European Nations Championship

The four best European national teams will be gathering this week to fight for, who gets to be the best in Europa. Four strong squads made it to the finals.

The finals will as many other things, take place at Games Convention Leipzig, Germany. This edition of ESL ENC had a really tough group A, consisting of Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Russia and Sweden had to fight for the spots. The two big disappointments would be Finland and Sweden, who finished last in group A. Never the less, Denmark ended first in their group. The second group, group B consisted of Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Turkey and Hungary. Norway played a really great groupstage with 5 wins out of 5 possible. Four teams made it to the finals, the teams are as follows.

Germany

Jan "mooN" Stolle (aTTaX)
Roman "roman" Ausserdorfer (aTTaX)
Benjamin "paN" von Mulert (aTTaX)
Navid "Kapio" Javadi (mouz.wazap.com)
Manuel "Tixo" Makohl (mouz.wazap.com)

Denmark

Brian "hpx" Christensen (Team NoA)
Jonas "whiMp" Svendsen (theclan)
Muhamed "mJe" Eid (Team NoA)
Martin "zone" Eilertsen (theclan)
Danny "zonic" Sørensen (Team NoA)

Poland

Filip "Neo" Kubski (PGSPokerStrategy.com)
Wiktor "TaZ" Wojtas (PGSPokerStrategy.com)
Lukasz "LUq" Wnek (PGSPokerStrategy.com)
Adam "ruloN" Wisniewski (Team UNITED)
Tomasz "SHEEN" Kacprzak (Team UNITED)

Norway

Ola "elemeNt" Moum (MYM)
Preben "prb" Gammelsæter (MYM)
Geir-Stian "juve9le"R. Svendsen (MYM)
Thomas "r00fz" Solli (Convention)
Øyvind "KF3" Magnestad (Convention)

The four teams will be be playing double elimination and best of one map. The first match will take place at 11.00CET on Friday 24th. The matchups for the first round are.

Denmarkvs Germany
Denmark- hpx, whiMp, mJe, zone & zonic
Germany- mooN, roman, paN, Kapio & Tixo
Friday 24th 12.00CET
Map: TBA

Norwayvs Poland
Norway- elemeNt, prb, juve9le, r00fz & KF3
Poland- Neo, TaZ, Luq, ruloN & SHEEN
Friday 24th 11.00CET
Map: TBA

The final bracket can be found here.

Prize money distribution

1st Place: 15.000 $
2nd Place: 7.000 $
3rd Place: 5.000 $
4th Place: 2.500 $

HLTV.org will of course be covering the finals with HLTV, scores, demos and news. Drop by our coverage section for the brackets and scores.