CPH Wolves qualify for ESWC

12-10-2014 14:51

Copenhagen Wolves will be the second Danish team to represent their country at ESWC 2014 thanks to winning the qualifier held this weekend at NPF #15. They defeated ALL IN in the final 2-1 (13-16 on de_inferno, 16-3 on de_cache and 16-4 on de_dust2.

A local Danish LAN tournament NPF #15 played host to the country's ESWC 2014 qualifier with the trip to Paris, France up for grabs. Nearly 100 teams signed up and took part in the group stage on Friday evening, after which the tournament moved into a double elimination playoff bracket on day two.

The old Western Wolves trio back together in CPH Wolves

The main favorites were myXMG and the revamped CPH Wolves lineup, along with Peter "⁠Inzta⁠" Kragelund's ALL IN. They all looked solid until the upper semi-finals, where lesser known eXeS took out myXMG 2-1 (13-16 on de_overpass, 16-6 on de_inferno, 16-12 on de_dust2) with some great teamplay and strong AWPing by Max "⁠neon⁠" Mazur. myXMG then went on to lose to ALL IN in the lower bracket final and finished 4th.

eXeS' Cinderella story also ended there, as they lost to CPH Wolves in the upper final 0-2 (7-16 on de_inferno, 11-16 on de_nuke) and then a nail-biter to ALL IN in the consolidation final 17-19 on de_inferno.

With only the grand final left for Sunday, CPH Wolves took on ALL IN in a best-of-three series with no map advantage.

Inzta created early problems for the young Wolves, leading the charge on de_inferno T-side to a 12-3 advantage. Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander managed to wake his team up in the second half and they came very close to a big comeback, but saw it denied at the very end to go down 13-16.

After moving on to map two, de_cache, CPH Wolves came out much stronger, and with Nichlas "⁠Nille⁠" Busk topping the scoreboard they dominated the CT side 12-3, quickly closing the map out 16-3 right after.

The decider de_dust2 started out evenly, but after an early 3-3 draw CPH Wolves started dominating once again on the CT side, taking the half 11-4 while this time Jacob "⁠Pimp⁠" Winneche did the most damage. The second half pistol round sealed the deal and the five teenagers in Wolves came out winners 16-4, thus securing the ESWC 2014 spot.

ESWC 2014 DenmarkBest of 3

CPH Wolves

Matchpage

12th October 2014

ALL IN!

Inferno

Cache

Dust2

NPF #15 standings

1. Copenhagen Wolves - ESWC spot + 5x HyperX Cloud headset
2. ALL IN - 5x HyperX Cloud headset + 5x HyperX Skin mousepad
3. eXeS - 5x HyperX Skin mousepad + 5x HyperX Fury 32GB USB
4. myXMG
5-6. FLÆKKETID
5-6. SKB-EC
7-8. Cursive
7-8. ONl1neRo|_

Copenhagen Wolves roster at NPF #15:

Jacob "⁠Pimp⁠" Winneche
Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander
Nichlas "⁠Nille⁠" Busk
Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller
Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye

The future of the roster is still uncertain as it was made specifically for this event, so it is unknown whether they will attend ESWC 2014 with this starting five.

2014-10-12 14:51

wow

Anyone know if Inzta is still a beast like last year? Haven't seen him in a while.

2014-10-12 14:52

3 replies

he had his moments where he played really well yeah :)

2014-10-12 14:53

28 frags on first map, not sure about the two others :)

2014-10-12 15:37

1 reply

seems good, he was arguably top 5 in Denmark last year, I hope he still has that form and challenges EU soon.

2014-10-12 16:03

n1 Nico g1ave Pimp were also a Western Wolves trio btw EDIT: Loved the old line-up tho

2014-10-12 14:54

You mean Nille right :P?

2014-10-12 16:02

NICE!

yes now they will kick someone and +msl and here we go again

2014-10-12 14:55

2014-10-12 14:56

gggg

2014-10-12 15:00

gl in Paris

2014-10-12 15:03

Dat prize pot :D

2014-10-12 15:05

8 replies

It's ridiculous... They choose to publish the prizes 24 hours before the event. People were expecting a lot more since its Denmarks biggest LAN event and they just get shit :D

2014-10-12 15:14

7 replies

It might be Denmarks Biggest event in form of attendents... But its never been competetive focused, so expecting more cause alot of People aint the thing to do.

2014-10-12 15:33

6 replies

braindead

2014-10-12 15:44

2 replies

2014-10-12 15:48

It's true though. NPF aren't competetive focused, like, at all.

2014-10-14 21:13

Ofc the event should have had better prices... Not something close to CPH Games or anything, but like 25k danish kroner, and everything would have been fine. And no, that would not be a problem to find.

2014-10-12 15:52

When they hold the ESWC qualification it's not a casual event anymore. It then becomes a competetive lan, that attracts the best danish teams all around Denmark. They obviously knew they would attract the danish elite with the ESWC spot, so they waited to publish the prizes, so the teams were forced to buy tickets, in belief that some nice prizes would published since its now a competetive event. And they've literally spent 0$ on prizes. Many of the teams wouldnt have attended if they knew the prizes thats for sure.

2014-10-12 17:20

As iv'e said to other people. Gaming.DK And NPF is too blame. GDK Shouldnt have held the Tournament there, and NPF shouldn't have accepted, they arent geared to be so serious eSport Wise. And honestly, most people want to go to ESWC, so despite.. i think they would go.

2014-10-12 18:42

stats?

2014-10-12 15:10

n11

2014-10-12 15:11

edit: gg

2014-10-12 15:17

smf, inzta, exr, glace and lomme

thanks :)

gl in Paris boyz!

2014-10-12 15:16

gg myXMG ^^

2014-10-12 15:26

Hoping Nico rejoins them

why? He is a lazy professional..

2014-10-12 15:54

I think u mean unprofessional haha

No, he is lazy in a very professional way.

2014-10-12 17:47

4th place for myXMG must be a huge disappointment.

2014-10-12 16:12

I really like this new line up! Hope they do well in Paris :D

2014-10-12 19:48

This is the lineup for ESWC only as the tickets is already booked. Sadly we will change lineup after eswc except if Valve is going to help Nille out.

2014-10-13 01:19

5 replies

best of luck for CW!

2014-10-13 01:55

What's the problem with Nille?

2014-10-13 06:18

vac ban

2014-10-13 07:31

Well, if the tournament organizers are willing to overlook his VAC ban based on his LAN play, he can just create another steam account, can't he?

2014-10-13 08:40

best of luck @ ESWC :-))

2014-10-14 04:08

cadian giv mi lesöns plez?????

2014-10-13 08:41

Anyone have lineups on top 5?

2014-10-13 10:55

ALL IN: inzta, smf, lomme, glace, exr eXes: tabu, maeve, neon, haste, acilion xmg: kev1n, msl, hunden, pnx, tenzki flækketid: colon tabaco zeeth percy crzy

2014-10-13 11:09