There are three fixtures set to take place at China Dota 2 Development League Season 2, this Monday, December 30. Here is the www.academybahamas.com preview and prediction with odds from ESB’s top rated esports bookmakers.

You Know Who vs IG Vitality

• Monday, December 30 – 11:00 CST

You Know Who ($1.76) are entering week eight of the competition with a 2-4 record next to their name, which sits them at an underwhelming sixth spot in the round-robin group. So far this tournament, YKW have seen a mixed bag of results, producing two 0-2 defeats against CDEC Gaming and Team Serenity, two 1-2 defeats against EHOME.Immortal and KG.Luminous and two 2-0 triumphs over Typhoon E-Sports Club and Vici Gaming Potential. Based on their results, YKW come off as very inconsistent with what they show which will be a problem for their ambitions to earn a ticket for playoffs.

Much like their next opponents, IG Vitality ($1.91) are not faring too well this tournament, as they are holding onto a 2-5 record ahead of the next competitive week. The only two teams who IG defeated were Aster.Aries (2-1) and KG.Luminous (2-0), but they also put up a solid performance against EHOME (1-2).

Last season IG claimed a silver medal after losing to Typhoon EC (1-3) in the grand finals and while many expected them to perform up to par this season as well, the departure of Luo “Django” Yebo in September severely weakened the team and pushed them in the position they are now in.

From what we have seen, the two sides seem equally matched which should make for an exciting clash. Which is why we believe the series can go the distance and with esports bookmakers offering generous odds on over 2.5 maps, we will take our chances and say we expect three maps to be played.

• Prediction: Over 2.5 maps
• Odds: 1.98

Team Serenity vs IG Vitality

• Monday, December 30 – 14:00 CST

Team Serenity ($1.40) will continue their climb to the playoffs on Monday when they take on struggling IG Vitality ($2.65) for the first time this season. Serenity will enter the eighth competitive week of China Development League Season 2 with a 3-3 record, which sits them firmly at the fifth spot in the group. So far, they lost to CDEC (0-2), EHOME (0-2) and Sparking Arrow Gaming (1-2), but made easy work of KG.Luminous (2-0), Typhoon (2-0) and YKW (2-0).

Based on their results, Serenity are the gatekeepers of the league, however, their solid performance against Typhoon leaves the door wide open for them to secure a playoffs appearance. For that to happen, however, Serenity cannot afford to lose against bottom-of-the-table teams such as IG, which we believe will inspire the motivation to put on a show here.
IG and Serenity have not met each other in recent months, however, it’s worth noting Serenity have played against IG Vitality’s main team, with varying degrees of success.

While Serenity failed to put up a show against IG’s main roster, it goes without saying IG Vitality are a significantly weaker team and as the odds suggest, Serenity should have this one in the bag. We can expect some resistance from IG, but considering they have been struggling recently, we don’t trust them to cause too many issues for Serenity.

• Prediction: Team Serenity to win
• Odds: 1.40 BetOnline

Sparking Arrow Gaming vs Aster.Aries

• Monday, December 30 – 17:00 CST

Sparking Arrow Gaming ($1.35) are entering the eighth competitive week with an impressive 5-1 record in their hands, which sits them at the second spot in the group. The only team so far which has caused them any serious issues were CDEC Gaming (1-2), who are the undisputed leaders of the tournament.

Last season (while playing under Royal), SAG finished the round-robin stage first with a perfect 7-0 score, but fell flat in the playoffs, where they got reverse swept by IG Vitality (1-2) and later lost 0-2 to the eventual champions Typhoon EC.
Aster.Aries ($2.88) are entering this bout as heavy underdogs, which is not shocking to see, considering they were not too convincing with their performances so far.

While they did manage to produce an upset win against EHOME, Aster lost to KG.Luminous (1-2) and IG (1-2), which were not too promising results. Furthermore, Aster have not played a single match in over a month, meaning we do not know how the new patch suits their playstyle.

There are a lot of unanswered questions with Aster, but for the sake for this prediction, we will side with the Sparking Arrow Gaming to deliver. They have played very well against CDEC last week and for that reason, we will trust them to sweep the underdogs here.

• Prediction: Sparking Arrow Gaming -1.5 maps
• Odds: 2.09 BetOnline

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After whitewashing For The Dream with 2-0 yesterday, Newbee now tackle IG Vitality (IG.V) in a battle for top spot in Group B in the Thunder Fire Spring League.

Even though Viper is being nerfed in this latest Dota 2 patch, Newbee still picked the Netherdrake to counter Faceless Void and Elder Titan in their first game against For The Dream yesterday.

Thanks to Viper’s Nethertoxin breaking down the passive skill of FTD’s heroes, Newbee won the game easily.

This team ranks among the best Dota 2 drafters in the world because Sansheng (position four) and Banana (position five) have previous coaching experience at different teams.

Besides them, Sccc, the position two player, has wide heroes’ pool knowledge to work with.

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IG.V played a total of four games yesterday – two against Flaming Cyborg Alpha and two against Keen Gaming.Luminous.

They picked Lifestealer in three of those contests and Shadow Fiend in two, with the former proving an excellent choice due to his tier-one status in this meta.

Shadow Fiend does not rank on either of the top two tiers in this patch and IG.V can use that to their advantage because Newbee are unlikely to ban him.

Besides of Shadow Fiend and Lifestealer, IG.V also drafted Earth Spirit in both games against KG.L.

Luobo, Vitality’s position four player, illustrated great plays with that hero by roaming around the map early to secure kills and create space for his team.

Newbee definitely have to respect his Earth Spirit and ban this hero.

Newbee vs. IG Vitality betting prediction

We give Newbee a 55% chance to win this match-up 2-0, which is paying -151.52 at BetOnline.

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After two weeks of rest since the completion of group stage in the Dota2 Professional League Season 6 (2018 S2), Invictus Gaming (IG) will be playing the first match in Playoffs against IG Vitality (IG.V).

Looking at recent professional matches IG played Flaming Cyborg and Winning Gaming in H-CUP Season 11 on Christmas, their draft was great following acquisitions of Outworld Destroyer and Phantom Assassin in their match against Flaming Cyborg along with Axe.

Obviously Outworld Destroyer and Phantom Assassin needed space in early game, however the Axe pick was to secure space for them because Axe able to initiate on enemy with only Blink Dagger, Vanguard is a plus for him to survive after ganking enemies.

Axe did a amazing job in that game by blocking the creep wave in bottom lane (IG was on Dire side that game, bottom lane is their aggressive lane). He had his Vanguard by 5-minute mark, followed with Phase Boots by 7-minute mark and the most important item – Blink Dagger before 13-minute mark.

However, their mid laner Outworld Destroyer in that game was heavily harassed by Drow Ranger, Drow Ranger had a 2 level gap advantage higher than Outworld Destroyer.

Despite Axe ganked and tried to create space for their cores, Drow Ranger out-farmed in that game and had a golds per minute up to 633 by the end of the game.

In their game against Winning Gaming, they drafted Tidehunter and Anti-Mage which were a great draft because Tidehunter is a hero that very tanky and enemies have to commit a lot of time and skills in order to kill him.

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Anti-Mage is a hero with blink ability, it is very hard to successfully kill him in a gank, using the advantage of both heroes durability and tankiness, Winning Gaming unable to get the map control and always had trouble of countering the split push from Anti-Mage in that game.

IG.V on the other side was doing quite bad on the same day against Winning Gaming, they picked the strongest combo in this meta of the patch- Phantom Assassin and Magnus while Winning Gaming drafted classic combo- Gyrocopter and IO.

Based on the draft of cores, we would give higher chance for IG.V to win because Phantom Assassin 1 strike could sent IO free ticket back to the fountain.

However their inability to drag the game and create space for Phantom Assassin was their reason to lose the game.

Invictus Gaming vs IG Vitality betting prediction

After analysing the drafting abilities and recent performance from both squads, we give IG a 60% chance to win this match-up.

Our recommendation is to go low and bet on IG to win the game at better than -357.14 at BetOnline.

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