KerchNET wipes out defending champs

14-1-2010 22:36

KerchNET have eliminated the defending champions of the European Championship, as mTw was defeated 17-13 on de_train.

Not many would have expected the defending champions of the European Championship to be eliminated just after the first day of the championship. But that is now a fact, as mTw lost their third game in the tournament, when facing KerchNET on de_train.

The Danes got to start CT on train-graveyard, and showed that this map, is one of their better. mTw had the upper hand in the first half and mTw captain Alexander "ave" Holdt contributed his team with great play, especially in the third round, where he managed to take our four KerchNET members on his own, to win the round. The first half went to mTw with 12-3, but the Danes had many chances of winning both 13-2 and 14-1. This showed KerchNET the light and with that being said, it was quickly put out again, as mTw won the T pistol round.

From this point and onwards, nothing went to mTw, as KerchNET continued to shut them down. Not a single round did the Danes score, which gave KerchNET a surprising 17-13 win against mTw.

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This means the defending champions have been eliminated, as mTw can at a maximum reach fourth place in their group. Should they do so, then they can secure a spot to the World Championship at CeBIT later this year. KerchNET now take third, which allow them into the relegation stage.

The French team of oXmoze tied versus n!faculty, which gave them one point and they now take second place in the group. All shining-star of fnatic won the last match of the day, when seeing off Alternate. The Swedes have now secured top spot of the group and access to the playoffs. Tomorrow will see the last round of the group stage, where KerchNET play Alternate, mTw play n!faculty and oXmoze take on fnatic.

NIce play!

2010-01-14 22:36

wtf?!

mTw and AGAiN goes home xD sad but true, not their days I would say...

2010-01-14 22:39

4 replies

or maybe lets face the fact that they started sucking for no reason.

2010-01-14 22:55

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atleast alternate and mouz doing kindof good :)

2010-01-14 23:26

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Is 2 win and 2 lose kind of good? They disappointed, especially mouz, in my opinion.

2010-01-14 23:56

sad but true, yeah, metallica rulez! :)

2010-01-15 12:12

sad

sad. fnatic seems unstoppable though, if they continue like this, the tournament is theirs.

one of the first times they play so good in group right? on other tournaments they always just make playoffs and then dominate :D

2010-01-15 11:42

They never win when winning the group.

2010-01-22 22:59

mTw :S fnatic is on fire!!!

AGAiN and mTw failed extremely today

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bo1 always makes such suprises, which is good imo :)

2010-01-14 23:13

Even if you blame it on the bo1 it's still very bad play by both teams. I don't think I have ever seen mTw play that bad.

2010-01-14 23:42

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I agree..

2010-01-14 23:51

At least Ravens are doing amazingly today, dk should be proud of them atm :D i would :b

2010-01-15 00:27

Yep, they have been amazing. But lets see how they will do in play-offs.

2010-01-15 04:35

KNet nice!!!! Ukraine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-01-14 22:41

And people that talking: too easy for mtw, yeah i see

Like anybody would have expected this before ...

2010-01-15 00:49

Thats not what i meant ^^, i mean that Kerch.net(arbalet.ua) have very skilled players and mtw will not win (if they win) easily, there will be true fight and not some bots running on the map =)))

2010-01-15 12:37

Yeah, right. But I think a lot of people would have had expected mTw to be capable of defeting Kerch.net.

2010-01-16 14:56

yes of course

2010-01-16 17:33

And people that talking: good bye Ravens , yeah we saw that

2010-01-15 08:59

KerchNET all the way baby

Almost turned off my computer after the first half when mTw was killing everything. =) not gonna lie, did NOT see that coming after kNET lost pistols.. what a huge comeback! btw, when are the games tmr?

2010-01-14 22:42

gl KNET

2010-01-14 22:43

Fnatic was unstoppable.

2010-01-14 22:45

Kind of misplaced :D

2010-01-16 20:31

kNET very nice game!

2010-01-14 22:46

One of the greatest comeback ever. Sad for mTw, they played a great CT side, but KerchNET were simply better on the second half. I have no idea where did they get that motivation from after being down at 13-2. That eco round probably turned the game around.

2010-01-14 22:47

Probably? It DID turn the game around, if they would have lost that they would have been forced to have another eco with even less cash, I assume they had deagles? (Didn't watch)

2010-01-22 23:01

lol I quitted cs after seeing the first half on train :D now I see it was a mistake :/

2010-01-14 22:48

sad :((( Sunde come back to mtw :|||||||| wee need you

and alternate too :(

2010-01-14 22:49

gratz !

2010-01-14 22:51

the best finale ravens vs kerchnet. gogogo best teams in this tournament

2010-01-14 22:52

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After watching today's games, how could you exclude Fnatic from the "best final"? They played fucking amazingly BEATING kerchnet. Remember?

2010-01-14 22:56

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They played amazing? GeT_RiGhT would disagree with you, as he said in the interview with carmac and aven. KerchNET on the other hand played amazing almost BEATING fnatic...

2010-01-15 08:32

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and kerchnet lose against oXz...ya it's amazing lol

2010-01-15 08:57

oXmoze has one more point that KNET, and both teams are (at the moment) qualified to the finals.

2010-01-15 10:51

what i mean is that Kerchnet is not as stronger as you want to show.

2010-01-15 11:27

At least they've been playing better than Millenium, hey but who hasn't? The current KerchNET is bad ass, but it's my opinion.

2010-01-15 11:47

lol? why are you talking about -M-, they are the worst team in the event. I just said you can't say kerchnet is amazing when they lose against oXz that's it. And if you think a little bit, you can see that i never said M or oXz are goods, so don't talk about french team to try to put some consistance in your posts, it's not the subject.

2010-01-15 11:58

KerchNET was just unlucky, losing to oXmoze. :)

2010-01-15 15:11

"KerchNET on the other hand played amazing almost BEATING fnatic..." You need to highlight 'almost' instead of 'beating'. Haha, you crack me up.

2010-01-15 09:52

Glad to see you find it funny of people highlighting other words than they meant to. After all, it did crack you up. KerchNET almost beat fnatic, they should've done it too.

2010-01-15 10:52

Yes, you must feel good being such a fucking joker.

2010-01-15 14:43

No, not really, making you laugh is not an achievement as you have an underdeveloped mind.

2010-01-15 15:09

fnatic always plays bad in the first game(s), They crushed both alternate and mTw so..

2010-01-15 11:04

lol i'm rly feeling sry for mTw they are my favourite team...great comeback from KNET markeloff onfire with the awp.I still hope for Ravens to reach top3 :]

If Raves will match that place, I'll be happy too.

2010-01-14 22:59

i want starix and edward pov's xD

2010-01-14 22:53

I always saw such a potencial in Ukraine players :) now after such changes they finally got a team (or even 2) which can surly do a matter in every tournament

2010-01-14 23:10

2010-01-14 23:44

edward plays today amazing, he made a lot of frags

2010-01-14 23:14

www.gameinside.ua/gallery.php?id=193&photo=15209 Starix Edward Zero(mangager) ceh9

2010-01-14 23:19

so many suprises :O this finals is one big suprise :D

whole lot of upsets today, i'm a sad panda indeed.

new mtw is so bad, bring back the old and real team... damn this is so lame...

2010-01-15 01:05

I bet that mTw would win their group, pretty close :D

2010-01-15 01:27

Ukraine good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and GOOD GAME@@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-01-15 01:34

knet molodci:D gl

2010-01-15 01:40

fantastic play by Ukraine guys,congrats

2010-01-15 03:43

I'm still not convinced about minet :S, i think MJE should come back

2010-01-15 04:16

Not that surprising. 3 different players from last year, not really defending champs.

2010-01-15 05:26

new mTw sad :( omg KerchNET GL :)

2010-01-15 05:36

In this tournament, mTw & AGAIN make a big suprise, poor performance and so weak. They need time to stable their lineup.

2010-01-15 06:03

KerchNET! :D

2010-01-15 08:21

good to see that underdogs can pull out some damage vs top teams ;)

2010-01-15 08:33

goood KEARCHNET

2010-01-15 09:00

Ukrainians are on fire !!

2010-01-15 09:39

NICE UKRAINE!!! zA PoduH /A/

2010-01-15 10:47

old mTw, I was very fond of, but now with Arcadion and Trace - also super. Very sorry that they could not find his game, as the AGAiN. I already disbelief in the victory of my team KerchNET, but they made a real feat. I Love KerchNET(Arbalet.ua), fnatic and mTw))

2010-01-15 10:49