I placed a bet on T1 to win the first map. Unfortunately, T1 couldn't show the intended impact in team fights and RNG won the first map very comfortably. I decided to place a bet on T1 to win the series which had a 2.75 odd. I hope that T1 can manage to win the cup after having a this much good season.

https://sportsbet.io/sharebetslip/6a871908-0097-4ef3-9843-2981eac56685

ENCE winning on T side Nuke seems to indicate they take the map so the odds for Mouz are now over 5 to 1 which I think is worth a random low bet on them surprising.   1 map results can be surprising and they both do well on this map.  Snax playing for ENCE
   Movistars are collapsing vs G2 unfortunately so not much worth of betting anything there, it was only a reasonable bet beforehand.   Movi have done well at times so thats unfortunate but also G2 are greatly improved since previous games I guess is true also.

Completely missed the start of the CS:GO tournament in Dallas as I was away from home for the long weekend and just got back.
Must be the continuation of the IEM from a couple of months ago if I am correct.
Intel Extreme series always seem to have a break inbetween their last tournaments. I would imagine for the big teams to participate in other ones which are running at the same time as this one.

What do you know.
The first matches of the tournament is of Imperial Sportsbet vs Team Liquid:
https://sportsbet.io/sports/event/counter-strike/esl-cs-go/intel-extreme-masters/imperial-e-sports-vs-team-liquid-6295267e0f534f766898d718

They were about even when I noticed them but now the lines are dropping for Liquid.

You can view the rest of the matches being played here:
https://sportsbet.io/sports/counter-strike/esl-cs-go/intel-extreme-masters/matches

Sorry for bit advanced but i cant just wait for this Dota 2 TI 11 confirmed.
TI11 gets a new format, venue and date officially revealed
https://win.gg/news/ti11-gets-a-new-format-venue-and-date-officially-revealed/

So for dota lovers out there we do still have that 5 months of waiting.

Looks like we have the grand finals that everybody was thinking was going to happen:
ENCE vs Cloud9 for the IEM Dallas championship June 5th.

The favorites are Cloud9 but ENCE game play is looking strong and their the first team in the Intel Extreme Masters to make it to a final with almost all of them being from Poland in their active squad.

Here are the lines so to place your bets on this match:
https://sportsbet.io/sports/event/counter-strike/esl-cs-go/intel-extreme-masters/ence-vs-cloud-9-629be5cec279b505e721a9cf

@ralle14 Excellent informing those who weren't aware of this tournament starting for DOTA2.

And the oddsmakers have nothing to go with when it comes to new players on a team's roster so they are giving good value, just need to select the ones who you are familiar with and the teams that you follow to make a good decision on your betslip.

Thank you once again for post inregards to this esport!

I would have guessed ENCE (World rank: #3) from the games I saw they were on top form but the result I see now is a collapse, what happened I missed it I was driving the whole day unfortunately.     I mean the best games are close and this was not close, it was a disaster with best of 5 and 2 out of the 3 maps played being ENCE picks but they fell off the edge of the map, only 3 rounds won on that last map Ancient.   They ran out of battery ?  Did they go drinking or something. 
  Hard to get inside peoples heads for what occurred, C9 perhaps just had kept their powder dry and counter strat hard.   I would have bet wrong by at least thinking more maps played, lucky escape.   Will have to investigate some, reminds me of an old bet I wiped out on where the game was delayed hours until past midnight & they lost bad as favorites

Astralis is going to the Final with Heroic at the Pinnacle Cup tomorrow.

As well Ninja in Pyjamas will be facing Mouz for the title for the Global eSports tournament in the Dubai.

Event filled weekend in the eSports genre.

Blast is back!

Seems that the tournament has returned from the break yesterday and has some good match ups that are under way.
Those matches can be seen and bet on them here:
https://sportsbet.io/sports/counter-strike/blast-cs-go/blast-premier-series/matches

G2 won their series against Team Vitality. But they are up against a much stronger side in Faze clan.
So hopefully they can rebound from such a serious defeat in that series and possibly bounce back in this tournament.

ESL Pro League is also returning with several matches which can be viewed and bet on here today as well:
https://sportsbet.io/sports/counter-strike/esl-cs-go/esl-pro-league/matches