It's that phrase we've come to know and love by now. There might not be many Eurocup Sundays left (for this competition at least), but that doesn't mean the quality of games is suffering in any way. Finland uQ are lurking in grand final place, awaiting the winner of this, the CB Eurocup Loser's Brkt Final.

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The routes to this stage could not have been more different for both Estonia idle and image: fihu gods. Having both been knocked down into the loser's bracket, the old last-chance saloon whispers surely cannot be ignored, and any mistake now could lead to the end of the line. Add to this the prospect of having to win just to play Finland uQ, who have the luxury of having not lost a game and so need to be beaten twice and you start to see the task at hand is no mean feat.

But hang on a second. Doesn't this all look familiar? Remember last season, with U96D and Parodia? You can always refresh your memory. But is a recurrance of this really likely to happen? Well first Estonia Idle have to get through, but gods are not likely to make the task by any means an easy one. United Kingdom TosspoT posed the question (well, not the question) to Estonia Night of idle:

Quote[/i]Estonia Night: I wanna say yes but I can't :p we thought before 141 game that it's the last game, and even after 15 min we thought the same. It would be awesome if history repeats, but I think uQ deserves the win more and i'm almost sure they gonna get it. However we've been pretty active last 1 or 2 weeks but we had a little break during december and january for a couple of weeks.


Controversy

You will probably by now have read that popular Sweedlander Sweden feruS has re-joined the idle lineup. Night again:

Quote[/i]Estonia Night: ferus is one of the games greatest players and its a luxury to have him on our roster but hes nowhere near guaranteed a place in our team...
Only weeks after the anubis farce, Clanbase's United Kingdom Adacore issued a statement to United Kingdom TosspoT regarding the ruling made (on this particular occasion):

Quote[/i]United Kingdom Adacore: I'll go on record as saying that it would be entirely within the rules for idle to add him to their allowed list for EC if they so desire.


Continuing my coverage of the loser's bracket final, I chatted to Netherlands teKoa (idle) and Finland chammpi (gods) for a short while, to gauge their predictions and responses going into Sunday's game. You can see these two mini-interviews by navigating to the correct article page, or by clicking here for teKoa, and here for chammpi.
You can also see an overview of this and last season, by visiting the appropriate pages.

And no, I had this half done last night before Toss decided to go post his little thing. More coverage is never a bad thing :).