rapha wins ESWC 2010 Quake Live

After a year of absence the ESWC is back and the best of eSports are gathered for the Grand Finals at the New Port Bay hotel in Disneyland Paris. Over the next four days these contenders are fighting to get their share of a whopping $213,500 of total prize money, divided for 10 tournaments, one of them being Quake Live.

Final standings

rapha - $8,000
av3k - $4,000
Cooller - $2,000
4th DaHanG



Grand final results:
Sunday 16:30 CEST: rapha vs av3k - 2:0
Schedule and Results for Saturday:

Bronze final

16:20 CEST: DaHanG vs Cooller - 0:2

Semifinals:

15:00 CEST: Semi-final 1 - rapha vs dahang - 2:0
15:40 CEST: Semi-final 2 - cooller vs av3k - 0:2

Group Stage 2 - Group A (casting by 2GD and proZaC)
10:30 CEST: R1 - av3k vs strenx - 2:1 // rapha vs stermy - 1:2
11:15 CEST: R2 - rapha vs strenx - 2:0 // stermy vs av3k - 0:2
12:00 CEST: R3 - rapha vs av3k - 2:1 // strenx vs stermy - 1:2

Group Stage 2 - Group B (casting by Slasher and djWHEAT)
10:30 CEST: R1 - cypher vs noctis - 2:1 // dahang vs cooller - 1:2
11:15 CEST: R2 - cypher vs dahang - 0:2 // cooller vs noctis - 2:0
12:00 CEST: R3 - cypher vs cooller - 2:1 // noctis vs dahang - 0:2
Groupstage #2
The second groupstage started with a big surprise as stermy beat the current world champion rapha. The American then stepped up his game and beat strenx straight in two maps and av3k in a three-mapper. However, the fate of rapha was in the hands of stermy and strenx, since stermy's 2:0 victory would leave rapha out of the playoffs. That didn't happen though, strenx managed to take a map from stermy and despite his strong performance the Italian couldn't advance in to top 4. In group B things were equally interesting when DaHanG beat Cypher 2:0. Both Cooller and Cypher beat noctis 2:1, meaning Cypher would have to beat Cooller 2:0 in order to advance. This didn't happen either, Cooller showed an amazing performance in ztn and won the map, meaning Cypher is not in the top 4.

Group A
av3k
rapha
stermy
strenx
Group B
DaHanG
Cooller
Cypher
noctis

Groupstage #1

In the first groupstage everything went according to pre-tournament speculations and no big surprises were to be seen. After some technical difficulties the match between noctis and k1llsen was replayed and just like in ESL Intel Extreme Masters European Championships, the German couldn't advance to the next round. The first day was crowned with an amazing game between Cooller and strenx, with a triple overtime in the second map. The second day was a bit of a chaos as the staff decided to run the both groups at the same time. Because of that many games couldn't be covered, however, to be honest, not a lot was missed as Cypher and av3k rolled their opponents in a convincing way.

Group A
rapha
noctis
k1llsen
CAREEM
Group B
Cooller
strenx
bodzo
Sl1p
Group C
Cypher
stermy
GaRpY
l1nkje
Group D
av3k
DaHanG
fazz


Schedule and Results for Thursday:

Group Stage 1 - Group A
10:30 CEST: R1 - noctis vs k1llsen - 2:1 (was replayed)
11:15 CEST: R2 - rapha vs k1llsen - 2:0
12:00 CEST: R3 - rapha vs noctis - 2:0

Group Stage 1 - Group B
12:30 CEST: R3 - Cooller vs strenx - On stage (rescheduled)
??:?? CEST: R1 - Cooller vs Sl1p - 2:0 // strenx vs bodzo - 2:0
??:?? CEST: R2 - Cooller vs bodzo - 2:0 // strenx vs Sl1p - 2:0
??:?? CEST: R3 - Cooller vs strenx - 2:0 // bodzo vs Sl1p - 2:1
Schedule and Results for Friday:

Group Stage 1 - Group C
10:30 CEST: R1 - Cypher vs l1nkje - 2:0 // stermy vs GaRpY - 2:0
11:15 CEST: R2 - Cypher vs GaRpY - 2:0 // stermy vs l1nkje - 2:0
12:00 CEST: R3 - Cypher vs stermy - 2:0 // GaRpY vs l1nkje - 2:0

Group Stage 1 - Group D
15:30 CEST: R1 - DaHanG vs fazz - 2:1
16:15 CEST: R2 - av3k vs fazz - 2:0
17:00 CEST: R3 - av3k vs DaHanG - 2:0


Links: ESWC, Demos and Configs
Streams: Level Up TV (TV1 HQ, TV1 LQ, TV2 HQ, TV2 LQ, #lvl^), Gamesports (Saturday and Sunday for Quake)
Coverage: SK-Gaming, Fnatic, Fragster, FFF, Cybersport, Tek-9
Galleries: Liefje, Day #1, Liefje, Day#2, Liefje, Day #3 Cooller
Interviews:
-with Cypher by SK-Gaming
-with Cooller by Fragster (in German)
-with Cypher (in Russian)
-with Cooller (in Russian)
-with fazz by Liefje
-with rapha by Liefje