Tournaments
Zalon  /  9 Dec 2008, 23:00
Thoughts about the EQL finalists
The first week of the EQL8 playoffs is over, and I hope that some of you got to see some of the high quality matches that were played this past week. If you missed it, don't worry as we got the finals coming up!

Read on for comments and a list of the upcoming playoff games.
Division 1
First Finalist: The Viper squad
Second Finalist: Bear Beer Balalaika

Who will win the div1 final?

reppie
tVS-3b will be 3-0 I think. tVS have pretty nice pings in russia I think and 3b's biggest strength seems to be spamming/working together. That hit us harder than it will tVS, they got nice teamplay
3-0, no kenya. I think 3b will wanna take tVS down on the biggest maps, and tVS prefers tb3 afaik.

kingpin
3b has surprised a lot! I actually think 3b will win e1m2 and possibly dm2 with a good start, unnamed did some major ownage on dm2 vs drz. But so hard to tell, I'm sure it's not gonna be ez for tVS tho. Anything can happen but tVS sure has the upper hand.
key player in 3b is unnamed, and of course milton in tvs - will be a match in the match these 2.

Trash
tVS - 3B will end with a 3-0 victory to tVS. There isn't a single clan out there that can take on tVS at the moment. With milton in the shape he is in and a solid teamplay from the rest of the finns I can't see 3B take down any map. It's sad but true, the qw throne belongs to sauna land and tVS!

Itsinen
I saw them praccing cmt3, seemed to go 1-1 in mapwins, 3b has slight advantage of playing those maps just a couple of seasons ago in "div4" compared to tVS. But tVS does actually know those maps very well too, so tVS will take it because of better tb3, cmts might go both ways.

ruskie
well 3b - tVS in the group stage was close on dm3 and that seems to be their best map. tVS without milton is like 3b without xn if either starplayer dosen't show up it's over for the respective teams, but if it's the regular lineup tvs will win 3-0 but most likely not without a fight on dm3.

Peppe
tVS. It's not obvious?
[tvs]milton, that's no.1
[tvs]blaze, that's no.2
1. The Viper squad, 2. Druidz, 3. Clan MalFunction... that's no.3 - now gedit?


Division 2
First Finalist: Quakeklan
Second Finalist: Suddendeath ll

Who will win the div2 final?

kingpin
qk vs sd2 will be tight, but I think qk will win, especially now with cge, they even won vs sd1 in prac.

fog
I think it will be tight, we have won most of the pracs we've played like some month ago... they didn't have xantom though and we had div4 standin most of the times. Can't really say, we're not really stable as a team atm, since of lineupswitches and so.

ruskie
Very suprised about no pasaran not going to the finals, i like the team (not panic thou) he's a bigger parafan than me :-(
Suddendeath 2 appears to have the better linueup, no doubt. nepra/dive/dahmer/xantom


Division 3
First Finalist: Hippushnik
Second Finalist: Fusion or Demolition Crew

Who will the second finalist be?

kingpin
I think fusion will take home div3 quite easily, no doubt.

Purity
Should be fusion. DC has played some decent games this season tho.

Who will win the div3 final?

Purity
Fusion, I suppose.

Itsinen
I can't answer that, since I come from the land of sauna where hips also comes from, so that would be cheating ;P

Trash
Hips is the cmt clan right? I bet my money on fusion.


Division 4
First Finalist: naim
Second Finalist: Apocalypse 2000

Who will win the div4 final?

fog
Hard shit, naim can play decent, and can suck, same with a2k I think.
I think it totally depends on naim-lineup, if Igggy , premortem plays. I think naim will take it pretty ez, otherwise if jaco etc plays I think it will be 3-1 a2k. He is their weakest link imo, but you'll never know about that guy, he has his moments when everything (luckily) goes his way, dunno how he does it, but he does.

Purity
Probably depends on a2k lineup, they seem to change a lot.


Division 5
First Finalist: Bad Luck Troopers
Second Finalist: Na Fianna or StarkaStyrkan

Who will the second finalist be?

Peppe
Starka is my clan, so Na Fiannna for sure. We have 1½ players, so not us.

Jimo
Hard to say, if CMT4 is not gonna be played StarkaStyrkan will have a big chance.
Na Fianna lost to comfortably numb 2-1 in a prac some days ago and they play in div6.
So I think it will be StarkaStyrkan that will beat Na Fianna with 2-1. Becuse Na Fianna will take CMT4 as their map.

Who will win the div5 final?

Peppe
Considering their history, i'd say BLT, as div3 champions last time they played, and the players have been semi-active since.

Jimo
Bad Luck Troopers will lose on dm2, but the rest of the maps will they win. So BLT will be the winning clan in division 5, But just because of Knave
SS will take dm2 because we (Bloodpunch) almost won dm2 vs BLT two times, and when we played pracc vs SS they won bigtime over us


Division 6
First Finalist: Comfortably Numb
Second Finalist: Straight Edge

Who will win the div6 final?

zappater
sxe hasn't been very active and cn won against fian just a few days ago in a prac 2-1.
I'm not going to make a bet as I play in cn, however just telling what I know
Comments
2008-12-10, 10:39
sweet article, date and time for the games?
2008-12-10, 10:59
Unknown yet
2008-12-10, 11:10
apoc2000 will play naim @ cet 20.00 on sunday.
2008-12-10, 15:47
interesting read. some close games to come.
2008-12-10, 16:39
"Suddendeath 2 appears to have the better linueup, no doubt. nepra/dive/dahmer/xantom"

LoL plz why are ppl asking this man for oppinions????

"cge is not going to win one map against para"

ask ppl that have the info...
2008-12-10, 17:24
do not fear, rage-cage is here
2008-12-10, 19:09
Controversial opinions in the div5 section. Everyone writing off Na Fianna, despite being the most active and not having dropped any maps in the group stages.

We'll just see what happens next Sunday at 19:30 CET.
2008-12-10, 20:00
if FIAN-hotel will play, I go all-in on Fian.
2008-12-10, 22:17
but what if Starkastyrkan fields motel bps..?
2008-12-10, 22:26
+ to bps!!!! I agree with you, FIAN-hotel is the shit
2008-12-11, 00:34
Slight misunderstanding bps, Hotel was in the Fianna A team along with the mighty Rambo. This Fianna now started as the B team but we dropped the B when the A team stopped playing.
2008-12-11, 09:48
Yeah, Hotel is with fusion, but i havn't seen him playing any EQL games for them
2008-12-11, 19:53
Jimo, sure we lost with not the best lineup and me having 100 ping but I guess that doesn't matter hmm? Oh and we won dm3 when it was 3v4 for at least 15 mins. Go and update your blog before predicting qw
2008-12-12, 09:03
Ok sorry about the hotel confusion, but I gotta underline that the nickname "Hotel" must be the mightiest there is in Quake World! With KryddturkendokS close behind...
2008-12-14, 10:25
Drama!! :> hurray
2008-12-16, 07:48
@gore, I'm sorry. That you loosed to Comfortably Numb was just what I heard from them. And they didn't told me that it was 3on4, bad lineup and you had 100ms.
You have to be logged in to be able to post a comment.
Username:
Password: