4-0 in esports betting tips on Sunday with winners coming at great odds! We'll be looking for another solid slate of tips this Monday night and into Tuesday morning!
Esports Betting Tips: Monday, April 27th
Invictus Gaming vs CDEC
DOTA 2 DPL- CDA Professional League Season 1
Invictus Gaming and CDEC Gaming are set to meet for the first time in 2020, with their most recent clash taking place at World Electronic Sports Games 2019 China Finals in December. Historically, these two sides match up nicely, however, it's IG who usually come away with the spoils. Most recently CDEC participated at China Dota2 Professional League Season 2, where they picked up three wins against Keen Gaming (2-1), Aster (2-0) and Newbee (2-1). All solid results, but for CDEC to win here, they will have to show a bit more. IG, on the other side, recently lost to PSG.LGD (0-2) and defeated Newbee (2-0), although, they as well looked a bit shaky recently.
Betting odds suggest IG are the clear favourites and while that may be true, this match seems like it will be closer than expected. CDEC look decently strong and while they lost their star player Lai "Ahjit" Jay Son to PSG.LGD, this team still holds enough quality to produce some resistance. Betting on CDEC to win might be a bit too optimistic, but considering IG's recent showing, they look ripe to drop at least one map.
ViCi Gaming vs PSG.LGD
DOTA2 DPL-CDA Professional League Season 1
A clash of two Dota2 titans will see ViCi Gaming take on PSG.LGD in their third meeting in less than 10 days. Looking back, ViCi lost to PSG.LGD last Saturday at CDA League Season 1 and lost 0-2. They failed to show anything more in their Sunday's rematch at China Dota2 Professional League Season 2 (0-2). These results fail to convince us ViCi will manage to pull ahead on Monday and the odds fairly reflect that. It's worth noting, however, that PSG.LGD lost to Aster on last Monday (1-2), meanwhile ViCi have yet to play a single match since their back-to-back loss to PSG.LGD.
Although the odds are not in ViCi's favour, this bout will still feature two of the strongest Dota2 teams in the world, meaning that we can't expect anything less than a close match. ViCi had more than enough time to cool off from their losses to PSG.LGD and plenty of time to prepare the right tactic to keep the TI8 finalists on their toes. Expect a close and thrilling match, which should see each side pick up one map.
SKADE vs Bluejays International
CS:GO Hussar Cup, Closed Qualifier
SKADE and Bluejays will lock horns in the semi-finals at Hussar Cup, Closed Qualifier in what is billed as a one-sided bout and it's hard to disagree with that. SKADE are entering this match as huge favourites, who earned a direct bye into the semis, due to their dominance in the group stage, where stomped newStar5 into the dirt (2-0) and edged out a win against ehehxd (2-1) and S2C (2-1). Bluejays, on the other side defeated newStar5 (2-0), pocketed a free forfeit win against ehehxd and defeated Tenerife Titans (2-1) to secure a spot in the quarter-finals, where they took down KPI.
Comparing these two sides, there is just too big of a quality difference for me to believe Bluejays have a legitimate chance to cause an upset. They're clearly a level below SKADE and if there won't be any surprises, SKADE should come out ahead with ease. Take Skade to win 2-0.
Prediction: Skade -1.50 Maps - 1.73 at Picklebet
