Topic: ESports betting -CS:GO, DOTA 2, LOL, Valorant - Sportsbet.io discussion thread - page 8. (Read 17268 times)

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.

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.

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.

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 

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

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

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.

That's fine, it's a bet and sometimes this really happens.

Interesting and the games are starting now. Most teams are known and it also includes the new team of Ramzes, I hope that they'll be ending great on this tournament. And definitely as the name of the tournament, it's sponsored by 1win and as well as its dota 2 team is also invited on this tournament so good luck to all of the participants.

Moving on to the SEA because it's about to end later, I pity the first map of Talon and Geek Fam. Geek Fam lost and it's a massacre that has happened to them. Geek Fam didn't even got 5 kills but only 3 whilst the Talon esports got 29 kills. The map 2 is on the go and it's also being lived now, I hope that I'd watch a game 3 and GF will win this 2nd map.

Thanks, I only went for it because I thought the odds were skewed for the side of Nigma Galaxy.

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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.

Well, that's a fine bet but Nigma won that match and I think that they're on the lower bracket now and likely to win the match. But at the finals of it against Nigma, that's where it's hard to put some bet or you'd just put it with Nigma. I just imagined looking at the upcoming tournaments, there are a lot of them and they're going to be continuous and this is I guess until we're close to the International, this is giving every team an opportunity to rise and participate to every tournament that's allowing them to join through qualifiers.

Beastcoast won against Midas Club 2-0 and they're now going to be against with Boom Esports. I just realized that the roster of BC is no longer the ones with Chris luck and K1 before. But looking at some changes, I see that they're now going to play with Heroic which has already taken an invite.

Yeah, I think this has been too long before they've been given two slots unlike with the DPC slots that they've been always given one slot only. As for the SEA on this Elite league, the first team to qualify is Blacklist International.

And for the MENA, Nigma.Galaxy is now waiting for the finals but I guess that they'll have to face Winter Bears again. This should be a good slot for them despite that it's only one. Moving on tomorrow, we'll get to see the other team to qualify for the other in the SEA.

L1ga was so close to lose another series and that would have meant disband but fortunate for them , they managed to win 2-1 series.

Next series that might be a surprise is Beastcoast vs Midas Club and personally I can't trust Beastcoast players anymore and that's why I think Midas will actually win this series and produce a surprise. Odds are also very appealing with x4.

That reminds me of their loss during the BetBoom qualifiers, they faced the same issue and had to forfeit the second game which led to a 0-2 loss. Also, the organizers are generous with the slot distribution as they gave two slots to the SEA region while the other competitive regions like EEU and SA only have one.

Yeah, the rest of the teams are a level below these two. I'll give the map handicap (+1.5) on Winter Bears a shot since they mostly have the same players and only changed two members.

@ralle14, first day on MENA has ended and as expected, Winter Bears moves to the next upper bracket and the same goes for Nigma Galaxy. It is funny that this team Adonis just gave a free win against Nigma Galaxy. They're surely a new team and inexperienced players and that's why it seems an easy games when they've fought against Nigma. Well, nothing to expect on this region as it's very likely that you've said that it's going to be Winter Bears and Nigma still are going to face each other at the finals.

While some possible new teams will be made on this region composed of experienced pro players, this is for sure that's going to happen. I remember when NA seemed to be a weak region together with SA and that's why many pro teams have formed and went there for easy qualifiers for the The Internationals. But soon, we might see maybe one or two or more teams forming their boot camps on the MENA region because if this is the type of teams that will be participating the qualifiers, they're seeing the opportunity that this is going to be easy for most of them. Since Team Falcons are out of these qualifiers and they're most likely going to get direct invites and have more points that shall skip them with these qualifiers, many of these coming in pro teams are going to fight for mostly one slot at most qualifiers on this region.

On the otherhand, WEU, Rest farmers took the slot.

I've watched some games in the SEA Elite League qualifiers. What I think is unfortunate was with the IHC Esports, the very first game that they've played against Salvation gaming is all of them got disconnected and I think that's due to power supply issue in their area.

Well, as easy as it is, the admin paused it for a long time and then SG even gave 5 minutes worth of their pause as sign of good will but then it's not enough until the admin said that they should go for the throne and end the game.

And as they proceed to the next game, SG won again the 2nd game. T

And they're on a match right now, Rest Farmers already won against Ninja Penguins and as they match against MOUZ, Rest Farmers is already 1-0. And one more win then they'll be the one that shall qualify for this Elite League. As for the other regions, they're going to start later on and we've got a lot of actions with Dota 2 for this Elite League qualification. From SEA, SA, MENA while the other regions are about to end today, there's already one in China, KEV is the team name and soon this WEU qualifier will also end and who knows if MOUZ will be able to reverse the situation against Rest farmers.

Possible, they're the stronger and more known team on that region since Falcons already got qualified or invited for this tournament. Only a few good team are there but I guess the experience that they can give to those rising teams is a lot to offer for them to keep on competing on that region. Hopefully to see Nigma back as a tier 1 team but will they able to get along with the other teams since mostly are truly buffed and stronger this time?

Can Elite League be the start of redemption arc for Nigma ? Maybe even win a trophy ? because honestly I think this is their last dance with Kuroky and if they won't achieve nothing in 2024 , I think it's time to quit and call it for disband. There are already 7 years since ex-liquid members created a new team under the name of Nigma , thinking that they will indeed become a great team but the only achievement they have is to have a big fan base all over the world ...besides that ...almost nothing.

Hopefully this year they will turn the events in their favor.

Yep, it's a toss-up assuming WB still has the same players.

I've added Rest Farmers to my ticket and i'm banking on their experienced players since they've been through different tournaments. They even got one map out of Entity while Mouz got swept when they met in the upper final.

I also included HLE to boost the odds up to 2.07. There's not much for them to play for, but their opponent has been underperforming recently and gave a win to the worst team in their league.

Yeah, I'm familiar with mikey. Thanks for that brief history about Winter Bears so, it's just one slot and should be easy for Nigma but I still think that there might be some twist on the MENA region with the participating teams. Nigma now is just like a team with full of history but now lack of consistency.

Moving on the Elite League: WEU closed qualifiers, they're going to have two slots and the first one goes to Entity and their mid laner is now No one as they've won against MOUZ at the upper bracket. As MOUZ now is waiting for the winner of Ninja Penguins and Rest farmers. Two teams that I am familiar with the current roster that they have. It seems that the WEU is quite messy with most pro players are scattered to a lot of new teams with new teammates.

Well actually I would love to see a complete roster change without involving any of the old Team Liquid's ex members though. I mean they were great players back in the day but currently there are far better players out there. Its about time Nigma sign a complete full 5 rosters get a new fresh start though, I'd totally love to dig those new teams without Kuroky in it lol


Dang, so its kinda like 50 50 huh. Imagine if they actually lose against WB.

The good thing is that they have two chances against Winter Bears assuming they'll win smoothly against the other two teams and surely they'd be fired up when this is their best shot at getting in a decent tournament.

If they lose this one, we'll probably see a complete change in the roster, or maybe we'll see MC return after his suspension in Tundra. 

They're a tier 2 team with mostly pub players and one of the players (Mikey) used to play position 2 for Nigma Galaxy. To give you an idea of how competitive it can get between these two here are their previous h2h results from the previous qualifiers.