?EHOME might be one of the top Chinese Dota 2 teams, but they shouldn’t be priced as low as $1.08 against Team MagMa or any other side at this tournament. At these odds, the esports bookmakers are giving MagMa only a 7.4% chance of winning, which is extremely low for an online match.

Although there is no denying EHOME are the superior team, we can’t just ignore that MagMa forced Pan “Fade” Yi and co. to three maps on Monday. What’s more, MagMa had a legitimate chance to win game three but failed to execute their early-game plan and eventually got outscaled.

EHOME are 7-1 against MagMa since September 2020, but both of their last two series went the distance. While we don’t believe MagMa are good enough to defeat EHOME, they’ve shown enough for us to be confident they can steal one map.

Instead of backing MagMa with a map handicap, take the higher payout for over 2.5 maps. The line bet would make sense if MagMa had a realistic chance to win 2-0, but since we don’t believe they can, overs is the better pick.

?These teams will meet on Tuesday for the first time since Vici Gaming’s 2-0 win in the China Dota2 Pro Cup in November 2020. That result gave Vici their seventh victory in eight clashes with Sparking Arrow Gaming for the year and marked their third head-to-head win in a row.

Despite that record, we can’t agree with the match odds for this clash. Implying Vici will defeat SAG 91.7% of the time is way over the top, especially considering this will be their first match in almost a month.

SAG might not be as strong as Vici, but they are 4-0 across the last 10 days with wins against the likes of Royal Never Give Up (2-0) and CDEC Gaming (2-1).We would usually side with the favourites in this matchup, but we cannot ignore the odds about he outsiders to win at least one map and cover the line.

EHOME have only five games on record since the turn of the year, and only one across the last three weeks. What’s even more concerning is that they have lost all but one series in that stretch, although their sole win came against Team MagMa (2-0) in January, so they at least have that going for them heading into this match.

While MagMa have been far more active than EHOME in 2021, they’ve lost over half of their games. Their only win in the last month came against LBZS (2-0), which is hardly a huge achievement.

Two months ago MagMa swept IG.Vitality and their main roster, Invictus Gaming, which are excellent results for a team of this calibre, but they have since looked progressively worse. EHOME might be a bit ring rusty, but MagMa are way too inconsistent for us to trust them in any major market.