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2nd Groupstage finished, Virtus, Roccat & Mibr out

By Dominic 'immo' Koller
Aug 26, 2008 06:35


The second groupstage finally finished after delays in Group B caused by SpawN being hospitalized. A few favorites are out already, SK manage to advance.



Due to SK|SpawN being in the hospital the matches have been delayed but now successfully finished. Next up are now the playoffs being Single Elimination later today.

Group A

Surprisingly Made in Brazil lost all of their matches and are knocked out with 0-0-3 in the second groupstage also losing to the Frag eXecutors. They surprised in the beginning but were not able to carry on and lost to both, mousesports and fnatic.

Mousesports on the other side again showed that they definitely are ready to win another big title this year defeating fnatic, Made in Brazil and Frag eXecutors without too big problems. They played an awesome tournament so far and you can expect to see more great matches from them.

Group B

Due to the delays, most of the interesting matches delayed until the end of the day. The Koreans of eSTRO knew they had to catch up after the first groupstage and played three great matches, defeating roccat, SK and LowLandLions now advancing as first placed team.

SK Sweden managed to come back even with all the delay and the SpawN incident. They lost to eSTRO in a close match and also had a hard time against L3 in the beginning but won in the end. Against roccat everything just went fine, hitting their shots and playing out roccat now advancing as second placed team.

Group C

Great matches in this group as expected where mTw, MYM and x3o tie by wins and losses but the direct comparison lets MYM advance. First mTw lost to x3o in a really close match with 14-16 but then overcome MYM in the stage match on de_inferno.

Even though x3o played some great matches, they're out of the tournament now only losing to MYM. This group could've gone either way but the two finalists of last year advance.

Group D

Another tight group which was probably not expected after dignitas and emuLates groupstage performance. But now in the end, only emuLate and Team Alternate advance with Virtus.Pro and dignitas being knocked out. And even though dignitas lost all of their matches in this stage, they had two really great and close games against both Virtus and Alternate.

The playoffs are coming up later this day with some great fixtures, you will be able to see them at our tournament page once they're up.


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