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Mouz, NiP, 69N-28E, and Turmoil among others meet in Louisville, Kentucky for the 2nd stop in the WSVG World Tour.  69°N-28°E  Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen Max "ruuit" Aspe Joona "natu" Leppanen Juuso "contE_" Sajakoski Niko "NA5U" KovanenFlying 5,000 miles to a tournament with a top prize of $13,500? Sure, why not. The current top finnish squad has been putting in long hours bootcamping this past week in anticipation of an easy money win. But with mouz, Convention, and NiP jumping in the mix, it won’t be the cake walk they planned on. It hasn’t really worried team member Tomi “Lurppis” Konaven though as is evident in an excerpt from his pre-event interview “Obviously I would have liked to see more top teams attending but with the US teams switching to CS:S for CGS I guess it just wasn't going to happen. There is no particular team I'd like to play or avoid playing against; I'm mostly worried about dust2, not any team.” Recent NGL Champions and fourth place SEC finishers, this will be a top three finishing team and anything less will be a shock. Convention  KF3 drei noLA syrtekz r00fzLast month the Norwegian Synergy squad left their former management and joined up with a local LAN center to become Convention and was able to fund the trip to Louisville. Recently, they fell to mouz in a EC series 2-1 with a overtime 19-16 razor thin loss on dust2. While they are a shoe-in for top five, top two would be a small upset. SK  Jimmy "allen" Allen Christer "fisker" Eriksson Robert "RobbaN" Dahlstrom Emil "striker" Westerberg Abdisamad "SpawN" MohamedOnly yesterday did SK announce that they would be attending this tournament. The addition throws a little more euro skill into the pot and provides another challenge for any American hopeful. Despite a early departure from ESWC Sweden, the lineup is nonetheless a top 5 placer. SpawN and fisker are going to need every all of their quick flick reaction shot goodness to come into play though if they want to top mouz or 69N-28E. x3o  Tarik "rockyte" Elkhatib Jeff "hero" Mettetal Joshua "PineKone" Springer Ryan "NineSpot" Bell James "jame^s" O'ConnorAccording to NickFitz, "Our entire month of June has been a boot camp for the team", and it pretty much was. The WCG U.S. Open saw them taking home 2nd place behind eMazing Gaming (also in attendance). The week after was spent putting in long hours at the local x3o lan center, going over strats and getting themselves together for Louisville. They just finished a local tournament, C3 Cyber Club, and walked away with first. This is all good for the team but bootcamping, no matter for how long, against teams of questionable skill makes one wonder how beneficial the practice is. A long shot but not unheard of would be an x3o upset against a euro clan on LAN. If they can pull that off, expect surprised faces from the fans, but knowing acknowledgment from a team that continually is confident in their own ability. While no one will put them in the top three here, it's safe to assume top six. How they place is largely going to attribute itself to the performance of teams like Turmoil and eMazing. Page:
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User Comments
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mouz looking to show everyone they r serious with their roster this time around, if this team EVER clicks, good by world.
69N have a great lineup, experience everything needed to win. norwegian convention would be looking to show everyone they aren't just talent, however the big stage may get to them.
I think it will come down to who wants it the most, will be really tight. Im tipping NiP, super talented lineup in which miniw I think is yet to show people what hes capable of.
PLayers to watch: miniw, ruuit
EDIT: Sorry didn't comment much on the American teams due to there past history n I dont think they can go with the euros. upsets r good for eSports tho so i hope they bring their game.
I say:
1.) 69°N-28°E
2.) NiP
3.) mouz
2. Turmoil
3. NiP
Funny as hell if they won.
I love CS 1.6, but I think more appreciation should be shown to the teams that are playing well now... and not to the teams that "could" be able to pull something off in the tournament this weekend. If you understand where I'm coming from post back and let me know what you think. You might not be behind eMg 100%, but I think that they have the best shot in the U.S. for placing, if not winning WSVG.
Some insight:
eMg.cs - 1st IZ3D May 4th, 1st WCG US Open June 2nd, 2nd PNY 5K Tourney - Good stats on LAN coming into this big tournament... right?
IMO, Turmoil is still the better team than eMg. They have better individual talent and very good teamwork. patyo, mehler, impulsive. That was also a NY LAN eMg beat turmoil at. Will be interesting to see them play again, but I still think Turmoil is the better team they've proven it over a longer period and at more LANs.
2) 69N-28E
3) NiP
2) 69n
3) sk
1.SK
2.69N-28E
3. Mouz
4.NIP
5.Convention
See you in ESWC america, there you will end up at last place, with Fnatic and Pentagram on top.
eMg simply hasnt had the opportunities to prove themselves..
2.kittens with mittens
3.inari
this is ridiculous, somebody BETTER FIX MY DAMN NAME
DAFADIDGDI
~sLICkkkk!
Go NiP and Convention!
The recent dismantlment of the professional north american counter-strike 1.6 scene has hit us hard, as it is my strong belief no team regardless of the roster at this point in time could come out and compete for america on the international stage or at a event with european teams, I will say this however since there is no more 3D/Col to dominate perhaps we will see a spring of new players and teams eventually climbing up and bringing back USA some respect and top placements of course this would all happen over time but it is possible.
We must take into account people who just play this game in pubs or scrim a very minimal amount but could already have aim as good as method or storm, just their lack of incentive to play the game or circumstances in their lives prevent them to play and get better, but I do think the 1.6 american pro scene has hope if the community can stay at a calm undisrupted time period of maybe a year or two, although I fear by this time 1.6 will no longer be supported by multimillion dollar coporations for their LAN events, seeing as they will want to help source grow and prosper as it is what will sell more hardware.
I must say, I do look forward to watching all of these teams play for as I have said in another thread I do believe this will be the only 1.6 north american LAN tournament that will be worth watching the entire year, unless there are some more qualifers or Complexity gets bored and decides to participate in another PNY tournament.
.... to all the American teams I wish you good luck, and hope you can bring us home a win ^_^
::EDIT::
Also, about posting this information about teams and them winning LANs we must all understand that these events have 1-3 good teams on the cal-invite/cevo-professional level and the rest are all old school pugs, or a handful of cal-main teams which provide no competition to the upper echelon of players or their teams, this isn't me trying to say oh look so and so is bad...
but...
the teams that they face at these local events are no where near the level of calibur of players or teams that 1.6 use to provide for these tournaments, it seems that 1.6 is in a sad state of affairs.
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