murso
The next team to step into the spotlight is the only remaining Finnish team in the EuroCup, runner-up from group C, #Murso SFX. A combination of Finnish talent from last season, #Murso SFX feature lineup of players who have all competed at high level for a long time, few of which have ever made it to the real top level. This season they hope to change that, aiming to further shame the many doubters who were surprised by their progress out of the groups.
Current Lineup:
Leo "lettu" Haasanen
Joni "Hessu" Obradovic
Tero "cadein" Pölläniemi
Teemu "rauzki" Seijari
Mikko "mikza" Suppula
Jussi "twidi" Tiipiö
Tino "chmpp" Valle
Tommi "murso" Valve
Team History
The original murso squad was created, according to Jussi "twidi" Tiipiö, in 2004, over two years ago, making it one of the oldest teams in the cup. Originally, twidi says, "murso was just a small community channel which consisted of friends who were playing some games together for fun." Competing over the years not only in ET, but also in games like CS:S and TM:N, murso built up a core of players who enjoyed playing together. "After sFx LAN and sFx Evil folded," twidi continues, "we decided to gather our forces and start to play with #murso more seriously."
This new, more serious murso set their sights on the upcoming EuroCup and won an invitation many thought was perhaps not completely deserved. The final step in making the team what it is today was the natural move in the eyes of the squad - they rejoined with their founder teams' sponsor sFx Gaming and were ready to march into battle.
Their first such battle against the Polish Fear Factory did not go to plan, as murso lost out with a narrow defeat. Losing to idle.ee in their second match, it looked like the season was all over for murso, but with a narrow victory over Incomplete, and Incomplete's win against the Poles, murso were given a second chance. The group was tied for second place, and the first ever ET EuroCup tiebreaker series was required. Murso stormed into the tiebreakers full of confidence, battling past first Incomplete then Fear Factory to claim the playoff spot.
While they succeeded in reaching the playoffs, however, serious doubts remain about murso's potential to go any further. Like rewind, they had only won a single game in the group stage, prior to the tiebreak. Perhaps it was merely the fact that they were in a group with idle that made all three of the other teams in group C (including murso) look sup-par, but there is also a strong argument that they just aren't on the same level as most of their fellow playoff competitors.
Team Strengths
With the longest history of any team in EuroCup, murso undoubtedly have a strong teamplay built up, a fact twidi confirms. "We don't have any special playstyle, because it depends on our opponents," he says, "teamplay is our strength, because most of us have already played together since [early 2005]."
Despite having two players from the well respected sFx.LAN squad, twidi cites instead mikza as the key player in the team, saying "[he] is our star player! He's a great multiclasser who rarely has a bad day." I agree with this sentiment, in part, mikza has always looked good in the murso games I've seen, but so too have many of the other members of the team. Many of the squad are relatively unknown at the top level, but they all hope to make a name for themselves this season.
Murso will face a stern test, though, in the cdap pi side who are seen by many as one of the pretenders to idle's crown. twidi acknowledges that the general community expectation is for a solid cdap pi victory, but goes on to stress that this hasn't dampened his team's understated confidence. "I've got a quite good feeling that it won't be an easy game for them," he says, "We're not playing here to lose."
Playoff Outlook
In the face of murso's confident mood, and the fact cdap pi have been known to stumble in the past, it is certainly possible that murso will come through with the victory. This, however, seems unlikely - cdap pi looked spectacular in their most recent game against aMenti, and while murso appeared strong in the tiebreaker series against Fear Factory and Incomplete, their performance wasn't, perhaps, quite up to that standard.
With the right map choices, solid play and a bit of luck there is no reason murso can't take the win, but I do not honestly expect them to. Their time in the winners bracket is destined to be short lived unless they can pull off a major coup, and a likely losers bracket game against rewind should be more within their capabilities, although this too will be tough.
murso's hopes are, at least, modest. Winning a single match in the playoffs, thereby bettering the performance of the sFx.EVIL team, would be enough to make twidi happy. With a strong performance this should be possible for murso, but I can't honestly see them as a challenger for the top spots. murso will be fighting to get more than last place in the playoffs, and while they could achieve that, anything more will likely be beyond the plucky Finns.
Future Plans
After this season, murso intend to go back to their roots, stopping competitive play and continuing as a fun clan across whatever games take their fancy. Although they did, at one point, plan on attending shgOpen LAN in Copenhagen, scheduling and transport problems meant we probably won't see murso at all after this season, at LAN or online. Here's hoping the team can end their journey through high-level ET with a bang.
The next team to step into the spotlight is the only remaining Finnish team in the EuroCup, runner-up from group C, #Murso SFX. A combination of Finnish talent from last season, #Murso SFX feature lineup of players who have all competed at high level for a long time, few of which have ever made it to the real top level. This season they hope to change that, aiming to further shame the many doubters who were surprised by their progress out of the groups.
Current Lineup:
Leo "lettu" Haasanen
Joni "Hessu" Obradovic
Tero "cadein" Pölläniemi
Teemu "rauzki" Seijari
Mikko "mikza" Suppula
Jussi "twidi" Tiipiö
Tino "chmpp" Valle
Tommi "murso" Valve
Team History
The original murso squad was created, according to Jussi "twidi" Tiipiö, in 2004, over two years ago, making it one of the oldest teams in the cup. Originally, twidi says, "murso was just a small community channel which consisted of friends who were playing some games together for fun." Competing over the years not only in ET, but also in games like CS:S and TM:N, murso built up a core of players who enjoyed playing together. "After sFx LAN and sFx Evil folded," twidi continues, "we decided to gather our forces and start to play with #murso more seriously."
This new, more serious murso set their sights on the upcoming EuroCup and won an invitation many thought was perhaps not completely deserved. The final step in making the team what it is today was the natural move in the eyes of the squad - they rejoined with their founder teams' sponsor sFx Gaming and were ready to march into battle.
Their first such battle against the Polish Fear Factory did not go to plan, as murso lost out with a narrow defeat. Losing to idle.ee in their second match, it looked like the season was all over for murso, but with a narrow victory over Incomplete, and Incomplete's win against the Poles, murso were given a second chance. The group was tied for second place, and the first ever ET EuroCup tiebreaker series was required. Murso stormed into the tiebreakers full of confidence, battling past first Incomplete then Fear Factory to claim the playoff spot.
While they succeeded in reaching the playoffs, however, serious doubts remain about murso's potential to go any further. Like rewind, they had only won a single game in the group stage, prior to the tiebreak. Perhaps it was merely the fact that they were in a group with idle that made all three of the other teams in group C (including murso) look sup-par, but there is also a strong argument that they just aren't on the same level as most of their fellow playoff competitors.
Team Strengths
With the longest history of any team in EuroCup, murso undoubtedly have a strong teamplay built up, a fact twidi confirms. "We don't have any special playstyle, because it depends on our opponents," he says, "teamplay is our strength, because most of us have already played together since [early 2005]."
Despite having two players from the well respected sFx.LAN squad, twidi cites instead mikza as the key player in the team, saying "[he] is our star player! He's a great multiclasser who rarely has a bad day." I agree with this sentiment, in part, mikza has always looked good in the murso games I've seen, but so too have many of the other members of the team. Many of the squad are relatively unknown at the top level, but they all hope to make a name for themselves this season.
Murso will face a stern test, though, in the cdap pi side who are seen by many as one of the pretenders to idle's crown. twidi acknowledges that the general community expectation is for a solid cdap pi victory, but goes on to stress that this hasn't dampened his team's understated confidence. "I've got a quite good feeling that it won't be an easy game for them," he says, "We're not playing here to lose."
Playoff Outlook
In the face of murso's confident mood, and the fact cdap pi have been known to stumble in the past, it is certainly possible that murso will come through with the victory. This, however, seems unlikely - cdap pi looked spectacular in their most recent game against aMenti, and while murso appeared strong in the tiebreaker series against Fear Factory and Incomplete, their performance wasn't, perhaps, quite up to that standard.
With the right map choices, solid play and a bit of luck there is no reason murso can't take the win, but I do not honestly expect them to. Their time in the winners bracket is destined to be short lived unless they can pull off a major coup, and a likely losers bracket game against rewind should be more within their capabilities, although this too will be tough.
murso's hopes are, at least, modest. Winning a single match in the playoffs, thereby bettering the performance of the sFx.EVIL team, would be enough to make twidi happy. With a strong performance this should be possible for murso, but I can't honestly see them as a challenger for the top spots. murso will be fighting to get more than last place in the playoffs, and while they could achieve that, anything more will likely be beyond the plucky Finns.
Future Plans
After this season, murso intend to go back to their roots, stopping competitive play and continuing as a fun clan across whatever games take their fancy. Although they did, at one point, plan on attending shgOpen LAN in Copenhagen, scheduling and transport problems meant we probably won't see murso at all after this season, at LAN or online. Here's hoping the team can end their journey through high-level ET with a bang.
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gogogogo gl to teams especially cdap (<3 tox & perfo)
But austrian? xD
1938 sry :<
edit: lol you are 5 days older :-(
kk?
You just confirmed what I said in the server.
You really are a retard LOLOLOLOL!
I'm sorry you lost, and I honestly expected you to be able to win at least one of your games this season, but you didn't.
1. mize still didn't get banned and that means he won't be able to play for around 8-9 months, while he will get banned for 6 months - that's what mize told me no clue if it is true. Point is, will get him banned 2-3 months longer then neccesary.
And yes, for everyone wondering. I agree that he should be punished for cheating but this takes to much time.
2. We get bad servers, huge lags vs uQ which takes around 40 seconds and the same in the game with team nl. Don't remember vs who but who cares.
3. Then you got those warreports, I still don't see them after 2 weeks, maybe even longer.
Then, did you watch the matches? In my opinion they didn't won with "ease".
Anyway, I just say "the admins" because I don't look everytime who the admin is and won't remember it from everytime!
AND GUESS WHAT?
Only 1 report found:
http://www.clanbase.com/news_league.php?nid=232460&lid=2830
Is it finished? Not even close. So what exactly do you mean that you put 1000% more effort in this years EC than last years?
Despite the numerous problems before the match and during the first round, both teams proved to be pretty evenly matched, but uQ-Gaming were just a touch superior on the day. They now have a chance at a playoff spot, depending on the result of their final game vs zeroPoint later this week.
You contradict yourself. You wrote this conclusion in the matchreport from mQ vs uQ.
i agree with pumu, progressing to the play offs with a negative record is abit lame and perhaps larger groups would have solved this problem, but perhaps not and then we have monkeys to blame. Group B/C were the best and tighest.
True, that game was pretty convincing, but then so was amonkeys' second game against [<<], showing that they had the potential to make a comeback. The shattering only happened when they forfeited, which you don't seem to mention. :)
maybe finish the fucking article before you put it online?
=x
was just saying my opinion
:O
i'm not gonna stop fanboying ex-parodia guys just because of couple losses =]
im i bugged??? cant see it ! help!!
EDIT: Up!
dan is de datum dat die adacore dat artikel post
If they beat idle they face the winner of NETR-hx, if they lose to idle they face the loser of NETR-hx.
The skill difference is mostly coincidence - aMenti and NETR (and rewind and murso) are classified as 'lower' seeded teams, since they didn't win their groups. The 'higher' seeded teams are the group winners and there are two group winners in each half of the bracket.
With hindsight it might've been marginally more sensible (knowing how the groups were created) to do the playoffs as winner A vs runnerup B, runnerup C vs winner D, etc. Can't change it now though.
EDIT: It's taking longer than I expected, and I was distracted by Finns... I'll finish it tomorrow afternoon, sorry expectant guys :(
that is some hell of a great work youve done here, adacore.
your english pissed me off once in a while but as a whole,
damn huge work here!! ..
nicely done job ..
MOVE MOVE MOVE adacore :P
Nice read tho ada.
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