ESWC Nordic match-ups revealed
By: MIRAA
Time: 2012-10-02 03:10
Game: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

E-Sports Entertainment (ESEA) has revealed the match-ups for the Nordic qualifier for the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC).

The tournament will feature a total of 16 teams from Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland, who will be battling it out for the one spot at the ESWC finals in Paris in November.

DreamHack Valencia champions Ninjas in Pyjamas, who came out on top of the Swedish EMS qualifier on Sunday, will lock horns with Finnish side AfterShock Crushed in the opening round.

Faruk "pita" Pita's Team X will take on Danish side ImmuNe, while André "BARBARR" Möller's Absolute Legends will meet GIVE IT ALL from Norway.

The first round of fixtures will also present an all-Finnish showdown between Niko "naSu" Kovanen's CARAMBA and WinFakt, who are led by Joona "natu" Leppänen.

ESWC Nordic Round of 16:

October 2 - 20:00

NiP vs. AfterShock Crushed
Paranoia vs. hiGhrollers
teamX vs. ImmuNe
GIVE IT ALL vs. Absolute Legends

October 3 - 20:00

Roccat vs. Lions
gosu vs. 3DMAX
Blight Gaming vs. Afterlife Gaming
CARAMBA vs. WinFakt

Each of these matches will be played in a best-of-three mode. It is still unknown whether the games will be streamed, so stay tuned to HLTV.org for complete coverage of the Nordic ESWC qualifier.

There are going to be some strong games is there gona be any streams ?

Gamecast should get on this.

Post edited 2012-10-02 03:21:42
2012-10-02 03:13:49
Trying to get in touch with ESEA, so hopefully we'll stream it.

In the ESEA news-post it says, that only the finals from each region will be streaming (Nordic, UK, DE) :S
2012-10-02 14:48:08
hopefully some team will give NiP a run for their money (literally)
2012-10-02 03:14:47
hiGhrollers last seed, that won the last SteelSeries GO over teamX. Abit wierd?
2012-10-02 03:24:23
politics bro
2012-10-02 03:25:09
ok
2012-10-02 03:26:13
by: MIRAA - HLTV.org
#7
last seed is AfterShock Crushed. hiGhrollers are 8th
2012-10-02 03:26:10
http://www.fragbite.se/?newsID=20693
is what I've been told
2012-10-02 03:26:50
by: MIRAA - HLTV.org
#10
Can't see but I guess they realized that they were dumb 2 do so ^^
2012-10-02 03:35:07
Let me guess.. NiP will win
2012-10-02 03:58:01
No VG here so NIP will probably win this quite easily im afraid :/ Gl Winfakt
2012-10-02 04:10:34
It is best-of-three?
2012-10-02 04:55:27
best-of-one
2012-10-02 07:02:10
no it is best of three if u check the bracket
2012-10-02 07:08:32
actualy some of the matches is bo1 afaik
2012-10-02 10:25:07
by: milA
#31
single-elimination bo3. they changed it.
2012-10-02 11:14:49
In the news was saying best-of-one, now this corrected, sorry.
2012-10-02 17:37:24
They are more than three maps in CS:GO? Amazing!
2012-10-02 12:20:38
S_Y&bitches? These guys just insane!
2012-10-02 05:56:16
it's nice to see back lions , winfakt and roccat even do' its cs go and i'm glad i see norwegian teams


PS: go Lions !

Post edited 2012-10-02 07:27:01
2012-10-02 07:25:59
by: MSAA
#19
I really think and hope, that 3DMAX can be a strong contestant for NiP.
2012-10-02 07:58:29
really ? even prime mates are better and they cant take 10 rounds for 2 maps against nip...
2012-10-02 13:24:02
ehh no,, atm 3DMAX is best in DK with HLV close behind but HLv have some dangerous aimers an if the get going NIP could be beaten, not that im daniah but atm i only see those 2 challinging NIP,, so seeds are def a joke!! roccat could do it aswell if they played with a full line up. looks like its their maneger if im not mistaken so their seed is a joke!

Post edited 2012-10-02 14:51:28
2012-10-02 14:50:24
by: MSAA
#57
You are not right at all.

3DMAX is far better than PRiME. They are the best danish team at the moment, and they are playing really well.
Though I see HLV standing a chance, but I definitely think, that 3DMAX could be an equal match to NiP.
2012-10-03 08:20:06
I thought Blight Gaming lost their CSGO team?
2012-10-02 08:01:16
They did. The team is currenty HastaLaVista. Not sure if ESEA updated though.
2012-10-02 08:54:30
Lineup on team X?
2012-10-02 08:53:56
by: milA
#24
teamX (rdl, pita, zneel, lidde, pronax)
2012-10-02 09:39:36
Arh. :) Thanks!
2012-10-02 10:44:16
by: milA
#30
no problem :)
2012-10-02 11:14:15
NiP easy.

gl2all.
2012-10-02 09:23:55
NiP win ESWC Qual. GG...

Post edited 2012-10-02 09:47:22
2012-10-02 09:45:11
Afterlife o_O
2012-10-02 09:50:20
good luck teams. waiting for some nice streams :)
2012-10-02 10:40:13
Go Roccat !
2012-10-02 11:31:34
Did NiP lose a map against any team?
2012-10-02 11:40:34
not yet
2012-10-02 12:04:51
Highrollers lu?
2012-10-02 12:00:08
thank you mate!
2012-10-02 12:12:22
This is fucking bullshit.

You make a change to the qualifier 03.30 last night. In that change you change the bracket, the time being played and seeds. How about you fucking do your job right in the first place, instead of changing everything the night before we're suppose to play.

We were suppose to play tonight in a SE BO1 match; now it's a BO3 tomorrow. What if we had planned our week from the fact that we only should play tonight and sunday according to the schedule? This is fucking awful planning and under all critique.

The worst part in all of this, is that the men behind the seeding and bracket creation obviously is someone with a 1.6 background that has his tongue up in all the right places. 1 tweet message from "oh might HeatoN" and everything is changed, wow really?

" Emil Christensen ‏@Real_HeatoN

Jokers doing the seed for the nordic ESWC Qualifiers.. hiGhrollers in the first round? The finals right there... Get your homework done pls! "

The fact that you don't give a shit about this tournament, just supports my thoughts about ESEA being fucking dicks and ran by "<3 1.6" players, take a look at the seeds, how many of the teams seeded above 3DMAX have actually shown something, despite being unstabile as fuck.

This is the last time i play ESEA, you don't give a shit about the teams/players involved, now you can just go fuck yourself
2012-10-02 12:12:05
what do you expect from esea? :D they are shit
2012-10-02 12:32:13
easy, tiger
2012-10-02 16:54:02
carambaa seeded 15. ? ok nice joke
2012-10-02 14:34:48
how is that a joke? They are bad in this game :)
2012-10-03 10:18:50
Says who? There's plenty of worse teams with higher seed than them.
2012-10-03 15:29:32
no doubt these seeds where made by 1,6ers with noooo clue what so ever! but atleast its prolly the last time they get to seed a tourney!!!
2012-10-02 14:52:56
We are working to secure a stream partner for each region. They might not be on for night one, but I expect there to be streams throughout the Qualifier.
2012-10-02 15:23:30
Ask GameCast for Nordic and StreamGasm for UK, would be cool!
2012-10-02 15:26:29
by: xLo
#49
Well shouldn't this had been taken care of just a tad earlier, perhaps before the day when you announced the date and time of the qualifier? and not on the actual day of the first round?.... :)
2012-10-02 16:01:24
Roccat Vs Lions should be a great game :D
2012-10-02 15:24:54
are lions actually good? never heard of some of them, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Post edited 2012-10-02 16:56:28
2012-10-02 16:56:16
some swedish 1.6 midskilled. Probably going to get 1 or maybe 2 rounds vs roccat
2012-10-02 20:34:17
Wait, so the brackets say 10 PM CET, while you say 20 CET - who is right?
2012-10-02 16:54:33
Unfortunately we did not have our system properly tested for this evening's Round 1 ESWC UK and some Nordic qualifier matches, and as a result matches are being postponed until Thursday, and teams will have the option to play Round 2 matches on either Thursday or re-scheduled from there.

This certainly is an irresponsible oversight on our part, and we deeply apologize for the inconvenience to all of the competitors. We will be working to ensure we're completely setup for tomorrow's German and Nordic ESWC matches and all future matches.

Again, we apologize for our mistake and the inconvenience it has caused some competitors.
2012-10-02 22:05:08
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