The top three betters of April are crowned and will be awarded with 8/4/2 Luckless Luckboxes, respectively. Since the new season has begun, there are new Luckboxes up for grabs for the month of May as well. A fresh start for everyone.
Are you familiar with the GosuBetting featured on GosuGamers? You bet nonsense money on matches, hopefully to gain more of the mock monetary fund. This month you will have slightly more reason to get into it as the top three GosuBetters at the end of March will be rewarded with Lockless Luckboxes. For Dota 2 you use the currency called "branches", which every user initially has 50 of. Sometimes they are also referred to as "tangos" by other users, this is because you used tangos to bet back in the days in the DotA(1) section.
What can I win?
At the end of April, the three betters who hold the highest amount of branches will be rewarded with the following:
- 8 Lockless Luckboxes
- 4 Lockless Luckboxes
- 2 Lockless Luckboxes
- What is a "Lockless Luckbox"?
The Lockless Luckbox is an item introduced to Dota 2 in July 2013, just prior to The International 3. It was distributed via Steam codes to people who bought merchandise from the on-location shop (called Secret Shop) in Seattle during the event. Entering the code in Steam will provide with a Luckbox inside the Dota 2 inventory. Despite being a chest, it requires no further key to open (hence the word lockless) and can be opened right away after acquiring it. It will contain one out of various items, such as Kunkka's Shadow Blade, Nyx Assassin's Dagon, Armlet for Chaos Knight as well as certain other items for Invoker, Alchemist, Dragon Knight, Crystal Maiden with others.
How do I play?
First off you need to have an account registered at GosuGamers, you also need to be logged in. To place a bet, head over to the Dota 2 GosuBet section to see all the matches available. Then click on a match for details about that specific match. Towards the top of the match page box, you can see the team names and inbetween the GosuBet information. To place a bet, select which team you will be betting on and enter how many branches you would like to bet, then press "Save bet". You can also press the "All in" button which will place every branch you currently have available, on the team you have selected. A bet can always be placed or removed up until five minutes before the match is scheduled to start.
In the example above, 100 branches are entered to be placed and the team selected in this match-up is LGD. By pressing "Save Bet", the bet will be confirmed. The percentages will affect how much branches there are to be won, they are directly affected by how many branches in total are placed on each team of the match.
Placing 100 branches on LGD with those percentages will net a total of 404 if they win (those include the 100 invested). The bet can be removed by pressing the red X-button.
By visiting the GosuBet page or any match page, you can always see the current top ten betters in the right column. Be aware that the top can shift massively after each result, depending on what those were betting. In the bet panel shown in the images above, you can also find a button called "Betting results" when browsing a completed match. Clicking that button will show many branches were placed for each of the betters and how much they won, if they did win.
- What do I do if run out of branches?
If you run out of branches, you can always reset back to 50. To do that, first make sure you are browsing the Dota 2 section (or a page belonging to it), then you click your username in the top right corner. This will trigger the user menu, from which you can find the option "My GosuBets". Here you will find an option to reset your branch count to 50 and you are good to go again. You may also find this option in the general bet information box located below the highscore in each match page, or in the GosuBet overview page.
Even if you would lose all your branches, you can still regain them quite quickly with some skillfully placed bets as well as luck on your side so there is no reason to give up after a streak of unfortunate bets.
Top three of April
Below is the list of top ten betters of April. Unfortunately only the top three will walk away with the luckboxes whilst others will have to try harder this season. Unlike last month, this month's bets have been rather stable and no real upset has been caused as compared to last month where long time leader, chiiren, jumped the gun just days from retirement (so to speak) and went all-in with 122,282 branches placed on Empire to beat Cloud9 in a best-of-five and lost the first place at the time. A huge congratulations to paagaw who managed to farm as many as 160,000 branches in April. Following him were two dedicated betters named sanepaul1 and serendipitys from China and Singapore, respectively.
paagaw (160,000) --- 8 Lockless Luckboxes
sanepaul1 (100,591) --- 4 Lockless Luckboxes
serendipitys (73,990) --- 2 Lockless Luckboxes
The winners of April will have a message sent to their GosuGamers inbox within the day.
Shout-out to eClub
Thanks to eClub for providing us with Lockless Luckboxes. Head over to their website for all your official Dota 2 merchandise and also grant a "like" to Asian Cyber Games and Eclubstore on Facebook.
Good luck!
