Team Heretics vs EDward Gaming – Champions Grand Finals Betting Preview
Published: Aug 25, 2024
EDward Gaming and Team Heretics are the last teams standing at VALORANT Champions 2024, the most prestigious tournament of the season. In this betting preview, we’re taking a closer look at the odds, markets & predictions for this highly anticipated match.
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VALORANT Champions Grand Final Match Odds
Here’s a look at the live outright match Valorant odds provided by Thunderpick, a leading esports betting site:
- 25/08/24 @ 09:00 CEST – EDward Gaming (2.10/+110) vs Team Heretics (1.65/-154)
Odds accessed 24/08/24, liable to change.
If you fancy checking out other betting markets, learn more in our Thunderpick review.
EDward Gaming – Against All Odds
Ahead of VALORANT Champions, EDward Gaming slipped under the radar despite being the first seed from China, ranked 11th in tournament outright odds provided by esports betting sites.
They’ve clawed their way to the Grand Final with several huge victories, by eliminating Paper Rex and defeating both Sentinels and Leviatan as VALORANT betting underdogs. With this incredible run, they’ve broken their own record for the furthest a Chinese team has ever progressed at an international VALORANT tournament.
Getting this far, they could take the record even further and be the first Chinese team to ever hoist an international trophy. This is on the back of impressive individual performances from the entire team, and not just their star duelist “ZmjKK”.
While a lack of experience in such situations may set this roster back, their 2-map ban advantage as the upper-bracket team could be the difference. Against Heretics, they’ll likely ban Icebox, while there are several options for their second ban.
Team Heretics – European Heroes
There are several reasons why the outright match odds favour Team Heretics in this Grand Final.
Firstly, their run at VALORANT Champions has been incredible, crushing the likes of Gen.G, Fnatic, Sentinels, DRX and reaping their revenge on Leviatan, the best team from the Americas region.
More importantly, this team has been in a Grand Final before – finishing second at VCT 2024 Masters Shanghai after a gruelling 3:2 series against Gen.G. Thanks to their deep map pool and high energy, they can go the distance in a BO7.
Their only loss at this tournament was at the hands of Leviatan, where they simply ran out of ideas and composure.
Against EDward Gaming’s 2-map ban advantage, Heretics will likely be forced to play on their weaker maps such as Haven.
