Dota 2 Champions League S5 betting picks – Tuesday, November 16

After hitting both of our Dota 2 betting picks for last Saturday, Esportbet returns with a set of selections for Dota 2 Champions League Season 5 matches on Tuesday, November 16. Here are our predictions for Team Empire vs HellRaisers, B8 vs Brame, and Nemiga Gaming vs NoMarci.


Team Empire have had some moments over the tournament, but they haven’t achieved much. Empire have won only one game after five rounds (1-4) and lost their third consecutive game to HYDRA (1-2) on Sunday.

HellRaisers enter this match with a 2-1 record and a 4-3 map differential, which isn’t terrible nor excellent. Over that stretch, HellRaisers lost against Brame (0-2) and won against NoMarci (2-1) and HYDRA (2-0), who they beat on Friday.

Team Empire are 26-19 up in the head-to-head with HellRaisers and 3-0 on the year, but that doesn’t mean much, knowing that Empire are a much different roster from September when they last won this bout. Outside of their previous success, there isn’t much to suggest Empire can win, albeit they have been consistent in winning at least one map so far this tournament, so we have to trust them to do the same here.



Brame are one of the top teams at the tournament, while B8 are clear favourites to finish inside the bottom-two. However, +571 on B8 still seems a bit too generous.

B8 haven’t had the best start to Dota 2 Champions League Season 5, but they also had to face tough opponents, namely Creepwave (0-2) on Friday. And even though B8 ended up losing the bout, they were in a good spot to win the first map and nearly came back from a 3.9k net worth deficit on map two.

The CIS squad looks a bit shaky and will need more time to form a strong bond with the new players, but they’re slowly getting there. We don’t expect B8 to cause an upset, but they should be able to win one map.


NoMarci look like the weakest team at the tournament, and they have a lot of catching up to do if they wish to escape relegation. On the other hand, Nemiga Gaming have done better across their opening four outings, with wins against Brame (2-1) and HYDRA (2-0) and losses against Team Empire (1-2) and Khan (1-2).

As their results would suggest, Nemiga can be unpredictable, but that doesn’t change the fact that they’re fundamentally better than NoMarci. Betting on Nemiga is an obvious choice, but we wouldn’t bet on them at -312.5, so we have to explore the map handicap market.

Trusting Nemiga to win in straight maps is a bit risky since they have become known for dropping unnecessary games. Still, looking at the way NoMarci have been playing, we have no faith in Nikita “Daxak” Kuzmin and his crew to put up much of a fight on Tuesday.