Event: CPL WT05

Painkiller had yet again all the same faces. The tournament did however hold some surprises. The first one being a new face in the upper bracket quarter finals.


Before the tourney vo0 had confessed to having prepared by playing WoW. Whatever




In terms of tradition, the Counter-Strike tournament in Dallas had the longest history in this series of events. Due to the concurrent event in France, the CS tournament in Dallas somewhat became the gathering pit for all the clans not qualified for going to Paris. Most notably among them





Primary attention was of course focused on the new old SK squad. After three convincing victories they took on those Evil canadian Geniuses in the winner bracket final - and lost. But what a match, it took three overtimes to decide a winner which would arguably turn out to be the shaggadelic shaGuar playing one hell of a match.
fnatic and mibr had problems, to say the least, losing in the third respectively the first match. They went down in their first and second matches in the lower bracket.
SK however went straight to the finals nonetheless as

Third in line was the Warcraft3 tournament. With no Koreans present, three Europeans shared the bigger part of the loot.




And on to the last tourney: CS Source. Not quite interesting for most parts of Europe, the first three places were accordingly taken by Americans. Among the top eight


Edited by zet at 05:39 GMT, 12th Jul 2005 - 20898 Hits