CB ET NationsCup XVI Winners
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13 May 2013, 07:59
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We are proud to present the winners of the ClanBase ET NationsCup XVI!
Over four hundred viewers tuned in to the grand final between
Team UK and 
Team Poland on Thursday!
Since Poland reached the final from the Lower Bracket, they had to win twice to defeat Team UK and win the cup. The Poles started off strong, winning the first match 4-0 on sw_goldrush_te and supply. Then, the same maps were selected once again for the second match. UK managed to win a map this time around (supply), with Poland taking the other map (sw_goldrush_te), resulting in a score of 2-2. After a cointoss and elimination, Team UK chose radar as the decider.
However, about two minutes into the map, dialer was disconnected from the server due to internet problems. The match was paused several times to give the Polish player a chance to resolve his issues and reconnect. After a while, though, the players grew impatient. It was suggested that radar be played on another day, but a certain UK player decided his time was too valuable to show up for only one map. In the end, both teams agreed to replay the entire second match, despite the fact that two maps had already been played without issues.
The second game of the final was played on Sunday. Team UK took sw_goldrush_te fairly easily but wasn't able to set a time on supply. UK won the second match 3-1 and became the ET NationsCup XVI champions.
Team UK has now won two consecutive NC titles in a row, and Team Poland has managed to come in second place twice in a row!
Team Sweden, whose journey through the Playoffs was a bit controversial, made their way to third place to earn the bronze trophy.
Team UK
Team Poland
Team Sweden
Here's what koop, the UK team captain, had to say about the cup:
I'd like to give a special thanks to each and every person who helped make this NC season a success:
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all who participated and helped out! See you next season!
ClanBase ET NationsCup XVI
#clanbase.et
Over four hundred viewers tuned in to the grand final between
Team UK and Team Poland on Thursday!Since Poland reached the final from the Lower Bracket, they had to win twice to defeat Team UK and win the cup. The Poles started off strong, winning the first match 4-0 on sw_goldrush_te and supply. Then, the same maps were selected once again for the second match. UK managed to win a map this time around (supply), with Poland taking the other map (sw_goldrush_te), resulting in a score of 2-2. After a cointoss and elimination, Team UK chose radar as the decider.
However, about two minutes into the map,
dialer was disconnected from the server due to internet problems. The match was paused several times to give the Polish player a chance to resolve his issues and reconnect. After a while, though, the players grew impatient. It was suggested that radar be played on another day, but a certain UK player decided his time was too valuable to show up for only one map. In the end, both teams agreed to replay the entire second match, despite the fact that two maps had already been played without issues.The second game of the final was played on Sunday. Team UK took sw_goldrush_te fairly easily but wasn't able to set a time on supply. UK won the second match 3-1 and became the ET NationsCup XVI champions.
Team UK has now won two consecutive NC titles in a row, and Team Poland has managed to come in second place twice in a row!
Team Sweden, whose journey through the Playoffs was a bit controversial, made their way to third place to earn the bronze trophy. Team UK Team Poland Team Sweden Here's what
koop, the UK team captain, had to say about the cup: I'd like to give a special thanks to each and every person who helped make this NC season a success:
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GoldoraK of the ClanBase ET crew, who worked hard behind the scenes to help me with the rather large task of running the cup.
- Marcus and fanatic of the GamesTV crew, who ensured that every match was broadcasted on ETTV without any major issues.
- DtS and
voice of ShoutcastCollective, who did an amazing job of streaming and shoutcasting many matches, including the finals.
- fanatic,
SPU9, and DtS, who wrote interesting newsposts for several games on Crossfire throughout the cup.
- Marcus of YCN-Hosting, as well as
peaches, who were kind enough to provide servers for the teams to play on.
- The teams and players who participated, and the viewers - without you, there wouldn't be a cup!
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all who participated and helped out! See you next season!
ClanBase ET NationsCup XVI
#clanbase.et
And what particular UK player is that about?
Thanks to everyone who took the time to watch our casts and a big well done to the Clanbase team for running such a successful cup. Also shoutout to Clown who joined us to cast multiple time towards the end of the cup and everyone else who helped myself and Voice from the start.
Shoutcast Collective will be back for the Eurocup and Crossfire Cup as well. We will try and cover as much as we can (at least one cast a week I'd imagine), but won't be as active as we were at the start since it's starting to get sunny and that means it's outdoor/pub time!
btw. it was cool tournament UK was 100x better than other teams but PL gave tham real challenge in final matches winning 5-3(UK didnt win SD in final!) :P.
It was probably the last cup with such a skilled players...
reading this sentence since i started to read cf / gtv, 3 years ago
only a few teams had skilled lineup and probably only Poland had skilled backup(zMk, hunter) so that means that next NC winner might have some med/- players in main LU.
I would also like to say thanks to everyone who helped run and make this cup enjoyable!
It was a success :_)
Even if I didn't watch the matches, I heard that they were exciting and that there were some surprises(Good to see
And once again I want to apologize for failing to make
Awesome job guys.
p.s. by looking at the playoffs tree too bad we were the only team that gave uk some challenge this year. we had to face germany and estonia in earlier phases, and these games were quite close and interesting. and uk.. well I was counting on nl hoping that they might do something versus uk, but they dropped out, so it looks like uk had instaspot in the final.
Congratulations to
See you all on the next tourney. and a special thx to the ET.Crew - DtS - voice - fanatic and all the guys who help us
Not calling anyone out, just saying.
sweden and disposable?
See what I mean? :D
I just don't think not practicing is a valid excuse for losing in ET at all (anymore), in fact I would consider playing ET at all, whether it's 3on3, public or anything else to be considered practicing in the state ET is in now. It's not like all the teams are playing 5 days a week. So you're not really going to be at a clear disadvantage :D
I don't know how much Sweden was playing prior to me getting involved with the team again, but we literally just tried to show up on IRC on matchday, and in many cases we had to grab a merc, like against Germany when
"we didn't practice till bla bla bla bla"
i think its just incase if they do lose, they already have thier excuses
ive said we didnt have no prac after we already won, im just saying it cause its true, im not using it as an excuse
but a lot of times man wenever like team captains give statements
they always fucking say
"oh we didnt prac for this long so should be easy for them" or some shit like that
shut the fuck up faggots....
i really thought teal NL would win