Easy day for EG in Group B

9-10-2010 02:11

The first day of the IEM5 American Championship Finals has finished, seeing Evil Geniuses and DINC advance to the playoffs as the two last teams.

Defending American Champions from Evil Geniuses did not face much resistance in Group B, where DINC were the team to take the most rounds, scoring nine rounds. With three victories, Evil Geniuses topped Group B, while second place would be settled between DINC and Excello.

Starting on Terrorists on de_dust2, Excello got off to a great start and DINC did not find much luck in their CT setup. This all lead to a 12-3 lead for Excello at half-time and the second spot in the group seemed able to go to either team.

In second half DINC stepped it up and especially Paul "pauLy" Guerboyan played a solid half. Neither team did however score sixteen rounds, as the two shared points as of the 15-15 result. Due to a better round difference, DINC will follow Evil Geniuses to the playoffs.

Group B standings

1. Evil Geniuses
2. DINC
3. Excello
4. viGor

The playoffs will kick off with the semi-finals, which is played Saturday, while the Grand Final and third place decider match will take place on Sunday. The semi-finals are as follows:

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Note that the match between complexity and DINC will be broadcasted by ESL TV and will not feature HLTV, same goes for the Grand Final on Sunday.

For results, standings and demos head over you our coverage section, while you can find statistics from day one by clicking here.

coL x EG will be a nice game :)

2010-10-09 02:13

2 replies

that will be the final :O) i hope

2010-10-09 02:14

1 reply

2010-10-09 02:21

lurppis has gone insane lately :)

2010-10-09 02:19

Yeah I've noticed Lurppis and Storm seem to be playing really well the last few tournaments.

2010-10-09 02:44

Isn't this tournament handing out two spots to the Global Finals? If so, then the teams that win the matches above are already qualified, and will just play the Grand Final for the 1st place prize money?

2010-10-09 02:22

Correct, final is all about prize money, the title and a seed I guess.

2010-10-09 02:28

seed is also very important :D

2010-10-09 09:51

Win EG

2010-10-09 02:23

quas > all

2010-10-09 02:32

Simple question, if this is an American tournament... How come Area51 didn't represent Canada in this tournament nor any other Brazilian teams? >.>

2010-10-09 02:34

Area51 bailed out, only compLexity in the South American qualifier.

2010-10-09 02:47

I think this time coL > EG

2010-10-09 02:35

last time to coL > EG LOL

2010-10-09 02:56

I think he meant to speak in terms of organizations... Until recently... EG > coL FG > EG But now coL > EG (if i get what he means to say, that is.)

2010-10-09 07:07

will be great match, i want coL to win it but i think n0thing and frod are just going to pull some amazing stuff in the finals

2010-10-09 02:58

Silly to make them stay until Sunday to play eachother. Should of just got it over with yesterday. On a serious note though, gl to all teams, wouldn't mind seeing an upset.

2010-10-09 05:21