WCG 2008 Grand Finals: Team Malaysia Campaign Is Over

November 10, 2008 by Chapree

Auf Wiedersehen, Köln. May we meet again someday.
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It is yet another medal-less year for Malaysia’s WCG team. Team Malaysia campaign at WCG 2008 Grand Finals has came to an end yesterday after our last active player, M1-Heaven crashed out at Top 16 stage in NFS ProStreet. One day earlier, Malaysia’s Counter-Strike 1.6, FIFA’08 and Starcraft players were eliminated even earlier at group stage.

For the record, the nearest Malaysia ever got to receive a WCG medal was back in 2005, where [W|nDs]Si_Jali received 4th place at the Grand Finals in Singapore. Meanwhile, we recapped their final two tournament days, right after the jump. The first day recap available HERE.

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Let’s start with CS1.6. Our early predictions did not hit the mark well as UCpro|LZ failed to qualify to the next round. Beating the odds though, LZ managed to drew against the famous Roccat.GAMEPLAY of Finland. While they won against Pakistan, UAE and Macedonia, their lost to HiNet-UMX of Chinese Taipei was the sole reason behind their elimination. In total, LZ managed to accumulate 10 points and ended up as third in Group E.

UCpro|LZ group standings.

Similar to CS, our FIFA representative - [W|nDs]Vin was only a point difference to qualify to Top 16. But then, his tie results in the match against Bbreak17 of India cost his WCG Grand Finals campaign dearly. He further lost another 3 points from his defeat to the Switzerland rep. Vin received his 6 points from his free win to Nigeria and Georgia who were absent from the tournament. He ended up this competition as third place in Group P with a total of 7 points.

[W|nDs]Vin group standings.

Last but not least, Starcraft. As we pointed earlier that JohnRambo’s route beyond group stage might be stopped by KTF_Luxury of South Korea, turned out that was exactly what happened. His progress were further stopped by China’s JnSx.Lovett. For the rest of John’s group matches, he excelled it with two wins against both Russia and Costa Rica but those win ain’t enough to get him to the next stage as we hoped.

JohnRambo group standings.

The following day, our sole representative to reach Top 16 stage, M1-Heaven also crashed out from the competition. He took a straight 2 - 0 lost by Germany’s rep, aTTaX_Sliver in NFS ProStreet who beat him in both Chicago Airfield and Infineon circuit. All in all, it was a good first time WCG Grand Finals outing for the young lad from Johor Bharu, even beating the much feared Russia’s USSRxProStreet in a group stage rematch.

M1-Heaven’s route to Top 16.

Judging from the results, for most of the games that stucked in group stage, our eSports athletes managed to end up at third place in their groups. We even got a couple of good results such as Heaven’s Top 16 achievement and Team LZ’s draw against the mighty (and feared too) Roccat.GAMEPLAY of Finland. So close yet so far. Well then, we hope that Team Malaysia will perform better next year at Chengdu, China.

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