Another big night of esports action coming up! Today we take a look at some of the key matches in the CS:GO and DOTA2 arenas around the globe. View our best bets for the night below.
Esports Betting Tips: Wednesday, May 6th
Isurus vs Soberano
CS:GO CLUTCH Season 2
Isurus have enjoyed a quite successful campaign in the ESL One: Road to Rio – South America, where they finished second overall with only two defeat, both against Team BOOM. Other than that, Isurus defeated Imperial twice with a 2-1 and triumphed over RED Canids with the same scoreline, so they should be coming into the match with high confidence. As for their CLUTCH Season 2 campaign, Isurus have drawn four against Keyd, DETONA, W7M and Bravos, while they lost one against RED Canids. Soberano are coming into the match in way worse form and looking at their performance for the past three months, they have only managed to win 12.5% of their matches, but considering they only played a total of eight matches in the past three months, the 12.5% win rate is not as terrible as it looks. Nonetheless, they only won against Bravos (2-0), while they drew with Alma (1-) and lost four against DETONA, W7M, Keyd and RED Canids.
While neither of these two teams looks to be in great shape in the current season of CLUTCH, Isurus are in my eyes looking like the better team, exactly after their amazing run at the RtR, which makes me believe they're ready to win their first match of the CLUTCH league.
Complexity vs Fnatic
CS:GO ESL One: Road to Rio – Europe
Complexity have only won against ENCE so far at the ESL One: Road to Rio and have lost all of their remaining matches against Astralis, Vitality, Heretics and NIP with a scoreline of 1-2. Most of those four teams, however, are very strong, so taking a map off them in an online format is not a bad result per se. As for Fnatic, they're either playing like the best team in the world or like some second-tier team. They lost their opening match against ENCE, but then defeated Astralis, to which they added a loss against Dignitas, a rebound win against Heretics and another disappointing loss against Vitality. As I see it, neither team is in the form they would want to be in, but they still have enough skill and firepower to compete with the best and if they both show up today, we are in for an exciting match.
Complexity have won at least one map in all of their matches, while Fnatic saw only one series end with two maps played and even that was on an opening day against ENCE (0-2). It all points toward a three-map series, but with +1.50 on Complexity, we can get some insurance if they manage to surprise Fnatic, which, to be fair would not be a shock result since this is online CS and Fnatic have been all over the place with their matches.
Complexity +1.5 Maps
$1.72
Pro100 vs Natus Vincere
CS:GO ESL One: Road to Rio – Europe
Seeing how teams that are worse than pro100 are winning maps or even the series against significantly stronger teams like Natus Vincere, these odds on pro100 to win are beyond ridiculous, as there is always a chance for an underdog will overperform and upset the favourites. Pro100 have won both of their matches so far this tournament, against Virtus.pro and Hard Legion without dropping a single map, while Natus Vincere have played very poorly against Espada, though they came away with a clean sweep. They followed that up with a laughably poor showing against Virtus.pro, where they did not win a single map. Although I am not prepared to believe pro100 can defeat Natus Vincere outright, I am fairly confident they can at least steal one map against a team that has recently lost (0-2) against Virtus.pro.
OG vs Ninjas in Pyjamas
DOTA2 WePlay! Pushka League Season 1: Division 1
The European group at WePlay! Pushka League is sealed, meaning this match does not hold any importance for OG who are already guaranteed an elimination from the tournament. Ninjas in Pyjamas, on the other side, can potentially push for a top-three finish, which will give them a favourable seed in the playoffs.
This will be the first time these two rosters meet and although OG recently stomped Nigma (2-0), I am not too confident they will go all out here. The fact that OG are on a 1-5 run in their last six games does not convince me they're in the form that will allow them to overcome NiP. Having said that. NiP did not look too sharp in their recent two matches where they lost to Secret (0-2) and Alliance (0-2), while their previous results, which include a narrow 2-1 win over OG.Seed also makes me wonder how strong this squad really is. Based on their recent performances, I don't expect much from either team, which makes me believe we will be looking at a very scrappy match which will end in all three maps played.
