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Has been a long while since a quality extended StarCraft tournament came bounding down the lane, but that is what we have coming up over the next four weeks! Tomorrow begins the last instalment of the 2020 Dreamhack circuit. Like the others, Winter features a qualifier from eight different regions into the finals, which runs November 10-15th. As always I’ll only be playing the Europe, North America, Korean and Season Finals portions of the event. These regions offer the highest level of StarCraft and players featured most consistently at the best events. So for this week we will just be working on the European branch while the others start in about a week’s time.

I enjoy the scheduling of these tournaments far more as it gives opportunity to wager on every match instead of those like the GSL groups where we may only have lines for half of the matches. This is by no means a guarantee of profit, but it means that if I am on point then the potential is greatest. There are a couple new faces, even in Europe, which we have not backed to this point in the year but generally will be going against those individuals. The current three powers of Europe; Clem, Reynor, and Serral are all in attendance of course, as are all the secondary contenders to make it through.

At the moment bookmakers are only offering moneylines, so for the time-being will just post for the matches I only play to take the match winner. That could change on Wednesday morning, but matches don’t begin until noon eastern so there should be time for everyone – even the west coast folks to make esports picks! All group stage matches are best-of-three, followed by best-of-five in the playoffs and a best-of-seven grand final. With the form that those three aforementioned elites are in, it will be incredibly unlikely not to see all three finish in the final four of Europe and progress to the international finals. At the last two Dreamhack Starcraft events, two of those players have finished in the top four of the finals event, with Reynor and Serral each picking up the best-of-seven victory over Korean Protoss, Trap. So not only should those three be 75% of the European representation, but they also comprise a great possibility to make deep runs at the tournament overall. Would be fun to have some ‘pick your finalists’ markets up for tournaments like this, but maybe in 2021. There are going to be a lot of short prices through the group stage of both EU and NA, I’ll likely be looking for some of the big mid-range dogs. In traditional sports this would mean your +150 to +200 range, in esports this is your +200 to +400 hits. Will be back in the morning with a second look!

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