Go International E-Sports Cup Day 2 Recap

October 18, 2009 by Chapree

The Go International E-Sports Cup 2009 has been progressing very well, with the second day concluded yesterday without any major hiccups. With further a due, let’s jump in to check out what went down at One Utama yesterday.

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The day started with the Casual Games Tournament for Trackmania Nations which was moved from Friday to yesterday. Only six out of the twelve players that registered turned up…a little better than what last year’s ESWC Malaysia received. With that, the competition format was changed a little bit whereby all six of the players were mashed up together with top 3 players proceed to the finals later today.

Out of the six, Strifemare were the first one to confirmed his place in Sunday’s finals after only just two maps. Yea Han then became the second one to confirmed his place leaving three other players: TPK, m00tsumi and Syefri Zulkefli to fight for the last finalist spot.

In the end, TPK managed to ousted the two ESWC Malaysia 2008 TMN runner-ups. Looks like today’s finals belongs to the new generation of Trackmania players.

Moving on, the CS1.6 Open Tournament finals took place right after Trackmania. The championship match between LZ and 8075 together with 3rd placing match for two more teams took place simultaneously.

In a rather one-sided match, KG (stands for Kampung…seriously, we are not joking.) Gaming pretty much trashed the Bandar Gaming pretty bad for the 3rd place with 16 - 3 in de_inferno and 16 - 2 in de_nuke. The ironic names aside, as KG Gaming members are made of players from the recent CS1.6 Amateur Cup winners, it was another expected result.

But in the championship finals, things went on differently. As the favorite team, LZ were expected to win this category easily but 8075 gave them a run for their money by bringing LZ into overtime in the first match. LZ did managed to win the match but 8075 once again brought them down in second match with the score of 2 - 16.

We did expect the penultimate match to be epic but it became a rather one-sided match as LZ chomped away 8075 with 16 - 4 at de_inferno. We not gonna speculate anything but with that funny sequence of scores…well, you know lah.

With all the side-tournaments for the day has come to the end, it was time for the main course: the DreamHack CS1.6 Malaysian Qualifiers.

Just a refresher, let us list down the eight finalist that came from the nationwide qualifiers*:

- PK
- UnNamed
- RV
- Apple Gaming
- 5
- 8075
- LZ
- Q’s

*as listed by our friends at SpotGamers

We didn’t get to stay long to follow actions from the single-map double elimination competition but we got to watch a super epic match between the Brunei-based RV and 5.

The match took place at de_nuke and a lot of spectator are expecting 5 to take this match away. However, RV gave 5 a shocking wake up call by concluding the first half with 7 - 8 score.

5 continue to trailed behind even after RV’s already past 10 points. Amazingly, 5 made a comeback and level everything up to 15 - 15 score which forces them to go into overtime…what happens next went beyond our imagination.

RV lead the overtime’s half-time with almost total demolition at 3 - 0 score but then 5 recover back to level it up once again for the second overtime. However, again in the second overtime, the score still tied at 3 - 3 and gave the match yet another overtime.

By the half-time of the 3rd OT, 5 lead comfortably by 3 - 0. They only need 1 more points to secured a victory but it almost didn’t happen as RV gained one points after another

As the possiblity of a fourth OT lingered around, 5 finally manages to finished RV once and for all, thus concluded the match with a total score of 25 - 23. That was quite a bunch indeed. Phewh!

Other first round results that we managed to scored around are:

First Round
PK vs. Q’s: 16 - 11
8075 vs. UnNamed: 16 - 5
LZ vs. A.Gaming : 16 - 14

Upper Bracket
PK vs. 5: 2 - 16
LZ vs. 8075: 16 - 4

Well, that’s all from us. Do tuned in soon for a probable live updates from One Utama, PJ for the last day of Go International E-Sports Cup 2009. Game on!

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