Belgium vs Sweden
The chosen server was Chef's. Both teams pinged about 50 there so it was an equal choice. By the way, belgians insisted on playing on tourney server so they got it. Sweden picked their best map dm1 and dm7, Belgium's choice wasn't any surprise either - dm2 and dm5.
First map: dm2
I can prolly say that there was equal fight for red armor and lift. Both teams shared it and none seemed to be better in this area. Anyway whole Belgium team was more focused for this position so they had some problems in quad area. Actually not some, frza was getting almost everyquad and made a lot of quadruns. Though he didn't frag as much as he could. At the end belgians tried to comeback and, I think, they would have, but there was very little time left, so Sweden won this map with no surprises in the end. Anyway, I want to mention Gerdt who was true leader of his team trying to control everything on the map. Generally, all players were good on this map, maybe only bubkez and smalle wasn't warmed up yet.
Second map: dm1
As MgC said, Belgium isn't that good on dm1. They proved it... Amazing performance from all swedes.
Last map: dm5
As I expected, Belgium tried to take lead from the beginning here, but they didn't succeed. Anyway for first half of the game they were resisting very well. There was an even fight for armor and quad. With armored Gerdt attacking quad, Belgium even had lead some times. Anyway since the middle of the game their tactics crashed. NaSSaL got most red armors and went for quads. He and the whole Sweden team didn't let belgians to take quads and ruled the whole map. Anyway both teams showed great game, especially Gravgon with his 300 pings.
Conclusion
Although nothing surprising happened, it wasn't such a rape and Belgium can be proud of themselves. Also good luck for Sweden in the very exiting Loser Bracket final!
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