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Best Esports Predictions and Odds of the Day: 17/1/2025

Best Esports Predictions and Odds of the Day: 17/1/2025

Kaustavmani Choudhury

17 Dec, 2024, 03:11

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Last updated: 8 Apr, 2025, 22:06

With the continuation of VCT 2025 EMEA, the event brings us a clash between giants NRG and Cloud9. For the non-VALORANT fans, we have also curated several other notable matches with particularly enticing odds in the following esports titles: Counter-Strike and League of Legends.

Our analyst team has sat down and collected, what we think, are the best matches for YOU to predict on today. All outcomes for selected matches are moneyline predictions, meaning the focus is on overall Win/Loss rather than spread.

*Best Esports Predictions and Odds for the 17th of January, 2025 as collected by the Strafe Esports Content Team.

Featured Match of the Day

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VALORANT VCT 2025 Americas Kickoff - NRG vs Cloud9 [1:30 am CET (next day) | 7:30 pm EST]

Cloud9 Parts Ways with Rossy Weeks Before 2025 VCT Kickoff
Cloud9 Parts Ways with Rossy Weeks Before 2025 VCT Kickoff. Credit: Cloud9

Both Cloud9 and NRG have seen significant roster changes leading right up to the 2025 season. With this said, Cloud9 have come into controversy recently by changing their IGL Daniel "Rossy" Abedrabbo weeks before Kickoff. This instability might just come back to bite them later on in the matchup.

Odds for Cloud9 vs NRG

Strafe Fan Vote Weightage: NRG with 66% of fan votes.

GGBet Odds: NRG 1.28 vs 3.5 Cloud9

Strafe Esports Prediction: NRG

VALORANT VCT 2025 EMEA Kickoff - Team Vitality vs Karmine Corp [9 pm CET | 3 pm EST]

Odds for Team Vitality vs Karmine Corp

Strafe Fan Vote Weightage: Team Vitality with 65% of fan votes.

GGBet Odds: Team Vitality 1.44 vs 2.68 Karmine Corp

Strafe Esports Prediction: Team Vitality

 

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Counter-Strike BLAST Bounty Spring 2025 - MOUZ vs BetBoom Team [5 pm CET | 11 am EST]

Odds for MOUZ vs BetBoom Team

Strafe Fan Vote Weightage: MOUZ with 93% of fan votes.

GGBet Odds: MOUZ 1.31 vs 3.39 BetBoom Team

Strafe Esports Prediction: MOUZ

Counter-Strike BLAST Bounty Spring 2025 - G2 Esports vs B8 [7:30 pm CET | 1:30 pm EST]

Odds for G2 Esports vs B8

Strafe Fan Vote Weightage: G2 Esports with 96% of fan votes.

GGBet Odds: G2 Esports 1.12 vs 6.19 B8

Strafe Esports Prediction: G2 Esports

 

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League of Legends LCK Cup 2025 - Gen.G Esports vs Hanwha Life Esports [9 am CET | 3 am EST]

Odds for Gen.G Esports vs Hanwha Life Esports

Strafe Fan Vote Weightage: Gen.G Esports with 65% of fan votes.

GGBet Odds: Gen.G Esports 1.05 vs 2.43 Hanwha Life Gaming

Strafe Esports Prediction: Hanwha Life Gaming

League of Legends LPL Split 1 2025 - Bilibili Gaming vs EDward Gaming [10 am CET | 4 am EST]

Odds for Bilibili Gaming vs EDward Gaming

Strafe Fan Vote Weightage: Bilibili Gaming with 91% of fan votes.

GGBet Odds: Bilibili Gaming 1.05 vs 8.67 EDward Gaming

Strafe Esports Prediction: Bilibili Gaming

 

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