So I will need to win this round and hope that @vd_309 and @LTU_btc dont win this round to get that free ticket for the qualifying round huh


Well I took Betboom instead of Liquid though. Betboom's new roster is pretty good but yeah whatever it is the other team would always be Gaimin Gladiators for sure. This team has won almost all official tournament they have been ever since the last year TI, its a no brainer to not include them

Maybe England might really pull this off and lift the trophy, but It's not just as going to be an easy strectch and I don't know who even the bookies would have as favorite here, it's just that Spanish side does have really good individual talents that are a bell-ringing name in Europe as well, I understand why and how much we know about the English players because of the clubs they are playing for and the porpulaty that sorrounds them, but writing them off could be a very huge mistake, I'll surely have something on the line for the game, because it is indeed going to be an interesting game, clash of the young titans.

DOTA is actually on of the easiest sports to predict when I am watching a lot of games on some tournament. This time that wasn't the case, did not watch a single game and made a ticket just by hunch and results I checked. Not something that I share usually and you can see stake is small. For instance if you want for today, I believe all 4 games will go over 2.5 maps but again that is far from certain but odds are good and that is what I played. Singles and one multi.


We shall see, I picked them just by results in this tournament and past experience with the teams. I wasn't confident about it when picking but I am more confident now after I watched some DOTA yesterday.

You need to be stopped; it's too early to run away with the league; you're already on track to finish in the top ten after only four rounds, and if I lose this round to you, we're in big trouble.


England @ 2.65 is the bookies favorite to win the final.


I played the Betboom and Team Aster  over 2.5 maps @3.9 odd just exactly what I needed toda, the other two games are already started.

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Yup, that's the reason why Saint-loup's answers still remain hidden.

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We ask you once again to submit your answers on time to make it easier for us and more fair to everybody involved.
In this example, Coin_trader submitted the answers on Wednesday at 2:30 AM, which leaves us with another really difficult choice to make.

He did not have any real advantage by submitting late, but we have to take into consideration that some people maybe had to submit the answers at 2PM because they couldn't submit at 7PM.
Therefore, we can't allow that advantage and questions 4, 5, 7 and 10 also won't be accepted because the games were played during that day, up until the deadline.

Situations like these will always cause dissatisfaction for somebody, and the decision will be hard on Coin_trader. It would have been harder on Rikafip though if we accepted the answers on those 4 questions.

Well glad that this got settled before all these issue

So Betboom got default loss despite winning this match because one of their players were stream snipping in the middle of the game thus they will be playing in the lower bracket. Bad news for us that picked Betboom as well as currently they are on 1-1 against Azure Ray in the lower bracket and is playing with a Stand-in player because the player that cheated got suspended

It will be total time after Stage 9.


Nah, trying to force them is the last thing that we want to do. We just want to keep it fair, and if somebody is in a different time zone and is sleeping at deadline time he's already at a disadvantage.
If in the future rounds we'll have just 1 question that carries a negative point, we risk that people might calculate and submit on Thursdays.

It really is hard to make these decisions on a case to case basis, and we don't want to make a rule in which submitting the answers late means an instant loss. We hope that we won't have to take that route, although even that would be more fair than this 'case per case' stuff that we are trying to keep in place just so that the penalties aren't too big for being a bit late.

My opinion is that a rule must be the same for all. If the rule says that answers for questions whose games have already started will be voided, they should be voided. In all competitions rules are there for a reason and if you start making exceptions, there will always be someone who thinks that he/she deserves an exception. It may sound hard, but it will be easier for you guys. There are a lot of us in the competition and you should make it easier for you to manage the competition.

That's just as I expected, that is for England to be the favorites even if slightly, but with the odds for a potential draw being involved, this is more like 50/50 odd for the bookies, upon checking on the Flashscore average bookies odds, Spain is the slight favorite now @ 2.75, while England to win is valued at @ 2.77, with a 3.46 Odds for stalemate.

I might end up chasing the Odds for the draw, that seem like the most valuable of all 3 options so far imo, except I get extra insight or let's call gutsy inspiration to go with just either of them to win.



I think this have been discussed at some point on this thread before, but what I might not really like is it just been a 3-0, and 3 points too, I proposed 3 points, but just 1+ goal difference for the user getting the 3 points, because the points difference might end up being a very significant factor here by the end of the season, because the score line difference are often very marginal, for example there is just 3 goal difference between myself at 5th position and CLS63 at the top of the table, while he has 5 points advantage over me, so the 3+ SF might be quite a stretch in the threshold of having an unfair advantage, after getting 3 points which already isn't fair to other participants, while I understand that if the user that submitted their pick score is counted against a user that all their answers are void, it could be a lot more than the proposed +3 SF, I just think we should also be conscious about finding an even ground for other participants too, if such a change is to be implemented.

If we ever meat in real life I expect at least a bear for shares like this. 4/4 correct, each with odds @1.9 or more. Damn I am really becoming DOTA specialist. This is now 8/8 in two days. Too bad one game got changed and my initial multi got partially paid out but still a nice boost to my bank

Where are those cricket or formula specialists. I want some free picks as well.