The ESL's Fourteenth EPS season is closing in on the end of the season. Here is a rundown of whats happened so far

While the British EPS is still somewhat in it's infancy, the concept is no stranger to the Germans as they head towards the end of their 14th season. (Admittedly not all seasons have featured Counter Strike: Source)

Like the British version, the top 4 German teams also head to a LAN finals at the end of the season with the winner picking up a cheque worth €4000, while there is €100 up for grabs in each match

Here are a list of the teams involved in this season of EPS

bomk
Clan00
EnRo GRIFFINS
ESC ICYBOX
faculty
hoorai.Xilence
KomaCrew
LeiSuRe
mTw
RAPTOR-GAMING
SNOGARD Dragons
Team ALTERNATE
Team Hardware4u
Team SPEEDLINK
Team Thermaltake
You Don't Know Me

As well as the LAN finals the German EPS have 8 "Intel Friday Night In" events, which tour the country.

The tour started in March in Munich and ends with one on the final 4 fridays of the season

20/03/2009 - Munich
03/04/2009 - Berlin
17/04/2009 - Offenbach
24/04/2009 - Koln
08/05/2009 - Hamburg
15/05/2009 - Bochum
22/05/2009 - Oberhausen
29/05/2009 - Hannover
05/06/2009 - Schwarzwaldhalle, Karlsruhe

Here are how the results have gone so far

Here is how they currently stand

Rankings

Clan Details	Played	Wins	Losses	Draws	For	Against	Earnings	POINTS
Team ALTERNATE	11	9	0	2	174	74	€1000	29
mTw	11	9	0	2	174	107	€1000	29
Team ThermalTake	11	8	3	0	153	110	€800	24
Clan00	11	8	3	0	150	113	€800	24
hoorai.Xilence	11	7	2	2	165	107	€800	23
SNOGARD Dragons	11	7	3	1	162	121	€750	22
KomaCrew	11	4	1	6	164	119	€700	18
You Don't Know Me	11	5	4	2	130	123	€600	17
Team SPEEDLINK	11	4	4	3	147	150	€550	15
RAPTOR-GAMING	11	4	6	1	132	142	€450	13
EnRo GRIFFINS	11	3	7	1	128	154	€350	10
bomk	11	2	7	2	106	164	€300	8
ESC ICYBOX	11	2	8	1	82	156	€250	7
Team Hardware4u	11	2	8	1	88	164	€250	7
LeiSure	11	1	10	0	105	164	€100	3
faculty	11	1	10	0	81	173	€100	3

This Week

This coming week the map rotation is back round to de_tuscan. Tie of the round, on the face of it appears to be Team ALTERNATE vs Clan00. Clan00 are sitting in 4th place, with only round difference seperating them from Team ThermalTake. Team ALTERNATE have their unbeaten record to keep in tact, but they will of course, be fresh from LAN 79. mTw will be converging on Hamburg for this weeks Intel Friday Night In. Joining them will be You Don't Know Me, who are currently languishing in midtable mediocrity. To look at their relative league positions you should say this will be an easy win for mTw, however, You Don't Know Me did hold Team Alternate to a draw a few weeks back on de_train, so they are capable of pulling out the results for the big occasions.

mTw and Team Alternate appear to have the top 2 spots in the bag, leaving it up to ThermalTake, Clan00, hoorai and SNOGARD Dragons to battle it out for the remaining 2 places. Although, mathematically its still possible for any of the top 10 to still qualify.