I have bet for GG for so many times when they've changed their roster but none of those IIRC won me money. In the end, Tundra took the grand finals with a grandstanding of 3-0.

It's like a walk in the park with Tundra. IMHO, they're like a perfect when it's been so long since Tundra has gotten into major tournaments. And so aside from the prize pool, they also will receive team earnings that will be distributed to each team member or whatever was the deal between orgs and players. If someone is curious there how much the prize pool and how much each team earned, look at this;

I like that guy when he was still with his former team C9 and Entity and I thought that he'd be able to deliver quickly with GG. They did but not the expected outcome just like what we have thought of.

I agree, that type of round robin made it for most of them. While the others have been easily waiting for their opponents to the next rounds, the farthest have to go through a rough road based on how they placed during the group stages. There is no fun in it as a fan but for those waiting teams, it is.

Too many shooting games right now and I think that's one of the reasons why the interest in Dota2 went down. Then, the graphics of other games with battle arena style are also catching up.
I think the most watched right now are the shooting games although I still know a lot of friends who keeps on playing Dota 1 and 2 up until now because that's where they really good at.

Back to CS.
BLAST Rising Asia Spring 2025 Quarter Finals have 2 games later.

The Huns Esports versus Chinggis Warriors
Lynn Vision versus Unsettled Resentment

Huns and Lynn are the favorites to win this game and climb to the next round.

Have you seen this already everyone? Esports coming to Olympics and I think our favorite esports are going to be part of it. (Dota 2, CS2, LOL, etc.)


Source: https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/inaugural-olympic-esports-games-to-be-held-in-riyadh-in-2027-road-to-the-games-to-start-this-year

It will be in 2 years time and it's not the sports that we're following that will be part of it but then, esports too. Wow, it is a dream come true for those pro players that they'll get to be part of the Olympics. Being qualified in there is many dreams of and how much more if they become the champion in there.

PGL cluj napoca is starting in about 16 hours with most of them being T2 teams and a whopping 1.25 Million $ prizepool

Mongolz is the highest ranked team participating i really hope they win it 

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Surprising enough Riyadh Masters was a bigger prize pool than TI last season. Basically they reduced the prizes for the winners yet the one in Riyadh was their debut and sponsorships were alot more with the Riyadh Four Seasons being the main one.
Believe I remember seeing the four seasons logo sponsoring an event in the United States too. So they are the ones bringing in the money for the prizes.

With PGL just starting I think that CounterStrike has more tournaments going on currently than dota2 does for this month and the next.
Didn't you see a CS2 player who is just taking vacations in Spain riding around brand new Ferrari picture above?
He has signed with Team Falcons but currently not in the in-play roster yet.
So you just know they are getting taken care of quite well if they don't need to play in a tournament and just enjoying themselves being inactive on the team.

Faze Banks was even seen on a livestream a few days ago endorsing a memecoin for Hailey Welch.

https://x.com/Banks/status/1887601651529490802

MongolZ just won their match against WildCard which was competitive for them on the last map almost going into OT.
But they managed to blank them 2-0 so they are the ones to beat in this tournament with performances today from Senzu & bLitz.

BiG also beat FlyQuest which was predicted and MOUZ blanking 3DMAX.
And as you had mentioned, Virtus.Pro just dispatched Complexity with a 2-0 win with the last map going into OT.

Man I'm so glad I don't have any spare money to gamble on PGL Cluj-Napoca CS2 event ( which is btw in Romania but too far away from me to actually go and watch the live event ) but also the DreamLeague Season 25 on Dota 2 and both events are amazing to watch as a fan but as a gambler I'm sure it's not so enjoyable because in CS2 we have almost only 2-0 maps and the same goes in Dota 2. However , for me it's been a while since I saw in Dota 2 such a crazy patch that had such a big impact in pro scene because the current meta is a lot of magic damage countered by glimmer cape for magic resistance...pretty wild patch. 

I am hoping that the next Riyadh Masters will have bigger prize pool. This is going to help the esports community and it's not just in dota 2 but also in other games too. CS2, League, R6 and many more. This will encourage more professional esports player to get out of retirement and just contribute to whichever cause they think will be able to help the new generation while keeping the current meta and the players that are in there now.

I didn't know about this one. But for as long as there is a good cause of these events and more sponsors coming in to support the esports community and for the Olympics, this is going to be history made and written. Anyone, look closely to the dota 2 and we're having a big tournament now which is the Dream League Season 25, prize pool is $1M and the day 1 for the group stage 1 has just ended. And that means there will be group stage 2 but that will be after 3 more days, so moving on to the day 2 of the GS1.

Here are the schedules of matches playing later and for the next days for groups A and B.