WCG enters playoff stage

9-12-2011 08:15

Twenty-five teams have been reduced to just sixteen, with the group stage finalized, it is time to move into the playoffs at World Cyber Games 2011.

The group stage has finished and things went as expected, at least concerning the teams favoured to go deep in the tournament. Nine teams have been eliminated from the tournament, with the top two ranked teams from each group advancing to the playoffs, which will be played best-of-three maps, in a single-elimination bracket.

Four of the eight round of 16 matches will be played today at 09:00 , giving us the following matchups:

DTS	vs.	Virtus.pro
SK Gaming	vs.	TyLoo
mandic	vs.	N38-26F
Moscow Five	vs.	project_kr

The remaining four matches, will be played Saturday, kicking off at 02:00 , those matches will see following teams face off:

Electronic Sahara	vs.	Executioners
ESC Gaming	vs.	Defining Stars
ENTiTY	vs.	NEXT
IGG	vs.	FiRENATION

If you wish to stay updated with who is facing who in the next round, the you will find the bracket for the playoffs by clicking here.

Quarter-finals will be played 05:00 Saturday, semi-finals scheduled for 08:00 and the Grand Final, as well as third place decider, will both be played Sunday at 03:30 .

You will obviously be able to follow all of the matches right here on HLTV.org.

go go sk beat tyloo !

2011-12-09 08:16

nice , open market pliz!

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What are you talking about? It will be opened after first 4 matches of playoffs are finished.

2011-12-09 08:22

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o i didnt know that , thnks for the info

2011-12-09 08:25

Let's roll!

2011-12-09 08:17

nice!

2011-12-09 08:18

GO IGG!

2011-12-09 08:19

ESC just have the easiest bracket ever in history. Lucky bastards !

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+1 Easy path for ESC in WCG... I believe they will beat SK in the Grand Final

2011-12-09 08:39

Yeah they always produce in WCG and in Korea. But a 3rd WCG title? I rather like to see f0rest win it for the 1st time ever.

2011-12-09 08:43

too right :) it would be the crown on an already stunning career

2011-12-09 19:31

Sorry for whining, but when does the market open? I´m actually not last this time.

2011-12-09 08:21

hltv.org/news/7893-wcg-dreamteam-market-..

2011-12-09 08:34

Open MARket OMFG

2011-12-09 08:23

open market, gogogo buy

gl nemiga, m5, dts

Bottom side of the bracket is so low. Only two good teams.

Well I see only one

2011-12-09 08:36

oh, i forgot about esahara lineup :) your right.

2011-12-09 08:40

nice, but kinda unfair to dreamteam users who choosed yesterday a lots of ESC players, i thought that the both playoff stages was going to play on same day.. now users with sk players can easily switch them to another players tomorrow if you are going to open the transfer market.. that kinda sucks for me atleast.. :E

2011-12-09 08:27

The schedule for the market was announced, not our fault people dont read it.

2011-12-09 08:56

hf romania and portugal <3

2011-12-09 08:24

lower part of brackets is fkn joke

bracket LOL

go M5 and NEXT! DTS will winning VP

2011-12-09 08:28

OMG! Two halfs of brackets are SOOOOO imbalanced! Gratz ESC in Final.... =/

yeah just WTF

2011-12-09 08:29

This is surely one of the very few times when the Polish guys are on the better (weaker) part of the bracket. I'd love to see SK how will manage as they will meet DTS in the 1/4 and either mandic or M5 in the semi. Let's the best win ;)

2011-12-09 08:30

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Actually u r wrong. In 2009 wcg, they had an easy bracket too. Check it.

2011-12-09 08:32

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This time you are wrong. In 2009 they had: 2:1 H2K 2:1 Power Gaming 2:1 CMAX.gg

2011-12-09 08:37

Aren't they weak comparing to meeting fnatic early? I remember they lost on purpose and finished as 2nd in group stage so they can avoid fnatic. Correct me if i'm wrong.

2011-12-09 08:41

They lost to Tyloo in group stage, thus they avoided meeting fnatic but it is yet to be discovered if it was made on purpose. I really doubt it.

2011-12-09 08:47

I think you can easily see that I wrote "...one of the very few times..." I can bet that in 70% of tournaments they've been in the so called either group of death or bracket of death. But definitely you have to beat the best to be the best ;)

2011-12-09 08:42

Yeah I know what u mean. They've been to group of death in PGS period several times I guess and at that time it was mainly due to the ridiculous no-seeding draw of WCG.

2011-12-09 08:46

I hope we could watch some good matches after all. I mean with 2011 edition, WCG have lost its glory.. I hope they will think over for the 2012 ;)

2011-12-09 09:09

open market just 10 min pls

rofl, yeah that'd be fair

2011-12-09 08:33

ESC's side of the bracket is only like a trillion times easier than the other.

HAHHA :D WATAFAK IS THAT WITH BRACKET ? ROTFL! :D SK vs ESC - what score will be ?? :))))

OPEN market :)

DTS 2:1 Virtus.pro SK Gaming 2:1 TyLoo mandic 2:0 N38-26F Moscow Five 2:1 project_kr and Electronic Sahara 2:0 Executioners ESC Gaming 2:0 Defining Stars ENTiTY 0:2 NEXT IGG 2:0 FiRENATION SECOND SERIES MATCHES WEAKER! IN second stage only ESC topworldteam ;[

DTS 2:1 Virtus.pro SK Gaming 2:0 TyLoo mandic 2:0 N38-26F Moscow Five 2:0 project_kr and Electronic Sahara 2:1 Executioners ESC Gaming 2:0 Defining Stars ENTiTY 2:0 NEXT IGG 2:1 FiRENATION

I think firenation will tale IGG

2011-12-09 10:01

LETS GO SK ... SK ROCKS !!

OHHH... MY FUCKING DREAMTEAM

bla bla bla

DTS 2:1 Virtus.pro SK Gaming 2:0 TyLoo mandic 2:0 N38-26F Moscow Five 2:0 project_kr and Electronic Sahara 2:1 Executioners ESC Gaming 2:0 Defining Stars ENTiTY 1:2 NEXT IGG 2:1 FiRENATION

2011-12-09 08:52

Agree, just ENTiTY 2:1 NEXT

2011-12-09 12:53

Go M5 and SK!

2011-12-09 08:54

1/8: DTS 2:0 Virtus.pro SK Gaming 2:1 TyLoo mandic 2:1 N38-26F Moscow Five 2:0 project_kr Electronic Sahara 1:2 Executioners ESC Gaming 2:0 Defining Stars ENTiTY 2:1 NEXT IGG 1:2 FiRENATION 1/4: DTS 1:2 SK Gaming mandic 1:2 Moscow Five Executioners 0:2 ESC Gaming ENTiTY 1:2 FiRENATION 1/2: SK Gaming 2:0 Moscow Five ESC Gaming 2:1 FiRENATION Final: SK Gaming ??:?? ESC Gaming Third Place Match: Moscow Five ??:?? FiRENATION Anyone who've seen the games of FN against mandic and Ti in their group will understand why FN will hopefully beat IGG and ENTiTY/NEXT. As for Executioners I just wish them luck to do a little sensation. What about the final match? I personally think that Poland is very strong at the moment, but a huge part of my soul also wants GTR and f0rest to win their first WCG title :p p.s. How do you people teg stuff here? Like bold or italic? How?)

2011-12-09 09:32

dont joke please

2011-12-09 17:20

ESC win!

2011-12-09 09:49

DTS, SK, N38, M5, ESahara, ESC, Entity, IGG i think this teams will advenced to next round end i type 1/4 final will win SK, M5, ESC, IGG 1/2 final will win : SK,ESC and final ESC will take 1st place

Huge part of your sould? dude it`s a game LOL jesus , i bet you would lick gtr and f0rest b..s /

2011-12-09 10:07

Seen f0rest IRL on KODE5 Russia 2008, can't say that I licked his balls. We just exchanged handshakes and did a little chatting and that's all. If you have a fanboy soul, it is not my problem dude :) I am just a CS supporter and an ex-SK worker, maybe that's why I support them.

2011-12-09 10:21

Entity vs next nice match :)

2011-12-09 10:47

is SK vs DTS today or tmr?

2011-12-09 10:54

well ESC Gaming will have an easy way to the Grand Final ENTiTY, NEXT, IGG, FiRENATION One of these teams will make to the top4. The brackets are bullshit

2011-12-09 11:20

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IGG !!! I will not sleep tonight for seeing you !

2011-12-09 11:39

gooooo DTs gogogo

2011-12-09 12:22

Good luck Executioners

2011-12-09 12:42

To every1 complaining about the brackets being shit THOSE TEAMS PLAYED THEIR WAY THERE, IT'S NOT ANYONE'S FAULT THAT THE BRACKETS TURNED OUT TO BE LIKE THIS. GL ENTiTY

2011-12-09 12:52

GL EXECUTIONERS !

2011-12-09 13:01

Sad to not see Asian and USA teams being monsters nowadays...

2011-12-09 13:03

to bad eS and ESC will have to face eachother so early, would've been more interessting if both teams would've played in the semi-finals instead.

2011-12-09 14:44

GL ENTiTY <3

2011-12-09 15:15

gogo entity <3

2011-12-09 15:37

DTS 2:0 Virtus.pro SK Gaming 2:0 TyLoo mandic 2:0 N38-26F Moscow Five 2:0 project_kr and Electronic Sahara 0:2 Executioners ESC Gaming 2:0 Defining Stars ENTiTY 2:0 NEXT IGG 1:2 FiRENATION, Good Luck!

2011-12-09 15:53