UCC: Europe finals to be played online

2-2-2016 20:50

The $15,000 Uprise Champions Cup European edition will not see its finals play out in Moscow, Russia due to an overlapping date with the Acer Predator Masters Season 2 finals and will thus conclude online.

The $15,000 Uprise Champions Cup: Europe was announced back in November 2015 and featured 16 teams in an online GSL group stage, some of whom were invited, some of whom qualified, and some of whom advanced due to their placings in the third Uprise Champions Cup season.

UCC: Europe promised to also have the six teams which advanced through its second group stage in December attend eventual $15,000 LAN finals in 2016 (with an additional $5,000 in travel support), which were tentatively scheduled for late January or early February.

FlipSid3 will be one of the six teams dueling for $15,000 online rather than offline

When the final dates were fixed for the UCC: Europe finals, they were set in stone as February 11-14 in Moscow, Russia. However, an unfortunate and ironic piece of news occurred when the second season of the $40,000 Acer Predator Masters was also postponed due to scheduling conflicts in January with new dates of February 11-14.

Due to the overlap of some teams in both competitions (E-frag.net, Vexed, FlipSid3) and their desire to not abandon APM Season 2, UCC have decided to cancel the LAN finals with the option of other dates in February also not being feasible due to a strong saturation of tournaments for this month.

UCC therefore talked to their streaming partner DingIt.tv and have agreed on an online finals instead featuring six teams, which will take place from February 17-19. An offline studio will also be set aside for the Russian stream and feature Russian casters.

The second group stage for UCC: Europe has actually not finished as Group A has yet to play out whereas from Group B the three teams advancing to the online finals are FlipSid3 Tactics, Team YP, and Nostalgie. Group A will play out in the coming weeks.

In addition, it has been announced that Vexed have dropped out of Group A due to their travels during the same time of the online bracket to the EXL Expo Barecelona event. A replacement team will be announced shortly.

stich writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter

2016-02-02 20:50

3 replies

How is this nice? We want offline

2016-02-02 20:54

2 replies

We want you to leave this forum that's the first thing we want

2016-02-02 21:26

1 reply

Who are you and what have I done to you?

2016-02-02 21:27

great

Nice, gl flipside

2016-02-02 20:51

nice

no shit

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Btw Check my application Stich ;)

gratz to all

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2nd

Where would it be played otherwise?

10 replies

it was going to be offline in moscow, read the story ;_;

2016-02-02 20:52

9 replies

People are too busy commenting to get first lol. This notification thing on articles kinda backfired, didn't it? I see you guys deleting like 20 comments in every news article

2016-02-02 20:55

4 replies

tbh I think it's a really good implementation. people who dislike it need to actually do work to go turn it off in their settings. whereas people who rush to comment first learn that their comments get deleted. over time, this should snowball into cleaner news comments.

2016-02-02 21:00

Maybe you're right. I'm not complaining about the notifications themselves, just the result of how the community is abusing it.

2016-02-02 21:03

yeah time will tell I guess!

2016-02-02 21:08

Another option would be to implement a feature that detects copies of the same comment in the same thread. It wouldn't prevent people from typing comments as fast as possible but it would remove all the "spam". And not only on news articles, go to any thread of the forum and you will see people copying the comment of OP or someone else because they somehow find it amusing. It's starting to become too annoying for the users who still actually try to have decent discussions on this forum. Sorry for rant lol

2016-02-02 21:18

Oh sorry, I wanted to watch the Ence - Method game and get a reply from someone who knew, Your feelings got hurt ;_; But yeah the notifications are pretty eh imo

2016-02-02 21:02

no my feelings didn't get hurt I just enjoy making this emoticon ;_;

gotcha >:D

2016-02-02 21:09

;_;

2016-02-02 21:10

Most logical replacement for Vexed would be HR, who finished 3rd in Group D. But they won't accept, so it would fall to aTTaX (who were still with KILLERFISH when they played this event)

2016-02-02 20:56