NiP's road to ESL Cologne
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13 Aug 2014, 10:37
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Is this the first eSports squad to have a bus? What the actual fork.
In other news
Pita will be NiP's newest Stragegy adviser.So no -Fiffy this time lads.
Any of you going to watch these matches? Placing bets? Who u think will win? GEGE
I think that NiP will smash everyone in this tournament.
Does it matter which stream you watch?
If i remember right then sweden biggest bus company sponsors nip to get to events
1. NiP winning all of the matches
2. I'd go for epsilon since they did pretty well @ G3 with current lineup. shox in form > *
3. HR
4. Wolf
Group B:
weird one, i mean every team can advance to playoffs
1. LDLC, they've played really well recently
2. LC, great performance @ G3
3. Na'Vi, very shaky lately
4. CPHW, not sure if they are ready to win vs such good opponents, will see
Group C:
group of death, obviously
1. Fnatic, great performance @ G3, they havent lost since then, i presume (not sure tho)
2. Virtus.pro, they are known for playing just decent at groupstages. you all know the outcome on offline events tho
3. iBP, they are really good but fnatic and virtus are slightly better offline
4. dAT, they had some crazy matches in esl cologne qualis with flamie on top, but i think they wont perform as good as they did online
Group D:
1. Titan, have you seen kennyS playing @ G3? sweet jesus. good team but needs their individuals in form (kennyS, ScreaM)
2. Dignitas, great team overall. they might even win the whole event but sometimes it feels like their worst opponents are themselves
3. Cloud9, decent team but Titan and Dignitas are on another level
4. Vox
The final will be NiP vs Dignitas with NiP coming back from their losing spree and finally wining a major
you can tell the same about every single team playing actually, dignitas especially
That doesn't mean I don't love ET though <3
ETPro scene is not dying, it just has smaller activity, main reason are cheaters and not properly working Anti-Cheat (ATM) and also no anti-cheat for IRC wars, you can't want players to be active under these conditions.
I think ET live may sort some of those issues, but it all depends, something what WarWitch did to RTCW would be amazing. Shoutcaster who would people donate to and he would then host 6on6 cups and shoutcast them, it's all question about time and shit.. But that's the way to keep players playing and get some others back..
Also don't forget it's summer, people on holidays, working, resting, chilling and shit..
http://splatterladder.com/?mod=serverlist
= basically gone
ETPro scene:
never been as small and inactive as now, even if talking about the annual summer inactivity (that never really existed as strong as people thought it does)
also:
what timbo said about the fun part :S
as much as optimism can be fine and helpful, this game's 11 years old (a proud age) and probably will be maintained like RTCW
a few cups/leagues now and then but nothing big anymore
sad but true imo
No logic about the etpro scene.
no offence, just my opinion eight years after having started playing it
2. Dignitas
3. Wolf/NiP
2) Titan
3) Ibuypower - Cloud9