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Rapha, ESWC Masters of Athens champion
SK Gamings Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson has become the Electronic Sports World Cup Masters of Athens Champion for Quake 3.
By Raivo 'stormm' Streistermanis
Oct 18, 2008 19:52
SK Gamings Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson has become the Electronic Sports World Cup Masters of Athens Champion for Quake 3.The first map of the Final was on pro-Q3DM6. There Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson wasn’t really up to par with the tournaments dark horse, Sebastian 'Spart1e1' Siira. The Swede celebrated a victory with a score 20:11.
The next map and possibly the last map was pro-Q3Tourney4. Unlike in the first map, the game play was a lot closer. Together both players swapped lead four times and drew five. In the end the American player celebrated a victory, 16:14.
The last and deciding map was no-DM9, a map where Spart1e has shown to be a monster on. Here both players knew that there is no place for mistakes and kept it clean without any noticeable mistakes. For seven minutes the score stayed 3:2 in favour of the Swede, but soon enough the silence broke and he increased his lead to 8:4. And once again rapha made a similar comeback to his match against av3k, only this time there were 5 minutes left on the clock. The end score for the last match in the Quake 3 tournament was 13:8 in favour of rapha.
ESWC Masters of Athens TOP4
1. Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson - 7,500$ + Direct qualification to ESWC Grand Final 2009
2. Sebastian 'Spart1e1' Siira - 4,500$
3. Maciej 'av3k' Krzykowski - 2,000$
4. Alexei 'Cypher' Yanushevsky - 1,000$
The next map and possibly the last map was pro-Q3Tourney4. Unlike in the first map, the game play was a lot closer. Together both players swapped lead four times and drew five. In the end the American player celebrated a victory, 16:14.
The last and deciding map was no-DM9, a map where Spart1e has shown to be a monster on. Here both players knew that there is no place for mistakes and kept it clean without any noticeable mistakes. For seven minutes the score stayed 3:2 in favour of the Swede, but soon enough the silence broke and he increased his lead to 8:4. And once again rapha made a similar comeback to his match against av3k, only this time there were 5 minutes left on the clock. The end score for the last match in the Quake 3 tournament was 13:8 in favour of rapha.
ESWC Masters of Athens TOP4
1. Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson - 7,500$ + Direct qualification to ESWC Grand Final 2009
2. Sebastian 'Spart1e1' Siira - 4,500$
3. Maciej 'av3k' Krzykowski - 2,000$
4. Alexei 'Cypher' Yanushevsky - 1,000$
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But its like he is not the best coz he was beaten. So i cant say that he was the best at this tourney :( CPM is a strange thing :/
You deserved it.
I got 2 of the top 3 right however, just not in the right places ahahah Spart1e you messed it all up!!!
Congratulations once again Rapha.
That was a really sick tourney, difficult to win, so wining is double reward