ESC, aLegends to EMS finals

20-3-2013 23:45

ESC Gaming and Absolute Legends are both through to the RaidCall EMS One playoffs after finishing in the top two places in Group B.

After Ninjas in Pyjamas and Anexis both secured entry into the LAN finals on Tuesday, today saw Group B, which had been widely-described as a very tough group to predict, being played out.

Before the start of the group, however, it was announced that Absolute Legends' CS:GO team had disbanded and that the Swedish side would possibly play the group stage as a mix team.

The Swedish team were immediately written off in some quarters, but they ended up making two very interesting changes to their lineup for this tournament, replacing Jonathan "lidde" Lidgren and Dennis "dennis" Edman with Epsilon duo Andreas "schneider" Lindberg and Jesper "jw" Wecksell.

schneider and jw helped ex-aLegends to playoffs

And they got off to a great start in the competition, holding ESC Gaming to a 15-15 draw before beating LDLC.com 16-14 and k1ck 16-3.

Absolute Legends ended up finishing at the summit of Group B, with the head-to-head advantage over ESC, who defeated k1ck 16-10 and LDLC.com 16-14.

Contacted by HLTV.org after the group stage had come to an end, Alexander "rdl" Redl had the following to say:

"It is going to be nice that we can be able to attend a awesome event like EMS one RaidCall," he said.

"We will hopefully attend with this mix of people we played the groups with. Thanks to all the teams and admins, and see you in Germany!"

The following four teams have so far qualified for the RaidCall EMS One Finals, which will take place on the weekend of April 13th to 14th in Cologne, Germany:

Ninjas in Pyjamas	Absolute Legends
Anexis	ESC Gaming

The EMS One group stage will resume on April 2nd with Group C, starring n!faculty, Imaginary Gaming, 3DMAX and gamed!de.

So that pretty much means we gonna see a new aL lineup. Don't see a reason why they shouldn't stay with this Lineup. Glad ESC made it in the end. :)

2013-03-20 23:46

gj ESC

2013-03-20 23:48

gl all

nice ESC

2013-03-20 23:49

jw and schneider at a big international event. Can't wait!

2013-03-20 23:53

6 replies

i know what u mean !

2013-03-20 23:57

1 reply

2013-03-21 15:06

they wont go

u only have to wait a week, epsilon@cph games

2013-03-20 23:59

2 replies

It won't the the same without those two, ifyouknowwhatImean ;) But I seriously hope that you make it. We want more and better teams to compete and excel at lan events.

2013-03-21 15:14

without which 2?

2013-03-21 16:03

Epsilon -schneider -jw aL -dennis -lidde +jw +schneider (?)

gl for all

2013-03-20 23:55

also for ESC?

2013-03-20 23:58

yes?

Al=))

2013-03-21 00:07

pronax olofm dennis schneider rdl/jw(probably to keep scheinder in the team)

2013-03-21 00:08

for lan cut schneider and jw pronax dennis zneel rdl- lidde

2013-03-21 00:10

kick did manage to 16-13 LDLC.com somehow, for whos interested :P

2013-03-21 00:17

4 replies

somehow?LOL theyve won against them on lan aswell

2013-03-21 01:23

Sorry didn't mean to imply kick is bad, just that ldlc has been in amazing form recently, and getting better each day. Was impressed with kicks performance that march,:p

2013-03-21 16:00