That was what I thought at the first place but it seems Team Spirit is just way too much for LGD to handle. Pretty decent overall for me because I bet on NaVi to win as well so yeah thats break even. It still bamboozle me how LGD couldnt even win a map, it wasnt even that hard to begin with as Team Spirit wasnt that dominating as usual

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So Nigma vs G2.IG tomorrow. Nigma lost against them on group stage but it should be over 2.5 maps again

LGD was good at building early leads against Team Spirit yesterday, they did it twice in a row, but they couldn't convert it to anything since they struggled in the mid to late team fights.

I've noticed they're still picking the same heroes most of the time, but at least we get to see an unusual Muerta carry from Team Spirit over the stable carry picks like Troll and Ursa.

We'll probably see the same script again as Nigma now won the first map one-sidedly. 

^^ mentioned in above posts
Seems that those dota2 patches prove to be more harm than good towards the teams playing.
Even if they were supposedly applied pre-match to improve gameplay.
Why not wait until these rather large tournaments are over then decide to apply them?
They are affecting those team's strategic game-play they had been practicing prior to the patches.

We have matches in the Blast Premier Fall groups being played very early as Complexity are up against Spirit already up 4-7 on the first map.
Directly from the official Blast Premier channel on youtube:
BLAST Premier Fall Groups '24: Spirit vs Complexity, Vitality vs Astralis, G2 vs NIP, Liquid vs NAVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gniZFHYROB0

Some would argue that this is the beauty of dota2 esport because teams have to adapt as soon as the patches are dropped but for me I guess the reason is because Valve is not really affiliated on those tournaments. In some sense, those are 3rd party tournaments though so Valve probably wouldnt even bother to drop it according to their schedule. I bet they most likely wouldnt do so in their own affiliated tournament like TI, DreamLeague and ESL

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Im just dropping this here

This was the last notable Nigma's achievement which was two years ago. Ever since that day, everything just went south and I have never recalled that they ever get decent amount of prizes from tournament but they are currently top 3 in Clavision Snow Ruyi for atleast $62k even if they lose against Team Spirit tomorrow

This is quite a huge achievement for the last two years

True! I can't remember the last time I saw Nigma having fun while playing Dota 2 and it was a great run from them at Snow Ruyi and hopefully Kuroky will stay out for a while and let this Nigma grow with him as a general manager or just an assistant.

Currently , we have the final between Spirit vs Xtreme with 2-1 being in favor of Xtreme but 4th map is very one sided and normally Xtreme should become the fresh champions of Snow Ruyi and conquer the trophy. For Spirit , what can we say ? this meta really doesn't suit them and I'm a bit surprised they managed to go all the way until the final. 

So will Nigma with their progression be in time for The Internationals coming up in a months time?
It would be very sad if a team puts in so much effort into improving their game-play and not making it into a major tournament just because they hadn't made enough points during the season to make it in.

Heard some rumblings about League of Legends so is anyone placing bets on this esport lately?
Or it is all about DOTA2 now during this time of the summer?

Just to have an update about this tournament and it has ended already. Team Liquid has won against 1win and they're proclaimed as the Elite League Season 2 champions! Congratulations to Team Liquid, it's just too bad that my bets have been always opposite with you guys but you did great!

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Congratulations also to the top 4, I mean these 2nd-4th places we don't typically see them end this great or it's just because there's a split of good teams that the others were in China to compete for the Clavision? Still, great achievements!



I'd probably stick to dota 2 and some CS2 games I guess.

I agree, IMO, these kind of tournaments should also have some counterpart sponsored tournaments somewhere else. It's good to see that there's another one on going with a huge prize pool as well so that those teams that didn't qualify for the major one, will have to go to the other tournament that they've been invited.

I was disappointed on them when I've bet for few with them. Whilst for Execration despite that they have ended 4th place, they've given me more Ws. 

Actually, there are some tournaments but these are minor tournaments and tier 2 and 3 teams are participating. One is EPL World Series America Season 13 and LATAMAX Cup Royal for both North and South America. RES Series but currently in SEA region as of the moment and there's also the EURO PRO League. Well, can scout some of the good teams here but they're mostly boring matches IMO. Maybe the tournament is SEA is likely the one that I'd avoid although I know that competition there is tougher but due to these kinds of tournaments can be sold unnoticingly, I might just get onto some of them but not so serious as the past that we've got.

These are what are interesting to wait, top teams and some aspiring new teams that might qualify.