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Looks like a nice match. Faze played well against Team Liquid. Unfortunately I didn't bet anymore for the remaining games, lost a bit on the last final.

Probably just going to wait for the Spring Showdowns. My bet is likely either Astralis or Navi, both of them look very good at the moment.

Now live Natus Vincere vs Faze Clan in a best of 2 match.
 its an great match every team won 1 round, now the last round.
i dint think that Faze win 1 round butt yeah, maybe Faze will win this match that would be great.

Navi vs Faze coming up in few mins and I am really excited after watching how Faze kicked Liquid yesterday especially second map lol. BTW NAVI made a change in lineup resting flamie and bringing in B1T so another reason of me favouring Faze here and so I went on with a little on Faze.

I've been told to bet Liquid in 2 maps win so have done that but I'm quite sceptical just on the names alone and as said above Twistzz was one of the best players on Liquid so how does this make sense I dont know.    Olaf wants to retire ok so thats some doubts on one player, perhaps thats enough and Liquid is a very strong team who wont slip and I might just be prejudice from so many NA failed bets where they go derp mode.
  If Liquid have a plan for each map played then they win both, if its a pug match purely on aim and rushing sites then maybe either team can win it.

Navi take the bo3 but kudos to mibr for a decent challenge vs world #2 is perhaps fair conclusion also.

(^^) I actually was a bit impressed how they were able to gain momentum with pistol rounds in the first map but eventually Navi won that but they did very good in second map and they swiped the secon half in map 2 giving no rounds at all to Navi. Pretty impressive to push down to third map against a team like Navi.

Navi take the first map(Mirage, Mibr pick) with ease and Mibr putting up a fight in the 2nd(Train). There is a potential that it goes to 3 maps but Navi is going into the CT side in the 2nd half. Train is pretty CT sided map. If Navi are clinical enough in their defense. It could turn into a quick 2-0.

Edit: Never mind. Train is so weird. Some teams make it look so T sided. Mibr is one of them. We go into the 3rd map that is Dust 2. The Puggers and awpers dream. Can Mibr cause an upset?

That rumour is going on pretty strong plus coldzera on his interview said that olofmeister would also be leaving in March- April and that's the same time when karrigan is also expected to leave or his contract runs out. So yeah timing fits as the rumours say..


Feels like O2.5 to me as well. Bookies are favouring Liquid quite heavily. I think Faze have a good equal chance to win the match as like Liquid does. I might got for Faze after the map choices are made.

that actually is a really interesting fact 🤔  i don't know which team will be playing in a facility today tho, what if this is the only group where the underdogs are the ones playing from home? 🤣

i totally forgot Twistzz recently joined FaZe. That match has O2.5 maps written all over it, but if previous matches in other groups are anything to go by, FaZe will win today  

Twistzz on faze is already confirmed, whenever there's a leak that comes out about transfers or almost anything about CSGO's competitive scene it's usually posted on hltv.

https://www.hltv.org/news/31042/twistzz-in-talks-with-faze-report

https://www.hltv.org/news/31109/faze-sign-twistzz

There's also rumors about Karrigan going back to Faze if that happens they could certainly become a top 3 team.

https://www.hltv.org/news/30945/mousesports-explore-options-to-replace-karrigan

Twistzz can still really play and its just sad that he is playing against a team that was once his home. Faze is still in the process of getting their chemistry together while Fallen is always a player that would be able to deliver since he is always someone that have been jumping from team to team not that he wants that to happen but its just the way it is for him.

Talking about FaZe clan, I don't know where I did read that they are looking to sign a CS:GO veteran from Team Liquid, it looks like Olofmeister will leave CS:GO in 2021, so this will be one of the biggest signings of the organisation, but do we have any news about that? FaZe Clan wanted ‘Twistzz’ on board but I can not find the right information about that. Thanks in advance.

Bet for today:

FaZe vs Liquid @ 3.15 - MY BET

Liquid started to look good once again but it was 3 weeks ago and those recent results in BLAST were really surprising (like Vitality finishing last in their group), I think Twistzz will want to show up against former team so imho at those odds betting on FaZe today is worth a try, GL!

Next go for Today Natus Vincere vs MIBR it should be an easy match for Natus, im think they will win.
Faze vs Team Liquid im hope Faze win butt im dont think hard match for Faze, im hope they get a come back.

Going to be an interesting match between Faze and Liquid. Twistzz coming back to play against his old team and as a member of Faze. Lets see how it goes. Didn't go well for Faze when they matched against OG a week ago, losing 2-0. Probably going to take some time to get the coordination going. On the other hand, Fallen has been playing really well with Liquid. I didnt expect it but it seems to be a really good move for them.

Device's gf is Swedish I think so he stays there in lockdown situ perhaps.   IGL is a big deal that changes the game, I need to watch Col then but this isnt the first time they do what appears unlikely.
Cant be underdog if they are top, hopefully plenty of doubt remains for reasonable odds to occur.

Navi have been on form recently.   Fallen in Liquid seems to be doing ok, but his top also is in potential enough to change the winner of a match not sure he is doing that well.   The Brazilian super squad framenting is a bit like the Swedish squads breaking lose like ronin they roam as both lost samurai and with deadly force    (not Ronin the team )

Playing in the same room helps teamwork, anything which coordinates a team is going to be OP, have to rate that as some active factor though also Astralis actually doing their homework most of the time where as some teams are chaos undisciplined talent to random effect is also something else obvious in results but not something we can tell beforehand each individual match.

Still don't think one week would be enough. Its gonna be a lot on the coach to train him as an IGL. I do hope it doesn't takes time for them as they are currently no. 2 and we have already seen teams dropping heavily in ranks when someone in their teams takes break or leaves.

IGL breaks are getting often now. Still its quite understandable since they are the brains and they stress a lot. Its actually good to take a break to refresh your mental health but also I think the player should be more open about to team and inform them beforehand so that can be ready for the break and find for temporary player in place of that player. There is also another thing which is ideal timing to take a break. <- I think these are some things where you should be more open so that team doesn't struggles after your decision to take a break.



NAVI - MIBR feels like its gonna go Navi way. Lot of underdogs are defeating some big teams but I don't think Mibr are the ones that could be surprise a side like NAVI at this point. About other match, I am actually looking forward to it as now Faze member Twistzz is about to face his own former Team Liquid plus there is coldzera and Fallen who once played in Luminosity and MIBR .It will be also interesting to watch Fallen working out with his new team. (Haven't seen any Liquid matches after Fallen joined). Liquid vs Faze is a really good match and I think this could go eitherway.


(^^^)That's really smart. Guess I should start doing this as well... maybe that is what I am missing and me help me out of killing all my balance going on for sometime now.  

I'm following you on the underdogs but i'll go with the handicaps since I don't have the guts to take them straight up. 

Also this tweet from SPUNJ gave me a bit of courage to take the underdogs. 

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There's not much good games going on for today but I was able to squeeze this small parlay just in time to follow rand on his CIS dota picks.

I managed to get final game correct and at least return some part of my stake on Blast series. I took Complexity to win 2:0 @2.6 live. You can look at those kind of situations form the angle you wrote above or from the large numbers take. For instance so many bad predictions have to equalize over time and hit my mean numbers for CS.

I know generally what percentage of correct picks I am making per sports and according to that I am sizing my stakes. Going a bit offtopic here but I am having great percentages on Champions League football while terrible percentages on Europa League games. Therefore my bets on CL are about 10x larger then my bets on EL. I am still considering myself fresh in eSports so I don't have that sort of confidence but I can already see a pattern emerging. I have by far most success playing underdogs to take one map so for now I am doubling or tripling stake on those kind of bets. That goes both for DOTA and CS.

it's gonna be rough for VIT. Shox said in a interview the other day that they were surprised by this news, like, they didn't know Apex was gonna take a break.  Well, at least now they'll have one full week to prepare for the next match without their main IGL. I don't expect them to win IEM Katowice...unless Zywoo pops off, of course 

last year it was Astralis' IGL , now apEX... 

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comments about NAVI - MIBR and FaZe - Liquid? anyone following my crazy tips for these matches? 😂

Apex was the brains of the Vitality team and his sudden break has left the Vitality struggling in their remaining matches in BLAST. Rpk and shox might have lead their teams but as compared to apex I don't think they have enough experience like apex does. IGL is so important, the more experienced they are the more aware they are about the opponent and their calls and you can make right calls inside the game according to that. shox was the one who lead in the match against EG so it will be interesting how he develops in the role as an igl.