fnatic and MYM tops G7 Ranking

 

Last month the G7 Teams unveiled their official open ranking system supporting a Counter-Strike 1.6 ranking for the time being. Now they released the first major update to the position table regarding the past month August.

As a side note, MYM received the points although there was an internal debate as to whether PGS should receive the points or MYM, since MYM failed to qualify through ordinary means. The final decision came down in favour of MYM based on the reasoning that there are no rules currently in place for such situations and the decision would be objective and unfair to discount the points from MYM. Further attention will be put into creating stricter and formal qualification rules for future events.

The G7 Teams strives to improve professionalism and transparency in all areas within Electronic Esports and previously has announced initiatives such as the standardized G7 player contract, prize money dispute system and now the official release of the first version of the Counter-Strike 1.6 ranking system. The G7 Teams strongly believes that to improve transparency, and reward the achievements of teams and players a balanced ranking system is needed. This will enable the comparison, improved reporting and measurement of the world’s Esports teams and players.

 

The current Counter-Strike 1.6 ranking after the ESWC Grand Finals looks as follows:

1.		fnatic	455.70
2.		Meet Your Makers	314.59
3.		mTw	264.70
4.		Made in Brazil	194.22
5.		mousesports	178.11
6.		SK Gaming	174.64
7.		e-STRO	172.40
8.		Team Roccat	143.94
9.		emuLate	110.33
10.		aTTaX	91.42

After the ESWC Grand Finals in San Jose in August following teams received points:

 Meet Your Makers +173.26

 e-STRO +115.50

 fnatic +57.75

 mousesports +38.50

 emuLate +5.00

 mTw +5.00

 aTTaX +5.00

 SK Gaming +5.00

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zet replaces SpawN at SK.Sweden

German based organisation SK-Gaming announces the signing of Marcus 'zet' Sundström - Counter-Strike legend Abdisamad 'SpawN' Mohamed steps down.

Sundström has been playing Counter-Strike: Source for LA compLexity in the CGS until his contract expired in June this year. He decided not to renew it but move back to Sweden and return to Counter-Strike 1.6.

The Swede replaces the legend Abdisamad 'SpawN' Mohamed who decided to retire from professional Counter-Strike. Mohamed is about to take on a different role in SK-Gaming. The addition of Sundström reunites three players (Dennis 'walle' Wallenberg, Robert 'RobbaN' Dahlström and Sundström) from the old NiP lineup which was extremely successful back in 2006.

SK.Sweden has now time until the end of September to prepare for the Swedish World Cyber Games (WCG) Qualifier taking place at Dreamhack Skellefteå. The winner of the Qualifier will be allowed to represent Sweden at the WCG Grand Finals in Cologne, Germany in November.


"Proud to represent SK-Gaming"

"Ever since I stopped playing for compLexity I've only had one thought in my mind, playing with my old team mates from NiP. They have all been playing for SK for a long time now, so for me it was obvious which team I really wanted to join. It is s a great honour to play under SK Gaming, probably the world's most successful multigaming organisation" says Marcus 'zet' Sundström.

Managing Director Andreas 'bds' Thorstensson is "very happy to welcome the prodigy Zet." Sundström is "one of the best players who took a break from 1.6 at his peak to focus on Source in CGS" who is "now back more hungry than ever".


This leaves SK-Gaming with the following lineup:

•  Markus 'zet' Sundström

•  Jimmy 'allen' Allén

•  Dennis 'walle' Wallenberg

•  Kristoffer 'Tentpole' Nordlund

•  Robert 'RobbaN' Dahlström

Counter-Strike: ESWC 2008 Results Roundup

While most eyes were on the main CS 1.6 tournament this week at ESWC 2008, quite a bit more were watching some of the best matches between top competitors from around the world in a large variety of other games.

The 2008 ESWC Grand Finals at NVISION 08 has completed and once again champions have been crowned in the prestigious event. The event had traditionally been held in France but moved this year to the NVIDIA sponsored trade show in San Jose, California. The event encompassed three days of sponsor exhibits, keynote speakers, technical conferences, a live concert, GeForce LAN, a Guinness record breaking non-stop LAN party, the 2008 ESWC Finals and more.

The ESWC event came to a conclusion with several good finals and an awards ceremony crowning the champions. GotFrag was at the event and an overview of the coverage can be found below :

Men's Counter-Strike 1.6

One of the most explosive Counter-Strike tournaments of the year had more than its share of surprises. Nearing the end of the final day of competition, last year's defending victor took on an aggressive Asian team looking to become the first ever champions from the East.

Final Standings

1st.  Meet Your Makers - $40,000
2nd.  e-STRO - $25,000
3rd.  Fnatic - $14,000

ESWC 2008 CS 1.6 Grand Finals

Scoreboard	1H	2H	OT	F
Meet Your Makers	1	-	1	2
e-STRO	-	1	-	1
Demos: de_dust2 | de_train | de_tuscan
de_dust2: eSTRO [14:16] MYM de_nuke: eSTRO [16:13] MYM de_tuscan: eSTRO [13:16] MYM
e-STRO: ari, bail, hee, solo, term MYM: kuben, Loord, LUq, Neo, TaZ

Full Results and Brackets:
Day 2 Bracket Stage
Day 1 Group Stage

Women's Counter-Strike 1.6

SK's lady division was out to perform on home territory against a barrage of teams from across the globe. Taking on the ESWC original host France's squad, the grand finals had more than just an extra five thousand dollars riding on it.

Final Standings

1st.  SK.Ladies - $13,000
2nd.  emuLate - $8,000
3rd.  E-honoR - $5,000

ESWC 2008 Women's CS Grand Finals

Scoreboard	1H	2H	OT	F
SK Ladies	1	1	-	2
emuLate Ladies	-	-	-	-
de_inferno: emL [08:16] SK de_train: emL [12:16] SK emL: Biki, Diamond, Missharvey, Mitsu, Ritta SK: ali, jane, jso, LiDy, Potter

Full Results and Brackets:
Day 1 Group and Day 2 Bracket Stage

WarCraft III

Every top player in the world was in attendance for what was easily the most exciting event of 2008. Many of the favorites were knocked out during the group stages, but in the end it was an all Asian final as the up and coming Korean Orc player Du Seop "WhO" Chang solidified his name in the WarCraft 3 scene by defeating the celebrated Chinese champion Xiaofeng "Sky" Li.

Final Standings

1st.  mTwAMD.Who - $12,000
2nd.  WE.Sky - $7,000
3rd.  Ted - $4,000

ESWC 2008 Warcraft III Grand Finals

Scoreboard	1H	2H	OT	F
Du Seop "mTw.whO" Chang	1	1	-	2
Xiaofeng "WE.Sky" Li	-	-	-	-
Maps: Echo Isles, Secret Valley

Full Results and Brackets:
Day 1 Group and Day 2 Bracket Stage

Quake 3

Final Standings

1st.  Cypher - $12,000
2nd.  k1llsen - $7,000
3rd.  Rapha - $4,000

ESWC 2008 Quake 3 Grand Finals

Scoreboard	1H	2H	OT	F
Alexey "Cypher" Yanusheuski	1	1	-	2
Marcel "k1llsen" Paul	-	-	-	-
ztn3tourney1: k1llsen [7:19] Cypher pro-q3dm6: k1llsen [11:12] Cypher

Full Results and Brackets:
Day 1 Group and Day 2 Bracket Stage

Defense of the Ancients

Final Standings

1st.  Zenith - $13,000
2nd.  Kingsurf - $8,000
3rd.  Meet Your Makers - $5,000

Click Here for Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty 4 Results.

Team Fortress 2

The first major TF2 LAN in sometime was a little of the new and a lot of the old, with Team Pandemic showing their dominance over the North America TF2 scene yet again. There was a moment of doubt when the TF2 juggernaunt was knocked to the Lower Bracket by arch-rivals Eximius Sports, but it proved to be nothing more then a blip on the radar as Pandemic stormed back in the Grand Finals, sweeping Eximius twice on cp_gpit to claim the top prize.

Final Standings

1st.  Pandemic - $4,200 + hardware
2nd.  Eximius - $2,100 + hardware
3rd.  Rage Quit - $900 + hardware

2008 GeForce LAN Team Fortress 2 Grand Finals

Scoreboard	1H	2H	OT	F
Pandemic	1	1	-	2
Eximius Sports	-	-	-	-
Match 1 - cp_gravelpit: Pandemic [2:0] Eximius Match 2 - cp_gravelpit: Pandemic [2:0] Eximius Pandemic: hubris, oPlaid, reptile, REP, TheFragile, syckness  Eximius: RocketSurgeon, animeman, pure, saber, carnage, pokey

Full Results and Brackets:
Day 1 Group and Day 2 Bracket Stage

Call of Duty 4

Final Standings

1st.  We Aren't Sponsored - $5,000 + hardware
2nd.  Pure - $2,500 + hardware
3rd.  x3o - $1,000 + hardware

2008 GeForce LAN Call of Duty 4 Grand Finals

Scoreboard	1H	2H	OT	F
We Aren't Sponsored	2	-	-	2
Pure	-	-	-	-

Full Results and Brackets:
Day 1 Group and Day 2 Bracket Stage