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With the WePlay finals wrapping up, there are still two matches going on today. The Intel Masters extreme is the next big tournament ready to go.
Here are the matches in the link below:
https://sportsbet.io/sports/counter-strike/esl-cs-go/intel-extreme-masters/matches
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Faze ended up winning the Blast Premier Spring series with OG following them.
Great tournament and looking forward to the one going on right now in the WePlay Academy finals:
https://sportsbet.io/sports/counter-strike/we-play-cs-go/weplay-academy-league-finals/matches
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Lots of upset type matches today and Im glad I missed them as the straight 2 map finish means I would be unlikely to have caught it correctly, I would expect 3 maps usually.   I think Astralis must still be adjusting to having blameF on the team and how best to combat each strategy operated against them, they are no longer the flawless machine with no crevice to exploit they now leave plenty of opportunities despite remaining a great team overall.
   Navi getting 7 rounds only on Mirage is slightly ridic, I will choose to credit NiP for staying solid to close that series out.   I think some of this has to be called warmup or something, it'll be different coming into the Major.

Forthcoming, I'll go with Nip over OG but also I'd imagine it does take the full 3 maps to do so. It was very close last time they played.
G2 Vitality I dont know but 3 maps seems best
I'll guess Big over Faze but I reckon this might be the most volatile of the 3 outcomes.  I need to watch more anyhow
So the spring finals are set after Faze did Big dirty by letting them win their own map pick (they were actually laughing when they were down 14-2 at one point cause they knew what the next map was) and took them out in the final one 16-1.
Big players had their heads in their hands before the round was over. That was just pure embarrassment at this stage. Sp they will face Astralis for third.
Alot of movement for players to different teams as I noticed ropz on Faze and shox not on Vitality. Also nexa on OG.
Knew Team Liquid where having a roster overhaul as I think only Elige was left from the roster of last season.
Stewie2k and Grim had already been planning to leave for awhile now from disbanding late last year.
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Lots of upset type matches today and Im glad I missed them as the straight 2 map finish means I would be unlikely to have caught it correctly, I would expect 3 maps usually.   I think Astralis must still be adjusting to having blameF on the team and how best to combat each strategy operated against them, they are no longer the flawless machine with no crevice to exploit they now leave plenty of opportunities despite remaining a great team overall.
   Navi getting 7 rounds only on Mirage is slightly ridic, I will choose to credit NiP for staying solid to close that series out.   I think some of this has to be called warmup or something, it'll be different coming into the Major.

Forthcoming, I'll go with Nip over OG but also I'd imagine it does take the full 3 maps to do so. It was very close last time they played.
G2 Vitality I dont know but 3 maps seems best
I'll guess Big over Faze but I reckon this might be the most volatile of the 3 outcomes.  I need to watch more anyhow

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Went with MiBR this round against Complexity from what I remember of them early on in the tournament over the weekend they won and being the massive underdogs so will go with them here.
Have the favorites winning the remainder of the day in the Blast premier series.
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It looks like K23 got the job done and secure themselves a slot on the LAN Sweet LAN tournament.

I ended up taking Complexity @1.34 vs MIBR it's not the best odds but this is the only match that seems predictable as NAVI could underperform again given they already lost two BO1s in the group stage. On the other match, BIG vs EG seems like a toss up as BIG only took down Complexity in their groups.

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The Pinnacle winter series had some matches over the weekend and those were interesting to see. After these we will have the Grand Semi-Finals starting.
I like K23 to win as well and will put them in with another matchup later in the day.
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I took K23 @1.58 vs Copenhagen Flames for today, their win against Heroic seems impressive but at the same time, their form somewhat became a factor since they're on a slump.

Copenhagen Flames took down Eternal Flame in a 2-1 fashion even though we haven't seen much on their side I still think we'll see another win on the side of K23 since they're currently on a tear.

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I wonder if Astralis can dominate this Blast series overall.   BO1 favors the underdog more then a normal 3 map match up but they seem strong enough in any case, not really the underdog especially.  They are about to beat Navi unless they mess up things especially or Navi pulls a rabbit out of the hat.  mibr should be the loser in whichever match follows.
   I put Liquid and Faze down as a multibet for 3x odds on the basis they both have a good chance of winning outright.
Yeah the underdogs seem to winning their matches. The first day I put in a parlay for G2 and Big to win.
G2 won their map but NIP who were team with odds over 3.10x beat Big. B01 series seem to be in favor of those teams who get off on the right foot early on.
MiBR were heavy underdogs going against NaVI as I seem their odds at 4.00x but they beat them anyways.
OG look to be the team to beat this tournament winning every match so far.
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I wonder if Astralis can dominate this Blast series overall.   BO1 favors the underdog more then a normal 3 map match up but they seem strong enough in any case, not really the underdog especially.  They are about to beat Navi unless they mess up things especially or Navi pulls a rabbit out of the hat.  mibr should be the loser in whichever match follows.
   I put Liquid and Faze down as a multibet for 3x odds on the basis they both have a good chance of winning outright.
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Skipping the Blast tournament for now as i've been enjoying League from different regions.

With that said I got DRX +1.5 @1.87 they'll be facing NS and I think the bookies are giving way too much credit on NS as they're able to perform decently against the top teams like Damwon and T1 then at the same time underestimating DRX after 0-3 in their first three series. I think this goes to three maps as DRX is starting to gain some momentum and  they could maybe even win at this point as they looked clean against KDF and BRO in their last two series.
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G2 and complexity about to kick off the Blast Premier series with all the big name teams in the first major Counterstrike tournament of the year.
Put in your bets here:
https://sportsbet.io/sports/counter-strike/blast-cs-go/blast-premier-series/matches
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Blast premier series returns this friday. All the big names in the CS:GO league will be a part of it so now is the time to get those stats up to date to place your bets on them.
https://sportsbet.io/sports/counter-strike/blast-cs-go/blast-premier-series/matches
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We have a new team I haven't seen before for the Academy side of CS:GO named Eternal fire.
There are the usual ones from last season returning such as Natus Vincere Junior, Big Academy, Fnatic Rising, Young Ninjas and Mouse Nxt.
The matches can be seen here:
https://sportsbet.io/sports/counter-strike/we-play-cs-go/weplay-academy-league-regular-season/matches
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LPL is back on the menu, i'm going for EDG -1.5 @1.51 expecting a smooth 2-0 from the current world champs as they go against JDG, not much information go against JDG but imo I think they're a mid table team as their roster don't look that good. Also, they got 0-4 in the Demacia Cup but during that tournament they're playing with a couple of their academy players rather than the full main lineup.

Edit : 2-0 win from EDG as expected but JDG put up a decent fight at the start of game 2 but they kept making small mistakes and EDG capitalized on it.
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I placed bets on Young Ninjas to win their first match yesterday and then the second because they were playing a weaker team.
But they got beat pretty bad in the second match.
So it seems the map chosen does make a difference even to these younger teams in their game play.

I will keep backing Astralis talent for the rest of the tournament because I like their roster as I see they do play well together as a team.
This is where the games got interesting on which probabilities of be beaten up by weaker teams could really happen even myself didnt expect and speaking

of map chosen then its one of the factors but as a good team then quality of being versatile is a must no matter what map would be chosen up
but well lets move on and something like this could happen anytime.
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I placed bets on Young Ninjas to win their first match yesterday and then the second because they were playing a weaker team.
But they got beat pretty bad in the second match.
So it seems the map chosen does make a difference even to these younger teams in their game play.

I will keep backing Astralis talent for the rest of the tournament because I like their roster as I see they do play well together as a team.
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Unless I know the players or at least some team redefining player(s) then not comfortable betting on the newer up and coming teams so much.   I used to bet on Tarik when he was 'unknown', long time ago and now he is wanting to go Valorant if anything looks like & I got 50x odds on some retired Canadian players, people who opted out of pro to go UNI not from any lack of skill but also they long gone now.  Its possible but tricky to do.  Perhaps bet small placer bets and learn something more then gain or risk especially.   Same for the Asia games, they dont feel as consistent but Im in the wrong time zone so some personal bias.
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Now that the holidays are nearly over, Counterstrike events begin again for the new year.
There are some for the Funpark Asia groups early on tomorrow.
Then the WePlay season 3 starts on January 3rd where the regular names show up to compete.
You can view the matches here:
https://sportsbet.io/sports/counter-strike/matches/future
Wow, they're already starting the matches, the teams don't seem to mind to play even though there's some holiday hangover. Pretty big names although usual teams are participating, need to probably stay away from betting for awhile to gauge the skills of other teams.
WePlay are usually with the younger players of those team names such as Young Ninjas for Ninjas in Pyjamas and Astralis talent for Team Astralis, etc.
So you get the feel of those up and comers to the tournament before they get called up from the main teams.

It should be a good tournament never the less and have placed bets on these teams myself so they do give good value to your bets.
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Now that the holidays are nearly over, Counterstrike events begin again for the new year.
There are some for the Funpark Asia groups early on tomorrow.
Then the WePlay season 3 starts on January 3rd where the regular names show up to compete.
You can view the matches here:
https://sportsbet.io/sports/counter-strike/matches/future
Wow, they're already starting the matches, the teams don't seem to mind to play even though there's some holiday hangover. Pretty big names although usual teams are participating, need to probably stay away from betting for awhile to gauge the skills of other teams.
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