With the European Nations Championship fast approaching, thought I'd give a quick post to make you all aware of it.

The ENC is basically a tournament set up by the ESL in which the best players from a range of European countries fight it out in games such as Warcraft III, FIFA 2008, CS:S and 1.6.

For those of you don't know, the groupings are as follow...

Group A:
Denmark
Germany
Bulgaria
France
Ukraine
Holland

Groub B:

Sweden
Finland
Italy
United Kingdom
Russia
Croatia

http://www.esl.eu/eu/enc/news/55577/
http://www.esl.eu/eu/enc/

I believe the matches start tomorrow, and the first games will be Russia Vs Sweden and United Kingdom Vs Italy.

Gl to all the nations participating!
UK fighting!

Btw, the qualification games were...

Q1:
Hungary Vs Belarus
http://www.esl.eu/eu/enc/2008/wc3/teams/qr1/match/9156777/
Spain vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina http://www.esl.eu/eu/enc/2008/wc3/teams/qr1/match/9156779/

Italy, Portugal, Latvia and the UK automatically qualified.

Q2:
UK Vs Romania
http://www.esl.eu/eu/enc/2008/wc3/teams/qr2/match/9156820/
Belgium Vs Portugal
http://www.esl.eu/eu/enc/2008/wc3/teams/qr2/match/9156821/
Norway Vs Spain
http://www.esl.eu/eu/enc/2008/wc3/teams/qr2/match/9156823/
Poland Vs Belarus
http://www.esl.eu/eu/enc/2008/wc3/teams/qr2/match/9156824/
Greece Vs Italy
http://www.esl.eu/eu/enc/2008/wc3/teams/qr2/match/9156824/
Slovakia Vs Latvia
http://www.esl.eu/eu/enc/2008/wc3/teams/qr2/match/9156826/

QR3:

Ukraine Vs Latvia
http://www.esl.eu/eu/enc/2008/wc3/teams/qr3/match/9156869/
Denmark Vs Norway
http://www.esl.eu/eu/enc/2008/wc3/teams/qr3/match/9156868/
Holland Vs Belarus
http://www.esl.eu/eu/enc/2008/wc3/teams/qr3/match/9156866/
Austria Vs UK
http://www.esl.eu/eu/enc/2008/wc3/teams/qr3/match/9156871/
Switzerland Vs Italy
http://www.esl.eu/eu/enc/2008/wc3/teams/qr3/match/9156867/
Croatia Vs Belgium
http://www.esl.eu/eu/enc/2008/wc3/teams/qr3/match/9156870/

would be nice if esl didnt fucking force the times by themselves when they had already said NEXT monday as the game day, not tomorrow.

After reorganising our lives to sort this piece of shit game out. Italy wildcard 5 hours before the match ....

fuck italy.

"Fuck Italy."

Made me lol. :D

past years showed that Sweden, Finnland, Russia & Germany are among the strongest teams.. 3 of them are in the same group. discuss

Finland ? don`t make me laugh.....they could be strong now compared to the rest , but before a couple of years ? Did they ever made it to the LAN finals ?

Duud? Are you stupid? Finland was kuwl last year :D

I am not talking about the last year , I know that they won , I mean all other before that -.-

Finland only played once before, think it was 2k5 and we left midseason if I remember correctly, team was something like blue (manager) durandal, mag1k, me, ouga, chemi, envi

THE undead player Durandal- ?
was he active in 2005? I remember him retiring a long time ago. A legend in his time.

yea the undead

they won last year, so they arent that bad xD

Holland all the way! Go Grub and Rottie :)

so sick that UK and Italy qualified and we had to meet denmark -.-;; (for those who didnt understand im saying that norway>them!!)

A:1-Germany 2- Ukraine(thx elves) 3-Holland(thx orcs:)
B:1-Russia 2- Finland 3-Sweden