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

[passwordnow]

I watched my last bet lose and that's okay. The first map that Gaimin Gladiators was amazing but then, 2nd and 3rd map concluded it that Team Falcons was the better team. We're on the last day for the group stages and only 3 matches left. Too many teams have already eliminated from the Fissure playground and here they are. The teams filled with red are eliminated and those with green, advances to the next round.

[rdbase]

@passwordnow

Thanks for the update to the ESL One Raleigh teams prior to the tournament begin in DOTA.

As for CS2 watching Team Spirit currently winning their match right now. Next matchup will be G2 against an underestimated BetBoom who beat Mouz in their last match in this Blast Bounty tournament.

I am quite excited to watch this matchup since G2 are the heavy favorites to win in the first Blast Premier tournament  Finals of the season!

About that Blast Bounty tournament, G2 have a game later against Eternal Fire and they are the favorite once again to win this match. I will be betting for them now and wait for the game to start later.
NAVI versus Team Spirit will play 3 hours after that.


https://sportsbet.io/sports/esports-betting

Which teams do you think will meet in the Finals? G2 vs Team Spirit?

Eternal Fire really made a run of this premiere of a Blast series and grabbed alot of bounty prizes away from the top tier teams.
Making it all the way to the finals up against Team Spirit.
So wouldn't this make them a top tier team aswell? Nobody really thought they would make it past G2.
From what I was able to watch from it Donk was named player of the finals.

Placed some bets on CCT matches earlier and they all lost having Monte losing map 1 and then the losing map 3 to a heavy underdog team.

[ralle14]

I watched my last bet lose and that's okay. The first map that Gaimin Gladiators was amazing but then, 2nd and 3rd map concluded it that Team Falcons was the better team. We're on the last day for the group stages and only 3 matches left. Too many teams have already eliminated from the Fissure playground and here they are. The teams filled with red are eliminated and those with green, advances to the next round.

The last round of the group stage earlier today was a blessing with all the favorites winning 2-0 (Tundra, Team Liquid, and Talon).

Also, i'm amazed by how Talon managed to weather the storm after meeting a few good teams, but their run could likely come to a halt as BB will be their opponent in the playoffs.

So wouldn't this make them a top tier team aswell? Nobody really thought they would make it past G2.

Eternal Fire should already be on the list of top teams, but in terms of their run in Blast, i'd say they have the easier route because some of the teams they met are still adjusting to their new player.

[rdbase]

I watched my last bet lose and that's okay. The first map that Gaimin Gladiators was amazing but then, 2nd and 3rd map concluded it that Team Falcons was the better team. We're on the last day for the group stages and only 3 matches left. Too many teams have already eliminated from the Fissure playground and here they are. The teams filled with red are eliminated and those with green, advances to the next round.

The last round of the group stage earlier today was a blessing with all the favorites winning 2-0 (Tundra, Team Liquid, and Talon).
Also, i'm amazed by how Talon managed to weather the storm after meeting a few good teams, but their run could likely come to a halt as BB will be their opponent in the playoffs.

So wouldn't this make them a top tier team aswell? Nobody really thought they would make it past G2.

Eternal Fire should already be on the list of top teams, but in terms of their run in Blast, i'd say they have the easier route because some of the teams they met are still adjusting to their new player.

Had my bets on dota2 for Talon esports to win aswell and they delivered yesterday.
Liking this tournament and going to be putting in more as their group stages ended and the real meat of the tournament begins.

Just as I imagined Donk was named most valuable player to the first season of BLAST Bounty Finals on Sunday:

https://www.hltv.org/news/40847/donk-named-blast-bounty-s1-finals-mvp-tc

[rohang]

IEM katowice stage 1 started today 

First really big LAN event of the year for CS2

[rdbase]

Thank for reminding @everyone who follows CounterStrike tournaments rohang!

Just tuned in and see a Sportsbet.io sponsored team taking on the boys in this one:

LIVE: Imperial Valkyries vs FURIA Esports - IEM Katowice 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MglZhKwvUpg

The Valkyries took on Navi and were impressive last time out so lets see if this team can take on the Brazilan squad in FURIA!

[Reid]

Eternal Fire really made a run of this premiere of a Blast series and grabbed alot of bounty prizes away from the top tier teams.
Making it all the way to the finals up against Team Spirit.
So wouldn't this make them a top tier team aswell? Nobody really thought they would make it past G2.
From what I was able to watch from it Donk was named player of the finals.

Placed some bets on CCT matches earlier and they all lost having Monte losing map 1 and then the losing map 3 to a heavy underdog team.

So true, Eternal Fire did surprise me on that game against G2. I didn't expect that. But Team Spirit is one heck of a great team. They almost made a perfect run from the Quarter Finals to the Grand Finals but they lost once against Eternal Fire. I say that's something that Eternal Fire could really do, they broke the winning spree of the strongest team and made it more competitive.

Next will be Blast Open Spring on March. I bet it will be more entertaining.

[passwordnow]

I watched my last bet lose and that's okay. The first map that Gaimin Gladiators was amazing but then, 2nd and 3rd map concluded it that Team Falcons was the better team. We're on the last day for the group stages and only 3 matches left. Too many teams have already eliminated from the Fissure playground and here they are. The teams filled with red are eliminated and those with green, advances to the next round.

The last round of the group stage earlier today was a blessing with all the favorites winning 2-0 (Tundra, Team Liquid, and Talon).

Also, i'm amazed by how Talon managed to weather the storm after meeting a few good teams, but their run could likely come to a halt as BB will be their opponent in the playoffs.

And sneyking even praised Talon for going through with that top bracket that they have on the group stages. They are against Team Liquid the next day and I'm still thinking if I'd go with them or Team Liquid got this.

Thank for reminding @everyone who follows CounterStrike tournaments rohang!

Just tuned in and see a Sportsbet.io sponsored team taking on the boys in this one:

LIVE: Imperial Valkyries vs FURIA Esports - IEM Katowice 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MglZhKwvUpg

The Valkyries took on Navi and were impressive last time out so lets see if this team can take on the Brazilan squad in FURIA!

Hmmmm.. interesting, I think that I am going to watch more CS2 if it's Imperial Female that will play.  
They will be against BIG later.

[rdbase]

Thank for reminding @everyone who follows CounterStrike tournaments rohang!
Just tuned in and see a Sportsbet.io sponsored team taking on the boys in this one:
LIVE: Imperial Valkyries vs FURIA Esports - IEM Katowice 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MglZhKwvUpg
The Valkyries took on Navi and were impressive last time out so lets see if this team can take on the Brazilian squad in FURIA!

Hmmmm.. interesting, I think that I am going to watch more CS2 if it's Imperial Female that will play.  
They will be against BIG later.

Yes! I would have to agree with you on that one too!

Especially if the women's side for Imperial Esports looks like this

You can even see the Sportsbet.io logo on their player shirts.

As for the match, they almost beat FURIA on the first map as it went into overtime, which even the sportsbook didn't expect them to get so many rounds on an experienced team such as them. Their odds were 15x when they were down 11-3.
Missed the BiG match, so how did they fair against them being even a stronger team than the Brazilians.

[passwordnow]

Thank for reminding @everyone who follows CounterStrike tournaments rohang!
Just tuned in and see a Sportsbet.io sponsored team taking on the boys in this one:
LIVE: Imperial Valkyries vs FURIA Esports - IEM Katowice 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MglZhKwvUpg
The Valkyries took on Navi and were impressive last time out so lets see if this team can take on the Brazilian squad in FURIA!

Hmmmm.. interesting, I think that I am going to watch more CS2 if it's Imperial Female that will play.  
They will be against BIG later.

Yes! I would have to agree with you on that one too!

Especially if the women's side for Imperial Esports looks like this

You can even see the Sportsbet.io logo on their player shirts.

Oh my, I need to be familiarized more with the roster in CS2 and these better players than I am, I'm not that good anymore with counter strike but I'll just enjoy if they're playing because before, it's a taboo that female in a pro scene is very unlikely and they should go only against girls team as well.

Anyway, just some juicy news about the ESL One Raleigh smoke bug abuse. Aurora and 9Pandas have also seen in the investigation that they did a lot of it. So, after the Navi Junior got disqualified and replaced, these were just conclusion that there are a lot of teams that did the bug abuse and some are minor.

Systematic Abuse of the Bug
The bug features in a strong majority of the team’s matches. At points in gameplay, at least one member of the team is consistently using the bug in an attempt to gain an advantage. It appears to be a constituent part of the team’s general approach to Dota.

The following teams fall into this category:
9Pandas: ~160 abuses
NAVI Junior: ~115 abuses
Aurora Gaming: ~50 abuses

Moderate Abuse of the Bug
The bug features in a few of the team’s games. It is only used occasionally, but usually in high impact spots involving Smoke of Deceit.

The following teams fall into this category:
Passion UA: 17 abuses
One Move: 12 abuses
Virtus.Pro: 11 abuses
Winter Bear: 9 abuses
Tundra Esports: 9 abuses
Team Spirit: 7 abuses
Team Secret: 5 abuses

Minor Abuse of the Bug
The following teams have abused the bug once or twice, and fall into this category:
Wildcard
Shopify Rebellion
Natus Vincere


Accidental Use of the Bug
The bug has been used by teams throughout the qualifiers, but the instances found were inconclusive as abuse.

The following teams fall into this category:
Nigma Galaxy
TALON
Gaimin Gladiators
M80

Not Suspected of using the Bug
The remaining 40 teams from our Closed Qualifiers have passed all checks performed by our team and there is no indication that they used the bug, accidental or otherwise.

[ralle14]

Anyway, just some juicy news about the ESL One Raleigh smoke bug abuse. Aurora and 9Pandas have also seen in the investigation that they did a lot of it. So, after the Navi Junior got disqualified and replaced, these were just conclusion that there are a lot of teams that did the bug abuse and some are minor.

Props to ESL for the thorough investigation of the smoke bug. The way they handed out the disqualification seems fair since they added levels on how many times it got abused by the teams.

The teams that fell under the moderate list were lucky to get away with it and only received a penalty.

This would've been more spicy if all three teams made it and suddenly got disqualified because of this bug. 

[passwordnow]

Anyway, just some juicy news about the ESL One Raleigh smoke bug abuse. Aurora and 9Pandas have also seen in the investigation that they did a lot of it. So, after the Navi Junior got disqualified and replaced, these were just conclusion that there are a lot of teams that did the bug abuse and some are minor.

Props to ESL for the thorough investigation of the smoke bug. The way they handed out the disqualification seems fair since they added levels on how many times it got abused by the teams.

The teams that fell under the moderate list were lucky to get away with it and only received a penalty.

This would've been more spicy if all three teams made it and suddenly got disqualified because of this bug. 

I agree, the ones that have fell into that verdict are still fine and they'll surely learn this lesson and all of these orgs will give a reminder to their rosters that if a bug has been found, they should not abuse it and much better to report it immediately. The orgs are the ones going to lose big money from these tournaments if they're already qualified and then became disqualified just because of it and so as Navi Jr. I think it's going to be their big tournament that's already gone.

[rohang]

I was very excited to see imperial Female team at IEM katowice after they played against navi,

They should have won map 1 against furia but after losing that in OT didnt do much 

Still a very nice experience for them to play in a T1 lan

[boltz]

I was very excited to see imperial Female team at IEM katowice after they played against navi,

They should have won map 1 against furia but after losing that in OT didnt do much 

Still a very nice experience for them to play in a T1 lan

I personally enjoy to watch IMP FE so far and ANA is indeed the best female CS player without any doubts. She is from Romania , and here we are so proud of her because we know how much she worked to get on this level and how much hate she got at the beginning of her career so I'm really happy for her right now.

I think BIG vs Heroic was the most debalanced game so far and BIG is looking like they indeed the dark horse of the tournament guys so don't sleep on this team in future games.

On Dota 2 ...Liquid vs Talon is quite the game and hopefully Liquid will win this series because if they don't ...I'm afraid a disband will follow soon because it seems only luck made them TI champions in 2024 because they don't have any other important results.

[ralle14]

I think BIG vs Heroic was the most debalanced game so far and BIG is looking like they indeed the dark horse of the tournament guys so don't sleep on this team in future games.

The switch-up from Heroic was unexpected as this should've been their series to win. They had a close upper-bracket series against Eternal Fire the other day and in this elimination series, BIG managed to claim 10+ rounds in the first half of both maps.

On Dota 2 ...Liquid vs Talon is quite the game and hopefully Liquid will win this series because if they don't ...I'm afraid a disband will follow soon because it seems only luck made them TI champions in 2024 because they don't have any other important results.

Talon edged out Team Liquid yesterday as they formed a solid draft in map three. Still, this loss shouldn't mean a sign for them to disband the team because they've already produced a few good results with the recent one being a second-place finish at ESL One Bangkok.

[rdbase]

I was very excited to see imperial Female team at IEM katowice after they played against navi,

They should have won map 1 against furia but after losing that in OT didnt do much 

Still a very nice experience for them to play in a T1 lan

I personally enjoy to watch IMP FE so far and ANA is indeed the best female CS player without any doubts. She is from Romania , and here we are so proud of her because we know how much she worked to get on this level and how much hate she got at the beginning of her career so I'm really happy for her right now.

I think BIG vs Heroic was the most debalanced game so far and BIG is looking like they indeed the dark horse of the tournament guys so don't sleep on this team in future games.

On Dota 2 ...Liquid vs Talon is quite the game and hopefully Liquid will win this series because if they don't ...I'm afraid a disband will follow soon because it seems only luck made them TI champions in 2024 because they don't have any other important results.

Just managed to catch the end of the Team Falcons vs Eternal Fire match and just wow!
EF beat this massive star filled roster of TF doinking them on their heads in a 2:0 win.
They interviewed Woxic right after the match and even he was surprised they won in this fashion and the last map was 13-5 on Train.

Turkish team Eternal Fire will face off against the winner of G2 Esports or Virtus pro for the semi-finals of this IEM Katowice.

[passwordnow]

On Dota 2 ...Liquid vs Talon is quite the game and hopefully Liquid will win this series because if they don't ...I'm afraid a disband will follow soon because it seems only luck made them TI champions in 2024 because they don't have any other important results.

I don't think that there will be a disband that will come with Team Liquid. They're the solid trio, micke, boxi and insania that have been playing for so long. And speaking of rosters, there is an update for the roster of BetBoom for the upcoming Blast Slam II tournament. So, after this Fissure playground, we'll see another tournament consecutively so that's an exciting thing that we'd see more action. And with BetBoom, one man is coming back and that's our boi TorontoTokyo standing in for kataomi.

Together in the image with the invited teams to play on that tournament.

[ralle14]

And with BetBoom, one man is coming back and that's our boi TorontoTokyo standing in for kataomi.

At first glance, I thought they were putting Torontotokyo on trial, but it seems like this could be just a one-time thing regardless of their results.

After their heartbreaking loss against Parivision in the FISSURE PLAYGROUND, the tilt factor for these guys just went up another level now that half of the old BB players are back together. 

Turkish team Eternal Fire will face off against the winner of G2 Esports or Virtus pro for the semi-finals of this IEM Katowice.

VP edged out G2 earlier today so they'll be facing Eternal Fire. I'm shocked to see VP playing surprisingly well though it's probably not enough to stop Eternal Fire's dominance.

[rdbase]

@ralle14
Thanks for the update on these matches because if you didn't mention that Eternal Fire played today would of missed the second half of their match which they are leading at the moment up a map.

Both Liquid and Astralis lost their matches against Spirit and The MongolZ which was a surprise since Astralis were looking good all tournament long.

Team Falcons are leading in their match against G2 Esports and Virtus.Pro are making it look competitive against the heavy favorites Eternal Fire and will see if they can close it out on Dust2. If not then they will have the decider on Train.
A map just recently added during this tournament which we have been seeing picked more often now.

[passwordnow]

And with BetBoom, one man is coming back and that's our boi TorontoTokyo standing in for kataomi.

At first glance, I thought they were putting Torontotokyo on trial, but it seems like this could be just a one-time thing regardless of their results.

Yeah, I thought that it's going to be a trial and will make him come back to the roster as a main stay but it seems that there's just a problem with kataomi that he needs to address.

After their heartbreaking loss against Parivision in the FISSURE PLAYGROUND, the tilt factor for these guys just went up another level now that half of the old BB players are back together. 

Haha, that is for sure. They want to come back stronger and this Blast Slam II is going to happen just after 1 day of rest day once this Fissure Playground ends in a few.