Hey everyone! We’re back and have lots to talk about.
The European Wargaming dot net league has had its 3rd offline finals and I have a quick brain teaser for you…
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So let’s kick off the new-year news with a team change;
Mousesports is one of the most famous European teams, consisting of a Polish core and known for their aggressive play-style.
Mouz’s successes included 2nd place in the GeForce International and getting to every Wargaming League Europe Finals thus far.
Add representing Poland at the World Cyber Games and you know they’re good.
However at the beginning of 2014 they decided to part from their sponsorship and have returned to their original name “Lemming Train”.
On that note, the 3rd season European WGL Finals took place last weekend.
The games were great and the atmosphere steller as the teams fought over more than just the 50 thousand top prize,
but also a place in the grand finals.
Click here to skip the results, as spoilers.
The stakes are high for the two Polish teams as Team Dignitas and Virtus.Pro are already miles ahead in points.
This means they would have to take first place to even stand a chance of getting to the grand finals.
However the first round just so happened to be Lemming Train vs the Evil Panda Squad,
the team who loses here will almost certainly not get to the finals.
But… as with many offline events, one team just can’t perform for whatever reason and this time the curse landed on the Evil Pandas.
They lost every game.
Kazna put up a fight against the newly reformed and scary DeNova, but just fell short of victory.
LTR, bruised but not broken, bested Kazna in the loser’s playoff to make it to the finals alongside DeNova.
The Semi-Finals were some very close matches, but in the end the two seeded teams proved why they were not in the playoffs.
Approaching the finals the chips were stacked against Virtus.Pro; they have never defeated Team Dignitas in an offline event thus far!
Some say they are cursed to be forever 2nd place but team manager Diver has been boot-camping his team for this event.
Stalker of Dignitas isn’t worried, they’ve taken down Na`vi before and have never lost to Virtus.Pro offline.
A Best of 7 to decide who takes the 50k and goes to the Grand Final as the number 1 seed of Europe.
I won’t go into details as you should go and watch the match, but it went down to 3 games a-piece so the decider was the final map.
After a critical move from Virtus.Pro taking out SHaNiSH without much damage received,
the situation snowballed giving Virtus.Pro the double and 1st seed in the Grand Finals.
Congrats guys, well fought!
Over in the Asian WGL the season 2 offline finals also took place.
This boiled down to the great teams of Asia: PVP Superfriends, Team Efficiency and Insidious Gaming.
These teams had to get past U Are Dead, Immortals, Yoe IRONMEN, NightEagles and Anubis Empire to get here, so it was no easy feat!
The battles were great, you have to watch them,
however I can tell you that the cape crusader was too much for all that stood against him as the SuperFriends took 1st place!
Fantastic show guys!
Over in America Team Razor has added SIMP to the list of sponsored Gaming Teams and Communities, nice!
Also season 3 has come to a close, their offline finals are soon but as I’ve already rambled on too long; we’ll cover that next week.
Sorry about that.
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