Place a bet on Furia yesterday since I've been watching their games previously and they really have good coordination. I've watched before, how Vitality lose to Falcons and I thought their team play were already gone and I thought their strength were no longer there lol and after watching the first game I saw that Furia came back from a 9-3 to 11-13 which tells me that it's now their time and since it was around 1am on where I came from, I sleep and when I woke up to close my tablet since it's streaming while I'm on my bed, I saw the Vitality team holding the trophy lol.

Even though I didn't managed to watch the game, I saw the highlights on the previous maps and yeah... Vitality is really good and coordinated, maybe the only time I watch them and they lose, I thought it they were gone.

It's to Vitality's credit, I was also rooting for Furia, but these things happen. For them to win these big duels, they need to be better than their opponent, and Furia isn't managing that. They should stop and see what they're doing wrong in these matches; it might just be the boys getting nervous as the maps progress.

Yeah, I remember hearing after they won at Krakow the announcer mentioning about Astralis holding the record but didn't realize with that win Vitality surpassed them.
So that just made this victory at the oldest tournament in CounterStrike that much sweeter for them!

They put together an outstanding CS squad and have proven they are the best at the Esport of CS2.

This is an incredible fact. They managed to outperform many teams, and this consistency impresses me. They only achieved this because the players are very good together, and with APEX's leadership, it becomes even more significant. These guys are very good; there's no arguing about it anymore they are the best in history.

It looks like that there's a lot of upcoming tier 1 tournaments for Counter Strike too.

They really did became a staple team before in dota 2 and one of the power house teams that's hard to beat. But I guess that when a team has past their prime and didn't reshuffle and invest to new aspiring players, that's what will happen.

That's a good observation, I haven't thought of this before but the resemblance is real. While the color and the style differs, it's got one thought of the design and that's being an eye.

That grand final was too easy for Aurora, and even without Mikoto, they're still playing on another level compared to the rest of the teams. I also didn't know that the Yakult Bros made it through the tournament despite falling short in the ESL Challenger/Qualifier against Xtreme Gaming.

And it's playoff time later as Blast Slam VI returns after a week break. I'm looking forward to the Heroic match, since they're onto something after that upset at the play-ins.

I would have thought the Yakult Bros have made it through either. Last time I was following them they had been playing so badly that I stopped betting on them because each and every match I had watched of theirs they had lost.

@boltz
That is how I see the odds of these dota matches lowering for the favorites by a significant margin the closer we get to the start of their game.
I think this is how it always is with more bets coming in on them expecting them to win.
But as you had mentioned is not always the case with even nearly even odds losing their matches.

I think they're better if it's with lorenof but on the actual DreamLeague main tournament, it's going to be with mikoto. We'll see how they'll play. And luckily for the China region, XG was already invited in the tournament and that made it a good one for the Yakults Brothers for qualifying even it should be the slot for XG.

I'm watching the 2nd map of Heroic and Yandex. Here we have another tailung enigma mid. A popular hero for the SA in the mid lane.

Yeah, that was a bad pick after seeing how it ended. I guess that it's always been good to just let the offlaner pick that enigma and not in mid. Much better if he stayed with his comfort heroes and I agree about having that beastmaster. It's not even banned by yandex and I wonder what came to their minds for picking that. On tournaments like this, it's best to play your best hero rather than doing some experiments.

Same, I missed all of the PGL action yesterday, and it looks like Parivision is off to a bad start after losing their opening match against Mouz.

Almost all of the favorites delivered on the first round, except for Aurora, who lost against FUT. They're somehow paired up against Furia in the 1-0 bracket, and it'll be interesting if they can beat them again.

The MongolZ are unlucky to be matched with Vitality, but at least their next opposition should get easier in the 1-1 bracket.