On March 4, the final of the top bracket of The Lima Major 2023 Dota 2 playoffs will take place. Team Liquid and Gaimin Gladiators will compete for a ticket to the grand final of the championship. Analysts of the betting company PARI could not determine the favorite in this confrontation, so the fans are waiting for a bright and unpredictable match. The match in the best-of-3 format starts at 21:00 Moscow time. Initially, all experts agreed that Team Liquid would be the clear favorite of this meeting.
The team gave only two cards to the opponents during the major and showed a high level of play. However, a day before the start of the match against Gladiators, it became known that Liquid support Samuel Boxi Swan was forced to leave the tournament due to health problems. Now Liquid will have to perform with a replacement — instead of Boxi, the analyst of the team, Matthews Jabbz Frisel, who has no experience on the shooting range-1 stage, will play. Because of this, the chances of Liquid's success have decreased. However, experts still believe in the potential of the team and give a coefficient of 1.95 for Liquid to win.
The Gladiators team also scored a good move during the tournament. In the previous match, the roster easily dealt with another European team — Entity Gaming. Having a replacement for Liquid should simplify the situation for Gladiators. However, Liquid has become a real kryptonite for the dyrachyo team — in the last five face-to-face matches, Gladiators have four defeats and only one draw. The probability of Gladiators' success in this match is also estimated by a coefficient of 1.85.
PARI clients bet on Gladiators — about 68% of the total volume of bets on the outcome of the meeting falls on this team, while about 32% is made on Liquid.
It is almost impossible to predict how this duel will turn out and how Liquid will be rebuilt due to the replacement. Experts give the same coefficients — 1.85 — and the number of cards in the series.
The largest bet among PARI clients for the upcoming match is 450,000 rubles to win Gladiators at a coefficient of 1.80. The player added this option to the express of two events within the framework of The Lima Major 2023 with a total coefficient of 2.75.
The team that wins this match will advance to the grand final and thereby guarantee themselves the top 2 at the major. In turn, the loser will not leave the tournament, but will fall into the lower bracket and get another chance.
The Lima Major 2023 takes place in Peru from February 22 to March 5. There are five teams left in the fight for the title, which will draw a prize pool of $ 500 thousand and DPC points necessary to get to The International.
Gaimin Gladiators
