Preselected teams for ESWC Masters

25-3-2009 15:39

The ESWC committee has preselected twelve teams for the ESWC Cheonan Masters.

The signup for the event ended on the 23rd of March and ESWC has now narrowed the signups down to twelve teams and four teams on waiting list. The event is taking place 2nd to 5th of May at the 2009 Cheonan International e-Sports Culture Festival, held at Yu Gwanun Gymnasium and Cheonan Sports Complex.

The teams preselected are all teams confirmed to be attending, should one or more cancel, then teams will be pleased by the ones on the waiting list.

Preselected

Evil Geniuses
fnatic
ex-MYM
mousesports
mTw
SK Gaming
Speeder
Immunity
Ultimax
TitaNs
wNv
x3o

Waiting list

Crack Clan
Gravitas Gaming
k23
Tyloo

Stay tuned for more information regarding ESWC Cheonan Masters, which will be covered by HLTV.org.

Nice

2009-03-25 15:41

Speeder? Anyone know the lineup?

2009-03-25 15:44

7 replies

Not sure if its the same, but the one they used at ESWC last summer was: Sion, Twist, Nativo, Xenqlity & Noppo

2009-03-25 15:54

6 replies

Ok thanks! We will see!

2009-03-25 15:55

do u know where WEMADEFOX is?

2009-03-25 18:56

4 replies

home

2009-03-25 19:30

3 replies

LOL..:)

2009-03-25 21:23

yeah at their wemadefox house(boot camp for their complete life) :D

2009-03-25 22:35

1 reply

hAhAHaAH :D that's true :D

2009-03-26 11:15

go immunity!

2009-03-25 15:44

go x3o & k23

2009-03-25 15:48

ex-MYM... They will announce their new name soon I guess.

2009-03-25 15:48

3 replies

it is PGS

2009-03-25 16:34

2 replies

they dont play for PGS for more then 1 year pgs got new team, so you cant still call them PGS :/

2009-03-25 17:35

1 reply

i know. but psg will pick up them again. think logically

2009-03-25 19:04

ex-MYM lol I like that name.

2009-03-25 15:51

no norwegian team:(

2009-03-25 15:58

8 replies

well there is no norwegian top team right now.. they have good players but they are all split

2009-03-25 16:02

norway is dead. but dont worry one day we will return:D

2009-03-25 16:03

6 replies

norway died when elemeNt retired:(

2009-03-25 16:36

5 replies

dont aggree, norway died when Juve9le, naikon, KF3 and element retired.

2009-03-25 17:15

4 replies

well. Norway is not dead. im still living here and it looks fine to me:P but the Norwegian cs scene died when element, XeqtR, Naikon, BSL and Juve9le retired. KF3 is overrated tbh.

2009-03-26 08:55

3 replies

hehe you got my point:P KF3 may be a little overrated, but still a very good player.

2009-03-26 14:48

2 replies

yeah. 3 aces vs mibr in ot for example:P

2009-03-26 22:12

1 reply

hehe yeah^^

2009-03-26 22:24

what's Ultimax? any past tournaments that I can look up with them?

2009-03-25 16:03

2 replies

I think ultimax was at wcg 2008

2009-03-25 16:12

1 reply

There was the team from the same country as Ultimax The team was HiNet-UMX,maybe it's the same team :)

2009-03-25 16:15

wNv lineup?

2009-03-25 16:10

4 replies

e2o KangTa qjilx sunshine virgo xiren

2009-03-25 16:17

3 replies

the recent line up for wNv(WCG China Xi An) r aqi, Kangta, prom1se, k1n, KASK. PS: in first week they lost to marauder, then lost 2nd time to team after90 in second week...

2009-03-25 16:39

2 replies

do you have those hltv demos from those matches??

2009-03-25 16:40

1 reply

nicez.com post all demos, version47 lol

2009-03-26 03:51

ESWC should open the slots

2009-03-25 16:11

btw where is wemadefox

2009-03-25 16:12

go SK-Gaming, mTw.dk and EX-MYM

2009-03-25 16:21

I don't know if ESWC is planning to have more of these Masters tournaments, but I believe again the teams that place 1st - 3rd will qualify for the grand finals. Pretty bad for crackclan since Finland hasn't had its own ESWC qualifier in the past 2 years and now they didn't even get a slot in the Masters. Whereas almost every other team there is from a country that host a qualifier each year. I think only Poland didn't have a qualifier last year. In a way I understand that they'd like to have a few local Asian teams there but teams like Speeder or Ultimax won't stand a chance of getting more than a few rounds against good European teams. Hopefully ESWC will host another Masters level tournament with more teams so all the teams that don't have a qualifier of their own can apply freely and try to get a spot in the Grand Finals.

2009-03-25 16:25

3 replies

Poland had ESWC'08,Another way Frag-eXecutors wouldn't play in Grand Final :)

2009-03-25 16:52

2 replies

Yeah, you're right. That makes it even more funny as Finland is pretty much the only country that doesn't have its own qualifier of the countries that actually has a decent cs team. Also, crack players have been ranked top10 for 2,5 years now and they still didn't get an invitation whereas two American teams got invited none of which have achieved anything decent. ( If you don't count former coL players' achievements from 3-4 years ago..)

2009-03-25 17:00

1 reply

Yeah,You're 100% right,Soltec also is a good team which can play on the same level as CC

2009-03-25 17:02

k23 :pray

2009-03-25 16:48

Evil geniuses and x3o being selected ahead of gravitas is bad. and also we didnt get picked. DOH!

2009-03-25 16:59

1 reply

haha:P but yeah you are deffinatly right. I think the only reason why EG is in there is because of the names.

2009-03-25 20:50

OMG 3 american teams!? For what??? They've shown how "good" they are @ EM This tournament sucks IMO

2009-03-25 17:00

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Yea,There are better teams than AMERICAN teams..

2009-03-25 17:05

2 american teams. GG are on the waiting list which is rediculous seing they perfomed the best in Hannover, and won KODE5 in Dallas.

2009-03-25 17:27

I really hope they expand the field or someone doesnt show up so CC can get a spot. I don't know how 2 American teams got an invite over CC especially since one isnt GG who is the best American team right now.

2009-03-25 17:14

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+1. Sucks for GG. they were great at kode5, and also beat x3o in cevo earlier this week.

2009-03-25 17:27

nice

2009-03-25 17:15

Good

2009-03-25 17:45

ohhh yeah , I wanna see the japs in action.i thoght nobody plays so old gams like cs in there.Hope they kick ass.

2009-03-25 18:04

ye, where is wemadeFOX, not participating or?

2009-03-25 18:49

2 replies

i THINK korean teams have a seperate qualifier for the tournament. not 100% sure about that though

2009-03-25 18:55

1 reply

Might be, I've heard it's going to be 16 teams so..

2009-03-25 21:12

hope that Polish guys will find a new organisation soon...

2009-03-25 18:56

Crack, GG and k23 should all be ahead of some of the confirmed teams such as speeder, ultimax, x3o and EG.. and probly titans too. rediculous

2009-03-25 18:56

Who made this list is a bit wakoo, cuz some of this teams shouldn't be here and other should, where is aTTaX ? they did a great job @EM3. Anyway GG > EG + x3o, sad thing... I bet that noname teams can't win 3 rounds against european teams.Who the hell is Tyloo they should invite attax instead or FG, but..no.

2009-03-25 19:04

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Maybe they didn't sign up?

2009-03-25 21:12

immunity,titans,ultimax,speeder after taking one or two rounds they will come back their places,(maybe americans takes some more3 or 4 rounds:D) how sad and ridiculous I think CC(finish team) and Attax deserve more than these teams.If sth works like that we want to see some teams from Uganda,Cameroon and of course Dijibouti pls..

2009-03-25 19:29

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Don't think those youths have seen computers..

2009-03-25 21:13

Um... EG.usa...? Excuse me? They can't even place top5 in their local scene. And where's Alternate's invite? What about Gravitas?? WTF is going ON with this tournament??

2009-03-25 19:32

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this invitations to the pretty guys i guess! gravitas smashed everyone, incredible, so as alternate, was awesome...cant believe this guys...

2009-03-25 21:25

Where mibr, Firegamers, Alternate? Who is Ultimax?

2009-03-25 19:57

1 reply

Probably not signed up.

2009-03-25 21:13

Speeder, Ultimax, TitaNs, Tyloo why not k1ck? he made a good result vs mibr at dreamhack, i dont understand this fucking s_h_i_t

2009-03-25 21:25

3 replies

yeah I wonder too why all portuguese teams were not invited what a shame,how couldnt they think that?

2009-03-26 02:13

Maybe their country is closer to Korea? If US can send in 3 teams, why don't they allow K1ck to get pwnd?? hehe... Come on Titans.. Make S.E Asia gunners proud!U|traKILLLL!!!

2009-03-26 03:17

1 reply

k1ck 16 - 0 titans...

2009-03-26 14:06

alternate, wemade fox, compLexity ? :(

2009-03-25 21:32

5 replies

col is actually really bad. you dont think so? they lost vs the top3 american teams in 2 different leagues

2009-03-25 22:36

4 replies

col is better then eg..

2009-03-26 09:13

3 replies

and why they lost every time vs EG? :DDD or most of them. the last match vs EG was 5-16 for EG on de_nuke. EG started as T and hold over 9 rounds. otherwise its THAN not then :D

2009-03-26 12:09

2 replies

col have played higher on lans so far. but their bout still pretty bad.

2009-03-26 22:11

1 reply

results on lan and online say only one thing : EG > col

2009-03-26 22:24

No Portuguese Team? OMG

2009-03-25 21:40

I understand that they needed to have Asian teams, but well, k23 is one and prolly one of the best. Why not them? Kick EG and x30 the fuck outta there and get lurppis & co and Gravitas

2009-03-25 22:18

ex-MYM is nice name..... I think somebody of these teams ex-MYM Sk mouz fnatic mTw

2009-03-26 00:06

k23 should have been in the preselected list...

2009-03-26 02:07

WNV out, please

2009-03-26 02:26

No ESWC Brazil this year, no brazilian teams at ESWC Masters, what means: No FG or mibr at ESWC Finals... same for the finnish CrackClan =/

2009-03-26 04:28

y no k23 n crack clan........eswc noob admins :|

2009-03-26 06:04

eg? bullshit.. their probably beat the Asians. but will lose 16-2 or something to all euro teams. maybe even immunity will beat them:S GG? CC?

2009-03-26 08:53

3 replies

GG=GOOD GAME? and vs crack clan they played 14-16 :D vs fnatic i guess it was 12-16. you want more results? only the game vs alternate vs really bad for them

2009-03-26 12:07

2 replies

Gravitas Gaming.

2009-03-26 18:15

1 reply

and why he talked about euros? like the old gravitas from denmark? :DDD

2009-03-26 19:01