I honestly expected more from Spirit on Mirage. Only 4 points means that absolutely nothing they did worked, and Mirage is one of the most played maps; there's a strategy for everything. For them to lose that map like that is unbelievable for a professional team.

MOUZ emerged victorious in the BLAST Bounty final. Spirit’s loss on Dust2—a map they had chosen themselves—may have derailed all their plans. Spirit is a team that generally picks Dust2 first in Bo3 matches, and we can say they’ve been trying to make it their main map; however, it’s also worth noting that they’ve never lost a match on the Ancient map. If they had won Dust2 in this match, they would have already secured the victory on Ancient, and the series would most likely have gone to a decider map—but it didn’t happen. Spinx deserves congratulations. He put on a truly legendary performance and was the top fragger even on the map they lost.

Yep, that was such an underwhelming series from Spirit, but at least one of us was bound to cash their ticket. I'm also stunned by that strong start from Mouz, and I think it's safe to say Hally is truly holding Spirit back when they're not like this with Jab Jabich and sotf1k. 

He also bagged an MVP award with that insane performance in the final. Mouz desperately needed a consistent player to pull them through, and he stepped up big time.

Yea spirit looked off, people on reddit already calling for their coach to take another hiatus and not sit behind them. Without him they look more free flowing and un-scared to make things happen

Mouz a very big surprised showing as earlier in tournament they didnt really win matches convincingly but in finals they beat spirit like this. Make it make sense 

Now next big tournament is EWC in about 10 days with a 2 million prize pool

Its kinda surprising that you still take Spirit -1.5 considering that you already had outright on them. You could have hedge both sides by taking Mouz handicap there but I guess you had your doubts with their performance before the final  

1win tournament next on the list? but this is just another recreational tournament before TI so pretty much like a scrim, lots of unexpected results most likely


Mouz was just better on that tournament. Probably because they had to play all the game until the final map and won it by struggling

Yup, that's what i'll be eyeing next after Blast since League won't start until tomorrow.

My outright bet was only one unit and I assumed Mouz was a slightly weaker opponent than FaZe, so I went back for more. 

I even had a third bet on another bookie because they had a promo on the playoffs. I might've been able to hedge if I caught the stream early, but I tuned in late and saw Spirit trailing 1-2 into Nuke.

I'm normally not interested in Esports in general but Blast Bounty was very thrilling (because of BSFL).
I even backed MOUZ in the final with several bets, so very satisfied with the outcome

Are the odds for Spirit always so short?

Yes, even the bookies doubted Mouz because of their new changes in the roster, but it somehow worked when the favorites had a bad day.

We have the EWC next week, and the last chance qualifiers will start this week on the 7th. I might check out the qualifiers since there's BC.Game competing there.

Its not really bad things to do if only the odds was slightly better


So all three on Spirit to win ? , you are one brave soul. I probably would have stop after getting the outright and the handicap but yeah this kind of shit happens once in a while

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Switching back to dota2

I just realized that most of their tier1 dota2 teams are playing on 1win tournament rather than GOTF that actually has higher prizepool. TI incoming in less than 2 weeks so I guess most of them wants to limit their travelling time to another country but still its kinda weird that GOTF is also labeled as tier 2 tournament compared to a first series tournament like 1win essence

Basically yes, that third one was a simple moneyline for the promo, odds were shitty, but it would've paid off for the free bets.

Solid run from PlayTime, and at the same time it's crazy how the prize pool is this big for a tier two tournament. I'm glad I dodged this tournament because I can't believe XG, VG, and LGD failed to make it through the semis when the teams aren't even tier one level.