AMD Sapphire group draw

30-11-2012 21:10

The group draw for the AMD Sapphire CS:GO tournament has been made, with the 10 participants having learned their fate.

The Czech tournament, held by Heaven Media in association with the Mind Sports festival, will kick off with a group stage, with the 10 participating teams having been divided into two groups of five teams.

ESC Gaming are set to tackle Ninjas in Pyjamas once again after losing to the Swedish side during the group stage of DreamHack Winter. French team BuyKey, zNation of Russia and Belgium's Brussels Guardians make up the rest of the group.

In Group B, ESWC and DreamHack Winter runners-up VeryGames will lock horns with fellow countrymen eXtensive!, Portuguese side k1ck, Slovakian-Czech team MYDGB.NET and the Russians of dAT Team - who will be using Dmitry "hooch" Bogdanov as a stand-in for Georgi "worldedit" Yaskin.

Group A	Group B
Ninjas in Pyjamas	VeryGames
ESC Gaming	k1ck
BuyKey	eXtensive!
zNation	MYDGB.NET
Brussels Guardians	dAT Team

The top four teams from each group will progress to the quarter-finals, which will use a best-of-three format.

Nip vs VG final...

2012-11-30 21:28

6 replies

Ye same again gg

2012-11-30 22:07

and we all know the result to that!

2012-11-30 22:50

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vg 2:0 nip

2012-11-30 22:52

3 replies

you funny guy!

2012-11-30 22:55

1 reply

haha :D

2012-11-30 22:56

hahaha made my day

2012-12-01 09:40

Nice teams

Hope to see ESC in the finals with NiP, but it's gonna be NiP vs. VeryGames.

how is that a draw? group A: 1, 3, 5, 7, 10 group b: 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 'we will just go down the seeding list and swap up the bottom 2 to make it look like we did something' nicely done lol

2012-11-30 21:32

Haha, yeah.

2012-11-30 21:30

It's really weird, it should be 2,4,5,7,8 if I'm not mistaken.

2012-12-01 00:34

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And what about 2,4,6,8,10 ? :D

2012-12-01 10:45

Then it's not 2 even groups ;)

2012-12-03 14:05

Hoping that k1ck can show off something good. Final NiP vs X

2012-11-30 21:31

Gl ESC

dreamteam?

they can't since there no server log :s

2012-11-30 21:34

aham :))

2012-12-01 10:47

NiP vs myDGB final

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cool story bro

2012-11-30 21:33

'0' not funny

never ^^ nip vs vg

:D sure...

2012-11-30 21:55

nice troll

2012-11-30 22:58

and kubiaxk will be the MPV

2012-12-01 07:12

you mean mvp ? :D

2012-12-01 10:48

ESCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

2012-11-30 21:35

Will VeryGames win their first cup against NiP? Will GeT_RiGhT play very bad so VeryGames can take this one? Will f0rest have a stomachache so he won't be able to play like he usually does and then VG take this one? We will see it on the next episode of "VeryGames, the NiP's bitches!" (No offense, just joking =P)

2012-11-30 21:41

Well, atm all teams are NiP's bitches...

2012-11-30 22:20

GO is the most boring game, you will always know who comes first and who come second. in 1.6 you never knew what can happen

2012-11-30 21:46

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that has nothing to do with the game, teams matter. Hatingbus.

2012-11-30 21:58

I am sure fnatic or even Na`Vi if they get very lucky will be the ones to win a map against NiP or even a match on LAN

2012-11-30 22:01

na'vi? nice joke

2012-11-30 22:09

Yeah we know you don't know shit but that doesn't give you right to underestimate a good team.w

2012-12-01 10:36

nice joke about navi

2012-11-30 22:21

mouz is the only team close to be able to toppling NiP atm lol.

2012-12-01 08:55

in 1.6 usually the best team wins, that's the magic of the game: is NOT RANDOM

2012-11-30 22:59

ya you never knew what could happen. i mean after navi winning everything that mattered in 2010 we all had no idea who would win dhw 2010 grow up, there have been lineups that have won many prizes in the same year one after the other. navi, sk, fnatic, esc/fx have all done it so why is it suddenly boring when nip does it?

2012-11-30 23:15

Yeah because 1.6 never had a dominant team per year right?

2012-11-30 23:16

not as NiP does today.

2012-11-30 23:26

SK 2003

2012-12-01 00:35

at least we didn't know who would come second :D

2012-12-01 01:17

Surely the fact that the best players with the most hours are winning the most; proves that the game does have an inherent balance to it.

2012-12-01 00:06

looking forward to not watch it

2012-11-30 21:48

aha didn't expect such comment :D

2012-12-01 01:18

GL K1CK !

2012-11-30 21:51

piece of shit cadred or media herpdederp, I WANT DREAMTEAM! :S Semifinal: VG-ESC NiP-Extensive Final: VG-NiP

2012-11-30 21:57

I wanted too :<

2012-11-30 22:29

lets go k1ck

GL DGB

2012-11-30 22:02

no gotv ?

2012-11-30 22:10

GL K1CK !!!

2012-11-30 22:12

ESC Again fKed:P

2012-11-30 22:15

how about the schedule ?

2012-11-30 22:17

TBA

2012-11-30 22:22

GL MYDGB !

2012-11-30 22:24

Gl k1ck and Nip and Esc

2012-11-30 22:25

Easy for NiP. Gl MYDGB.

2012-11-30 22:36

gl MYDGB.NET

2012-11-30 22:46

Its not excluded to see semifinal match NiP vs VG, if some other team grab 1st place in Group B. I really want to see different teams in final, enough with NiP-VG finals :D

2012-11-30 22:54

GOTV will be available ? Coverage ?

Another easy tournament for NiP ...

2012-11-30 23:03

ESC

2012-11-30 23:20

Rooting for ESC, I don't want to see NiP vs VG on the finals again..

2012-11-30 23:57

maaaan, i was hoping to see esc vs k1ck in group stage, it would be nice to watch this match since this is a new game!

2012-12-01 00:27

hoochiemama gogo!

2012-12-01 00:30

2012-12-01 00:45

hoho amazing, can't wait for csgo and all coverage that goes with it, gonna be great!

2012-12-01 01:22

i wish good luck to k1ck. i have no idea of what to espect since I'm not really into the GO scene only know the tops team. Those 2 french teams I don't know. Those REDZONE guys nearly won against k1ck and beat mouz so I suppose french are the domminant country on GO atm. Although NiP >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> everyone else

2012-12-01 02:59