CCCP – Easy to Kill (Fixture)
Scheduled: Sunday 9th January 21:00CET

This promises for a really tight and intense game. Two pretty equal teams, with a quite similar mindset towards gaming. Hard to predict obviously, I still think that Easy to Kills strength on DM2 will be too much to handle for the Russians with friends and that the E1M2 routine of CCCP (Moltas and XN especially) will be too much to handle for Easy to Kill. It smells DM3 decider to my nose, but due to the cold my nose isn’t so sensitive anymore.

Possible highlights:
- Intense and tight game

Expected outcome: 2-1 to CCCP


Fusion – OJOJ VITUN HELPPO! (Fixture)
Scheduled: Sunday 9th January 21:00CET

Perhaps the other highlight of the day (together with Slackers vs Suddendeath @ 19:00), this promises for intense action for both participants and spectators. Fusion got clearly more experience playing together as a team, but the individual experience and routine of OJOJs players might even that out.

It will be interesting to see how OJOJ reacts if things should start out badly in this game, which i dare to say is their toughest in the group by far. As you may know the OJOJ team mainly consists of players from the two Finnish top clans the Viper Squad and clan Malfunction. The former team has a hardcore play-to-win attitude and if you ask a QW 4on4 player who used the expression "I don't give a flying fuck about sportsmanship" in the aftermath of an EQL game, there's a great chance he will say [tVS]Blaze. The clan Malfunction players have a more relaxed approach to the game - which has also proven very successful in the past - and this might clash with their new comrades if finding themselves being pinned down in the trenches by the Fusion artillery.

Neither of the teams has been particularly active lately, and I think much of the outcome of this depends on the shape of the day, and how much practice each team gets before the match. I expect an E1M2 decider here, with Fusion winning DM3 and OJOJ winning DM2.

Possible highlights:
- Two of the favourites for the title fighting
- Intense decider

Expected outcome: 2-1 to Fusion