United Kingdom. With a good lineup and flawless administration it was a great start on the fresh and new Nations Cup. Sweden won the game with 5-2. The next round Sweden faced their rivals 
Denmark. They only lost one match, putting the score to 6-1.Now, with two wins in the luggage, they were set up against the Land Down Under -
Australia. The last Nation war Sweden had won with the close numbers 4-3, but this time it was the other way around. Australia beat Sweden, and now Sweden was placed #3 in the group, next to Poland and Australia. The next round, the fourth actually, Sweden won over 
Slovakia due to walkover. With the three very experienced members a big part of the "old ones" in Team Sweden; Daaman, Dealer, SaFT and JessE, the team is highly spoken of. Some say that Sweden is not the team it used to be, but a record of only three losses speaks for itself.
Sweden > United Kingdom » 5-2 Sweden > Denmark » 6-1 Sweden < Australia » 3-4 Sweden > Slovakia » 7-0 (WO)Poland's history in ClanBase Nations CupPoland started off strong, beating
Finland with 5-2, and in the next round 
Greece was put down with 6-1. Then they were sharing the first places with Australia and Sweden. In the third round they defeated Denmark with the same numbers as Sweden did the round before. Next up was United Kingdom, which is one of the nations in the bottom of the group. As well as the other games, they won with the clear numbers 6-1. Poland has a very strong team, Blackman, sYs, Draco and last but not least ToT)tomsOn(.Will
Poland continue with their winning streak or will Sweden wreck their dreams? Tomorrow you'll know. Poland > Finland » 5-2 Poland > Greece » 7-0 Poland > Denmark » 6-1 Poland > United Kingdom » 6-1Previous Nation WarThis is a previous nation war between these two nations, where it ended 5-4 in
Sweden's favour. It was played February 3 2003, in a WGTour fight.| Kenka | vs. | Draco | 0-2 |
| WiLLEt | vs. | Mario | 2-1 |
| Daaman | vs. | Sutek | 2-0 |
| ZeuS | vs. | sYs | 0-2 |
| U.F.O | vs. | Macia | 1-2 |
| TreK | vs. | Blackman | 0-2 |
| Kimthan | vs. | Tomson | 2-1 |
| JessE Masken | vs. | Matrox sYs | 2-0 |
| Daaman U.F.O | vs. | Dzioku Sutek | 2-1 |
I found a replay package consisting of 8 games from this roundup. You may find it » here.
Sweden vs Poland - CoverageAs most of you probably know now, the main highlight of yesterday in the Starcraft community was the nation war between
Sweden and Poland. An extraordinary close nation war including a huge fan support of both teams - over 7020 visited GosuGamers yesterdayto get the latest updates about the match.The first game was suprisingly won by the new Swedish recruit
Kimthan versus Polands most feared player, Blackman, at Lost Temple. This slight advantage for Sweden switched fast and Blackman turned the game into a 2-1 win for Poland. Next up to report loss was Dealer who lost to tomsOn, 0 games to 2. Tomson had before the match promised to eat up his mouse if Poland lost - and at this point it didn't look like it, at all. Especially when Raven happily announced he had beaten WhiZ 2-0. It did not look good for Sweden, and just another loss would finish the match.But from there on it turned.
KaaZ reported a win after three intense games of fighting to Draco, 2-1. In the last game on 
Dahlia of jungle Draco had to use arbiters with recall in order to get out of KaaZ's containment outside his bridges. But when the money in both his main and two expansions were all gathered and his main filled with lurkers, he surrendered. Poland in lead with 3 games to 1, and game one between
Daaman and Spawn was just finished, apparantely a 60 minutes long battle cruiser fighter, ended up in favor to Daaman. Thereafter a win by Spawn but Daaman once again turned it back in Sweden's favor and ended it with a strong 2-1.The 2on2s started and Sweden needed to win both of these in order to win the match. First out was
Minister(GN) with his team mate Scorpion(GN) versus KaaZ and Dealer. The first game at Lost temple was a 4 x Zerg match - which we tend to see a lot these days (especially in the playoffs of » WGTour 2on2 season 7). Dealer died early but KaaZ managed to beat both the two Polish players alone. The outcome of that 2on2 match, however, was 2-0 in favour to Sweden, a very strong comeback. Just like in the nation wars » Sweden vs China, the outcome of the whole nation war were in the hands of Daaman and Saft and the final 2on2 match. This time versus
1410)Twins and 1410)Floe. These two were perhaps Sweden's strongest card and while the rest of us waited anxiously in the channels, the first game begun at Lost Temple. Battle reports follows by
[HoT]TexaS:Daaman and Saft versus Twins and Floe
Game 1 - Lost Temple
Twins and Floe , starting at 6o'clock and 9o'clock, opened the game with a dual 9 pool rush on SaFT at 12o'clock, who started with 12 pool, followed by second hatch. 
Daaman used dual barracks, but was quite helpless, when he saw that SaFT was attacked by 14 lings and 3 drones morphing into creep-kolonies on SaFT's creep. So he decided to attack Twins, who built sunken colonies in his main to protect himself against the incoming marines and scv's.
The main of SaFT after the rush
Daaman managed to build a bunker in Twins main, preventing him from getting out. He raised his army with firebats ,marines and medics and was able to kill the expansion of Floe and he attacked the main of Twins, who was forced to spend many drones to block the terran forces against the 4 sunkens. He lost many units against the lurkers and hydralisks of the zerg players in some battles in the middle of the map, afterwards he did an expansion and he did tank drops onto the cliff of the zerg expansions, while he got dropped by lurkers in his main and his expansion attacked by hydralisks and lurkers. He lost almost all units and conceded the game.
Result :
0 - 1 <Game 2 - New No Way Out
The second 2on2 game between SaFT, Daaman on the swedish team and 1410)Floe-xTr, 1410)Twins-xTr on the polish team, was played on the map New No Way Out. SaFT, starting at upper right corner, opened the game with 2 hatch, followed by spire and mutalisks and Daaman, starting at lower right corner, opened the game with dual starport and cloaked wraiths, while Floe did a fast marine drop, supported by Twins' mutalisks, on SaFT's main, able to kill his spire.
SaFT loosing his spire due the fast attack
The final battle
Result :
1 - 1 Game 3 - Lost Temple
SaFT , 12 o'clock, and Daaman, 3 o'clock, vs Floe-xTr , 9 o'clock, and Twins-xTr , 6 o'clock. Floe starts with 9 pool, followed by gas and early lair and Twins starts with second hatchery at his expansion,pool and third expansion above his expansion, while SaFT goes for 2 gate zealots and Daaman goes for 2 barraks marines. Floe is trying with his fast lurkers to achieve some first succesful attacks, but is helpless against SaFT's cannons. Twins, protected by the lurkers of Floe, is able to get a strong economy and makes first attack and first paraspace grade for his linge, followed by many mutalisks. Having 5 lurkers and many mutalisks and lings, the polish team starts attacking SaFT with success.
The attack facilitating the Polish team to win the game.
Result :
1 - 2 Good game Poland, see you in the playoffs!
Final lineups looked like:
| KaaZ | vs. | Draco | 2-1 |
| Dealer | vs. | tomsOn | 0-2 |
| KimThan | vs. | Blackman | 1-2 |
| WhiZ | vs. | Raven | 0-2 |
| Daaman | vs. | Spawn | 2-1 |
| Dealer KaaZ | vs. | Minister(GN) Scorpion(GN) | 2-0 |
| Daaman SaFT | < | 1410)Twins 1410)Floe | 1-2 |
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The countries in bold will advance as of now, with two rounds left to be played. Other recent matches in this group was that
Australia beat Denmark, 4 games to 3, and keeping their #1 in the group.» Replay package
