ESL Pro Series Season XII Finals
The second and probably longest day has been finished and one champion was already crowned while all the other Winner and Lowerbracket matches have been finished. Only the Grand Finals are left for the whole Sunday and hopefully we will see as exciting matches as we did today.
Counter-Strike 1.6
The day started with Alternate vs pod on de_tuscan again. Once again pod was not able to stand a chance against one of the big favorites of the tournament but they did their best and played a close match, even if it doesn't look like it was close. Alternate then were confident and waiting for their opponent to be determined for the nights match.
Later in the evening, mousesports faced n!faculty on de_cbble which is actually a tradgedy that such a great match is played on this map. Still mousesports decided to remove de_nuke from the map after n!facultys great performance against aTTaX earlier.
Starting on the T-Side mousesports managed to get a good five rounds but it only looked good on paper. After switching sides, mousesports was not really able to get their momentum and therefor lost round after round to the underdog and new favorite n!faculty.
Just 1 1/2 hours after losing to faculty, mousesports had to play again this time against their all-time favorite Team Alternate. The map was de_train and Alternate also managed to win the knife round making it look pretty good for them. The beginning of the match already turned out great where Alternate won the pistol round, mousesports winning a Deagle Eco and then Alternate again winning their USP Eco.
After that Alternate were dominating the match until a 8-1 score where mousespotrs used their timeout. In the end mousesports pulled off another 5-10 but they again lost the pistol round in the second half. But they were not giving up and kept motivating them with screaming and yelling especially of Franz 'gore' Burghardt.
Alternate were actually already up with 15 rounds only needing one to win the match but were not able to do so while mousesports got closer with every round. But mousesports did it and got the needed overtime on de_train. Then again, Alternate started out good getting a total of 3 rounds on the T-Side but after switching sides, mousesports were finally able to defeat the two-time and current champion Team Alternate and knocked them out.
Warcraft III
In the first match aTTaX|XlorD was playing a good match and confidently defeated raptor|HLA who still is one of the favorites for the tournament. But seeing XlorDs performance so far, it will be interesting to see them meeting in the Grand Final again.
Another surprising result here already in the Lowerbracket match between SK|Miou and raptor|insolence where Miou again just did too many mistakes but insolence also playing a good match defeating Miou with a clear 2-0 in the end. Unfortunately the match was not shown on TV but you can download the replays in the match information.
At the end of the day insolence managed to take a map away from HLA in the Consolation Final. But HLA showed his strength and made a great comeback winning the two remaining maps Terenas Stand as well as Secret Valley. He will now get his revenge on XlorD in tomorrows Grand Final.
FIFA 2008 1on1
The whole FIFA 2008 1on1 was being played on Saturday with again a lot of close matches just like in the beginning. First mTw|niLssoN defeated SK|Kr0ne in the Lowerbracket Final and let the first out of three SK members behind him. Shortly after that, SK|hero had to play against SK|Era in another exciting and close match defeating Era with 4-3.
Nilsson then had the chance to let another SK member behind him securing a top 2 position already with defeating Era in the Consolation Final. This match doesn't look as close as the others but both still played a great match.
The Grand Final between SK|hero and mTw|niLssoN were ready to be played. This was probably one of the most exciting and closest matches ever in the ESL Pro Series of FIFA as both played an awesome match. In the first half, none of them scored a goal while hero accidentally got an own-goal in the end of the second half. But he took revenge right away and made it a 1-1 but niLssoN also took his chance shortly after that doing the 2-1.
The match was actually already over and everyone just waited for the referee to end the half but he didn't. Hero was able to score the deciding goal in the 90th minute leading him to the last and deciding match in the Grand Final.
Again it couldn't be any closer and none of them were able to score a goal in the first half even though hero was pretty much dominating the match. Still he finally made it in the second half winning with one goal and therefor overall winning the ESL Pro Series Season 12 in FIFA 2008 1on1.
FIFA 2008 5on5
Even though the 1on1 competition is being played too, all of the attending players also had to play the 5on5 Clanwar which probably has some more priority.
Right in the beginning, the two biggest rivals SK Gaming and mTw were facing each other. The first half of the matches were all pretty close goal wise but the second half of the matches were much more in favor of SK Gaming. mTw was defeated with 6-14 in the end and had to take the way through the Lower Bracket.
In the Lower Bracket not much of a surprised was happening as hoorai confidently won over Competo, even though Competos player BennyBenassi was awarded the Most Valuable Player. Still this didn't help them at all and Competo are placed 4th at the Finals.
Much more of a surprise was the second match where hoorai met the big favorite mTw in the Consolation Final. All the matches were really close but in the end hoorai took home the victory, also knocking out three-time champion mTw. Hoorai is now to face the current champion SK Gaming in tomorrows Grand Final.
Final Matches
SK Gaming vs hoorai @ 14:30 CET (FIFA 2008 5on5)
aTTaX|XlorD vs raptor|HLA @ 15:30 CET (Warcraft III)
n!faculty vs Mousesports @ 17:30 CET (Counter-Strike 1.6)
Counter-Strike 1.6
The day started with Alternate vs pod on de_tuscan again. Once again pod was not able to stand a chance against one of the big favorites of the tournament but they did their best and played a close match, even if it doesn't look like it was close. Alternate then were confident and waiting for their opponent to be determined for the nights match.
Later in the evening, mousesports faced n!faculty on de_cbble which is actually a tradgedy that such a great match is played on this map. Still mousesports decided to remove de_nuke from the map after n!facultys great performance against aTTaX earlier.
Starting on the T-Side mousesports managed to get a good five rounds but it only looked good on paper. After switching sides, mousesports was not really able to get their momentum and therefor lost round after round to the underdog and new favorite n!faculty.
Just 1 1/2 hours after losing to faculty, mousesports had to play again this time against their all-time favorite Team Alternate. The map was de_train and Alternate also managed to win the knife round making it look pretty good for them. The beginning of the match already turned out great where Alternate won the pistol round, mousesports winning a Deagle Eco and then Alternate again winning their USP Eco.
After that Alternate were dominating the match until a 8-1 score where mousespotrs used their timeout. In the end mousesports pulled off another 5-10 but they again lost the pistol round in the second half. But they were not giving up and kept motivating them with screaming and yelling especially of Franz 'gore' Burghardt.
Alternate were actually already up with 15 rounds only needing one to win the match but were not able to do so while mousesports got closer with every round. But mousesports did it and got the needed overtime on de_train. Then again, Alternate started out good getting a total of 3 rounds on the T-Side but after switching sides, mousesports were finally able to defeat the two-time and current champion Team Alternate and knocked them out.
Warcraft III
In the first match aTTaX|XlorD was playing a good match and confidently defeated raptor|HLA who still is one of the favorites for the tournament. But seeing XlorDs performance so far, it will be interesting to see them meeting in the Grand Final again.
Another surprising result here already in the Lowerbracket match between SK|Miou and raptor|insolence where Miou again just did too many mistakes but insolence also playing a good match defeating Miou with a clear 2-0 in the end. Unfortunately the match was not shown on TV but you can download the replays in the match information.
At the end of the day insolence managed to take a map away from HLA in the Consolation Final. But HLA showed his strength and made a great comeback winning the two remaining maps Terenas Stand as well as Secret Valley. He will now get his revenge on XlorD in tomorrows Grand Final.
FIFA 2008 1on1
The whole FIFA 2008 1on1 was being played on Saturday with again a lot of close matches just like in the beginning. First mTw|niLssoN defeated SK|Kr0ne in the Lowerbracket Final and let the first out of three SK members behind him. Shortly after that, SK|hero had to play against SK|Era in another exciting and close match defeating Era with 4-3.
Nilsson then had the chance to let another SK member behind him securing a top 2 position already with defeating Era in the Consolation Final. This match doesn't look as close as the others but both still played a great match.
The Grand Final between SK|hero and mTw|niLssoN were ready to be played. This was probably one of the most exciting and closest matches ever in the ESL Pro Series of FIFA as both played an awesome match. In the first half, none of them scored a goal while hero accidentally got an own-goal in the end of the second half. But he took revenge right away and made it a 1-1 but niLssoN also took his chance shortly after that doing the 2-1.
The match was actually already over and everyone just waited for the referee to end the half but he didn't. Hero was able to score the deciding goal in the 90th minute leading him to the last and deciding match in the Grand Final.
Again it couldn't be any closer and none of them were able to score a goal in the first half even though hero was pretty much dominating the match. Still he finally made it in the second half winning with one goal and therefor overall winning the ESL Pro Series Season 12 in FIFA 2008 1on1.
FIFA 2008 5on5
Even though the 1on1 competition is being played too, all of the attending players also had to play the 5on5 Clanwar which probably has some more priority.
Right in the beginning, the two biggest rivals SK Gaming and mTw were facing each other. The first half of the matches were all pretty close goal wise but the second half of the matches were much more in favor of SK Gaming. mTw was defeated with 6-14 in the end and had to take the way through the Lower Bracket.
In the Lower Bracket not much of a surprised was happening as hoorai confidently won over Competo, even though Competos player BennyBenassi was awarded the Most Valuable Player. Still this didn't help them at all and Competo are placed 4th at the Finals.
Much more of a surprise was the second match where hoorai met the big favorite mTw in the Consolation Final. All the matches were really close but in the end hoorai took home the victory, also knocking out three-time champion mTw. Hoorai is now to face the current champion SK Gaming in tomorrows Grand Final.
Final Matches
SK Gaming vs hoorai @ 14:30 CET (FIFA 2008 5on5)
aTTaX|XlorD vs raptor|HLA @ 15:30 CET (Warcraft III)
n!faculty vs Mousesports @ 17:30 CET (Counter-Strike 1.6)
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