Roccat wins WCG Finland

The Finnish World Cyber Games qualifier took place last weekend at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki and was filled with expectation as the most recent acquisition from British organization 4Kings would be there making their first debut with the crown. On site were also the favorites Roccat, which ones ended up winning the tournament, a place at Cologne to defent the Finnish flag and plus 2,500€ in their pockets.

Soltec were the surprise of this year, they managed to secure a place in the playoffs stage and surprised everyone when they beat 4Kings by a clear 16-04 in the groupstage. They easily managed to overcome Elukkaveljekset and book a place in the grand final where they met Roccat as they had just beaten 4Kings by two straight maps.

The final match was a great one to watch, although Roccat easily won the first map by 16-7, Soltec put up a great second map, taking it to overtime but losing and thus only placing second, not enough to take part in the WCG 2008 World Final to be held in the German city of Cologne between November 5-9th.

Final Standings

1. roccat (WCG 2008 slot + 2,500€)
2. Soltec
3. 4Kings
4. Elukkaveljekset

EM3 with $750.000, CS 1.6 and WoW

Electronic Sports League today announces its third edition of Extreme Masters. The third season will stretch across three continents during the season.

Extreme Masters must be counted as the eSports answer to Champinons League. The prestigious league will this season not only more than double their total prize purse, but also replace one game. Do not fear they would remove Counter-Strike 1.6, as it’s once again one of the two official games this season. As you might have guessed, Warcraft 3 gets removed due to it not having a big enough worldwide appeal. Replacing Warcraft 3 will be by World of Warcraft, ESL already had a few test events with the game, latest at DreamHack Winter 2007.

This season, Extreme Masters will consist of three continental leagues; Asia, America and Europe. The best teams and players from each continental league will advance to the global finals at CeBIT 2009 in Hannover, Germany. The season will kick off at Games Convention 2008 in Leipzig, Germany.
ESL states:

The third season of the Intel Extreme Masters unlocks a new level of eSports and entertainment. The Intel Extreme Masters Season III features events on three continents: Asia, America and Europe. The world's best eSport clans will be playing on highest performing Intel Extreme Processors on Alienware Systems from Dell's Gaming group competing for a prize money of 750,000USD. Counter-Strike 1.6 and World of Warcraft are the disciplines.

Last season we saw mousesports taking home the big check and the sparkling trophy. This season will without doubt once again be one of the most important tournaments for teams to win. We will be looking forward to season kickoff in August. HLTV.org will be your home for the entire Extreme Masters III season.

ROCCAT Competition winner

By: Nixon

Time: 2008-06-19 17:56

Prior to DreamHack Summer HLTV.org in cooperation with ROCCAT launched a competition for you guys to win great prizes. All you had to do was guess the top3 in the WGT tournament, but not a single one hit the jackpot.

So who will be the lucky winner of the ROCCAT products? To make it fair for everyone who submitted their guess in time, we made a random draw with all participants. The draw was made with a random number in the range from 1 to 376, the nummer drawn would match one of the comments made in the newspost.

The lucky one is: #43

anssi from Finland had mTw to win, but in the end he got lucky enough to walk away with the jackpot as nobody else guessed the right top3.

anssi will be receiving following products from ROCCAT:

1 x BLOWJOB t-shirt
5 x ROCCAT Sense mousepads
5 x ROCCAT lanyards

I would like to congratulate anssi and thanks to all the participants for their attendance. Look out for more competitions during the summer.