Seems that the odds are showing who the sport books are backing to move on in the matches being played tomorrow.

Here are the matchups during these single elimination rounds to advance to the playoffs:
Liquid vs Xtreme Gaming
Rune Eaters vs Virtus Pro
LGD vs MOUZ
Vici Gaming vs PTime

Have one betslip who I think will make it through this round and yeah I went with the favorites:

1.45 on Liquid is very low value. I think this should be a 1.7 odds at least for Liquid. This will be a battle of mediocre Dota. Whoever is less worse will win. 50-50 in my eyes. I think LGD is the only "safe" bet out of these 4 matches. But even LGD was pretty disappointing in group stage. But mouz is way too trash to even be competitive.

Think many of the big name teams in CS2 have members on their rosters still on summer break. Haven't heard of this tournament so it must be new and it being in China it would of flew under the radar for most who operate at a different timezone. But it is a good win for 9z because they were rising in the performance from what I remember in their last one I watched and gaining this major title will only increase their confidence to win the next one.
Thought the next major tournament would be held during the Esports world cup for CounterStrike which is in a couple of weeks.

Playtime vs Vici gaming rescheduled due to an "integrity issue"... Interesting.

There was an update came out an hour ago with DarkMago and their coach Vintage being suspended in EWC.

No wonder the betting lines are still down on their match with VG and it would suck if the case is actually match fixing.

Like i said before, south american Dota is cooked. People didn't believe when i said 6 out of 10 teams in TI qualifiers were matchfixing, and 7 out of 8 in the EWC qualifiers. There it is.

When news broke out, i was told by my source it was the coach Vintage, but i didn't know about Darkmago. What a stupid piece of shit. Matchfixing at the biggest ESL tournament. His career is done. To me, this is the nail in the coffin to south american scene. When 95% of peruvian players are controled by chinese mafia, there's no hope.

Edit: Aurora just got dumpstered 2-0 by RuneEaters. I did not see this one coming. What an upset.

I've seen the news, good bye to darkmago's career. He's no longer viable as a teammate and the orgs will definitely get far away from him. I think this is the right time for parker to come back, he's one of the best in the SA and he can play mid and replace darkmago despite that he's got an attitude.

RuneEaters qualifying to the playoffs makes them the darkhorse of this tournament. I have not expected this as well. Although they've won my bet for them by having at least one map against VP.

The first betslip I put up for this EWC did win only because those favorites did not mess around and just did the business.
Really surprised with the coach and player getting suspended though. As we were just talking about matchfixing happening in dota and then it occurs on the biggest stage of the year for all to see.
Talk about major exposure and the will result will only be that more crackdowns will happen.

K1 won't make a comeback because he never left. He plays for Amaru. He just couldn't qualify to any tier 1 tournament. And he will never play mid. That's completely out of question. I agree with the take on Wisper and go as far as saying Wisper is by far the best player in South America.

If you remember, in the past, midlane was always a problem for South American teams. South America was blessed by very talented carries, decent offlaners, but very poor midlaners.
Pakazs, Parker, K1, Wits, Yuma on carry. Wisper, ILICH, Sacred, Frank for offlaners. And then for mid there was SMASH, Chris Luck, Darkmago, TaiLung, 4nalog, Slatems. 2 of those midlaners were matchfixers. And ChrisLuck/4nalog are just mediocre. Midlane has been a problem for SA for years.

Astralis announced that NEO is their new coach. NEO is one of the key figures in the Polish CS scene and most recently served with FaZe Clan. Astralis signed him, and I think we can say this is a significant move. With these two roster changes, Astralis will start to regain its former form. I don’t think they can achieve success with their current roster, but starting the changes with the coach is important for them.