Im sitting here at Fooki's place and prepearing for ESWC-Qualfier Sweden. We have been both playing the last week at Toogoood's(Jay) place and both attented the 1v1 tournament in www.covlan.com and I played the TDM tournament with Dignitas. The 1v1 tournament was won by Fooki with style. He started good but got knocked down into the LB by Winz. The last day he got his game together and in the end he could take his revenge and beating Winz in the final with 4-0 in maps. I started with winning my two first games and had to face Forever in the 3rd round wich he won by 2 maps to 0. We both picked galang and he simply had the edge on that map so he could carry on to the next round. I had to play Akiles in the next game and I think my mind was more focused on the next round than the Akiles game. Im not gonna take anything from akiles since he is a good player but I was not playing like I should. He beat me with 1-2 in maps and then got knocked out in the next round by Mr Toogoood himself.

In the TDM tournament I thought we would have a Fnatic team. But since 4kings payed Deus to play we didnt have 4 players with Fnatic :( So I thought I wouldnt play at all because of that. But after the 1st day Dignitas asked me to play for them since Skyp had got ill :( So I accepted ofcourse since I really enjoy to play TDM. They played the groupstage without me and I dont know how they did. But I had to jump in right to the semi-final vs aAa. TBH I didnt think we had such a strong team that we could beat the French on lan. But we did! After that game we had to face the big favourites for many, 4kings. We won the 1st map with something like 20 frags or so. Then we played the most even Over the edge I ever played. 4kings had a decent lead during the first 12-15mins with 15-25frags all the time. Then something happened to our team and we decreseased their lead and with 0.0001 seconds left we killed their last guy and the game went into overtime.... So we got a 5 minute overtime and they had the lead most of that time aswell. But with 0.0001 seconds left of that overtime I jump with my SG and blast Deus<3 away and the game goes to overtime AGAIN!! =) Another 5 minutes and we actually have a 10 frag lead in the beginning but they made a few good quad runs and eventually win the game.... We were so close but still not enough to win that tournament. In the 3rd map 4kings really proved to be better than us and took that one rather easy. Really well played by 4kings! You really should take a look at the TDM final and the 1v1 final here http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1103274

The lan was really fun and a very good experience for the upcoming events. Its been so long since the last tournament. (CPL Winter last December) I started to practice hardcore right after the lan and im feeling really motivated still. Tomorrow its time for the real test. I got into group A wich ofcourse has some really good player in it since there is not a single easy game =)

Group A

Toxic
OoZe
Ztrider
PURRI

Group B

fooKi
fox
fazz
Louie

Im not sure since no one seems to know. But I think the best 2 from each group will Qualify for the semi-finals. Will be tough but I actually feel prepeared! Fooki/Fox/Toxic seems to be the majority favourites. I kind of agree but think that a few players might surprice.

Untill next time!


/Mikael "PURRI" Tarvainen