EPS X: A German Thriller

In the 1 vs 1 based league we can see 16 German players fighting for the number one spot, and a great deal of money that's distributed among the winners as following:

Prize distribution
Every won war:	€100
1.	€6,000
2.	€3,000
3.	€2,000
4.	€1,000
5.	€600
6.	€400

Before we take a deep research of the participants, let's have a look at the history of the event, since we're hitting the 10th season already. What is the history telling us about the event? Is there any predictable winner?

» THE HISTORY

Even though the German scene is big, and there are a lot of good players (and participants) the winner list looks rather one sided. For a starter the winner crown was switching around among a couple of players, but in the 4th season it ended up on the head of the SK-Gaming player Miou. Ever since then Miou have been chasing away all his opponents with his strong Human play style.

» SK.MIOU - THE NEVERENDING WINNER?
Even though he has been pretty inactive times to times, Miou has always been coming back for the German event to defend his title. In early February 2006 we could read about Miou's come back in the SK.Ger squad (here), however as a 2 on 2 player together with j4yiwd. It is obvious he was more or less inactive during the time before this comeback. Nevertheless Miou has always seemed to reach the finals, winning them against players such as Kookian, Spell and Ravage.

- I won't play 100% of the matches and probably not so many 1v1 games either, Miou says after rejoining SK.Ger. "I joined SK.Germany to strengthen their team after Fisch and Take left it." However, In April 2006 Miou played sCa.dark in a Semifinal clanwar between the two clans. After the dust from the battle we saw Miou as a winner with a 2:1 score. From this point Miou haven't stopped improving, and he today he might be in his best shape ever, is he going to win this season as well?

Links to more information & sources

» ESL.eu - EPS frontpage
» ESL.eu - Rankings