dignitas to represent UK at WCG 2008

9-8-2008 22:36

The WCG 2008 UK Qualifiers took place this weekend at Multiplay's i34 LAN Party in Stonleigh Park, UK.

In what appears to be a rather poor show for the UK CS1.6 scene, only 3 clans attended this year's WCG Qualifiers. Team Dignitas, Four Kings & Team Coolermaster were the only attendees.

The tournament was played in a group stage format, with all the teams playing each other once in a best-of-3 format.

Team Dignitas came out victorious, securing themselves a berth in this year’s WCG 2008 Grand Finals which will be held in Cologne, Germany at the Koelnmesse Event Hall 8 from the November 5th - November 9th 2008.

However, with such a weak CS1.6 scene in the UK at the moment it seems unlikely that any of these teams will pose much of a challenge.

WCG 2008 UK Qualifier Results

Group Stages
Dignitas vs. Four Kings - Demo
de_train - dignitas 16:08 4 Kings
de_inferno - dignitas 16:07 4 Kings
Dignitas vs. TCM - Demo
de_nuke - dignitas 16:05 TCM
de_dust2 - dignitas 16:14 TCM

TCM vs. Four Kings - Demo
de_train - TCM 16:13 4 Kings
de_inferno - TCM 04:16 4 Kings
de_nuke - TCM 19:17 4 Kings

Full event coverage, including demos, can be found on this page.

Nice, good job and gl :)

2008-08-09 23:47

tight fight between TCM and 4Kings gl Dignitas!!!

2008-08-09 23:50

Was hoping TCM would win D2. Oh well, gg. GL Dig.

2008-08-09 23:55

The UK scene is still very poor if you ask me. Hope Dignitas can tighten up a bit a show some good results at ESWC and WCG. I really hoped that TCM would pull off that dust2 win, but sadly did not happen.

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I don't think they will do as well at ESWC as they could as they are using a merc, just like at KODE5.

2008-08-10 00:09

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UK teams always seem to need mercs... never like that for all the proteams

2008-08-10 00:13

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what mercs stands for? mercenaries right?

2008-08-10 14:04

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It's like a stand-in.

2008-08-10 19:55

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Stand-in sounds at least nicer than Merc lol

2008-08-11 14:50

The dignitas have a nice show in eswc2007

2008-08-12 01:16

That wasn't this team :P

2008-08-12 15:27

There was only 3 teams attending because mutliplay held an online qualifier with 64 teams. Top 3 qualfied and got LAN entry paid.

2008-08-10 00:29

from what I understood multiplay were going ot have another pre-qualifier at i34 .. yesterday i think which never happened?

2008-08-10 00:35

Actually, the Last Chance qualifier at i34 only had 1 team signed up, being 4Kings. That's poor.

lol 4Kings sucks. good luck Dignitas :) <3 101

2008-08-10 08:00

Haha nice Dignitas :)

2008-08-10 11:35

Nix0n, you can't really blame teams for not attending the last chance BYOC qualifier. £80 for a BYOC ticket, add to that food/accommodation/travel (as well as the effort of bringing your own rig) and you're looking at an expensive qualifying event for each player. 20 teams (which is decent enough) signed up to the online qualifiers and three were supposed to go through to the finals with the last team being picked from the last chance qualifiers. Faction told the Multiplay guys they wouldn't be attending but it wasn't really announced to the public and thus as soon as 4K signed up most people couldn't be bothered to spend that much money on one slot they'd very likely not win. Granted, last years LAN prequalifier was played on Multiplays PC and only four teams turned up simply due to the main bulk of teams not realizing this option was available. I'll agree its an awful turnout, but people just don't want to spend over £100 on the chance they won't even reach the national finals.

2008-08-10 14:11

I agree it's a big expense just to have fun, but there must be loads of potential teams at i34?

2008-08-10 19:54

Sadly no. There was a last ditch effort to get some of the CS:S teams to sign up, but their tournament was in full swing at the time.

2008-08-11 11:31

and then people complain that they never get to play proteams and improve their skill... this was their chance...

2008-08-10 21:26

2008-08-10 16:55

summed up by #14 suffz is once again not going so its a huge loss for dignitas as he is an amazing player

2008-08-10 19:51

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Why is he not?

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oops edit think it is the eswc finals he isnt playing

2008-08-10 20:05

Yea but why can't he attend?

2008-08-10 20:54

i dont know aleski mentioned it in an interview didnt give any reasons, he missed KODE5 coz of exams though.

2008-08-10 21:15

He screwed up one of his exams I think and has to retake it.

2008-08-10 23:59

Without being big headed, realistically there weren't any other teams that had a chance of winning this qualifier - who's going to pay 80 pounds each to play and lose vs teams they've played against loads of times before? If it was TUP then there probably would of been more teams.

2008-08-10 23:15