Dota 2: Ilbirs eSports vs No Hoodwink (BO3) - Asgard Championship Playoffs

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Market context

Ilbirs eSports have already played No Hoodwink in the Asgard Championship playoffs, and the series finished 2-1 to No Hoodwink rather than producing the near-certain Ilbirs win implied by the market. Live match trackers and post-match listings show the best-of-three started at 09:00 UTC and reached a final result on 8 August, which means the settlement trigger now depends on the official market rules rather than the pre-match favourite’s status.[1][2][3][7]

The wider read is that the pre-match 100% YES price was driven by a one-sided expectation, not by an actual result. Before the game, several prediction pages showed Ilbirs as a clear favourite, with one listing them at around 78% and another seeing strong community support, but the completed scoreline makes those priors less relevant than the official outcome.[4][10][12] In comparable cases in Dota 2 best-of-three markets, a favourite can still lose a short series if drafts and early map tempo break against them, and that is exactly the kind of risk that matters more than team ranking snapshots.[3][18]

For traders watching the market now, the key catalyst is whether the event page and resolver recognise the match as official and complete, because live score feeds, tournament pages and result aggregators are all aligned on a finished 1-2 series.[1][3][17][18] If any discrepancy appears, the only practical dependency is whether the organiser’s bracket and score reporting are updated cleanly before the settlement window closes; otherwise, a played and decided match should resolve on the actual winner rather than the original odds profile.[2][7][13]

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Methodology

This page is a comparison snapshot: one live quote, four reference venues with their key attributes, and a single execution path — every trade button routes to Prediction Today, which mirrors the Polymarket order book directly.

Resolution & payout

Settlement runs on-chain. Polymarket's contract logic separates YES and NO shares as conditional tokens; at resolution the winning share lifts to $1.00 and the losing one to $0. The outcome input comes from the UMA Optimistic Oracle, which secures against bad resolution with a bond + dispute window.

Once finalised, the smart contract pays USDC to the holders' wallets within minutes — no withdrawal fees beyond Polygon network gas. Kalshi settles in USD via CFTC clearance, Betfair in account currency net of commission, Manifold in play-money mana with no cash-out.

UK Frequently Asked Questions

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How does resolution work?

Through the UMA Optimistic Oracle on Polygon: a proposer submits the outcome, a two-hour challenge window opens, and USDC payouts settle automatically once the result is final.

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