EPS Scandinavia ready to set off

17-11-2008 00:34

The first season of ESL Pro Series Scandinavia is ready to set off this week.

Sunday featured the last-chance qualifier, seeing eight teams competing for the remaining two spots in EPS Scandinavia. Sweden succeeded in getting the two spots, as lanklan and Playzone.se both eliminated Danish teams in the deciding matches. This finalizes the list of teams for the first season. The season will consist of following ten teams:

mTw – ave, MJE, Sunde, zonic & whimp
XLBet.ATS – ArcadioN, FaggaN, Friis, trace & wazorN
SK Gaming – allen, RobbaN, walle, zet & Tentpole
fnatic – Archi, cArn, dsn, f0rest & ins
lanklan – GeT_RiGhT, kHRYSTAL, qp, threat & FYRR73
Playzone.se – pronax, danne, pita, BARBARR & xeron
GamePlay – contE, naSu, ruuit, tihOp & plastE
HaHa – lurppis, barrack, JiGetus, Shiri, toNppa & Twista
XpreZ – noLA, REAL, syrtekz, elemeNt & prb
Playzone.no – Vertigo, jokki, mikkis, NeverLast & RashiE

The first playweek will start tomorrow, teams have until the coming Sunday to schedule their matches. The matcups for playweek 1 are:

mTw vs. Playzone.no
SK Gaming vs. XLBet.ATS
fnatic vs. XpreZ
GamePlay vs. HaHa
lanklan vs. Playzone.se

The season will have a total of nine playweeks, including Intel Friday Night Game (being played 16th of January 2009), which match is yet to be determined. The prize purse for the first EPS Scandinavia season is split up as follows:

1. 7.500€
2. 5.000€
3. 2.000€
4. 1.000€

Win bonus - 50€
iFNG win bonus - 1.000€

The four best teams of the season will be advancing to the LAN-finals, being played 7-8th of February 2009 in Copenhagen.

HLTV.org will be providing full coverage of the first ever EPS Scandinavia, meaning HLTV, demos, scorebots, results, standings and a lot more.

nice :P

2008-11-17 00:42

nice :PP

2008-11-17 00:50

Why is blank not attending?

2008-11-17 00:55

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Failed to qualify.

2008-11-17 01:00

just ok :p

2008-11-17 00:58

awesome

2008-11-17 01:11

wooow, so many good teams!

2008-11-17 01:13

Go XpreZ & Playzone.no ;-D

2008-11-17 01:18

XpreZ will be the surprise

good teams in there :)

2008-11-17 01:20

Win bonus - 50€ iFNG win bonus - 1.000€ what is iFNG win bonus????

2008-11-17 01:40

nvm figured out its the Intel Friday Night Game win, nfi how to edit posts LOL

2008-11-17 01:59

and needs more blank instead of playzone.se :( oh well

2008-11-17 01:41

toNppa :) gooo lanklan, xlbet and mtw :)

2008-11-17 02:39

Nice

2008-11-17 02:43

yes sad that blank is not there..

2008-11-17 03:46

is element playing?

2008-11-17 06:43

Read: XpreZ – noLA, REAL, syrtekz, elemeNt & prb ;)

2008-11-17 08:10

go XpreZ go elemeNt...i hope xprez take fnatic,hard but not imposible:)

2008-11-17 06:51

I'm pretty sure lanklan and mtw will be amongst the four teams at the lan final :)

2008-11-17 07:15

xprez v fnatic will be really nice to watch . and the 1k thing is at the nights where esl-tv is there and they go live on fryday to there and shit,every win gives 50 aswell lol..

2008-11-17 07:48

go forest

2008-11-17 08:26

mTw > Playzone.no SK Gaming < XLBet.ATS fnatic < XpreZ GamePlay > HaHa lanklan > Playzone.se

2008-11-17 08:41

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SK Gaming >>>>> XLBET.ATS

2008-11-17 14:35

well see dude..

2008-11-18 05:04

mTw SK hopefully XpreZ :) gameplay lanklan

2008-11-17 08:58

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i dont know, is fnatic playing good again? heard they recently lost against gameplay and playzone.se mTw SK gameplay fnatic should be my list;)

2008-11-17 10:31

fnatic won against GamePlay, so their playing good again.

2008-11-17 11:41

really? oh sorry my mistake, really thought gameplay won :p. glad fnatic is playing good again!

2008-11-17 11:46

any of them have school? because they are always out for gaming business :D don't have school it's like a dream to me :D

2008-11-17 10:25

i heard mTw is not attending school this year, because they chose this year to speak up at major events. i dont know about the other teams

2008-11-17 10:29

Interesting to see GamePlay vs HaHa. HaHa does have very good players, and I believe they could very well fight for the win

2008-11-17 10:38

yep

2008-11-17 11:09

mTw and lanklan ;)

2008-11-17 11:29

mTw SK Fnatic

2008-11-17 11:40

mTw SK lanklan

2008-11-17 11:57

SK Gaming & mTw are my favourites :) not: HaHa will can surprise. BARRACK is wonderful player!!

2008-11-17 12:01

GO GO XpreZ !! :D

2008-11-17 12:12

I now mTw winner :))) =))

2008-11-17 12:13

mTw will win. But good luck Swedish underdogs Playzone!

2008-11-17 12:21

nicee :D

2008-11-17 12:38

Great idea EPS Scandinavia .... NICE TOURNAMENT

2008-11-17 12:40

kebab's of XpreZ!

2008-11-17 13:05

GamePlay too bad cbteam isnt in this tournament ;(

2008-11-17 13:12

omg... xD cbteam = XpreZ

2008-11-17 13:15

lAWL :D thnx for the info go cbteam den (and roccat:P)

2008-11-17 13:16

I really hope fnatic have been working on their problems and that they are ready to be top2 or top1... Only thing that's for sure: mTw will d00minate.

2008-11-17 13:14