three-way tiebreaker at the end.