dignitas to represent UK at WCG 2008

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

United Kingdom Dignitas vs. United Kingdom Four Kings - Demo
de_train - dignitas 16:08 4 Kings
de_inferno - dignitas 16:07 4 Kings

United Kingdom Dignitas vs. United Kingdom TCM - Demo
de_nuke - dignitas 16:05 TCM
de_dust2 - dignitas 16:14 TCM

United Kingdom TCM vs. United Kingdom 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.

#1
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Russia denz111
Nice, good job and gl :)
2008-08-09 23:47
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#2
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Netherlands AK^ WOEHOE
tight fight between TCM and 4Kings gl Dignitas!!!
2008-08-09 23:50
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#3
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United Kingdom SkullsY
Was hoping TCM would win D2. Oh well, gg. GL Dig.
2008-08-09 23:55
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#4
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Denmark Nix0n
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.
2008-08-09 23:55
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#5
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United Kingdom 8Ball^
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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#6
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United Kingdom atticus
UK teams always seem to need mercs... never like that for all the proteams
2008-08-10 00:13
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#13
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Slovakia wiz.joe
what mercs stands for? mercenaries right?
2008-08-10 14:04
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#19
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Denmark Nix0n
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
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The dignitas have a nice show in eswc2007
2008-08-12 01:16
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United Kingdom 8Ball^
That wasn't this team :P
2008-08-12 15:27
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#7
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World alexdududu
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
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United Kingdom atticus
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
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#9
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Denmark Nix0n
Actually, the Last Chance qualifier at i34 only had 1 team signed up, being 4Kings. That's poor.
2008-08-10 00:35
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United Kingdom Bullseye2k
lol 4Kings sucks. good luck Dignitas :) <3 101
2008-08-10 08:00
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Brazil fzZ
Haha nice Dignitas :)
2008-08-10 11:35
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United Kingdom Nic_Taylor
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
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#17
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Denmark Nix0n
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
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#28
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United Kingdom Nic_Taylor
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
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#23
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United Kingdom atticus
and then people complain that they never get to play proteams and improve their skill... this was their chance...
2008-08-10 21:26
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Spain Anvb1S
GL
2008-08-10 16:55
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United Kingdom shazehhh
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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#18
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Denmark Nix0n
Why is he not?
2008-08-10 19:55
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#20
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United Kingdom shazehhh
oops edit think it is the eswc finals he isnt playing
2008-08-10 20:05
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#21
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Denmark Nix0n
Yea but why can't he attend?
2008-08-10 20:54
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#22
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United Kingdom shazehhh
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
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#25
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United Kingdom 8Ball^
He screwed up one of his exams I think and has to retake it.
2008-08-10 23:59
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United Kingdom zaK-
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
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#26
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United Kingdom SHENK`
ul tcm :D
2008-08-11 09:56
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Turkey OFFICIALNEAL
congratulations Dignitas :) <3 AlalalalesKi :)
2008-08-11 10:10
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Faroe Islands s1carius
Hope they are gonna crack open some heads at WCG.
2008-08-11 15:38
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