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Bloodlust 5v5 Invitational: Grand Finals Preview

By Brendan 'trance' C
Mar 17, 2008 09:58


In the conclusion of the first Bloodlust 5v5 Invitational, team fnatic and SK-Gaming have a very exciting mirror match lined up. The only two sponsored teams in the tournament, have also ironically met up in the Grand Finals running the same lineup of "Euro Comp" Priest/Druid/Mage/Warlock/Rogue.



We're proud to announce that the bloodlust invitational is finally coming to an end. The two teams left we're the first teams on the battlegroup to experiment with the lineup, and turned this comp into a trend because of their success. But this isn't leaving out that the teams from Cyclone(BG3) brought this comp to the spotlight because of their original 5v5 tournament.

Fnatic's Road to the Finals
Capslock Crew - 1-3
fresh out the boat - 1-0 (Forfeit)
wat now motha fuka - 3-0
Shuttlecocks - 3-1
teh supeh gosus - 3-2

SK-Gaming(USA)'s Road to the Finals
Slackers - 3-2
wat now motha fuka - 3-0
teh supeh gosus - 3-2

This match-up might be a prequel story to future WoW tournaments, it features two of the biggest staple gaming teams in the world in fnatic.wow vs SK.

The fabled rivalry continues on a different gaming platform - WoW Arena.

Both teams although will be evenly matched with Druid rogue (Euro comp) vs Druid rogue (Euro Comp). Euro Comp is a nickname for this team's line-up of rogue, mage, warlock, discipline priest, druid. With this match-up this will be a test of execution without having any advantage to either side. Although SK won the winners bracket soundly, Fnatic had to endure the toughest road to the championship match when they lost in the first round of this double-elimination tournament. Having narrowly beat the 3rd place team, teh supeh gosus 3-2 (same goes for SK-Gaming) besides SK's higher team rating in the Ladder, both teams surprisingly similar results versus both wnmf and TSG (3-0, 3-2).

The key match-up of this fight will most likely be the play of both all-star rogues, Neilyo of SK-Gaming and Nitrana of Pandemic fame. (Nitrana is playing for Fnatic in this tournament, although he's still in Pandemic.) Both rogues are regarded as 2 of the best of their class and few could argue this case, with Nitrana being the LAN rogue champion of WSVG and ESL - While Neilyo is the online champion, this match-up is the biggest highlight of this fight.


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