ESL European Championships: Day 1

The ESL European Championship Finals have started in Kiev, Ukraine. The 12 players sent to Ukraine now have to battle it out of two different 6 man groups to make it into the playoff stages.

After a full day of group stage matches, DeMusliM has come out of his group games clinching a spot in the playoffs in Group A. DeMusliM now has games remaining against Tarson and White-Ra which will decide his placement in the final playoff round. The results from Day 1 are listed below:

ESL European Championship Finals
Group A		Group B
Player	Record	Player	Record
DeMusliM	3-0	SjoW	2-0
Empire.Kas	2-1	GoOdy	2-0
Tarson	2-1	Socke	1-1
White-Ra	2-1	PredY	1-1
Naama	0-3	ClouD	0-2
dignitas.merz	0-3	aAaSarenS	0-2

Naama and dignitas.merz are now in a dire situation. Even with wins against their remaining opponents, their fate lies in the fact that the three opponents above them do not win anymore matches.

Players in Group B could still see themselves shuffled around quite a bit in day 2. SjoW and GoOdy have placed themselves in favourable positions however. The 2-0 leads they take in Group B allows them to comfortably enter day 2 while ClouD and aAaSarenS will have to try very hard to get back into playoff contention.

Day 2 games will begin at 11:00 CET on January 21st 2011 with ClouD and aAaSarenS playing against each other. This will be a very important match for both as neither of them can afford another loss. Along with this match is GoOdy versus PredY. GoOdy will attempt to clinch a playoff spot while PredY will attempt to stay within playoff spot contention.

All replays can be found on the ESL website.

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