eStar Seoul 2011: Frag eXecutors wins the title

Well I have never been more happier with any of my decisions lately except for the one of returning to gaming. This past week has been over the top for me with some serious Live action from overly exciting Gamescom 2011 and eStar Seoul 2011.

eStar Seoul 2011 Opening Ceremony

eStar Seoul 2011 Counter Strike 1.6 tournament took place from August 19-21 in the COEX D Hall. The tournament consisted of 16 teams and with total prize money of € 47,000.

o Frag eXecutors      o Spero Spera      o project_kr      o x6tence     

o ONEPIECE                 o mTw                 o fnatic             o UMX.us

o Natus Vincere        o mousesports     o WinFakt        o SiZ

o SK Gaming            o Lunatic-hai        o TyLoo            o UMX.tw

The tournament took place in a double elimination bracket with a Lower Bracket and Upper Bracket. The Upper Bracket final was played between FX and SK, which FX won after a brilliant game play. The Lower Bracket final was played between mTw and Na’Vi, this was one of the most exciting match of the tournament. Na’Vi won this match after a double over-time match on de_train. These results gave us the two teams for the Consolidation Final, SK vs Na’Vi. The Consolidation final was easily won by SK with some great clutch rounds.



SK Gaming winning the Consolidation Final

And now was the time of ever exciting Grand Final of eStar Seoul 2011. FX which was the defending champions now has to face SK to secure their title. The final started off on de_tuscan with FX as terrorists. The first half witnessed a close end as SK took a thin lead of 8-7 against FX. The winning continued and SK wrapped the first map with impressive 16-9, making the two teams leveled.



SK GeT_RiGhT during the Grand Final

Both the teams then played de_inferno to decide their fate as the Grand Final rolled to its climax. The first half was played with FX now playing the role of counter-terrorists. In the start SK did a few mistakes resulting FX winning a couple rounds. Even with errors SK managed to again maintain a slim lead of 8-7 at the end of first half. Despite being behind, Team FX bounced back to take the score to 14-9 in their favor. This got interesting when SK showed some aggressive response and leveled the scores at 14-14. The next round was won by FX convincing that they will win then and there but SK managed to win the final round and pushing the match into an over-time.

In an over-time match FX picked all three rounds in the first half as counter-terrorists. In the second half SK did showed some resistance but FX grabbed onto that one opening they were looking for. FX eventually winning the match and the tournament brought closure to the prestigious Korean competition.

Frag eXecutors winner of eStar Seoul 2011

Frag eXecutors won the title of eStar Seoul 2011 to make it the second in a row. They walked away with the prize money of € 13,800. Where SK Gaming stood second with the prize of € 11,000.

eStar Seoul 2011 Prize Ceremony

Aurangzeb “AGz” Durrani