ESL Pro Series XII Finals

While the Acer Challenge took place in Enschede, Germany concentrated on the much bigger und more important ESL Pro Series XII Finals in Cologne. Not far away from the Cologne Cathedral the ESL saw thousands of youg people visiting the location of the EXPO XXI. The whole German eSport scene including the teams mousesports, Team Alternate, mTw or SK Gaming travelled to Cologne and fought in six different disciplines for a prize money of 170 000 €. Some minutes ago the Grand Final of the Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament finished and this are the most important results and information of the last three days:

• Results:

Counter-Strike:
1st mousesports
2nd n!faculty
3rd Team Alternate
4th pod

CS: Source:
1st Team Alternate
2nd Team SPEED-LINK
3rd hoorai
4th mTw

Warcraft 3:
1st XlorD
2nd HLA
3rd iNSoLeNCE
4th miou

FIFA 5on5:
1st SK Gaming
2nd hoorai
3rd mTw
4th Competo-Sports

FIFA 1on1:
1st SK|hero
2nd mTw|niLssoN
3rd SK|Era
4th SK|kr0ne

*+World in Conflict


• Some details of the ESL press conference:

eSport in Dubai
Together with the technic fair Gitex the ESL will host a pro tournament in Dubai which will be the biggest one the Middle East has ever seen.

CS: Source at all IFNGs
From the next ESL Pro Series Season on, one CS: Source match will be shown live at each Intel Friday Night Game. At the same time Warcraft 3 will be removed from each IFNG and has to rotate with FIFA.

Call of Duty 4 & DotA News
Due to the fact that CoD 4 was rated age 18+ in Germany, CoD cannot become a game of the ESL Pro Series. Nevertheless, ESL said they will expand their position at the CoD4 scene. A big news about a new competition will be announce quite soon.
Furthermore DotA will also get some interesting new functions. ESL is working together with the developers and will present a new client and DotA-Portal in the next weeks. Both CoD4 and DotA will become much bigger at ESL.

Finals of the eSport School Championship
The Finals of the eSport School Championship, a tournament for schools from all over Germany, will be held in Amorbach from the 12th to 13th of July. The Finals are hosted in cooperation with the city of Amorbach and the Deutsche SPIELEmuseum e.V.

More information can be found at www.esl.eu



• EPS Awards:

[bMost Valuable Player[/b]:]
Counter-Strike: cyx (mousesports)
CS: Source: mEiJinp (Team Alternate)
FIFA: BennyBenassi (Competo)

[bMost Improved Player[/b]:]
Counter-Strike: blizker (Competo)
CS: Source: ej (Team Alternate)
FIFA: Kr0ne (SK Gaming)

[bRookie of the Season[/b]:]
Counter-Strike: cash (mTw)
CS: Source: hossa (SPEED-LINK)
FIFA: BuBu (nGize)

[bTeammanager of the Season[/b]:]
Counter-Strike: derleo (n!faculty)
CS: Source: couNti (SPEED-LINK)
FIFA: tAylor (SK Gaming)

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