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Greg — The EsportsHeaven Angels Cup is starting to draw to a close we are down to the final six teams and with 750 Euros on the line for the winning team its time to take a look at the remaining games.
The Upper Bracket Semi-Final between Epsilon and Crack Clan has yet to be played, due to unavailability last Thursday, which means that the game needs to be played by this coming Thursday - rumours are circling that it will be played Wednesday 18th. This match is a repeat of the ETF2L Playoff Semi-Final, where we saw Epsilon win in two maps, however both teams have had a short post playoff break and as such will be slightly rusty going into this game, stay tuned to VanillaTF2 and VanillaTV to see who will take advantage of the timing and progress to face Infused in the Upper Bracket Final.
Epsilon eSports
F2, randa, Mitsy, GeaR, .stefan, wltrs
10
Crack Clan
Longás, Royze, MatnuN, Retsh0ck, Pescanova, BasH
Esports Heaven Angels Cup - Upper Bracket Semi Final
TIME
Wednesday April 18th
21:15 cest
15:15 edt (na)
07:15 est (aus)
CASTED BY
SOURCETV
Who will win this match?
Epsilon eSports (58%, 78 Votes)
Crack Clan (42%, 57 Votes)
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The lower bracket restarts off on Thursday 19th, with Lower Round 6 on cp_freight and Lower Round 7 on cp_crossaint, these two maps may add a spanner to the works of the remaining teams that are looking to progress in the competition, but before we review these up coming matches lets take a look at the bracket.
But before that lets take a look at the previous rounds games, starting with the Upper Bracket and Infused vs UV-Gaming, with UV-Gaming confirming that they will not be entering ETF2L season 12 this is one of the remaining competitions they can leave their mark on for some time and falter Infused, who are looking to take over from Epsilon and dominate the European Scene. Unfortunately I haven’t had a chance to watch the game over on VanillaTV thanks to a corrupt VOD, however from what I could tell it was an intense game, with Hitman (the UV Demoman) dropping nearly 50 frags and keeping them in the game. It ended 4-4 after 30minutes and UV pushed the ETF2L Champions into overtime, however the experience held out and Infused ended up progressing into the Upper Bracket Final. I doubt this result will impact the Infused team, who played without superstar demoman and caller numlocked ( Brego from Trick17 merc’d in his place) and they achieved what they needed to – progression through the Upper Bracket.
As for the lower bracket, the most memorable game was Decerto vs nonamefound (more communly known as “TCM”). This tournament was the first time we got to see the new starspangled lineup that Byte has produced perform and find out where they rank compared to the rest of the European scene. They started the tournament playing with a mix team and ended up getting knocked into the lower bracket by Team Infused in round 3. The team then brought out the big guns in an attempt to push through the lower bracket, where they ended up taking on Decerto in lower round 5 on granary. Decerto themselves had a lot to proove in this tournament, with this being their final attempt at a season 12 premier spot.
For those of you who don’t want to watch the VOD the game was closely faught all the way, and with 6 minutes remaining sat on their own last and 2 rounds down Team Decerto managed to pull it back to 5-5, fortuantely for TCM they managed to get it together in the second golden cap match of the night and progress on to face the loser of Epsilon versus CrackClan.
The second and last game of the night is UV-Gaming versus Quarantine. This game will be a rematch from the regular ETF2L division 1 season, where UV came out ontop in both maps, including a 2-1 win on freight (the map they are playing on thursday) and UV will be looking to repeat this result, however Quarantine and their new soldier ( Josh “boomeh” Smith) will be looking to cause the upset and progress on in the lower bracket. The winner of this match will also grab at least fourth spot in this Angel’s Cup.
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2012-04-16 by Greg.
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.