Best Esports Predictions and Odds of the Day: 18/1/2025

Today sees the beginning of the Closed Qualifier of ESL One Raleigh 2025, including a highly anticipated matchup between Tundra Esports and Team Secret. For the non-DOTA fans, we have also curated several other notable matches with particularly enticing odds in League of Legends and VALORANT as well.

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 18th of January, 2025 as collected by the Strafe Esports Content Team.

Featured Match of the Day

DOTA 2 ESL One Raleigh 2025: Closed Qualifier WEU - Tundra Esports vs Team Secret [4 pm CET | 10 am EST]

Team Secret has been struggling for some time now and they still need to figure out their playstyle. However, the new Tundra Esports roster consists of talented players led by Neta "33" Shapira, the current 2 times TI champion. As a result, this head-to-head match up will most likely favour Tundra Esports

Odds for Tundra Esports vs Team Secret

Strafe Fan Vote Weightage:  Tundra Esports with 91% of fan votes

GGBet Odds: Tundra Esports 1.09 vs 6.72 Team Secret

Strafe Esports Prediction: Tundra Esports

DOTA 2 ESL One Raleigh 2025:  Closed Qualifier WEU - Gaimin Gladiators vs Passion UA [4 pm CET | 10 am EST]

Odds for Gaimin Gladiators vs Passion UA

Strafe Fan Vote Weightage: Gaimin Gladiators with 99% of fan votes

GGBet Odds: Gaimin Gladiators 1.03 vs 10.31 Passion UA

Strafe Esports Prediction: Gaimin Gladiators

League of Legends LCK Cup 2025 - DRX vs T1 [9:30 am CET | 3:30 am EST]

Odds for DRX vs T1

Strafe Fan Vote Weightage: T1 with 95% of fan votes

GGBet Odds: T1 1.05 vs 8.71 DRX

Strafe Esports Prediction: T1

League of Legends LEC Winter 2025 - G2 Esports vs Karmine Corp [9 pm CET | 3 pm EST]

Odds for G2 Esports vs Karmine Corp

Strafe Fan Vote Weightage: G2 Esports with 67% of fan votes

GGBet Odds: G2 Esports 1.57 vs 2.33 Karmine Corp

Strafe Esports Prediction: G2 Esports

VALORANT VCT 2025 Pacific Kickoff - BOOM Esports vs T1 [9 am CET | 3 am EST]

Odds for BOOM Esports vs T1

Strafe Fan Vote Weightage: T1 with 78% of fan votes

GGBet Odds: BOOM Esports 6.41 vs 1.09 T1

Strafe Esports Prediction: T1

VALORANT VCT 2025 Americas Kickoff - LOUD vs KRU Esports [11 pm CET | 5 pm EST]

Odds for LOUD vs KRU Esports

Strafe Fan Vote Weightage: LOUD with 72% of fan votes

GGBet Odds: LOUD 2.0 vs 1.75 KRU Esports

Strafe Esports Prediction: KRU Esports

 

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