Wildcard vs B8 and Dendi has another chance to make his presence on TI and I would be happy it his team will achieve this tonight. However, Wildcard is having a blast since Taiga joined with them and they are also favorites in this series which makes the game for B8 very hard to win.
Current series is Nouns vs Dogchamp and out of nowhere the courier bug is back again on a TI qualifier game...like come one Valve , fix Dota already.
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Meanwhile, I decided to take an upset bet on this after Aster lost their 1st map. Its a silly bet but its a great odds for Team Bright
I did not think anybody would take the underdog against team Aster, but you did. Congratulations, you did well. I think most of us were expecting Aster to take the lower bracket easily, they were the heavy favorite after all. That bet was a big risk, but the reward is quite worth it. Congratulations for taking the risk and winning it.
I lost my bet earlier in the lower bracket as well. It is not a good day for the favorites today. Invictus Gaming also lost to the underdog, Team Zero.
I do not know this Team Zero but it seems that they are on a streak while sweeping their opponents. It is only one more step before they reach the finals if they can dispose of Xtreme Gaming tomorrow. Then it will be just Azure Ray blocking them from reaching TI. It will be a Cinderella story if this underdog will reach TI all the way from the lower bracket. I do not know if they will be able to do it though. For me, Xtreme and Azure Ray are quite a strong team in this qualifier.
If only we had made -1.5 on all ENCE's games then we would have gotten decent profit by now lol. ENCE odds of winning were high though so the -1.5 option would have been great
The payout for Vitality is lower with only @1.7 and they lost against ENCE in the IEM Cologne tournament, but I am still going to go with Vitality for the match today. ENCE might deserve the win, but so does flameZ, he played really well on Mirage yesterday and carried his team alone against G2. Such a young talented player also deserves to win a big tournament.
FlameZ, Zywoo, and Magisk are playing consistently well in this tournament so far, all three averaging above 1.2 ratings. If everyone can show up like yesterday it'll be another banger (hopefully). Well then, good luck everyone! 
Thanks! What's your pick for Gamers8 grand final?
I think ENCE is going to continue their BO3 win streak. Their win against Heroic yesterday was so convincing. Really want to see the roster get another trophy, they deserved it.
That was a pretty rough game yesterday for Heroic, they got completely destroyed on Overpass. On Nuke it was a nice game with two overtimes, but then they only managed to get 5 rounds on Overpass which was even their own pick. After such a convincing win ENCE must be hyped for today and so far, they didn't lose one single map this tournament. A bet on ENCE @ 2 odds seems like a good bet, as to me it seems pretty much a coin flip or who is going to win today. The payout for Vitality is lower with only @1.7 and they lost against ENCE in the IEM Cologne tournament, but I am still going to go with Vitality for the match today. ENCE might deserve the win, but so does flameZ, he played really well on Mirage yesterday and carried his team alone against G2. Such a young talented player also deserves to win a big tournament.
Gratz on winning this
Thanks! What's your pick for Gamers8 grand final?I think ENCE is going to continue their BO3 win streak. Their win against Heroic yesterday was so convincing. Really want to see the roster get another trophy, they deserved it.
Ikr they are good but Im still sticking with Vitality though as I think they are capable of stopping ENCE
If only we had made -1.5 on all ENCE's games then we would have gotten decent profit by now lol. ENCE odds of winning were high though so the -1.5 option would have been great
Meanwhile, I decided to take an upset bet on this after Aster lost their 1st map. Its a silly bet but its a great odds for Team Bright
Gratz on winning this
Thanks! What's your pick for Gamers8 grand final?I think ENCE is going to continue their BO3 win streak. Their win against Heroic yesterday was so convincing. Really want to see the roster get another trophy, they deserved it.
Lost my bet yesterday on DOTA China qualifiers. Azure Ray was just too much for Invictus Gaming. They disposed of them in just 2 maps with both maps in just about 37 minutes.
I did not think it that way when I was making my bets. I think you could be right on Xtreme Gaming. They had taken down the favorite Team Aster in 3 maps so they could be really strong to defeat Azure Ray. Anyway, I already placed my bet so here is to hope that Azure Ray will retain their form and will be able to win.
I think your -1.5 map bet on IG is a bit risky but no guts no rewards, right? Actually, I was contemplating on doing that bet as well but since I am putting it on a two-legged parlay, I opted to go on a safer bet.
Good luck on both of us.
EEU qualifier is about to start in 2 days as well. I looked on participants and I only recognized two teams on the list. It is Virtus Pro and Navi. I guess I will just be following and betting on two teams in this region.
Below are the matches on the first day of the EEU qualifiers.
Getting decent odds for Xtreme Gaming there to win. Personally think they are way better than Azure Gaming if they can beat the favourites of CN region Team Aster so Im betting on that facts though. As for IG, Im being skeptical there but I just love to parlay these two and obviously taking single on Xtreme Gaming to win as well
I did not think it that way when I was making my bets. I think you could be right on Xtreme Gaming. They had taken down the favorite Team Aster in 3 maps so they could be really strong to defeat Azure Ray. Anyway, I already placed my bet so here is to hope that Azure Ray will retain their form and will be able to win.
I think your -1.5 map bet on IG is a bit risky but no guts no rewards, right? Actually, I was contemplating on doing that bet as well but since I am putting it on a two-legged parlay, I opted to go on a safer bet.
Good luck on both of us.
EEU qualifier is about to start in 2 days as well. I looked on participants and I only recognized two teams on the list. It is Virtus Pro and Navi. I guess I will just be following and betting on two teams in this region.
Below are the matches on the first day of the EEU qualifiers.
2/2, nice win yesterday. Cloud9 didn't show up yesterday, couldn't even get two digits rounds in both maps against ENCE.
Gratz on winning this
Getting decent odds for Xtreme Gaming there to win. Personally think they are way better than Azure Gaming if they can beat the favourites of CN region Team Aster so Im betting on that facts though. As for IG, Im being skeptical there but I just love to parlay these two and obviously taking single on Xtreme Gaming to win as well
My picks for today's matches. Really looking forward to Cloud9 vs ENCE match, I think it'll be a banger. Expecting a straightforward win for the rest of the matches, G2 and Heroic.
2/2, nice win yesterday. Cloud9 didn't show up yesterday, couldn't even get two digits rounds in both maps against ENCE.Moving on, both semis are guaranteed bangers. Both matches are a rematch of the Cologne group upper final, so I'll make my picks based on those results, i.e. ENCE and G2.
B8 almost did it last night against WC but if someone saw the 2nd map , Dendi was on fire! He had 7-0 at some point , did solo kill on mid like on good old times and basically had a perfect game for the rest of the map. Unfortunately , 3rd map was a disaster for them as even if they picked WD ( who has an incredible winning rate in this new patch ) , they couldn't pull out a magical one and win as in my opinion , WD is still that hero who falls flat after mid game is over. 
I have followed that game, that was a good experiment for them with a Witch Doctor mid but you're right that it's hard to get on when the late game has come. Anyway, B8 won in the lower bracket against Titled Boys and they're going to face Sandking Gomez, an unknown team within the next few hours. Going on the Chinese region, Xtreme Gaming won against Team Aster and they're going to face Azure Ray at the top bracket. XG did really well on the last map, credits to XinQ's ES and JT's mars.
The last two days of the Gamers8 tournament are here and it should be three more exciting games to watch. So far there weren't many surprises this tournaments, all the top 4 CSGO teams in the world managed to reach the semi finals. GamerLegion managed to take one map of Heroic which was pretty impressive, but it wasn't even close on the other two maps. The first match of the semi finals today is going to be Heroic vs ENCE, where Heroic is still the favourite. However, ENCE managed to beat Heroic at the start of the month at IEM Cologne. I think it's going to be very close and the match could go either way, that is why I will only place a small bet on Heroic and focus more on the final. The second match today is going to be Vitality vs G2, another very close match. Like with Heroic, Vitality lost to G2 in the IEM Cologne 2 weeks ago. The match could go either way, but I think that Vitality has a small edge and will reach the finals tomorrow. In case both Vitality and Heroic win today, I going with Vitality to win the tournament.
Gamers8 tournament is witnessing good matches.We are now in the period of quarterfinal matches and we have finished half of the quarterfinal matches.The first match was played between GamerLegion-Heroic.Heroic managed to eliminate GL with a clear power difference.We know that they are already at a high level as a team.In GL, we can say that player changes have affected their performance.The other match was the C9-Ence match. We saw a different result here, at least from what I expected.C9 had made good transfers, but it was a pity for them that they could not show much presence against ENCE.It was a match in which ENCE played better as a team and it is clear that they deserved to win.The current quarterfinal match is between G2-VP.The first map is Mirage, which VP chose, and we can say that VP is currently ahead in score and close to winning the map.
Im not really following SEA region anymore apart from Talon but Boom Esport totally went from one of the best in SEA region to one of the worst team around, pretty sucks for them
Boom lost their firepower after three of their best players left and moved with the teams like Blacklist and Bleed. They've done a few roster changes recently but it still doesn't look promising.I took another huge risk bet for these two
I also had Heroic -1.5, but they fumbled on Vertigo and had some sloppy T rounds in the second half. I'm going with ENCE on the next series as I think the bookies are hyping Cloud9 too much with their current form when ENCE hasn't been slowing down.
B8 almost did it last night against WC but if someone saw the 2nd map , Dendi was on fire! He had 7-0 at some point , did solo kill on mid like on good old times and basically had a perfect game for the rest of the map. Unfortunately , 3rd map was a disaster for them as even if they picked WD ( who has an incredible winning rate in this new patch ) , they couldn't pull out a magical one and win as in my opinion , WD is still that hero who falls flat after mid game is over.
Took the opposite bet and yeah Navi was pretty good against Furia but I still think that Vitality is going to pummel them 2-0 so watch out for this
Congrats on the win!Feels great to actually get that one, odds were decent though
I took another huge risk bet for these two
Well I won my last bet so thats extra balance to play some huge risk bet with. I think Heroic is going to easily get 2-0 but Im abit worried with G2 because VP is not an easy team that u can get 2-0 from
I'm hearing about a tournament named Gamers8 for the first time on CS:GO. Have you heard about it before?
If it is a tournament whose name has changed then I don't know. Because the prize pool is 1 million dollars.
If it is a new tournament then it must be sponsored by really huge companies I think.
If it is a tournament whose name has changed then I don't know. Because the prize pool is 1 million dollars.
If it is a new tournament then it must be sponsored by really huge companies I think.Well if you use the liquipedia link onto another esport page then that would link it to Riyadh Master Tournament on Dota2. It has 15M prizepool on Riyadh Master so it feels pretty normal if they are the same organization that sponsored Riyadh Master then they would be easily throw another 1M on cs:go
I'm hearing about a tournament named Gamers8 for the first time on CS:GO. Have you heard about it before?
If it is a tournament whose name has changed then I don't know. Because the prize pool is 1 million dollars. If it is a new tournament then it must be sponsored by really huge companies I think. So far the biggest surprise in it is FaZe's saying an early goodbye to it. They were eliminated by Virtus.pro unexpectedly. They couldn't even make use of their advantage after getting 1-0 ahead.
I'm not surprised with NaVi's elimination by Vitality because they can be considered like a new team. The players must still be adapting to playing together smoothly.
If it is a tournament whose name has changed then I don't know. Because the prize pool is 1 million dollars.
If it is a new tournament then it must be sponsored by really huge companies I think. So far the biggest surprise in it is FaZe's saying an early goodbye to it. They were eliminated by Virtus.pro unexpectedly. They couldn't even make use of their advantage after getting 1-0 ahead.I'm not surprised with NaVi's elimination by Vitality because they can be considered like a new team. The players must still be adapting to playing together smoothly.
Took the opposite bet and yeah Navi was pretty good against Furia but I still think that Vitality is going to pummel them 2-0 so watch out for this
Congrats on the win!My picks for today's matches. Really looking forward to Cloud9 vs ENCE match, I think it'll be a banger. Expecting a straightforward win for the rest of the matches, G2 and Heroic.
I also had Vitality -1.5 against Navi, but I caught the live odds at a bad time since they were already up by double digits in the first map before winning 16-2 at the end.
It got pretty close in Nuke, but in the second half, that single miscommunication from Navi gave Vitality to pull away and close the series.
It got pretty close in Nuke, but in the second half, that single miscommunication from Navi gave Vitality to pull away and close the series.
Still a pretty decent odds there, Im glad that I managed to get that pre live odds and the moment that Vitality won the 1st map totally show me that this -1.5 map bet is going to pull through. Solid dominance from Vitality and I think I might keep getting -1.5 map on them especially against either VP or G2 on the semi final
Unfortunately, that's how the qualifier system goes the more points a team has, the better seeding they get in the qualifier. The only good SEA team aside from Talon is Bleed and that's why i'm hoping for them to take the TI spot from the SEA qualifier.
Im not really following SEA region anymore apart from Talon but Boom Esport totally went from one of the best in SEA region to one of the worst team around, pretty sucks for them
So many games in Dota 2 section but I had no idea the TI qualifiers will begin today. Funny or not , what is Execration doing here ? We learned from them that they are not capable to play high tier Dota if they play outside SEA. They had 3 majors runs this year and all of them were a failure 
because besides Talon , SEA teams are really having a hard time to play Dota. Same goes for CHINA region , who top players and team are playing into SEA pubs because CHINA dota is maybe in the lowest rate of players.
because besides Talon , SEA teams are really having a hard time to play Dota. Same goes for CHINA region , who top players and team are playing into SEA pubs because CHINA dota is maybe in the lowest rate of players. Everyone in the region is really failing to post impressive results on their recent runs. The Chinese teams and powerhouses are also failing to finish on top of the placements. I’m really curious as to how far would Chinese and SEA teams go in this year’s TI. If we are to follow the ‘pattern’ in the TI championship, it should be the Chinese who should win this year’s most prestigious Dota 2 tournament. But with the current state of Chinese dota, I guess we’re far from it.
I also had Vitality -1.5 against Navi, but I caught the live odds at a bad time since they were already up by double digits in the first map before winning 16-2 at the end.
It got pretty close in Nuke, but in the second half, that single miscommunication from Navi gave Vitality to pull away and close the series.
It got pretty close in Nuke, but in the second half, that single miscommunication from Navi gave Vitality to pull away and close the series.
So many games in Dota 2 section but I had no idea the TI qualifiers will begin today. Funny or not , what is Execration doing here ? We learned from them that they are not capable to play high tier Dota if they play outside SEA. They had 3 majors runs this year and all of them were a failure because besides Talon , SEA teams are really having a hard time to play Dota.
Unfortunately, that's how the qualifier system goes the more points a team has, the better seeding they get in the qualifier. The only good SEA team aside from Talon is Bleed and that's why i'm hoping for them to take the TI spot from the SEA qualifier. because besides Talon , SEA teams are really having a hard time to play Dota.Jump to: