Esports Games You Can Bet On

Esports titles you can bet on

If you open an esportsbook today, you will not see every game ever played competitively. You will see a fairly consistent core, plus a fringe of titles that come and go with the tournament calendar.

The core is the big four: Dota 2, League of Legends, Counter-Strike 2 and Valorant. Almost every operator that prices esports prices these, and almost every major tournament in them carries a betting slate. Beyond that, the menu widens fast. One bookmaker's esports navigation lists Arena of Valor, Crossfire, CS2, Dota 2, eCricket, FIFA, FIFA Bots, King of Glory, League of Legends, Madden, Mobile Legends, NBA2K, Rainbow Six, Starcraft and Valorant². Another covers Dota 2, Mobile Legends, PUBG, Valorant, CS2 and League of Legends⁵, and a third adds niche and older titles such as Heroes of the Storm, Vainglory and Halo alongside the headline games⁶.

Mobile titles are a bigger part of the menu in Southeast Asia than anywhere else. Mobile Legends: Bang Bang sits at the top of one Philippine sportsbook's esports list, ahead of Dota 2, Valorant, CS2 and League of Legends⁷, and Thai-facing books quote Dota 2, League of Legends, CS2, PUBG, Valorant, Overwatch and ROV, with live betting across MOBA, FPS and battle royale games⁸. That Overwatch listing is worth noting: it is one of the few places you will find Overwatch betting at all, and it tends to appear on Asian-facing books rather than European ones.

Here is a rough map of what is offered and where:

Sports simulations sit in their own corner. FIFA, Madden and NBA2K matches are priced like ordinary sports fixtures, and if you want to understand how those simulated matches are quoted, see betting on EA SPORTS FC and NBA 2K.

A few general points about the menus:

• Coverage is not static. The number of matches on the board depends entirely on the competition schedule, so a quiet week in one title can look bare while another is packed⁹.
• Some books fold esports into a wider sportsbook that covers 30 or more sports, so the esports tab is one section among many rather than the whole product¹⁰.
• Even casino-first sites include esports alongside games of skill and chance in their terms, so the betting product and the casino product often share one account and one wallet¹¹.

For a broader picture of how esports betting works in Asia, including where it fits locally, start with esports betting in Asia.

The big two: Dota 2 and League of Legends

Dota 2 and League of Legends are the two titles that anchor the schedule, and they behave differently on a betting board.

League of Legends is usually the busier of the two. On one Asian-facing bookmaker's live esports page, League of Legends carried 28 events against 15 for Dota 2 on the same day⁴. The reason is structural: League of Legends runs several regional leagues at once, in Korea, China, Europe and elsewhere, so there is almost always a professional match somewhere. Dota 2's calendar is more tournament-driven, clustering around events like The International and DreamLeague⁹.

The tournament calendars give each title its rhythm:

• Dota 2: The International and DreamLeague are the headline events⁹
• League of Legends: Worlds and MSI are the majors, with regional leagues feeding them⁹
• CS2: Majors, BLAST Premier and IEM⁹
• Valorant: the Champions Series and VCT circuit⁹

Odds ranges differ by title too. One bookmaker quotes average odds of 1.50 to 3.50 for Dota 2, 1.40 to 4.00 for League of Legends, 1.60 to 2.80 for CS2 and 1.80 to 2.50 for mobile esports¹. What that tells you practically is that League of Legends matches produce the widest prices, because the gap between the strongest and weakest regional teams can be enormous, while CS2 matches tend to be priced tighter.

If you want to go deeper on either title, we have dedicated pages for Dota 2 betting and League of Legends betting, and a comparison of betting on Dota 2 vs Mobile Legends if the mobile side interests you.

Markets per match: what a League of Legends slate looks like

A single League of Legends match carries more than a win-lose price. A typical slate, drawn from what Asian books actually quote, looks like this:

• Match winner (Pemenang Pertandingan)
• First destroyer or first blood (Perosak Pertama)
• Baron and Dragon objectives⁵

Stacked on top of those are the generic esports markets that apply across titles: moneyline, totals, spreads and prop bets⁶, plus live props such as total kills, first blood, map winners or specific in-game achievements¹².

Two examples show how the numbers work:

• Totals: betting over 2.5 maps in a best-of-three means you think all three maps will be played. The same logic scales down to rounds, such as over 26.5 rounds on a CS2 map¹².
• Spreads: if you back Team Liquid at -1.5, they need to win by at least two maps for your bet to win¹².

Odds are usually shown in three formats: fractional, decimal and American, and most books let you switch between them¹². Live odds shift in real time as the match runs, and the better books publish live match stats and results alongside the odds so you can follow the game you are betting on¹². For how those live prices move, see how live esports betting odds work.

The depth of the slate scales with the match. A group-stage game in a minor regional league might carry only the match winner and a map total, while a Worlds semifinal carries the full range of props and live markets. If you are new to how maps and series formats change what you are betting on, read Bo1, Bo3 and Bo5 in esports betting and how an esports map handicap works.

Bet types beyond the match winner

Once you get past who wins the match, the market menu splits into a few families, and they recur across every title:

• Map-level markets: map winner, number of rounds, handicaps or totals⁹
• Kill and objective props: total kills, first blood, and objective bets like Baron or Dragon⁷
• Statistical markets: some events carry additional markets built on specific in-game metrics⁹
• Live betting: prices while the match is running, with in-play bets, accumulators and over/unders all available¹³
• Tournament bets: outright prices on who wins the whole event, covered in a later section

The naming varies by book but the ideas do not. One Philippine sportsbook summarizes its esports menu as match winner, map winner, total maps, first blood "and more," depending on the tournament⁷. Another breaks it into moneyline, totals, spreads and prop bets⁶. A third lists map winners, first blood and total kills across every major title¹⁴.

There is also a parallel world of betting that does not use money at all. Research on the Chinese platform Max+ found that users bet on both traditional sports and esports competitions using game skins, mainly from Dota 2, or with platform M coins¹⁵. That is skin betting, and it is a different product with different risks; we cover it in what is skin betting and skin betting vs real money betting.

For a full walkthrough of each bet type, see esports bet types explained and esports prop bets.

Special rules: Dota 2's minimum competitors rule

Esports settlement rules are title-specific, and Dota 2 has one that surprises people the first time they hit it: if a map starts with fewer than 10 competitors, all bets on that map are voided¹⁶. Dota 2 is a five-a-side game, so 10 competitors means a full lobby on both teams. If a match kicks off short-handed for any reason, the map does not count for betting purposes.

CS2 has a related but softer version: bets on a map are voided if at least four rounds are played with fewer than 10 competitors¹⁶. A brief hiccup does not kill the bet; a sustained shortage does.

Two more general rules from the same rulebook matter across titles:

• If the format of a match changes, such as the number of maps or rounds, all bets are voided unless the change was already reflected in the market or had no effect on that particular market¹⁶.
• If a match does not start within 30 hours of its scheduled starting time, all bets on it are deemed void¹⁶.

The practical takeaway is that the market you bet is tied to the format as advertised. A map handicap on a best-of-three assumes a best-of-three; if the organizer switches to a best-of-one at the last minute, the bet comes back rather than settling on something you did not price.

Disconnect rules: the first 10 minutes matter

Disconnects are the most common interruption in esports, and the rulebook treats the first 10 minutes of a map as a protected zone in both Dota 2 and League of Legends: if a competitor disconnects in the first 10 minutes and is unable to reconnect or be replaced for the rest of the map, all bets on that map are voided. After the 10th minute, bets have action according to the official result¹⁶.

So a disconnect in minute 4 that ends the map early gets your stake back. The same disconnect in minute 12 does not; the official result stands, whatever it was.

Other interruption rules fill the gaps around that one:

• If a series is started and then suspended or postponed and not resumed within 6 hours of the actual scheduled start time, bets on all markets for that series are void, except markets that were already unequivocally determined¹⁷.
• If a series does not start within 48 hours of the official scheduled start date and time, all bets on its markets are void¹⁷.
• Under a more general sports rule used by some operators, if a match is suspended, abandoned or terminated, the entire match is void: stakes are returned on singles, and void selections in a mix parlay are treated as non-runners¹⁸.

The pattern across all of these is the same: short interruptions are waited out, long ones void the bet, and anything already settled stands. If you want the mechanics of settlement in more detail, see how esports betting works.

Tournament outrights and the events calendar

Alongside match-by-match betting, every serious esportsbook carries outright markets: prices on who wins the whole tournament, placed alongside live and upcoming events in the same section¹⁹.

The outright menu on a typical tournament bet is wider than just the champion. Standard selections include the outright winner, group winner, group first and second, the final pairing, the number of titles a team will win, winning continent, winning country, promotion, relegation, qualification and last-placed team²⁰. In esports terms, that translates to prices like "team to reach the Worlds final," "region of the winner" and "team to finish bottom of the group."

The events calendar drives everything. Because the number of matches on the board depends on the competition schedule⁹, the outright market is often where the action is during quiet weeks between majors. The calendar to keep in mind:

• Dota 2: The International, DreamLeague⁹
• CS2: Majors, BLAST Premier, IEM⁹
• League of Legends: Worlds, MSI, plus the regional leagues⁹
• Valorant: Champions Series, VCT⁹

Beyond the big four, the calendar stretches. Rocket League has its own world championship circuit and was part of the Esports World Cup 2026 program, and daily fantasy platforms have carried Rocket League alongside Call of Duty and Valorant since 2021, so the title shows up in pick'em and fantasy formats as well as on sportsbooks. For how those formats work, see fantasy esports and pick'em games.

Regional events matter too, especially in Asia: esports is now a medal event at the SEA Games and Asian Games, and those tournaments carry their own markets. See esports at the SEA Games and Asian Games.

Match-fixing and integrity safeguards

Esports has a real match-fixing problem, and it is worth knowing about before you bet, because it affects prices and settlements.

The highest-profile Asian case involved two Valorant players in Singapore charged over a fixed 2020 Epulze Royal South East Asia Cup match, in which bets were placed on a deliberately lost game. One player was later jailed. The case is a reminder that at the lower tiers of any title, where salaries are small and oversight thin, fixed matches happen.

Integrity safeguards exist at several levels. Bookmakers monitor betting patterns for suspicious moves, and industry bodies run information-sharing arrangements with operators and regulators; we cover the mechanics in how operators check esports match integrity. On the platform side, research into skin betting found that sites like Max+ operate with minimal oversight compared with licensed books, which is one reason skin betting carries extra integrity risk¹⁵. If you spot something odd, you can act on it: see how to report suspicious esports betting.

Players themselves are generally barred from betting on their own matches, a rule we explain in can esports players bet on their own matches.

None of this means esports betting is unsafe; it means the lower-profile matches in any title deserve more caution than a Worlds semifinal.

Where you can legally do this

The rules on who may bet, and from where, differ across Asia, and they differ for citizens, foreign residents and visitors. In several countries, locally licensed options do not include esports at all, while offshore sites that price esports may sit in a legal gray area for residents. The practical risk for a resident betting with an unlicensed offshore book is that the site is not regulated locally, so disputes and access can change without notice.

We cover the position country by country, including for visitors and expats, on the country guides: Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Macau, India and Cambodia. For the practical side of accounts, travel and the law as a visitor or expat, see esports betting as a visitor or expat in Asia.

Stakes are small at the entry level wherever you play: minimums start at $1 at major books³, and one Thai-facing operator takes esports bets from just 10 baht⁸, so the cost of trying a market is low even where access is straightforward.