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Originally Posted by ouroboros1
I know nothing about esports, but someone said that SKT vs TSM that SKT is pretty much a guarentee win with odds at -250 on Bovada. Thoughts on this?
TSM is the most popular NA team which is keeping the line at -250ish I guess. Last week, SKT1 just won the korean league 3-0ing their opponent in the championship in a best of 5. They are considered the best team in the world and have the best player and several other top players as well.
However, the team they beat 3-0 (GE Tigers) was in a similar international tourny less than 2 months ago where they were the heavy favorite (they were the only korean team, and korea is considered by far the best region), but lost 2-1 in a best of 3 to a Chinese team (WE). WE went on to reach the finals, where they lost 3-0 in a huge upset to.... TSM
http://lol.gamepedia.com/IEM_Season_...d_Championship. TSM also beat another korean team, CJ Entus, in a best of 1 (which obv have huge variance). IIRC this was the first time a western team has ever had success against china/korea (the 2 dominant regions) and led to a lot of speculation that the west was catching up and/or korea was overrated, but I don't buy that at all.
So yeah, wouldn't say its a pretty much guaranteed but true line is probably something like -350. Only real issue is its bo1 and not bo3/5 so there could totally be a random flukey game, bo1 has lot of variance.
Last edited by Nonfiction; 05-07-2015 at 04:28 PM.