Last weekend the finals of Round 4 of the StarCraft 2 SK Telecom Proleague took place with many people expecting the hot favourites SK Telecom T1, who had qualified for the final with a 6-
1 record from the league stake, to defeat their opponents KT Rolster.
KT had finished third in the league stage with a 4-3 record but they had progressed through the playoffs after wins against SBENU (by a narrow 4-3 margin) and CJ Entus, whom they defeated with relative ease 4-0 in the semi final.
However, with SK Telecom T1 the hot favourites after having beaten KT Rolster 3-1 in the league stage, it was expected that the top seeds would clinch their third victory in four rounds of the competition. The eSports betting markets at that time clearly had the top seeds as the odds on favourite to win.
However that wasn’t the case. In the best of seven match played across six different maps, SK Telecom T1 started well with team member Billowy defeating Stats. However Billowy then lost to TY of KT Rolster to even matters up before soO put SK Telecom back in front by beating TY in the third match up.
KT Rolster however had an ace up their sleeve in team member Zest who then defeated soO, Classic and INnoVation over three maps in a row to give KT Rolster an unassailable 4-2 lead.
Of course, StarCraft 2 fans will know about Zest as he was crowned IEM Season IX World Champion in Katowice in March 2015. The 23-year old South Korean, better known as Joo Sung Wook is ranked 12th in the WCS rankings.
This coming week KT Rolster’s team members will be back in action as the Playoffs for the entire competition get under way. Ranked as the fourth seeds, KT Rolster will start the play offs off with three games in three days against Jin Air Green Wings, the third seeds, starting on Monday 21st September and progressing through to Wednesday 23rd September when the winner will be declared.
The winner of the match will then go on to face CJ Entus in the semi final the following week, with the winner of that taking on SK Telecom T1 in the grand final on the 10th October.
With this week’s playoff games taking place over three days, Bet365 will have all the latest odds available throughout the week, and at present you can get 10/11 on KT Rolster winning the first match between the teams, with JinAir Greenwings perhaps a surprising 4/5 favourite for the match.
Counter Strike: Global Offensive: DreamHack London 2015 This Weekend
It’s not just StarCraft 2 that eSports fans are excited about this weekend as the fourth of seven scheduled DreamHack events is contested this weekend in London, England.
Team SoloMid won the first event in Valencia, before Fnatic then took the next two events, the Summer event in Jonkopping Sweden and the 2015 Tours event in France.
Eight teams have made the London event this time around. Team SoloMid, Team EnVyUs, Team Dignitas, Gamers2 and Renegades were all specially invited to the event, while SK Gaming, Copenhagen Wolves qualified as EU Qualifiers and EZSkins are the UK Qualifier.
Teams have been split into two groups as follows:
Group A: Team EnVyUs, Team Dignitas, Renegades, EZskins
Group B: Team SoloMid, Gamers2, SK Gaming, Copenhagen Wolves
The group games will be played on Saturday 19th September, with the top two teams in each group progressing into the semi finals, where the winners in Group A will take on the Runners Up in Group B and vice versa.
The Semi Finals and Final will both be played on Sunday 20th September and Bet365 already have some markets available to bet on. This includes Team EnVyUs being a 1/66 shot to win against UK team EZskins, while winners of the first competition Team SoloMid are also heavily odds on 1/12 to beat EU qualifiers Copenhagen Wolves in their opening match up.
A Trio of DOTA 2 Tournaments To Pick From
Defense of the Ancients 2, better known as DOTA 2 is one of the most popular eSports in the world today but there has been a little lull in the number of tournament being played on this game in 
recent weeks. However, that ends this week with not just one, but three big DOTA 2 events you can bet on all available at Bet365 Sport.
First up is the BTS Series Americas #2 tournament which pitched 16 teams against each other for the $5,000 top prize. The competition started on the 15th September and continues each day until the 23rd September.
With the league phase now complete it is down to the knockout phase with the Round of 16 being played until the 19th September, the quarter finals between the 19th and 21st September, the semi’s on the 22nd and the final on the 23rd.
Six teams have progressed into the quarter final stage, Cloud 9, ROOT Gaming who face each other and Team Unknown and FIRE who also face off. Void Boys await the winner of the complexity v Isurus Gaming match up, while Team Imagine face the winner of Wizards&Priests v God Bless encounter.
There’s also the Nanyang DOTA 2 Championships in action, with the Chinese qualifiers taking place over this weekend with ten teams competing in a league format to join Invictus Gaming, Newbee, EHOME.cn and TongFu in the quarter finals. After the Chinese qualifiers are completed, the European qualifiers start next week, meaning that there will be even more match ups to have a flutter on with Bet365.
There’s also more qualifying action in the ESL One New York 2015 Chinese Qualifier coming up with the Quarter Finals, Semi Finals and Final of this section of qualifying set to be played out over the next few days culminating in the final on September 23rd.
As you can see there’s a host of top notch eSports betting action coming up over the next few weeks and you can enjoy it all at Bet365 Sport.
