TI9: Making a pick on every series on Day One!   You also stand a chance to win up to $5, 000, 000 in our official coverage partner -- Estars' Free to Play contests! So hurry up and check out their website for more info. A large majority of my picks for TI9 are going to be looking at the favorites as these are all best of twos and I believe the favorites will most likely either draw or win their series. So going by each series of games I am going to make my picks and on tomorrow's post I will post my record and see how we did. Along with all these picks I will give my most confident pick of the day and give my reasoning with it but for all other picks it just be a straight prediction.

Series A1

Secret 2-0 Alliance Liquid 2-0 Newbee PSG.LGD 2-0 Chaos TNC 1-1 Keen Gaming Series B1 Vici Gaming 2-0 Royal Never Give Up Virtus.pro 2-0 Ninjas in Pyjamas Evil Geniuses 2-0 Fnatic OG 1-1 Na’Vi Series A2 Liquid 2-0 Chaos TNC 2-0 Mineski PSG.LGD 2-0 Keen Gaming Secret 2-0 Newbee Series B2 Virtus.pro 1-1 Royal Never Give Up Evil Geniuses 2-0 Na’Vi OG 2-0 Infamous Vici Gaming 2-0 Fnatic Series A3 Secret 1-1 Liquid PSG.LGD 1-1 TNC Alliance 1-1 Chaos Keen Gaming 2-0 Mineski  

PICK OF THE DAY!

With all these picks being made I am looking at what I believe will get the most value at odds and currently I am seeing great odds on Team Secret -.5 (Take the series 2-0) over Alliance at -130. This season Team Secret have only dropped one game to Alliance and that was during the KL Major. Other than that one game it has been a clean sweep for them during the year and while I know TI9 group stage sometimes yields odd results I believe at these odds for the best team of the year it's too hard to pass up.

Current Record: 0-0-0

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