OG has earned their chance to take revenge on Gambit Esports in Friday afternoon’s Bucharest Minor Upper Bracket match-up.
Gambit Esports whitewashed OG 3-0 just a few days ago in the Grand Final of the Weplay Dota 2 Winter Madness.
Will we see a similar result here?
Both squads are playing with the same roster in this upcoming match-up. iLTW from Espada Gaming is temporarily standing in at position one for OG.
You can find their detailed last head-to-head match-up analysis here.
Gambit Esports is definitely on fire with their picking of Mepoo in professional matches lately. Even in their match-up against Keen Gaming in the group stage of this tournament, they last picked Mepoo and crushed Queen of Pain played by 一，position one player from Keen Gaming.
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With Mepoo spamming Earthbind to root on Queen of Pain, it was a mini-silence against Queen of Pain because she unable to use the second ability – Blink, 一 had to be very careful in positioning the hero while in teamfight or Mepoo could kill him by spamming Earthbind on him.
Despite Queen of Pain had zero death in that game, but they still lost the game because Mepoo was over-farmed and Keen Gaming had no way of taking him down.
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OG is respecting Mepoo played as they banned Mepoo against BOOM ID in every single game they played.
BOOM ID do not have someone that are very good in using Mepoo, but respecting this hero is a safe thing OG is doing.
They should be doing the same against Gambit Esports in this upcoming match-up.
OG vs. Gambit Esports prediction
After running our eye through the last head-to-head match-ups and drafting of late, we give Gambit Esports a 65 percent chance to win this match-up.
Our recommendation is to go low and bet on Gambit Esport to win the game if odds of $1.50 or higher are available at GG Bet.
]]>TEAM TEAM will look to shake off its failure in finishing last in Group A when it takes on BOOM ID in a Bucharest Minor elimination match on Friday night.
BOOM ID comes into the match in slightly-better form, having lost to OG before a solid victory over Playmakers Esports earned them the chance to compete against OG in a decider, in which they lost yet again.
BOOM ID is definitely improving their drafting abilities throughout the matches they played against OG.
In their second encounter BOOM ID banned Earth Spirit in game one, because Jerax, the position four player from OG, displayed quality play with Earth Spirit while OG and BOOM ID had their first encounter in the opening match.
However, OG’s game play and their members’ game sense was much better than BOOM ID, although BOOM ID was having a slight better draft in the game one and game two, but OG always able to corner BOOM ID with their good decision-making of ganking and roaming around the map.
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TEAM TEAM suffered a poor result today by losing against Gambit Esports and Ninja In Pyjamas in the group stage.
TEAM TEAM and Playmakers Esports are the worst teams in this tournament as both of them are the bottom flagger in the Group Stage.
Despite TEAM TEAM’s poor play in the group stage they are still a team featuring a lot of tier one players including Ryoya and ixmike88.
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Their draft in the group stage displayed they have good understanding of the meta, although they did not manage to win with Tidehunter and Juggernaut in their match against Ninja In Pyjamas earlier.
However, their ability to having a drew outcome in laning phase definitely proven that the members are good in their game play.
TEAM TEAM vs. BOOM ID betting prediction
After running our eye through the drafting abilities and members’ game play in recent professional match-ups, we give TEAM TEAM a 75% chance to win this match-up.
Our recommendation is to go medium and bet on TEAM TEAM to win the game at better than $2.00 at GG Bet.
]]>Ninja In Pyjamas will face elimination when they take on Playmakers Esports in their crucial Bucharest Minor match-up on Saturday.
NIP, the third place team in Group A, is expected to beat the last-placed team in Group B, but the tournament has proven to be unpredictable thus far.
Playmakers Esports is potentially the worst team in this main tournament of The Bucharest Minor after suffering two 0-2 defeats against EHOME and BOOM ID in the group stage.
Looking at their draft against EHOME, they were out-drafted by EHOME in the two games they played because EHOME has superior knowledge in the meta of the patch and is not limited to only Phantom Assassin and Magnus.
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Although Playmakers Esports picked the most common support hero because of his empower flash up the farming speed of melee carries. In order to utilize that empower, Playmakers Esports picked Ember Spirit and Troll Warlock in the game
However, EHOME crushed because 一, the position 2 player from EHOME, played Lina and harassed Ember Spirit heavily in the laning phase.
In game two, Playmakers Esports drafted Huskar without Oracle, dazzle or IO supporting him. Without any of these 3 supporting heroes Huskar is very weak in this meta of the patch because if he is not invulnerable or having high resistance to damage being taken, he is going to melt in just one or two seconds when he is below 30% health points.
In their match-up against BOOM ID in the Loser’s Match, they drafted very well in game one, picking balancing cores and support heroes.
Medusa is a very strong late game hero while Timbersaw able to control the map and create space for Medusa to farm in early stage of the game, however BOOM ID crushed their plan because of their roaming supports always make sure every lane of their side are winning by ganking up and down in the map.
Timbersaw without any farm in early stage of the game typically had no impact and could not create space for Medusa, instead he was stealing farm from Medusa because he needed item as well.
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Ninja In Pyjamas drafted a total of 4 games of Terrorblade out of the 7 games they played in group stage.
However, they did not drafted Terrorblade in their match-up against TEAM TEAM in the Losers’ Match, we could see that they are well-prepared in drafting cores against any team.
Unfortunately for Ninja In Pyjamas, Keen Gaming always crushed their Terrorblade with a lot of Area of Effect damage dealer.
Ninja In Pyjamas have to reveal their other secret strategy or draft in order to have easy win against Playmakers Esports.
Ninja In Pyjamas vs. Playmakers Esports betting prediction
After analysing the drafting abilities recent performances in the group stage from both squads, we give Ninja In Pyjamas a 75% chance to win this match-up.
Considering this elimination match-up, our recommendation is to go high and bet on Ninja In Pyjmas to win the game at better than $1.50 at GG Bet.
]]>The champions of Group B, EHOME, will come up against second place from Group A, Keen Gaming, in a fascinating Dota 2 affair at the Bucharest Minor Playoffs Upper Bracket.
Coming into the game EHOME whitewashed both Playermakers Esports and OG to reach the top of their group.
Looking at the draft of EHOME against Playmakers in game one, EHOME drafted Tiny as their first pick. Tiny is open to any position in this match — whether it is as core or support, in this meta he is strong.
Playmakers Esports wasted their second ban chance on banning the offlaners heroes such as Centaur Warchief because EHOME decided to put Tiny in position three.
In its game against Playmakers Esports, EHOME drafted Sven as their first pick, which once again confused Playmakers because Sven can be put in position one or support in this patch.
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Drafting is one thing EHOME is very good at. They have the ability to both confuse their enemy and counter against enemy picks.
After EHOME successfully beat down Playmakers Esport, they were up against OG. In game one OG drafted Sven in the first picking phase, but EHOME stuck to their plan by picking Sven too. Although both teams tried to confuse each other by first picking the hero that is flexible to put in any position, EHOME still came out at top of the drafting by picking Timbersaw last,while OG had a four physical damage dealer.
Thanks to Timbersaw’s third ability, reactive armour, he always had high armour and health regeneration. He was tanky to OG, although iLTW purchased Silver Edge at 25-minute mark to apply a duration of 4 seconds of BREAK effect on Timbersaw, but Timbersaw countered that by purchasing EUL’s Scepter which allowed him invulnerable for 2.5 seconds.
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In game 2 of their match-up, EHOME drafted Huskar along with Oracle supporting him. Thanks to Oracle’s ultimate skill, False Promise, making sure that Huskar was invulnerable for 10 seconds after casting on him.
Huskar is a hero that is stronger when his health point is lower, so, Oracle casted False Promise on Huskar while he is below 15% of full health point was always able to turn the team fight from disadvantage to advantage because Huskar always able to kill at least 2 heroes under False Promise effect.
Keen Gaming played a total of 3 best-of-three series matches in Group A to earn their chance advance into Upper Bracket in Playoffs.
As expected from us, Keen Gaming beat down Ninja In Pyjamas in the opening match 2-1. However, they were whitewashed by Gambit Esports 2-0 in the winners’ match and taking on and won Ninja In Pyjamas again in Decider Match.
Looking at Keen Gaming draft in the group stage, they only played Brewmaster or Tuskar as their position four. This is advantage EHOME can utilize by banning or countering these two picks in their upcoming match-up.
Although Keen Gaming displayed a lot of core heroes being picked in group stage, but their understanding to the meta of the patch is not as good as EHOME because they picked Quee of Pain and Shadow Fiend as their position 2 hero in their match-up against Gambit Esports.
These 2 heroes are considered as tier 3 or maybe tier 4 hero in the meta of the latest patch. Gambit took advantage of those picks and drafted Mepoo to counter Queen of Pain in game one.
EHOME vs. Keen Gaming betting prediction
After analysing the drafting abilities and performance in the group stage of both squads, we give EHOME a 70% chance to win this match-up.
Our recommendation is to go low and bet on EHOME win at better than $1.83 at GG Bet.
]]>Keen Gaming will seek revenge against EHOME in the Bucharest Minor China Qualifier on Tuesday in what could be a spiteful Dota 2 clash.
Keen Gaming lost to EHOME 2-0 on November 29 in the group stage of Chongqing Major China Qualifier — will there be a different outcome this time around?
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EHOME earned an advantage in the last head-to-head match because Keen Gaming was highly dependent on Phantom Assassin. Obviously, EHOME did their homework and banned Phantom Assassin in game 1. However, Keen Gaming themselves made the ban on Phantom Assassin in game 2.
Other than Phantom Assassin, Keen Gaming also spammed Naga Sire in their match against Team ROOT on November 29.
Currently, the Chinese Team are utilising Naga Siren and Phantom Assassin as carry in their draft — Morphing and Terrorblade are always their second choice.
EHOME has recently demonstrated that their knowledge of the heroes’ pool in patch 7.20 is wide. After analysing their draft of late, the opponent has had no way to ban all carries against them. They have picked Luna, Huskar, Faceless Void, Drow Ranger, Medusa, Monkey King and a lot of other potential carries as long as it fits their strategy.
Keen Gaming has no way to out-draft EHOME.
Unlike EHOME, Keen Gaming fought their way through the Open Qualifier. Their performance was great in taking down IG Vitality 2-0 and Team Serenity 2-1.
荧 , the position two player from Keen Gaming, is a strong player. Old Chicken and Eleven, the dual legendary Dota 2 players joined Keen Gaming on September 19. Keen Gaming has done well with patch 7.20, however only using Naga Siren and Phantom Assassin is a weak point for EHOME to break through in drafting phase.
EHOME vs. Keen Gaming betting prediction
After analysing the drafting abilities and last head-to-head match between the two teams, we give EHOME a 75% chance to win this match-up.
Our recommendation is to go low and bet on EHOME at better than $1.40 at GG Bet.
]]>Team Root and Royal Never Give Up will look to secure a slot in the main tournament of the Bucharest Minor when battle it out on Tuesday.
Team Root got a direct invite into the Bucharest Minor China Qualifier after its defeat to Keen Gaming in Group A of Chongqing Major China Qualifier.
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Team Root formed up two weeks after The International 8 and features five star players — END, Super, Yao, Victoria and DDC.
Yao and Victoria were the dual supports from LGD Gaming in The International 7. LGD Gaming achieved fourth place in The International 7, thanks to their dual supports’ skill.
Although Yao is playing position three for Team Root and Victoria is playing position four support for Team Root, their skill and synergy are still formidable.
DDC, the position five support player from Team ROOT is well-known for his Lion game play. Lion is improved with his ultimate skill – Finger of Death — getting stronger as the game goes on and each hero kill will increase 50 output damage of the skill.
After analysing Team Root’s most recent draft against Keen Gaming, PSG.LGD and EHOME in Chongqing Major China Qualifier, we think that they are heavily dependent on Magnus pick. This might be one of the disadvantages for them because PSG.LGD banned Magnus in first banning phase, while Keen Gaming respected banning their Magnus in game 1 and Keen Gaming secured the victory in game 1. However, Team Root won against Keen Gaming in game 2 because Team Root were able to draft Magnus.
Royal Never Give Up is a strong squad, led by legendary player, Ah fu, the position 4 support star.
Other members of the squad still have a lot become tier 1 standard. From their performance of late in Chongqing Major China Qualifier, we think the squad needs to do a lot of improvement on their game play skill.
Mikasa, the coach of the squad was doing a good job for the team. His drafting abilities is good, but the players were unable to utilise the draft advantage.
Team Root vs. Royal Never Give Up betting prediction
After running our eye through the drafting abilities and individual skill of both squads, we give Team Root a 70% chance to win this match-up.
Our recommendation is to go low and bet on Team Root at better than $1.50 at GG Bet.
]]>The eight teams with highest DPC Points after the season ended will enjoy the guaranteed ticket to The International 9.
There will be eight teams participate in this tournament: 2 European Qualifiers, 2 Chinese Qualifiers, 1 North American Qualifier, 1 South American Qualifier, 1 Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Qualifier and 1 Southeast Asian (SEA) Qualifier.
Following qualification into main tournament of The Chongqing Major, the direct-invite teams in each region were announced.
There will be six teams playing in European Qualifier: Ninja Pyjamas, OG, The Final Tribe and Vega Squadron were invited, while Hippomaniacs and Helsinki REDS earned their way through.
Currently, compLexity Gaming and TEAM TEAM are direct invites to play in the North American Qualifier. Initially, Ultra Plus was also on the list, but EternalEnvy, along with SneyKing left Ultra Plus to join Infamous. Their roster still remains unknown for the moment, so their slot got is open to the Open Qualifier. Test 123 and Anime11Esports also fought their way through.
Note: Test 123 was disqualified from The Chongqing Major because Valve thinks that Test 123 is not eligible to play in South American Qualifier.
Infamous Young and Playmakers Esports were invited to play in South America Qualifier and there will be two more teams joining them from the Open Qualifiers.
Infamous, featuring EternalEnvy as position 1 player and Timado as position 2 player, fought their way through the Closed Qualifier, along with WP Gaming.
The CIS Closed Qualifier is going to be exciting, because Empire Hope and Gambit Esports are going to play with two teams from the Open Qualifier. Team Empire Faith and Winstrike from the Open Qualifier were most likely to be their competitor in the Closed Qualifiers. Unfortunately for Team Empire Faith, they had to contest against Winstrike that did not bode well. The other team that qualified is Nemiga Gaming.
Clutch Gamers and WarriorsGaming. Unity have to fight their way into SEA Closed Qualifiers, along with six other tier 3 teams. As TNC Predator and Fnatic able to secure themselves into main tournament of ChongQing Major, Mineski and BOOM ID are the teams that direct invited into SEA Closed Qualifier. Clutch Gamers secured themselves into Closed Qualifier while WarriorsGaming. Unity still have a match against 4SGK.
The Bucharest Minor Closed Qualifier for each region should be starting soon, stay tuned for more in our betting predictions.
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