ESWC UK Qualifiers, ShaQ Mercs For 4K

Posted by Myers at 13:40 30/5/2005.

The ESWC UK Qualifiers began yesterday with eight teams battling it out over two groups for that single qualification spot to the finals in Paris, France. Contrary to popular rumours ElemeNt did not make his 4K debut at this competition and will most likely not be seen in action for the team until World eSports Games 2. To fill the void 4K have drafted in former member, Paul "ShaQ" Shackleton.

ShaQ attended the 2003 ESWC Finals with 4K after they won the UKT 3 qualifiers in Northampton. Four-Kings competed admirably at that event taking a respectable fifth position, but ShaQ joined up with OMG! shortly after.

Yesterday the group stages of the qualifiers were completed with the results as follows:

Group A

Four-Kings Intel  28  - 02 Casual5  

de_dust2

Edge11 -29Landed.cs

de_dust2

Four-Kings Intel21 -09edge

de_cbble

Landed.cs24 -06Casual5

de_cbble

Four-Kings Intel22 -08Landed.cs

de_nuke

Group B

enjoy               15   - 15  enx         

de_dust2

H515 -15Choke

de_dust2

enjoy14 -16Choke

de_cbble

H518 -12enx

de_cbble

Choke10 -20enx

de_nuke

enjoy13 -17H5

de_nuke

The results mean that 4K and Landed.cs advanced from Group A in 1st and 2nd positions respectively, as do H5 and enx.
Upper Bracket Round 1
Four-Kings Intel   16     -  02   enx     

de_train 

Landed.cs16  -14H5     

de_train

Lower Bracket Round 1
enx                 11   -  16 H5  

de_inferno

Upper Bracket Finals
Four-Kings Intel 16   -   03 Landed.cs 

de_inferno

Lower Bracket Finals
Landed.cs 16  -   04H5  

de_dust2

Grand Final
Four-Kings Intel 16  -  11Landed

de_cbble

Four-Kings defeated Landed.cs in a relatively close final on de_cbble to win the UK ESWC qualifiers. The result means that the 4K line-up of Mangiacapra, ShaQ, Red, Goodfella and Akujii will be competing in the ESWC Finals held at the Louvré in Paris, France from the 6th - 10th July. This will be Four-Kings Intel's second appearance after failing to qualify for the competition last year. No doubt they will be looking to equal, or better, their 5th place outcome in 2003.
  • Update: According to popular rumour ShaQ will not be attending the finals with 4K and instead ElemeNt will take his place.

Comments

Jeppo
Last Chance
14:03 30/5/2005
All the results @ http://www.opro-online.com/lc1/coverage.asp?id=57 [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
oldlady
14:03 30/5/2005
thought you couldn't merc at eswc?

( not sure tho ) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
14:07 30/5/2005
so, tables are fun! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
tiz
14:28 30/5/2005
You need to teach yourself some styling [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Valar`
The Anti-DoZ
14:35 30/5/2005
i love people criticising newsposts when they cant be arsed to do it themselves ;-) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Sunman^
14:56 30/5/2005
cruel was sooooooooooooo unlucky that round, pld toomy. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
14:56 30/5/2005
well, i set it up all perfectly in the news editor, looks fine, fantastic. i click 'publish' and it all goes to hell. ALPHA I HATE YOU!! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Sunman^
15:10 30/5/2005
thank god for tsn shoutcast, In college hate firewalls :( [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
XaseR
15:24 30/5/2005
wp edge [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Del`
Sniper's Alley
15:34 30/5/2005
Bit of a funny structure with only 1 round of lower and upper bracket, they should have brought more clans through from the qualifiers. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
GAZZZZZZ
15:50 30/5/2005
wot a surprise

Enjoy s*** as f*** on lan [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Valar`
The Anti-DoZ
15:53 30/5/2005
seems a bit overkill to have had it over 2 days aswell... [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
16:15 30/5/2005
yeah 2 days for 8 teams is a bit extreme, back in WCG 02 we did 38 teams in 8 hours :D

we did lower the maxrounds to 8 though...so err....sorry bout that. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
fezemoN
16:34 30/5/2005
lol landed are f***ing s*** [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
oldlady
16:49 30/5/2005
what times the final ? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
St_George
g30rg3h
UKTerrorist
16:57 30/5/2005
lol @ choke

HAHAHA [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
mebR
16:57 30/5/2005
lol, cbble is the final, thats so incredibly stupid. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Sunman^
17:01 30/5/2005
Good god rav you're letting the team down :D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Venomous
BLACKLiGHT
17:12 30/5/2005
couldnt choose a worse map for the final, MIGHT even see a close final [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
BlondEh
17:15 30/5/2005
Whats so funny St_George? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
siLki
17:25 30/5/2005
the fact that ur s*** [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
17:29 30/5/2005
lol, that's so harsh it actually made laugh [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
BlondEh
17:32 30/5/2005
Was waiting on that comment. And im happier that silki made it. Never fails to dissapoint does our silki [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Roar^
17:44 30/5/2005
Hypocrit silki [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
siLki
17:48 30/5/2005
2 so far, anyone else? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
18:10 30/5/2005
Blondie was obviously the driving force behind the team and should be back in there instead of element [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
M!kky
digital heresy
18:22 30/5/2005
GAZZZZZZ
15:50 30/5/2005 wot a surprise

Enjoy s*** as f*** on lan


Not really dude, our core 5 was me, alex, kae, trix and zeox, due to weddings and personal problems the team we were meant to field (the core team which won the prequals) couldnt fully attend, so in stepped inactive Cerebro and mooz0.

wp to h5 enx and choke [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
BlondEh
18:24 30/5/2005
aye wp to everyone that played. Was nice meeting everyone.

i24 next for some more drink fueled fun [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Sunman^
18:26 30/5/2005
tbh the gap in skill with regards 4k and the rest of the scene is, just..........well....f***ING HUGE. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Tony
18:50 30/5/2005
4K^TonyMontana ;-) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
cerebro
xtreme9.uk
19:02 30/5/2005
wudnt say we were SOL by any means, considering we all played so badly and had never played with that team before i was impressed that we didnt loose a game by more than 2 rounds. 2 more rounds in each of the last 2 games and we would have been top of our group.
we didnt deserve to win anyway, lack of prac.

well played to all teams there, enx nice guys / good lan.

x [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
mooz0
19:05 30/5/2005
anyone know where the hltv demos are uploaded to ? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Magic^
19:32 30/5/2005
dont worry Mikky 4K cant dodge your CORE TEAM twice .. youll get them next time [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
monkE
euthanasia
19:35 30/5/2005
good event guys, couldnt expect much more than a 3rd space finish really, cant believe Toomy planted the bomb with 2 seconds to go to lose 16-14 like that :( [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
monkE
euthanasia
19:38 30/5/2005
oh and also, Coopsy and the other staff were really helpful :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
20:22 30/5/2005
No Jaffa reversing Coopsy's decision about Kritikal playing then? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Jazzy Jebus
Rage
20:30 30/5/2005
he was there i think, but just watched [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Choke|MaT
Choke
20:42 30/5/2005
We went out on round difference with 4 inactive players and 2 mercs. Not quite sure what you find so funny, but I would say that's a reasonably good return considering 3 of our players hadn't played since we won i23 two months ago. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Mew
ClanNEW
20:43 30/5/2005
i dont think 'Louvré' has the excent egu =[ [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Choke|MaT
Choke
20:45 30/5/2005
and which of you c*nts nicked our hotel room? When we eventually arrived at around midnight after a meal and a few brewskys, we were told all of the allocated rooms had been taken. They didn't know who had taken the extra rooms but they had a fair idea of the individual responsible! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Roar^
20:46 30/5/2005
haha slip the bit about winning i23 in Mat ;) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
swo0sh
20:52 30/5/2005
mooz0 heres the demo

http://www.gotfrag.com/cs/demos/12587/ [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
aaNdy
got:Game
21:13 30/5/2005
How can enjoy be SOL, wasnt there most practiced team playing, and all there games was close games. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
21:31 30/5/2005
Wasn't 4k's most practiced team playing either [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Gucci
21:49 30/5/2005
gazzz u have no idea what u are talking about, eurself had no preperations at all due to members not being able 2 attend,
xaser! :)
<3 [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
ZeoX
22:22 30/5/2005
difference with 4K is they havent seen daylight for 3 months while moozo has played cs again for a month after not having internet for 2 years and cerebro enjoys going after illegal immagrants instead of playing the joyful game [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
22:42 30/5/2005
None of 4k have played for the past 7 years apart from at WEG [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Headshot^Man`
Disturbed
23:11 30/5/2005
well chuffed to avoid 3 defeats!! :D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
toko
euthanasia
23:40 30/5/2005
need hltv demos not just 1 of the finals :( [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Makaveli-
feo
00:08 31/5/2005
some c*** also nicked my diamondback whilst i was casting the wc3 ... i too have a fair idea about who it was ¬_¬ [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
00:17 31/5/2005
You know, it always annoys me when people blame their lack of preparation for how well they did at a LAN.

LAN's are like a snapshot of a team's ability at the time, not their potential ability. So how good you can perform at that one LAN event at that one moment is how good the team is at the time. When people say "well we didn't have time to practice", so what? Say a fairly decent team with no practice draws a ag ame against a lower-tier team who have locked themselves away in an internet cafe somewhere practicing for the last month. Both teams, are now as equally as good as eachother. Because that's their skill level at that point in time. We can talk about "potential" abilities forever, but it's how good you are, right now, that counts. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
00:27 31/5/2005
shut up security molestor [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
00:29 31/5/2005
eeep
-er ;-) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
00:29 31/5/2005
go suck an orange! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
mooz0
00:37 31/5/2005
come on coopsy upload the hltv demos ;] [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
00:42 31/5/2005
Oranges aren't particularly good at the moment, give it a month or two! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
SiL^
eSports.Edge
00:51 31/5/2005
in reagrds to sunmans^s post, i wonder why "the skill gap is so huge" because we all unfortunatly dont get paid to sit at home all day everyday for 8 hours with 4 friends discuss tactics and hardcore the best clans in the world, lan wherever we want to, and have awesome, Free pc's to practice on.....i may have overlooked a few minor details, but i dont think u got one of them sunman, we shud all b as good as 4k [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
01:26 31/5/2005
They play less than you [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Rav0r
Croydon
01:42 31/5/2005
There is a bit more to it then that Myers, but if you don't prepare you wont do as well as you should, and you deserve it [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
cerebro
xtreme9.uk
03:06 31/5/2005
DoZ... are you crazy? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
JinKster
09:07 31/5/2005
always doz to poke holes in anyone's response with joking retorts...

enjoy were surprisingly bad...but then again it was 3/5 lineup...

the gap though, between 4k and anyone else is actually staggering, but then again it seems to have widened every time they use a new, international player [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
GAZZZZZZ
11:06 31/5/2005
worst excuse in the book

"we wernt prepared" [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
11:35 31/5/2005
There's nothing joking about it, just offering a different perspective. Nobody can prove one way or another, they just assume they're that much better because they play all the time. I'm saying they're that much better because everybody else is s***. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Sincy
11:48 31/5/2005
" due to weddings and personal problems "

HAHA [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
m0rphy
11:48 31/5/2005
4k barely ever play anyway. Before WCG UK quals we played about 4 full games vs unicon and still beat omg! 13-2 in the final. Has nothing to do with practice. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Fruity
12:38 31/5/2005
Shut up Mo you c**k [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
12:43 31/5/2005
and then u bolted and made them play with poog? :-) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Danneth
12:54 31/5/2005
looked like a good lan was some nice games to watch... still think cruel should be playing for better teams then he is doing :D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
m0rphy
13:03 31/5/2005
I didn't bolt them. I told marc uni weren't gonna let me go, who in turn told me to tell dug. This was a week before WCG.

Dug didn't turn up online for days so what could I do? Their own fault they had to resort to getting someone at the last minute [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Lyo-
eSports.Edge
13:06 31/5/2005
was really well run (a bit over on the time scale but that happens everywhere) & pc's were perfect for cs.

Thought last years venue was alot better though esp with regards to food/drink.

So overall if the event was held at sheffield with landed running it then that would have been best option [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
ZeoX
13:26 31/5/2005
h3h3 guys go from in coopsys words "looking really good" at pre-quals were our real team to sol at real thing with 2 players that dont play cs :D DoZ go make another picture that no one really cares about and think makes u look really really cool but basically everyone thinks uve got a pair of flowered glasses and a straw hat on [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
13:50 31/5/2005
Will do ZeoX, soon as someone else requests one [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Smiffeh
Game2XS.Monkey Magic
14:52 31/5/2005
I request the coopsy and toko spot the difference [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
toko
euthanasia
15:32 31/5/2005
haha :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Sunman^
16:15 31/5/2005
with regards to sil's post:

If you knew any of them then you would know that they play the game f*** all, I'd say actually 95% less than any of the other teams, bar choke :D

They just have something you don't.

SKILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Now sit down and hush your gums, go whine at how you being s***e at lan was a direct result of luke.retard.green not being allowed to play. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
akujii0r
Infinity-eSports
18:09 31/5/2005
well! :D was the most boring event ive ever attended after WCG 2004 and we were disappointed at the lack of competition. Would be more interesting for everyone, including ourselves, if there were teams that could at least give us a challenge. I dont mean that in an arrogant way more, say a few years ago there was lots of competition and well now there is little to well none whatsoever.

We practice and play cs very little, probably a lot less than most would like to believe. Anyone who watched us play would be able to tell that we were just doing whatever we wanted :D Our swedish continguents are very good granted and may play more, but im a strong believer in "on any given sunday" if a team is good enough practice or not then they can win :o)) But i also fully agree that uk cs along with european has taken a big turn for the worse or maybe the better depending on how you look at it :)) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Danneth
18:13 31/5/2005
lol [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
ColdAsIce
ImaGine
18:40 31/5/2005
^_^ [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
toko
euthanasia
19:08 31/5/2005
theres no real good teams in the UK nor players. maybe its becos of not enoth sponsorship etc. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
19:14 31/5/2005
i disagree with that toko, the cpl brazil wt stop proves u don't need good sponsorship to have good teams. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
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