i3D Cup Comes to a Conclusion!

Over 2 months of matches, starting on Sewer and then advancing across Valley, the Premier Division of the i3D.net Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Beta Cup has drawn to a close. The biggest beta competition, with 40 teams in the Premier Division, and another 40 teams in the Second Division, there was some stiff competition throughout. In an interesting occurance, out of the big 5 teams, it seemed to be the underdogs who came out on top after what many thought should have been the final occuring in the quarters, where Copenhagen eSport were defeated by Team Dignitas, leaving them to advance to the semi-finals alongside OCRANA, Greek Operation Forces and Team Delta. However all those that claimed that the quarter finals saw the true final were proved wrong, as OCRANA dispatched Dignitas in the decider via objectivecount in order to set up a final encounter with Greek Operation Forces, who took 3 halves to set a time of 17.51 which Delta couldn't match.
Dignitas had no trouble in annihilating Delta 4-0 to take home 3rd place, but whether they will be satisfied with that is another matter.

That just left the final, with the favourites OCRANA going up against Greek Operation Forces. With OCRANA lining up with Hackbard, Fox, Sledge, Morix, X-Ray and Ozzy, with pumu absent from the lineup, and GROF with 2easy, athex, hentai, Quark, RuFiO and Wastestuff, the Germans started on GDF but were unable to breach the GROF defences. GROF then managed to set a time of c.10minutes in order to take the first half. They then attacked again and set another time, this time of 9m40s which resigned OCRANA to defeat. However, coming from the much stronger left side of the bracket, 2nd place is definitely a good achievement above Dignitas and Copenhagen eSport.

This leaves the final standings as follows:
Greek Operation Forces - i3D.net 24 slots public gameserver, i3D.net 24 slots warserver & 6x Corepads
OCRANA - i3D.net 24 slots public gameserver
Team Dignitas - i3D.net 24 slots public gameserver
4th Team Delta

The second division final sees progressive eSports going up against Arcane6, with GamersNation taking on Silent italian Shadows for 3rd place.

i3D.net would like to congratulate all the teams which took part and hope to see you again for the fullgame. Teams who have won prizes will be contacted when these are ready. On another note, if you are interested in helping to admin the next i3D Cup for the fullgame, then please contact quadV|Baldr1ck in #i3D on Quakenet.

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Baldrick interviewed by GameRiot