Topic: Esports Prediction & Discussion Thread - page 45. (Read 79200 times)

I haven't followed their journey there but it is good to know, thanks!

He was forgiven already with the 322 that he has started and I think with vast experience from biggest tournaments especially in TI, he's still a good addition as pos 5 to any EEU team. So if he stays with 9Pandas, he's likely the captain of it with the new roster.

IMHO, this is what the teams should be if they're starting out with a new roster. I remember when kiyotaka and miero are unknown to the scene but they've molded it.

Meanwhile , 9Pandas are having a solid team in CSGO but overall , the entire Russian zone and Eastern europe are back on CS Go stronger than ever.

Now , back to Dota , you're right. 9pandas had to rebuild almost their entire team but keeping solo was a wise idea ? because we all know he is the inventor of "322" when he bet against his own team a couple of years ago. Great to hear that their new player is actually a talent and has already a reputation in Dota 2 pro scene and I will watch 9pandas as much as I can if they will actually qualify for a major or DreamLeague at least.

I still have to wait and see on how this roster will go on. There will always be the ups and downs of a certain team and also in a particular region.

On the upcoming BetBoom Dacha Dubai 2024, it's nice to see that Team Spirit is going to be seen play again and since you've mentioned them, I hope that they don't get rusty this time because it's quite a long vacation for them.

As for the 9Panda's, I still consider them as one of the strong teams with their name but let's see with their completed roster if it's still gonna be the same.

On Monday the Blast Premier Spring 2024 group stages are starting. It's been now already a few months since all the pros are playing with the new CS2 in tournament format and I would say the transition went alright. There were some surprises of weaker teams doing really well, but now I think the more experienced teams will be pushing back to the top. The first match is going to be G2 VS NiP. Both teams have been struggling a bit with CS2, but I think G2 has the clear advantage here in a best of 3 setup. The second match will be NaVi vs Complexity, where I am going to put my money on NaVi. Even though they had some roaster changes and their team is a bit new, they have doing really well in the last month. The third match of the day is going to be Vitality vs OG, which probably going to be the most one sided match of the day. OG is a decent team, but they are not on the same level. Vitality is currently the strongest team in CS2 with a 8 games winning streak. And the last match of the day will be Astralis vs Falcons, which is probably the closest match of the day. For me Astralis is the stronger team, but I am probably not betting on the match. Both teams beat NiP recently and in there last match-up against each other Astralis won 2-1.

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.