Last weekend had a bountiful amount of esports action with ESL’s European Nations Cup and NGL One finals at Games Convention in Leipzig and the World Series of Video Games in Toronto. Well over $150,000 was given out in cash prizes.

NGL ONE
NGL One has had two LAN finals for their Counter-Strike 1.6 and Warcraft 3 leagues with four teams in a double elimination bracket in each of those. For CS 1.6, the Swedish team Fnatic won in a competition with Team NoA, Mousesports and SK Gaming.

Fnatic went through the bracket beating SK in the semi final (2-0) and Mousesports in the UB final (2-1). SK Gaming came back to the grand final from the lower bracket after beating NoA and Mouz, 2-1 each. Fnatic was the best lineup of the tournament and solidified their position as one of the most consistent teams this year, next to Made in Brazil and PGS Gaming. Continued…



This weekend, Wire hopes to be flooded with coverage from the floors of Games Covnention, but we are not forgetting the World Series of Video Games tournament in Toronto, Canada. When Johan “toxjq” Quick’s name is (hopefully) read out for the Player of the Year eSports Award, the Swede should be railing the living hell out his opponents for prize money and ranking points.

Toronto will be the third WSVG tournament to feature Quake 4 this year. The retirement of players like Jason “socrates_” Sylka and Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel has not really made the competition any weaker. Alexei “Cypher” Yanushevsky and Maciej “Av3k” Krzykowski, two players too young to be eligible to compete last year, have pushed Toxjq more than those that have quit. Continued…