Battle For Berlin - R1 Results

The first round of the Battle For Berlin is now over. Below you can find full match results, short match summary's and comments from each of the winning sides.

For the losers of this first round of matches, the first round of the loser bracket will take place this Sunday 23rd October. The winner of Game #1 will play the winner of Game #2 and likewise for the losers - 3v4, 5v6 & 7v8. The next round of the winner bracket will be the following Thursday. A full schedule can be found at the bottom of this newspost.









Anexis

R0SS
Night
Squall
Sqzz
mAus
XyLoS
FLoPJEHZ

Lost Soldiers

laNgo
caTchEr
eujen
valaR
qwik
mKs
VJTO
Buzzer

Anexis had little to no trouble in steam-rolling Lost Soldiers, though no-one will have been surprised by the final score. The game was over in under 30 minutes and an honorable mention must go out to multiple-time LAN winner and perhaps the most successful ET player of all-time - Night who finished with stats of 14-29. Maybe he will fare better next Thursday when he and the rest of his team face off against disQonnect. As for Lost Soldiers, they will have 3 days to squeeze in some much needed practice as they play oxid in an all-German affair on Sunday.

Quote by Anexis.R0SS

Well after a comfortable win against Lost Soldiers (gl to them in the rest of the tournament, nice guys!) I'm gonna throw my neck out and say we are faced with playing dQ (even though they haven't won yet). They have a nice blend of oldschool and newschool and are quite an underrated team. I still feel comfortable that we will win, so I will say 4-0 to us!

Quote by Lost Soldiers.Lango

Went as we expected. HF Anexis with winning the cup!

oxid

stRay
kiwi
sNoOp
gr0ss
s1LENT
brandoN
Statti

disQonnect

humM3l
Jago
freezer
jOKE
FiREBALL
Kevji
boNg
predi

In a surprisingly one-sided affair, disQonnect breezed past their German opponents. Before the game oxid brought attention to their recent lack of practice and it showed as Kevji helped himself to an all-you-can-eat buffet of delicious German frags, clocking in over 10k damage across the two maps. sNoOp was a shadow of the player he once was, despite it being his suited 6on6 format, as he could not rekindle the glory days which his compatriot urtier did for his own team earlier in the evening. A sterner test awaits dQ as they advance to play tournament favourites Anexis next Thursday, while oxid take a trip to the loser bracket and onto a game with fellow German's Lost Soldiers on Sunday.

Quote by dQ.humm3l

Well, we weren't that good today, but it was still good enough to beat oxid. It was an amazing attack on Bremen and a really solid first defence on Supply which brought us the victory. We are on a winning streak with 9 wins now, krässer sh!t or what? Next round we're facing Anexis which will be a top challenge.

k1ck eSports

mant
rAUL
subb
bff
JyrkZ
monkey
StrAf
ZaK

b2k

l4z
Abject
w1lko
WuT
syriusZ
mag

>>> Clock set to: 6:39
>>> Objective NOT reached in time (6:39)

This tells you everything you need to know about the first map between the Estonian's and Poles. Based on the gbooky betting, many expected k1ck to win this contest quite easily, but sitting pretty in the role of the underdog, the little known team of b2k edged their opponents in an incredibly tightly fought match. Even the second map, adlernest, the home map of k1ck was decided with less than 40 seconds on the clock. Despite the late addition of FREEZE (who topped the frags by some distance), the Estonian's were unable to swing luck in their favour and succumbed to the superior team-play of their victors. b2k will face the highly seeded MouseControl next Thursday while k1ck have 3 days to pick themselves up from this narrow loss as they face Epic on Sunday.

Quote by b2k.syriusz

What can I say? Everything went just as we expected. We made few mistakes, so there is definitely a lot to improve, but it seems it was enough to win the match after really close battle. I find it a bit odd that people are so surprised about the result but we'll gladly face our next opponent as underdogs again :) Big thanks to k1ck for exciting match and everyone who cheered for us.

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Epic

beck
KEEJi
talG
violy
dAy
beAsty
MENTh
ESPION

MouseControl

joshua
saKen
SQuid
an7ho
karnaj
rizzk
zMk
spho

MouseControl took a forfeit victory over an Epic side who failed to field 6 players after violy had trouble returning home after an exam. The victors will play their first game against b2k next Thursday and Epic have 3 nights to gather 6 players for their loser bracket showdown with k1ck on Sunday.

Quote by mouseControl.saKen

The match was great, our showing up tactic worked marvelously. The enemy gave it their all but in the end MouseControl overcame the TERROR and took home the victory. Good luck in LB beAsty <3

Queens

razz
Clown
miNd
lepari
NuggaN
kot
Winghaven
perfo

Glitz

x3nja
DOPPL3R
Artifexx
caej
gnome
promen


NuggaN went to town on a Glitz lineup featuring a few lesser known players as Queens ran riot, ending their match in a little over 30 minutes. Boasting perhaps the hottest aim in Enemy Territory today, the Swede totaled almost 11k damage in a match where some players left having barely dished out 4k. Bremen was over so fast that there's really nothing else to say. Glitz chose adlernest as their map and it showed as they managed to put some some resistance, managing to get their hands on the documents many times, only to have them snatched back every single time by the waiting jaws of Nuggan or razz. Queens will he heavily favoured in their next winner bracket game as they will play against inteRaction next Thursday evening, and Glitz will have a far more manageable task as they take on Aero on Sunday.

Quote by queens.Clown

Well for me this match was fun just because of the knife kill on adlernest - that situation tested my patience (which I lack). Otherwise, it was nothing special, I guess our opponent can do something in the lower bracket, and I wish them luck for it!

inteRaction

denton
Green_Clon
malfoy
milhAus
jalo
loocko
L4mpje
ridji

Team-Aero

mental
hvK
danL
diablos
cupcaKe
m1ke
Scarce
hsTe

inteRaction made short work of their fortuitously highly seeded opponents, with a quick 4:0 victory on bremen_b3 & adlernest. It was a game to forget for Aero, who after recently joining a new team would've been hoping for a victory to start BFB. Unfortunately it wasn't their day as a few mistakes cost them dearly, with denton, Green_Clon and milhAus profiting, each picking up over 40 frags in this game. inteRaction will have a much sterner test against Queens next Thursday, while Aero will have a good opportunity at progressing as they take on Glitz on Sunday.

Quote by iR.Green_Clon

Although our recent performances weren't as good as we wish they were, we are still team that has potential. We are praccing against best teams and doing well, so we expected this game not to be hard for us. Fortunately, everything went as good as we'd like to, and even though we did some minor mistakes, opponent wasn't able to take advantage of them.

Quote by Aero.mental

Well, the game was a bit unlucky for us, we made a few stupid mistakes which, combined with the server problems that a few of us had, allowed them to win easier than it should have been. We're still looking forward to the upcoming match in the Loser Bracket and we'll give our best to win it.

TAG

Lightning
Aphesia
Hope
urtier
twidi
dialer
Krein

Turboapinat

crittie
Juuti
kapaa
vokki
walle
Metsuri
Jewe
OldeNsAn

TAG won the deciding map of supply to edge past Turboapinat in an enthralling game that fully justified it's selection for a shoutcast. Both designated 'Player's to watch' performed exceptionally well, with walle topping the damage for the Fins (and by quite some distance), but the Dutch duo of Lightning and aphesia raked up insane damage to over-power their opponents in the later rounds. The first round was won only by a mere 10 seconds as the truck was rounding the bremen ruins only for the clock to expire. This left TAG needing to win both rounds to progress and win both rounds they did! Everything seemed to be going the way of turbo as they held their opponents for an eternity on radar, only to see the Allies secure the West radar parts with 30 seconds of the round remaining. In preventing the 3:0 loss right there, the momentum swung in the favour of TAG who despite being quickly forced back to the last stage, hung on for dear life to drag the game to a decider. The Finn's won the toss and we ended with some classic supply 6on6 action. But picking supply against TAG proved to be a fatal mistake as the combination of unrivalled experience and annoying spam was too much for turbo to handle. TAG won the map and with it took the 4:2 victory. They will go on to face a new look G2P lineup next Thursday - which will be regarded as some as the closest to call match of the round - and the plucky Turboapinat team will try their luck against bSTURZ in a match they will be sure to be favourites in - that game comes to you here on Crossfire on Sunday evening.

Quote by TAG.twidi

tA was clearly the better team on bremen and deserved to win it, we still have a lot to work on that map. In radar's attack we also had our struggles, but managed to set a time and our defence worked out really well. I guess after radar defence we got the needed boost and supply went great for us. Overall it was a good game and tA was really close to winning on radar.

bSTURZ

fuchS
fizZ
sPECULA
Testi
Swanidius
MOTIF
pulZa
Turki

G2P

chry
Jere
Griim
Bl4d3
Kresti
sTOWNAGE
Tele

G2P wrapped up a convincing 4:0 over bSTURZ and will move into the next round of the Winner's bracket to set up a potentially great match against TAG next Thursday. As for bSTURZ, they'll be going up against arguably the toughest of the lower bracket opponents in the Finnish side Turboapinat on Sunday.

Quote by g2p.kresti

The game vs bSTURZ was pretty easy as we expected, but they managed to grab the gold back a few times on goldrush and we just set at 10:41 as our time. Anyway we had some fun and we wish bSTURZ the best of luck, I think they can go well if they pracc more I'm sure they will claim a higher place. Our next match is against TAG and I feel confident that we will take it with 4:0 or 4:2. Lets hope it will be an enjoyable game!

Quote by bsturz.testi

Although we lost 4-0 I think we stood our ground quite good. G2P is obviously 1 of the best teams around at this moment. And since we weren't raped I think we kinda showed that we might be capable of taking on turbot next Sunday. It's gonna be a tight match, and if walle isn't in shape we have a good chance of doing something good. If we are capable of winning 1 map, we might win.

Full Schedule:[/u]
Thu October 20th
Sun October 23rd
Thu October 27th
Sun October 30th
Thu November 3rd
Sun November 6th
Thu November 10th
Sun November 13th
Tue November 15th

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Winner's Bracket Round 1
Loser's Bracket Round 1
Winner's Bracket Quarter Finals
Loser's Bracket Round 2
Winner's Bracket Semi Finals
Loser's Bracket Round 3
Winner's Bracket Final
Loser's Bracket Round 4 & 5
Grand Final

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Map #1: bremen_b3
Map #1: adler
Map #1: missile
Map #1: radar
Team's choice for both maps
Map #1: supply
Team's choice for both maps
Map #1: sw_goldrush_te
Team's choice for both maps