Copenhagen Games 2012 wrap-up

8-4-2012 02:03

Copenhagen Games 2012, one of the most amazing tournaments in our recent memory, filled with surprises and extremely close matches, ended with fnatic on top. Aside from them other teams recorded notable placements, while on the other hand, some disappointed.

Copenhagen Games 2012 standings

1. fnatic - 9,400€
2. Natus Vincere - 4,700€
3. WinFakt - 2,600€
4. Lemondogs - 1,300€
5-6. Alternate - 570€
5-6. SK Gaming - 570€
7-8. Anexis - 430€
7-8. Xapso - 430€
9-12. ESC Gaming
9-12. MoD-eSport
9-12. Last Kings
9-12. zNation
13-16. IMBA
13-16. CPH Wolves
13-16. SharkGaming
13-16. seven11

The main story of the tournament is certainly fnatic, not only because of their overall victory, but also due to coming to the tournament with a lineup change, introducing Finn "karrigan" Andersen instead of long-time in-game leader Patrik "cArn" Sättermon. That change also brought out Richard "Xizt" Landström as the team's new leader and his debut was perfect, seeing as his team lost only one map on the way to the title.

Natus Vincere were expectedly seen in the final as one of the main favorites, but they were early on outshined by the surprise of the tournament, WinFakt.

The Finns came to the tournament with a stand-in Miikka "dRiim" Toroi instead of their leader Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen and managed to overcome Natus Vincere in the upper quarter-final and then another favorite SK Gaming in the upper semi-final.

Among other positive surprises we have German team Alternate, who defeated Lemondogs in quarter-final to secure a 5-6th placing.

On the other hand, the biggest disappointment were the current IEM6 World Champions ESC Gaming, who were eliminated by Anexis at 9-12th place, after being dropped to lower bracket by the eventual champions.

Another disappointment were SK Gaming, who also didn't reach their expected top three placement, with losses to WinFakt and Lemondogs making them finish 5-6th.

Our coverage of Copenhagen Games 2012 is still not over, as there is an interview with the winners on the way, while match statistics and Dreamteam are being updated.

In the mean time check out our galleries from the event, as well as our YouTube channel to see all the highlights and previous interviews.

GG fnatic also to Winfakt who surprised all.. also NaVi great play by them. Sad for ESC i thought they were going to finish top3 but anything can happen. Great tournament.

2012-04-08 02:06

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2012-04-08 08:03

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28-25, WTF. For the first time I saw 2 hours play on de_dust2 awesome match by fnatic and Na'Vi and also really good surprise by Winfakt. GG

2012-04-08 08:30

i think Karrigan is one of the best 3 three players atm

2012-04-08 10:21

Winning! Deserved, Fnatic played very well :D

2012-04-08 02:07

gj alternate

wazzuppp sk i think 570 euros are enough to get thorin a new haircut lolololol

570 euros for a haircut? Is it being cut by Bill Gates or something?

2012-04-08 09:34

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+ :D

2012-04-08 11:51

I just want to joke because his hair is just disgusting

2012-04-08 17:01

MODDII was unreal..

2012-04-08 02:08

he's like a terminator, he just walks and aim in the head, no spraying, just one shot - one kill. Its incredible, but his gamestyle looks like he's not thinking, but just shooting incredibly :P But its just how it looks like, he is awesome anyway.

2012-04-08 13:03

great performance of WinFakt :D gg fnatic <3

when the demos will be available i mean sk vs lemon etc

BYOC

2012-04-08 02:09

gj fnatic, but also winfakt, alternate and lemondogs showed great game :)

2012-04-08 02:10

moddii was simply amazing, unbelieveable performance

2012-04-08 02:16

Poor SK :( Never Number One.

2012-04-08 02:19

nice4winfakt

2012-04-08 02:30

nice tournament

2012-04-08 02:31

When will see final DT stats updated?

2012-04-08 02:33

fnatic plays very well !! amazing performance and Winfakt play simply amazing great team

2012-04-08 02:38

Great fnatic, great xizt MODDII maybe mvp, but that fail when he had 4 navi players in front of him @catwalk and he just kill one was like the fail of the year =P

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Nix0n informed me that MODDII got team-flashed right after killing the first guy, so that would explain it :)

2012-04-08 02:49

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:O that explains all ty

2012-04-08 03:20

probably flash was coming from teammates :D

2012-04-08 10:33

"team-flashed" it means flash is coming from teammates, it's obvious.

2012-04-09 00:28

no, NAVI were flashing themselves ofcourse......

2012-04-09 09:12

he team flashed.

2012-04-08 03:19

this tournament has revealed a great Job from Winfact :) Good game from fnatic ..they deserve :)

Thanks to all the HLTV staffs who brought incredibly fast updated news to all the fans. Congratz again to fnatic, WinFakt, Lemondogs & Alternate for their achievements. Na`Vi also showed their great endurance and mentality throughout the whole tournaments. The fights between fnatic and Na`Vi in the coming months are gonna be extremely interesting to watch :)

I dont remember, it was lurpis or nixon who predicted the following rank.. 1. ESC gaming 2.Na'vi 3.Sk 4\5\6.fnatic winfact & lemondogs but look at the results only 1 prediction went correct. :D :D

2012-04-08 02:46

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thats the best of cs, unpredictable :D

2012-04-08 02:56

Na'Vi pretty predictable though. they will somehow managed to ended up in top3

Nice fluent english, not. You are not from usa.

2012-04-08 04:02

yours is no better

2012-04-08 12:29

he predicted na'vi 1st not esc, so all prediction failed and btw it was predicted by mr. lurpis (no.1 sk & sweden hater)

2012-04-08 09:51

good job aTTaX!!!

2012-04-08 02:50

Nice tournament

2012-04-08 03:33

Great Grand Finals :)

2012-04-08 03:56

Great perfomances! CS is not dead at all

2012-04-08 04:00

nice performence by coloN

2012-04-08 04:30

happy for winfakt. best performance since destination skyline?

2012-04-08 04:58

you are forgetting wings/roccat/serious gaming/n69e28 :)

2012-04-08 22:52

great play by aslak, moddi, and karigan <3

2012-04-08 06:27

gj WF<3

2012-04-08 06:42

Amazing event, love surprises and upsets :D really great system, a lot of matches, a lot of frags, a lot of emotions despite one disadvantage in the end

2012-04-08 06:52

good for fnatic, LD & WF

2012-04-08 07:20

SK Gaming 570 ,ESC Gaming 0 =DD

2012-04-08 08:09

Was POV'S recorded???

2012-04-08 08:37

ESC and SK fail !

2012-04-08 09:16

Na`Vi again tested our nervous system

2012-04-08 09:32

Hope there's a VOD for the finals (I had to miss it at the end =/)

2012-04-08 09:36

esc sick

2012-04-08 10:10

am happy 4 FNATIC , specially Xizt n Gux , they have missed the nice feeling of da win for long time :D congrats guyz , u deserved it

2012-04-08 10:38

haha SK 5-6, ESC 9-12 :D crying sk and poland fanboys sad for them... :D gj fnatic navi lemondogs

2012-04-08 11:09

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ESC Gaming 1 place @ WCG 2011 1 place @ IEM WC VI I'm not crying :))))))))

2012-04-08 12:06

yes i just hate how everybody says poland strong neo>all atd...

2012-04-08 12:10

wcg 2011 this is bullshit

2012-04-08 13:39

bullshit? :D oh wait no russian teams... yes for you it must be bullshit

2012-04-08 14:21

+1 :)

2012-04-08 15:35

no russian teams? M5 top3 wcg 2011

2012-04-08 15:52

they are trolls so just ignore them ;)

2012-04-08 15:34

nice play all...

2012-04-08 11:31

Which will be the next major 1.6 tournament and when?

2012-04-08 11:36

HeatoN stupid monkey,bad commentator becous we don't see an action of game.We see game at first person,we not see what team do.We see gtr with beer,he special do it,becouse his mother hit him when he drink.Bad event,organization bitches moneyboys.Stream of fragbite so bad.

2012-04-08 12:03