Topic: Esports Prediction & Discussion Thread - page 64. (Read 79148 times)

S1mple may be a good player but he will never be like zywoo. As much as S1mple has skill, he is also a toxic player. He can't adapt to his teammates. That's why he hasn't been successful in tournaments for a long time.  I'm undecided whether b1t can continue in the team or not, but I don't think b1t is the problem. I think b1t's performance has decreased due to the new players coming in. He is a good player for me and a good duo with s1mple.

S1mple has had a slow start. 2 maps and can't do anything to save his team that are literally trashing the whole series. B1t is just really underwhelming in all those 3 maps combined, and I have a feeling that he will be the next in line to say goodbye to the lineup. Whereas for s1mple, I think he will be continuing the grind and looking for teammates that will suit his playstyle and help him get to championships, not the type that look like bots in the game whom he needs to carry all the time.

I was late for this then I watched couple of rounds from twitch then I saw Navi was doing pretty good earlier hence I decided not to bet on either of them because the odds jumped to 2.05 for MOUZ and around 1.6 for Navi so I thought its not worth it to jump in the Navi bandwagon but Im not really going to bet on MOUZ either so I skipped them both

Well I could have gotten great odds on MOUZ especially after they ruined two of my previous bets but oh well

So whats next for csgo tournament. There are still over a week for TI to start so Im sticking with csgo for next week

It is obvious that B1t's performance had a big impact on NaVi's loss. NaVi is a team built on B1t and s1mple and we have seen that when these 2 players play well, matches are won. I don't think b1t will be replaced because he is still the best rifler in the team. iM or jL might be replaced or aleksiB might be replaced by a better IGL.
I would also like to see the rise of mouz to continue. Mouz used to be one of my favorite teams, but with the recent substitutions and the game not settling down, I honestly stopped supporting them.

b1t for 3 maps has a K/D of 0.65. This is a very weak result despite the final. I think that he will be the next candidate who will probably be replaced in the near future. S1mple activated only on the 3rd map. I wonder what would have happened if NAVI had won these additional rounds. I hope MOUZ will continue to show the same strong performance.

I'm not surprised at all that Mouz beat NaVi. I can say that they are a legendary team and this is an advantage for them since they are all young players. Although NaVi has talented and experienced players, we saw once again that good team play can overcome anything. Mouz rejoining siuhy was an important development for them. Mouz won all 3 maps and won 3-0 and I think they showed us a nice game.

Same, I thought ENCE could win over Mouz but nope. Mouz looks scary after beating Faze, G2, and ENCE but I hope Navi can show their prime performance again and get that last CSGO LAN trophy.

Somehow the odds for the final is almost equal. I was expecting that Navi should be favorite but the market says otherwise.

MOUZ ended up winning against ENCE, damn they kept on ruining my bets. I should have only picked Navi -1.5 for today and skip the other match. Im wondering if I should take them instead of Navi to win tomorrow considering that somehow they kept on ruining my bet hence I dont want this shit to happen after I picked Navi  


We dont even know if there is going to be another Riyadh Masters tournament next year and on top of that, it is always every dota player to win TI so I dont think that we are going to start ignoring TI all along

Possible if they have the means to cover for Puppey and MC's expenses. Pretty sure they're willing to look at this as an investment to move further ahead in the tournament. Idk why Valve is still not helping players get past the visa issues every year. It's as if they should already expect these to happen but they are simply not doing anything at all.


With the contents of this year's BP, I doubt we'll be able to hit any significant milestones for the prize pool. TI might even regress its position as the most important tournament in Dota 2 if this is what's going to happen yearly.

Yeah, there's no battlepass today and that's why many players don't like this compendium that they've released before the TI. It's like that this isn't a way to boost the sales and that 25% from the sales are too little for the prize pool of TI.

They should have done that earlier but we've got lesser time as the main event approaches. And talking about m_c and puppey, they're good choices for Team SMG because midone was a former teammate of Puppey and that's why it's easier adjustment for him and for the others as well.

I just feel bad for masaros and jaunuel since they were the players that have been with them through the qualifiers. However, I am sure that they've got a share on that whatever will be the ending of their journey on this TI.

It feels not just weird but also bad, they are a SEA team but having M_C and Puppey to represent, this makes them no longer pure SEA team but even in the qualifiers, they've got already noone that's from the EEU.

Well, it's very likely that you're right with that but I am hoping that it can go up again for the players to have a larger prize pool. As of checking now, it's on $2.6M and there's like two weeks from now on to fulfill that.

If this is going to be the lowest since 2012 then players and teams are going to focus on other larger prize pool tournaments like Riyadh Masters.

If the rumor becomes true then Puppey is the remaining guy that has attended all TI and it's a record and history for him.

Afaik, Midone and Puppey becomes a teammate before on Team Secret so there’s really a chance that this rumor is true since they have past connection while is undeniably good team leader when he is on Secret. I’m not expecting big on this substitution but it’s still good that some oldies still play because I feel too old watching that most of the player is new.

Regarding MC to OG, I think it will be unfair to the original OG if they give way unless some of them will encounter passport issue.

Actually puppy creates already a history that he makes attending all of the Ti events and course it's your privilege to have this offer even you don't have the team you've created but still you can go Ti and chance to claim the Aegis.
People saying that MC will adopt by Team OG for this series because he really makes a good performance not unlike they are playing in Team Liquid and Nigma Galaxy. Last match against OG they made a really good mega creep comeback by the catch of MC

Gave it a try to CS 2 yesterday and I must say I'm a bit disappointed with the game as I've been playing CS since 1.3 version and I think this is the worst one of CS franchise. I mean , they are slowly transitioning towards a modern shooter that wants to look more realistic and stuff but it I want to play that , I simply open Escape From Tarkov and I'm good to go.  I can also say fairly that I got in a game with a cheater in my 2nd game because even the enemy team said that the guy is suspect and we should all report him but facing cheaters after 2 days of release is not normal and Valve won't do a thing about it.

Edit : Forgot to say that nostalgia did the effect during the game as a lot of us grew up playing CS and Half-Life. 

That would be the safest option to bet on but Navi should be able to win 2-0 well or atleast according to me but I dont see how they are going to lose even a single map. As for ENCE, Im taking them to win as well and also had another -1.5 for ENCE on a single bet. I think its pretty risky taking ENCE to win 2-0 hence I got them on a single bet for that option

Last weekend of the ESL Pro League Season 18 is happening today and tomorrow. Even though CS2 came out on Wednesday and we can't play the old game anymore, the tournament will still be played in CSGO. This will probably the last big matches where we still can watch CSGO gameplay. Kind of sad that the CSGO era ended so abruptly, I am definitely going to watch they last few matches with mixed feelings. The big surprise of the tournament was Monte to reach the semifinals, beating Vitality quite comfortably 2-0. The Ukrainian team played really well and is meeting now NaVi in the match today. In my opinion NaVi is the stronger team and should be winning today, so far, they won all their matches 2-0 in the tournament and are hyped for the finals. The second match is ENCE vs Mouz, the other big surprise of the tournament.  Mouz first managed to beat FaZe 2-0 and they beat G2 2-1. The two teams played each other during IEM Dallas 2023 where ENCE won 2-0. ENCE definitely has the upper hand today and I think they are going to win. My bet would be for NaVi and ENCE to reach the finals for tomorrow, where I expect NaVi to win the tournament. They are a very experienced team and it’s been a while since they won something big, they should be able to push through.

This is going to be so weird. SMG a team from SEA region ended up having 3 players that is originally not from SEA well I guess the WEU region players are better but its just seems pretty weird if this rumours ended up happening


You know what, I dont think that the prizepool is going to even hit $5M mark at this rate. The increasing rate is pretty slow at this point and most people are ignoring this already so probably its going to end up on $4 - $4.5M mark at most. Heck yeah, even The Riyadh Master had $15M prizepool so its pretty lame for TI's prizepool to end up as miserable as this


Lost this, oh well 

Not really new anymore on which tons of dota players or professionals wasnt able to attend whether on TI or even with those Majors or other tourneys just because of VISA problems.
This is indeed their strongest opponent i should say.  Once your declined or having issues then for sure you wont really be able to play together with your team and
this is where stand-in do begins. Puppey and M_C? Well having these veteran players playing on a team then you cant go wrong with them though and lets see on how
far that SMG could be able to reach out.

Speaking about TI prize pool then its already that not shocking that they wont really be getting that bigger prize pool for this year. Why? they didnt really able to release that Battle pass earlier
but instead they are focusing on compedium and we know that TI date is fast approaching. There's no much time for the pool to make it big and also
with those stuffs given or could be acquired then its total shit. We do lots Arcanas and Immortals baby.

Who are Puppey and M_C fans here? There's a rumor that they might be seen in TI12 and might play as standins for the Team SMG.

Why? Again, just like the other problems in the past for their TI participation and it's all about the biggest and strongest opponent of most of them, VISA.

News:
MinD ContRoL Can Go To TI12 With Team SMG
Rumors: Puppey to play for SMG at The International 2023

Again these are still all rumors.

And apart from that, it seems that we've got lesser time to see a huge prize pool for this TI. It seems that Valve shortened the time for the collection of 25% sales of the new compendium. Based from what I have seen, the current prize pool for this is around $2.5M as for the collection as of typing this but this can still grow and more. We still got around 2 more weeks for the start of the TI.

Yeah, potato PC can just put it on lower settings but that's not the best graphical experience that a player may have. But well, do we have a choice? The choice is to upgrade but until that happens, we need to lower the settings so that we can still enjoy the game. Well, those moves that you've mentioned that can no longer happen could also be a game changer to everybody, mostly to the pro players. Anyway, all are adjusting and learning from it and we just have to enjoy it as there's no reverting to the CSGO. Who knows if Valve will make that happen but that will just divide players into CS2 and CS:GO.

I guess I was abit late for the party, ENCE ended up winning 2-0 and Im pretty surprised that you didnt take -1.5 for ENCE considering the odds for them to win is only 1.2 at the bet that you have taken so might as well bet on -1.5.

Im abit superstitious today as all quarterfinals game ended up with 2-0 so Imma try my luck on G2 -1.5. I also had a leverage bet on over 2.5 maps for this because MOUZ are a pretty good team themselves