After a tough and long season, these EPS.de are coming to an end, and what end! As every year, the four best teams of the season are giving their best for the final ! Three teams were sure to qualifiy before the last playday: ALTERNATE aTTaX, the actual leaders of the EPS.de with a succesfull season, mousesports who are the title defenders and the young players of 360eSports that nobody was waiting here at the beginning of the season. The fourth team is pod.hama whose qualification was a close call since they qualify on the last playday.

 

Like every year, a great place and great cash-prizes are gathered for these LAN finals that everybody wait in Germany. The competition is taking place from the 15th to the 17th of June in the Gürzenich Center of Cologne. The amount of money offered in Counter-Strike is simply incredible since 55 000€ of Cashprize are offered.

 

The ESL will also award the Most Valuable Player (MVP), the Most Improved Player (MIP), the Rookie of the Season and the Team-Manager of the Season. The list of the Nomine is bellow:

 

Most Valuable Player

David "CHEF-KOCH" Nagel (ALTERNATE aTTaX)
Jan "mooN" Stolle (ALTERNATE aTTaX)
Benjamin "paN" von Mulert (ALTERNATE aTTaX)

Roman "roman" Ausserdorfer (ALTERNATE aTTaX)
Franz "gore" Burghardt (mousesports)

Most Improved Player

Benjamin "paN" von Mulert (ALTERNATE aTTaX)
Fatih "gob b" Dayik (360eSports)

Tobias "Notorious" Torka (pod.hama)
Nils "bara" Waldowski (mTw)
Gerhard "gerdi" Grimm (TBH)

Rookie of the Season

Antonio "cyx" Daniloski (360eSports)
Ludwig "brundle" Arnold (TBH)

Patrick "EkuaL" Laukemper (DkH)

Marcel "duB" Immilla (DkH)
Timo "ayold" Laugwitz (endeffect)

Team Manager of the Season

Bakr "KinGSaicx" Fadl (ALTERNATE aTTaX)
Julius "JulZ" Brandi (mousesports)

Hendrik "honka" Eßers (360eSports)
Sebastian "JaySus" Bach (pod.hama)

 

Before introdcing the teams that are attending this year, here is the final ranking of the last years final: 

1. mousesports (RomanR. - Blizzard - neo - fleks - gore)

2. a-Losers (roman - mueller - night - crash - ODiE)

3. ALTERNATE aTTaX (CHEF-KOCH - mooN - loomit - chucky - bastian)

4. SK.de (vio - mason - approx - todi - y4sin)