Praying that Falcons won't win today ELITE League finals because that will simply kill Dota 2 pro scene for me. We had Spirit who simply dominated an entire year during pandemic and we said " Ok , this is nice " , then we had last year with Gaiming Gladiators who simply dominated all of 2023 in a manner that made most of the fans hate this team and also their players and I can't blame the Dota 2 fans because watching someone dominating in esports for an entire year is simply hard to digest but also to engage into Majors and tournaments knowing who is already going to win. Now , we started 2024 with Falcons dominating everything so far and if this year is a repeat of last year with Gaiming , I think we can fairly say that Valve knew that they were doing when they decided to let go on so many majors and tournament.

This is not esports for me ...this is just esports entertaining where everything seems scripted or the patch releases are heavily in favor of some certain teams which makes this game super unfair. Hopefully Xtreme Gaming will win this tournament and save Dota 2 pro scene.

After going down on the first map, they started forming better drafts against Team Falcons. Even though Team Falcons lost, they still made it spicy with the all chats, and it was a bit satisfying to see Xtreme Gaming have their revenge, like taking down the final boss. Hopefully, they won't lose momentum in the upcoming tournament and have a potential rematch.

I had -1.5 on Team Falcons thinking it was the safest leg in my parlay. This loss might be a sign to go small or skip online matches in the future. 

Yeah, I somewhat recall the odds close to that since Team Falcons -2.5 was like 2.80 while I tried to add -1.5 on my betslip. It is what it is, XG came prepared, and Team Falcons got outdrafted.

It's time to hold on to our bankrolls for next week as we'll have two ESL tournaments kicking off in the same week and on the weekend we'll have the LPL finals between BLG and TES. That series will be a banger and the last big match until MSI.

News about this huge tournament called the Esports World Cup by the ones who brought the Riyadh Masters to fruition.


https://twitter.com/ESWCgg/status/1780249866695782430

Get ready this summer for some new action on the dota2 scene!

Yeah, this is the biggest in the history so far CMIIW. I've posted this on the other thread but it seems that our fellow dota 2 folks have already seen that without reacting in here and there. 

Anyway, I just want to mention about Taiga's situation now that he's got kicked out of his latest team Leviatan and was replaced by Xepher. And as we all know, it's about his latest issue about 322 (let's mention this term again) for the first blood bets and he's betting on his own against being first blooded by the enemies. I don't think that there's still future for him on this scene and he should just step away or go live stream and do some coaching to the pub gamers that he'd be useful with. Or, he can do casting, actually there's so much more for a professional esports player to go on if he doesn't any space anymore on any team because of the recent issues that he's involved with. Unless there's a team that will still trust him and won't do shit against them for doing some bets. It's just sad that he'd became a part of those gambling syndicate that rotates somewhere in EEU but this isn't just rotating there because it's a global issue.

I don't know how deals goes on with kick but isn't it that everyone can stream there anytime they wish or they need a contract first before they're able to stream? I just visited the website and it seems that the website's most view is coming from gamblers having a real time viewers of around 54k. I also see a familiar there whom is Admiral Bulldog. So for Taiga, he's going nowhere but probably just to stream his games and stays in the pub games but for sure some other random players there might just humiliate him in the chats and he can't do shit anything about it because of the involvement that he's in with the 322 that he decided to do. Too many of these pro athletes, esports and not have been caught with what they've done without thinking of their long term goal on their careers but, it is what it is and they've done it already.

Ready your horses, ESL One Birmingham is going to start in about 11 hours from now. The matches are all set and we're going to have a three-day group stages. Get ready for some Dota 2 actions again everyone.  

That's a lot of games in 3 days. I'm going to watch Falcons closely and see whether they can close this tournament in the top 3. They showed strong potential in the Elite League only falling behind XG who were the favorites to win. That's also a nice bracketing, and I have high hopes that this team can come out on top against SR, Talon, and BB. Liquid can honestly put up a fight or even shut ATF and his mates, but the rest of those teams can be easy work for Falcons and give them a better placement in the main stage.


Those odds are good. Definitely something that has a lot of value in the first day. BB is a strong team but I doubt they can handle Falcons when they gained momentum and held on to it until the end game.

Well turned out that Sumail was playing as stand-in for Falcons but overall it was still good until Falcons started throwing up the game with 7k gold lead by dying one by one until they typed in GG on the 2nd map. I totally cant believe it, I thought it would be a solid 2-0 for Falcons even with Sumail playing as stand-in. Anyway now I kinda understand why Nigma keep losing though, Sumail as pos 2 is definitely not a top tier player anymore and I totally can say this with certainty after watching him play with Falcons today compared to Malr1ine

Everything feels so out of the place on this tournament. Falcons kept getting draws and XG losing despite dominating the last tournament. On the other hand, if Falcons start from the lower bracket instead than this would be highly entertaining though as I cant really recall when was the last time they start from lower bracket so basically it would be their last lifeline on the tournament so probably they will play less agressive on the playoffs