Its been a long journey for Australia's very own Sequential Gaming who have traveled to the far reaches of the world to (Chengdu, China) to play in the World Cyber Games grand final.
The Sequential team comprises of a powerhouse lineup of strong Australian cs1.6 talent; apoc, diggiTy, pupajoN, Rumil, soren, have all won many national comps and were no surprise to take outover recent DiceVIP winners V300 (c0ke, jairs, kram, nameci, oxey).
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As per usual Australia got lined up with their typical 'Group of Death'. The group consisted of:
<strong>mTw (Denmark) (12 points - 4 wins, 0 loss, 0 ties)</strong>
<strong>PowerGaming (Finland) (7 points - 2 wins, 1 loss, 1 tie) </strong>
Sequential (Australia) (4 points - 1 win, 2 loss, 1 tie)
VatosLosoc (Greece) (3 points - 1 win, 3 loss, 0 tie)
Virtus.Pro (Russia) (3 points - 1 win 3 loss, 0 tie)
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At the end of the day it was teams mTw & PowerGaming that have made it out of groups.
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What is unfortunate about this is Australias continually bad draws at international competitions, both mTw (2008 WCG Champions), PowerGaming & Virtus.Pro are hugely experienced international teams. These teams could easily be recognized top 12 in the world, yet out of a competition with nearly 40 teams, and 8 sets of groups, Australia always manages to land a group with at least two tier 1 teams.
mTw former WCG 2008 Champions
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If you compare this to our friends in New Zealand who have dominated their way out of group stages.
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<strong>Millenium (France) (9 points - 3 wins, 0 loss, 0 ties)</strong>
<strong>parallax (New Zealand) (6 points - 2 wins, 1 loss, 0 ties)</strong>
4glory (Serbia) (3 points - 1 win, 2 loss, 0 ties)
AEON.gamesense (Singapore) (0 points - 0 win, 3 loss, 0 ties)
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If you compare these two groups, I know which team I would prefer to be playing in. Millenium, 4glory & AEON are all unheard of international teams. The French team Millenium are quite a descent lineup, though will face a rude awakening when the y have to play teams such as mTw & fnatic later in the competition.
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Now im not writing this to bitch and moan about Australian eSports though this is one of the best examples of Australians drawing the short straw at an international competition. I really do believe if SQL swapped groups with Parallax they would have dominated Millenium, 4glory & AEON without too much struggle. Lets be honest, with players like Apoc, Soren & diggiTy they do have the lineup ready to take on a lot of the best of the best, though unfortunately for our Australian reps its Game Over and back to the sunny country.
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Good luck to Parallax who are about to face fnatic, mTw, H2k, mousesports or some other crazy international superstars in the elimination stages!
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Related Link : [url=http://www.b1gleague.com/video/27/]Woodz Interviews Simcore, Paralax Captian (April 2009 Kode5 Australia)[/url]
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Posted: November 15th, 2:22pm #1 | |||
"Millenium, 4glory & AEON are all unheard of international teams" Excuse me? Anyway - sqL were in the group of death, mTw, PG and VP? No thanks. They came third and I think everyone in Aus is proud of them for that. Anyway - fnatic v AGAiN for the grand final, gonna be awesome |
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Posted: November 14th, 1:55pm #2 | |||
If you cant get out of group stages vsing good recognised teams you dont deserve to be in the finals lol. No need to have a cry cause Australia always gets put in shit groups. If the teams were truely good enough they would beat those teams and progress. |
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AdministratorPosted: November 14th, 11:36am #3 | |||
I know people complain about the draws and yeah both iM and SQL have had some tough groups, but in the end a team only goes there to win. If you cannot beat tier1 teams in groups you have played your equivalent of the finals and lost. Getting a better draw and winning groups just puts the same team against you in the finals, id rather see the real top teams in the finals instead of groups eliminating top 4 teams as they all get stuck in the same group because of expected skill v skill matchups. |
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Posted: November 14th, 10:26am #4 | |||
Australia do amazingly well for how shit there practise conditions are for these international events. Shit Net, Shit teams to scrim against. and i think Millenium would of crushed Sql like they crushed h2k |
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Posted: November 13th, 7:16pm #5 | |||
And actually Tony you're right, the NZ group last year was a nightmare. I'd like to say we should get those kind of breaks, but Aussie teams have been so close in so many group stages and just failing to take that final step over the line. |
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Posted: November 13th, 7:14pm #6 | |||
Since when were Millenium unheard of? They finished 3rd at Dreamhack for god's sake. |
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Posted: November 13th, 6:42pm #7 | |||
WCG has never had seedings. Even if they did seed teams SQL would not have seeded well. The NZ boys caught a break - they had an epic group last year. Good luck to them on their next round however I think they'll be in for a rude awakening. |
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Posted: November 13th, 5:22pm #8 | |||
rofl @ woodz dogging the hand shake at the end there  |
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Posted: November 13th, 2:33pm #9 | |||
Bad luck for sql, ill be cheering the parallax boys onto victory. |
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AdministratorPosted: November 13th, 1:09pm #10 | |||
Good comments, totally agree, Apologies about ranting about the topic, got abit grumpy though the SQL boys did do a fantastic job. Was a good few games to watch, AGAiN did a super job topping fnatic. I just hope that a few more big events next year will give Aussies the extra experience to topple a few of the big guns like Immunity did at ESWC. |
