Itembet contest: Bet on ESL One matches and compete for 100 rare items

With the oncoming ESL One in Frankfurt tomorrow, we’ve decided it’s the perfect time to reward the best item betters on GosuGamers. This weekend, bet your items on ESL matches, prove your knowledge of Dota 2 and compete for a portion of the 100 rares we’ll be giving out.

Some time ago, we put our minds towards expanding on one of GosuGamers’ oldest features – the GosuBets. For a decade now, GG.net readers have been betting virtual currencies on matches but we wanted to give them something more, something more tangible than tangoes.

Thus, earlier this month, we enabled item betting, giving you the opportunity to bet and win rare Dota 2 items in addition to tangoes. This being a new territory for us, we started cautiously, inviting GosuGamers members in waves and enabling item betting for just a number of selected matches.

The interest in this feature, however, was enormous and just three weeks later we’d gone farther than expected. More than 20,000 item bets were placed in since the start of the beta phase. 8,000 successful loads and 4,000 successful unloads have been recorded. Currently, we have 40 bots running in parallel to operate the system and by today we’ve enabled 110 matches for item betting.

As we approach the end of our first month of beta, we’ve decided to give something back to you, the people who helped us test this new venture of ours. To our luck, the upcoming ESL One gave us another good reason to do so.

In resume: we will give away 100 rares to the top 3 item-betters, split 50, 30 and 20. Said top 3 will be determined by who has the best items won/items placed as bets ratio. The contest will cover ESL One matches only and only those with enabled item betting (meaning betting tangoes won’t make you eligible for this contest – you need to bet rares to compete for rares).

Winners will be announced shortly after ESL One is completed.

Round 1 - Best of 3 Alliance 2 Cloud9 0 mouz 1 iG. 2 VG.cn 1 Fnatic. 2 EG 2 Na`Vi 0 Round 2 - Best of 3 Alliance 0 iG. 2 Fnatic. 1 EG 2 Round 3 - Best of 3 iG. 2 EG 1

UPDATE: WINNERS

1st - Maicro - 50 rares

2nd - awerz123 - 30 rares

3rd - hoduc991 - 20 rares

The users above had the best winnings ratio over the multiple bets the placed for the ESL One event.

How to bet

First off, you need to register and login at GosuGamers. By clicking your name in the top right corner, you will trigger the user menu. To access the itembets, click "My Itembets". There you will have to confirm you agree with the rules and conditions. GosuGamers may also ask you to change your password into a safe password, for the safety of your inventory.

Next step is to connect a Steam account to your account, if that has not been done already. After successfully doing so, you can request access to use the bots. You will then be placed in a queue since we are starting off slowly, providing more and more users with the option to deposit rares. Once access is provided, you may enter how many rares you want to deposit (possible to transfer up to 100 rares at the time). You will then be asked to add a steam bot by a steam plugin. After the bot requested the add, it will ask you to trade with it. In the trade, add the amount of rares you specified when requesting the trade. When the trade is complete, the rares will be added to your balance at GosuGamers.

If you have at least 1.00 rares in your GosuGamers Itembet balance, you may use them to bet at matches. At first, we will only provide the itembet service for certain selected matches, those can be found listed below. The process to withdraw rares is the same as when you deposit, except that the bot will trade you the number of rares you requested, provided your balance allows it. Note that the rares withdrawn are random and likely not the same you did deposit.

By depositing rares at GosuGamers, you will convert each rare to "one" rare, used to bet at selected matches. It works just like branches, except that instead of getting provided with 50 as a start capital, you would need to deposit some in order to place bets. Below are some general key points listed:



You can bet on a match up until 5 minutes before it starts. You can remove your bet at any time before that.

You can request a bot for deposit/withdraw with 15 minutes interval.

GosuGamers will collect a commission of 1% of your winnings.

You can not only win whole rares, but also part of rares. This means you can end up having for instance 4.26 rares in your inventory. Out of these you can only bet and/or withdraw 4. But the decimal rares (0.26 in this case) can be used when they form one whole rare.

You can bet up to 10% rares of the total amount placed on the bet. You can always bet up to at least 50, no matter how many rares previously were placed.



Find the rules for item bets here.

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