We watched incredible, exciting and challenging matches at the Copenhagen Games 2010. After mTw had lost their match versus Cheap Times! (mTw 1-2 Cheap Times!) for the Danish tropy, mTw has defeated Shark.Confis with an expected score ( 16 - 10 ) and won the championship.
A well deserverd win with their supreme performance, especially with Christoffer "Sunde" Sunde's vital playing when they were in big trouble, he knew when it was the right time to step in.
Three Danish and one Swedish team had given prize, they are listed below:
1. mTw - €3,360
2. Shark.Confis - €1,613
3. Ab Ovo - €940
4. NP - €400
The team concode won the first place (1st) on the event called The Gathering 2010 and took with them 6,230 euro and five tickets to event DreamHack Summer wich starts in 19 June.
After group stage, eight teams advanced to playoffs
Playzone n!faculty Expert-Gaming Oslo Lions Frag eXecutors UNiTED concode H2k Gaming
In the quarter-finals , Lions eSportsKlubb and Expert-Gaming were defeated and sent home. The biggest surprise was team concode wich won against Frag eXecutors (16:14) , also n!faculty have been sent home after their loss against H2k with the score of 14:16 .
While concode win easly against Playzone (16:2) in semi-finals they reached the grand final. UNiTED had a hard match against H2k but they managed to win with 16:11 and go into the final.
In the final team concode passed over UNiTED with an overall of 2-0 .On de_train they managed to win easily with 16:7.On the second map , de_tuscan , the match going into overtime after a 15:15 score. In overtime , concode won with 4:0 and reached to pass over UNiTED with a general score of 19:15. The final was played in the system bo3 ( best of three ).
Winners list and prizes
1st place concode with 6,230 euro 2nd place UNiTED with 2,494 euro
3rd place H2k with 1,247 euro
Cophenhag Games 2010 grouping step finished. Everybody were shocked after the match between mTw and Pontus Bill was drawn. Although mTw was winning 13-2 first half, Pontus Bill carried on struggle and won their bittersweet tie, however both teams will attend the play-offs both of which will have the chance to win the trophy.
We will see sixteen powerful teams at the at the A-tournament :
Pontus Bill mTw Ab Ovo 15 min concede NP seven11 Cheap Times! Booyaa! kcruscszc red lobster Team XLBet Jumping Jacks Dansk Metal CPH Hawks Shark.Confis Begrip
Prizes for the tournament are:
1st place: 25.000 DKR =~ 3,357 EURO
2nd place: 12.000 DKR =~ 1,611 EURO
3rd place: 7.000 DKR =~ 939 EURO
4th place: 3.000 DKR =~ 402 EURO
5th place: 1.500 DKR =~ 201 EURO
6th place: 1.500 DKR =~ 201 EURO
You cannot make a life in just playing cs , stated Valdemar "CIKIST" R. and Giedrius "psich" P. So this summer the two members will move on with their lives and go abroad to work.
The number one team in the Baltics "phasmatis" last week attended "RESF Lan Event" at Riga in which they were successful and brought their country gold.
Second were "Canei" and the third were Latvian "INCOGNITO" , but anyway the news is not about this. Ex-player "CIKIST" commented ;
So what was the causes in you dropping from the team ? Who influenced you ?
Theres always a moment where somebody steps down , now or then , but the time comes at some stage. Me and psich called it quits not becouse of some motivations or something , we decided to quit becouse we are not able to afford any time on Counter-Strike , there is many more things to do , which are more important.
Whats gonna happen with the team ? Is the Number one Baltic team will end it too ?
I would wish , that it wouldnt happen , but now the decision making does not depend on me. I hope that Squad Captain "Veeker" will find good players and find a way how to keep the team in such form.
Is there any possibilities in you comming back to eSports world at some stage ?
Never say never , so i realy dont know whats gonna happen in the future. Time will show ! If theres gonna be any chances and will to come back , i will for definate , but these chances are poor , becouse i always wanted to step down when i was still worth something and i think i made it.
What will happen with the squad we still dont know , but they said that they will continue until summer for sure.
Phasmatis
Valdemar "CIKIST" Romanovskij Giedrius "psich" Petkelis Richardas "Veeker" Vismantas Vadim "dARKIe" Lapin Arunas "tx" Vaicelis
While the BYOC qualifier ends , the groups for The Gathering 2010 are finalized . The teams wich passed from qualifiers have been drawn into the groups . As we know all teams who take part to this event, groups looks like below
Group A
Playzone
Expert.Gaming
dignitas demise
Group B
cbteam n!faculty Lions kent
Group C
Frag eXecutors H2k Gaming vVv Gaming LastBreath
Group D
UNiTED concode Online-Kingdom Clutch
The tournament started yesterday at 09:00CET with matches from Group A and C. Today will play squads from Group B and D, while playoffs will take part tommorow (Saturday).
You can find more information about the entire event on HTLV.org