Topic: Esports Prediction & Discussion Thread - page 105. (Read 79100 times)

In CSGO the Paris Major is around the corner and we are having the first matches for the 8 spots in the Legend Stage happening on Monday. The matches are best of 1, so the teams need to give everything and can't make any major mistakes. There are still a few weaker teams in the tournament which leads to some pretty one sided matches where I hope to make some small save returns. One of the most sided match will be G2 vs TheMongolz, where G2 should be winning this match easily. And FaZe is going to play against Monte which should be a clear win for FaZe. The two closest matches on Monday will be OG vs ENCE and NiP vs MOUZ, the teams are very equal in strength and the matches could be going either way. I am going with ENCE and MOUZ for the two matches but only in a small size to not risk too much. Better to save some money for the big matches happening during the major.

Aster vs Liquid now live. Liquid already took game 1 but the fight is so intense from early to late game. Aster has the kills advantage on mid game while Liquid has gold advantage. Both picks are good especially the sustain on both sides that makes the clash last longer.

Aster has the chance to win the game if Monet is not afraid on dying. He is not committing too much on clash and run whenever he feels low using his ss even though he can still take down some hero before he died. This is what Notail trying to point out on Aster. Their carry is afraid to die rather than to contribute damage until the end to give a team wipe.

I bet +1.5 on Aster. I hope they can manage to get at least 1 game because game is very close to an even match.

Yeah, that was real quick by GG. So well see how it goes. I still believe OG will win over the winner of EG vs Talon and enters the top 4.

Wish granted mate. We see a rematch between 9 Pandas and GG who just went to draw in the group stage. This time bo3 and with higher stakes with the winner earning a slot to the finals. I haven't seen an outright but it seems like GG is the favorite to win again another major.

Quinn's face reminds me of my friend in college. Silent and nerdy but wears metal clothes. We used to play DOTA overnight in an internet cafe with some of our friends. I only heard before that Ramzes is a bully. I didn't know he and Quinn have bad blood.

Brazy Party tournament has finished. Astralis and Cloud9 were the teams reaching the final round. Cloud9 managed to eliminate their opponent despite starting 1-0 behind after a loss on Overpass. But this was still a good sign for Astralis. Because they have been in pretty bad shape for a long time. device's coming back to the team hasn't changed much thing either. Taking a 2nd position is a good success for them in this tournament as a result.

I really missed to see Astralis' old performances. They have already leave their prime time behind maybe but who nows. Maybe one day they will be reborn again.

Good for you, meanwhile I lost all of my betslip since yesterday . I guess I have been having bad day after all and its not even limited to esports, I lost on every other sports that I bet on

Fun fact, I have been so much in love with high odds parlay for a few days therefore yeah my betslip consist of those illogical bet that I put in because of the high odds then somehow backfire to me

Guess I'll just stick with usual bet instead



Yeah EG is a slight favourites but watching how Talon actually kicked PSG.LGD out of The Major, I think they have slightly better chance to win

It really ended too quick and it was just like abonus round for GG. Well, since mc is playing on OG. The famous quote about lower bracket has been applied to OG. And that is, "upper bracket is for b****s".

While it is currently on first map between Tundra and 9pandas. I like 9pandas to win this match up so that ramzes and quinn will face each other on the stage and having that game face. 

But before these, they've already been on the elevator at the same time and ramzes said that quinn was just facing the floor.

It didn't happen but still Team Liquid going to face Team Aster tomorrow.

Actually it was a one sided match during the early to mid game but then, LGD was too good when they've managed to prolong the game but NTS' timber and shiro's sven isn't enough to stop 23's naga siren. It's too fat and while magnus of zeal did a lot of mistakes, still shown some good plays. But if it was done too early and those mistakes of wrong reverse polarity's, I think that they'll be able to get back too soon.
On the other match, GG made easy two wins against OG. I just can't accept that, LOL. A very one sided match.

Congratulations on the GG bet. OG doesn’t have a chance to win against GG. The game 1 is close fight but game 2 is a massacre the difference on level of pos 1 and pos 2 of GG to OG is very far. I thought OG can make a difference with this new line-up due to there good performance on group stage but still they are showing subpar performance in the presence of top team like GG.

Yuragi play hide and seek on game 2 like a creeps. He is so careless and relying heavily on doppelgänger despite GG heroes is counter him. The early double kill starts the tempo for GG to dominate the game. I might bet on Tundra for the next match.

2 big matches today. The semi-finals in the upper bracket. After OG's massive win over Team Liquid, they are now matched against one of the most consistent teams in this major. Liquid's really struggling to stay consistent with this new patch. Meanwhile, OG's weird in this major, they're doing well despite having 2 stand-ins. We'll see if their luck and momentum keep going but I guess Gaimin is at a different level.

Hopefully, GG vs OG series ends earlier so I can stay awake since my bet is for Tunda playing against 9 Pandas.

What a heck of game between Talon and LGD on game 2. It goes on 72 minutes which is equivalent to 2-3 games in total. Good job on LGD on prolonging the game since they are already left behind by exp and gold on early game due to Talon aggression but they manage to keep up and manage to even the game by being patient on farming Sven core items before he enter on clash. Nothingtosay is one of the reason why LGD manage to recover because of tankiness of his timbersaw.

I bet -1.5 on Talon and I’m really frustrated watching the game enter this long game while Talon has a chance to end the game quickly. Sometimes 23savage being scared and keeps farming without realizing the enemy hero is good on late game. I didn’t finish watching since I thought they will lose but I’m glad that they still won in the end. LGD new carry has the moves that can be like Ame with more exposure on competitive scene like this.

Unfortunate loss for us, if only they got a better draft it would've been a 2-0 because they stomped the next two games with ease.

Not that confident about my bets today but I still expect these to hit, even with MC pushing OG to their very best I still think this would be a sweep for Gaimin Gladiators. The Tundra series might go to all three maps if they troll their draft but this is just my alternative bet as I would've taken Talon +1.5 if they were available on Stake.

There goes our bet because Liquid screwed up the 1st map. XG was pretty lucky to actually make it to the playoff then we have Liquid that seems to have found their momentum since few days ago in group stage and it seems most sane people would go for Liquid -1.5 but oh well I guess something are kinda unpredicted

I had huge stake on Liquid -1.5 though thinking that this is an easy 2- for them. This would be funny if Liquid ended up getting knocked out

Hopefully not because i've seen it in my pubs and the hero is vulnerable in team fights like drow or sniper but IMO worse since the right clicks don't dish out that much burst damage. I still think Zeus is better off going for the usual magic build.

This is because every player is pulling their weight no one is underperforming compared to the other teams like Team Liquid where one or two players would keep on making mistakes like overextending. In Tundra's series yesterday they were limit testing to see how flexible they can go with their hero pool and it caused them to drop a map.

Thanks to sumail, they are now advancing to whoever will win against Team Liquid and Xtreme Gaming which is the upcoming match. Are we going to see two Chinese teams beating each other or this is for Team Liquid? I think that this is going to be Team Liquid's match but we'll see.
Are we also going to see that Zeus that Micke has been practicing in the pub as a pos1 with that shard/chain lightning talent? That's interesting and I haven't seen someone has played that on this new update and on this major.

Yeah. Odds is based on stats besides Aster is far inferior by Team Spirit in past tournaments. Chinese team is not the power house region since the last year patch. They can’t catch up anymore on western country team especially the WEU and CIS. I think the new patch gave them an edge to be on equal grounds again on western team but let’s see if they can still keep up until the end when everyone is already familiarized with the new patch including the combos.

Surprising Gaimin Gladiator is still performing very despite every team is crumbling to have a very consistent gameplay.

Team Aster takes game 1.

That was likely an easy game for them. Thanks to the early rotation of Axe, CM and KOTL. All of their lanes have won and they're too early to dominate all of them.

Axe was a good counter to Ursa and it can't go near to the lane as it's against Axe. I think Team Spirit should learn from that if their carry don't do well early on its lane, they need to exchange lanes with the others.

I think the odd was based on their run on the group stages. Team Aster ended up 5th on the group stages while Team Spirit came from 3rd on the group stage and top bracket of the playoffs and then just fell into the lower bracket. Well, the match is on going right now and I'm favoring the line up of heroes of Team Spirit instead of Team Aster but honestly, I want Team Aster to prosper and move to the next bracket.
It's just 8 minutes of the game, 6-3 and this KDA is currently in favor of Team Aster.

Thanks    I also had SR in a single bet and they were the first ones to give me a loss. In the first game, it felt like they were on a timer as they were starting to fall off the longer the game drags out. Then in the second game, it was a draft win for 9pandas when SR had to last pick veno offlane.

Also, Nisha underperformed during that series and MC had so much impact roaming throughout the map not allowing any space for Team Liquid to catch up.

Now that they're in the lower bracket I hope they sweep XG as I have them in a parlay together with Team Aster +1.5 and i'm surprised Team Spirit is this favored because in my view Team Aster is performing at a similar level.

SR got pushed down to the lower bracket by 9Pandas and we're starting to see the whole line of the bracketing for this playoffs. Later on tomorrow, we'll see the elimination of the three teams from this tournament.

I think those moments of Execration, they would have made the elimination on the group stages if they've won all of their games at their last two days.

But it had made Team Liquid convenient and just as the other teams, Team Liquid is now at the lower bracket.

Thats big news, they been around years right.    I do have a few of their items so my immediate thought it does not compare to when Titan left CSGO forever, that was within the context of losing their reputation and sponsorship ie. non viable business.   Here as I understand bankruptcy law a company may cease but also sell on the assets of the former company which means as a trademark the Flame may rise again.  Hence I do think the price spike would be a sell event or signal imo.

  Maybe its most probable Copenhagen Flames do not return but they might easily if in demand and the brand has worth still, accounting and finance is only juggling someone can pick it back up and start it all over again is a possibility.

Also I see the rise of Cadian is complete he is comparable as a pheonix from the ashes in that he was first known in a major 9 years and fell back & some will have written him off; the Heroic team makes #1 rank in the world which is kinda amazing when we have Navi and Astralis quite able to contend but at present not at their peak it would seem.   Great accomplishment for them, I had thought Cadian would be a player who went to commentary I thought of him like ex-vp as good players retire so he fooled us all wp to him.

I won my multi, all the major teams win and not a day for underdogs.