GotFrag.com - Team EG will be facing off against Alchemists in group play, this matchup will likely decide who takes first place in Group D of Dreamhack Summer 2009.

Both teams have shown that they can put up rounds, and even take maps against top international teams, however neither team has been able to show consistency yet. This tournament will be an opportunity for both teams to prove that they're a top team. While Alchemists has swapped out two of their players since they last attended an international tournament, a move that may have decreased the team chemistry, EG is fresh off a boot camp at Inferno Online in Stockholm which was taken for the sole purpose of building up team chemistry and refining strategies against top euro teams.

The top spot they will be fighting for could be very crucial to each team's overall placing as a first seed will all but guarantee that they do not have to face SK, the only top 3 team in attendance, until later in the bracket stages. A second place team may face SK in the first round of bracket play and find themselves facing an early exit out of the tournament.

While the bracket play will be a best of three format, the group play is one single map. This will either play as an advantage for a team, or a disadvantage depending on the map selection. Based on previous results it would seem EG is weak on inferno, while Alchemists is strong on it. Alchemists' weakest map appears to be train. EG's strongest map is most likely dust2.

This match up should end up in favor of EG as long as it isn't on inferno, with their boot camp and the individual experience of the players they should be able to pull out a win versus the Norwegians who have less experience in big tournament play, as well as less team chemistry. However, the match will not be easy as I predict close matches on dust2 or nuke, however if it goes to train it may be a landslide as Alchemists' previous train matches were heavily in favor of their opposition.

Look for the winner of this match, whoever it may be to take Group D and make it into the top4 of the tournament, as they'll likely meet a middle tier swedish team in the first bracket match.

As always stay tuned to GotFrag for more coverage of Dreamhack including score updates and more as the weekend continues!

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Scoreboard	1H	2H	OT	F
Evil Geniuses	9	7	-	16
ALCHEMISTS	6	7	-	13

User Comments

should be a great game:]

Storm = clutchmode(>-_-)>

My prediction- Alchemists win 16-7

Best of luck to both teams. I'm excited to watch.

ProStaker wont attend the event, DTS will replace them.

Go Alchemists!

Evil Geniuses vs ALCHEMISTS sonds so wow

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GL ALL CS IS LIFE

I have to disagree about EG being weak on inferno. It WAS their weakest map, but they damn near beat SK on inferno at KODE5, and they have been bootcamping and practicing for awhile now. I'm sure they have made a number of improvements.

EG FTW!

Think ]BIG[

EG will win this for sure.

Go Americans :]

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EG will place first, heard it here first.

Alchemists>EoL 2009 :D

I am not a troll :(. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VenoyFzeumY

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fohsoh! : ' d

This is going to be one of the better match ups, hopefully. Certainly for group play it is most likely the match to watch(depending on the teams they still haven't announced). EG really needs to place in the top 2 or 3 to feel like they deserve any kind of notice on the International scene though, because this tournament could be a LOT harder.

I'm interested in someone other than EML playing for France, and it's nice to see an SoA lineup again. Too bad one of them goes home early with SK in that group. Crack Clan vs. EG will be a fun match if it happens. Oh, and Lemondogs with Gux and GR should be fun to watch also, too bad it's not the entire fnatic lineup(but that wouldn't be fair, now would it?).

Even if this isn't entirely the top-of-the-top in terms of teams, it should still be pretty entertaining.

Also, I didn't want to go back and check, but who'd Alchemists replace?

This comment was edited at 06/12/2009 10:23 AM

there should be an age limit on stupidity

Even if EG makes it out of group, they'll face SK and go home.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

excited about aU in this tournament.

They crushed all opposition at the norwegian qualifier and won the final 16-0 and 16-5.

But I am worried about havin 2 callers in the same lineup (Azid and zEn).
But whi knows, maybe it is for their own benefit?

xaxaxa eoL > all :), but... :)

#14 they wont face SK because both EG & SK will finnish first in theyr groups

They still have to face SK and Lemondogs don't give your hopes up if they DO beat Alchemists.

#gotfrag <--- Join the cool kids.

the rest of eg's maps must be sh|t if you think that eg's strongest map is d2 and the just lost to coL on it

>_>

#19 that was online, lan is much different for EG

Alchemists win heard it here 6th.

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aU Beating EG and placing #1 in their group would be the highlight of the whole event, period.
Hopefully aU steps up to the plate and wins vs EG, but who knows, maybe they'll be whooped by a BYOC-team ;P

Anyways. GL KARL WILLIAM!

This comment was edited at 06/12/2009 11:08 PM

l0l

I think EG has been dying for another shot as SK, especially with how close they came last time. I think they will win the whole damn tournament just based on how much they WANT this win. Im thinking they will beat Alchemists, and then beat SK later on.

No matter HOW this turns out, it will be interesting to see how EG perform after their bootcamp in sweden!

me > you

Where is the HLTV?

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EG will def play better i just wish lurppis would stop being a CT only player he is amazing ct side of almost any map but once its t side generally he just gets pooped on and last time i saw col play this map their ct was pretty weak esp because of that 1 b warden deal they were doing for a while but i think it was more that fRoD just wasn't hitting any shots on inferno dunno why he was even trying to awp he just pretty much failed most the time as of late tho wardens really started hittin his shots online and hes generally always good on lan so maybe hell be playing like the old days and now that storms not callin they def have a chance at least to finish in the top 3 here if they go for it

hei guys!

Im interested to see how EG does after this bootcamp, hopefully they improved quite a bit and gained some ground on the EU teams. As long as EG brings their A game they should do well at this tournament considering the number of lack luster teams. EG needs at least a top 2-3 finish to be looked at as a team to worry about in the future. Lets hope the bootcamp did wonders for them, and that they show up ready to win.