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Counter-Strike Source: Optx vs Salvo in CGS Grand Final

By: Marc Turner - Published July 28, 2008 at 12:12 PM EDT - Writer Archive
The CGS 2008 season ends tonight with San Francisco facing Birmingham.
Los Angeles, California (GotFrag) - The second season of the CGS comes to an exciting conclusion tonight as Kat Hunter's San Francisco Optx take on the pride of the brits in the Birmingham Salvo. The two teams will battle for the championship trophy and the grand prize of $500,000.

The Optx came into the playoffs as the wildcard team. Optx beat New York 3D and the London Mint in the wildcard process, and now have wreaked havoc on the number 2 Region 1 team, Dallas Venom and the Berlin Allianz to reach the World Championships.

The Birmingham Salvo defeated the Mexico City Furia in the first round of playoffs 22-19. Very few fans gave Salvo a chance of winning against the likes of the Carolina Core in the next round. In a heart breaker for Carolina and what most would consider an upset win for Birmingham, the Salvo took down the Region 1 2008 champions in a dramatic over time finish and a one point win of 22-21.

Now the San Francisco Optx face off against the Birmingham Salvo in the 2008 CGS World Grand Final and GotFrag is on location to bring you live scores, galleries and more.

The matches will be televised on DirectTV's channel 101. For more information on the CGS World Championship, go to www.thecgs.com


2008 CGS World Grand Final


Scoreboard1H2HOTF
Birmingham Salvo22--22
San Francisco Optx15--15
CSS: Salvo > OPTX 8-4
FZA: Salvo > OPTX 5-2
FIFA: Salvo > OPTX 2-1
DOAF: OPTX > Salvo 5-2
DOAM: Salvo > OPTX 5-3


CS:Source



United States Mohamed "moE" Assad
Canada Garett "Grt" Bambrough
United States Yazan "Clown" Ammari
United States Mike "Paradox" Stanowski
United States Laurent "Warmach1ne" Keoula
Forza



United States Chad "Miximup" Neil
United States Kevin "Sackamonjaro" Uribe
FIFA



Italy Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone
DOA (Male)



United States Chris "NinjaCW" Harris
DOA (Female)



United States Vanessa "Vanessa" Arteaga
CS:Source



United Kingdom Marc "Mangiacapra^" Mangiacapra
United Kingdom Pete "pt" Wright
United Kingdom Sam "RattlesnK" Gawn
United Kingdom Elliot "weZ" Welsh
United Kingdom James "wilzOOO" Wilson
Forza



United Kingdom David "Daveyskills" Kelly
United Kingdom Dean "Picaso" Sutton
FIFA



United Kingdom Michael "Bazza" Barrett
DOA (Male)



United Kingdom Mingzhi "MESSY" Deng
DOA (Female)



United Kingdom Sarah "Sarah Lou" Harrison

User Comments

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Good luck to both teams!
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Good luck!!!!
gogogo optx!!
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SALVO ftw
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GL Optx!!! I <3 Vanessa
DotA Coverage gogo :)
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OptX will win this
FREE SPM
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^ wow even a brit says it... hmmm i say salvo wins. throw off the flow.
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A bit of pressure for a 500'000 $ cashprize :p ?
GL to both!
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glllll
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optx > salvo overall but css salvo > optx
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Best of luck to both teams.
lawl
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gl to both teams! :D:D

prediction:
CS:S optx > salvo 10-9
DoA-F: Optx > salvo 5 - 3
DoA-M: Optx > Salvo 5 - 2
Forca: Salvo > Optx 5 - 2
Fifa: Salvo > Optx 2 - 1
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m0E will beast his shirt when they win.

Go OPTX.
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nice matches tonight!

Will be well good due to salvo's forza team being pretty sic and also the css team is top notch

I dont actually know anything about any of the games other than css really i just hear that salvo's forza team won past few or summit lol


I hope salvo win but ive been a long time optx fan so im a bit torn!
Hey
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cgs is so boring,lol
=]
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OPTX got this in a bag trust me.

-HarryB^enabled
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yeah ive always been an optx fan b4 salvo came about, but u gotta support ur own contry, and salvo rule :D
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sourcetv going live NOW (10:55pm est)

relay.nextgenservers.com:27021

uk ftW!
Hey
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HAHAHA SALVO WOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNN
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SALVOOOOO
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Got to love the power of odee as gm.
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Gotta love wrong predictions ^^
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my prediction were always with SALVO, now im glad people finally realise how talented SALVO are
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will this be the 1 time awmagawd admits hes wrong?
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good game salvo.
#Iran
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lol nice pete !
Your as ColdAsIce, Willing to sacrifice...
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cy@ yanks
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Oh dang sorry America
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lol US even fail at CGS :X that gota hurt for the 10 people watching

boooooooooooo US... BOOOOOOOO
Life is what you make of it. Dreams are what you live for.
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#30 Last year it was an all American final with all the Euros failing hardcore. You're ignorant.
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Good job Salvo.
lawl
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ahahahahahaahah yank shiters...
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#32 thats because the euro teams played 1 game, while the american teams played a whole season.

gtfo
wafflez
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#30 thats because Americans had a whole regular season more than ue/uk teams + you have aleague like CEVO-P and CAL all with CGS based rules to praccy on. EU/UK teams have nothing like that and still wooped AAAA-MERY-CANS

CY@~~~~~~
#TEAM-FRANTIC | CSS Team | www.team-frantic.org

LOL true #36
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#35 + #36 >>>>>> #32
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dont forget that messy is kinda the belle.eu

oh wait he won , gz on your first win messy !
E6700 . x1950xtx . x-fi fatality fps 7.1 . 640gig hd'z
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wow great spoiler
Your friendly neighbourhood Nagelbergman.
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told u the brit's would win. just had a feeling... donno why.
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(: gg
kn0x_-: "easy.. if cs didn't exist.. neither would i."

optx fails
#desirae
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HAHAAHHA noob b astard americans are so bad and europe CSS team beats them down to ground hahahahhhahahha
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haha very nice to see an american team losing.
considering that they play lots of professional tournaments per year... and they seemd to be more prepared...
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rofl i <3 the french. especially #44
wafflez
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#32 who cares about last year anyway?
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Im just waiting for the usual "Lol Euro's are bad at css, never gonna beat us Americans"-comments. Wonder where they've gone..
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#48 that's because nobody really cares about CSS or the crackerjack CGS
Hey Alternating Current, why don't you just admit you're bisexual
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yup we won

This comment was edited at 08/02/2008 10:12 AM

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