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NorCraft Cup announces its 2nd season of StarCraft II action powered by Cooler Master starting on September 2014 with a €3000 prize pool and expansion from Norway only to all of the Nordic countries.
NorCraft Cup Season 1 gathered the Norwegian StarCraft II scene to a competition from January to March in 2014. After the initial full tournament season, we are now ready to take a big step forward in Season 2, expand the league to the whole of Nordic countries and call ourselves the Nordic StarCraft II Cup. The second season of NorCraft Cup, powered by Cooler Master, launches in September 2014 with National Qualifiers in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The Season Finals with a €3000 prize pool determining the best players in the North are scheduled to be on November 2014.
Quick Info of NorCraft Cup Season 2 powered by Cooler Master
Time: September - November 2014
Place: Online
Regions: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland
Prize pool: Regional Finals sum €500 (125€/region), Season Finals €3000 (top 3)
Format: Regional Qualifiers, Regional Finals, Season Finals
Streams:  English,  Norwegian,  Swedish,  Danish,  Finnish on hitbox.tv
Liquipedia: ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/images/forum/wiki_icon.png) NorCraft Cup, Season 2
Format
NorCraft Cup Season 2 starts with national qualifier tournaments which gather the top 16 players in each country to the national finals. The top four players in each national final will earn a spot in the season finals bringing the total number of players in the final to 16 with Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland having four representatives each. The league is played entirely online.
Rough Schedule
September - October 2014: Regional Qualifiers
October 2014: Regional Finals
November 2014: Season Finals
Streams
The Regional Finals will be broadcasted in the corresponding language as well as in English. The Season Finals will provide a stream in English and Casters will be announced later. The streaming partner of NorCraft Cup is hitbox.tv. All streams can be found on http://www.hitbox.tv/team/norcraftcup.
Participation
We will announce more details about the national qualifiers on our website and social media in August with the help of our regional partners: Aposis Gaming in Norway, Team Darkstar in Sweden, Tobias Brøndum in Denmark and StarCraft2.fi in Finland.
Regional Finals
- Finnish Finals
- Norwegian Finals
- Sat, October 18, 2014, 16:00 GMT (+00:00) - Liquipedia
- Danish Finals
- Swedish Finals
- Sat, 25 October 12:00 GMT (+00:00) Group Stage
Sun, 26 October 13:00 GMT (+00:00) Playoffs - Liquipedia
Notable players in the regional qualifiers:
Regional Qualifiers
- Swedish Qualifiers
+ Show Spoiler +- Qualifier #1 - Sun, September 14, 2014, 12:00 GMT (+00:00) - Signup
- Qualifier #2 - Sat, September 20, 2014, 12:00 GMT (+00:00) - Signup
- Qualifier #3 - Sun, September 28, 2014, 12:00 GMT (+00:00) - Signup
- Qualifier #4 - Sun, October 5, 2014, 12:00 GMT (+00:00) - Signup
- Norwegian Qualifiers (Ended)
+ Show Spoiler +- Qualifier #1 - Sun, September 14, 2014, 12:00 GMT (+00:00) - Signup
- Qualifier #2 - Mon, September 22, 2014, 17:00 GMT (+00:00) - Signup
- Qualifier #3 - Tue, September 30, 2014, 17:00 GMT (+00:00) - Signup
- Qualifier #4 - Tue, October 7, 2014, 17:00 GMT (+00:00) - Signup
- Danish Qualifiers (Ended)
+ Show Spoiler +- Qualifier #1 - Sun, September 14, 2014, 12:00 GMT (+00:00) - Signup
- Qualifier #2 - Sun, September 21, 2014 107:00 GMT (+00:00) - Signup
- Qualifier #3 - Sun, September 28, 2014, 17:00 GMT (+00:00) - Signup
- Qualifier #4 - Sun, October 5, 2014, 17:00 GMT (+00:00) - Signup
- Finnish Qualifiers (Ended)
+ Show Spoiler +- Qualifier #1 - Wed, September 10, 2014, 16:00 GMT (+00:00) - Signup
- Qualifier #2 - Wed, September 17, 2014, 16:00 GMT (+00:00) - Signup
- Qualifier #3 - Wed, September 24, 2014, 16:00 GMT (+00:00) - Signup
- Qualifier #4 - Wed, October 1, 2014, 16:00 GMT (+00:00) - Signup
NorCraft Cup Links
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This is amazing. So cool to have a few online tournaments for the scandis to play in ^_^
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This looks awesome! Really enjoyed nocraft cup season 1 and this looks even better! 
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HYYYPE - great to see the nordic countries getting together in sc2 like this!
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Norway68 Posts
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Will be awesome! Go Sweden!
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Very cool, will definitely play in this
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This is so awesome. I have always wanted to have Nordic StarCraft 2 cup/league.
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This is pretty hype! Im hoping all the best from each country will play in the quals like Bunny, Snute/TargA, Welmu/Serral and Zanster/Mini/SaSe(Not sure here)
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This is amazing
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Hes good, I just took the top 2(top 3 for swe since I cant actually decide on it) Elif is good ofc :D
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This is gonna be really great.
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We can finally crown a true "KING OF THE NORTH"!!!
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This is gonna be so awesome!! unleash the fury, for we have a  tournament coming!
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On August 04 2014 23:06 y0su wrote:
We can finally crown a true "KING OF THE NORTH"!!!
I don't think Nani will be there...
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On August 12 2014 06:03 rotta wrote:Show nested quote +On August 04 2014 23:06 y0su wrote:
We can finally crown a true "KING OF THE NORTH"!!! I don't think Nani will be there...
The King of the North of 2013 is indeed exiled in Iceland, and this is in full accordance with good old Norse tradition.  When the new King's rein is sufficient unpopular, the exiled and dispossessed King might have a chance to return from obscurity and reclaim his crown, but until then, the crow is definitely up for the taking now as far as I can tell. Bunny made a stronk case for himself recently, but will Snute and Welmu let the Dane run away with all the glory? Will the recently team less renegades Zanster and Sortof banebust their way through the Swedish qualifiers? I can't wait to see!
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Speaking of Iceland btw, did Kaldi quit SC2 for good? Are there no others from Iceland playing anymore?
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This is closing in fast and it will be brutal! Looking forwards to it!
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Norway204 Posts
3 of 4 qualifiers crashing with big tournaments.. + go4sc2+zotac, whats the point of having a qualifier on sunday which is one of the busiest sc2 days?
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On August 29 2014 21:41 TargA wrote:
3 of 4 qualifiers crashing with big tournaments.. + go4sc2+zotac, whats the point of having a qualifier on sunday which is one of the busiest sc2 days?
We have taken bigger tournaments in to consideration:
We have checked on liquipedia to not crash with any major tournament to much, and we believe and hope that the prizepool and crowning of the Nordic master would/will draw more interest to participate in the events qualifiers. at the moment we cannot change dates for the first qualifier as we already have some people signed up but if people do complain we can take the dates into consideration
also what big tournaments other than DH: Moscow do we crash with (and Go4SC2 +Zotac)
hard to keep up with all the tournaments at all time as it has to fit our (the organizers)time schedules as well.
thanks for the respons TargA and we hope you will be able to partake in the qualifiers for NorCraft Cup as well
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On August 29 2014 23:04 GurgeL wrote:Show nested quote +On August 29 2014 21:41 TargA wrote:
3 of 4 qualifiers crashing with big tournaments.. + go4sc2+zotac, whats the point of having a qualifier on sunday which is one of the busiest sc2 days? We have taken bigger tournaments in to consideration: We have checked on liquipedia to not crash with any major tournament to much, and we believe and hope that the prizepool and crowning of the Nordic master would/will draw more interest to participate in the events qualifiers. at the moment we cannot change dates for the first qualifier as we already have some people signed up but if people do complain we can take the dates into consideration also what big tournaments other than DH: Moscow do we crash with (and Go4SC2 +Zotac) hard to keep up with all the tournaments at all time as it has to fit our (the organizers)time schedules as well. thanks for the respons TargA and we hope you will be able to partake in the qualifiers for NorCraft Cup as well
dh moscow, dh stockholm (day after=travel) & gigacon
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On August 30 2014 00:38 TargA wrote:Show nested quote +On August 29 2014 23:04 GurgeL wrote:On August 29 2014 21:41 TargA wrote:
3 of 4 qualifiers crashing with big tournaments.. + go4sc2+zotac, whats the point of having a qualifier on sunday which is one of the busiest sc2 days? We have taken bigger tournaments in to consideration: We have checked on liquipedia to not crash with any major tournament to much, and we believe and hope that the prizepool and crowning of the Nordic master would/will draw more interest to participate in the events qualifiers. at the moment we cannot change dates for the first qualifier as we already have some people signed up but if people do complain we can take the dates into consideration also what big tournaments other than DH: Moscow do we crash with (and Go4SC2 +Zotac) hard to keep up with all the tournaments at all time as it has to fit our (the organizers)time schedules as well. thanks for the respons TargA and we hope you will be able to partake in the qualifiers for NorCraft Cup as well dh moscow, dh stockholm (day after=travel) & gigacon
we have taken some time to think about this and some of the dates will be changed (and possibly made in to 2 day qualifiers if we get many signed up.)
thanks for your input
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Should be Serral vs Welmu in finals
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minkie way overstimming 
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 Serral takes it in the final 2-0 over  Welmu! Serral is the first player to advance to the Finnish Regional Final. Congratz.
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Firstly this is awesome! Secondly: I want to participate? '-' Thirdly: I saw its too late?
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On September 11 2014 09:56 SilSol wrote:
Firstly this is awesome! Secondly: I want to participate? '-' Thirdly: I saw its too late?
the first Swedish Qualifier will be on Sunday! you still have time to sign up
Signups: http://binarybeast.com/xSC21408015
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On September 11 2014 15:01 GurgeL wrote:Show nested quote +On September 11 2014 09:56 SilSol wrote:
Firstly this is awesome! Secondly: I want to participate? '-' Thirdly: I saw its too late? the first Swedish Qualifier will be on Sunday! you still have time to sign up Signups: http://binarybeast.com/xSC21408015
This starts in about 25 minutes, no?
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Sunday was a Busy day for NorCraft Cup
The Swedish and Norwegian qualifiers started of at 14:00 (CEST) with great players from each side of the border.
From the Swedish qualifiers we have the following players that have advanced to the Regional finals:
+ Show Spoiler +
The Norwegian Qualifier we have:
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As for the Danish Qualifiers we had none other but TeamLiquid's Bunny attending as a clear favorite he plowed his way to the finals where he met some resistance from SpaceMarine.
The final winner and player that advances to the Danish regional final is:
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Next Qualifiers for All countries are allready up
Finnish Qualifier 2#:
Wed, September 17, 2014, 18:00 CEST Signup
Swedish Qualifier 2#:
Sat, September 20, 2014, 14:00 CEST Signup
Danish Qualifier 2#:
Sun, September 21, 2014 19:00 CEST (Link coming soon)
Norwegian Qualifier 2#:
Mon, 22 September, 2014, 19:00 CEST Signup
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On September 15 2014 16:02 NorCraftCup wrote:Sunday was a Busy day for NorCraft Cup The Swedish and Norwegian qualifiers started of at 14:00 (CEST) with great players from each side of the border. From the Swedish qualifiers we have the following players that have advanced to the Regional finals: + Show Spoiler +
 Namshar beat Morrow so he qualified over Morrow !
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On September 15 2014 18:32 davesan wrote:Show nested quote +On September 15 2014 16:02 NorCraftCup wrote:Sunday was a Busy day for NorCraft Cup The Swedish and Norwegian qualifiers started of at 14:00 (CEST) with great players from each side of the border. From the Swedish qualifiers we have the following players that have advanced to the Regional finals: + Show Spoiler + Namshar beat Morrow so he qualified over Morrow !
Thanks for the correction. was reading the brackets abit to fast when writing this post.
it has been edited now.
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Have to say it's refreshing to hear casting in our language. No other can match the snarky style. 
I jumped to a random spot and landed on the first game of Welmu vs pena: "Welmun probe on heti vihanen, se saa yhen scv:n itkemään äitiä ja lähtemään kotia päin." + Show Spoiler [English] +Literally "Welmu's probe is immediately angry making the scv cry for mommy and heading towards home", but you can't really translate the tone.
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 Welmu takes it 2-1. Congratz!
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On September 17 2014 04:28 sagi wrote:Have to say it's refreshing to hear casting in our language. No other can match the snarky style. I jumped to a random spot and landed on the first game of Welmu vs pena: "Welmun probe on heti vihanen, se saa yhen scv:n itkemään äitiä ja lähtemään kotia päin." + Show Spoiler [English] +Literally "Welmu's probe is immediately angry making the scv cry for mommy and heading towards home", but you can't really translate the tone.
lmao!
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Sssnovski!
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No love for Iceland? x)
On another note DENMARK FIGHTING!!!!
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Week Recap!
Had some amazing battles all over the north and the 2nd set of Qualified players for the Regional finals are:
Finland:
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Norway:
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Sweden:
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Denmark:
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Signups for the 3rd Qualifiers are up:
Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 18:00 CEST:
Signup (Finnish only)
Sunday September 28th, 2014, 14:00 CEST:
Signup (Swedish only)
Sunday September 28th, 2014, 19:00 CEST:
signup (Danish only)
Tuesday September 30th, 2014, 18:00 CEST:
Signup (Norwegian only)
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 PuPu wins the 4th Finnish Qualifier 2-1 over  SolLeaks in the final. Congratulations!
The 16 players who qualified for the Finnish Regional Final are now set.
Qualifier winners:
By points:
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miNkie <3. The new terran hope :D
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On October 02 2014 05:16 Azhrak wrote:PuPu wins the 4th Finnish Qualifier 2-1 over SolLeaks in the final. Congratulations! The 16 players who qualified for the Finnish Regional Final are now set. Qualifier winners:
By points:
Azhrak, can you change the Luolapeikko name to Luolis. :D Id change the name on sc2.fi but i dont think you can.
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On October 02 2014 15:43 Luolis wrote:Show nested quote +On October 02 2014 05:16 Azhrak wrote:PuPu wins the 4th Finnish Qualifier 2-1 over SolLeaks in the final. Congratulations! The 16 players who qualified for the Finnish Regional Final are now set. Qualifier winners:
By points:
Azhrak, can you change the Luolapeikko name to Luolis. :D Id change the name on sc2.fi but i dont think you can.
as a caster it would also be nice to get updated names on sc2.fi :D (although that's definitely off topic lol)
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On October 02 2014 17:50 y0su wrote:Show nested quote +On October 02 2014 15:43 Luolis wrote:On October 02 2014 05:16 Azhrak wrote:PuPu wins the 4th Finnish Qualifier 2-1 over SolLeaks in the final. Congratulations! The 16 players who qualified for the Finnish Regional Final are now set. Qualifier winners:
By points:
Azhrak, can you change the Luolapeikko name to Luolis. :D Id change the name on sc2.fi but i dont think you can. as a caster it would also be nice to get updated names on sc2.fi :D (although that's definitely off topic lol)
The starcraft2.fi website's username is not set in stone. I can change it on request. Luolis has been changed now.
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The Finnish Regional Final is set to Fri, October 17, 2014, 15:00 GMT (+00:00) . English and Finnish cast are available. All the best Finnish players are playing. Check out the liquipedia page for more info.
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On October 04 2014 00:17 Azhrak wrote:The Finnish Regional Final is set to Fri, October 17, 2014, 15:00 GMT (+00:00) . English and Finnish cast are available. All the best Finnish players are playing. Check out the liquipedia page for more info.
Sick stuff
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Congratulation to TeamLiquid's Snute for taking the last direct qualifier spot with 2 really amazing games against Karnage eSports Eiki!
The full list over qualified Players by points can be found here:
NorCraft Cup/Season 2/Norwegian Qualifiers
Qualifier winners:
By points:
SolO
civi
Seed'Prebs Not able to attend
Diffe
MangO
Evire
Eiki
AldriSiAldri
Emperor
Bemnex
Plecto88
Microlife
Triaz**
** Triaz Gets Prebs spot based on Points.
Norwegian Regional Finals have set it's date on October 18th, Stay Tuned for amazing plays next saturday!
Congratulations to all players that qualified and good luck next week!
Stay informed:
Facebook
Twitter
Streams:
Hitbox.tv Streams
Sponsors:
Coolermaster
Hitbox.tv
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The groups for the Finnish Regional Final are out.
Groups
Matches start this Friday October 17, 15:00 GMT (+00:00).
Playoffs
Playoff matches start right after the group stage. Top two players in each group advance to the single elimination playoffs.
Prizes
1. 100€ + products + Seed 1 to NorCraft Cup Season 2 Final
2. 50€ + products + Seed 2 to NorCraft Cup Season 2 Final
3. Products + Seed 3 to NorCraft Cup Season 2 Final
4. Products + Seed 4 to NorCraft Cup Season 2 Final
5-8. Products
In total, roughly €500 worth of CM Storm products will be awarded to the top 8 players.
Streams
Results
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The Finnish Regional Final is now under way!
Let's see who are going to enter the Season 2 Final as the Finnish representatives.
Streams
Results
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Fucking hell just move up a little with your tanks!
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The tournament is still going on, but the four Finnish representatives for the NorCraft Cup Season 2 Final are set:
Congratulations!
Now we are playing for prizes and seeding. Stream online on http://www.hitbox.tv/NorCraftCup
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Ok, final map! Who will it be? Serral or elfi?
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Wow, what an anticlimax, losing the stream in the last map... 
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The stream cut off 2 minutes too early because the broadcast ended before it could catch up to the delay. Apologies to the viewers. All the replays are already available at the tournament page if youn are interested in the final match or any of the many non-streamed matches played today.
elfi took the victory 3-2 over Serral with an all-in strategy in the final map. elfi takes the 1. Finnish Seed for the Season 2 final in November 21-22. Congratulations!
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Well gratz to Serral, minkie, elfi and Fuzer but Welmu
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Just came on and trying to watch Eiki vs Targa, but so much lag @720p. What to do guys?
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On October 19 2014 05:43 BaneRiders wrote:
Just came on and trying to watch Eiki vs Targa, but so much lag @720p. What to do guys?
Really sorry about this we have heard that some have had problems with this. it should be working now.
Last game of the day!
Snute vs TargA
Tune in!
http://www.hitbox.tv/NorCraftCup
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The Norwegian Regional Finals are officially over and we have the 4 players that are going to represent Norway on the Season finals the players are:
1. PlaceTargA
2. PlaceSnute
3. PlaceEiki
4. Place  WOLOLO (aka AldriSiAldri)
Thanks to all that Participated!
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Cool to see AldriSiAldri (TheViper from AOE2) play sc2, he's just been playing for a few months I think, might see great things from him yet, if he switches to sc2 completely!
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On October 18 2014 06:24 BaneRiders wrote:Wow, what an anticlimax, losing the stream in the last map...
Yeah, full apologies from me! I accidentally shut down before the 3 min delay had caught up... won't be doing that again! Replays are available but I realize it's not the same
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The Danish Regional Finals are officially over and we have the 4 players that are going to represent Denmark on the Season finals the players are:
1. Place  Bunny
2. Place Ignite
3. Place SpaceMarine
4. Place Snovski
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