ez bet, they're stacked and dominated the whole playoffs. TLB is the champ!
I agree, the VCT Game changers really fit the community since many women are playing Valorant, even if we don't have the data, you can see on twitch streams, there's a lot of women. It's normal to riot games, even in the past, league of legends is full of women too, it's like the community is very diverse, that's how they market the game. Now, they did the same thing to valorant, they market the game to all, they released heroes (with diff genders and stuff), girly stuff skins and of course marketing music videos that will make women play the game. It's fun to watch women league, they are also try hard gamers like men, very competitive and always do sweaty playstyles, as long as they're above the average or top 5% of the players, then it's still amazing to watch those.

I think the issue of the community on this tourna is about the transgender playing the game, I don't know if they already accepted that but yah, most of the top-rated players in Women league are trans.

Pretty surprising final day as expected to win teams lost,
Passion beating m80
Liquid beating astralis after their heavy choke vs tyloo
3dmax beating NIP 2-0 after nip had a 2-0 start in stage 2 

Stage 3 starts in just about 22 hours!!

Are there fans of Parivision fans here? I think one of the reasons of their success on their run is with their coach and how he's giving his insights on how the team plays. And just today, he's out of the team. Their coach 'Astini' has said his farewell to the team. I think one of the reasons is that he's from South America and the team roster is mostly from the EEU. So, I think Parivision will get a coach from the same region for easier comms.

We also have the FaZe vs. Vitality and B8 vs. Falcons matches. Even though this should be like a free win for both tier one teams, it's still a scary spot because we've seen other decent teams in the previous stage start a bit shaky and then wake up in the mid to late rounds.

That reverse run from NiP was diabolical. I still thought they were the better team in that matchup, but they didn't show up at all.

Well, my great friend @Rdbase should have. Imperial surprised everyone, except me, who was already expecting it. But I confess it was a very close game, and it's normal to think they would lose, I agree. But the Brazilian Storm arrived.

So , Gaimin Gladiators new dota 2 rooster ? Uhm with Astini leaving PariVision and join a new team of GG ? Why would he leave PariVision and especially the best young talent in the world Satanic to go into a grey area zone of GG when nothing it's assured in the next year. We all saw how they exit Dota 2 before TI and at this point , they have the guts to make a new team while the old players are pressing legal charges against the org. 

It started out weird yesterday after I placed my bets with that Imperial win over the MongolZ then it went down hill from there.
With FaZe taken down Vitality without a wimper 13-7 and Falcons goes down to B8 13-10.
But then the ship got straighten for the rest of the matches of the day with all the favorites winning.

Today seeing Vitality beating on B8 11-2 right now shows me the favorites should all win their matches, hopefully.
Imperial take on Falcons in the next 25 minutes who are heavy underdogs @5.00x for the Brazilians.
Can they make another miracle today?

The rest of the matches are as follows:
paiN Gaming vs Navi, MOUZ vs Spirit, Passion UA vs Liquid, FURIA vs G2 and Parivision vs 3DMAX.

After Lukas Rossander or from his call sign ⁠gla1ve⁠ in the CounterStrike arena retired from the profession of Esports two years ago.
https://blix.gg/news/cs-2/gla1ve-retires-as-a-player

It was announced a few day ago he would be returning but instead in a role as coach:
https://www.dust2.us/news/68339/media-100-thieves-to-sign-gla1ve-as-new-head-coach

So now we know who Rain will be playing under on the newly formed 100 Thieves.
Looks like they decided to build around top tiered players instead from the ground up.

Today we have Swiss round 4 for the tournament in Budapest and are back to best of 3 matches between the following teams:
Navi vs Vitality
B8 vs paiN
MOUZ vs Falcons
Passion UA vs Imperial
G2 vs The MongolZ
3DMAX vs FaZe

Rather place bets on these BO3 matchups instead of the pickems we have had the past several days during this tournament. As there are more chances of upsets happening in this format.

Both FURIA and Team Spirit are on their way to the Starladder major playoffs in Budapest:



We have some matches to get done today for this stage so let's look at them:
B8 vs Natus Vincere
FaZe vs Passion UA
G2 Esports vs Team Falcons

I had bet against B8 before and regretted it so I would say this one would atleast go over 2.5 maps since these rounds are a best of 3.
As for the next two matches after this initial one which begins in the next 42 minutes, I would say FaZe Clan and Team Falcons should win both their matches as to end this stage 3 strong.
Both are favorites and their odds are Faze 1.42x and Falcons 1.33x respectively.

Ouch for my predictions earlier on today with B8 not even get a map off of Navi. Was just watching their last few rounds and it was close but no cigar to the young hopefuls against the more experienced Natus Vincere side.

Next up are Faze vs Passion UA and for this one am still sticking with the stronger team in this matchup.
Watched a couple of maps from Passion UA's last few games and they didn't impress me in the slighted with the way they play.
G2 vs Falcons will be the match to keep a close eye on since during this tournament we hadn't seen much of both sides being tier one teams facing off against each other in these stage 3 matchups.