After several teams joining at the last minute and others not checking in, there has been a total of 40 teams entering this cup. Now, however, that is down to 16, with 8 teams in both upper and lower brackets.
A couple of notable teams have dropped out before the tournament, notably SMACK!(checked in but only one was there) & crazelocked (who did not check in). For the tournament itself the most notable team to be knocked out is touchmy, but no real upsets throughout the tournament – leaving plenty of top teams left.
The upper bracket quarters bring some very interesting fixtures, with all of them having top players and all of them could go either way, especially with best of 1. The matches are:
.pt (Haunter & Coinz) vs .msbt (TLR & BigDavid) – top division clash with NA vs EU. Difficult to call, but perhaps lag could play a factor to help .pt’s fight.
PiB (flisko & antyy) vs qn. (Knutsson & Kritzonite) – perhaps the easiest quarter final to call, but qn did beat ponies (Junk & PrincePersic), who have done reasonably well in previous cups.
CARD (Dav1dd & Imperium) vs /mix^ (mike & blackymonster) – where twice second place meet a mix of a first place & second place. Interesting to note CARD have beaten CABS (blackymonster’s first team) in cup #4, but lost to mike’s team in cup #5.
aylinZ (Retsh0ck & Royze) vs pwrkele (hocz & cookye) – prem ETF2L (if that means something) vs winners of Tt esports challenge. While hocz is probably better than retsh0ck, personally I do not know how good cookye is as med. Could also be interesting.
There is still also the lower bracket round 5 to be played, which are as follows:
crz./LTG vs RQ (Atty & Diegos)
/niipet(Rubikon & Sickless) vs **HD
ponies** vs CG/googtrans (Drosophile & Chris) vs get.
The schedule for the next Sunday (05.06.2011) is as follows:
Upper bracket quarter finals – 20:00 CEST
Upper bracket semi finals – 20:20 CEST
Upper bracket finals – 20:40 CEST
Lower bracket round 5 – 20:00 CEST
Lower bracket round 6 – 20:20 CEST
Lower bracket round 7 – 20:40 CEST
Lower bracket round 8 – 21:00 CEST
Lower bracket round 9 – 21:20 CEST
Leaving the lower bracket final & grand final for next sunday, with one team finishing the day with at least $70 guarenteed.
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2011-05-30 by Imperium.
Recovered from the Internet Archive (archived copy) as part of tf2esports.com's preservation of VanillaTV's TF2 coverage. The original site is no longer online. All rights remain with the original author; reposted for historical reference.