96 Players have registered to participate, in what should be a cracker of a tournament! Angry African, Dreamer and Shase are amongst the usual participating players. Mint's Starcraft II players George 'Kreeflewer' Bence, Bevan 'LegOlas' van Wijk as well as Marius 'Stripe' van der Merwe will be participating, as well as other Mint players who usually represent Mint in other games, such as our call of duty players Timothy 'KrimZoN' Woolley and AJ "Ginshank" van Rensburg, counter-strike players Travis 'azterix' Coppin and Robert 'Hazzard' Botha and last but not least Kline 'Zound' Moralee co-founder of Mint.

Unfortunately Mint's Starcraft II star Ryan "Avokodo" Quevauvilliers, will not be able to participate today, due to personal reasons. We hope to see him in the next tournament.




We wish all participants the best of luck!

Group stages are set to start at 3PM on Saturday the 4th of September, while the Single elimination matches will be starting at the same time (3PM) on Sunday the 5th of September.

The tournament is going to be run via the European Battle.net server. So if you are thinking of participating please ensure that you own the EU version of the game, otherwise you will experience problems and will most likely not be able to compete.

Tournament Structure:

• 24+ Entries = 4 groups, 6+ players each, bo3. Top 4 from each group proceed to the 16-player bracket, Single Elimination, best of 3.

• 32+ Entries = 8 groups, 4+ players each, bo3. Top 2 from each group proceed to the 16-player bracket, Single Elimination, best of 3.

• 48+ Entries = 16 groups, 3+ players each, bo3. Top 2 from each group proceed to the 32-player bracket, Single Elimination, best of 3. In the event of each group having 6 players, all further registrations will be on stand-by.

• Seedings will be taken from previous PolarfluKe tournaments where needed.

• The groups will be made available on Saturday between 2 and 3 pm.

Prizes:
1st – R700.00 cash
2nd – R300.00 cash


Players have until 12:00 on Saturday the 4th of September to register for the tournament.
To register please click HERE and submit your application.

For further information fluKe and Alcardu from PolarfluKe can be be reached via IRC (/join #polarfluke), or via Battle.net (Alcardu, Code: 599 | fluKe, Code: 855)

According to the Alcardu, the league wont have any prizes as of yet because the the PolarfluKe organisers want to see how the competition/league runs for the first time. If team members have any questions, they can ask their team captains as the structure has already been explained to them, or you can read the rules by clicking Here

Teams will have just under a week to complete their first round of games. The maps have been chosen for the 1v1 and 2v2 matches and can be found in the relevant links below.

PolarfluKe: Factions - Placement Groups

Group A

Ventus - Dreamer (c), ANGRYAFRICAN, Genecide, Nibby, TenthPlanet
Artificial Intelligence – Sonic (c), Infinity, Tutelary, BlueFox
AW3h - Snake (c), Specter, SpY, Siege
Kim Jong X - Raziel (c), Doomsday, Maklik
Sexi Badgers – Silva (c), Alcardu, Gridlock, McNoob, Avokodo
Rouge Warriors – Spinks (c), WarlordZim, VoiDude, Dvie, Gino


Group B

Bravado - AsIfImTrying (c), Edward, ToiletJuice
hjv sdhj etrhesrg – Musnit (c), Glay, Cobra, Sillicur
Pawns vs Rooky – BeanHeaD (c), Becks, Bipolarbear
The_Pew - Lokkenreload (c), Azterix, Zchance
[IYM] – Strom (c), Nigredo, Racoonboy, Bakchiadai
Scraps - Arcadies (c), Xevious, Maku, Tile, TonyMontana


This weeks games:

Ventus -vs- Rouge Warriors
Bravado -vs- Scraps
Artificial Intelligence -vs- Sexi Badgers
AW3h -vs- Kim Jong X
hjv sdhj etrhesrg -vs- [IYM]
Pawns vs Rooky -vs- The_Pew

The tournament had slots for 16 teams, however only 11 teams registered to participate which meant that Area52, Vintage, Pantheon, Prodigy and Mint all had BYE's in their first game. Things went as usual in the second round of games, the only relative surprise was Gamerover managing to force Area 52 into an overtime, which people definitely weren't expecting.

In the Semi-Finals 4 teams for the Dogaming Premier league were set to face each other: Mint gaming vs Prodigy and Area52 would be facing Pantheon. Pantheon was boosted today by the return of their star player Greg "Rora" van der Spuy, who has been unable to play for Pantheon in the last few months due to needing to dedicate his time to practise for Qoob gaming, the South African player team that Competed in the Antwerps ESports Festival.

The Semi-Finals could of gone to either teams, but in the end Pantheon managed to edge over Area52 with a 13-11 win, while Mint was defeated by prodigy.

The finals would be played in a best of three format. The ruleset for the finals was changed in accordance to Vita Nova rules, seeing as both the finalists agreed that the ruleset used by gamernet didnt exactly make much sense.

Prodigy chose Crash, seeing as they recently managed to beat Pantheon 16-8 on this very map in the first week of the Dogaming League, while Pantheon choose to play Strike. A final map would be chosen out of the remaining three maps in the map pool if after 2 maps the teams were still caught in a deadlock.

Pantheon started out as the stronger team, proving that their recent slump in performance meant nothing now that Rora was back. They quickly sealed the map and put the pressure on Prodigy. Things on the second map didn't get any better for Prodigy as Pantheon mantained the momentum and won the second map quite convincingly.

Sweden have maintained their stronghold on the counter strike scene, after winning the championship with, what many people have called Swedens "B" team. Sweden wasn't able to have their usual top 5 players, representing them at this competition, as many of the fnatic counterstrike players, who usually represent Sweden had gone on holiday.

So players who are currently contracted by H2k, such as Threat, Niko and FYRR73 were the core of this teams lineup.

Many expected Sweden to be knocked out in the semi-finals by team Denmark who are made up of the mTw stars. This wasn't to be the case at Sweden managed to beat Denmark without conceding a single map to their opponents.

Sweden would be facing Ukraine in the finals, Ukraine was quite a big surprise this year round and they can thank the Na`Vi Trio of markeloff, Edward and Starix for the rise in the Ukrainian team performance.

Yet again the swedish team was the underdog, they were however able to shock Ukraine in the first map, de_inferno, with a quick 16-3 win. This meant Ukraine would need to win the following two maps if they wanted to claim the title of this years best European playing nation. This task proved easier said than done, as team Sweden took momentum from the first map and annihilated Ukraine 16-6 on de_train.

This sees Sweden win the title for the 5th time, out of a possible 7 seasons!

Results:
Sweden
Ukraine
Denmark
4. Russia