EuroCup: an action packed evening!

The title does not lie as tonight you will all wish for an extra pair of eyes with a very full schedule. No less than three matches are planned to be played this evening!

Yesterday evening saw a very strong OVERLOAd with a performance that surpassed anything I've seen of them before to date literally steamrolling a disappointing HighBot with lioco taking a predominant position. The Belgians' decision to take on two foreigners turned out to be a good one as they confidently took adlernest only to go on and fullhold the Germans at the tank defence. As it is now the Belgians seem very likely to take the first place in their group and appear determined to improve last season's placement.

Tonight the sides comes in action once again as they take it up against a renewed nice. Other than that it is group D's turn to dig in to the second matchweek...







cortana versus ephix
time: 20:00CET
group: ClanBase EuroCup group D
matchweek: 7 - 14 April
maps: adlernest, goldrush

cortana
cortana - rimi
cortana - Komar
cortana - aCoZz
cortana - calisto
cortana - gmx
cortana - GuNnEr

ephix
ephix - olBaa
ephix - snail
ephix - slajdan
ephix - nordaN
ephix - .X.!
ephix - isEN

Kicking this EuroCup evening off will be the boys of ephix.ET taking it up against cortana.
Cortana have not had an easy few weeks as they have lost two important matches in a row for both the EMS qualifier series as the CB-EC first round. The return of aCoZz to the team was expected to raise the Croatian's game but it has done nothing of the sort. The question is whether they will be able to get their things sorted tonight.
The guys over at ephix have also had a rough start of this EuroCup coming up against a very strong vicious and evil side. They did indeed manage to take one round from them however so they may be going in to this with some more confidence than cortana is. This evening we will see whether this will be enough to grab their first win.







OVERLOAd X-Ray versus n1ce
time: 21:00CET
group: ClanBase EuroCup group C
matchweek: 1 - 6 April
maps: braundorf, radar^

OVERLOAd X-Ray
OVERLOAd - acid
OVERLOAd - Kevin
OVERLOAd - lioco
OVERLOAd - vila
OVERLOAd - Sheep
OVERLOAd - Matias

n1ce
n1ce - dio
n1ce - mama
n1ce - vegeta
n1ce - nonix
n1ce - xet
n1ce - hype

Tonight we will finally round up the first matchweek as the new lineup of n1ce goes up against OVERLOAd.
Many will agree with me that the new additions of n1ce are an improvement but it can hardly be enough to withstand OVERLOAd if they play like they did yesterday.
The likes of nonix and hype will still be struggling to settle themselves in the team and it is to be seen whether there is enough teamplay to prevent OVERLOAd from running straight over them. I hope n1ce will be able to stand ground for a bit but everything tells me that the Belgians will meet a negligable opposition tonight.




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Vicious & Evil versus Fear Factory X-Fi
time: 21:30CET
group: ClanBase EuroCup group D
matchweek: 7 - 14 April
maps: adlernest, goldrush

Vicious & Evil
v&e - Iron
v&e - Squall
v&e - torspo
v&e - twidi
v&e - lettu
v&e - Lepari

Fear Factory X-Fi
FF - uf0l
FF - s0me
FF - Wiaderko
FF - Fragstealer
FF - r1co
FF - Wrobel

Keeping the best for the last as we ought to, at half past nine tonight the match of group D will be played. The Poles of FF have started off their season with a very strong win in their qualifier match versus authentic and another impressive result verus cortana last week where they gave their opponent no chance. This week they go up against a much stronger opponent and it remains to be seen how they will fare.
Vicious and Evil have been top3 favorites straight from the moment they announced their lineup and have not disappointed their fans as they took their first match against ephix. They did however need a decider map to take it which wasn't expected and some people will ask themselfves if the Finns really are that strong. Their first real test is tonight and it will be interesting to see them go head to head with a strong Fear Factory side!


EuroCup this season does not allow for one to rest and as you have noticed we have another very action packed night ahead of us. After tonight group C and group D will both only have four matches left and we will be half way through the groupstages.

GL & HF everyone!