The first ESWC Sweden Pre-Qualifier was being held this weekend at the DreamHack Skellefteå where four top teams were invited being SK Sweden, Made in Brazil, PlayZone and Begrip while another four teams were able to qualify through a BYOC tournament. It started with a group stage having two groups with each four teams which the four invited teams clearly dominated as expected.

Going into the Single Elimination, PlayZone put up a great fight against Made in Brazil on de_train losing 14-16 while SK Gaming kept dominating with a 16-5 over Begrip. With SK being the only Swedish team left in the Upper Bracket they already received their spot for the ESWC Sweden National Finals taking place at the DreamHack Summer in a few months.

PlayZone continued to play a great tournament winning against Begrip on two great maps and placing third in the end. The Grand Final just finished a few minutes ago where again SK Gaming was winning convincingly even though mibr played good but not good enough today. This means SK Sweden is placing first with their old lineup having SpawN back in the team and are now looking forward to the ESWC Sweden National Finals.

SK Sweden
Groupstage:
16-3 vs ondska
16-5 vs Madworld
16-4 vs PlayZone

Single-Elimination:
16-5 vs Begrip
2-0 vs mibr (de_nuke 16-10 & de_dust2 16-6)

Demos
SK|Tentpole vs ondska
SK|RobbaN vs ondska

SK|walle vs PlayZone
SK|RobbaN vs PlayZone
SK|Tentpole vs PlayZone

SK|walle vs mibr

Final Standings

1st - SK Sweden
2nd - mibr
3rd - Playzone
4th - Begrip
5-8th - Madworld
5-8th - ondska
5-8th - surast
5-8th - ChiLi

More demos will be added soon.

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Photo by Fragbite