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Counter-Strike: CAL-I SX Finals: Rival over zEx

By: Ben - Published July 28, 2004 at 5:38 PM EDT - Writer Archive
For the first time ever, the CAL-I finals were held at the CPL on LAN between the two finalists, zEx and Rival. Despite the lack of scorebot, HLTV was up and running for most of the match. After a strong first half 8-4 score for zEx, Rival stormed back to win the second half 9-3 to win the CAL-I SX championship.

Rival over zEx 13-11(4-8 as CT)(9-3 as T)
For the first time ever, the CAL-I finals were held at the CPL on LAN between the two finalists, zEx and Rival. Despite the lack of scorebot, HLTV was up and running for most of the match. After a strong first half 8-4 score for zEx, Rival stormed back to win the second half 9-3 to win the CAL-I SX championship.

Map - de_inferno

Rival over zEx 13-11(4-8 as CT)(9-3 as T)

Congratulations to Rival for winning CAL-I Season 10! Despite HLTV going down the final few rounds, there are a few things to consider here. Past CPL events saw no HLTV available for the first few days where single elimination bracket matches were played before the 32 team double elimination play started. The CPL Staff is still at work fixing the network and stabilizing the internet connection to provide HLTV master proxies and scorebot coverage on irc. Check back tomorrow morning as the official CPL tournament matches get underway with single elimination matches.

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go rival :o

This comment was edited at 07/28/2004 5:44 PM
kekeke
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... isnt it best 2 out of 3
Gotfrag wont let me use my comp specs as my sig for some retarded reason
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too bad i cant watch it because steam doesnt work
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IM SURE IT WAS A GREAT MATCHUP
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I'm confused.. All I see is retards spamming how its best of 3.. Wtf is the deal? =/
nice
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my bad :d

This comment was edited at 07/28/2004 7:36 PM
nice
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Rival wins LG and CAL-I Finals, w00t
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WHAT!??
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too bad, I was hoping the midseason moveups would take it, oh well, gl to Rival and zEx in the real deal
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rival curse eh
#teamd2 calo 4-0-0 we are bad idle us
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sigh, it was a very gg though
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you're FIRED
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Rival? Rival who? never heard of em
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no #7 it was season 10. GL to both teams. Was a great match and a great come back by Rival.
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rival = best american team now

This comment was edited at 08/01/2004 4:21 AM
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NICE COVERAGE GOTFRAG
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its season 10
#demi
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actually its season 10 #7 because the season was 16 weeks not 8 :\
pernicious Vengeance .. #pvclan
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haha, thas my boys right there.. gj
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I think the CPL is having some major technical difficulties with their network, internet etc. That would explain the lack of live coverage, scorebot, updates etc. However not having a preview and/or prediction up yesterday for the fricken CAL-I Finals is pretty bad :/

This comment was edited at 07/28/2004 5:53 PM
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I heard rival had a sick strat which involved smokes and a pit :X
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rival will do things this cpl
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woohoo gj rival was great match to watch cept when hltv did game pending for last round
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i thought zex was gonna win after it was 10-4 but wow rival.
:X
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HLTV neeeded some work
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rival was playing t like a cal o team. they were lucky that zex's ct was horrible. To quote ph33r:

"why is everyone running and peeking? i thought this was supposed to be a slow push."
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hooray for crappy hltv
and just one match for finals?
#flawless
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WHERE IS THE HLTV DEMO!?!?!
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zex got outskilled
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hltv?
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Great coverage... CALi finals being on LAN and weeks after the season ended turned out to be a failure in my book.
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GotDemo ?
im amazing at that counter-forces game

"slow push" = oxymoron
if you "push" slowly, it wouldnt be a push to begin with o.o
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.. shut up noodles
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nobody reads your book.
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a push means you're moving up
a slow push means you're pushing up slowly
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no pull push is an opposite.. slow is merely an adjective...
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congrats to rival on there second cal-i championship and congrats to zex for choking in the finals once again. names change, curses DONT.
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Whatever happned to Gotfrag celebrity predictions... who won those!
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wow. did anyone even KNOW this thing was going on? great cal-i finals match guys!
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I too am very impressed with gotfrag's coverage this season as opposed to seasons that were half as long. In those season they did something. Like they told us there was there was even going to be finals. Even a pre-game analysis. Oh no, not this season where they had twice the time. They put that time to good use as you can see by the great amount of effort shown. Definetely raising the bar.

I'm sure most people are very satisified with paying $5 a month. I know I was.
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nope i didnt know...
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I missed the cal-i semifinals and cal-i finals due to gotfrags layout, lol.
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zEx didn't choke in season 8 pyzik, unless you're referring to season 5.
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nt zex, what happend to best out of 3....
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Grr....It was Season 11, this upcoming season is, guess what?? 12!

You guys probably don't know how to read Roman Numerals, Season XI = 11

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#43 As far as I can tell nearly every site had no clue when the the matches were going to be, amped doesn't have any coverage either. I'm sure after this whole season they wouldnt of just skipped the finals if they had a idea of what went on.
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or youre just an idiot #46, it was cal-i season 10 since their season was 16 weeks not 8.
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i assume this was on dust2? the map wasnt even mentioned in the post? whats the deal with gotfrag lately, very dissapointed lately :(
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guess what? cal-i/p seasons were extended longer, so this was season 10 final not 11.

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