Topic: Esports Prediction & Discussion Thread - page 117. (Read 68738 times)

Or maybe Dawn Gaming is just that bad of a team when they only got a total of 7 kills throughout those two maps.  

I'll try my chances on Team Aster -1.5 vs Knights @1.67 since Aster's squad is still the same and they brought in Aster Aries' former mid laner Xwy. Knight's roster still had some of the old RNG players but their new core players doesn't seem the best though.

B1t performance stats can be bad yes. B1t has a role in the decline of Navi, but it is necessary not to put all the responsibility on one person. I think the main problem was the fifth player, there are a lot of factors in the team that caused the regression. When B1t does not take on the role of carrier, Navi usually loses when s1mple does a single frag. I remember last year B1t and s1mple always carried the team by scoring high. It was very important to the huNter g2. I can say that it is better than B1t this season.

huNter- really popped off in the latter months of 2022, contributing to G2's BLAST Premier win. I guess that really made the difference: the Major win. If not for that I guess we might see huNter's ranking lower - but maybe not lower than b1t you're correct as I've checked the stats and huNter- really is better in terms of everything. Dude's AWPing in some rounds that they converted to a win really is something else that b1t can't really do for Na'Vi, and I think b1t is one of the weak links of Na'Vi right now that needs to step down or improve if he wants to make his presence worth Na'Vis while.

Yikes, I guess I was overconfident with my bet. I mean the odds are good though to gamble but it seems, PSG.LGD is still a pretty good team despite playing with their new roster. Dawn Gaming was trashed only on 19 and 22 minutes, that totally show the dominance that they had over the game on both map which is pretty incredible

oh shit. I miss new news.
I'm a fan of dota 2 betting but some days I'm too busy with roulette betting and it causes me to miss PSG.LGD match news

but I see in the picture you put, you actually chose Dawn Gaming?
doesn't PSG.LGD have a bigger chance of winning?
and I think I will have a prediction that PSG.LGD will win

When we compare b1t and huNter's statistics we can see that there is a really small difference.

huNter seems to be better in 2022 by a slight gap statistically. And if we assess the situation by the impacts they have made on matches, I think huNter is still ahead. Because this year wasn't very good for b1t generally. There was a significant drop in his effort level in last months of the year as well. Natus Vincere really needed his great skills as a rifler. But he was quite inconsistent as a fragger. Maybe this was even one of the reasons behind Natus Vincere's bad form.

Those odds look crazy good, PSG's new roster still has a decent set of players coming from well known teams though while Dawn Gaming has the more questionable players coming from Saiyan gaming last season that got eliminated from division 2. I'll tail anyway since I also think the odds are worth betting even though PSG can likely 2-0 here.

Yeah pretty much the average stats of these players whole year round and which events they stand out is taken into consideration in the creation of this top 20 list from HLTV. It has been like this since I first started following professional CS:GO in 2016. YEKINDAR has been very explosive on the last months of 2022, but we haven't seen him popping off before that. He's like that average 0.8 - 1.0 rating player that knows his stuff around the map, knows his role, and can aim pretty well. huNter's placement is indeed somewhat questionable as he isn't that consistent of a player too, and compared to YEKINDAR, he's kind of left behind. I would even go so far as to saying b1t should be ahead of huNter- in the rankings but yeah, the Na'Vi rifler didn't really made that much noise too.

It isn't easy to make this top 20 players list in CS:GO indeed. But the positions of some players really surprise me.

For example YEKINDAR is seen at the 15th position now. rain and huNter have already left him behind. This might be a little unfair to YEKINDAR to be honest. Because he made a huge effort to carry Liquid. He was one of the most remarkable fraggers after making a really big effort. I thought that this effort would deserve more than this but we will see the other names above him. I don't know maybe YEKINDAR's performance while we were close to the end of the year wasn't enough to make the average much better than this.

Dota 2 tournaments and actions are about to be back, on January 5, it's the start of week 1 for the China's DPC region 2023 tour and that's for division 1.

I'm not used to see other teams part of the division 1 there because there have been too many great teams that have been part of it, but it's good to see new teams and names got in.

While for the SEA, January 9 is the start of games for the same tournament but different region.

I am surprised that Jame droppped his ranking from top 10 to bottom 20. Sure, Outsiders was inconsistent this year, but they did won RIO Major. And Jame fragged pretty well, at least from my point of view.


It is the person that dedicates more time in the game that finds those special tricks that could win a game. Experience-wise, Niko still has an advantage over Monesy, but skill-wise, Monesy is starting to take over. He had a monster performance in the latter part of 2022. I am not surprised if Monesy end up in top 10 or top 5 at the most.

Decided to take this bet after I browsed them, odds are just too good to ignore I guess. PSG.LGD totally consist of almost entire different roster and this is their first game ever in an official tournament so they could be sloppy and somehow lose a map to Dawn Gaming. Well its still pretty early but hey its a start as Im pretty bored right now waiting for tournaments to start

Top 20 players continue to be announced in order. 18th place is Spinx, 17th is frozen. When he was transferred to the Spinx Vitality team, I expected a higher performance from him, actually he is a player who gives what is expected, but he has more potential.

Will Boombl4 free offer him a team transfer, I think he deserves another chance to play at tier-1.

I thought like that considering only the individual performances.

Otherwise of course XANTARES wouldn't be at the first position that easy. Eternal Fire have been a really big mess for a long time and there is no Space Soldiers spirit at all. I really miss those days.    This team have a potential though but they have been just bad with strategies. Anyway, the 19th and 20th players have already been announced. They are yuurih and Jame respectively. This might be a hint for us. Because Outsiders won the Major and Jame played great there. However he is still at the last position in this ranking.

Xantares is a good rifle player but I don't think we will see him top10. He has no success this year because as a team, we may not even see him in the top 20. Gradually, the top20 began to be announced, they are announcing the names one by one. I can say for sure that s1mple is in the top three. Twistzz, Ropz I expect either one to be in the top three. M0nesy should be in the top ten. I can say that Xantares is a player in decline due to his recent decisions. It's hard to understand why tier-A doesn't prefer a team anyway.

NiKo is still a solid rifler yeah. But it is like there has been some drop in his performance level in the last month of the year especially. I don't know if this can push him a little down in the list.

I have seen a clip of m0nesy while he was teaching NiKo some trick he found on a map.    It feels different to see m0nesy teaching some good things to his bigger friends than himself. I mean NiKo is normally much more experienced than m0nesy when it comes to professional tournaments. But CS:GO is of course not like a game that you need to be very experienced by playing for professional teams to learn new things. It is all about practice and trying to discover something new after new updates especially.

Just a few more days to go and we're in 2023 where full of actions and DPC season is back by that time.

The change of roster for most teams especially in the SEA region, we'll see those new rosters and teams that we're hyped when they've announced their roster changes.

China region is one of the toughest region and looking at the teams for the upcoming DPC season, I'm not convinced since many teams don't have that known players. But I know all of them won't be there if they're not good as the others.

It's just all about my familiarity to them but I'll definitely watch most of their games.

Anyway, Christmas has passed, still Merry Christmas and Happy New year everyone.

S1mple remains as the top AWPer that's for sure, though you are right with m0nesy coming close to him as the kid proves that he's an extremely gifted player that can play under pressure at top tier games. For the best rifler/entry fragger, I do have a lot in mind. Xantares sure is one on the top, but NiKo is still there among the best riflers that 2022 had. Lots of finals wherein NiKo proved that he's still a force to be reckoned with handling the AKs or the M4s against solid teams. Jks can be in the top 20 list for sure, but he's not that consistently good so there's that.


Ahh, Chinese dota scene. They are the ones kicking off the DPC tour in 2023 and I don't think I have the guts nor the interest to watch these games. So many times I've been burned by PSG.LGD and Team Aster on Tier 2 DPC runs on what seems to be a walk in the park for them. Lots of times when they could just have ended the game but no, they still have the prove something on that game that costs them the whole series or costs them the map. If you aren't that much familiar with the Chinese dota scene, I will suggest you to skip all of their events as much as you can. It's a whole different region out there and PSG.LGD's ranking in dota seems to be thrown off the bus when they're matched against another Chinese team.

There are no big tournaments happening right now, it's been a bit quite with good esports games happening over Christmas and between the year. Probably most gamblers where focusing on the worldcup and not on other sports. At least in China are some Dota matches being played in January with the DPC CN 2023 Tour 1 coming up. It's all of the big chinese teams competing for a 200,000 USD prize pool. On January 5th we have the first round starting with PSG LGD playing against Dawn Gaming which is going to be a pretty one sided match and should be a good win for PSG LGD. EHOME is playing against Invictus Gaming which is going to be a very close match in my opinion, I will go with Invictus Gaming for that one. On the 6th  Team Aster is going to play against Knights which is another save bet and Team Aster should be winning this one.

Being the coach of Nigma.Galaxy is the best thing that he can ever do for the team. He should let someone who's younger but has got tremendous experience. No doubt and argument about his experience but he has achieved a lot already.

He's just going to be look like Dendi who's also trying hard but they've got reasons for it and it might be all about having fun. Dendi's definition of fun is like that and to keep competing.

But if Kuro's reason is to be competitive, he has to consider himself out of the roster.

I have remembered Puppey's enchantress, Pup is also quite old but still doing it very well as we've seen for the past TI. But Kuro is just on another level and not as high as before.

You're right about acknowledging him as he's already falling off and about his performance dropping a lot.

Yeah, let's hope that he'll recognize it and considers it because he should notice that the fall of the team is because of him not giving way.