The popular betting site Betway have revealed a generous new competition for the StarLadder Major CSGO tournament. This promises to give the winner $/€1,000 in cash as well as the chance to enjoy an online gaming session with the top esports team BIG (Berlin International Gaming).
- This makes their current form uncertain and the odds show it. Personally, I think NRG can keep their roll going and the 1.7x odds for a win are good enough for a bet for me. Boukev's prediction: NRG to win @1.7 - bet now. Astralis vs Team Liquid. A match of titans which some have already tagged as the 'real' final of the StarLadder Berlin Major.
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- With the Starladder Berlin Major slowly approaching it’s everyone’s favorite time of the year, qualifier season. The North American qualifier is set to take place July 17-21 in Berlin, and will see the top two teams move on to the New Challengers Stage of the Major, and take home a little bit of cash as well.
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The StarLadder Major is down to the final eight teams, as the Champions Stage begins on September 5th. Team Liquid are still favored to win it all despite their lackluster and unconvincing performance in the Legends Stage. Odds of Winning the StarLadder Major. Complete overview of StarLadder Major Berlin 2019 here. See prize distribution, attending teams, brackets and much more!
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In order to enter this competition, contestants will have to win a bet with the highest odds on the StarLadder Major. Betway has already unveiled a leaderboard where one lucky gamer has managed to claim the top spot with odds of 89.39.
Even if contestants don’t manage to top the leaderboard, there are still a range of prizes for the highest 25 places. These include cash prizes, signed MIBR or Ninjas in Pyjamas jerseys, Xtrfy keyboards, and even free bet vouchers for use on the Betway site.
All contestants must register an account on the Betway site, and they will also need to opt-in to the promotion via a link on the landing page. Qualifying bets will need to made of at least $/€1 on the StarLadder Major tournament and they must be placed and settled by the end of Sunday 8 September 2019. Only one leaderboard position is allowed per customer.
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If a customer is lucky enough to have claimed a place on the leaderboard by the end of the promotion, then cash and betting bonus prizes will be credited to the customer’s account within 48 hours.
It’s a competitive promotion from Betway who have long been supportive of the Counter Strike scene. The betting brand have already inked major partnership deals with leading CSGO teams like Ninjas in Pyjamas, and this promotion is sure to be of interest to all fans of this classic-first person shooter. Plus you’d probably never get a better chance to try your CSGO skills against a time like BIG.
The ongoing StarLadder Berlin Major has reached its Champions Stage, which is set to kick off today with two of the four quarterfinal matches. With matches running until late this upcoming Sunday, the second Major champion of 2019 is soon to be crowned.
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24 teams set up to compete in the StarLadder Berlin Major and 16 have already met their demise over the past two weeks. Faze Clan, mousesports, mibr and G2 among many, will have to seek their Legend status at the 2020 Spring Major. The 8 that remain are the “new” Legends and set to keep the status until the end of the year. ENCE, Liquid, Astralis, NatusVincere, Renegades have all retained their Legends status acquired at IEM Katowice 2019 with AVANGAR, NRG and Vitality being the newest additions after the Major.
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The StarLadder Major Quaterfinals
Looking at the quarterfinals bracket and having the pre-tournament seeding in mind, we can clearly notice the bracket is heavily weighted towards the bottom. Current #1 seed Team Liquid is meeting IEM Katowice Champions Astralis in quarters. In the semis they have to through NRG/NaVi before ultimately reaching the final. In the upper portion Vitality and ENCE must be thanking their lucky stars ending up against the #15 AVANGAR and #16 Renegades seeds.
Although the bracket means we won’t see a Liquid vs Astralis final in Berlin, we can at least enjoy an exciting best-of series in the quarters. Both teams are not looking amazing at this Major with mistakes and misplays plaguing both rosters during the entire tournament. Both of them dropped their matches against NRG during the New Legends stage, but only one will have a chance to seek revenge in the semis. In the end this duel will be determined by the mistakes each team doesn’t make.
The winner of the previous match will face either Natus Vincere or NRG in the semifinals. NRG are a breath of fresh air at this summer Major. The squad came in locked at loaded at the New Challengers stage and stayed on form during the entire event. In stark contrast Na’Vi has struggled during their entire Berlin run. Only days ago they had to fight a grueling best-of series against CR4ZY and barely scraped by with the win. What is interesting is that NaVi has won 6 of the last 7 times they met NRG over the past year making this a very hard matchup to predict.
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Onto today’s Berlin Major matches
First up, ENCE is seeking to repeat and one-up their IEM Katowice performance and finally lift a trophy at a Major. To do so, they would have to go through the Aussies from Renegades who have had their number 4 out of 7 times since February. Things get even messier if we look ahead at a possible semifinal versus Vitality/AVANGAR as ENCE constantly loses to Vitality and barely edges past AVANGAR, Renegades on the other hand has performed well against both of the potential semifinal opponents. This makes the likely finalist from the upper part of the bracket very hard to predict.
Before we close things out we have to look at AVANGAR vs Vitality in the 2nd match of the day. In all honesty, my general and pre-tournament opinion was that both squads are 2nd tier teams at best when compared to the competition. Their performance in Berlin proves otherwise making this a challenging analysis to break down. With AVANGAR dominating Liquid, G2 and Renegades this past week and Vitality plowing through FaZe, North and mousesports, both teams are playing remarkable CS:GO this summer making the resolution of the bracket a joy to watch.
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In the end, the most likely outcome in my opinion is a semifinal between ENCE/Vitality and Astralis/NRG before we see a repeat of the IEM final between ENCE and Astralis. The ultimate champion in Berlin is irrelevant as long as we witness both trophy contestants from Katowice butt heads once again.
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