RaidCall EMS One Summer 2013 Group Stage

fnatic, NiP top RC EMS One Group C

12-6-2013 22:55

fnatic defeated all three teams in Group C, including NiP, and qualified for RaidCall EMS One Summer 2013 LAN finals. The Swedish giants struggled and lost to Team X as well, but still went through in second place.

Opening round saw Finn "karrigan" Andersen's fnatic upset the mighty Ninjas in Pyjamas with a 16-8 score on de_cache following a close 8-7 opening half as terrorists on the map picked by NiP with de_train also remaining in the pool.

Anexis opened their match with a 9-6 lead against Team X on de_nuke_se, who mounted a comeback to go up 13-11 in the second half. The Brits prevailed this time though, winning the final three rounds to clinch a 16-14 win.

In the second round NiP overran Anexis 16-1 on de_nuke_se, while fnatic powered by some great play of Andreas "Xyp9x" Højsleth beat Team X 16-8 on de_mirage_ce.

karrigan's fnatic defeat NiP and top group C

All four teams still had a theoretical chances to go through depending on the results of the final round, and both matches came down to the wire. Anexis had a 9-6 first half lead on de_mirage_ce against fnatic, but they only won two terrorist side rounds and eventually lost 11-16.

Thanks to that result, NiP needed only 7 rounds against Team X to qualify as second based on round difference. Markus "pronax" Wallsten's squad unexpectedly led the way throughout the match, and in the end even managed to take down the Ninjas 16-13 on de_mirage_ce.

With fnatic and NiP now having qualified for the RaidCall EMS One Summer Season finals taking place at the ESL TV studios in Cologne, the list of teams looks as follows:

Copenhagen Wolves	Virtus.pro	fnatic
ESC Gaming	VeryGames	NiP

Thanks to their victory over NiP in the last round, Team X have secured a spot in the next season's cups while Anexis will need to go through A-Series or the Go4CS:GO cups should they want to participate.

Final two teams for the $35,000 tournament will be determined tomorrow when group D kicks off at 19:00 with Western Wolves, ALTERNATE, LDLC.com and iNation still in competition.

2013-06-12 22:55

2 replies

M4ny nopps hiere

2013-06-12 23:54

Still, VG >

2013-06-13 00:05

Puhhh, NiP

2013-06-12 22:56

NiP lost 2 games in that group they not deserve to pass it :(

3 replies

so whom of the other ones who lost 2 games aswell deserves it then? xD

2013-06-12 22:58

1 reply

Ur friends from Team X

2013-06-12 22:59

All teams lost 2 games in that group? except fnatic :) Edit: oh, i was not quick enough :)

2013-06-12 23:01

such a rare news nowadays to see fnatic top xyz or nip losing two maps out of three or fnatic beat nip to clinch first spot in group lol .

2013-06-12 22:57

TeamX 2nd place. Why NiP??

better RD

2013-06-12 23:04

Is RD rounds difference? I've never knew what it was :p

2013-06-12 23:19

seems legit img4.hostingpics.net/pics/623972nip.png

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"Thanks to that result, NiP needed only 7 rounds against Team X to qualify as second based on round difference."

2013-06-12 23:02

the engine doesn't handle 3 way ties

In fact NiP lost to Team X what should make Team X the second placed team in that group. sry, sry for reply

2013-06-12 23:50

wrong, it was 3-way tie between nip, anexis and team x. so if team x should be second cuz they won vs nip then anexis should be second cuz they won vs team x and then nip should be second cuz they won against anexis etc. round difference is usually the thing to look for in 3-way tie

2013-06-13 19:02

Didn't knew that, thought it was a battle for 2nd place only between NiP and Team X. In this case you're right.

2013-06-13 22:07

So sad that NiP are still through. They should know what it feels like not to qualify so they could prepare better next time.

2013-06-12 23:00

17 replies

They dont need to, they have already prepared enough.

16 replies

hah, yeah, dreamhack will show how good they are prepared.

2013-06-12 23:06

Exactly.

2013-06-12 23:11

Yes, and lost two maps in a group stage. They could easily fail to go through.

13 replies

But they didnt, even dreamhack is coming up.

12 replies

They are lucky :) Anyway I'm pretty sure they'll do better at the finals.

2013-06-12 23:27

7 replies

I'll bet dreamhack will surprise us all :)

2013-06-12 23:32

pretty sure they were saving strats etc. with DH and RC EMS finals coming up

2013-06-12 23:33

but it's pretty risky to just qualify by RD. Isn't it? They also lost Fnatic FragOut final so yesterday was definitely their off day.

2013-06-13 05:52

I guess (and they probably didn't mean to loose) but their lan level is way above everybody else(or it at least has been in the past) so I guess it doesn't mean that much for them - as long as they qualify

2013-06-13 16:24

nip knew they wont need many rounds cuz they won against anexis 16-1, and anexis beat team x. if they would really need a win i think they would win it

2013-06-13 19:03

still a risky move

2013-06-13 20:14

agree

2013-06-13 20:40

every story of rising has the falling ending.

lol what did i say?

oh gosh man /0

2013-06-12 23:34

Come to Köpenhamn, im drinking danish beer atm :)

2013-06-12 23:47

smbdy should pick up team x quickly now

fnatic <3

gj fnatic,but they would get crushed by NIP on any other map but cache

gl fnatic, so sad 4 team X :()

2013-06-12 23:13

2 maps online, we will see at lan. kthxbye

its more like: if they cant win even online, what can they do on lan.

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not much, except win every single tournament in the game's history, except one.

Except three actually. ESC and VG also have one title each, even if NiP dropped out before the finals for ESC, and didn't participate for VG.

2013-06-13 00:01

haha touche.

2013-06-13 00:14

Lol this is really stupid to say

2013-06-13 10:41

Denmark representing, awesome! Very likely we will see three Danish teams at the LAN finals, but strange not to see more than one Swedish.

NiP was on bootcamp while they attended to those matches, anyways gg team x and fnatic!

2013-06-12 23:38

What was the score in vp vs vg match?

5/10

2013-06-13 00:04

GO FNATIC youtube.com/watch?v=kIfOjkB17BA

2013-06-13 00:33

I'm curious how much cArn was involved in this success :) I hope that he's doing some game studying for his team. I'm huge fan of him ;p

2013-06-13 00:52

HAHA PS: I'm a big fan of fnatic, a very very good org :D

2013-06-13 05:24

i doubt that he has his own job in the management

2013-06-13 19:10

Add LDLC and WW to the mix and we have all of the top eight teams qualified. Going to be a cracking tourney.

2013-06-13 01:27

tell me where is mibr?

2013-06-13 01:35

Gonna be INSANE LAN! Copenhagen Wolves Virtus.pro fnatic ESC Gaming VeryGames NiP LDLC Western Wolves

2013-06-13 02:05

Its good to be in the .8 percent that bet on fnatic, fnatic for life!!! Tine for a change

2013-06-13 02:38

Yeah :P

2013-06-13 05:26

Unlucky Team X! gl NiP & fnatic

2013-06-13 07:59

Hmmm...hope this isn't just a flash in the pan for fnatic

2013-06-13 08:45

n1 fnatic

2013-06-13 14:16

Wow alot of good teams qualified

2013-06-13 15:54

nice to see fnatic on top

2013-06-13 16:35

xyp9x to win all

2013-06-14 04:50

fnatic, NiP top RC EMS One Group C

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