Thunderpick World Championship 2023 – Betting Insights

The Thunderpick World Championship 2023 started on Friday 27th October. This $500,000 Counter-Strike 2 tournament is now in its closing stages, having been in a league format since July. 16 teams in total have made it to the World Championship stage to fight for the lion’s share of the enormous prize pool. Live betting markets are now open with various betting sites hosting odds for this top tier CS2 event. This comes as another tournament hosted by a betting platform which has started to become common since Pinnacle hosted their own events in 2021.

What is the Thunderpick World Championship 2023?

This is a tournament hosted by the well known esports bookmaker Thunderpick. They are well known for focusing on esports tournaments as well as providing an outlet for betting for those who prefer to deposit with cryptocurrency. More information can be found in our Thunderpick betting review.

The first edition of the Thunderpick World Championship starts on October 27 where teams will play for 10 days. The champion will be crowned on November 5th 2023. In total there are 16 top Counter-Strike teams vying for glory.

Tournament Format

There are 2 stages to the Thunderpick World Championship 2023. To start with 16 teams are split into four groups of 4. Each group is played in a double-elimination format, also known as GSL. In total there will be the top 2 teams of each group qualifying to the playoff stage. All matches are played as best of 3 (Bo3). The format is almost identical to the Roobet Cup 2023 which is happening at the same time.

The playoff stage will have 8 teams who qualified from the group stage into a single elimination bracket. That means there are no second chances at all in the final stage of the tournament. All matches in the playoff will be played as Bo3, also on CS2.

Prize Pool

There is a total prize pool of $500,000 USD which is split among the top 8 teams in the competition. The prize pool distribution for Thunderpick World Championship 2023 is below.

• 1st: $250,000
• 2nd: $100,000
• 3rd-4th: $50,000
• 5th-8th: $12,500

If you come between 9th-16th then you will not receive any prize money. So that means there is a lot of tension between teams to make sure you secure a spot in the playoffs.

Teams Participating

There are 16 top teams playing in the Thunderpick World Championship 2023. Including the likes of FaZe Clan who have just come from winning IEM Sydney 2023. Below you can find the teams participating and the groups that they are in.

There are a lot of new storylines to examine. Ninjas in Pyjamas are playing with es3tag returning as captain. Heroic have had an enormous shuffle of players after the departure of cadiaN, stavn and jabbi for different reasons.

Thunderpick World Championship 2023 Betting

Betting on the Thunderpick World Championship is very easy. First you have to settle on a sportsbook that is offering markets for the tournament and is also safe and reliable to use. Make sure you have made your deposit and taken advantage of any betting bonus that the operator is offering. Then you need to navigate to the esports section of the platform and find those markets.

Since Thunderpick is a competitor to other betting platforms, some betting sites might change the name of the event on their books. Watch out for names such as TP, TP World Championship, TP WC and other variants of the official name ‘Thunderpick World Championship 2023’.

If the matches haven’t started yet then you will only be able to bet on prematch markets. There might be slightly more limits on the type of bets you can place. However, once the games go live then you should be able to find various live betting options. Odds will change rapidly as the games are live, so if you find an opportunity you are confident in then make sure you lock in the best odds as fast as you can. But, by all means, make sure you are only gambling with money you can afford to lose.

Where to watch Thunderpick World Championship 2023?

The Thunderpick World Championship 2023 is hosted on GRID’s Twitch channel which is linked below. Interestingly, GRID is a data provider for esports. They take data from game servers and share the data with traders at different bookmakers. This means that this tournament will have live data available for different betting operator partners. You can tell which betting site has access to the data due to how many markets they offer, how long the markets stay open and what the maximum bet size looks like.

• Offical English Twitch stream on GRIDesports

The talent for this event is definitely different to other tier 1 events. Thunderpick appear to have given a big chance to many lesser known commentators to get involved and build a name for themselves in Counter-Strike esports. The best known of the talent is most likely Sam “Tech Girl” Wright who has extensive experience with top tier CS tournaments.