Eurocup: Final Battles

Last week two of ET's finest sides met face to face for one of the most epic battles the game has ever known. Of course I'm talking about Dignitas - TLR. It was a tense second round of the Eurocup Winner Brackets. Quite early, when some teams even had to play the first round. Polar had already taken down Insignia Cadre with a 4-0 win. They were the first team to qualify for the Winner Bracket Final. TLR followed as I already mentioned with a 4-2 win over Dignitas last Thursday.


After beating Impact; Pro5 will take on Insignia Cadre tomorrow! With all the speculations about Keran and Shy being cheaters Pro5 are in a difficult position and maybe even facing a disqualification. Will Pro5 be able to beat Cadre and advance to the 3rd round of the Lower Brackets? Who knows?

Monday, 28 May 2007
Cadre: Twidi, Cadein, Squall, Kmble, Lettu, Chmpp
Pro5: Butchji, Drago, Keran, Hatred, Gifty, Ramin

90 Minutes to the match and I caught up with Cadre\Twidi. With Pro5 recently winning over a big name in the game: Impact, how does that make Twidi look at his chances for tonight? Click

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Cadre\Twidi

Well.. I'm not really worried about them winning Impact, but we haven't been praccing much lately so that might be a problem. Guess the hackers are in favour for this game, but we'll see how it goes.

- Rough words; could you shine your light over the whole situation with Shy_ and Keran?

A bit problematic situation, can't say any straight opinion if they should be banned or not. Shy_ isn't playing for them anymore tho as far as I know, so it's only keran left, but can't say, very hard situation.

- As you said Keran is still there and will be playing tonight. Any comment on that?

ClanBase hasn't banned him yet atleast so he is allowed to play tonight and there's nothing we can do about it. So we'll just play the game tonight normally and lets see how it goes then.

- Did you and your teammates for one moment think about not playing against P5?

Nah, didn't have that kind of thoughts, as I know they're still allowed to play and refusing to play wouldn't help at all.

- You're close to elimination now since it's the Lower Bracket, how are the nerves?

Not taking too much pressure and since we haven't prepared that well my hopes aren't that high, but I guess it should still be a pretty good game tonight so I'm just going to enjoy playing whether we lose or not.

- Finally, who's going to win this Eurocup?

Dignitas!

- Thank you for your time.

I also took some time with Pro5`Butchji. At the moment I caught up with him he was having a practice. I asked him if they were practicing new tactics to beat Cadre. Click

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Pro5`Butchji

Well we made new tactics when we recruited RamiN but today we tried to perfect them.

- Why is Keran still playing whilst _shy is kicked?

We replaced _shy with RamiN because _shy wasn't very motivated and not because of his little public adventure.

- As Bulld0g said it's a 90% chance that Keran will be banned and with that Pro5 might get disqualified. What will your reaction be towards Keran would this happen?

I still love him even though he's so dumb! <3

- And he's off to Practice again...

Community Predictions:
I asked some players who is going to win tonight.

Lightning
Pro5

Pumu
Pro5 - "cheaters always win!"

mAus
Dunno...

Sheep
Pro5 - "It's gonna be hard for Cadre without their rifle and in-game leader, and the recent addition of second/ramin to the pro5 lineup just adds to the blow, 4:2 to Pro5 is my guess."

Wesbo
Pro5 - "You should ask someone else if you want a good prediction havent seen both play in ages though Pro5 recently beated Impact which should give them enough moral to win this one as well."

toxic
Cadre - "cos MulSu isn't playing!"

eVo
Cadre - "I think they will win a clean 4:0 game"

Decem
Pro5 - "I can see this going either way, gonna bet on the team with higher odds. If I have to give a score, I'd say 4-2 for P5."

WhiningDJ / FlyingDJ
Pro5 - "ramiN is an excellent addition to the team, that's why!"

NxM
Cadre - "!"



Now this is a big one. Two teams that already met in the Group Phase. They were both in Group C. After winning the CPC2 LAN and winning over Dignitas in the last Upper Bracket Round, TLR is the big favorite of the Eurocup. Though they lost to Junk52 (at that time still Polar) in the Group Phase with 4:0. I'm sure TLR is out on revenge. On the other hand we have Junk52 who didn't play very well at the CPC2 LAN. They changed their line-up just before the start of the Eurocup and they had succes. They fought themselves to this stage without losing one Round in this whole Eurocup. 4:0, 4:0, 1:0 and 4:0 were their scores. Now are they capable of beating the side of TLR again?

Thursday, 31 May 2007
Junk52: toxic, perfo, sqzz, razz, snoop, xylos
TLR: TBA


The same day we'll see a match in the Lower Brackets. Dignitas is taking on Fear Factory X-Fi. Is Dignitas recovered from their blow against TLR? Is Fear Factory X-Fi recovered from their inactivity? Although Dignitas is the favorite for this match, they shouldn't underestimate Fear Factory X-Fi. They can always strike at unexpected moments. Will it be Dignitas in the 3rd round of the Lower Brackets or is Fear Factory going to bring a surprise? We'll see...

Thursday, 31 May 2007
Dignitas: TBA
Fear Factory X-Fi: TBA