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The Summer Season is over and with mousesports we have a worthy Summer Champion 2013! For the Winter Season there will be 16 teams competing against each other for the glory, the title and the prize money!
ESL Euro Series brought to you by Raidcall
Brackets Playoffs
Groupstage results
Qualified for Playoffs: mousesports, NewRoSoft, mYinsanity, Fnatic, Cascade, Team Acer, Team MiA and Vega Squadron (8/8)
Qualifier #1 will be held on: Tuesday, Nov 5th 7:00pm CET (GMT+01:00) Brackets #1
Qualifier #2 will be held on: Wednesday, Nov 6th 7:00pm CET (GMT+01:00) Brackets #2
Qualifier #3 will be held on: Tuesday, Nov 12th 7:00pm CET (GMT+01:00) Brackets #3
Qualifier #4 will be held on: Saturday, Nov 16th 7:00pm CET (GMT+01:00) Brackets #4
Qualifier #5 will be held on: Monday, Nov 18th 7:00pm CET (GMT+01:00) Brackets #5
The format for the series will be 5 Bo3s with the option to use a single player twice. If your team wins 3 out of 5 matches you win and advance to the next round.
There are 7 invited teams (since NaVi is no more) from the previous season and 5 qualifiers. The first 4 qualifiers will have 2 slots for advancement and then the last qualifier will contain a single slot to make up for NaVi's loss. This is known as the Last Chance Qualifier, teams will have to fight hard in order to secure a spot!
The invited teams are as follows:
- mousesports
- Team Acer
- CompLexity
- Team Dignitas
- Fnatic
- Team MiA
- mYinsanity.eu
The qualified teams (9/9):
- NewRoSoft (Qualifier #1)
- Team Empire (Qualifier #1)
- Vega Squadron (Qualifier #2)
- Copenhagen Wolves (Qualifier #2)
- Cascade 1xBet (Qualifier #3)
- Karnage eSports (Qualifier #3)
- Team Property BB2 (Qualifier #4)
- Against All Authority (Qualifier #4)
- Alien Invasion (Qualifier #5)
5,000 Euros in total prize money will be awarded to the winners!
1st - 2,500 euros
2nd - 1,500 euros
3rd - 1,000 euros
Map Pool will be:
- ESL Akilon Wastes
- ESL Belshir Vestige
- ESL Derelict Watcher
- ESL Frost
- ESL Polar Night
- ESL Whirlwind
- ESL Yeonsu
If you have any questions or feedback, let us know in the comments.
Who is your favorite for the upcoming season?
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my favorite is Copenhagen Wolves  lol
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It would be nice to see Millenium competing in this, hope they sign up for the qualifiers this time!
I also hope Empire re-build their lineup, it's not exactly the same when they're competing with Ence, and with NaVi disbanding, they can make a sick team with Brat_OK, Strelok and HappyZerg.
Western Wolves will probably re-qualify and it depends on the availability of their Koreans as to whether they can do well. They need a couple of European players imo apart from StarNaN and Daisy who is living in Europe.
My favourite is obviously mouz <3
May I say, that I absolutely love this team league, with all the best EU teams. Would be awesome if ESL could get Kaelaris and someone else to cast it from the studios.
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For those interested, the following notable teams are currently signed up for the first qualifier:
3D Clan
Alien Invasion
Cascade
Copenhagen Wolves
ESC Gaming
NewRoSoft
Team Empire
Team Property
Vega Squadron
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Millenium will not try to qualify because they can't stream their matches.
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Will be some great games! Good luck to all the teams!
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Russian Federation134 Posts
Poison TV is streaming in English. Is the bracket for the first qualifier available somewhere?
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Empire-Ence and NewRoSoft are the first to qualify, second qualifier today! I'm betting on aAa and Copenhagen Wolves, or maybe Team Property.
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On November 05 2013 02:46 mikkmagro wrote:
It would be nice to see Millenium competing in this, hope they sign up for the qualifiers this time!
Given what happened last time (not last season but the one before), it's very unlikely. Millenium was invited but forfeited after the first match because ESL didn't allow them to stream their matches (even though they got like 20x more viewers than the other streams and the fact that there was no ESL stream). That's a weird way to promote a competition I must say.
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On November 07 2013 02:15 Boucot wrote:Show nested quote +On November 05 2013 02:46 mikkmagro wrote:
It would be nice to see Millenium competing in this, hope they sign up for the qualifiers this time!
Given what happened last time (not last season but the one before), it's very unlikely. Millenium was invited but forfeited after the first match because ESL didn't allow them to stream their matches (even though they got like 20x more viewers than the other streams and the fact that there was no ESL stream). That's a weird way to promote a competition I must say.
Millenium pulls out, because of a weird promotion move. How ironic. That said, them not being there is ofc. a big loss for the tournament, as they surely would be a contender for the first place.
Btw., if anyone wants to see carriers again, Adonminus vs. GoOdy includes quite a few of them on Koldyns stream.
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On November 07 2013 02:15 Boucot wrote:Show nested quote +On November 05 2013 02:46 mikkmagro wrote:
It would be nice to see Millenium competing in this, hope they sign up for the qualifiers this time!
Given what happened last time (not last season but the one before), it's very unlikely. Millenium was invited but forfeited after the first match because ESL didn't allow them to stream their matches (even though they got like 20x more viewers than the other streams and the fact that there was no ESL stream). That's a weird way to promote a competition I must say.
The problem was that Millenium refused to stream on twitch.tv They were allowed to stream their own matches but not on dailymotion or somewhere else. After we informed them, they decided to forfeit.
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If Acer is ½-serious about this, they will stomp this tournament so badly. Only Mouz seems to be another strong contender (maybe mYi)
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Third qualifier running right now.
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Damn it, Minato and Cascade knocking out ESC twice in a row. AT least they are qualified now, so they will not do it again in the 4th qualifier. Hoping for Karnage to get through as well.
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Can anyone clarify whether its Karnage or Core that qualify?
Karnage won three of the five Bo3s, but Core won more maps, and the bracket says that Core wins, but shouldn't it be Karnage?
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Qualified teams for now:
Q1 - NrS, Team Empire
Q2 - Vega Squadron, Copenhagen Wolves
Q3 - Cascade, Karnage eSports
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Rooting for Planet_Nex and Ai, come on you can do it!!!
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Russian Federation134 Posts
The matches of day 1 will be played today. Dignitas vs NewRoSoft should be a good one.
Also Team Empire vs Copenhagen Wolves will be played in one hour. Stream (in Russian): http://www.empiretv.org/aido
Any other streams?
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Where can you see what matches are about to be played? I tried the official homepage, but it didn't say anything... <.<
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Thank you! Definitely rooting for Ai, glad that they made it through in the last qualifier! :D
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mouz vs. Vega:
Mana vs. Firecake
HYPE
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Awesome catch by Krr, shredding the vast majority of Kane's air army! :D
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Russian Federation134 Posts
The organisation of the tournament is really awful. Normally all five best-of-three matches have to be played (because map scores can make a difference) but, according to Liquipedia, in the series mYi vs. Ai, MiA vs. Karnage and Fnatic vs. Team Property they played only till the victory of one of the teams (as opposed to Empire vs. Copenhagen Wolves where all matches were played). Why can't the admins explain the proper rules to all the teams?!!
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Russian Federation134 Posts
By the way, very strong performance by Vega barely loosing to Mouz
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On November 26 2013 13:57 Enstein wrote:
By the way, very strong performance by Vega barely loosing to Mouz
I guess you mean barely winning 
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On November 26 2013 17:19 grs wrote:Show nested quote +On November 26 2013 13:57 Enstein wrote:
By the way, very strong performance by Vega barely loosing to Mouz I guess you mean barely winning
Mouz won, but taking a series of Vortix / hOpe and forcing a game 5 isn't a small feat (which Vortix won for mouz).
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mouz 3:2 Vega
Marine 2 : 0 LiveZerg (joker player from RoX.Kis)
VortiX 1 : 2 Weak (Verdi)
MaNa 2 : 0 FireCake
hOpe 1 : 2 Revolver
Ace Match: VortiX 2 : 1 FireCake
Literally 1 map was deciding about winner of this Clan War. GGs
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On November 26 2013 19:39 HighArT wrote:
mouz 3:2 Vega
Marine 2 : 0 LiveZerg (joker player from RoX.Kis)
VortiX 1 : 2 Weak (Verdi)
MaNa 2 : 0 FireCake
hOpe 1 : 2 Revolver
Ace Match: VortiX 2 : 1 FireCake
Literally 1 map was deciding about winner of this Clan War. GGs
On November 26 2013 13:54 Enstein wrote:
The organisation of the tournament is really awful. Normally all five best-of-three matches have to be played (because map scores can make a difference) but, according to Liquipedia, in the series mYi vs. Ai, MiA vs. Karnage and Fnatic vs. Team Property they played only till the victory of one of the teams (as opposed to Empire vs. Copenhagen Wolves where all matches were played). Why can't the admins explain the proper rules to all the teams?!!
Regarding the rule confusions:
First of all (as long as i understood it right) a match is won, if a team won more maps than the opponent. This means for example for the mouz-vega match the score is 8-5. This also implies that it is possible to tie a match. For example if FireCake would have won 2-0 against VortiX in the ace match, it would have been a tie with a 6-6 map score.
For the point mentioned by Enstein. I suppose both teams agreed on not playing the whole match or the admin made a mistake.
All information without guarantee, as i'm not from ESL.
official rules are here:
http://www.esl.eu/eu/euro-series/winter2013/sc2/groupstage/rules/
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wow, Acer takes this serious: 2 times innovation vs cascade.
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Well he and MMA are in Europe, why not use this chance to give them some more serious practice
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cSc 3 - 1 Acer
Source :
We won 3-1, nice.
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Looks like Nerchio played instead of "innovaiton". Great win for cSc regardless
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On November 27 2013 05:16 NovaMB wrote:
Looks like Nerchio played instead of "innovaiton". Great win for cSc regardless
Nova do you have the exact score ?
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On November 27 2013 05:22 Aeromi wrote:Show nested quote +On November 27 2013 05:16 NovaMB wrote:
Looks like Nerchio played instead of "innovaiton". Great win for cSc regardless Nova do you have the exact score ?
Minato 2:0 MMA
Adonminus 0:2 Bly
Des 2:0 ParanOid
Blackcidy 2:0 Nerchio
cSc 6:2 Acer
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On November 27 2013 05:38 NovaMB wrote:Show nested quote +On November 27 2013 05:22 Aeromi wrote:On November 27 2013 05:16 NovaMB wrote:
Looks like Nerchio played instead of "innovaiton". Great win for cSc regardless Nova do you have the exact score ? Minato 2:0 MMA Adonminus 0:2 Bly Des 2:0 ParanOid Blackcidy 2:0 Nerchio cSc 6:2 Acer
Thanks !
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Russian Federation134 Posts
Thank you hainrich! And gratz to Cascade! Are there any vods of these games? Would love to see Minato vs. MMA
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On November 27 2013 05:38 NovaMB wrote:Show nested quote +On November 27 2013 05:22 Aeromi wrote:On November 27 2013 05:16 NovaMB wrote:
Looks like Nerchio played instead of "innovaiton". Great win for cSc regardless Nova do you have the exact score ? Minato 2:0 MMA Adonminus 0:2 Bly Des 2:0 ParanOid Blackcidy 2:0 Nerchio cSc 6:2 Acer
Should I be surprised that the one player who managed to edge out a win against cSc is Bly?
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welp, its not like bly did better than expected. its just nerchio and mma did worse than it was expected from them.
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Gogo aAa 
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France7248 Posts
it is an error, score of cascade vs acer was somehow entered two times. cascade got 2 wins and acer 2 loss
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aAa vs mousesports at 7.00 PM !
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Is aAa vs mousesports beginning one hour early deliberate or was one of the hours entered wrongly? I hope some english or german stream will cover that match!
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On December 03 2013 02:07 JustPassingBy wrote:
Is aAa vs mousesports beginning one hour early deliberate or was one of the hours entered wrongly? I hope some english or german stream will cover that match!
http://www.twitch.tv/lowkotv
Might be mouz biased, since its mouz.lowko
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According to Wake, theres a mercenary rule in EES.
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Llewellys said that MarineLorD is allowed to finish this tournament with aAa.
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France7248 Posts
thx both 
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Holy shit, no clue how Heromarine managed to take that game, it looked kind of lost for him at some point, but I don't care. Mouz fighting!!!
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Mana had an army of literally only colossi, archon and templars with storm (plus one stalker)... good luck bio. >.<
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Russian Federation134 Posts
 VortiX 2-0 Divi it is. Gratz to Mouz! Unfortunately  AaA is eliminated.
Any other score updates?
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Apparently Ai vs Fnatic comes to an acematch between Hanfy and Zanster
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Harstem 2:1 AiCPU
Naama 0:2 Strelok
Miniraser 0:2 Chubz
Pink 2:0 Revenge
Zanster 2:1 Hanfy
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Shit!!!! That means Ai is out, right? 
Why are foreign terran always losing to one base protoss?
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France7248 Posts
On December 03 2013 06:25 Strelok wrote:
Harstem 2:1 AiCPU
Naama 0:2 Strelok
Miniraser 0:2 Chubz
Pink 2:0 Revenge
Zanster 2:1 Hanfy
ESL admin entered a victory 2-1 for CPU and so, a win 7-4 for Ai
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Can one of the ESL admins make clear, whether the mapscore counts or the number of won Bo3s?
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France7248 Posts
hm.. if ESL continue to enter wrong scores, I think I'll just stop updating this stuff...
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On December 03 2013 08:02 Yhamm wrote:
hm.. if ESL continue to enter wrong scores, I think I'll just stop updating this stuff...
Why is an admin even responsible for that in the first place, shouldn't the players do that themselves via uploading replays or something like that? If the winner is declared wrong, surely they other team will notice then and complain.
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Vega Squadron 4-0 Complexity
Revolver 0-0 TriMaster
LiveZerg 2-0 qxc
Firecake 2-1 TheStC
Weak 2-0 viPro
Weak 2-0 qxc (ace game)
GG
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Russian Federation134 Posts
Meanwhile Complexity is playing Vega. FireCake managed to beat  TheStC 2:1
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France7248 Posts
did LiveZerg join Vega Squadron or is he playing as a mercenary?
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On December 06 2013 06:01 Yhamm wrote:
did LiveZerg join Vega Squadron or is he playing as a mercenary?
we borrowed him for EES league from rox.kis since they dont play any leagues anymore.
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Russian Federation134 Posts
Gratz to Vega! Very impressing result! They made a huge step towards the playoffs.
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NewRoSoft (NrS) 3-2 Dignitas
Tefel 0-2 Welmu
BlinG 2-1 KrasS
SeleCT 1-2 Underdark
DreAm 1-2 Welmu
BlinG 2-1 NrSWhite
NewRoSoft (NrS) 3-2 Team MiA
CheeseKing 1-2 Welmu
Starbuck 2-0 KrasS
GrayWarden 2-1 Underdark
frozz 1-2 White
Starbuck 1-2 Welmu
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NewRoSoft (NrS) 3-2 Karnage
KrasS 2-0 Namshar
Welmu 2-0 Eiki
NrSWhite 0-2 ToxiC
Underdark 1-2 StrinterN
Welmu 2-0 ToxiC
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Vega and mouz going to playoffs from group A GG
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On December 10 2013 06:05 HighArT wrote:Vega and mouz going to playoffs from group A GG
what if coL beats mouz ?
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if coL > mouz, i think mouz goes to playoffs because of better map difference, and vega 100%. but its hard to happen
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Russian Federation134 Posts
Empire-Ence are out too ((((((
They lost to Acer 4 : 9 and now have a map difference of +5 (compared to +6 for Acer and +7 for Cascade)
elfi 2:1 MMA
Happy 0:2 Scarlett
Kas 1:2 Innovation
Serral 0:2 Bly
Happy 1:2 Innovation
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Russian Federation134 Posts
Now I hope that Mouz will loose to Complexity in order to avoid Acer or mYi in the first round of the playoffs
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On December 11 2013 14:36 Enstein wrote:
Empire-Ence are out too ((((((
They lost to Acer 4 : 9 and now have a map difference of +5 (compared to +6 for Acer and +7 for Cascade)
elfi 2:1 MMA
Happy 0:2 Scarlett
Kas 1:2 Innovation
Serral 0:2 Bly
Happy 1:2 Innovation
wher is VOD for this match?
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Acer only finishing second, lol. I am looking forward to the one who has to play them in the playoffs, believing that securing the no1 spot would give them an easier opponent in the first round of playoffs.
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Listening to the cast, I wonder if it is Fortix or Vortex playing
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This already confirms, that Mouz and Vega are advancing, though, right? Because col can´t get a better Score than -3, while mouz will have something between +6 and +10 and Vega has +8.
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Wtf, how is that not a forfeit? :o
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On December 12 2013 05:22 JustPassingBy wrote:Wtf, how is that not a forfeit? :o
No idea, this league is a clusterfuck as is. It should be a defwin imo.
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On December 12 2013 05:35 NovaMB wrote:Show nested quote +On December 12 2013 05:22 JustPassingBy wrote:Wtf, how is that not a forfeit? :o No idea, this league is a clusterfuck as is. It should be a defwin imo.
Because they don't forfeit. I think it is usually better to play it out if it can be done in a reasonable time.
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On December 12 2013 04:56 Xoronius wrote:
This already confirms, that Mouz and Vega are advancing, though, right? Because col can´t get a better Score than -3, while mouz will have something between +6 and +10 and Vega has +8.
We're through either way, but we advance as 2nd. The 4th match was played and we replaced mana and hendralisk with hasuobs and qxc, it ended 2-1 in Qxc's favour.
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On December 12 2013 05:41 mouz.Wake wrote:Show nested quote +On December 12 2013 04:56 Xoronius wrote:
This already confirms, that Mouz and Vega are advancing, though, right? Because col can´t get a better Score than -3, while mouz will have something between +6 and +10 and Vega has +8. We're through either way, but we advance as 2nd. The 4th match was played and we replaced mana and hendralisk with hasuobs and qxc, it ended 2-1 in Qxc's favour.
So Qxc is allowed to play 3 times in one CW? That does´nt make that much sence either. Anyway, you are through and that is the only important result of this. gj and gl in the playoffs.
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On December 12 2013 05:45 Xoronius wrote:Show nested quote +On December 12 2013 05:41 mouz.Wake wrote:On December 12 2013 04:56 Xoronius wrote:
This already confirms, that Mouz and Vega are advancing, though, right? Because col can´t get a better Score than -3, while mouz will have something between +6 and +10 and Vega has +8. We're through either way, but we advance as 2nd. The 4th match was played and we replaced mana and hendralisk with hasuobs and qxc, it ended 2-1 in Qxc's favour. So Qxc is allowed to play 3 times in one CW? That does´nt make that much sence either. Anyway, you are through and that is the only important result of this. gj and gl in the playoffs.
We allowed it simply.
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Russian Federation134 Posts
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Any information as to when the matches will be played?
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Any information as to when the matches will be played?
mouz vs. Cascade is today at 17:00 CET in roughly 3 hours. I don't know about the other matches.
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Adonminus playing such a weird unique style - yet it works. reminds me a bit of KnowMe
edit: thanks to Nova the relentless LR guy
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can't wait for the fnatic match !
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well, didn't work out for Adonminus at the end of the day. still, nice to watch.
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Any info on the lineups in the other matches?
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mini vs cheeseking is quite fun :o
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Bly 2 - 1  Welmu
Team Acer wins 3-0 and moves on to the semifinals
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EPT
