09:56 - bsl

Celebrity predictions by CS: 1.6 legend "Heaton"

Heaton (Stockholm Magnetik): SK, Fnatic, MYM, Alternate

09:54 - bsl

The teams are setting up in the tournament area. The quarter finals are schedule to go live in a few minutes, but expect a slow start today as well.

09:28 - bsl

Press room predictions:

MYM heavy favorites to win



The quarter finals at ESWC 2008:

SK vs. Mousesports
Fnatic vs. Mortal Team Work
Meet Your Makers vs. Emulate
eSTRO vs. Alternate Attax

We have two Swedish teams, two German teams, one Danish team from a German organization and one Polish team in a Danish organization. There's also one French and one Korean team.

Meet Your Makers won it in 2007. Fnatic were runners up in 2006 and won third place in 2007. MTW lost the final to MYM in 2007. Alternate Attax got third in 2006 and Mousesports got third in 2005 while SK got fourth in 2004. eSTRO and Emulate have no previous ESWC runs to speak of but the Koreans placed second at Extreme Masters earlier in `08 while Emulate won WCG 2007.

I took a stroll around the press room to get the esport media's "educated guesses" as to who will win - take a look:

JESUIT (Gotfrag): Mousesports, Fnatic, MYM, eSTRO

craven (Readmore): Mousesports, MTW, MYM, eSTRO

Carmac (SK Gaming): SK, MTW, MYM, eSTRO

Singlecoil (Gotfrag): SK, Fnatic, MYM, eSTRO

Nix0n (HLTV.org): SK, MTW, MYM, eSTRO

Beemit (Readmore): Mousesports, MTW, MYM, Alternate Attax

bsl (Gotfrag): SK, MTW, MYM, eSTRO

Shrew (Gotfrag): SK MTW, MYM, Alternate

Slasher (SK Gaming): SK, MTW, MYM, eSTRO

09:16 - bsl

Welcome to the big day where everything will be decided. We have fewer matches today but as the amount of pressure on the teams and the players increase expect game winning, and game losing performances.