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 Hot on the heels of our gruelling summer schedule of ties played out in the Tournament.com Invite league come the sphincter tightening sudden death play off matches where the eight qualified teams will face off each night until only one remains and walks away with an astounding £5,000 first prize and the distinction of being the pre eminent CSS team in Europe - if not the world!
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Adding their considerable weight to the prize fund are our good friends at SteelSeries who once again have come up trumps and continued their great track record in supporting the community at many levels. We thank them for their continued support.
The tale of the tape, we are pleased to bring you the team statisitics courtesy of the formidable SkillTracker system here at theSGL - making every shot count! The top ranked five players for each team are listed below and averaged out to show the teams relative skill levels over the league stages of the event.
Hands up, who finds that a surprise then? Yeah, I thought so, the Esuba team have notched up an impressive skill level during their campaign though there will be little doubt that Four-Kings will be considered the favourites here. Some close results will have kept the 4K stats down even though the wins have come on the back of those performances. One guarantee that can be made here is that the winning team will have statistical superiority by the end of this tie.
To see charts plotting the ups and downs of the performances turned in by each player just click on their name above. This will also show you stats for selected weapons, defuses, bomb plants, five man take downs - pretty much everything you could want to know.
For more info on how these statistics are created and collated check out the FAQ page on our SkillTracker section.
There will be five maps available in the map pool : de_inferno, de_nuke, de_train, de_dust2 and de_cpl_mill. From this map pool each team will remove one map. Then each team will choose one map. These will be the two maps the matchs is played out on and should the score be tied at one map each at this point then the remaining map in the pool will be played to decide the winner.
The Four-Kings juggernaut ran over  infusedGAMING in the first match savaging them 16-00 and raising a few eyebrows. Any thoughts that they were going to have things all their own way were scotched however as they stumbled to a draw with  Old Boys Inc before two narrow squeaks that saw them take 16-14 victories from  Code7 and  ALTERNATE aTTaX. A big 16-02 win over ancients took their unbeaten run through to the match with Team flatline where it would seem they eased off a bit and disliking the map fell to a 16-07 defeat.
 url advised us that they may not have had the best run up to this match as they could have wished for :
"We will be going into the game a little unprepared, since beta's pc has been broken we haven't practiced in a few days, but hes back now and we are confident, Esuba are a good side and coming back from a good lan result we wont underestimate them gl!"
There is reason to suspect that the Four-Kings team are more than capable of taking this tournament as a whole. They did of course part ways with Ritch during the course of the event replacing him with Haz in the short term and beta for the future whether or not this has galvanised the team into an even  fiercer unit we shall see tonight.
There isn't a pleasing way to say it, but the number of teams unable to see out the season in Esuba's division certainly helped propel them into the playoffs. What you can't ignore though is the fact that when they did win - they won big time! and at no point took a real pasting.
Having just returned victorious from Hungary and riding the wave of CSS (and getting a tan) all the way back home the Esuba players are positively brimming with confidence. This makes them dangerous to any team out there and even though they will be many peoples pick to win this game - Four-Kings should watch their step.
 .PhP explained the mood in the Esuba camp before the game :
"Well we had great lan during weekend, with very stressful matches, when we proved to ourselves that we can turn almost lost matches to victory - although 4Kings will be very tough opponent, I can say, and I'm speaking for whole team, we are not afraid and we are deffinetly not going to give them easy win."
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