Upcoming Kiev Major Betting Predictions

The second Dota 2 Major of the season is just weeks away now. OG is currently holding the title as the champions of the last Major. It was held in Boston back in October 2016. The invites for the upcoming Kiev Major have been announced and, as we expected, the likes of OG, MouseSports, Wings Gaming, Team Liquid, and Evil Geniuses were invited to participate directly.

With both the qualifiers and the invitees now known for the upcoming Kiev Major 2017, the bookies were quick to start making prognoses and the early odds are now out for the Outright Champions. As expected OG are heavily favoured, while Invictus Gaming, who had to win their spot in the tournament through qualifiers, are in the second place.

We have done a bit of analysis of the favourites ourselves. This is the rundown of the upcoming tournament from our perspective.

Team OG

If you follow Dota 2 at all, you will no doubt be familiar with the fact that OG are fearsome when it comes to their Major performances. The Frankfurt Major, The Manila Major and The Boston Major all went their way, with the European team winning $3.300.000 in those two tournaments alone, in less than two years.

OG started the year off with two second place finishes at tournaments. That don’t hold as much importance as the Majors and it could be speculated that their interest was not that high and their preparations may have been less than optimal for those two.

While they did exit The International 2016 fairly early at the hands of TNC Pro Team, who will also be participating at the Kiev Major, Team OG remain the biggest favourites for this tournament as their Major performances have been outstanding.

The bookies are offering 4.50 on OG to win outright. It is surely a solid bet. Despite their DAC finals defeat at the hands of Invictus Gaming the other day.

Invictus Gaming

The International 2012 champions have been undergoing significant roster changes in recent months, with the current squad only playing together since September. Be as it may, Invictus Gaming have just come off a great win at the DAC 2017. They defeated their biggest competitor, OG, 3-0 in the finals, following their loss to the same team in the Winners Bracket Finals with 2-1.

This victory, worth close to $250.000 surely gave the Chinese team some confidence back.  Despite not having many noteworthy results in the past year, Invictus Gaming seem to be fully back on track. Yet, Kiev Major is a tournament of great importance. We believe the organisations with more stability and consistency will be favourites to win it.

The bookies are offering 5.0 on Invictus Gaming winning the event outright. We have to say we don’t see too much value in this bet. Despite their recent performance at the DAC 2017.

iG Vitality

If you are looking for a dark horse to back at the upcoming Kiev Major 2017, it would surely have to be iG Vitality. While we did say that betting the original iG to win it all is not good value, that was only due to the fact that the bookies are only pricing them at 5.0.

iG Vitality, on the other hand are priced at 17.0 to win the title. This is a long shot. Their recent performances have been absolutely impressive. At the recent DAC 2017, they managed to bounce back after a terrible group stage performance and win 4th place at the tournament, only losing to the much more experienced Newbee squad in Losers Bracket Semi Finals, falling inches away from playing against their sister team.

While they are a fairly new team without too many major results, we can see this upcoming team shining and possibly making an upset. Betting them to win at 17.0. The may also be waiting until odds are out for them to finish in the top 4. That sounds like a reasonable options to us.