The eXperience 2008 started on Thursday at 09:00 CET in Roskilde, Denmark. The group stage finished on Friday and moved on to double elimination, and the event finally finished on Saturday evening.

With defending champions fnatic out of the picture, the title was up for grabs, and there were several teams in attendance more than capable of taking the crown. Many of the teams who attended are highly talented and very experienced, making the eXperience 2008 one of the most anticipated events of the year.

All teams progressed past the group stages. The top three teams from each group went into the upper bracket, with the top team from each group getting a default win in the first round of double elimination. The bottom two teams from each group went into the lower bracket.

Alexander Flemming, the official photographer of the eXperience 2008, has released his first photo gallery of the event. View the gallery by clicking here. In addition, several videos documenting the event have been released and are available here.

Final Standings
1. France

Epsilon - �6,750
2. Denmark

Magnitude - �3,000
3. Sweden

4Kings - �1,350
4. Finland

Logitech.fi - �200
5-6.

Crossed - �600
5-6. Russia

MGC - �600
7-8. Czech Republic

Reason Gaming - �200
7-8. Hungary

Old Boys Incorporated
9-12. Denmark

Roskilde Ravens
9-12. Norway

MultiGamer
9-12. Norway

Tweaked - �200
9-12. Sweden

Mortifier

Teams received small slices of the prize pot for winning Upper Bracket matches, as well as lump sums for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. Hence, it is possible for two teams to finish in the same position (9th - 12th for example) but for one team to have more winnings than the other.

Grand Final
Map 2 - de_dust2

Scoreboard	1H	2H	OT	F
Team Epsilon	10	5	4	19
Magnitude	5	10	2	17

Map 1 - de_train

Scoreboard	1H	2H	OT	F
Magnitude	11	5	-	16
Team Epsilon	4	-	-	4

Consolation Final

Scoreboard	1H	2H	OT	F
Magnitude	7	8	7	22
4Kings	8	7	4	19

Upper Bracket Final

Scoreboard	1H	2H	OT	F
Team Epsilon	9	7	-	16
Magnitude	6	6	-	12

Event brackets are on page 2, elimination stage results are available on page 3, and group stage results are on page 4.

User Comments

crossed > all

Well at least i got something to do today

and ohh noes The Bear Alliance Lost their first game :{

FREE SPM

what is the mirc server for european team? especially for this tour. tq

Server is Quakenet, tournament channel is #the-experience

CS:S Coverage + Features Writer

niceeee

LOLSOURCE

I have read and agree to the posting rules of this website.

if epsilon play like they do online, they will win.
if not, magnitude, mgc or mg will fight for the top spot

#teatime.no

Power cuts :(

#lol

lol LGT vs epsilon, d4mn french f4gg0ts obviously cant play without crouch interp bug. they exploit it as much as possible.

go magnitude

awesome coverage!!

nice coverage :)
epsilon vs magnitude for the finales, epsilon to win the tournament

whos on magnitude?

4kings?

and Epsilon?

Magnitude: jimmy, fetish,orga,exce, rythm
4kings: netion, vizzion,nordqvist, helblinde, tyron
Epsilon: crZ,shoxxx,EMQSTD, ex6stenz, RpK.

Magnitude

for

teh

win

!

EDIT: At work so can't watch the game, GHEY!

<3 you Gabs!

This comment was edited at 07/26/2008 2:29 PM

Cookies?

epsilon has been doing good or so it seems... i hope magnitude wins though.

dam this is boring, these old rules make for too much waiting and no notice of the clock

#no

epsilon is french, not from denmark :>>

epsilon french not dk!

Sorry! Copy paste error

Old rules are the best #17 to watch for me...i think the best cevo-p season was the last season they had those rules.

I think the biggest shocker is reason gaming not placing well

surprisseeeeeeeeeeee

How does it feel?

Magnitude deserved to win this :/

nice coverage WestermN

good to see 4kings and epsilon make cash.

#14 It's not shox it's shokk. shox is a emulate player, congrats for epsilon.

Can some explain me why magnitude won the 1st match de-train and lose the 2nd match with close pts and epsilon announce as the grand winner? Shouldn't it 1 - 1?

Where can i download the demo ? My place was blackout whole day n i couldnt watch any of the final day match.

This comment was edited at 07/27/2008 8:17 AM

Its because Epsilon came from the upper bracket, so they had to win only one map, whereas magnitude neeeded to win 2 to get the title. So, even if they lost the first, they managed to win the second and win the final.

good job

like I called, epsilon hade to win this.

wtf 5/6 spot get more than 4th spot...that makes alot of sense..

#30
Unlike traditional prize systems that award teams based on their finish, TeX's prize system awards teams on a per-match basis - as such, a team that wins from the upper bracket will win more money than a team that comes from the lower bracket to win the event.

Here are the matches, and how much they are worth, distributing the �12,500 prize fund:

1st Place �3,750
2nd Place �1,250
Consolidation winner �350
Consolidation loser �750

Upper Bracket 1 �200
Upper Bracket 2 �400
Upper Bracket 3 �800
Upper Bracket 4 �1,600

As an example of how this prizes system works, if a team was to win all of their matches, they would win �200, �400, �800, �1,600, �3,750 - giving them a total prize of �6,750.

If a team, on the other hand, lost their first elimination match and dropped into the Lower Bracket, but then went on to win the event, they would get the �350 for winning the Consolidation match, then �3,750 for 1st Place, making a total of �4,100.

wiiicked

iseries and TeX are best LANS in EU imo, looots of great teams (shame that in TeX there wasn't any CGS teams). Nicely played epsilon, so many teams had good chance to win: Magnitude, 4Kings, Crossed, MGC, Reason Gaming, Team Epsilon, Team Logitech...

This comment was edited at 07/29/2008 1:33 PM

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