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Team Yandex vs LGD Gaming 2:1: result and AI prediction

Team Yandex and LGD Gaming played on 8 October — playoffs, upper bracket quarter-final, BLAST Slam Season 8 2026: the series ended 2:1. The AI models' bet: Team Yandex −1.5 map handicap at 1.64 — 12 of 15 models chose it; the bet lost.

BLAST Slam Season 8 2026
Playoffs, upper bracket quarter-final
Best of three
Stream

published 06.10 at 08:03 · updated 08.10 at 14:00 UTC

AI models' pick: Team Yandex −1.5 map handicap

1.64

AI models' pick · 12 of 15 on this bet · 2 more in the same direction

lost−1.00 units

Why this bet All odds

What the odds were

line when the AI models voted, 06.10 at 03:21 UTC

Series winner11.1826.25

Map handicap −1.5H11.64H22.38

Total maps 2.5O2.78U1.54

Since the first snapshot Team Yandex have shortened: 1.16 → 1.10, LGD Gaming — 6.67 → 6.43. The money is going on Team Yandex.

abbreviations

1, 2 — Team Yandex or LGD Gaming wins the series
H1, H2 — map handicap: −1.5 means winning the series without dropping a map, +1.5 means taking at least one map
O, U — total maps over or under: over 2.5 means the series goes to a third map

How the series went

map 1Team Yandex37 min
map 2LGD Gaming53 min
map 3Team Yandex32 min

AI prediction and analysis

The largest group of AI models bet on Team Yandex −1.5 on maps — the bet lost. 2 more chose close bets in the same direction: a Team Yandex win. One more bet on over 2.5 maps.

12 of 15H1 (−1.5)our betodds 1.64ChatGPTDeepSeekGeminiGrokKimiQwenDeepSeek FlashGLMMiniMaxMistralXiaomi MiMoDots3-Notelost
2 of 151same directionodds 1.18SonarNemotron Superwon
1 of 15O 2.5odds 2.78Claudewon

Odds — the price at the moment the AI model answered.

Team Yandex have won nine of their last ten series, LGD Gaming six, and the map count over the past two months points the same way: 34-17 against 25-23. The previous meetings back that up — five wins in six series across two years, including a 2-0 sweep in September at PGL Wallachia 2026 Season 9 and another 2-0 before that at Esports World Cup 2026.

Since 19 September LGD Gaming have been fielding four new players in place of KingJungles, Yuma, Wisper and Topson, and there is not much cohesion there yet for a quick response against a favourite. That is what props up the Team Yandex -1.5 map handicap at 1.64. The counter-argument is that three of LGD Gaming's last five series finished 2-1 — this roster does not give a map away easily.

Where we could be wrong

Team Yandex have a roster question of their own: Maladych and AMMAR_THE_F are not listed, while ATF and Malady have yet to play for the team, so the five may not be the one that was put together in September. The 1-2 defeat to Team Spirit is the reminder that favourites drop maps too, and in a best of three a single map dropped is enough for the handicap bet to go down.

One of the teams has three or more newcomers in its five: a new roster has little history, and form from previous weeks says less about it than usual.

Form, rosters and heroes

patch 7.41

Team Yandex

roster

CHIRA_JUNIOR, Saksa, 医者watson`, Maladych, AMMAR_THE_F — together since 19 September

New in the five: AMMAR_THE_F

Left the starting five: DM

recent series · 9 wins, 1 loss

L1-2Team SpiritBLAST SLAM VIII03.10
W2-0BETBOOM TEAMBLAST SLAM VIII01.10
W2-0MOUZBLAST SLAM VIII30.09
W3-0Natus VincerePGL Wallachia 2026 Season 927.09
W2-0LGD GamingPGL Wallachia 2026 Season 926.09
W2-1Aurora GamingPGL Wallachia 2026 Season 925.09
W2-01winPGL Wallachia 2026 Season 924.09
W2-0Natus VincerePGL Wallachia 2026 Season 921.09
W2-0Team NemesisPGL Wallachia 2026 Season 920.09
W2-1MOUZPGL Wallachia 2026 Season 919.09

maps in the last 60 days

34–17, average length 40 min; Radiant 14–7, Dire 20–10

4 days since the last series, 5 maps this week

most-played heroes, 60 days · games / wins

Winter Wyvern14 / 13
Dark Willow10 / 9
Nature's Prophet10 / 5
Kez9 / 7
Earth Spirit9 / 6
Invoker9 / 6
Mirana9 / 3
Witch Doctor8 / 6

LGD Gaming

roster

Thiolicor, SumaiL-, Davai, Sneyking, Wits — together since 19 September

New in the five: SumaiL-, Davai, Sneyking, Wits

Left the starting five: KingJungles, Yuma, Wisper, Topson

recent series · 6 wins, 4 losses

W2-1GamerLegionBLAST SLAM VIII03.10
W2-1Xtreme GamingBLAST SLAM VIII02.10
L0-2PARIVISIONBLAST SLAM VIII30.09
W2-1Xtreme GamingBLAST SLAM VIII29.09
L1-2Natus VincerePGL Wallachia 2026 Season 927.09
L0-2Team YandexPGL Wallachia 2026 Season 926.09
W2-0Xtreme GamingPGL Wallachia 2026 Season 925.09
W2-1Natus VincerePGL Wallachia 2026 Season 924.09
W2-0MOUZPGL Wallachia 2026 Season 923.09
L0-2Aurora GamingPGL Wallachia 2026 Season 922.09

maps in the last 60 days

25–23, average length 46 min; Radiant 17–14, Dire 8–9

4 days since the last series, 6 maps this week