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

[passwordnow]

Honestly, I didn’t expect Team Yandex to sweep Team Falcon 2–0 in the semifinals. Both teams played well, but Yandex clearly played better in that match. Now for the Grand Final, it’s looking like a 33 vs Saksa battle. My prediction is a 3–1 victory for Tundra.

What your prediction for this Grand Final?

Team Yandex did well against Team Falcons, they were surprised with their picks. But as the grand finals went, Tundra swept them 3-0 straight very easy. I thought that the map 3 will make significant changes on the standings but even with that watson's PL, it did only something from early to mid game. But in the end, it's still Tundra that has won clean. I think that if watson built heart of tarrasque on that PL, it will make some difference. Anyway, if you've bet for that congratulations but if not, you're like me that I didn't bet for the finals because of how low odds for Tundra was.

[rdbase]

Both FURIA and Team Spirit are on their way to the Starladder major playoffs in Budapest:


We have some matches to get done today for this stage so let's look at them:
B8 vs Natus Vincere
FaZe vs Passion UA
G2 Esports vs Team Falcons

I had bet against B8 before and regretted it so I would say this one would atleast go over 2.5 maps since these rounds are a best of 3.
As for the next two matches after this initial one which begins in the next 42 minutes, I would say FaZe Clan and Team Falcons should win both their matches as to end this stage 3 strong.
Both are favorites and their odds are Faze 1.42x and Falcons 1.33x respectively.

Ouch for my predictions earlier on today with B8 not even get a map off of Navi. Was just watching their last few rounds and it was close but no cigar to the young hopefuls against the more experienced Natus Vincere side.

Next up are Faze vs Passion UA and for this one am still sticking with the stronger team in this matchup.
Watched a couple of maps from Passion UA's last few games and they didn't impress me in the slighted with the way they play.
G2 vs Falcons will be the match to keep a close eye on since during this tournament we hadn't seen much of both sides being tier one teams facing off against each other in these stage 3 matchups.

[ralle14]

Ouch for my predictions earlier on today with B8 not even get a map off of Navi. Was just watching their last few rounds and it was close but no cigar to the young hopefuls against the more experienced Natus Vincere side.

Stage three is in the wraps with all the favorites winning. B8 not having their coach for that series was unfortunate, but they still gave NaVi a run for their money on Train.

The Falcons/G2 game was absolute cinema after Falcons suddenly lost their map pick, Ancient, and had to claw their way back on Inferno to tie things up.

The FaZe series also had some surprises with Passion getting a back to back ninja defuse, but the individuals from FaZe stepped up, and it was enough to get them to the finish line.

[passwordnow]

The Blast Slam V is done and we're moving on to the next big tier 1 tournament 2 days from now and that's the DreamLeague Season 27. Big and known teams are also participating here with some other teams that came from the qualifiers. This is an exciting one although this is an online tournament but great actions we'd watch again. I think that Tundra has said that there's a need for some update/patch before it happens but we'll see.

[rdbase]

The Blast Slam V is done and we're moving on to the next big tier 1 tournament 2 days from now and that's the DreamLeague Season 27. Big and known teams are also participating here with some other teams that came from the qualifiers. This is an exciting one although this is an online tournament but great actions we'd watch again. I think that Tundra has said that there's a need for some update/patch before it happens but we'll see.

Think @ralle14 mentioned at one time he had a bet on Tundra to win that tournament's final that just wrapped up over the weekend.
Checked the results afterwards and see they had a clean sweep set of maps for this Blast Slam V going 3-0!
So great win there to ralle14 and for those who saw this victory coming for Tundra.

The next major is indeed DreamLeague Season 27 and the group stage begins in a couple of days from now on December 10 through December 16. As you had already mentioned there will be a 24 teams playing a Swiss system. These matches are best of 3 and the top eight teams advance to playoffs the remaining teams are eliminated.
The Playoffs  are December 17 through December 21. These will be a double elimination bracket.

[passwordnow]

The Blast Slam V is done and we're moving on to the next big tier 1 tournament 2 days from now and that's the DreamLeague Season 27. Big and known teams are also participating here with some other teams that came from the qualifiers. This is an exciting one although this is an online tournament but great actions we'd watch again. I think that Tundra has said that there's a need for some update/patch before it happens but we'll see.

Think @ralle14 mentioned at one time he had a bet on Tundra to win that tournament's final that just wrapped up over the weekend.
Checked the results afterwards and see they had a clean sweep set of maps for this Blast Slam V going 3-0!
So great win there to ralle14 and for those who saw this victory coming for Tundra.

Yes! it was a clean win from Tundra and congratulations to all of those who have won.

The next major is indeed DreamLeague Season 27 and the group stage begins in a couple of days from now on December 10 through December 16. As you had already mentioned there will be a 24 teams playing a Swiss system. These matches are best of 3 and the top eight teams advance to playoffs the remaining teams are eliminated.
The Playoffs  are December 17 through December 21. These will be a double elimination bracket.

It will take time and it's nice to see that we've got some tournament just after a big one although there is no crowd on this one because it's an online tournament but it's a tier 1.

[Pumared]

Just put in my bets for the early matches of this Starladder tournament kicking off in the 20 minutes.
MOUZ vs Parivision
Mongolz vs Imperial
G2 Esports vs Passion UA
Team Spirit vs Team Liquid

Took all the favorites for these early group stage 3 games.
So unfortunately, I didn't take the Brazilian squad to win their matchup today @Pumared  

Noticed pAIN Gaming are playing against 3DMAX today so there is another team from Brazil for you to root for in these final group stages before they end and the swiss rounds begin.

Well, my great friend @Rdbase should have. Imperial surprised everyone, except me, who was already expecting it. But I confess it was a very close game, and it's normal to think they would lose, I agree. But the Brazilian Storm arrived.

I already said it, but nobody cared. The Fury team passed, and Brazil will remain in the competition. And I'll say more, I see this Fury team in a final without much difficulty. And the other teams, whether Brazilian or not, will start copying, if they aren't already, some of their tactics. I believe Fallen must still have some tactics up their sleeve for the important games.

[rdbase]

DreamLeague 27 is just about to kick-off for one of the last majors in DOTA2 for this year in just under two hours.
Already have placed my bets for the early matches and two later ones as follows:

Went with the favorites winning their campaigns cleanly and Team Tidebound over OG.

Also @Pumared the play-offs in Budapest are going to begin tomorrow with Team Spirit taking on Team Falcons. So we will have to wait on FURIA to play Navi slated for tomorrow to see if they can continue the Brazilian run on to the finals.

[passwordnow]

DreamLeague 27 is just about to kick-off for one of the last majors in DOTA2 for this year in just under two hours.
Already have placed my bets for the early matches and two later ones as follows:

Went with the favorites winning their campaigns cleanly and Team Tidebound over OG.

Good luck with all of those bets, OG and Tidebound was done and the other bets that you've made. Tidebound lost against OG and it's a sweep, 2-0 clean win for OG. Anyway, the other games are still on going and I am watching currently NaVi and Aurora. It seems that the Parivision have got some good coach in there with Puppey. If you guys haven't seen the news yet, he's coaching Parivision on this Dreamleague.

[rdbase]

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Good luck with all of those bets, OG and Tidebound was done and the other bets that you've made. Tidebound lost against OG and it's a sweep, 2-0 clean win for OG.

Believe that betslip had two incorrect. The Team Liquid taking the first map and going on to win the match and the one you just mentioned with Tidebound getting swept by OG.
But it was fun regardless because it was the first day of the tournament so it seems that teams are getting settled in and observing what the others have instore for them.
Sort of a feeling out time for them so to get into the stride of this major.

The Starladder Major in Budapest continues on today with the playoffs just going to kick-off in a little under 7 hours from now.

https://www.hltv.org/news/43402/matchups-set-for-budapest-major-playoffs-tc

Thinking that Team Spirit can atleast take a map in this premiere matchup in this quater-finals against Team Falcons.
So the over 2.5 maps is the play for me and will side it with a Yandex win from the DreamLeague dota2 major aswell.
Since I can't remember if it was you or maybe @ralle14 but somebody mentioned about them and showed their betslip on them in the last tournament and it inspired me to back this team on my last acca in Esports.
So will be doing it again with this multibet in both Starladder Budapest & DreamLeague 27 for today.

[UserU]

Thinking that Team Spirit can atleast take a map in this premiere matchup in this quater-finals against Team Falcons.
So the over 2.5 maps is the play for me and will side it with a Yandex win from the DreamLeague dota2 major aswell.
Since I can't remember if it was you or maybe @ralle14 but somebody mentioned about them and showed their betslip on them in the last tournament and it inspired me to back this team on my last acca in Esports.
So will be doing it again with this multibet in both Starladder Budapest & DreamLeague 27 for today.

The match between Spirit and Falcons was insane especially on Dust 2. zweih acing those rounds got the crowd riled up.

Lots of picks are gonna be upset.

[Pumared]

The bracket for Furia is very favorable. They've already played against Navi and won, and Fazer and Mouz in the next round are relatively weak in my view. So I think if they manage to get past Navi, a final is almost certain.

[rdbase]

Thinking that Team Spirit can atleast take a map in this premiere matchup in this quater-finals against Team Falcons.
So the over 2.5 maps is the play for me and will side it with a Yandex win from the DreamLeague dota2 major aswell.
Since I can't remember if it was you or maybe @ralle14 but somebody mentioned about them and showed their betslip on them in the last tournament and it inspired me to back this team on my last acca in Esports.
So will be doing it again with this multibet in both Starladder Budapest & DreamLeague 27 for today.

The match between Spirit and Falcons was insane especially on Dust 2. zweih acing those rounds got the crowd riled up.

Lots of picks are gonna be upset.

That was something else by Team Spirit to snatch that last map to close out the match.
Team Falcons were up 11-5 on map 2 but then Zweih popped off and got those double aces to settle things in favor of his team.
Everybody was thinking it was going to be a competitive match even though it wasn't.
Team Spirit showed that they are ready to play in these semi-finals and we will see if they have what it takes to go against Team Vitality who just destroyed The Mongolz.

Was wondering where one of their main players went suddenly and had to view this video to find out why they replaced him with Controlez:
The MongolZ Replaced Senzu with WHO?! | A First Look at Controlez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a9L8rYbsGw

It didn't really matter of who they replaced him with since the results probably would of been the exact same blanking the way they were playing.
At one point planting the bomb 11-4, a Mongolz player ended up mollying himself while doing the plant.
Can't remember if that was Controlez or not but it was a very bad way to end the game for them.

The bracket for Furia is very favorable. They've already played against Navi and won, and Fazer and Mouz in the next round are relatively weak in my view. So I think if they manage to get past Navi, a final is almost certain.

Can't wait to see how FURIA deal with Navi and the odds for MOUZ vs Faze are heavily in favor being 1.35x for MOUZ.

[ralle14]

The bracket for Furia is very favorable. They've already played against Navi and won, and Fazer and Mouz in the next round are relatively weak in my view. So I think if they manage to get past Navi, a final is almost certain.

Furia lost to Mouz previously, so it's hard to write them off, but I still agree that Furia has the easier path to the finals because they're the weaker team out of the four, assuming they advance over FaZe.

The other series was a complete outclass, still props to the MongolZ for making it this far because it's no easy task to retain most of their firepower while losing their best player.

Also, i'm tempted to parlay both favorites tomorrow or maybe roll them one after another for better odds and avoid a bigger cut on the cashouts.

[Pumared]

^

The specialized CS media in Brazil is already talking about Fúria becoming champions. I wouldn't want to make that definitive, not after years of absolutely nothing. But based on the odds and the games I'm watching, everything points to a Fúria vs. Mouz semi-final.

[ralle14]

While waiting for the major to start, I watched some DreamLeague, and I can't believe OG is the first team to go 3-0 in the group stage after rolling BB Team with a quick sweep. 

^

The specialized CS media in Brazil is already talking about Fúria becoming champions. I wouldn't want to make that definitive, not after years of absolutely nothing. But based on the odds and the games I'm watching, everything points to a Fúria vs. Mouz semi-final.

I also hope it's true because they've been playing solid, and I don't mind backing them all the way to win the whole thing. 

[Pumared]

The bracket for Furia is very favorable. They've already played against Navi and won, and Fazer and Mouz in the next round are relatively weak in my view. So I think if they manage to get past Navi, a final is almost certain.

Furia lost to Mouz previously, so it's hard to write them off, but I still agree that Furia has the easier path to the finals because they're the weaker team out of the four, assuming they advance over FaZe.

The other series was a complete outclass, still props to the MongolZ for making it this far because it's no easy task to retain most of their firepower while losing their best player.

Also, i'm tempted to parlay both favorites tomorrow or maybe roll them one after another for better odds and avoid a bigger cut on the cashouts.

I believe betting on the favorites all the way to the final is proving very worthwhile. I don't recall any losing bets based on favorites. Even FaZe, who have always been favorites, are playing quite weakly.

[rdbase]

The bracket for Furia is very favorable. They've already played against Navi and won, and Fazer and Mouz in the next round are relatively weak in my view. So I think if they manage to get past Navi, a final is almost certain.

Furia lost to Mouz previously, so it's hard to write them off, but I still agree that Furia has the easier path to the finals because they're the weaker team out of the four, assuming they advance over FaZe.

The other series was a complete outclass, still props to the MongolZ for making it this far because it's no easy task to retain most of their firepower while losing their best player.

Also, i'm tempted to parlay both favorites tomorrow or maybe roll them one after another for better odds and avoid a bigger cut on the cashouts.

I believe betting on the favorites all the way to the final is proving very worthwhile. I don't recall any losing bets based on favorites. Even FaZe, who have always been favorites, are playing quite weakly.

Faze are playing against Mouz and they are really giving them a beating on the first map now leading 7-3. They look like the favorites and not the huge underdogs during this round.

Thats why I took them to win early along with Furia on my Budapest acca today.

[Pumared]

The bracket for Furia is very favorable. They've already played against Navi and won, and Fazer and Mouz in the next round are relatively weak in my view. So I think if they manage to get past Navi, a final is almost certain.

Furia lost to Mouz previously, so it's hard to write them off, but I still agree that Furia has the easier path to the finals because they're the weaker team out of the four, assuming they advance over FaZe.

The other series was a complete outclass, still props to the MongolZ for making it this far because it's no easy task to retain most of their firepower while losing their best player.

Also, i'm tempted to parlay both favorites tomorrow or maybe roll them one after another for better odds and avoid a bigger cut on the cashouts.

I believe betting on the favorites all the way to the final is proving very worthwhile. I don't recall any losing bets based on favorites. Even FaZe, who have always been favorites, are playing quite weakly.

Faze are playing against Mouz and they are really giving them a beating on the first map now leading 7-3. They look like the favorites and not the huge underdogs during this round.

Thats why I took them to win early along with Furia on my Budapest acca today.

FaZe won 2-0 against Mouz. Simply unbelievable!! The odds pointed to the opposite. And on the maps, Nuke was easy, but on Inferno, they crushed them with a 13-2 score. This changes a lot on this side of the bracket.

[rdbase]

FaZe won 2-0 against Mouz. Simply unbelievable!! The odds pointed to the opposite. And on the maps, Nuke was easy, but on Inferno, they crushed them with a 13-2 score. This changes a lot on this side of the bracket.

This tournament in Budapest has been absolutely WiLd!
First MOUZ losing against Faze who were the heavy underdogs @3.50x just got blanked 2-0.
And now FURIA doing the impossible on Inferno being down 3-10 but stormed back to level out the map series.
Can they beat NaVi on train as I know they have been doing insane things on this decider map for them to go on to the semis tomorrow.