The CPL Winter 2005 event has come to a close and SK.swe has managed to win their second CPL in a row with this new lineup. Coming into this event, there was a lot of speculation as to whether or not they would be able to take this event. The CPL Summer 2005 tournament had a major lack of teams due to the fact that it was announced they were not going to be using Counter-Strike 1.6 in the tournament, but Counter-Strike:Source. After most of the top teams heard about this, combind with the fact that CPL was overlapping with the ESWC tournament in Paris, France, many of the top teams decided they would rather attend the ESWC event. After all of the teams were qualified for the ESWC World Championships, CPL announced that they would be having more prize money for a Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament.


Prior to this event, the new SK.swe team emerged consisting of ahl, fisker, vilden, spawn, and snajdan. This new all-star team decided to attend the CPL Summer tournament to test their skills. They had a rockey road to the championships though. Canadian team, Evil Geniuses, managed to defeat SK on Dust2 and send them to the lower bracket. SK came out of the losers bracket and defeated Evil Geniuses two times to win the championships. After the event though, many people thought that SK would not have a repeat at this Winters tournament. Since many of the top teams in the world were either attending WEG or ESWC, they were not really put up against "the best".


SK has taken the CPL tournament again, but this time undefeated. Let's take a quick look at their road to victory before getting into the match breakdown...


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Rosters


Lunatic-Hai


Jun-Gon "RishNarchK" Jung (PoV Demo)
Jeong-Tak "BeBe" Oh (PoV Demo)
Beum-Ho "Mal" Choi (PoV Demo)
Young-Mo "enemy" Ahn (PoV Demo)
Min-Woo "cliper" Choi (PoV Demo)


SK.swe


Mattias "sNajdan" Andersen (PoV Demo)
Christer "fisker" Eriksson (PoV Demo)
Michael "ahl" Korduner (PoV Demo)
Abdisamad "SpawN" Mohamed (PoV Demo)
Christian "Vilden" Lidström (PoV Demo)

Grand Finals HLTV demo can be downloaded here.