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ESL ENC 2008: The Groups

by kafux • 23 Apr 2008, 19:18 • News
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After the last matches of the three different qualification stages for the ESL ENC finished last week, the ESL presented today the groups of the € 55 000 tournament. The ESL European Nations Championship exists since 2004 and has become the most important nations competition in Europe. It features the games Counter-Strike, Warcraft 3, Counter-Strike: Source and FIFA 2008 and shows year for year, that representing and fighting for your home country can be rewarded with more than a solid prize money.

The Grand Final will be held once again at Games Convention 2008 (August 21st to 24th) in Germany Leipzig, Germany. The drawing of this years European Nations Championship Main Round was shown some minutes ago live on ESL TV and this are the groups for all four games:

Counter-Strike:
Group A
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Germany Germany
Norway Norway
Spain Spain
Sweden Sweden
Finland Finland

Group B
France France
Netherlands Netherlands
Poland Poland
Denmark Denmark
Bulgaria Bulgaria
Russia Russia


Warcraft 3:
Group A
Denmark Denmark
Germany Germany
Bulgaria Bulgaria
France France
Ukraine Ukraine
Netherlands Netherlands

Group B
Sweden Sweden
Finland Finland
Italy Italy
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Russia Russia
Croatia Croatia


CS: Source:
Group A
Finland Finland
Norway Norway
France France
Slovakia Slovakia
Austria Austria
United Kingdom United Kingdom

Group B
Sweden Sweden
Czech Republic Czech Republic
Germany Germany
Russia Russia
Denmark Denmark
Hungary Hungary


FIFA 2008:
Group A
Germany Germany
Switzerland Switzerland
Hungary Hungary
France France
Portugal Portugal
Sweden Spain

Group B
Poland Poland
Netherlands Netherlands
Ukraine Ukraine
Russia Russia
Austria Austria
Romania Romania

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Comments
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evan 23 Apr 2008, 20:24
Waste of money in my opinion. Nice work though kafux.
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Sa7z 23 Apr 2008, 20:29
not a NL Source team? thought we had some pretty nice players in NL? :<
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kafux 23 Apr 2008, 20:35
NL lost a three-mapper against Slovakia :)
http://www.esl.eu/eu/enc/2008/css/5on5/qr3/match/9147208/
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Sa7z 23 Apr 2008, 20:40
ah lol, i dont rly follow it just was suprised not seeing some dutchies ;(
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LionQ 24 Apr 2008, 18:47
Too many high school kiddies claiming they're good.
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zeec 23 Apr 2008, 20:31
group B at cs 1.6 will end as following:

1. DK
2. PL
3. FR

I think DK vs PL will be the match of the year tbh
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TosspoT 23 Apr 2008, 20:53
lovely post as always kafux :)
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oneofTHEM 23 Apr 2008, 21:23
nice post, thx 4 info! go Poland Poland ! :)
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varit 23 Apr 2008, 21:36
we need ET gtfo with cs^^
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swine 23 Apr 2008, 22:20
gtfo with your ignorance
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swine 23 Apr 2008, 21:47
pretty hard group for germany.cs
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Lover 23 Apr 2008, 22:03
lol...no ro@cs :1
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alexL 23 Apr 2008, 22:14
sweden.cs > *
:>
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LApassion 23 Apr 2008, 22:36
CoD4.RUS>ALL
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spooz 23 Apr 2008, 22:43
Poland counter-strike > all thx
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Fex 23 Apr 2008, 23:01
group A is strong
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evan 23 Apr 2008, 23:39
I meant wasting money on mixed competition, if I were the ESL, I'd pump the money into the Extreme Masters, Pro Series or WC3L instead. I haven't been no, but I watched the finals last time round (probably courtesy of you! ;D).
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HansoO 24 Apr 2008, 03:43
i live there
but unfortunatly GC will leave leipzig next year :(
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Matias 24 Apr 2008, 13:19
finland will win both!
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Synt3r 24 Apr 2008, 13:36
Nice flag on Spain @ Fifa
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b00n 24 Apr 2008, 16:21
we missed ET in this Champioship
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