Nongshim RedForce looked like serious title contenders heading into this season, and many people had them high on their list due to all the talent on this roster. Unfortunately, RedForce have yet to find any traction and are 3-7 ahead of the sixth week of play. Still, we can’t forget that RedForce had many COVID problems, so we wouldn’t overreact to their iffy results.

So while the offered LoL odds on this match make sense, if we consider how good Gen.G have looked (8-2) compared to RedForce, we would argue that talent-wise, Gen.G are not that much stronger.

We like Nongshim RedForce with a +1.5 handicap for this match, simply because the odds are way too high for how good this team can be. We don’t expect the outsiders to cause an upset, but they are a good bet to win a map at $1.80.

DWG KIA arguably have the best mid-jungle duo in the world in Kim “Canyon” Geon-bu and Heo “ShowMaker” Su, but the pair seem like they don’t have a strong synergy with the rest of the team. It’s an unfortunate situation for DWG KIA, who could easily be one of the top LCK teams, but something isn’t clicking, and results speak for themselves.

If DWG KIA figure things out, they will be a terrifying team. But it’s anyone’s guess when and if that happen.

Considering DWG KIA’s recent slip-ups, it would make sense to side against them for this match, but there is no reason to believe Kwangdong Freecs can come out ahead. Admittedly, DWG KIA’s bottom lane has been struggling of late, but even with that handicap, DWG KIA are much better than KDF.

Given their past struggles, backing DWG KIA to sweep Kwangdong Freecs might seem a bit risky, but they’re an excellent bet with a -1.5 map handicap at the offered betting odds.

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?Team GamerLegion and Eternal Fire last met during the Pinnacle Winter Series #2 group stage, just under two weeks ago, when Eternal Fire took the series lead with 16-8 on Overpass but lost the following two maps with 5-16 on Nuke and 13-16 on Mirage. So even though GamerLegion won, it had more to do with Eternal Fire choking rather than GamerLegion proving that they’re the better team.

GamerLegion won largely thanks to Ivan “iM” Mihai, who was on fire, with 1.94 and 1.22 performance ratings on the final two maps. In contrast, Eternal Fire’s star players in ?smailсan “XANTARES” D?rtkarde? and ?zgür “woxic” Eker had negative average ratings (<1.00) on Mirage and Nuke. Evidently, GamerLegion are good enough to test Eternal Fire, and if iM can have another solid performance, they might win again. But at this price, it's hard to pass on Eternal Fire.

K23 won against SKADE at the end of January (2-1), but it was a close match that could have easily ended the other way. K23 won the first map with 22-19 on Mirage, lost on Inferno (16-11) and closed out the series with another overtime win (19-16) on Dust II.

The Russian-Kazakhstani squad have since played 16 games and won all but three (13-3), and they even took down Heroic during the first Pinnacle Series at the start of February. As good as it may seem, that result doesn’t mean much since Heroic likely didn’t care about the Pinnacle Series, with IEM Katowice 2022 just around the corner.

Over the same stretch, SKADE have played 15 games and won all but five (10-5), which is a decent run, and it includes a couple of solid showings against Dignitas (2-0), Apeks (2-0), and Tricked Esports (2-0). The CS:GO betting odds suggest K23 should win, which sounds fair, but they nearly lost the last time they met with SKADE, so there is no value in backing them at -188.68.

So instead of betting on the favourites, we will settle for a bet on over 2.5 maps. The two squads looked evenly matched in January, and we expect another close affair on Thursday.

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