GotFrag eSports

The Australian side has practiced a lot for this event and its efforts have definitely paid off as it finished second in a rather complicated group.

Immunity's reward for progressing to the Round of 16 is a meeting with GamePlay, who placed third at Extreme Masters Dubai.

The ex-roccat squad finished top of its group with 13 points from its 5 encounters, having surprisingly been held to a draw by Malaysia's [TeamLZ]. However, one can surely question whether the Finnish players' hearts were really into it as none of the group matches really demanded GamePlay to bring out its A-game.

That's one advantage GamePlay has over its opponent as Immunity really had to sweat to book a place in the last 16. Benjamin "benoR" O'Reilly has been riding high on form in Cologne and his services will be required as Immunity attempts to write a giant-killing story.

Although the Scandinavian team is highly favoured for this match, Immunity's chances can't really be written off as the team will do everything in its power to put Australia back on the Counter-Strike map.

GamePlay

Finland

Juuso "contE" Sajakoski
Finland

Niko "naSu" Kovanen
Finland

Samu "plastE" Aalto
Finland

Max "ruuit" Aspe
Finland

Tino "tihOp" Puumala

Immunity

Australia

Benjamin "benoR" O'Reilly
Australia

Yaman "Ergenekon" Ergenekon
Australia

Fergus "ferg" Stephenson
Australia

Gareth "gazR" Lynn
Australia

Alexander "steel" Panov

Scoreboard	1H	2H	OT	F
Power Gaming	-	1	1	2
Immunity	1	-	-	1
de_inferno: GamePlay [12:16] Immunity de_dust2: GamePlay [16:05] Immunity de_nuke: GamePlay [16:10] Immunity
GamePlay: contE, naSu, ruuit, tihOp, plastE Immunity: benoR, Ergenekon, ferg, gazR, steel

User Comments

gameplay will win

LETS GOOOOO IMMUNITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... YYYEEEWWWWW

there once was a

Nice read, gl to iM.

you forgot to mention iM are clear favourites

gameplay will run through these. Sorry aussies :X

healthpoint yo

gl iM!

http://xrl.us/bea8e - HOLY SMOKES!!!

should be a walkover, you never know though, Finnish teams have a history of horrible losses in matches that should've been in the bag.

"You sir, are an ignorant SOB who will not get anyhere in the eSports community."

Gameplay WILL beat the Aussies... Period.

Get up, get famous. Play hard, go pro.

iM will win! benoR is my hero

I'm pretty confident that GamePlay will be able to perform well enough in this Bo3-maps match to win without too much of a sweat.
Immunity has been very impressive so far but I believe that GamePlay just has that top team and player experience that Immunity lacks a bit. Something else that supports my belief is that this is GamePlay's first must-win game of the tournament and they most likely won't be just fooling around taking chances, but will rather be prepared for a solid Australian opponent.

My prediction is 2 - 0 to the Finnish. I wish both teams all of my luck, though!

GotFrag 는 최고의 !

#7 they usually have a good streak vs top teams and have it ended by a top team

iM is not a top team

This comment was edited at 11/07/2008 7:16 PM

just use ryennn's, he UNLEASHES usp bullets in mehLer

yea but we have benoR who is the computer gaming equivalent to chuck norris

don't forget, this Aussie outfit is vastly superior to the one which went over for WCG last year and defeated K23 in a group of NoA and emulate.

This comment was edited at 11/07/2008 7:48 PM

gameplay has this ez. Its an australian team enough said

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gameplay has this ez. Its an australian team enough said

I'm pretty sure Dignitas thought the same thing.

Will be a great match to watch, looking forward to watching it!

go bengazyam

#11 and #13 both have no clue what so ever, dont speak about s h i t you dont know

gl iM ;D

GL Immunity. I met you guys back in 06 at the ESWC Aus qualifiers and you seemed like a team who was almost as capable at fzer0 (at the time) but were missing that little bit of something to put you over the top. Looks like you've come a long way and I hope to see you guys breaking through this group too.

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE

FERG SUCKS GO BACK TO FRANCE LOSER

GOODLUCK IMMUNITY !

Gameplay gonna win 16-6 :)

gl iM, show time tonight~

the people writing them off with no more than a glance at the flag should clue up and stop being so ignorant... so quick to write off teams you know next to nothing about. last encounter aus & finland was Immunity vs. 69n-28e � 13 : 17

This comment was edited at 11/07/2008 8:20 PM

Since ALTERNATE is out i'll share the thrill with you aussies! :D

Head of the www.readmore.de demo section. Your POV demo resource on the net (12000 and counting...)

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last encounter aus & finland was Immunity vs. 69n-28e � 13 : 17

The iM team then was good but with Ben and Gareth in the team now its a different story.. these guys don't care about past history and really don't care about reputations.....

gameplay will SHI T all over these guys

#complexity

#5 pretty sure we ran through you guys lololololol see what i did there?

This comment was edited at 11/07/2008 8:50 PM

#25 yeah we heard your opinion twice still no one cares.

As someone who has actually competed in many of the events for fzer0, i felt personally there wasnt that much of a skillgap, its just the mental side of the game and how the players/teams use hold up under the pressure (or percieved pressure as it may be). Fzer0 struggled to get a team performance vs our more fancied opponents in alot of cases, going down heavily to some quality teams (sk.swe, GG, lunatic, aTTax, coL, virtus) being unable to get a good performance from each memeber of our team for these games, crumbling mentaly and playing well below where we where capable of playing due to not handling the pressure of the games and pressure applied by these more consistant and rightlyfully more confident teams.

For australian teams (and others) theres inhibiting factors like lower quality competition, less exposure to different styles of play, fewer big stage opportunites etc. but in the end they need to play well, read Gameplay well, and have a team performance. If Gameplay on the otherside do these things, iM will struggle to keep up with them, but if iM continue to put in team performances and can get a foothold in the game it should be an interesting encounter.

iM have had a quality bootcamp, have an internationally experienced caller, and are a group of confident players, which is some good pluses, compared to Gameplay this isnt neccesarily looking like that great a list, but iM have been able to do some very positive things to help improve their level of play and confidence in the lead up to this event. WCG historically has allways had some out of the ordinary results and teams "over achieveing" compared to the beliefs of the masses, TEG in '03 placing 4th, GBR from singapore placing 5-8th in '04, k23 2nd in '05, amazing gaming 3rd in '07. Sure some of these you can put down to the "brilliance" of the WCG seeding and pool play system and therefore soft runs for teams, but theres a fair share of wins vs more fancied opponents in that list aswell.

Gameplay obviously have had more/better opportunities, and Gameplay are the favourites and deserve to be, but in the end its going to come down to 3 maps of play (which should favour Gameplay) but iM arent eliminated, Gameplay have every right to be a heavy favourite, but iM are an unkown quantity, if they can get into the match from the first 5 rounds they are absolutely capable of winning these games, they have allready defeated a fancied diginatis team (maybe digintis where underdone, maybe they performed bad first game of the day, its irrelevent, what matters is that iM could convert 16 round wins for the match, not getting into the 3way group play tie issues), it doesnt matter whos better in a head to head tournament all that matters is being that little bit better then the team against you each step of the way.

Are iM going to be better then Gameplay? probbably not, Gameplay deserve to be big favourites for this match and obviously are, but cs competitors are human, confidence can fluctuate depending on circumstances, people handle pressure differently. Just because Gameplay have more experiance and community faith doesnt mean they are immune to the mental side of the game, and if iM can start stronly putting pressure on Gameplay early rather then being the ones waiting to break, it will be an interesting 2/3 maps. Are iM capable of doing that to someone of Gameplays quality? Dignitas was a good start, and thats what the aus community will be coming out in scores to see.

i could build a house with that wall, well said ;)

Good luck iM. I'm sure all of Aus is backing use. I think you guys have down awsuuum so far.

gl iM :D

justin

Kurandus' essay was much better than then one i did for my eng lang exam 4 days ago... =[

Gl iM, hopefully the two teams sit kinda close so that gazrs screaming irritates gameplay enough to get them over the line.

the infamous f-zer0 kurandus ladies and gentleman

nice read there kurandus. Hope to see you compete in future events and achieve the success you once had.

kurandus aussie cs legend and nice guy! btw reguardless of how much experience any good team has, I'm sure people had doubts about Gameplay when they first started, going up against top teams and now look where they are! Yeah they might play against the worlds best alot, but any big named teams have all been in iM's position. I think it's going to be how the players are going to assert themselves. I believe what Kurandus said, "there wasnt that much of a skillgap" and believe all they have to do is consistantly reassure themselves mentally, because they possess the skill. Go iM! play smart! don't regret what you do and get the PICKS! swarm them 5 on 1 if you have to!

This comment was edited at 11/07/2008 10:50 PM

Beeeatch

#18 you are a pathetic heap mate. iM to put up a good fight and like stated in the aforementioned posts of #28 it will all depend on whether they can get into the game early on. If so anything is possible all the best to iM :)

2iMMUNE

mem8s iM ! gogogo

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