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Gambling on VALORANT: Key markets and important data

Darina Goldin, the Director of Data Science at Bayes Esports writes for Esports Insider to discuss Riot Games’ new hot commodity, VALORANT. In the feature, Goldin breaks down the game’s key markets and the need to know data when it comes to providing customers with betting offerings.

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Easily one of the most anticipated games of 2020, Riot Games’ VALORANT is a tactical first-person-shooter. Like Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO), the game is five versus five and played in rounds. In each round one of the teams has to detonate ‘the spike’ at one of several sites, while the other team must defend.