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We are less than an hour away from the start of Cloud9-Ence. It's worth mentioning that Ence eliminated two favorites. Both against G2 and against Vitality they had a good win. For this reason, I honestly see ence as the favorite in this match. Cloud9 has young and talented players. Especially sh1ro and ax1le are the main ones carrying the team. But there is a clear performance increase in ence after the arrival of nertz. I think this performance increase will continue and they can eliminate C9.

The last 3 matches of the ESL Pro League Season 17 are happening this weekend, semi finals today and the grand final tomorrow. All of the matches are going to be a highlight and should attract a lot of new viewers after Counter Strike 2 has been announced this week. There is a huge hype for CSGO now as the game is going to transfer this summer to the new software. The complete overhaul of CSGO by Valve is going to make sure that it will remain as the number one competitive shooter for the next 5 years. The first match today is going to be Cloud9 vs ENCE, both teams are quite strong and the match could be going either way. On paper Cloud9 is the stronger team, but ENCE had to beat some strong teams like G2 to get to the finals. I think they can pull it off and reach the grand final, with the current odds it's a good bet. The second match is FaZe vs NaVi, which is going to be even closer than the first match. Both teams only lost one match during the Season, but NaVi had to crawl their way through the lower brackets, so they played much more games. The match is pretty close to a coin flip and could go both ways depending on the performance of s1mple and ropz. I am going with FaZe for the match, and the final will then be FaZe vs ENCE where FaZe is going to win the grand final.

Yeah it was crazy. 1v4 with 1hp and a pistol. Clean 1-tap on the last two. Wow.

Kinda impressed with NaVi's performance against Heroic last night. Too bad their bracket was so stacked, they have to face FaZe in the semis If they can beat FaZe, C9 or ENCE shouldn't be a problem.

What a surprising win from Monaspa and OG with a disappointing performance as now they're the only team with one series win and potentially become the first team to get relegated unless they somehow find their footing in the next few days and beat both Team Nigma and Entity.

This might be a good spot to fade OG in their last two series as Team Nigma looked decent this week and Entity's wins are convincing enough to put them above OG.

Also, the odds are good on Team Liquid beating Tundra as it's now hovering around 1.78, I think it should go down even further as I don't see Tundra winning this series after that sloppy loss against Ooredoo.

That would've been a good win if only OG delivered but I guess it's time to put them on the blacklist or fade them in their last two series.

I have to say that he threw a really incredible clutch. He did the impossible there.  Two headshots with 1 life was extraordinary. Maybe taking that round turned the match in favor of faze and they were able to win the map of their choice. Ropz already played outstanding with 33 kills.
NaVi-Heroic match was also a match that both sides could win. I was thinking that navi might be ahead because everyone started to play well individually. We can say that even npl improved himself in this tournament. We can see that NaVi was the better team. S1mple was the star of the team again.

Ropz now has a new million-dollar contract thanks to the clutch he got in the pistol round on the inferno map. Has anyone seen this round with two quick hs with 1 hp. But by the way, FORZE team put out a very good series, and they pushed FaZe quite a bit in this match. Thanks to the quality of FaZe Ropz's extra players, they were able to eliminate FORZE. I did not watch the Navi - Heroic match, but it was a result I expected.

In the Forze-Faze match, faze won 2-1. Inferno was the map of choice for the faze team. Ropz showed an excellent performance. He got 33 kills and won the match for his team. His clutch in the pistol round was legendary. He is really an excellent player. Overpass was the map chosen by forze. Although Faze did not play well, the match was close and Faze lost 16-14. The match remained to the last map. The last map was mirage and they won comfortably with twistzz and broky's great performance.

Im abit obsessed with Nigma right now and I took -1.5 on them lol. 1st map ended up with a clutch because OT should have won that after owning over 20k gold but somehow Nigma turned that around. I need OG to win 2-0 as well next to win my acca. I got close to 9 odds with only two game on my acca which is pretty great

Tundra is not performing well since the start of this year tournament after winning TI. Probably they are just chilling like what they are always doing and get serious on the mid year to late year DPC tournament during TI. They are always a late bloomer every year and just become stronger when TI is new year which is the opposite of GG that always choke on tournament that near TI.

Including them in the parlay when they are facing underdog team is very dangerous because they keep losing on this kind of match statistically wise. You will know that they are serious when their gameplay is in perfect form which GG and Team Liquid will be having a hard time dealing them. Right now they are still struggling to find their game like what’s happening on the current OG. Probably due to the current meta.

I didn't expect Ence to win this match, both teams didn't play very well and the maps were won by close scores. Vitality, who won on the Nuke map, had a terrible performance on the overpass map of his choice.vitality, who started 13-2 down on T Side, could not turn the match this time. Except for Spinx, there was no good player in the team on the overpass map.Sunpayus was the name that won the map for the ence team. In Vertigo, zywoo's efforts were not enough.zywoo, who played a good game with 34 kills, could not win the match for his team. In general, I can say that apex had a terrible performance.

If there is one thing I learned from Tundra, that is to not put anything on a parlay with them as one leg. They're sometimes bound to lose as heavy favorites. They don't seem to be that consistent especially if there are breaks between tournaments or qualifying games. I would bet on them if they played straight for weeks or days. If not, meh.


Next time you do a parlay, better remove Tundra on it and you'll be fine. Aside from being the most boring TI champions, they also belong to the most inconsistent ones.

Yup, it reminds me of their shakiness during Tour 1 when it seems like they can win with ease but the reality is they struggle to win 2-0 against the weaker teams.

Vitality did win Nuke but ENCE bounced back hard on the next two maps to win the series and eliminate Vitality from the tournament. Cloud9 will be their next opponent and the h2h says it all as they've lost every series.

Cloud 9 beat Mouz 2-1 and Mouz was eliminated.
The first map was inferno, which mouz chose. Mouz, who played a great ct side on the map of his choice, won this map 16-10.The second map was the vertigo map chosen by C9.On this map, on the contrary, C9 knew how to beat the map by showing a good performance.It was left to the last map to determine the winner. The last map was the mirage map.Ax1le became the star here and we can say that he was the name that brought the win to his team.Ax1le managed to get 26 kills while his teammates could not pass the 20 kill threshold.
In the second match of the day, we will be watching the Vitality-Ence struggle. Currently Vitality is 7-4 ahead on the nuke map and the nuke map is the map chosen by the ence team.I expect Vitality to be the winner.

This is pretty silly upset because of that I didnt land my acca. Sucks when you know that Tundra was the clear favourites by miles then somehow they decided to lose 2-0 to OT which is pretty weird.



I would have gotten myself pretty decent balance if this hit but yeah it didnt. The only thing that I was worried about on my acca was Nigma because they are pretty bad at the moment but Tundra ended up dissapointing me instead

The first match of the day will be Cloud9 vs Mouz. It will be a tough match for both sides. Both teams have young and talented players. I see C9 one click ahead. I see them as the team that works better and has more success in these tournaments. I see Sh1ro and Ax1le as two names that will really make a name for themselves in the coming days. 2-1 I expect C9 to win.

ESL pro league quarter-finals. Although the Vitality - ENCE match will start a little late, I can say that this is the match of the day. Normally I would have preferred Vitality in this match but ENCE earned my respect for winning the quarterfinals by knocking out the G2 team. That's why I'm going to pick ENCE to win. In the Cloud 9 MOUZ match, Cloud 9 can win without losing both maps, but it would be too risky. Cloud 9 will win this match, I do not expect a surprise.

Even their drafting still topson seems like trolling in the game imagine picking a sniper as always for the midlane this guy keep abusing the shardupgrade of the sniper and making another draft that seems unpredictable and they really enjoy trolling this division, I guess they made this team just to try if their complexity are still in and we know how does topson make a good mindset gambling against mid lane and Ceb for a really good strategy analysis and initiation. If Ana will came back i guess this is the new meta, or else miracle playing for OG.

Faze beat Furia 2-0. It should be noted that it was not a very difficult match for Faze. For Furia, things are not going well at all. It is obvious that something is missing and they need to take measures as soon as possible. Art is not a good igl in my opinion. That's why they are losing. I think he is not leading the team in important places.
In the last match of the day yesterday, we saw mouz defeating pain. Mouz had a hard time but he managed to beat the brazilian team. The young and talented awper torzsi was the star of the game and made the win even easier. When awper plays well and makes a difference, teams win more easily.

Ooredoo Thunders with another upset and got their second series win after taking down Tundra 2-0. The first game was a huge outdraft by Ooredoo Thunders as Tundra ran out of options and just went with an Enigma last pick against Rubick and Silencer. The second game was similar to the first game and it felt like another outdraft with the Venomancer offlane doing work against Tundra's Ursa and they can't do much to stop them. Before the series started I had Tundra -1.5 then I suddenly went for another bet after seeing Tundra's state in the first game and luckily the next game wasn't any different. 



Also, congrats to Old G and PuckChamp for winning the closed qualifier and securing the two new spots for the upcoming DPC WEU Tour 2 Division 2. I would've bet on this match if I've seen more markets available but unfortunately, the only lines I saw at the time were winner markets that are around 1.10-1.20.

Finally, a whole series was won by Blacklist Rivalry Dota 2 against Bleed Esports. And we've got some news this coming summer for CS: GO and it's gonna be CS: GO 2. I guess this is going to push me to get into counter-strike again and hopefully, this isn't just all hype and whatnot.
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