betting
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Final Fantasy Tactics ‘Battleground’ Lets You Gamble Fake Money On Fake Matches
1FFT Battleground is a Final Fantasy Tactics Twitch stream that lets you place bets on competing teams of randomised characters, all controlled by AI. The bets are based on fake money, which is good, because if they weren’t, there’s a non-zero chance I might have done some real damage to my bank account by now.
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Pro Esports Team Analyst Caught Betting On His Own Team’s Matches, Which Is Somehow Legal
Esports was rocked earlier this week when Ad Finem’s team analyst Allen Cook sent out a casual tweet saying that he’d placed bets on the outcome of the Boston Major Dota 2 tournament. Specifically, Cook bet on both his own team and another team, OG, because (he said) he believed that AF and OG were…
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The Counter-Strike Gambling Scandal, Explained
The past week has seen the world of online games rocked by a major gambling scandal. Two YouTubers with millions of subscribers, Trevor ‘TmarTn’ Martin and Tom ‘ProSyndicate’ Cassell, were revealed to be owners of a site they repeatedly promoted sans overt disclosure. The potential ramifications are not pretty.
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You Can Now Bet Virtual Items On Lower League Australian Counter-Strike Matches
Betting on Australian esports has traditionally been limited to international finals, qualifiers or the finals of major local events, regardless of the game in question. That’s starting to change, however, with a new Australian site allowing users from all around the world the opportunity to bet virtual skins on lower league Australian Counter-Strike matches for…