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Our very own Valentin 'FiX' Krulikovsky was able to qualify for the grand final of the Electronic Sports World Cup last weekend and will now represent hoorai.XQ in San Jose, USA. After a very good performance during the hole tournament, FiX could win the ESWC National Qualifier in Ukraine by beating Mykhaylo 'HoT' Novopashyn of Gravitas Gaming and save the tickets to Southern California He will have the chance to mess with the best players all over the world. The ESWC Grand Final will be held on Nvision 08 from 25th to 27th of August.
A little present was given to hoorai.XQ on yesterday's evening, when the participants of the ESWC Masters tournament were announced. Next to some stars, such as Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen from the Netherlands or the french Yuan 'ToD' Merlo, there are also two representative for hoorai.XQ which were invited after the players could made an application. From the 4th until the 6th of July, Peter 'DNA' Agardi and Radoslav 'DieSeL' Kolev of our WarCraft-III-Division will get the chance to win a total price money of 5000 US-Dollar. Except of that they will have the possibility of qualifying for the final event of the Electronic Sports World Cup, which will be held in August this year.
Today, we are proud to present two additions to the Warcraft III team of hoorai.XQ. The new players shall help to fill the gap created by the conflict with Samuli 'elfittaja' Sihvonen to make sure that our young team stays competitive in the international arena. Besides staying in the NGL ONE, our aim is to return into WC3L. The first addition is the Ukrainian Undead player Valentin 'FiX' Krulikovsky. Being 21 years old, he is the oldest player in the team, but not a pensioner yet: After being inactive for a few months, he intends to do some serious damage again and therefore practises very intensely. Some weeks ago, the inhabitant of Kiev won the Ukrainian KODE5 qualification despite having opponents like Mykhaylo 'HoT' Novopashyn. He qualified for the Global Finals in Moscow (May 9th-11th), where he will have his first appearance as a hoorai player. Addition number two also qualified himself for the KODE5 Finals, in Romania: From today on, Angel 'Bro' Ganchev, also known as Bianconero, will support hoorai.XQ with his amazing Orc skills. Up to today, the 20-year-old Bulgarian was playing for Serious Gaming.
On Saturday hoorai.XQ Warcraft 3 player Samu 'BriNGeR' Riihelä joined the 34th edition of the ZOTAC Warcraft 3 Cup. With nearly 500 signups the first cup in May 2008 was once again a big competition with players from all over the world. The 16-year old Finnish player could easily win his first matches and saw himself in the quarter finals where he faced Sergey 'Roll' Moroz. After beating him and Ilya 'Sonik' Malysh in the semi final, he qualified for the Grand Final where he could beat Jin Wook 'MichaeL' Roh with 3-1. It was his second win at the ZOTAC Warcraft 3 Cup with a prize money of € 100.
This evening a new era will be started, when hoorai.XQ will make common cause with BestAimers. BestAimers is the venue for many international cups and tournaments and gives interested teams and players the possibility to match beside the normal leagues. Together with hoorai.XQ BestAimers will renew this series with new motivation and glory. Today at 7pm CET the first BestAimers Cup powered by hoorai.XQ will be held already. Under the leading of the old BestAimers-organisators the tournament will be played in single elimination 2on2 mode. The winners will recieve two SteelSeries Ikari Laser Mice of our sponsor SteelSeries. --> Cup Coverage <-- Update (30.04 - 10:30pm): The first cup just finished a few minutes ago. The german Team Thermaltake was able to beat multigamer from Norway and won the tournament. They one two SteelSeries Ikari Laser Mice, Congratulations!
Despite his contract with hoorai.XQ, the Finnish Warcraft III player Samuli 'elfittaja' Sihvonen was officially presented as an addition to the team of Gravitas Gaming. Previously, negotiations regarding a possible transfer fee failed.
The 17-year-old talent has to expect serious consequences. The hoorai.XQ management clearly stated that such behavior is not tolerated. The German clan will take action against elfittaja if the player participates in a team competition under the flag of Gravitas Gaming without hoorai's consent.
The first Intel Friday Night Game of this season in Frankfurt: The ESL opened the ESL Pro Series Season XII and all visitors saw a lot of tension, action and hoorai.XQ! It seemes to be the evening of premieres. Next to the first offline-event for our rebuilt Counter-Strike:Source team, it was also the first match for our new Counter-Strike team. At the same time the new hoorai.live crew created its first video and captured everything happened on the iFNG in Frankfurt. The video will be released tonight and don't forget to tune in when GIGA eSports will show it for the first time at 22 CET!
From the 5th to the 6th of April, our Counter-Strike division will be in Ukraine to visit its first international event: Christian 'Blizzard' Chmiel and his mates will attend the DTS-Cup, which will be held in the third-biggest city of the Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk. They are not only goig to meet Ukraine's strongest teams, but also international stars.
Together with the Finnish participants Team Roccat and Team Excello, hoorai.XQ will represent western Europe against three Russian top teams and Ukrainian participants such as A-Gaming. In the group stage, our players will already face known teams like the previous year's winner pro100, the EPS bronze medallist NumbazZ and DTS|CHATRIX, the factory team of the organizer.
Two weeks ago our Counter-Strike team attended at the ESWC 2008 Online-Qualifier #3. Unfortunately, hoorai.XQ had to play with our reserve player Matthias 'teAk' Czaja instead of team-captain Christian 'Blizzard' Chmiel who was on holiday at that weekend. After losing against Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the winnerbracket semi final and pod virtual gaming in the lowerbracket final our team failed to qualify for the National ESWC Final. But just a few minutes ago the fourth Invitational Qualifier ended and hoorai.XQ managed to qualify for the German National Final of Electronic Sports World Cup 2008. Today hoorai.XQ could play with their complete lineup and was able to win all their matches without any problems. After beating pod virtual gaming twice, hoorai.XQ won the last ESWC Online Qualifier and is now qualified for the ESWC National Final which will be held from 19th to 20th of April in Dortmund, Germany. Congratulations to our team!
Full schedule for hoorai.XQ Warcraft 3 player Samuli 'elfittaja' Sihvonen in these days. At the last weekend our Finnish player was invited to join the European Qualifier for the 4th season of the Afreeca Warcraft 3 League. While the first three seasons had been open only for players from Korea, the new season will open its doors for all and welcomes mainly European and Chinese players as their newest addition. The qualification stage started last Saturday, seeing 32 players joining the group stage with 8 groups of 4 players each.
Samuli 'elfittaja' Sihvonen started in group G and faced three of Europe's best Warcraft 3 players. With two wins out of three matches, he qualified for the playoffs which started on Sunday afternoon. There he continued his impressive winning streak by beating the German WC3 legend Daniel 'miou' Holthuis and Vladislav 'Frozen' Baranov from Belarus. With this important results, the representative of hoorai.XQ was one of four lucky guys who could qualify for the Afreeca Warcraft 3 League.
After celebrating the start of the EPS Season XIII and winning the first match under the name of hoorai.XQ.Antec, our new Counter-Strike-Team attended the monthly proceed Xfire Trophy, where they had to face the french teams emuLate.McPoker, against All authority and dimension4. Beside playing with the stars of the named teams the community had the chance to see some nice matches on HLTV. hoorai.XQ.Antec never had any problems during the tournament and was able to win against some of the best teams in the world. They easily reached the overall final, where they had to win against the world champion, emuLate. WE won the tournament by beating emuLate 16:08 and gained the price money of $ 500.
Just a few weeks left until we will see one of the most awaited moments in this year: the biggest IT-fair will be held in Hanover, Germany. The CeBIT 2008 will show us not only the newest inventions in technical-related topics, it will also be the stage for two big international eSport-events - and hoorai.XQ will not only be there, we will be in the middle of the action! As reported already, our youngstar Samuli 'elfittaja' Sihvonen qualified for the Extreme Masters II Finals after winning the groupstage a few days before. He was drawn in group B and will face famous and strong players like Yoan 'ToD' Merlo or JaeWook 'Lucifer' Noh. Our second representative is Peter 'DNA' Agardi. He will fight for his country while playing in the Samsung European Championship presented by the World Cyber Games. The tournament will be a big challenge for our player, especially as there are several strong opponents like Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen for the Netherlands or the German talent Daniel 'XlorD' Spenst.
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