fnatic claim their fourth big win in 2009, making nobody doubt that they are the team to beat in the world for the time being.
The Swedes faced South Korean team WeMade FOX in the King of the Game at e-Stars Seoul 2009. WeMade FOX had been playing very impressive during the entire e-Stars Seoul 2009 tournament, but faced no mercy against fnatic.
First map saw fnatic taking a 16-12 win on nuke, which was due to a very well executed T side. Moving on to second map dust2, fnatic once again showed they are very strong on the map. Their T side ended 14-1 in favor of the Swedes and winning the CT pistolround made the victory official, as the following round went without problem to the Swedes.
The third/fourth-place decider match saw mTw winning against SK Gaming. The Danes played a really great game and the Swedes looked really moody, taking in consideration that they lost to WeMade FOX. First map dust2 went down with a 16-12 win for mTw. Second map inferno once again saw a strong mTw finished off what they started, winning 16-7 and claiming third place in the King of the Game tournament at e-Stars Seoul 2009.
This ends the e-Stars Seoul 2009 tournament. The Swedes from fnatic did it again, adding another title to their resume. You can find all results, demos and photos from the tournament, by swinging by our coverage section.
We will be processing statistics in the next few days, followed by POV-demos at a later stage.
Noone, if you get what i mean ;)
My personal thought is that, noone in Counter-Strike is nr.1. Atleast not in these modern times... But they sure are "The Team to Beat" right now.
If you watched all of fnatic's matches, they really didn't play good at the eStart event, neither did any other team, (except for TyLoo imo)
They played very close up with mTw, which i didn't expect. I felt a time on de_dust2 that mTw was even close at winning the whole semi-final. But as always mTw fails on de_dust2...
You can base this on one thing... Counter-Strike is random. Always will be :b
2009-07-27 03:23
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If cs is random why is it then the same 3-4 teams who dominate each event?
If fnatic isn't the best why do they win over and over again?
But okay, you've got one thing right - they are the team to beat, not in some lame ass groupplay but place above in an event - yeah - since they are numerous uno :)
2009-07-27 06:54
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You really got a point here, I totally see what you're saying, it's kinda true. you gotta admit though, atm it's pretty much fnatic coming out on top, even thoung they sometimes have to struggle in the group stage / on their way to the final =)
2009-07-27 09:33
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Definitely NOT, did you miss e-stars or the last few tournaments?
I respect your opinion, but I really don't think that mouz could outplay fnatic. But we'll see at the next tournament =)
2009-07-26 13:33
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totally true, fnatic have won ESWC cheonan, EM-global finals, KODE5 and now e-Stars seoul.
mouz only won GameGune which didn't have teams like WMF, SK, fnatic, and mTw. with those 4 teams, mouz would probably not win.
2009-07-26 17:05
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Yes, but the fact that they got more points in the group proves SOMETHING. mTw will definitely be better in a few months, though now they've had vacation so WMF is better atm imo. :P
2009-07-28 13:20
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GameGune have not more strong teams like estars seoul and you tell 1-mouz if fnatic had gone to gamegune they will taking 1 place easly from estars seoul
2009-07-26 15:38
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I think fnatic is number 1 right now, and tbh i believe SK is 2 , since the last tournaments i've been watching, it's been fnatic-SK in final.. But not in this one =D! Just me talking though..
2009-07-26 17:54
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wtf? 06:00 - Sudden Attack Final
07:30 - Club Audition Final
09:00 - WarCraft III Final
11:30 - Counter-Strike 1.6 Final
13:30 - StarCraft Final
the final isn't 11:30? Oo
2009-07-26 11:13
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yeah im pissed aswell, i took my time to shower, eat and drink etc. - then booted my pc around 11:30 (expected a delay) then the final already has been played. =/
2009-07-26 11:34
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lol, i was waiting, so i was playing a real nuubish public server, a random public server. fragging alot, different maps, and watching the clock, then I come back to hltv at 11:05, because the server was too boring, and guess what. People already celebrating Fnatics victory, IF you could see my face rigth then, it literally transformed into the letters W-T-F, my head had that shape, so My little brother asked me why my head was replaced by some letters, and I had to say "something very stupid happened," and that was it. so i sat there in front of the screen, just looking at the desktop wallpaper for a long,long time, i must have gotten into some kind of hypnotic trance for like 15-20 min. Then I got over it and "woke-up", and now im ok. but i hope they never do that kind of BS again.
2009-07-26 13:33
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fnatic really are amazing, sick players... even when you may think their winning streak has come to an end, they manage to reach grand final and to own a really dominating team with 2-0 and a 16-1 result.
of course it's too bad they lost their first maps in a long time in this tournament but they still are on top :]
amazing tournament that showed us that actually most of the EU teams wouldn't stand a chance against TyLoo, k23 and of course WMF, looking forward to see them play more often in EU tourneys.
2009-07-26 11:14
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not talking about them, in the end they did quite a good job against most of them.
I'm talking about all the ones that weren't at eStars and would have HUGE problems fighting against the three East teams :D
2009-07-26 11:23
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Don't forget the continental cup that was played Friday, that had prizes too, plus the trip and hotel was all free for the teams here, so do not be so harsh on e-Stars..
2009-07-26 11:18
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n1 fnatic......i remember last year when mtw was dominating, there were many comments like "fnatic's worst map is d2", "fnatic will get pwned on d2"...........i guess all those comments have been laid to rest after this victory
2009-07-26 12:03
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that's cus last year fnatic where really bad on dd2. but with the lineupswitch they seems to manage any map. de_train is still de_fnatic, nuke is a good map for all the swedish teams i think(?). when you come to think about it, inferno might be fnatic's worst map, and they don't suck there either ; D
2009-07-26 12:48
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de_train is definitely not fnatic's map! They said themselves "We'll probably win this as long as we don't play train too much" and you saw what happened when they played WMF @ train.
2009-07-26 13:58
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"Don't forget the continental cup that was played Friday, that had prizes too, plus the trip and hotel was all free for the teams here, so do not be so harsh on e-Stars..But in Continental Cup:
Winning Side - $7,150 per team
Winning Side Headcoach - $1,600
Losing Side - $3,575 per team
Losing Side Headcoach - $800"
2009-07-26 12:46
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The GameGune winners received 12000€, right?
The winners here received 8500€.
If Team West would've won the Continental Cup they would've received 7150$ per team, which would've made the total amount of prize money for fnatic more than 12000€.
2009-07-26 14:03
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Reallly nice coverage by our HLTV.org crew!!! Hats oFF!!
Please cud we have interviews from WMF players and the others too..??
and btw, which is the next tourney?when and where?
2009-07-26 17:10
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You can easily say who is first, that is fnatic, fnatic has won more than any other team this year, their consistency with placing first is impressive, you cant say the same for SK/WMF/MTW.
2009-07-27 12:39
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Really missing the final breakthrough by SK since the addition of zet.
It is really the opposite from fnatic's perspective, playing Dust2, their "damned" map not long ago, and dominating it.
2009-07-27 17:54
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e-Stars Seoul 2009
fnatic - €8.500
WeMade FOX - €2.250
mTw – €1.100
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