Bet on the matches above on pinnaclesports.
Sep 302011
Hi, I just want to inform you that PinnacleSports will offer live betting on Starcraft2! This is a huge step for the eSports development and I hope you the best of luck in the betting! I will list the events with livebetting offered by PinnacleSports below:
Quarterfinals through to the Final of GSL October beginning October 11th
Championship matches for MLG Orlando Sunday October 16th
Championship matches for MLG Providence November 18th-20th
DreamHack Winter November 24th-27th
Jun 222011
Hi, Here comes a list of upcoming starcraft2 tournaments that pinnaclesports will be offering odds on. I hope the betting goes well for you!
HomeStoryCup III (Group stage + Playoffs) -
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=227213
June 23 – June 26
GSTL – Global SC2 Team League
June 23 – October 7
GSL – Global SC2 League (Code S + Code A)
June 27 – July 30
NASL – The offline playoffs
July 8 – July 10
Torneo ESL Starcraft 2 – http://www.esl.eu/es/sc2/tes
July 14 – July 17
MLG Anaheim – http://pro.majorleaguegaming.com/competitions/22
July 29 – July 31
FXOpen King of the Hill -
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=232051
Date – TBA
Apr 112011
As I said before I had a suprise for all you who follow gomtv’s tournaments. I wasn’t exactly sure what picture Tasteless tried to paint in our minds to describe the “piratebird” but I hope this is close enough 
I will provide more pictures here as soon as I get a hold of them.
Hi, was a while since I wrote and I just want to tell you that I have a funny suprise for all you who like the story about tasteless friend “the piratebird”. For you who don’t know the story I recommend checking the gstl2 videoclip below.
I hope you love the story as much as I do and keep tuned for sundays suprise!
Dec 282010
I just recieved a email from XLBet that follows like this:
“Dear XLBet Client,
We are sorry to inform that XLBet has been forced to close down its business with imediate effect.
For a while we have known that we would need more capital into our company in order to keep building our product and despite almost reaching point of “break even” this fall, we haven’t succeeded in raising the necessary funds to cover the old losses and the costs connected to our new platform, and thus we have decided to close down our business before even more people got economically involved.
We regret that some clients are left frustrated with money on their betting accounts, but we are working on several solutions securing some of the player funds.
We also would like to appologize for the delayed information about the closure, but we would have prefered to get more info about above subject before we released the sad news.
That was not possible, so we will give further information by email when relevant as soon as possible, but until that please understand that any pay out request will be left pending and that any support service has to be closed down.
We are very sorry for the inconveniences brought on you by this, but hope you understand that we have done everything possible to avoid this situation and keep on offering E-Sports betting, Poker and Casino for you.”
I Hope that all customers get their money back. I’m not that positive about it but we may get some of our money back.
Dec 212010
Hi, I’m sorry I’ve been inactive for a couple of days. It’s soon christmas and all so that have been time consuming for me.
For you who are a customer on XLBet like me you probably been scared that the site is down. I am too and I’m afraid XLBet might have some financial problems. I hope everyone get their money back but nothing is guaranteed in these situation I guess. This is a very sad day for the eSports scene.
I do not recommend anyone starting an account on XLBet until this is cleared (if it ever will be?). However I really hope that Pinnaclesports (who is a really big and trusted bookie) continues to offer odds on Starcraft2 matches. I’m still uncertain about this since their odds where very close to XLBets. I think they either hired the same guy to balance the odds or ripped XLBets odds. However it would be very sad for eSports if no trusted, realmoney betting site existed.
I hope we all get back our money and I’ll keep you updated about the issue from this site.
Dec 162010
Ygosu sc2 pro invitational is an korean starcraft2 invite tournament with 16 korean pro players. The groupstage in ygosu sc2 pro invitational will take place tommorow at 11.00 CET. Each player will play three best of one matches against players in their own group.
You can find the groupstage matches with map info as well as odds offered by XLBet below:
TSL_FruitDealer (Z) 1.47 vs 2.55 OxfOu (T)
Map: Xel’Naga Caverns
CheckPrime (Z) 1.95 vs 1.80 ST_Virus (T)
Map: Shakuras Plateau
TSL_FruitDealer (Z) 1.75 vs 2.00 CheckPrime (Z)
Map: Metalopolis
OxfOu (T) 2.60 vs 1.45 ST_Virus (T)
Map: Jungle Basin
TSL_FruitDealer (Z) 1.90 vs 1.85 ST_Virus (T)
Map: Metalopolis
CheckPrime (Z) 1.50 vs 2.45 OxfOu (T)
Map: Lost Temple
TSL_sSKS (P) 1.60 vs 2.25 KyrixZenith (Z)
Map: Xel’Naga Caverns
HannibalPrime (T) 1.90 vs 1.85 IMGanZi (T)
Map: Shakuras Plateau
TSL_sSKS (P) 1.57 vs 2.30 HannibalPrime (T)
Map: Metalopolis
KyrixZenith (Z) 1.87 vs 1.87 IMGanzi (T)
Map: Jungle Basin
TSL_sSKS (P) 1.60 vs 2.25 IMGanzi (T)
Map: Metalopolis
KyrixZenith (Z) 1.85 vs 1.90 HannibalPrime (T)
Map: Lost Temple
You can find the different players ladder statistic links below:
ST_Virus
OxfOu
CheckPrime
TSL_Fruitdealer
TSL_sSKS
KyrixZenith
IMGanZi
Best of luck!
Dec 152010
The GSL season 3 final is coming up! The match between the two finalists oGsMC and TSL_Rain will take place on Saturday at 9.00 CET. The game format is best of seven. You can watch the game at GomTV’s Stream as usual.
Odds offered by XLBet:
oGsMC (P) 1.37 vs 2.90 TSL_Rain (T)
Maps: Delta Quadrant, Lost Temple, Xel’Naga Caverns, Steppes of War, Jungle Basin, Blistering Sands, Metalopolis
XLBet allso offers odds on correct score, handicap, winner first map.
Odds offered by Pinnaclesports:
oGsMC (P) 1.418 vs 3.000 TSL_Rain (T)
Pinnaclesports odds might change quicker than XLBet if they recieve a lot of bets.
I wish you the best of luck.
For you who’ve been following the latest GSL seasons know that GomTV (Blizzard and Gretech) has planned some changes for next year. They have during the last three seasons classified players into groups different groups. The most valued rank is “Code S” and the next most valued group is “Code A”. The players in those different groups will during the next year have invites to the tournaments hosted by GomTV. You can lists for both code S and code A classed players below:
GomTVs list of “code S” players
GomTVs list of “code A” players + qualifiers
A positive thing with this new changed system is that four spots in the “Code A” group is held for top non-korean professionals that have won a big event recently or shown extraordinary promise. This is a very good initiative from GomTV since it will support the fans with more non-korean players in future GSL tournaments. So far Idra and Jinro are the only non-korean code S players. Loner are classed as code A already and Ret will have to play decision matches for his code A classification.
I hope you find this information valuable and feel free to ask any questions!
