All-Star teams CCCP and .DE.DK.PL move on to the Grand Final, after defeating KSU and INFERNO-ONLINE respectively.

The event to finish off the first day at Arbalet Cup Europe was the All-Star semi-finals, featuring four teams will star-troops. On the line in the tournament is $3,000 to the winning team, while second place will grab $1,000.

A versus B or CCCP versus KSU as they named themselves short before kickoff, would be a matchup seeing Russia/Ukraine/Kazakhstan against Korea/Spain/USA. First map nuke went into overtime, where CCCP clinched a 23-20 victory. When switching to train, the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics picked up a 16-11 victory, moving to the Grand Final with a 2-0 win against KSU.

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What was counted as the most exciting matchup of the semi-finals, the matchup seeing Sweden (Inferno Online), taking on Poland/Denmark/Germany (.DE.DK.PL). Starting on nuke, the Swedes raced to a strong 16-7 victory, where the team of mixed-tongues had a hard time. Moving to inferno, the mix had a better read on the Swedes and was able to take a 16-12 win, in a match that could have gone both ways.

Finishing off on train, Sweden got to start on the weaker T-side, where they managed to gather three rounds. Switching to CT, INFERNO-ONLINE started the journey to claim the lead again. In a glock-eco by .DE.DK.PL, Filip "Neo" Kubski managed to pick up an AWP, after finishing off Marcus "Delpan" Larsson on the inner-bombsite. This put INFERNO-ONLINE in a difficult position, a position .DE.DK.PL took clear advantage off and won the map with 16-10.

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The Grand Final will take place at 16:00CET on Saturday, once again featuring a best-of-three map format. Who do you think will win it?


AdreN, Zeus, starix, hooch & Dosia

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You can find a few selected POV demos from the matches by clicking here, more will follow tomorrow.