mTw, roccat and e-STRO to San Jose

5-7-2008 17:30

The three teams receiving a berth to the ESWC Grand Finals have been found as MYM fail to advance from the group stage.

Going into the quarter-finals, five out of the eight teams already hold a spot in the ESWC Grand Finals, meaning remaining three teams will automatically receive a berth. mTw, e-STRO and roccat have now secured a qualification spot as MYM failed to advance. The reason why MYM did not advance is that Alternate beat MYM and that overrules the positive round count (we know it says MYM advance in our group stage coverage).

This means the three teams completed one of their two goals at ESWC Masters, will one of them manage to complete their second and win the event?

The quarter-finals will be played single elimination best of one map format. To many a ridiculous call by ESWC, in an interview one of the organizers stated that they wanted more variation of the games on stage.

Quarter-finals – 19:00 CET

mousesports vs. e-STRO
SK Gaming vs. fnatic
mTw vs. Alternate
roccat vs. emuLate

The match between mousesports and e-STRO will be a ”rematch” of the final at Extreme Masters II. Last time mousesports pulled out victorious, is it e-STRO’s time?

Over and over again. SK Gaming and fnatic continue to face each other in the playoffs. Latest meeting was in the Swedish ESWC final and afterwards in the first playoff-round at WGT DreamHack. Both times SK Gaming came out victorious and feel free to bet your parents house that fnatic want this win.

mTw is up against Alternate. The two faced each other at Samsung European Championship, where mTw changed hpx with whiMp. mTw was going strong but totally lost it towards the end, will it once again be de_nuke and will mTw have a shot at advancing one step further into the playoffs, if so, their big-time rivals from emuLate could be waiting. emuLate will face the new arising team roccat. Possible being a stage match, emuLate will have the home-audience to hold their back all the way.

Remember to place your bet, both with fun- and real money on the coming quarter-finals. Tune in to our ESWC Masters coverage section to find all results and demos from the group stage.

gl to the three teams!

2008-07-05 17:33

Good luck fnatic :)!

2008-07-05 17:35

but what happened with MYM,i don't understand what it means berth...

2008-07-05 17:43

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Berth to ESWC Grand Finals, meaning they won a slot. MYM did not advance from the group stage and missed out on one of the three berths.

2008-07-05 17:45

Final = roccat vs eSTRO 1.roccat 2.eSTRO 3.fnatic G_L

2008-07-05 17:44

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In your dreams pedro in your dreams!!!! mTw take roccat 16-12 and then they take fnatic in the final with 16-4 o.0

2008-07-05 17:47

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LAWL ok then :p Final = mTw vs eSTRO 1.mTw 2.eSTRO 3.fnatic ;) G_L

2008-07-05 17:48

e-stro beat mouz..in your dreams bub...they couln'd even bring the victory on SOA..an u want them to defeat mouz...who naild both MYM and ATTax..keep dreamin

2008-07-05 23:11

agreed.

2008-07-05 19:16

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already wrong :) Then: 1.fnatic 2.mTw 3.mouz G_L

2008-07-05 19:57

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replace mouz with roccat and you got it ;) <3

2008-07-05 20:47

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We'll see ;)

2008-07-05 21:04

Looks like you could be right! ^^

2008-07-06 13:43

Yeh prolly ;) But still doubting about fnatic and mTw :S Its possible that mTw takes first place ;) Like I said "We'll see"

2008-07-06 13:45

1.eSTRO 2.SK 3.roccat gg 2 all :D

1.roccat 2.mouz 3.mTw

2008-07-05 17:52

Better bet your parents house because your own is too risky xD

1.Alternate 2.fnatic 3.eSTRO

2008-07-05 17:53

hope to see eSTRO in top3

2008-07-05 18:00

why everybody put out SK from the batle ?

2008-07-05 18:02

oh crap i was so happy that alternate passed. but then...i realized...vs mtw...i put both on my top3 on the steelseries contest..shame on me!

So nice mTw is going to USA and own everyone :D

2008-07-05 18:03

MYM.....:D go roccat

2008-07-05 18:11

It is another posibility for mym to qualify to ESWC grand final??

2008-07-05 18:13

I'm afraid not.

2008-07-05 18:16

not even an invitation or smthg? I mean they must have been top5 since so long they should deserve it, or maybe pay the slot :s oh btw I understood the MYM out thing its not about that :D

2008-07-06 02:19

As defending champions of ESWC, the team did receive a slot for the ESWC Grand Finals. The problem is however that they won it PGS and they have switched to MYM now. PGS did wan't MYM to take the slot, but had to use the PGS name during the grand finals, MYM said no thanks. I have a slight expectation about ESWC inviting them later on though. This was their "last" chance to qualify for the Grand Finals. And you can't buy a spot in the Grand Finals.

2008-07-06 02:24

forgot the switching organization problem...this is where the bullshit begins...but there is no PGS cs1.6 atm so they really do deserve it...but in the end rules are rules its just sad they wont be there I should have used the main post sry ft loss of time :)

2008-07-06 02:48

why MYM not play quarter finals ? he have 10+ rounds Alternate have -10 omg fucking ESWC ?

2008-07-05 18:14

The reason why MYM did not advance is that Alternate beat MYM and that overrules the positive round count (we know it says MYM advance in our group stage coverage).

It seems they took into account their match instead of round difference ::) Ps: Nix0n, MYM still listed 2nd in their group which leads to all those 'MYM out?' comments :P

2008-07-05 18:20

Its logical. Like in sport, while you have two teams with the same amount of points, the winner from their match advances. Round count rule is being used when there are 3+ teams with the same amount of points I suppose.

2008-07-05 18:22

and where all of these rules are listed?

2008-07-05 18:28

eeeh ?

2008-07-05 18:19

ESWC = lose and bad event

2008-07-05 18:21

Cry some more :O

2008-07-05 18:29

haha Q_Q

2008-07-05 18:37

mym has weakeast day and lost matches with alternate and mousesports but mym is better team than both german teams together

I just had to make an account and flame you.. Because, jesus im tired of looking on some of you mym fanboys... yes they prolly did have a bad day.. but face the fact, they lost both matches versus the germans and just this day it happend to be the germans was better, its quite simple.. so go to your little cave again and cry there instead.. or keep you shitty comment away if you cant handle your hero team gets defeated. Gl to the rest.. lets have some awesome hltv ;-)

2008-07-05 18:54