“European WCG” in the capital of Poland

Last weekend (October 7–9) in the Polish capital, or rather, in the exhibition center Expo III , Passed annual Samsung Euro Championship , or, as it is still lovingly called, "European World Cyber ​​Games " – not the last tournament in e -sports. Samsung It positions it as a kind of general rehearsal before the Grand Final WCG In Pusan, South Korea.

Entering the stage of players with national flags is the traditional difference between "Samsung" tournaments.

Unfortunately, this year the composition of the participants was not as fighting as a couple of years ago. Respectively, there were fewer interesting matches than usual. As part of the tournament, six games competitions were held – Counter-Strike 1.6, FIFA 2011, Starcraft 2, League of Legends, Tekken and mobile Asphalt 6. Let us dwell on the first three.

In between games, master classes were held; Spectators entertained Polish bitboxers.

Counter-Strike 1.6

The game community has long circulated rumors that CS 1.6 How competitive discipline in large tournaments survives its century. 2012 promises to be the last – fans are waiting for the exit Counter-Strike 2 and look askance towards fresh Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. And therefore, any major cs 1 tournament.6 is accepted "with a bang", and the future SEC 2011 It was no exception.

The day before the official start of the competition in Poland, a qualification took place, where the legendary team expected to easily won Again (Neo, Loord, Taz, Pasha, Kuben), which until recently was listed in the ranks of the Polish organization Frag Executors. The second place was taken Fear Factory.

Russia represented Moscow Five (Dosia, Fox, Edik, Xek, Romjke) – they can rightfully be called the best team of the country at the moment. The Moscow Five seriously hoped to compete for gold medals and for the sake of the Sec, even canceled the trip to, as they said, "financially not profitable" Intel Extreme Masters New York.

Indisputable favorites SEC 2011 Swedes were considered SK Gaming (Delpan, F0rest, Get_right, Face, Robban), although giving way to recent finals E-STARS SeUL Poles from Frag Executors , but before that under the leadership of Robert Dalstrem ( Robban ) Won five tournaments in a row. The champions are not determined yet ESWC 2011 And WCG 2011 , exactly SK Gaming can be called the best team of the outgoing year.

But Ukrainians Na’vi (Edward, Zeus, Markeloff, CEH9, Starix), who took everything that can and cannot be changed last year, luck changed: on Ukrainian qualifying WCG The current champions lost Kerchnet (Z1, Blad3, Krutoi, Bondik, Shara), received third place, and now it is not known whether they will visit whether they will visit Grand-finalwcg In Pusan. On the last E-STARS SeUL Na’vi hardly made their way to the final of the "losers", but again lost SK And they turned out to be third.

The Polish CS team AGain is absorbed in the game.

The legendary Polish five from Frag Executors , Philip Kubski ( Neo ) and the company, has been holding on to the world top for more than five years; Among other things, they already have two victories on WCG And the same amount – on ESWC. At the summer tournament ICSC 9 In Kyiv, the guys complained that they were not satisfied with financial conditions in the team, and just a few days before the start Sec left Frag Executors , Called by a good old tag Again (They are just an evil rock pursues: one of the most, if not the most titled team in history Counter-STRIKE can not enlist long -term support for a good organization; At the end of summer, they almost found themselves in Mousesports , But the Germans chose to preserve the German composition). Clear business, in this tournament, before the native public, the motivation of the Poles took off to heaven.

The tournament was held according to the system of "Group + Single Elimination Best-OF-Three ". The organizers formed four groups, but due to the fact that the Georgians and Portuguese did not arrive, in some places there were three teams. There were few interesting competitions on the first day of the tournament, and the organizers arranged two additional Match show-the winners received $ 3,000 each. Swedes SK overcame Again , A Na’vi rolled on rugs of Romanians from TEG.

In the grid of the tournament group A I did not bring any surprises, Na’vi easily bypassed the Hungarians from Myrevenge And Fear Factory From Poland, and in a duel for the second place, the Poles defeated the Hungarians on de_nuke with a score of 20:10.

In the group B ( SK , Entity , Doom, e-saara ) the first happened – and the only – sensation: the French from Electronic Sahara (Maj3r, Sixer https://magicred-gb-casino.co.uk/, Diodel, Harts, Irek) made Skgaming (17:13 on de_nuke).

The dark horse of the tournament-the French from E-Sahara, who presented us two sensations at once, first beat SK in the group, and then unexpectedly losing to Poral Factory Poles in the quarter-finals.

From the group C ( Again , Winfakt , BGDonline , TEG ) The Poles and the Finnish team were expected to enter the playoffs Winfakt , Moreover, the last – from the first place. Serbs BGDonline were content with the third place, and once formidable Romanians Theelder Gods – And even the fourth.

Through the final group D , Like a knife through the oil, passed Moscow Five , The Czechs who have first E-Suba.Intel (23: 7 on de_train), and then the Austrians from Plan-B (22: 8 on de_train). Great game Tomash Shchisnney ( Oskar ) In a match with the Austrians, she brought Chekhov to the playoffs from second place.

The first game for Russians from Moscow Five against Czechs from Esuba.Intel turned out to be a light walk.

The next day the quarter finals opened pairs Winfakt vs. E-Suba (16: 2 and 16: 9 in favor of the first) and Moscowfive vs. Again. The second match caused a huge excitement thanks to a not very pleasant incident on the eve: after the first game day, Muscovites allowed themselves to relax and drink and almost flew out of the distance – the judges showed strict. Fortunately, this did not happen, but literally in an hour Again Literally destroyed Muscovites (16: 6, 16:11), and they left the tournament.

The last quarterfinal couples played on the third day of the competition. Na’vi In a bright match, they finally defeated their "Nemesis" Skgaming (16:13, 16:11), and the second Polish team Fear Factory (Ths, Drive, Ben, Sonamed, Dok) unexpectedly won the French E-Sahara (16: 1, 16: 9).

Na’vi vs. SK Gaming – the first rounds of the second card of the epic confrontation on de_tuscan.

In parallel to the evening semi -finals Again We prevailed over Fear Factory (16: 8, 16: 3), but Ukrainians met the strong resistance of the Finns Winfakt (13:16, 16:11, 16:11).

And then the denouement came. In the two previous finals between Ukrainians and Poles, on Intel Extrememasters Global Finals in winter in Cologne and on Intel Challenge Super Cup 8 In the spring in Kyiv, the former won, but this time the Polish five, with a stormy support of the hall, was relaxed Na’vi (16:11 on de_DUST and de_TRAIN), having received $ 15,000 and the title of European champions SEC 2011. After the final, Viktor Voitas ( TAZ ), one of the players Again , With happiness even smiled. Ukrainians were content with the second place and $ 10,000. The third steel Winfakt , The winners Fear Factory with account 16:12 and 16: 9.

In the finale, the strongest this time turned out to be Again.

Starcraft 2

In this game, many large tournaments are running today in parallel. In addition to regular online ones, these are LAN-tones- NASL in the USA, Intel Extreme Masters Guanzhou In Guangzhou, large competitions in South Korea, Elite League games GSL and other and other. That's why SEC 2011 Half of strong European players did not collect (for example, White-Ra, Dimaga, Grubby, Naniwa, Sjow, Stephano, Socke, Hasuobs did not arrive.). But I still didn't have to miss.

Even before the start of the tournament, unpleasant news came from the Polish-Ukrainian border: the main favorite of the tournament, Mikhail Gaid.KAS), they did not let into the territory of Poland, despite the visa and an invitation from the organizers.

In the group stage (as in CS 1.6, there were four groups) The flaw was the failure of the Italian terrane Cloud.

In the quarterfinals Fnatic.Nightend defeated the little -known Englishman Bling, and the young Finnish talent of Welmu lost to the legendary protoss and an excellent player for the alliance (corrected) in Warcraft III John Merlot (Fnatic.Tod). The favorite of the local public Nerchio in the Match-Ape ZVZ (Zerg VS. Zerg) bypassed the strong German player DarkForce, but in the semifinals was the BIT Romanian Fnatic.Nightend with a score 2: 0. In another semifinal, TOD is not without problems, but still did Thomasg.

The final confrontation in Starcraft 2 It was hot as the past Moscow summer. The French Protoss defeated the Polish Zerg only after the decisive, fifth, card (3: 2). Young Nerchio, being the favorite of the final, was nervous – apparently, he was afraid to lose his face in front of his native public. As for the Frenchman, then, of course, the enormous experience of performances in the finals of the largest world tournaments since time helped him Warcraft III. If this finale was played online, perhaps we would see another winner.

FIFA 2011

With the advent of a strong competitor in the form Pro Evolution Soccer The number of football supporters from EA Sports gradually decreased, but on SEC 2011 nevertheless FIFA 2011 Present. This was one of the last major tournaments according to the 11th version, because on the nose FIFA 2012. The seventeen players from all over Europe participated, and representatives of historically the most powerful “FIFA’h” countries – Romania, Germany, Ukraine and Russia reasonably recorded the victory applicants.

All participants in the tournament were divided into two groups, eight and nine players, respectively. After the grueling games “each with each” revealed the four best in each group.

In the group A These were the German Schiewe (the future finalist of the tournament and one of the real applicants for first place), the Italian Lonewolf92, the Slovak Tibco and the Portuguese Quinzas. In the first group, the Russian Russian also performed, but, unfortunately, lost to all the above players.

In the second group I won Na’vi.Yozhyk, which is being trained a lot now and is in an excellent game form. Ikandro Georgian finishes the second, the Hom3r Pole – the third, and the legendary Romanians Bebe hardly clung to the saving fourth place.

The playoffs went under the dictation of Yozhyk and the German player Schiewe, who met in the final. Having discovered that he is inferior to the enemy 0: 1, the Ukrainian shook himself and won the next two matches. Bronze took Lonewolf92.

Having lost to the German in the first match of the final, the future Ukrainian champion gathered his will into a fist and won the next two.