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Only 2 group games still haven't been played but they can't influence the final ranking that's why we can already start the playoffs.
 Estonia will not be able to play in the playoffs. We consider they were already "out" at the end of the group phase and that's why all their games will be turned into w/o's which changes the ranking in Group A.
*** 1/4 Finals ***
 Sweden vs.  Brazil
 Poland []  USA
 Finland []  Lithuania
 Croatia vs.  Ukraine
Preview by  Gerdt
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NDML 7 Playoff preview
Sweden vs Brazil:
High ping game, expected to be played on a US server. The Brazillians have q2dm1 as homemap and have showed many teams that they know how to play it. In their game vs Poland they managed to keep up with the topplayers on dm1 () but seemed clueless on other maps. They seem to have some high skilled players but (BUT WHAT GERDT ??!!) they really need to work on their mapknowledge and teamplay. On the other side we have the Swedes, who won all of their groupgames with clean 2:0 scores. They're once again one of the favorites to win the NDML and q2dm1 is their second home. Players like purri, ph, pogo, bubkez, zorre, nace, slonken and mobius have played q2dm1 way too much to let Brazil surprise them. This said I expect Sweden to win this game without too much trouble.
Sweden 3:0 Brazil
Poland vs USA:
A.k.a Scooby meets his former country/clanmates. This game will definately be played on home/away servers. Team USA has showed great improvement since last season. The driving force behind the team is without any doubt Scooby. USA has beaten Estonia in the groupgames and have q2dm2 as homemap. They will face Poland, who only lost two maps so far against Finland and will more then likely also pick q2dm2 as their map. This game might turn out into a 5-mapper as I expect both teams to win the maps on their homeservers. Fragcount will thus decide the outcome and I think that one will be in Poland's favor.
My prediction:
Poland 3:2 USA:
Finland vs Lithuania:
Do I even need to introduce them? Finland are the #1 favorites to win NDML again. They have a pretty stable lineup with fragmachines as Damiah, thaigo and provi. They've only lost one map so far against Poland (q2dm2), which happens to be Lithuania's homemap! q2dm2 will thus be the most close one and with a bit of spawnluck Lithuania could surprise and keep up with the Fins. But unless the Lithuanians get MasterT^^ out of the dust they will more then likely lose all maps against the Finish saunaboys.
Finland 3:0 Lithuania
Croatia vs Ukraine:
This will be a very interesting - and also the hardest one to predict - match with both teams having their own 'speciality': q2dm7 for Croatia and q2dm6 for Ukraine. I think Ukraine will win their dm6 and Croatia their dm7. I'm pretty sure that Croatia will pick q2dm1 as their second map and win it without any dificulties. The final outcome will depends on Ukraine's second map which might be q2dm5. This will be a close game but in the end I think Croatia will win it.
Croatia 3:1 Ukraine
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