Playoffs: Lower Bracket Round 1
Format: BO3
The BTS Pro Series Season 7: Southeast Asia playoffs will begin on Wednesday, August 11. Motivate.Trust Gaming and OB Esports x Neon will face off in the knock-out rounds where the Filipinos will have a tough time.
BTS Pro Series Season 7: Southeast Asia is an online Dota 2 tournament from August 02-15, 2021. Eight Asian teams will compete for $50,000, two of which are participants in The International 10.
Motivate.Trust Gaming: They have chances to win
One of the most exciting teams, which could even make it to the International, given their recent results, but in the end failed to qualify for the tournament.
The boys did not take part in the first DPC league, disappearing until April. That spring month marks the beginning of the glorious way for the dark horse of the region, who are terrorizing everyone with their powerful and confident play.
The results are impressive: silver medal at the OEDL Fall Invitational, victory in Division Two of DPC League, two wins at the PNXBET Invitationals Southeast Asia, and BTS Pro Series Season 6: Southeast Asia.
The team’s biggest star is JaCkky, who joined the team in March from T1 while upping his 12K MMR. The Laotian lad has shown an incredible game, blowing everyone away in farming speed and button-pushing on his heroes.
It’s time for the Dark Horse to make a play, as their stats in the group are two wins, three draws, and two losses, 7-7 on the maps, and that’s a bit better even than their formidable opponents today.
OB Esports x Neon: The team is slowing down
OB Esports x Neon had a great showing in the first Asian DPC league. For a long time, these players held the lead, but all gave up at the end of it. Thanks to their replay with T1, the boys got through to the group stage of the Singapore Majors and made it through to the playoffs.
The Filipinos played in Singapore with a forced substitution, but they started their second DPC season in their standard line-up. Their first season was unexpectedly good. Many people underestimated them, but it was impossible to win quickly in the second DPC league. Everyone fought with Neon as the best team in Asia.
The guys tried to prove themselves in the second league, but in the end, they did not get to the majors in Kyiv and struggled for life in the elite of the Asian region. They managed to keep their place among the best, but they lost their chances of qualifying for the International. The Filipinos also lost the International qualification. Their performance has been gradually deteriorating since the beginning of the year, as their results attest.
In this tournament, at the end of the group stage, the neons were penultimate. Their stats do not shine: 2-2-3, and if the boys are eliminated, there is likely to be no sensation, although the Filipinos open up when they get pinned down, and the losers’ bracket is just such a case.
Expert Betting Tips
There’s no way to sort out this elimination match without three maps, so Total Over 2.5 maps for 1.92 is the best betting option.
The first map will see Total Over 56.5 frags; odds on that are 1.86.
The second map will have more than 36 minutes played; odds on that are 1.56.
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