Game 1: Odd/Even Total Kills?
Open on Polymarket →Odd or Even: The Kill Count Coin Flip That Has LCK Challengers Fans Doing Maths
If you've ever watched a League of Legends match and found yourself thinking "I wonder if the total kills will land on an odd number", congratulations - you are exactly the target audience for this market. Polymarket is running an Odd/Even total kills bet on Game 1 between Kiwoom DRX Challengers and KT Rolster Challengers, two squads competing in the LCK Challengers League, South Korea's second-tier professional LoL circuit. It's the kind of market that strips away all the strategic depth of the game and reduces it to pure arithmetic. Beautiful, really.
The LCK Challengers serves as the development ground for Korea's elite LoL talent, and matches here can range from chaotic bloodbaths to surprisingly disciplined affairs depending on the teams' current form. That variance matters a lot when you're trying to guess whether the kill counter stops on an odd or even number.
What the Market Is Saying
Right now the market leans ever so slightly toward "Even", priced at 51.5% against "Odd" at 48.5%. With only $130 in 24-hour volume, this is a thin market - participants seem to believe the probability is close to a coin flip, which is mathematically reasonable. Kill totals in professional LoL games typically land anywhere between the low teens and the high forties, and over a large sample, odd and even outcomes tend to hover near 50/50.
The 3-percentage-point edge for "Even" is small enough that it could reflect nothing more than a handful of traders with a mild preference, rather than any deep statistical insight. That said, if someone has been tracking recent Kiwoom DRX vs KT Challengers games and noticed a pattern in kill totals - well, stranger edges have been found in stranger places.
The key scenario to watch is whether the game is actually played at all. If the series result is somehow determined before Game 1 is needed, or if the match is canceled or delayed beyond seven days, the whole thing resolves at 50-50 regardless of anyone's kill-count theories.
What to Keep in Mind
Markets like this one are largely entertainment with a statistical wrapper, and the near-even pricing reflects that honestly. The resolution source is gol.gg, which tracks champion kills specifically - executions from turrets or minions don't count, so a messy late-game tower dive gone wrong won't inflate the tally in unexpected ways. If you're following this match anyway, it adds a fun layer of tension to every skirmish, turning each teamfight into a live parity check.
FAQ
Q: What counts as a "kill" for this market?
A: Only champion kills count - meaning a kill must be credited to an enemy champion to be included in the total. Executions, which are deaths caused by turrets, minions, or neutral monsters where no enemy champion gets kill credit, are excluded from the count entirely.
Q: What happens if Game 1 is remade?
A: If a remake is called, the original game is thrown out and resolution is based solely on the remade game. So the kill total from the initial attempt does not factor in at all - only the kills recorded in the fresh game count toward the odd/even result.
Q: When does this market resolve to 50-50?
A: Several scenarios trigger a 50-50 resolution: if no kills are recorded in Game 1, if the game is canceled or delayed beyond 7 days, if it is never played due to forfeit or disqualification, or if it turns out Game 1 is simply not needed because the series was already decided beforehand. In any of those cases, neither "Odd" nor "Even" wins and the market splits evenly.
What traders are saying
There is not much visible discussion around "Game 1: Odd/Even Total Kills?" on Polymarket yet - at least among the most upvoted comments.
