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4Kings

Adam "AdY" Brown
Keir "aKuJii" McCann
Thomas "DaY" Rudstrom
Joona "natu" Leppanen
Louis "Red`" Nyberg

The Four King’s team that has become a familiar name within the realm of international CS competition is without one of its cornerstones this time around in Dallas. The recent departure of six year clan veteran Mangiacapra sent shock waves throughout the fan base that has grown around the team in England. In his place will be Red` who previously had a 9 month involvement with 4k, leaving after disappointing results at ESWC in 2005. The recent addition of AdY to the roster propelled the team to a first place finish in London last month and if they can slingshot that teamwork into CPL expect great things from this revamped squad. If Red plays at his best a Top 10 placing is a very safe assumption.

Against All Authority

Steeve "Ozstrik3r" Flavigni
David "Xp3" Garrido
Fergus "ferg" Stephenson
Marc "bisou" Naoum
Guillaume "Geno" Ntep

Newly revamped aAa of France has seen its share of success as of late. With the majority of the team being composed of ESWC France winner WebOne, aAa has gone onto take CPL Italy and placed 5-8th at CPL Nordic. Picking up Geno has given the team a boost in that with only a few days of having him on the roster they were able to take those two placings. Coming into Dallas fresh off those two showings has put a buzz around a team that had formally descended into relative mediocrity. While the field at CPL will be significantly more difficult for them then it was in Italy, with the preferential position they have in group seeding expect them to fly through the first tier of play. Second tier will be where to watch as they fall into a group with one or two potential knockout teams. An unfortunate grouping could push them out before bracket play, however with this team an upset is quite possible.

compLexity

Matt "Warden" Dickens
Corey "tr1p" Dodd
Danny "fRoD" Montaner
Tyler "Storm" Wood
Justin "sunman" Summy

Complexity is entering the CPL without the same hype and momentum that has surrounded the team in recent events. Complexity struggled at the WSVG Finals and finished a disappointing 7-8th. Complexity’s win over wNv looked impressive, but losses to SK.SWE and Hacker combined with their recent 5-6th place finish in CEVO-Professional left a bad taste in the mouth of coL fans.

Following a win at Digital Life the expectation was for Complexity to build off its past success into a strong placing in both CEVO and WSVG. Now with those finishes behind them, coL has to be ready to put the past behind them and focus on the event at hand. With an impressive showing at the pre-CPL Lethal Gamers event with wins over 4K, Pentagram, and 69°N-28°E, coL looks rejuvenated and ready to play at the CPL.

There is some concern that Complexity has lost some competitive drive as Team 3D and Pandemic have both been more consistent in recent weeks. Also, Jax Money Crew has had coL’s number lately, with defeats at Lethal Gamers and in the CEVO playoffs. Complexity has not been an underdog for a long time and will look for nothing short of a top five finish.

Fnatic

Harley "dsn" Orwall
Patrik "cArn" Sattermon
Kristoffer "tentpole" Nordlund
Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg
Oscar "archi" Torgersen

Going into WSVG Finals only one Swedish team had a major buzz around them and it wasn’t Fnatic. After NiP was efficiently swept underneath the proverbial rug of brutal defeat all eyes were on Fnatic as they trounced PGS, SK, and coL on their way to a third place finish. 4th-8th place in China for Kode5 put them up against a high level of talent that resulted in a first round bracket play knockout following intense group play. With a solid roster of highly talented players that have had almost a year to build up teamwork, this clan is capable of a top finish. High fraggers Tentpole and f0rest are a powerful combo when they play to their potential with momentum that is hard to stop once it gets rolling. Bracket play is almost a guarantee while a top 5 finish could easily be within grasp.

g3x

Alexandre "gau" Chiqueta
Alexandre "ali" Donini
Norberto "Lance" Lage
Brando "jimmy" Barrientos
Mason "mason" Dickens

G3neration-X had a promising start to their CPL adventure by topping MiBR to win CPL Brazil. g3x worked their way back from the lower bracket (they lost to MiBR in the Upper Bracket Finals) to defeat them twice earning a spot in the CPL Winter Championship. Wellington "ton" Caruso, the former GameCrashers and Made in Brazil player, was an able replacement for the retired Rodrigo "Crash" Neves Rodrigues.

However like usual, Visa problems have again caused trouble for this team. Like their trip to WSVG’s Intel Summer Championship, g3x will be attending with two ringers. Caruso and Olavo "Chucky" Napoleao could not get visas to travel to the United States and so g3x has tapped two players to fill in. Mason Dickens and Brando “jimmy” Stillacci will play for g3x at the CPL Winter event. Stillacci is a former g3x member and a current member of Cubesports, and Dickens is a former member of Mug N Mouse, zEx and Forsaken.

G3x’s potential to follow up their CPL Brazil win with a good placing is seriously degraded with these replacement players. G3x has proven that they can perform well with stand-ins but with Dickens not being Brazilian and having very little time for preparation the prospects for g3x living up to their past results seems highly unlikely.

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Hacker.gm

Ke "K1ngZ" Tang
Ming Ge "K1ngZ" Zhao
Wei "forever" Yu
Yun Long "BB" Wang
Zhou "zy" Yi

When people looked at the team list for the WSVG Finals last weekend, very few people predicted that Hacker would play as well as they did. Not only did they beat NiP and compLexity, but they lost two extremely close matches to aTTaX and Pandemic. While they did receive some bad press from the event in the form of an exploit by K1ngZ, the good certainly outweighed the bad, making Hacker a household name for North American fans. It will be interesting to see how well they can carry their momentum from WSVG into this tournament, and whether or not they can beat some high level teams during the single elimination stage.

Jax Money Crew

Johnny "eng" Faulds
Shawn "Des1re_" Khan
Derek "Exodus" Heidinger
Corey "KaM" Hanes
David "Zid" Chin

JMC – Boot camping for the past month in LA will hopefully pay off for a team that came to last years Winter CPL as an underdog, and left as the top placing North American team in the tournament. Sweeping CSA earlier this month despite forfeiting a match was a moral booster for the team after making the decision to forfeit CEVO due to a conflict schedule. Zid’s incredible awp handling has been key to JMC's success in the past year, with the addition of Hanes creates a powerful duo; a duo whom along with exodus bring a significant amount of experience to the team. With a high seeding, group play at least in tier 1, should be progressed through without many problems. Tier 2 will be the true test as to whether or not this team is ready to compete for a top 10 position.

LaVega

Suk Ha "sukha" Hwang
Beom Jun "zbz" Ji
Su Young "arigato" Jung
Jomg Mu "musa" Park
John "bigwie" Wie

LaVega is another team that had potential written all over them. They tied project_kr in group play at CPL Korea and then stomped them in the finals 16-3 to secure a spot at CPL Winter in Dallas. The addition of sukha (formerly of mikk) and musa (formerly of FvW) elevated LaVega from nipping at the heels of project_kr and Lunatic-Hai to defeating them.

With the defeat of project_kr, LaVega makes their first trip abroad to compete in an international CS tournament. However, the US State Department felt otherwise and did not approve KTG’s US visa causing LaVega to find a last minute replacement. They needed a Korean speaker who was a Korean citizen and living in the United States, and lucky for them John “bigwie” Wie was available.

Wie is mostly known for his GotFrag flaming and getting wrongfully banned and unbanned from CAL. However, he has played on a number of top American teams such as zEx and GB. Wie’s addition to the LaVega lineup prevents a language issue from arising like g3x using Mason, but there are questions if Wie is in form. This is the team’s first tournament outside of Korea and the odds are against them for a top placing.

meet Your makers

Ola "Element" Moum
Lasse "Xione" Stokke
Preben "prb" Gammelsæter
Geir-Stian "juven9le" Svendsen
Preben "oops" Josdal

Following a 5th-8th finish at WCG 2006 we haven’t seen or heard too much from Meet Your Makers. A loss to Virtus in Moscow for an exhibition match this month has been the only public play mYm has participated in after withdrawing from CPL Italy for unknown reasons. Whether or not the recent addition of elemeNt has been progressive for the team has yet to be formally seen. His history of destabilizing teams leaves a question mark over the performance they will bring to this Winter CPL. In conjunction with the pickup of elemeNt, team member “oops” will not be playing in the tournament with REAL taking his position. This will replicate the lineup in Moscow and hopefully prove benefiting to the team as they will have put in plenty of practice hours with that starting list. A prediction is hard to formulate with so little insight into the team in the past two months, but with most of the lineup having atleast moderate international LAN participation a decent placing is likely.

MiBR

Bruno "bruno" Ono
Benato "Nak" Nakano
Rafael "Pava" Pavanelli
Carlos "Kikoooo" Grimbaum
Raphael "Cogu" Aguiar

With the recent return of Cogu to MiBR the team has a well received boost of strength to their roster. However the return of the debatable best AWP in South America is offset by the news that fnx will not be in attendance due to the age restrictions at CPL. A star player in his own right, fnx, at 16 years old, will put a gap between the current and possible skill level the team will possess in Dallas. Placing 5-8th place at Nordic recently as well as a 1st place finish at Pan-American has given us a glimpse at what this team is capable of after pretty much stomping the competition at the WSVG Invitational in Brazil. If fnx-less MiBR can perform as well as they did when they beat 3D on LAN in Mexico City, much less as amazing as their play at ESWC - which is entirely within the realm of possibility – then expect a high placing. This will be a great example of whether or not one man can truly make or break a team.

N69/E28

Ilkka "barrack" Mäkinen
Max "ruuit" Aspe
Juuso "contE" Sajakoski
Toni "toNppa" Luhtapuro
Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen

N69/E28, formerly known as Hoorai, is comprised of some of the most talented Finnish players. After forming up from the remnants of Serious gaming and Astralis, N69/E28 has proven to be unstoppable in the Finnish scene, and is a serious contender in Europe. You may recall that while they placed second at the WSVG UK stop, they were denied the chance of playing at the WSVG Finals due to naSu still being underage. This has been one of their major problems with the major events that have age restrictions. They have had to use a ringer in naSu’s place at the past CPL events, and this event is no different.

In for naSu is Ilkka "barrack" Mäkinen, who has been on teams with most of the players in the past, including wings and serious gaming. Mäkinen, who was playing for Raw Gaming at the time, refused to attend the event with his team, in light of N69/E28 needing a stand-in.

Regardless of the fact that they are using a ringer, N69/E28 will be looking to show everyone in the world that they were robbed of achieving the top finish at WSVG. The event went as far as to say that anything outside of top 3 will be a major disappointment. It would definitely be a surprise to see them finish anywhere outside of top 5 at this event.

NiP

Abdisamad "SpawN" Mohamed
Robert "RobbaN" Dahlström
Marcus "zet" Sundström
Oskar "ins" Holm
Dennis "walle" Vallenberg

Since adding Abdisamad “SpawN” Mohamed as a stand-in for a “few NGL One matches,” NiP has been on a tear. Mohamed was to temporarily replace Emil “HeatoN” Christensen who had some personal issues to work out, but like Mohamed’s temporary stand-in with SK it has evolved into full blown membership. Combined with mad fragger Marcus “zet” Sundström, they have been headshotting their way into the finals of every event they played, except the WSVG Finals.

To put it plainly NiP had a terrible WSVG Finals. Following great results at WCG (2nd), KODE5 (1st), and CPL Nordic(1st) NiP tanked at the WSVG finals. Nip’s rematch with Pentagram in the lower bracket was their only positive result with the Ninjas scoring a 16-13 victory. A quick and lethal knockdown at the hands of Hacker.Gaming and a lower bracket stomping from Pandemic on Inferno shocked many who expected NiP to perform exceptionally well in New York.

If NiP can make the WSVG Finals an isolated occurrence and prevent a repeat then they will perform well. Something just wasn’t clicking for the team on Inferno and hopefully by Sunday things will be looking brighter. CPL Winter’s group play and best of three format will make Inferno a much less dangerous map than in double elimination. Keep an eye on Sundström for big numbers; if he can hit his stride then the NiP we know will be back in the top five.

Pandemic

Chad White (daffsta)
Garett Bambrough (grt)
Hoang Tran (s0nny)
Mark Torrez (mastern00k)
Jonny Schwan (PH33R)

Mark Dolven found the missing piece of his puzzle. Since Drew and Griff left the lineup following Lanwar, Pandemic had been in a search for their new fifth man. For a time they used Adam “elusive” Messner, but Messner did not wish to continue playing 1.6. The team then settled on Bobby “kEEn” Aihama. Aihama looked to be a great fit for the team, but left only a short time later to return to his previous team, Aggression (now United 5). Left in a tough situation only weeks from the WSVG Finals, Pandemic scrambled to find a replacement. The team settled on Garrett “Grt” Bambrough, the star Canadian fragger from rSports. Bambrough has greatly contributed to Pandemic’s stellar performances as of late, including their CEVO-P Championship and fourth place at the WSVG Finals.

By earning the CEVO-P championship Pandemic proved that they were a top online American team and their fourth place finish at the WSVG Finals proved that they could bring their over the wires heat to LAN as well. Going into the WSVG Finals many questioned Pandemic’s presence at the event and a fairly harsh first round loss to 3D its many doubters felt they were vindicated. Then Pandemic upset NiP and overcame Hacker.gaming, who destroyed NiP earlier in the tournament.

If they can repeat this performance and dispel talks of a fluke, America may once again have more then two teams with the ability to perform in international events. Top team fragger Grt will have to be on his toes to give this team a top 10 finish but it's certainly a real possibility.

Pentagram

Lukasz "LUq" Wnek
Filip "Neo" Kubski
Mariusz "Loord" Cybulski
Wiktor "taz" Wojtas
Jakub "kuben" Gurczynski

Taking a vicious blow at WSVG Finals with a 9-10th place finish had to be demoralizing for a team that had so much hype going into the tournament. Winning WSVG UK just two months earlier had projected PGS into the limelight and many fans saw them grabbing 1st yet again in New York. Chalk that one up to a bad day if you will, but with such a stable roster excuses for such a disappointing performance are hard to find. Of course the competition was fierce, however this CPL promises an even greater challenge to teams that have there eyes on the top. The Polish superstar Neo will be the one to watch as the currently ranked #1 team in the world attempts to shake off the loss and show the world it was simply a scratch that will not repeat itself. If PGS fails to recognize the problems that befell them at WSVG we could see an early exit, and a collective shaking of the head for them.

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SK

Christer "fisker" Eriksson
Mattias "Snajdan" Andersen
Christian "vilden" Lidström
Jonas "GoodFella" Virtanen
Jimmy "allen" Allén

SK international results have been out of character, if not outright disappointing, for the former world’s best team. They are still a powerful team with a lineup capable of besting most top teams, but fans have come to expect more from this organization. With a 5-8th placing at CPL Nordic following a close loss to Finland’s 69°N-28°E, again an international title has slipped through their grasp.

At the WSVG finals, a razor thin victory over Complexity was overshadowed by losses to ALTERNATE aTTax and fnatic. Fnatic’s decisive 16-3 stomp of SK underscores this team’s fall from grace. Starting with WEG Masters and continuing through the team’s roster changes, the team is a shadow of what it once was.

Vilden’s awp, and the fragging power of both Snadjan and Allen are the keys to this team performing well. If all three of these players are on, expect a reprisal of SK’s CPL Winter 2005 performance. Although clinching the title they so desperately seek seems improbable, expect a top 10 performance as SK attempts to defend their title.

Team 3D

Sal "Volcano" Garozzo
Griffin "shaGuar" Benger
Josh "Dominator" Sievers
Ronald "Rambo" Kim
Michael "method" So

Fresh off taking second place at the WSVG Finals and WCG Pan-America, things are looking up for Team 3D. With their lineup in flux throughout the summer and WCG, (shag in and josh out for Lanwar and ISC, shag out josh in for WCG) 3D achieved decent results, yet their latest lineup change appears to have already paid dividends.

Moto’s sixth man status appears to have had a direct impact on 3D’s performance whether it is the input of a seasoned strat caller not caught up in the game’s emotion or simply subbing a player with more fragging power. Returning to the forefront at WSVG was Rambo’s clutch play, his hallmark as a player. His round saving ability contributed to keeping 3D’s upper bracket run at WSVG.

However to remain on top, Shaguar and Method will have to be hot throughout the tournament. Shag’s onfire play the second day of WSVG put 3D on the right track, but on the final day he cooled off slightly and appeared much less animated. If the teamwork continues to click in Dallas and 3D brings the same game they brought to WSVG they could very well reach the finals of this event as well.

Medium Seed Pool

50 Calibre Gaming

Michael "cirteM" Taylor
Travis "tuBBy" Bechtol
Derek "dboorN" Boorn
Joe "cfx" Tressa
Kevin "go0ber" Longhofer

Formerly known as Desire 2 Excel, the team recently became the cs 1.6 division for the well known North American gaming organization, 50 Cal. After nearly taking down Team 3D at last summer's ISC tournament, and winning CAL-main, d2x was moved directly to the invite division. At that time, Daniel "MuMiX" Mott was still playing for the team, and they simple took over his old CAL spot. While this upset a few teams who were hungry for a moveup, it now seems like a good decision from CAL, with d2x having a fairly competitive season at 10-7.

The question remains, how well will they do at this event? Just like the majority of the Medium Seeds, this is exactly where they belong. Does that mean they can't possibly reach the single elimination round? Of course not, but that will be a huge accomplishment if they do.

Begrip Gaming

Ivan "Xenitron" Totskiy
Alexey "Flatra" Zlobich
Dmitriy "ex" Pestin
Denis "diNGo" Kolomenskiy
Alexandr "xek" Zobkov

Not attending

Check-Six

Arthur “sm0og1er” Nayshlos
Chris "ntt" Gillett
Andrew "anomaly" Brock
Mark "wombat" Larsen
Ted "wiseguy" Georgoudakis

Sporting one of the strangest looking lineups, Check-Six has a mix of professional gamers from all sorts of different backgrounds. First you have sm0og1er, who has a top 3 CPL placing under his belt, and tons of experience attending events with very little practice. Then you have wombat, a veritable multigaming giant who has played more games at a professional level than probably anyone else out there. This month he won GotFrag's F.E.A.R. Combat Invitational with his team "Doctors" which wiseguy and anomaly also played for. The majority of the team comes from oldschool cs team rdw, so they probably still have some chemistry.

A lot is going to hinge on how much practice they have been able to get over the past month. How much time they put into knocking off the rust will determine whether they advance far into the second group stage, or get embarressed early.

eMazing Gaming

Andrew "Talon" Penwell
Daniel "phys1kz_" Black
Halston "Tekn1kal" Bellintani
Evan "evaN" Ahlberg
Austin "cole" Townley

Not attending

eSrael

Stanislav "Fet0r" Peiros
Pavel "Pavel" Peiros
Dolev "Dolev" Farhi
Ronly "MenaceX" Zeevi
Omri "CowpoxE" Lavi

Since failing to place within the top 16 of Winter CPL 2005, Israel’s home team has been all but off the radar for the past year. The CS team is a part of an organization that seems to put more of a focus on other eSports such as Quake4 and Warcraft 3. However thanks to new sponsors the team once again has a chance to compete against the best in the world and whether or not things have improved for the team is very difficult to determine. Don’t put too much stock in them getting to bracket play, however with such a low profile as of late, perhaps they have practiced just enough to pull off a noticeable upset.

EG

Jimmy Lin
Matthew "bl00dsh0t" Stevenson
Robert "blackpanther" Tyndale
Pasha Lari
Ian Royle

Canada’s best and brightest will once again make the trip to Dallas. Professionals at being the underdog, EG has had little to write home about so far this year except winning national qualifiers. With Shaguar in tow, EG managed to take NiP to three maps at WCG 2006 but could not secure the victory.

Jimmy Lin took ill just before WCG Pan-America and EG tapped Ian Royle, from JMC, to fill in just days before the event. Shortly after the event, Royle joined EG fulltime to replace Erik “da bears” Stromberg who moved on to zEx. Without Shaguar’s AWP, EG could find themselves in a tough spot. If history is any indicator then a top 16 placing is a reasonable assumption, due to the power of the Lin/Stevenson duo. Royle has had enough time to mesh with the team and could very well be the spark that EG needed.

FabricatedX

Mitchell "syntr1p" O'Brien
Kris "ortolaNo" Ortolano
Tanner "tbs" Baker
Adam "Jago" Nawab
Hunt "Evér" Paddison
Matthew "mbs" Schwartz

After paying for the tournament, and even receiving a middle seeding, FabricatedX had decided not to attend the event. There is a slight possibility that Ever and a few of his local friends may make a pug and attend in fX's place.

Flow Gaming

Matt "lim" Beahan
Nazar "steno" Vynnytsky
Michael "che" Guevara
Scott "evolution" Cavallero
David “savior” Park

Formerly known as Fear Factor, Flow Gaming’s last major event was DigitalLife 2006, where they surprised a lot of people by taking down rSports and winning a map against Team 3D. However, their statistical leader at that event, Jason “Jstone” Caposello, recently quit the team for probably the 10th time this year. In for Jstone is Michael “chE” Guevara, who some of you may recognize from h5m. While chE certainly has a lot of skill, he has some big shoes to fill as Jstone posted up 44 more frags than his closest teammate at DigitalLife. All in all, Flow is a decent medium seed team, who will definitely advance to the second group stage, but getting to the single elimination
round is going to be really tough for them.

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mugNmouse

Bryce "tree" Standridge
Daniel "MuMiX" Mott
Lance "chunkyfellow" Foster
Andres "spdy" Cardona
John "john" James

With the completely new roster put together just over a month ago, this local Texas team which has made their appearance at CPL a tradition for years will play once again with Mumix at the helm calling strats. Recent practice at CSA resulted in a team placing of 2nd behind d2x. Pre-CPL practice at LG could build upon that success and provide the team with an opportunity to perfect strategy as the hours close-in before group play begins. If the team gels well we could see some surprises from them.

NetFragz

Derek "tOyMaCHiN3" Enero
Thomas "thoMz" Garcia
Ben "Nut" Hui
Phil "Crypt1c" Kovach
Cheyne "dutchfoo" Christopher

Recently NetFragz’s rather un-eventful LAN history has been less than impressive. Quickly being knocked out of ISC was a harsh blow to the team, which should of furthered there efforts to perfect there setups and exploit their profencies to the maximum effect. The roster itself is not particularly of all-star caliber and expectations don’t run particularly high. However with a comfortable group placing they have a pretty good chance at progressing to the second round. Bracket play however is a considerable long shot.

Project_kr

Seonho "termi" Pyeon
Keunchul "solo" Kang
Jinhee "hee" Park
SungJae "bail" Lee
Hyeonjin "Miffy" Son

A few days ago, Project announced they would not be renewing their contracts with the Chinese Hacker Gaming Organization. While they didn't state why they decided not to renew their contracts, they did announce that they are "aiming for the gold" at the Winter CPL. You may recognize Project as the team that placed third at the WEG Masters tournament, and is currently ranked seventh in the world by the GotFrag rankings. After losing at CPL Korea this year to top seed pool participants, LaVega, Project was assigned a medium pool seeding. If there is any team that can beat their group’s upper seed, it is definately Project. Assigning them to the middle seed pool may prove to be a big oversight on the part of the CPL.

rSports

Trevor "p0s" Randolph
Dan "mehLer" Mehler
James "Jame^s" O'Connor
Ted "LuckeyTed" Weinrich
Joshua "PineKone" Springer

About a year ago, rSports (then GB) was certainly in contention for top 5 in the United States. Their leader, jame^s, has a knack for picking up new, raw talented players, and transforming them into superstars. His only problem seems to be keeping them with the team. After a devastating summer and fall LAN season, rS has lost one of their best players, Garett "Grt" Bambrough, to team Pandemic. Also, Dan Mehler left the team for United5, which ended up folding shortly thereafter, resulting in his re-addition to the team. After losing Grt and mehLer, the team added source legend Trevor “p0s” Randolph and long time GR member, Gino “gwhatkey” Wuttke.

After a few disappointing online matches, probably due to a mixture of inactivity and lack of chemistry, mehLer rejoined the team, and gwhatkey was benched. Similar to Flow, rS will have an easy time advancing to the second group stage, however anything past that will be extremely tough.

United5

jimmy "foogz_st" koller
Bobby "keen" Aihama
Ryan Pham
Cyrus "org" Habibi
Shaun "hostile" Catron

After all the shuffles of various u5 lineups over the past year, one can only hope that manager/owner killabeez has finally found a winning lineup. Mixing the best players from Aggression/Check-Six with the latest version of united5, this group looks to have some promise. With this being their first major event together, and very little online play heading up to this point, one can only assume from the big names alone that u5 will at least get to the second group stage, and maybe even challenge the top seed for the berth to the single elimination round.

Turmoil

Ediz "goodfornothing" Basol
John "Superbug" Kleeman
Derrick "impulsive" Truong
Jeff "jaded" Steinmetz
Matt "patyojon" Iantosca

Turmoil recently placed second in CEVO's first Semi Pro season, falling just short to a pretty dominant zEx. While they might not be back to the same strength as the team they sent to WEG Season 3, they have shown that they are definitely making strides to get back to that level. Like a few other teams participating at the event, Turmoil will be bringing along a ringer due to Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert being underage. Playing in his place is none other than Matt "patyojon" Iantosca. Depending on what kind of practice they have been able to get in with Matt, they should be able to easily get to the second group stage.

viGor/x3o

Ryan "NineSpot" Bell
Danvir "dsingh" Singh
Spencer "skiM" Kim
Tarik "rockyte" Elkhatib
Ian "pyrite" Thomas

Last week, x30 announced the addition of their newest cs division. The team consists mainly of the last reincarnation of ViGor, as well as sKiM and bautista. x3o reminds me a lot of Flow Gaming a few months back, having just received a sponsorship, and really starting to try and get serious enough to be a contender in the North American scene. Will CPL winter '06 be their break out event? Not likely, but what you will be sure to see is them hanging on to their seed, and making it to the second group.

zEx

Aran "i0nZ" Curbelo
Charles "cbz" Pyo
Erik "da bears" Stromberg
Kevin "aZn" Wang
Anthony "m4gic" Coriale

zEx’s upset of coL at WCG USA brought the team back into the spot light. With the recent re-addition of m4gic and the recruitment of dabears the future looks much brighter for the team. Their absence from all major North American events with the exception of WCG USA means that the team is an incredibly difficult team to gauge and impossible to predict how they will perform.

Some recent LAN practice at a small local tournament should help smooth out teamwork issues. zEx will be a darkhorse team that can upset much more seasoned and “better” teams. If they can recapture what led to their coL upset we could easily see zEx in the top 16.

eSrael got eliminated after loosing
22-8 to Hacker
21 - 9 to rSports
27-3 to Turnmoil

i still cant believe we lost to rSports and Turnmoil
bahh GG eSr

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