EU qualifier for IEM6 GC Kiev finished

18-12-2011 23:59

The European qualification stage for IEM6 Global Challenge Kiev has ended, with five teams advancing to the first event of 2012.

Third and final stage of the European qualifier took place Sunday, with thirty-two teams participating, all trying to claim one of the five spots up for grabs. The bracket was stacked with good teams and eventually big names such as ESC Gaming and SK Gaming dropped to the lower-bracket.

The first big upset of the qualifier came in round four of the lower-bracket, when the WCG champions from ESC took on Anexis. The Danes defeated the Poles 16-7 on de_inferno to move on, while ESC missed out on IEM6 Global Challenge Kiev, but more importantly also the chance to participate at the IEM6 World Championship next year.

Not long after, another big upset came. This time in battle between giants, as SK took on Natus Vincere. SK won 16-7 to advance, while Na´Vi, just like ESC, missed out on both the Global Challenge in Kiev, but also a chance to defend their IEM title at the World Championship.

In the upper-bracket Moscow Five secured a spot in Kiev with a 16-13 win against mousesports on de_nuke, while Lions earned their spot by winning 16-4 against WinFakt on de_tuscan. Remaining three spots were handed out to teams in the lower-bracket, SK picking the first with a win against WinFakt, fnatic followed as they won against mousesports.

The last spot was handed to WinFakt, who in a fifth place decider match against mousesports claimed the fifth and final spot for the Global Challenge in Kiev. Note that there will be a seventh place decider match between Na´Vi and Anexis, in the event of any teams backing out or teams unable to attend, a order of replacements will be done this way.

Following teams are now qualified for the IEM6 Global Challenge Kiev:

Evil Geniuses	Moscow Five	fnatic
SK Gaming	Lions
DTS	WinFakt

The eighth and final spot for the event is set aside for an Asian team, but judging from past events, it is not likely a team will be found, which will grant one more spot for Europe.

The last Global Challenge of season six will take place January 19-22 at the Kiev CyberSport Arena, handing out $40,000 in the Counter-Strike tournament, as well as two spots for the World Championship in March.

Following teams have so far, via Global Challenges, qualified for the World Championship:

fnatic	Winner EM6 Global Challenge Guangzhou
mousesports	Runner-up IEM6 Global Challenge Guangzhou
SK Gaming	Winner IEM6 Global Challenge New York
WinFakt	Runner-up IEM6 Global Challenge New York

A total of six spots for the IEM6 World Championship will be handed out via the ESL rankings, check the current standings by clicking here.

HLTV.org will obviously be on site in Kiev to bring you all of the action from the opening event of the year, where two teams will qualify for the season six Intel Extreme Masters World Championship.

GOOO SK!!!

2011-12-19 00:00

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2011-12-19 00:01

+1 gl SK :)

2011-12-19 07:59

+1 GO SK !

2011-12-19 13:44

ESC :=(

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esc n navi :(

2011-12-19 00:11

perfect!!

2011-12-19 00:27

+1 :)

2011-12-19 00:42

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now easy for SK without esc, bullshit

2011-12-19 14:57

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"without esc, bullshit" ? And no, it wont be easy for SK.

2011-12-19 16:48

gl sk

nice winfakt great win vs mous nice play lurppis

mouz qualified??

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Nope.

2011-12-19 00:02

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When's the World Championship ?

2011-12-19 00:04

In March.

any news about the steelseries Sensei award from 2 months ago?

2011-12-19 01:05

Navi as the defending champ doesnt have the direct ticket to iem6 wc ?

2011-12-19 10:46

No, they do not.

2011-12-19 11:18

How come that mouz didn't qualify? they are qualified as they were Runner-up IEM6 Global Challenge Guangzhou?

2011-12-19 15:24

They are qualified for the World Championship, but not for the Global Challenge in Kiev.

2011-12-19 15:41

fnatic

ESC!!!!!!!!! :(

can ESC and Navi qualy for this tournament now?

2011-12-19 00:03

No.

so this 7 teams and 8 slots for asians teams Nix ?

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Read the news :)

2011-12-19 00:07

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off topic question: could you tell how to do a link like in this article ? The second paragraph from the bottom. "A total of six spots for the IEM6 World Championship will be handed out via the ESL rankings, check the current standings by clicking here"

2012-01-03 15:45

It is done in our editor, you can post a link in a comment, and it will auto-hyperlink it.

2012-01-03 16:23

Is it possible to do this in my account description (biography) ? I wanna do this in my account description for example: click on a word "NBA" and it would be link it up to www.nba.com I know that there is , but you have to write the whole website adress to link it up.

2012-01-03 19:05

You have to use the boxes

2012-01-03 20:06

the eight and final spot will be for an asian team

2011-12-19 12:33

use reply button edit: you did just when I posted lol

2011-12-19 01:06

M5!

M5 is getting better and better. gl

+ ESC (quota for the Grand Final - NO) + NaVi (quota for the Grand Final - NO) - SK (quota for the Grand Final - YES) - fnatic (quota for the Grand Final - YES) This is good)

2011-12-19 00:05

huh?

2011-12-19 00:18

why should they do that? in the end it's about money and also mouz and wf are already qualified for the global finals as well as efuture, since I don't think any team from the Asias will attend and UMX.us

2011-12-19 00:24

Hope eFuture would represent Asia. Even if not, Tyloo is in good shape recently.

2011-12-19 03:16

Well, they're looking for better team.

2011-12-19 07:52

OK!!! we want 10 vs 10 f0rest GeT_RiGhT Friis Xizt GuX Delpan cArn face RobbaN pita > Neo markeloff Edward starix cen9 taz loord kuben pasha Zeus

2011-12-19 09:04

would suck if ESC and Na`Vi don't somehow find a way to the WC oh well, really nice event, i like how M5 is playing :), and of course SK and WF

The chances are not really big as the backup-list is like this: 1. mouse 2. winner of navi-anexis 3. loser of navi-anexis Well, there is a chance for Na'Vi but not really for ESC.

2011-12-19 08:56

mouse is already qualified for WC

2011-12-19 11:39

This is a backup-list for Global Challenge Kiev, not WC.

2011-12-19 12:59

american guy wrote about WC. You responded him, so you were refering to the WC also.

2011-12-19 19:08

He wrote about WC, yes. The only option left for the teams to qualify for WC is Global Challenge Kiev. That's the reason I wrote the backup-list for Global Challenge Kiev. As ESC is not on this list (or actually, even further down), we can conclude that they will not go WC unless something surprisingly happens.

2011-12-21 18:40

nice job from WinSHO

2011-12-19 00:08

With sixth place, mousesports are first in line. Then Na´Vi/Anexis depending on the outcome of their match.

omg i will mis navi and ESC.

Really sad for ESC and Navi, but thats the beauty of (e)sport, everyone can win, everyone can lose. I'm also very impressed by M5 performance, they were awesome today. Hope to see them in Kiev on top form.

Glad to see adequate polish guy without stupid fanboy syndrome :)

2011-12-19 01:23

I'm here too :(

2011-12-19 02:22

Haha. Yeah, and you too :)

2011-12-19 04:37

2011-12-19 10:43

Lions shows very good games last time:D

2011-12-19 00:09

Mouz qualified for IEM WORLD FINAL?

2011-12-19 00:10

yeah

2011-12-19 00:13

Yes. Explanations here: esl-world.net/masters/season6_ranking/

2011-12-19 08:55

3 swedish teams! My boner just got happy. Btw I can't find anything on why DTS got in? Just read it through fast so I might have missed it could anyone fill me in on why?

DTS won national championship aka Ukraine WCG qualifiers i think they qualified thru that

2011-12-19 00:17

they won ukraines championship where they beat navi

how can a boner be sad lol

2011-12-20 01:37

Nice! Hopefully Lions will qualify for the world championship :)

FNATIC , WIN ! ~

no Na`Vi and ESC = boring tournament, especially for me, great too see 3 swedish teams but its a bit boring

2011-12-19 00:15

Obviously, they weren't good enough as they weren't able to qualify through this tournament.

2011-12-19 08:54

yeah right. it was online ffs

2011-12-19 13:55

So pro teams only have to perform at LAN?

2011-12-21 18:38

you said that they weren't good enough. stupid to say that since they are the best team in the world, but unfortunately for them they suck online.

2011-12-21 18:41

Well, I'm just trying to say that it's a discussion of whether the best teams in the world have to perform online or not to stay the best teams in the world. As an example, I don't feel like stating that ESC is the best team in the world if they suck online (as you mentioned).

2011-12-21 18:46

"while Lions earned their spot by winning 16-4 against WinFakt on de_mirage." Wasnt it tuscan nix0n?

Sure was, been a long day.

Haha, i can image that :)

sk win

Fnatic <3

GO SK! This is easy for you guys.

2011-12-19 00:19

Funny fact that new de_forge werent played in any match :P

2011-12-19 00:20

bo1 :) so the chances are that a team will eventually eliminate it :) the chances of seeing that map being played would've been a lot higher if it were bo3

2011-12-19 00:26

There were no eliminating of maps. They were decided beforehand.

2011-12-19 08:53

ESC ! :( online suck !

GL LIONS<3

2011-12-19 00:21

ok, teams like Na'Vi and ESC still get a chance to advance to world final in cebit i guess? will be more global challenge? : p

2011-12-19 00:22

no, this is the last one

2011-12-19 00:23

EG > anyone

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anyone is an in one person only, sure.

2011-12-19 01:22

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English ONLY, Thank you!

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I know you only understand English, almost all americans are uneducated. But hey, if you feel like pointing that out, it's ok.

2011-12-19 01:28

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America actually has more money than Sweden, So explain me how are we "uneducated" ?

2011-12-19 02:15

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well, first of all. You have a population of about 300 million. Sweden has 9 million. secondly, your economy isn't very good right now and your country's debt is larger than ours. third, how is money equal to education? is education only how much money it'll earn you? spoken like a true ignorant american kid, eh? :)

2011-12-19 02:21

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Why are you would mention "population" about this? That doesn't make any sense. And our economy is good enough to be BETTER than your country. If you HAVE money that means you STUDY(you got education) and you have a job. So you made NO sense at all right there. "Spoken" like a true ignorant american kid? Well I guess you're a true thought nerd kid over the internet eh? ;)

2011-12-19 02:26

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More people equals more money, duh? 1+1? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_.. Your debt is so much higher, but so is your population, which makes up for it a bit. Again, the reason I mention population. No, it's not always the case. Also, education is more than jobs and money. Yeah, good one, I'm a nerd. I bet your one real cool gangstah with that profile picture of yours. And no, I'm not very tough. In sweden we're able to have discussions and arguments on a civilized level without shooting eachother, and it has nothing to do with the internet.

2011-12-19 02:37

Still you guys are able to get more money than we have if your country actually "goes forward" (lets say that way) Of course education is more than jobs and money, if you don't have education you're stupid, correct? And no I'm not a gangster. Thats just my favorite "singer", I think we all have one.

2011-12-19 02:49

I'm not sure what you mean by "goes forward", but we have free health care and we are actully paid to educate ourselves. 310 euros per month or so. If you're talking about sallary, then yes, it's not as high when educated as it is in the USA. I guess the difference is quite high with certain positions. Our "middle class" has it far better than yours though, and so does the less fortunate. Not at all are you stupid because you're uneducated. I just find it extremely funny when people from english speaking countries, most often USA, act like everyone else is retarded because they can't prove their point as well in English as they could have in their native language. It's not like I expect you speak swedish...

2011-12-19 02:59

Goes forward as developing and getting a better economy. Yes i was talking about sallary. Better? how so? Well lets be honest here for a second, If you don't speak English, you can't really travel or leave your own country for nothing, English is the most "important" language out there right now. So yes you DO need to know English. Just saying because most of schools out there are teaching ENGLISH because they know those kids need ENGLISH on their lifes. and I don't think they would teach me swedish... Well spanish yes and maybe chinese(which is the most "spoken" language out there now.)

2011-12-19 03:12

I agree with you on the english as a language part. I'll leave it at that :p

2011-12-19 03:20

f0rever you obviously have never studied economics? Taking your logic (Size > Quality).. Soviet Union has a better economy than Sweden? India has a better economy than Sweden? Unemployment rate US = 8.6% Sweden = 7.5% GDP per capita US= $47,184 Sweden= $48,832 US also has higher income inequality and a higher percentage of people who live in poverty So please, what makes the US economy better than Sweden's???

2011-12-19 06:46

Thank you for owning their little debate it got kind of embarrassing to read about. :P

2011-12-19 09:03

yeah, very embarrasing, what he just wrote I've already written.

You're obviously trolling. Check post #187. Theres your answer.

2011-12-19 20:53

well f0rever he owns you o.o your economy is good enough to be better than sweden? humm ok it wasnt sweden that started a war and fake a terrorist attack (11 september) just because of the guns and armament trafic. well wtv there are good americans but mayority they are non sense people that just want to be the king of the world (KING KONG IMAGINATION)

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I'm not even gonna answer your post.

ok dude :)

2011-12-19 03:01

Because you can say nothing?

2011-12-19 04:40

Because ou CAN say nothing? Hm okay that make sense.

2011-12-19 04:41

dont worry, he is a faggot :)

2011-12-19 14:41

Srry mate but USA economy is the biggest economy in the world. If 'america' suffers we are all suffering. USA is top1 country in my opinion. Comparing Sweden to US is pointless. Sweden has lower unemployment but debt per capita is higher. Let's look at Europe, we make a union to be strong LIKE usa.

2011-12-19 16:16

and thats why sweden doesnt apply to enter to UE. and i didnt say that sweden has a better economy.

2011-12-19 17:47

Actually USA isn't the top1 country with the best "economy".. China is.

2011-12-19 20:52

Their economy is increasing faster but overall USA is top1. I read some report about it.

2011-12-19 21:21

Where? Send me the link

2011-12-19 21:22

Srry but I dunno where was it, I'm watching/reading many news about world and EU economy and also I'm studying economy. Some guy (expert) was saying that us economy overall is 3x bigger that chineese. I trust him.

2011-12-19 21:28

That probably why Standard And Poor's and all of the other big financial service companies have rated Sweden's outlook as positive, while they've rated the US' as negative.

2011-12-20 02:59

SnP changed rate for US because american politicians were arguing each other and they didn't make any serious decision about debt. Gov. must be strong and self-confident not like in Italy and Greece. Fast reaction and counter on financial problems thats tactic. btw. profits from US bonds are 1.96%, German 2.03%. Even with that big debt people trust in US economy. btw2. SnP, Moodys, Finch... They made financial crisis (with Alan Greenspan and US gov.). Unfair is that only USA has Raiting Agency...

2011-12-20 09:43

2011-12-19 14:48

HAHAH wow you think money equals education? Hahaha 'merrica!

2011-12-19 05:45

Yes if you don't have education you're DUMB and you can't do any WORK because you don't KNOW ANYTHING so you can't get MONEY. Are you that dumb kid? Don't ever argue with me again, I'm not even gonna reply your comments for now and on.

2011-12-19 20:54

So you're saying people without education can't work? You might just be more retarded than the average american.

2011-12-20 16:40

haha nice lan :D na`vi out, esc out, mouz out >.< online power

2011-12-19 00:35

I hate online qualifier ... Such a big teams like navi or esc won't be attending... They should be invited for the event

2011-12-19 00:36

so crappy with 8 teams only

2011-12-19 00:49

seems very wierd, only two teams from kiev get a slot to Hannover so will only six teams in grand finals?! that's sux :</// ok grand finals has 12 slots, but i don't know on what basis other 6 teams will be invited x) i just wish ESL don't care too much about their rankings ..

2011-12-19 01:15

M5 !!! <3

2011-12-19 01:25

world championship and global challenge kiev are not same tourneys? O_O probably eg will not go to kiev, and they will be replaced by invited team

2011-12-19 02:01

nope :d

2011-12-19 01:59

There will not be invited teams. There is a backup-list looking like this: 1. mouse 2. winner of navi-anexis 3. loser of navi-anexis The list will be used in case of none Asian team participating or as mentioned, EG not being able to attend.

2011-12-19 08:52

M5 is playing awesome

2011-12-19 01:56

goooooooooooooooooooooooooo SK take this <3

2011-12-19 02:05

2011-12-19 02:12

Online qualifier is a part of the tournaments. You have to be able to play okay online too.

2011-12-19 02:16

2011-12-19 08:15

sad that they dont invite defending champions back

go EG go EG

2011-12-19 02:48

go SK :-)))

2011-12-19 03:06

Moscow 5 achieved 13 consecutive wins during two days. Awesome play. GO Russian!

i'm happy for that

2011-12-19 03:51

or i'm glad..

2011-12-19 03:52

who am i?

2011-12-19 03:53

i'm sad

2011-12-19 03:54

looks like youre schizofrenic ><

2011-12-19 09:15

I am a champion!

2011-12-19 08:08

Lions! <3

2011-12-19 03:55

gj wF

2011-12-19 04:12

Peekay would like so see immunity offered the asian spot.

2011-12-19 05:22

Correct me now, those teams qualifed to European Champhionship Kiev or Global Challenge Kiev?

2011-12-19 06:53

BOTH!

2011-12-19 07:09

Same :-)

2011-12-19 08:50

there is no european champs this year

2011-12-19 09:16

WHAT? This thing sucks, we need European Champhionship instead of this.

2011-12-19 13:53

GO Schroet Kommando <3

2011-12-19 07:03

No ESC No Navi = This 2 tournaments means shit now. danne^mupp:D:D where are you now? you agree right? :)

Well, they have had their chances of qualifying. This is the 3rd Global Challenge. The World Championshop contains the BEST teams atm who qualify through tournaments - not just teams based on people's opinions.

i agree 100%. but for wcg there was also qual and still people (like danne) say that without some teams (who don't qualify for their own fault) tournament means nothing.

2011-12-19 10:00

navi & esc arent top teams just based on people's opinions.. they've proved it over the time.. its sad that a big tournament like IEM holds online BO1 matches to decide who gets to attend.. surely they realize its going to be quite random..

2011-12-19 10:08

I agree about the first sentence, they have proved to be top teams. Atm they are obviously just not good enough to qualify for this tournament. They had the chance in a double elimination qualifier but yes, everyone would have preferred BO3 LAN qualifier. In this case, it just seems like ESL haven't had the time nor resources to arrange that.

2011-12-19 10:20

ideally they should've either increased no. of teams attending or held a lan qualifier.. whatever no point talkin abt it now.. whats done is done..

2011-12-19 10:35

It's always good with a discussion of how things are done; they can be changed in the future. I agree with you about increasing the number of teams, such a nice event and only 8 teams in action is sad.

2011-12-19 12:58

omg navi , please vote ceh9 , ceh9 - bot !

2011-12-19 07:13

really sad for ESC,Na`Vi and mouz but gj DTS WF m5 EG LIONS fnatic

2011-12-19 08:03

if i understand correctly that SK and fnatic already has a quota, before this quali? if i understand correctly tell me why they fucking play 4 nothing?

2011-12-19 08:33

World championship for top-2 and for the best ranked teams are just "extra prizes". The global challenge Kiev has the following prizes: 1st - $16.000 2nd - $8,000 3rd - $4,500 4th - $3,100 5th-6th - $2,200 5th-6th - $2,200 7th-8th - $2,000 7th-8th - $2,000

2011-12-19 08:47

without Na'Vi :/...

2011-12-19 08:36

maybe Na'Vi has invite as the host?!?

2011-12-19 08:45

Na'Vi is not the host, cybersport arena is. DTS qualified as national champions.

gl esc & navi

2011-12-19 09:12

MOSCOW FIVE BEST!

2011-12-19 09:36

so esc and navi have chance to qualifi but only on IEM Global Finals yes? global chelenge and EU finals will be playing without them?

2011-12-19 09:48

nie zagraja ani tu, ani tu. caly misterny plan w pizdu

2011-12-19 10:02

to be honest, i want to see at least 1 team outside Europe participating in GC Kiev. Hope it will be EG

2011-12-19 09:56

I think EG is the least likely team to take part. semXorah sent a team to DH even tho they had absolutely no change to win anyone so maybe the brazilians will send a team to Kiev if given the chance.

2011-12-19 10:05

So glad mouz made it EDIT: I mean made it to the Globals

HAHAHAHAHAHA NO NA VI lows,LOSERS xD

mouz qualified with 3 loses ?? and esc out only 2 loses?

2011-12-19 10:07

mouz didn't qualify for Kiev but for Globals

mouz is first in the line for replacement, if any team won't attend GC Kiev.

2011-12-19 10:13

iem5 wc Navi got directly qualified, isnt it as the same on iem6, Navi got betrayed, damn!

2011-12-19 11:19

go m5! ~

2011-12-19 11:51

No ESC No Na`Vi = Easy for SK

2011-12-19 12:06

Easy for fnatic!

2011-12-19 12:13

+ESC +Natus Vincere and it would be h4rd 9)

2011-12-19 12:18

GL SK !

2011-12-19 12:19

Good luck ESC!

they are not attending, so really sad comment :p

2011-12-19 15:45

It says: The eighth and final spot for the event is set aside for an Asian team, but judging from past events, it is not likely a team will be found, which will grant one more spot for Europe.

2011-12-19 22:57

and the order of those european teams follows: Mouz > Na'Vi/Anexis > Na'Vi/Anexis

2011-12-19 23:33

If the qualifiers were on LAN and not online with shitty registration and servers, this would be a different story...

2011-12-19 12:48

GL FNATIC

2011-12-19 13:42

2011-12-19 14:13

NAVI FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

2011-12-19 14:25

no navi and esc 2 top teams. bad tournaments. SK win ;]

what does runner-up means?

2011-12-19 14:39

they got 2nd place in GC Guangzhou&New York.

2011-12-19 15:08

if an Asian team will not attend then: +mousesports if both an Asian team and EG will not attend: +mousesports and +Na'Vi/Anexis

2011-12-19 15:12

good tournament. no one likes esc, navi or mouz. nice to see that they cant come haha :D

2011-12-19 15:22

SK WIN ;)

2011-12-19 15:30

I read the news. ESC and Na'Vi aren't allow to participate. OK, but what does it mean? "A total of six spots for the IEM6 World Championship will be handed out via the ESL rankings, check the current standings by clicking here." If they are on that ranking, can they? I don't get it

2011-12-19 15:34

but they havent played enough important tournaments (*teams and players earn points depending on how well they performed at the Global Challenge tournaments) to get to that ranking site. as you can see, for example ESL have ranked WinFakt as best cs team in the world in that ranking over SK and others esl-world.net/masters/season6_ranking/

2011-12-19 17:29

i44.tinypic.com/2h33okx.jpg

2011-12-19 17:33

Na`Vi had a chance to qualify?

2011-12-19 15:36

They did but they lost it

2011-12-19 15:44

gg lions

2011-12-19 15:52

IEM 6 without ESC = shit

2011-12-19 16:07

ESC shit cuz dont quali -_-

2011-12-20 08:53

no ESC, no IEM 6

2011-12-19 16:10

Groups: A:DTS, SK, LIONS, EG B:M5, fnatic, WF, "asia" team

2011-12-19 16:36

"As for the teams that did not make it to Kiev, it is obviously disappointing not to see ESC and Na´Vi not qualifying for the last Global Challenge, but more importantly, they also miss out on the World Championship, which is a huge blow for them, but certainly also for the competition as a whole." - Nix0n

2011-12-19 16:50