CS & WC3 at Scandinavian EPS finals on April 25

ESL has announced that both Counter-Strike and Warcraft 3 Scandinavian EPS finals will take place in Inferno Online on April 25.


Electronic Sports League will be hosting the one day offline finals during April 25th (Saturday) in Inferno Online which is located in Stockholm, Sweden.

Amongst the participants are the current Extreme Masters Global champions fnatic and the European champions mTw for Counter-Strike and the Danish René 'Ciara' Krag against some newer faces like Samu 'BriNGeR' Riihelä. It is uncertain if Giants will attend the event as they have lost most of their players.

All tournament games will be played in single elimination with best of three (BO3) for Counter-Strike and best of five (BO5) for Warcraft 3. Additional matches for third places will be played. The results of Scandinavian EPS season 1 can be found here.

Participants:
Counter-Strike
Giants
fnatic
Mirror.ATS dk
mTw

Warcraft 3
Daniel 'LiiLD.C' Claesson
Samu 'BriNGeR' Riihelä
Hjalmar 'DowaQ' Högberg
René 'Ciara' Krag

Prize Money Distribution:
Counter-Strike
1. 7.500 euros
2. 5.000 euros
3. 2.500 euros
4. 1.000 euros

Warcraft III
1. 1.000 euros
2. 750 euros
3. 500 euros
4. 250 euros

Lurppis says "ESWC list is a complete joke"

Readmore.eu have talked to Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen about the ESWC Cheonan that have released a list of pre-selected teams for the upcoming event. Lurppis complains about inviting teams such as Team EG.US or x3o instead of the KODE5 winner Gravitas Gaming.

Crack Clan itself are only on the waiting list if one of the teams might not attend the ESWC Cheonan in early May. Tomi 'lurppis' Kovanen complained about teams being in that do not deserve a spot in a tournament like this. He says "Besides some good placings over the past three years we've been ranked 3rd-8th in ZoneRank/G7 rankings the whole time, yet we don't make a top12 list that includes two teams I've never heard of".

But he also continues about the esport itself saying "If you want to place well, you need to play a lot and even then you might get your winnings in 6-18 months, if you're lucky... We're going to KODE5 Spain in a few weeks but if we don't beat mTw there's pretty much nothing coming up for a few months".

You can check out the interview with him at Readmore.eu.

SK Gaming preselected to ESWC Masters in South Korea

The list of teams preselected to participate at the ESWC Masters in Cheonan, South Korea has been revealed. SK Gaming and 15 other teams, including four top Korean teams, will fight for the title.

The two games chosen for the ESWC Masters which will be held in Cheonan, South Korea, will be Warcraft III and Counter-Strike 1.6. The four day event, starting from the 2nd of May will be held in a Gymnasium at the Cheonan Sports Complex.

SK Gaming will be facing current ESWC 2008 Grand Final champions former MYM and ESWC Masters Paris champions, and World Cyber Games 2008 winners, mTw . The four Korean teams chosen to participate at the event will be debated over two official ESWC Tournaments where the winners will be made known at the end of April 2009.

In no particular order, the following teams have been preselected to participate. Gravitas Gaming US remains on the waiting list in case someone fails to attend.

SK Gaming (Sweden)
fnatic (Sweden)
Team EG US (U.S.A)
Mousesports (Germany)
Former MYM (Poland)
mTw (Denmark)
Speeder (Japan)
Immunity (Australia)
wNv Teamwork CN (China)
x3o (U.S.A)
TitaNs (Singapore)
Ultimax (Taiwan)

Read about the Chinese dominating the invitee list of ESWC Asia Masters to see the list of the preselected Warcraft III participants which will be held at the same time.