Topic: Esports Prediction & Discussion Thread - page 10. (Read 68474 times)

I am honestly not sure how well 9Pandas will do from here on. Never really expected much from them but they pleasantly surprised everyone last season. Should be interesting to see how they do this season and their road to TI. EEU isn't really stacked, tbh(other than Team Spirit). So, they have a decent chance to qualify again.

I don't know that guy but seems to be a young talent. While they have a new pos 1 too named darklord. With miero, kiyotaka and ramzes' transfer. The team has to do a rebuild.

We'll see on how this team will be on the noise again as they are still lack of one player for their mid position.

Still, they have a solid support tandem, Solo and Antares.

It seems like 9Pandas finally found a POS3 ( offlane ) for them by getting Albert "Alberkaaa" Chernoyvanov but personally I didn't hear much about him before so I'm curious to see how he will perform in the next coming games. Also , replacing Miero won't be easy as he made a correct move by going to BetBoom this winter.

It is still pretty early into the CS2's journey as an eSport. I honestly stopped playing as it's filled with cheaters at the moment and there are a lot of inconsistencies with the game overall. Also, S1mple is taking a long break from the game for similar reasons and waiting for more updates that will polish the game. At the moment, Vitality is at the top followed by Faze. So, not much has changed from the CS Go days.

Have you been following Counter Strike 2 tournaments lately? I haven't been able to catch up with them for a long time and I'm quite surprised with the current standings. 

I mean there are some really interesting changes in top 10 rankings on HLTV. I see MOUZ in 3rd position and Virtus.pro two positions below them. Seeing Monte in 6th position isn't very surprising though. Because before staying away from tournaments this long Monte were already doing impressive things. They were like a giant killer.    Complexity and Falcons are also in top 10 which is surprising. I've always known Complexity as not much better than an average team. I don't even have much knowledge about Falcons. 

IMHO, they can stopped it.

If they take actions ban those streamers that are going on their main streams, these banned streamers will easily make a new account and rinse and repeat.

They won't be able to stop it but what they can do is to partner with these streamers and at least give them some profits and get the royalty that they deserve from those streamers.

It's win-win for both of them.

This has been going on for years, and it seems that they really wanted to take all of the profits and not share it with other streamers who sometimes provide a lot more insight in the games that are streaming compared to the ESL casters that, on some occasions, are just blabbering around and yapping that are not related to the game whatsoever. Well, it will eventually happen though. Just imagine how many thousands of viewers these individual streamers are getting from the ESL main streams that it hurts them revenue-wise.

ESL released a statement about DOTA TV and streamer guidelines. If someone doesn't know what it is? The main stream of tournaments like for ESL tournaments should only be watched on ESL main streams on Twitch.

But what happened is that there are other streamers that sets a watch party and watches directly on those ESL streams and streams that on their channels.

Here's their statement --> https://esl.com/dota2/community-streaming-guidelines/

We're back in action, we've got the BB Dacha in Dubai that shall happen soon, for more details below.
~> https://liquipedia.net/dota2/BetBoom_Dacha/Dubai/2024

But before that, it also has a qualifier for all of the regions that you can follow on that link. The 4 regions have already consists of each two regions combined. NA/SA and SEA/CN and that's an interesting qualifier because it involves two regions per qualifier while the others remains alone for EEU, WEU and Mena. There were already 7 teams invited while the rest of 5 remaining qualifier slots are open and this is what's happening now and being fighted for by most participating teams.

I've watched the matched on the lower bracket of G2.IG and Blacklist Rivalry. It was actually two interesting match, map 1 and 2. Both were close games and this is how these qualifiers are tough because only 1 slot per region will be occupied by the champs of this qualifiers. What interesting is that the main event is going to have a pool prize of $1M and this is a good way to start this year ahead for Dota 2.

Where are the Ame fans here? Your boy is back in the professional scene together with the Azure Ray roster but they won't be playing for the same team. They're going to play for the Xtreme Gaming team and this is one of the strong teams that we can see in their region currently. While the former Azure Ray lineup is left with the two players, Lou(1) and Jiang(5) in their respective positions there. And what's sad about Azure Ray is that their EPT points are gone. Despite winning the championship in the ESL Kuala Lumpur Malaysia with 4,800 EPT points, based on its rule then those EPT points are totally wiped out and gone. It's not surprising that the Azure Ray team owner or manager has allowed that to happen since he owns both teams. I thought that this type of rule has been gone before like having two owned teams per tournament but I guess running two teams is allowed as long as they won't participate the same tournament. For easier vieweing, here is the new roster of Xtreme Gaming that everyone is optimistic with.

At this point, kuroky is not really helping his team by playing. His decision making on the fly is no longer as sharp as what it used to, though one can argue that his drafting is still good in this current meta. He's just not as sharp as Puppey in leading the team mid game and making sudden shifts in their strategy to not lose. Also, most of the time he's just feeding anyway.

I guess when you grow up playing as a captain for years, leading different people to victory, you'll have that ego to not quit until you prove that you still got it, even though you're not really doing something beneficial anyway.


Believe me, people know that Kuroky's time as a player is up. A lot are suggesting him to go on a coaching position. He's not a Ceb or a Puppey; his mechanics suck even though his pre-game tactics are good on paper.

I do play Street Fighter but not yet with 6. Is there a huge community on it? As per checking in stake, there's no betting for Street Fighter 6 but I am seeing videos of it with the competition but I just don't know how it is doing with its movement and own community. Do you guys also bet on Street Fighter 6?

If you have this type of offer for this game, I think it's better if you move along with the other communities or forums that it has got. Maybe in social medias and other dedicated forums for games. Because I think that if there are people that are into Street Fighter 6 here, they're just plain players and not really in depth on the game and just plays it casually. But if you can educate us and give us some insight on how's the scene there in the Street Fighter 6, that will give us some glance on how it goes.

Does anyone play Street Fighter 6?

I've been promoting bitcoin in my club subscription in the game lol, I have 2 characters at master level, blanka and zangief.

If anyone is there and wants to train a little, I'm available.

Nope, he's not looking down on see but the time he talks shit about it, for sure that there will be a large community that's going to trash talk him even in pubs. But IMO, Quinn is a good guy. The clips that we see with his reactions are like snippets of the actual game that has teammates that have triggered him. He's able to prove something for himself and to the entire dota 2 community so whether he talks shit or not, he's got his achievements that he boast with but I don't really think that he'd say something like that on SEA.

He won't coach but he'll play as position 5 still with team Nigma Galaxy. But maybe if some things change then he might choose to coach the team instead. And his passion to the game can't be gone too early, I remember him still on Dota 1 days together with other veterans. Oh man, we've grown older.

Passion, money and thinks that he can still play with good players. Who knows if he will all of a sudden announces his retirement.

Looking down on SEA region? He would really be definitely be bashed for that and this is something that he shouldnt really be doing. About on NA then yes i do agree into this point.
Speaking about Kuroky then it would be just the right time to have that coaching kind of line or career? but well if he do really love Dota that much then there's nothing wrong with it.

I did have some good read up about 3 months ago on this reddit about retirement of kuroky.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/164052k/when_will_people_admit_its_time_for_kuroky_to/?rdt=58062

He's probably got the largest stock or share on this team and that's why he remains. While Mind_control is going to play somewhere else, it's possible that they've totally departed ways and have no longer a connection to each other with the team that they've built together. But anyway, maybe we're harsh with Kuroky because the team keeps on failing while we're good and happy with Puppey since these two are from both era and the same goes for Dendi. But with Puppey, he's still got the balls to compete against with the young calibers whilst for Dendi and Kuroky, they're just keep on losing with tournaments and even qualifiers.

Is it an official thing already? Moving to NA is going to be easy for them but it seems that there will be NA players that won't be able to continue with their roster. I'll just wait for more official announcements from them if they'll really move to NA and with the replacement of their roster.

And for the other news to all of the fans, dota 2 players and bettors. Speaking of Kuroky and Nigma, guess what? Sumail and Miracle is back on the roster while Kuro will play for the position 5. Who do you think are the two remaining guys that will complete the roster? I'm thinking of yapzor as their position 4 and for an offlane, I'm not sure who's going to fill that up but rumors said it can be topson playing for another role as position 3.

I also think Kuroky should just coach or maybe manage the team. I guess he owns the team already. And if he owns it then maybe he can focus on expanding it like what Team Secret is doing, it has a team from a wide number of e-sport teams, from League of Legends and PUBG to mobile games like Wildrift.

And speaking about NA. I just found out that Tundra is already relocating to the region. That organization is rich so it can acquire players from other teams. The good thing is it could dominate the region and position itself for NA's single slot.

He's right about NA, it's just dead at all, and don't have that much competition there. But talking about SEA? I don't think that he'll talk shit with that region. He knows how this region is one of the hardest, to be honest. But it's just that there are still fewer teams that are becoming better in this region. And we've got some roster changes with the Nigma Galaxy. All of the roster has been kicked except Kuroky who still remains with the team.

Well, he's one of the team co-founders but I guess that the other co-founders don't want to stay anymore with the team if there's not that much growth at all. Too many good players and young out there that can still be developed but it should be kuroky that must be out of the roster and remain as either a coach or analyst. That's how he can thrive on this esports but he has to accept that his prime days were long gone now and he needs to give way to better young talents on this one bringing the banner of the team. There were also a lot of pro players that have done this and accepted that they're no longer in their prime just like the boys from OG and Alliance and other teams as well.

They won't forever shine and that's the reason of why they are still in the pro scene but not as part of the roster but as part of the back end of the teams that are willing to coach their new young breeds.

Thanks mate. My brother will be spending his holidays here and he plays more DOTA 2 than me even if he is also busy at school. He might try to convince me again to play with the new updates.

Generally, I am an underdog fan type so it's cool when things are shaken a bit, and then new teams and players try to topple those on top. It's just that I had a bet on GG. And it was really surprising knowing Azure was shut out in their upper bracket series and yet managed to bounce back in the finals.

Meanwhile, Quinn is making fun of the NA region. The next time he talks he might include the SEA as well.

Yeah, they've won first against Azure on the semi finals at the top bracket which made Azure Ray grinded through the lower bracket against Team Liquid. But Azure Ray did the impossible for taking those leads that they've got each game, well, everything did happened smoothly and that's so satisfying to see. Well take note that I am not a hater of GG, I just want to see some new teams emerge.

They will, there's now a bigger expectation on them since they've became champions on this recent ESL One.

Yes, they'll just come back stronger next year as that concludes their run for this year and it was an amazing year for them. It's truly part of the history and will make the most of these memories in the future but their run doesn't end there so we'll be expecting them to have some come back and revenge.