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After a long weekend of Call of Duty, in the end, just two teams remained to duke it out for the title of epic.TEN CoD4 champions.
Coming from the upper bracket was the second seeded mix team of Phantasmagoria, a team comprised of numerous players with an ever growing history within the Call of Duty scene. Entering as the opposition from the lower bracket was imGaming, the tournament's first seed, and it was originally Phantasmagoria who put them there.
Those here at the event in the competitive gaming hall may have just heard the explosive end to the semi-final game between the tournament's top two seeds, Infused.Tt and TeamCRG. The series spanned all three maps, with the first going 16-7 in TeamCRG's favour and the next 16-8 to Infused.Tt. The third map looked to be going much the same way with CRG ahead 15-8 and looking to secure their final round to take the win and enter the upper bracket final.
The second round of games in the Call of Duty 4 tournament elimination bracket here at epic.TEN have just ended with the Phantasmagoria team defeating the tournaments number one seed, imGaming, two maps to one. The other upper bracket semi-final game saw the third and fourth seeded teams go head to head, where Team Decerto came out on top after taking a two to nil win.
The first round of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive elimination bracket began late last night, with the final game coming to a close just a few minutes ago. As expected the four seeded teams progressed in to the elimination phase though most of them were greeted with a non-seeded team to play in the first round. This was not the case for the Infused or London Lynx team, who found themselves head to head due to the triumphs of TLR during the group stage.
The DotA 2 tournament saw a total of six teams sign up, one of which being the last minute French favourites imGaming. Due to the number of sign ups, the teams participated in a round robin group stage where they faced each other twice in a best of one series.Â
The Call of Duty 4 tournament saw the eight teams allocated with a seed progress from the group stage through to elimination phase, meaning that the first round consisted of some fantastic matches with even better ones expected to come.
Here at epic.TEN the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive group stages have finally come to a close, and the tournament will be moving in to the elimination phase later on tonight. For those that missed it or just want to find out what went on, here is a brief recap of how each of the groups panned out.
Seeding a tournament like this is always tricky, especially when there are only four seeds to allocate to a cohort of quite evenly matched teams. As it stands, the match up began with TLR entering as an unseeded team, whilst the London Lynx had been given the fourth. With that in mind, the TLR team entered this game wishing to right what they considered to be a wrong, and prove that the seed was rightfully theirs. Though, as it happens, all this match served to prove was that the initial statement made was a correct one – the teams are very evenly matched.
So 15th February saw the first epic at the new venue. We rocked up to Kettering Conference Centre on the Thursday before to be here first thing to get a full day on pre build. Knowing this was gonna be an event which was tight on build time due to it being a brand new venue we knew we would have much more to do than we previously did at Uttoxeter.
As with our previous events there is not just one first person shooter tournament to keep your eyes on, as we also have our Call of Duty 4 event being played throughout the course of the weekend. At the time of writing the Call of Duty tournament had a total of 13 teams signed up, with 9 of them having completed line-ups. This makes the tournament the most subscribed competition here at epic.TEN which means it's going to be packed full of potential and nail biting match ups.
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