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As we're moving into the finals we have a cool match coming up with United Kingdom Team YoYoTech facing United Kingdom Team Dignitas. Both organizations seem to be huge competitors in the UK space, both supporting similar games and teams in them. Here at the Crossfire Intel Challenge 7 Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a battleground of choice for these two teams. Of course with both teams getting this far, you could have guessed they are both part of the favourites to win the event.

Dignitas evolved from Europe Blight, who evolved from Crossfire Challenge 6 winners Slovenia mamut.si. Their lineup is as following:
Sweden feruS
Germany drago
Estonia reload
Estonia Night
Finland matias

YoYoTech have largely abandoned their roots from the team attending the previous CC6 and should be considered an entirely new contender.
Poland wiaderko
Finland twidi
United Kingdom R0SS
Malta toxic
Netherlands M1lk

The groupstage was a walk in the park for both teams, with neither losing any map.
In the playoffs Dignitas dropped a map against Belgium Nothing is Impossible, proving the name of the Belgian team might be more correct than anyone of us thought. However Dignitas managed to win the other two maps. In the second round Dignitas had no trouble beating the Benelux Friends in Force, who are composed of a lineup filled with the former YYT players from CC6. In the third round however Dignitas faced a very well playing Poland tMoe side which pushed them into the lower bracket without the polish side losing any map. In the lower bracket Dignitas faced Europe JungleBrothers, a team composed of players from Crossfire Challenge 5 winner Europe H2k Gaming. Dignitas had no major problems in this match either, winning it four to nil.
Meanwhile YoYoTech followed a very similar route, beating Belgium angelDust four to nill, then facing the JungleBrothers, who YYT took down four to two. In their third upper bracket round YYT faced off against Europe Team Rockit, who proved to be too hot to handle. With a two to four score YYT got pushed into the lower bracket, in which they faced Netherlands Plug&Pown. A very tight match ensued, with YYT coming out on top, however a decider was necessary to produce a victor.

Both teams look like a perfect match skillwise. Will Dignitas be able to capitalize on their extensive LAN experience, or will YYT show they are worthy of a top 3 finish? Only time will tell.

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