I hope you like the new title artwork. We have a great guy in the DFS Army @Sconnie who does this stuff for a living and made up this FABULOUS gem for me. Great guy, who did me some great work and got me exactly what I wanted, and even improved on the ideas I gave him. Hopefully we will have the League of Legend one ready for the next slate. But you did not come here to read about that, so lets get to it shall we?

The Counter Strike first Major of the year is finally here…well close enough that we will get to see our DFS contests at least. This is going to be an interesting slate to play. We have six teams and 15 match ups. The first day of the IEM Katowice is a round robin where all six teams will play each other once in a best of 1. I do not know if you are excited, but I sure am. This should be a high scoring slate, with a small handful of players being perfect, players being good, and the rest being bust. If you pick the player that goes off in all 5 games you get the ultimate gem, and if you can put the full roster together of them you will be winning most or all contests. Most will put together those players who go off in 3-4 of the matches and put up some numbers in the rest.

The only team we will be selecting from who is a favorite in every match they play is Fnatic. This makes since given that Fnatic is a team unlike any other, but it will make things much harder for us when we look at players to select. To start my research I wanted to see what the odds were for each team so I put together a little chart that I am going to share with you.

Looking at the chart the only two teams that will be favorites more than not will be Fnatic and NaVi. I also really like NiP even though the numbers are not in their favor. LG will also has one of the highest averages of % to win from the 6 teams playing. The last number on the right is the average percentage from all the matches to be played. It is important when looking at NaVi to remember that in many of their matches they might be the favorite, but are in a few coin flip games.

For this slate, like the one we had a few back I am not putting olofmeister in green. Olof and Krimz are still both solid plays especially in a 5 games played. I just think we will be able to get as many points for the dollar spent from JW down. Fnatic is also the only team I really love for a roster spot in cash. You can roster 3 or 4 teams for GPP, but when it comes to cash Fnatic is the safest bet. The only down side is then you do not get to roster 3 players from Fnatic, and I think this is the week to roster 3 Fnatic players.

In the end use 3 players from Fnatic or 2 players and the team in most LUs, because I do not think you will go wrong in doing that. If you do not feel good with rostering 3 players, 2 players and team is probably 100% all in this slate.

LG looks like a bad choice on the chart. They are favorited only 2 times, but looking closer at the numbers shows us 2 spots they are favorited, 2 spots they are in a coin flip, and 1 spot playing Fnatic. Many may see a fade, but I actually like LG players here. Coldzera is worth playing at 8400, as his team will need him in order to be competitive in some of these matches. FalleN will be a solid play as well, but I do not think he will be consistent in all 5 matches to make his price tag worth it across the board. I do love him for GPP, and am even willing to put him in cash if I have extra money. fer/fnx are both up and down players, but with their lower cost they become solid filler. For LG to win fer/fnx will need to be solid plays for their team, and that will mean solid points for us. LG is worth playing as a team. They will have plenty of chances to win, and if they pull off those coin flip matches will net you good fantasy points.

I would be lying to you if I said I know this team. Sadly it is one of the first times I have even heard their name. I have been following CS for a very long time (not as closely as I started too last year though). The problem is they are an Asian team, and I do not follow anything CSGO Asia. They are also a newer team, meaning I have not had the chance to see them on the world stage either. They are on a 10 game winning stretch, but I am not going to trust anyone I have not seen. I do love that they are bottom dollar, and could make for a nice GPP selection that allows for the bigger name studs. Also since the odds do not give them any love AT ALL, they should be low owned by the masses. I would avoid their team at all costs, but all 5 players can be used GPP to allow that STUD stack LU.

Mousesports is the tame I love to hate in CSGO fantasy. When I think they are going to go off, they are meh, and when I think they will be meh they go off. The odds here are actually kind of sneaky. Going against FNC as the last match mouz gets the best odds of the day to beat FNC out of every team, but they only have favorite odds in 2 of their 5 matches tomorrow. None of their matches will be coin flips either really. There is one close to coin flip, but it is still far enough off of 50/50 that I do not count it as such. I do think NiKo is an amazing play. He is an easy 25 points per game played, and can go off for 40, and has done so against good teams (NiP and G2). He is a stud priced at 7900, and I love when I can get a team’s number 1 for sub 8k. If this was a best of one against 1 of these team, I might avoid this situation all together, but in a 5 match day play him with confidence.

NaVi should be an easy focus here, but I just do not love playing NaVi players. They tend to be all over the place, and right after we got a great match from them last week, we got the same up and down NaVi. The only reason I am not fading them completely is this tournament will mean a lot to them. It is easy to blow off league play, but blowing off a major shouldn’t happen. GuardiaN is again a nice option with his salary only being 7800. I am going to count on these matches being close and will be willing to play GuardiaN, Flamie, and Edward. Seized is a fine play, but I like Edward better as a very similar risk player, but 300 in savings.

NiP is possibly one of my fastest growing loves. I even own a few of their stickers in game, where I am proud to show them off. GeT_RiGhT and F0rest are amazing players who can both carry. Xizt is a bargain play for 7500 in a best of 1, and in a 5 game slate might be the play of the week. Even pyth at 7000 is probably good for 3 games at 17 points and 2 games for 20-25 points. Sure that might not be the largest final total, but for 7000 he gives you plenty of room to play at the top. NiP is not a team I will be focused on however with so many of their matches being close.

Enjoy day one folks. If you need me there is a good chance I will be up at 4am watching this match. I am not sure if I will be staying up all night, or going to bed early and waking up, but I hope to be up for that first match. Enjoy everyone and remember if you want to talk eSports or you need someone who is willing to help walk you through what eSports is join us in slack. The off season membership is dirt cheap and gets you access to me, gets you access to Keith (NBA/MLB) gets you access to Taco (PGA/Nascar) gets you access to ffootballgeek (MMA also NFL, but that is over for now and would need next year to gain access during NFL season) gets you access to spoweezy (NHL). You also get access to a group of people who LOVE DFS as much as you do. Hope you see you around slack soon, if I do not already see you there.

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