Elaborate?

Would you bet on yourself to beat other players? E.g, if someone of unknown skill challenged you to a duel for £1, would you accept?

No offense, but first stats (mainly kills/deaths ratio and wins/losses ratio) and then elo (I love the concept of qlranks but you have to admit it's rife with elo-whores) caused QL to drown in a shitwave of stat-twats, sporting an endless arsenal of ways to ruin duels in every conceivable way. Elo is already more precious than diamonds for some people, real money on the line would just exacerbate that even more. And with the amount of hax going on? Forget it.

But to answer your question, in an ideal world, free of elo-cocks and hackers, yes, I would happily bet on myself against random opponents. Sounds fun.

You're on shitty. 5000000 Polska money aka $5

Can someone translate?

Against a player of my own skill level (up tp 40-60 odds), sure.

I did and it didn't end well (vs evil). Wanted to put $50 but fortunately I was too late to deposit. In the end I got it all back on Cypher....

EDIT: nevermind didn't read the poll properly.

A 50/50 bet every week? Nah.

But Cypher did leave for CSGO... a 100% chance to win when betting on Evil? :P

I think you may have misinterpreted the question, I've edited the post title to try and make it a little less ambiguous :p

Well in that case; I doubt anyone (incl. me) will bet on CA games, which is what I exclusively play =p

i would on a lan, but not online

How come not online? Because they might not pay up if they lose?

It's a lot easier to cheat online.

Would it be done through some platform like faceit or what?

Yeah let's assume so.

I voted No, but if this would be the case, I'd reconsider.

Yes

A lot of ppl saying yes would be in line to lose a lot of moniii

I would bet on opponent if I ever played someone.

+it's easier to control who wins this way. Unless both players bet for the other. This could make for some interesting matches...

Small bets could be fun. Losing or winning your lunch money is not a big deal. Large bets seems like a bad idea no matter how you present it.

hell yeah

Especially if the odds for a single map wouldn't be restricted to 1:1. That way players of different skill could have exciting single game match ups.

For example my (stronger) opponent and I could agree to play a single duel on aerowalk. We agree that my chances of winning the map are about %33 and so the corresponding odds would be 2:1 for me and 1:2 for him. We then agree on the size of the bet, pay the monies to the site and play. The winner then goes back to the site and collects their winnings + their stake - a little that goes to you. :)

Of course if people feel like gambling/ the players can offer up odds that are completely out of whack with the probabilities

In a world with a 100% working anticheat I'd say yes, but in the meantime, definitely no.

Good point.

From playing in buy-in Faceit tournaments way back (and those $1 1v1s which I think this thread describes) I know one thing: politeness/sportsmanship/literacy levels among people who are able to transfer $10 online is 100x the average in QL.

giving that i loose against 95% of QL playerbase then no.

My win rate is 40%. Of course not.

no way!

on LAN, yes. online? ... I may as well bet on xXXPotHEaD3868xX. and this is because of the netcode, not so much cheaters. most cheaters are pretty horrendously easy, although sadly there are more "professional" cheaters running around in duel these days. a lot more than people think. (never forget SombrA and zeroql.)

Interested to see you go lan.

no its all luck