With the fifth week of the ESEA Open league coming, we pass the half-way mark of the group stage.

Looking back at the fourth week, we immediately notice two things: firstly, there are ten games still to be played; secondly, there are eleven matches forfeited, and that's a shame because the league was getting very interesting and those defaults ruin the competition.

Luckily, the top teams play all their matches, with the exception of course of Crack Clan. In the last Match of the Week the Finnish team zOo overcame the Danish side MoD with the score of 16-4, however the biggest surprise of the week has been the loss of fnatic against the English team Dreamzone, who then went on to lose 2-16 in the second set of matches against another Danish team, DSRack.

Other interesting matches saw the above mentioned team MoD winning in overtime against the GRUPPEN (former japanesebirdcooking, featuring osvaR and pokke with other Swedish players) and the first matches of anoxia against big opponents such as zOo and ROCCAT, both ended with the victory of the latters.

ROCCAT are still undefeated and lead the ranking with eight wins, followed by Reason Gaming and zOo, both with only one loss. DSRack have the chance to reach them since they are yet to play their eighth round match against GRUPPEN. H2k, fnatic and Epsilon all have 2 defeats, although fnatic and Epsilonare yet to play last week's match. After the defeat against zOo, MoD are now in 8th position with a 5-3-0 record, the same as anoxia.

Rankings after Week 4

Clan Details	Wins	Losses	Draws	PCT	Streak	For	Against
ROCCAT	8	0	0	1.000	W8	128	46
Reason Gaming	7	1	0	.875	W7	126	54
zOo	7	1	0	.875	W2	125	74
DSRack	6	1	0	.857	W$	100	46
H2k	6	2	0	.750	W3	123	80
fnatic	5	2	0	.714	L1	113	74
Epsilon	5	2	0	.714	W1	103	74
MoD	5	3	0	.625	L1	114	78
anoxia	5	3	0	.625	L3	94	63
AfterTrouble	4	2	0	.667	W3	81	63
AIMAZING	4	3	0	.571	W1	94	84
redpoint	4	3	0	.571	L1	82	84
Team Unity	4	4	0	.500	L1	125	121
klad00shed	4	4	0	.500	L1	116	77
Dreamaker	4	4	0	.500	W4	95	77
CMAX.gg	4	4	0	.500	L1	93	64
Dreamzone	4	4	0	.500	W1	93	111
iNEXOR	4	4	0	.500	W3	77	69
30P Gaming	3	3	0	.500	L3	82	84
Riders on the Storm	3	3	0	.500	L2	81	75
Carol City Cartel	3	4	0	.429	W1	85	76
Stofftiere Online	3	4	0	.429	L3	71	83
GRUPPEN	3	4	0	.429	L3	71	94
Alchemists	3	5	0	.375	L3	93	118
Team Celsus	3	5	0	.375	W2	85	107
Thermaltake	3	5	0	.375	L4	76	120
Strafeandwin	2	5	0	.286	W2	64	83
Double-Trouble	2	5	0	.286	L5	63	110
Got Fingered	2	5	0	.286	L2	41	93
KomIgen	2	6	0	.250	L1	72	110
Crystal Gaming	2	6	0	.250	L3	59	113
Twisted-Play-GLG	1	6	0	.143	L2	55	96
ieS	1	7	0	.125	L5	34	112
Crack Clan	1	7	0	.125	L7	16	117

It seems the Scandinavian teams were the most active last week as in the best fragger standings of de_train 23 players in the first 25 positions come from Finland, Norway, Denmark or Sweden, with Bo "wantz" Vestergaard (MoD) and Joel "wayNe" Kentander (H2k) leading (49 frags).

Soren "socn" Falke and Mark "LESMARK" Lesmark from Team Unity (hits 4 kids) are on the top of the overall frags standings with 174 and 171 frags respectively, Sami "SAMITSKY" Kuivala follows with 170.
Vaino "SeRuMM" Korkka leads the FPR (average Frags Per Round) standings with 0.986, but he hasn't played yet any of the last week's matches, so while we wait for his games, the crown goes this week to Vincent "EMSTQD" Cervoni from Dreamaker (0.972), followed by Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovacs (0.957) and Tom "tomHJH" Horth from anoxia (0.955).

Match Of The Week
ROCCAT	vs.	Reason Gaming
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This is probably one of the most exciting week we have seen during the ESEA Open league, with about four matches worth watching.
However the Match of the Week is without a doubt ROCCAT versus Reason Gaming, the first team in the standings against the second.

So far, ROCCAT have only played one match against a big opponents, and that was the match against zOo where they won 16-13. On the other hand, Reason have played several strong opponents such as MoD, H2k, japanesebirdcooking (before its folding of course) and DSRack, but the only defeat came against zOo in the first week of the competition, with the score of 14-16.

If ROCCAT win they will probably end the group stage without loss, while in case of a Reason victory the Danish team will share the first place with them and zOo.