RC EMS Cup #2 starts tonight

20-2-2013 18:17

The second EMS One Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Cup will start tonight at 19:00 and finish tomorrow evening with the best-of-three grand final.

Last week Swedes Epsilon prevailed in the grand finals for 100 points and $600, after Ninjas in Pyjamas were upset by German n!faculty in the semi-finals. With Epsilon now guaranteed a spot in the main round, others will be competing to join them.

Teams have been competing in EMS A-Series to secure spots in this weeks cup. Among interesting results were VeryGames's 7-16 loss versus BEASTS and Lemondogs dropping a map versus BGDonLINE.

Can asmo & co ruin NiP's plans of qualifying once more?

Points are given out for placings as shown here, and top 16 teams with most points from four EMS One Cups will make it to the main round, from where eight teams will advance to the LAN finals.

This week's cup features eight teams who will skip the first round, while others will start from the round of 32 in the single-elimination best-of-one bracket. The following 24 teams will take part in EMS ONE Cup #2:

NiP	VeryGames	Epsilon	3DMAX
k1ck	Absolute Legends	LowLandLions	n!faculty
LDLC	Imaginary Gaming	ALTERNATE	gamed!de
EYES ON U	Overrated Individuals	Wizards	Temp.no
NOD	dotpiXels	Eternity Gaming	EnRo
Evokate	Northern Eagles	WaRLegenD	BEASTS

First three rounds of bracket play will take place today at 19:00 , 20:00 and 21:00 . Semi-finals will be played tomorrow at 19:00 and 20:00 , followed up by the grand final at 21:00 .

Lots of lovely teams. :-D edit: and Epsilon

2013-02-20 18:18

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lol ^_^

2013-02-20 18:38

guess they will kick out n! in the quarter-finals. so sad. cheaters gonna cheat.

2013-02-20 20:15

Epsilon #1 NiP you cant win

2013-02-20 18:20

Epsilon wins. Online talents - Lan zeros

Go OI, lets do this :D

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2013-02-20 18:23

after doing bad and not even attending now i think ESC wont make it into the LAN finals........

2013-02-20 18:21

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they still have two more cups to gain points in, so it's not exactly too late. they probably just want to give full focus to their vienna preparation. edit: or, according to #11, they were just fucked with the system. you know, the usual. my colleague says they lost 25 points for not playing a match since the last cup, so four teams moved ahead of them and got into this cup.

2013-02-20 18:39

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CSGO problems.. too many tournaments to focus on.. LOL

2013-02-20 18:32

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haha, there might be a bit of truth in that. for teams which aren't playing full time it must be really hard to keep track of everything at the moment. and i think nip is the only team which is playing full time at the moment?

2013-02-20 18:52

That's prolly then reason why they're over the top.

2013-02-20 18:56

NaVi plays 10hrs a day. I dont thin VG plays less than NiP either

2013-02-20 21:25

good guy lurppis

2013-02-20 18:34

I would focus on EMS since there is so much more money to win unlike in Vienna and it's at least in the US, so money and location wise points for EMS. But it's their decision.

2013-02-20 18:49

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EMS finals will be in Germany and ESC still have two more cups to gain points in, both of which will likely have a worse field of opponents who already qualify in the first one. They don't have to choose, they can do both.

2013-02-20 18:53

Oh lol, thought it will be in Dallas.

2013-02-20 18:55

EMS One is in the US?? Not really^^

I messed it up with ESEA Lan finals damnit

2013-02-20 18:57

EpsiNoLAN (c)

2013-02-20 18:31

This is fucking ridiculous we can't play in there...

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why you cant play there?

2013-02-20 18:35

Because they aren't top14 in A-Series :) *15 Actually ;D:D

2013-02-20 18:40

how come?

maybe because ESC are noobs?! gl Epsilon ;)

lol what?

2013-02-20 18:36

yes?

2013-02-20 19:20

wtf?

because only 14 teams can play from this ladder... esl.eu/eu/csgo/5on5/aseries/ at the beggining in aseries we lost 1st game we just forgot to play, it says -25 points, but they didnt remove points at leats. then we won 5 matches and had 123 points, which placed us on 2/3 place in aseries. On wednesday we advanced to the next stage of this leage which is mentioned above, and suddenly they cut those "-25" points from our "123pts" and we are 15th, not 8th...

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no show = default win for the enemy that's what the rulebook says

2013-02-20 18:43

yes, default, then why it didn't remove our points earlier?

2013-02-20 18:45

I totally missed that you guys didn't play for a long time and saw only 4 wins. :-D Look what Tgwri1s wrote down there, that's the reason.

2013-02-20 18:50

25 points were removed today because of "inactivity", you needed to play 1 match since last cup :/

2013-02-20 18:47

yea, and they do this day before a cup, sauber! its like a steam update day before lan tournament ;) can't see in the rules what says when do they remove points for inactivity anyway, 8 teams have free slot in 1st round hahaha

It says under the rankings that you need minimum activity in order to not lose points between updates :P And the updates are made on the day of the cup. Not to play ESL's advocate or anything, but they do have SOME rules to which they stick :) And yea, imo they could add 8 more teams, but I guess they want to give some advantage to 8 teams from last season..

2013-02-20 19:04

imo this is not advantage because 10 teams from esl major series are drawn as top10 and now, we will be drawn as 1 of latest teams and will play agains very top seeded

2013-02-20 20:01

Yep, the system doesn't really work for this season. But in the next one with none of the top teams in the A-Series, it could work maybe.

2013-02-20 20:05

What's exactly ridiculous? You've got 4 points less than the 14th placed team.

2013-02-20 18:42

Welcome in the pool.. Fucking amazing they can tell us yesterday that we are 110% in... And today they have fucked us up. I cant believe how stupid people can be..