BMG win Intel Challenge Katowice

16-3-2015 09:00

Bad Monkey Gaming came out on top of Intel Challenge Katowice following a 2-0 victory over CM Storm (16-12 on de_cache and 16-5 on de_nuke).

Following the end of ESL One Katowice, which saw fnatic scoop their second major CS:GO title, the community's eyes turned to the female tournament in Poland, featuring four of the world's best teams and a $30,000 prize pool.

CM Storm, who qualified for this tournament as TBA, were the first to reach the grand final after disposing of local side ALSEN with a 2-0 scoreline.

In the other side of the bracket the heat was turned up as Bad Monkey Gaming took on UBINITED in a clash between two giants. After losing the first map, de_mirage, 8-16, Christine "⁠potter⁠" Chi's side equalised the series by picking up a 16-9 win on de_cache, but Zainab "⁠zAAz⁠" Turkie's troops ran out 16-10 winners on de_inferno to progress to the final.

BMG hardly broke a sweat in the final

As expected, Bad Monkey Gaming made light work of CM Storm in the grand and quickly emerged victorious following 16-12 and 16-5 wins on de_cache and de_nuke, respectively.

Intel Challenge Katowice 2015Best of 3

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Intel Challenge Katowice final standings:

1. Bad Monkey Gaming - $15,000
2. CM Storm - $7,500
3. UBINITED - $5,000
4. ALSEN - $2,500

yay nice juliano

2015-03-16 11:09

zAAz <3

wp grills

15 grand

n1 girls

pretty expected

2015-03-16 11:11

gg nip you'll get em next time, dont kick allu thanks

2015-03-16 11:13

stats please?

2015-03-16 11:15

nice girls scissoring each other after

2015-03-16 11:17

can't believe it what an absolute cracker of a final. Was absolutely breathtaking. Females. oh

2015-03-16 11:18

ez for iRene

CM Storm played fairly well on Cache. Pretty good game up until Nuke; congrats to BMG =)

Who? KAPPA

2015-03-16 11:19

zaaz was way too good, dropping 30+ kills every game its like a dmg smurfing in the female ranks

2015-03-16 11:26

2015-03-16 11:31

So much respect for Girls here. Sarcasm* Immature n3rds with no respect is pathetic.

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why should we respect shit players :D?

2015-03-16 12:17

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The focus is not on their skills, it's only about their gender.

2015-03-16 13:04

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so? I see them as players, not as girls. Unfortunately, I cannot respect shit noobs.

2015-03-16 13:22

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Then you should not be offended by my post. It's not directed towards you.

2015-03-16 13:35

No respect for shit teams being paid to play due to having a vagina rofl

2015-03-16 12:48

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There is a differense between talking about the subject of them being Girls and the subject of them being bad players.

2015-03-16 13:08

And the difference is the first subject weighs more than the second, unless u can find another reason for them to get payed so much ...

2015-03-16 13:11

I fail to see where I mentioned their payment.

2015-03-16 13:37

I misinterpreted your comment, sorry.

2015-03-16 13:44

I still don't get why there is a female league in eSports since the mainleagues played isn't restricted to males only. I understand that there is skillgap between males and females but then it should be a matter of mixteams, not female/male only teams.. Hope to see it happening some day. GG WP to BMG anyways.

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Kayane is really the only female I KNOW that competes at the top of her game. It's weird but their is a HUGE skill gap between males and females in just about every competitive game. Even Hearthstone (which makes no sense really..)

2015-03-16 11:46

Yeah, I've been wondering this also... Since there are females who have played from 1.5 days or earlier in every country basically, there shouldn't be such skillgap. I have no idea what would explain the massive skillgap between females and males..

2015-03-16 11:49

brain

2015-03-16 12:06

I've heard that its some kind of brain thing, that women CAN'T perform at the needed level in men's pro gaming.

2015-03-16 13:54

Being good alone for a girl could be found and rare gathering 5 good girls to compete with top male teams is too hard . Even i would say pick 5 Global Elite they wont do any damage to a top team I do think if a male team pick them up Zaaz or Juliano for example they would do pretty decent job . Juliano was stand in SLTV (for like xelos's team or other top swedish guys ) and did like 2nd scoreboard 2 matches she played.

2015-03-16 18:41

cajunb MAN, turn around :D

2015-03-16 11:33

it's an old photo of 2014 katowise

2015-03-16 16:54

cajunb <3

2015-03-16 11:43

lol? this tournament was also played during katowice? :S I wonder what everyone watched instead.

2015-03-16 11:48

There were 40k ppl when i took a peek.

2015-03-16 13:13

Who ?

grills

2015-03-16 11:50

ok, ty.

2015-03-16 12:03

dem monkeys

2015-03-16 11:51

Whats happen with lilsan? She was beast -.-

sweden stronk

2015-03-16 12:02

ez zAAz <3

2015-03-16 12:10

OMG Juliano <3

2015-03-16 12:15

sweden dominates the cs:go scene ;) fuck poland

2015-03-16 12:50

Only two swedes in bmg.

2015-03-16 13:02

ubinited 3rd<3

why dafaq you take an old picture and write final under it lool

2015-03-16 13:15

Funny that we haven't heard about the female tournament until now... :)

2015-03-16 14:16

$2,500 for being a woman team and nothing else at all, talk about equality.

2015-03-16 14:28

Ubnited vs BMG was the true final, and it was a great one at that.

2015-03-16 15:22

Zaaz Muslim? Her first name is islamic name

2015-03-16 15:32

CM finally it was worth it to get carried by your boyfriend in the EU qualifier . You avoid ubinited you get a freewin vs Alsen then 7500$ and a good structure. But finally in the final getting rek by starting CT on nuke is so ... 4 teams (Best Na Team (Ubinited ) , Best polish team (but weak compared to other EU teams , BMG 1 of 3 Best team in Europe & World, and CM (german team who get qualified on internet and get 1rst Seed ( thanks to their BF) Epsilon 3DMAX Reason eSportEngine Img would have been better teams instead CM and also Alsen (but 1 polish slot so its ok) .

2015-03-16 15:50

Gj julie & zaaz :)

2015-03-16 16:05

Girls getting 15k and guys on 5th place getting 10k n1.

2015-03-16 17:16

I don't mind female gaming. What I do mind is people like Miss Harvey claiming that they are 3x world champions. Im sorry, but no, you're not. You're a 3x female only tournament world champion. That's not even close to being a legitimate world champion. Theres a big difference from fnatic saying theyre 2x world champs, and miss harvey saying shes a 3x world champ.

2015-03-16 18:20