Predictions for ESWC

24-6-2007 14:42

HLTV.orgs own expert have analyzed the participating teams and picked out the 10 teams most likely to win.

ESWC is the biggest esport event of the year and all the top teams from around the world will be competing for the title. With so many top teams it is hard to predict the outcome, but we try anyway!

10. Virtus.Pro - They have had some roster changes lately and they need to get their game together before they can place better than this.

9. NoA - The Danish team hasn`t impressed anyone lately and I doubt they will at this tournament either. They`re going to end up here.

8. TR.victory - I don't know much about the chinese scene and i know that these guys are beasty but when it comes down to the match where you either win and go to the top or you lose and go home, aim is not the thing that matters. That's where these guys fail, in such tournaments you don't have people with bad aim, you have people who are either ready or not.

7. alternate aTTax - These guys has got a great lineup as well and if they get their teamwork together they can do really well here, but not better than 7th.

6. Mousesports - Mouz hasn`t impressed at WSVG Louisville, but they do get a couple of weeks to practice their mistakes at Louisville before the ESWC in Paris, and they do have a strong lineup that can bring this home tournament home, but I am guessing 6th place for these guys.

5. Meet Your Makers - Considering the fact that they just took in Naikon, I do not think they have enough practice behind them to take a better place than 6th, but I believe they have a chance to come above this seed.

4. 69N28E - These guys have played really well lately, and as we speak they are doing great at the WSVG Louisville and I do think they`ll take home the trophy from Louisville, but I do not think that they're strong enough to win in Paris.

3. fnatic - Fnatic hasn't really impressed that much lately, but if I do believe they will come back strong and take a third place at this years ESWC.

2. Pentagram - Pentagram has got a strong lineup and has a good chance of winning this year, but I think they will loose the grand finale vs. MIBR

1. MIBR - MIBR has been boot camping a lot in São Paulo and recently they were at Inferno online in Stockholm boot camping. They are at the WCG Pan American Championship as we speak, which will give them some more practice before the event. I think they have practiced hard and have a real strong team that will do well enough to place 1st again.

Lets get ready to rumble!

NoA and aTTaX too low, Mouz and MYM too high..

2007-06-24 14:52

2 replies

go on make a prediction yourself :P

2007-06-24 16:28

That happended to be true :]

2007-07-08 10:17

i do not agree with the expert and you Nomad :) Mym are not so good lately:) many mistakes... But mibr will maybe take it , if not Pentagram ore Fnatic,69N28E Wins :)

2007-06-24 14:56

MIBR FTW .... Vamos la peepz

2007-06-24 14:58

69n28e looks strong :/ They might take it. aTTax could also be scary :o

2007-06-24 15:06

imo 1- pentagram 2- mibr 3- fnatic 4- 69n-28e 5- attax 6- mym 7- noa 8- mouz 9- wnv.cn 10- virtus.pro

2007-06-24 15:08

i'd love to see PENTAGRAM in the first place at the end of the ESWC event. can't wait to see naikon playin i guess the finnish guys or one of the german teams will win, attax most likely

2007-06-24 15:56

I think it´s going to end up like 1.fnatic, 2.pgs,3.mibr,4.attax. and the rest of the teams mentioned above and maybe the two begrips on the following places.

2007-06-24 15:59

69N ftw fnatic second aTTax 3rd Pentagram 4th Begrip.ru 5th begrip.se 6th above (behind?) the 6th it doesnt matter :)

2007-06-24 16:11

Begrip.ru 1 -.-

2007-06-24 16:13

I agree :D

2007-06-24 16:21

69N28E now they are the best Pentagram didn't play a lot last time :/ NoA who knows :PPP MYM with new member maybe attax strong mouse ... mibr nope :p Virtus :D wNv.cn nooo

2007-06-24 16:36

1.PGS - probably the most solid team ever. Haven't seen much of them lately so i am starting to doubt if they still have the strength they once had. One of their advantages is that you can't really anti-strat them when they attend so few events. 2.MIBR - ESWC is where these guys really shine at. Can't anti-star aswell. 3.aTTaX - A very very dedicated team. They work really hard and it shows as aTTaX is placing higher and higher in every event. Not as good as they were in 2006 tho. 4.Fnatic - Even if they did win the sweden qualifier i doubt that they will reach the top3. F0rest hasn't been performing very well lately too. 5.69N28E - really strong at lan. Their win at Louisville showed what they are capable of. now it starts to get difficult. Every team below the top5 can either be good or bad. It depends on the day. 6.Begrip.se - i think this team really has the potential. Very good team work and if guys like get_right will have their day they will surely make many upsets. 7.MYM - haven't heard much about them lately. Naikon doesn't really seem like a good addition in my opinion. I think he's the same as Heaton in NiP atm, a good player but his style differs from his team mates and that's what keeps MYM here. 8.Mousesports - I still hope mouz will finally show what they can do. After all they have 3 players from my fav team ever(attax 2006) so i do hope they will place higher but the form that they are showing right now is pretty much average. 9.wNv.cn - don't know much about the chinese scene and i know that these guys are beasty but when it comes down to a match where you either win and go to the top or you lose and go home aim is not the thing that matters. That's where these guys fail, in such tournaments you don't have people with bad aim, you have people who are either ready or not. 10.Noa - well people say that noa isn't in a good form right now. I think it's a lack of preparation. I have seen a few matches of Noa and in all of them Noa seemed unsure of their decisions and lacked teamwork. begrip.ru might also make some upsets if they will play their game.

2007-06-24 17:00

oh my i didn't think it would be that long :]

2007-06-24 17:01

YOu should make this a blog as well.

2007-06-24 17:49

1 reply

you asked for it... :]

2007-06-24 19:16

why there is now news or hltv's if pentagram plays i have never seen pentagram by hot matches or somthing and when is it gonna start:?

2007-06-24 17:19

me too my friend, that why I'm worry, coz I don't know what is going on with PGS...Hope it's going to be all right...

2007-06-26 14:41

Begrip/ru top 5

2007-06-24 17:31

this naikon is the one who played for eoL?:D

2007-06-24 17:39

yes, thats the one

2007-06-24 18:39

i think noa will be in top 3 atleast i mean they have a great team and they tend to suprise. GL NOA!!!

2007-06-24 17:46

1-fnatic\mibr 2-fnatic\mibr 3-pent 4-69n28e 5-mym 6-wnv.cn 7-lunatic-hai 8-begrip.se 9-noa 10-emulate IMHO P.S. Hope fnatic will be 1st

2007-06-24 18:08

ESWC 2007 – CS 1.6 Top 10 : 1. fnatic 2. mibr 3. PGSPokerStrategy.cc 4. 69N – 28E 5. ALTERNATE aTTaX 6. Begrip.ru 7. NoA 8. Begrip.se 9. wNv.CN 10. Lunatic-hai My favourites are wNv and 69N-28E <33

2007-06-24 18:28

Hope some underdogs will do well! Hope Fnatic win! ;>

2007-06-24 18:52

1- Mibr 2- fnatic 3- 69N-28E

2007-06-24 20:10

sounds bout right pent in 4th

2007-06-25 03:55

1 - mibr 2 - 69N-28E 3 - PGS 4 - fnatic 5 - mYm And Im pretty sure about this... ;-P

2007-06-24 22:03

I don t think MiBR will win . I would see fnatic, Pentagram or emuLate! :)

2007-06-24 22:09

wNv.cn didn't qualify for ESWC, TR.Victory and X7-Hacker are the two from China :)

2007-06-24 23:05

Martin, are you the hltv.org EXPERT?

2007-06-24 23:06

Go MYM & aTTaX

2007-06-24 23:07

#21 +1. But I think NoA can to be in top5 in this year.

2007-06-24 23:11

mouz doing better that aTTaX, were you been sleeping for the last years our what? 1.fnatic 2.Pentagram 3.69N-28E 4.MIBR 5.aTTaX 6.Lunatic-hai 7.mYm

2007-06-24 23:28

1.pentagram 2.fnatic 3.mous 4.attax 5.mibr 6.69N-28E 7.NoA 8.a-gaming 9.begrip.swe 10.begrip.ru

2007-06-24 23:24

pentagram gl!!1

2007-06-24 23:25

Agree with you, good luck!...

2007-06-26 14:43

virtus top10? really funny now 1. mibr\pent 2. pent\mibr 3. 69n28e 4. fnatic 5. noa

2007-06-24 23:58

Pentagram fnatic 69N-28E MIBR alternate aTTax NoA Meet Your Makers Virtus.Pro Mousesports TR.victory

2007-06-25 00:57

mibr has really done a good job at boot camps in são paulo, if their performance at WCG pan is nice, I think they're gonna bring de golden trophy to brazil, if they're not, I belive top 3. surely fnatic and pentagram are very strong and probably one of the three teams I've spoken will take the first place.

2007-06-25 01:07

Strong predictions, ESWC this year is more than well represented - who could wish for better teams?? - I still cheer at Pentagram as the winner of ESWC 2007 though :-) Pentagram is still more charismatic than MIBR, and I believe they have got what it takes to win the matches against the Brazilian team, Pentagram showed enough for me this year to still make me believe they have the style and team to win this time

2007-06-25 02:08

I think MYM, NoA and Virtus.Pro are overrated in this list. But MIBR, Pentagram, fnatic & Inari are the strongest four teams, that's true.

2007-06-25 08:58

i think logitech would win, why the hell aren't they attending :(

2007-06-25 10:36

If this is a serious question: There wasn´t an ESWc qualifier in Finland but the organisators of ESWC invited 69N-28E cause they´ve won NGL-one and, in their opinion, are a better team than Logitech If this was a rethoric question: blame the ESWC orgas for it!

2007-06-25 16:47

it was the latter...! i think 69N is pretty amazing, but i think logitech are a top10 team as well so imo they should both have been invited

2007-06-25 16:57

hoorai > fnatic > PGS > Attax > Mym > Noa > x6 > Mouz

2007-06-25 18:48

They are called 69N28E these days ;)

2007-06-25 18:51

but hoorai sounds so sweet =)

2007-06-29 01:45

1. fnatic 2. 69N-28E 3. PGS 4. MYM 5. NoA 6. mibr 7. aTTaX but .... big surprises expected !

2007-06-25 18:59

1.fnatic 2.mibr 3.pentagram ...

2007-06-25 19:20

what about the begrips and x6tens? but top 3 are 1. mibr 2. 69N-28E 3. pentagram

2007-06-25 21:45

it misses a lot of team ! :o like lunatic hai Begrip.swe etc...

2007-06-26 02:48

With an event like ESWC, there's really many options with the predictions. There's so many amazing teams attending, makes it even more hard to predict.

2007-06-26 03:57

1. PGS 2. MiBR 3. 69N-28E Like i said in the other blog. 69N are actually better than what you guys give them credit for.

2007-06-26 14:52

my guess 1.Pentagram/MIBR (very close) 3.fnatic 4.mousesports 5.69N-28E 6/7/8/9/10 I don't care :P

2007-06-26 15:52

brazilians are too pressured, aswell as the polish guys, so they will fail imo. hopefully sYnck will knock SK out and get some credit in Estonia, 'cause we're really lacking interest out here :(

2007-06-28 21:44

hope that hoorai/69N-28E/inari will make it to the final. hopefully to its first place =) 69N-28E vs. Fnatic. I wish that final.

2007-06-29 01:46

MIBR 6928 PENTAG FNATIC G3X (LOOK THIS! THE 2ND BRAZILIAN TEAM) ;)

2007-06-29 04:12

1. Pentagram 2. fnatic 3. mibr 4. aTTaX 5. 69¤N 6. MYM 7. NoA 8. Begrip.se 9. mouz 10. TR.victory

2007-07-01 01:09

1. MiBR 2. fnatic 3. Pentagram 4. aTTaX 5. 69°N 6. g3nerationX

2007-07-03 03:20

1.69N28E(biggest suprise) 2.MiBr/fnatic/penta (seriuosly dont know) 5.NoA(even they hasn`t impressed anyone) 6.MYM/aTTax/mouz bloody hell, why did i post this :O

2007-07-03 08:35