On Thursday at 7:00 PM GMT weeks and months of preparation all come down to a single best of three Counter-Strike: Source match. For the winner, five thousand Euros; for the loser, nothing but the bitter taste of defeat.

Team VG vs. xoxo; 30th October 7PM GMT/8PM CET

VS

SourceTV: TBA

Let's take at look at how both teams got to the final:

Cadred caught up with both teams to find out their thoughts before the match.

FetiSh: Decent I guess. We've played alot lately mainly due to slap so I guess we should be ready.

RegnaM & krL: Since we will be playing this match from our bootcamp house we are pretty confident.

FetiSh: No not at all, we know why we lost so we'll just have to work on that.

Both teams started off quite shaky on inferno, that gave them a few rounds too many as T and then we got warm but couldnt get the needed rounds on the T side. Tuscan was just a one sided game. I've read comments saying we shouldnt "whine" about tuscan, infact we never did. We like that map, but due to mTw being in ESL they've had several seasons to perfect their game were we've only played a limited games on that. Our tacs/setups just didnt work versus them. And yes, if you lose you're losing to a better team.

FetiSh: It's a very good team, otherwise they wouldn't be in the final. We respect them and they won't make it easy for us. I dont see ourselves as the favorites coming into this game, more like an(hopefully) equal game.

RegnaM: xoxo are a strong team so it will be a tight game I guess.

FetiSh: That we got 2nd place :D? Its abit odd that they've chosen not to give anything to second place, but right now Iam just happy we made it to the final :)

RegnaM: It's a part of the deal, two teams, one game, one winner, we will do our best to get first, that's all.

FetiSh: No, why would it matter? I mean, this is what it's like in 1.6 even though most of the leagues in 1.6 offers lanfinals. Its only good for the scene.

Back to you Loic, you say you're at your bootcamp house, can you expand on this?

RegnaM: Sure, this weekend we played a local lan to warmup and this weekend we will be at bootcamp to practice for MaxLAN in thecoming weekend. We have all five of us here and to play the game on LAN is a nice thing for us.

RegnaM: We are totally fucked :D

FetiSh: Well wouldnt call it their first since they had that ED.INVITE thing, but on the tournament side of things it looks really good. They only really need to add lanfinals. The worst thing about EK is deffo to see so many dropouts and forfeit games. But cant blame ED/EK for that.

RegnaM: It was pretty long, it started at the end of august, then playoffs with best of three. We are quite happy since we finally see the end of the road with maybe a great prize for us.

RegnaM: We have asked the admins and xoxo to play the game without crouchbug, as far as I know, we still not have recieved a reply.

jIMMy: We will be discussing it together as a team tomorrow.

While all of this is taking place online, offline at the Sports Bar in central London Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner and Stuart Saw from QuadV will be providing live shoutcasting. Cadred will be there to bring you up to speed.