AEF Pre-Coverage [Part 1]: The Teams
By JAYYYY on Thursday 29 July 2010
H2k take a unique look on the Antwerp Esports Festival this Weekend in Antwerp, Belgium. H2k will be covering the whole of the event but we thought we would get a little preview on who?s involved, some interesting facts and what H2k are expecting to take away from the event. ? All split into 3 exciting news installments.
With the 
Antwerp Esports Festival (Antwerp, Belgium – AEF) around the corner, we thought we would get a fairly unique look on the weekend-event, looking at the stars, the underdogs, and of course our very own competitors, H2k-Gaming. Recently thanks to Vita Nova, the groups and seeding have gone live, with mixed emotions on some of the teams and their particular seeding predictions. The preview coverage will be split into three instalments, #1: A look at the competition, #2: The Groups: The Exclusive H2k Spotlights and finally #3: 
H2k Gaming & 
ThermalTake - The Story and possibly some final predictions from the players at the very end.
This installment, being the first, will be a fairly vague overview of the groups that will be participating in the AEF COD4 event. This is because with 56 teams all-together competing, it’s going to be a very long read if we went in-depth. This will lead on to the second installment which will allow what we believe are ‘unique’ teams or teams we feel should get a glance at the spotlight, this then leads on to a final installment which allows the spotlight to be turned to our very own H2k and ThermalTake teams. WARNING: This is a very long read, but very productive to get an insight on the groups and their standings - If you would like to skip straight to the Summary of the Groups - CLICK HERE
Now we take an overlook at all of the groups, giving a summary of each group, the expectations, seeding and predictions. Starting with Group A.
Group A:
This group contains a fair few new and old faces. Fnatic and 
TLR are two well-established and well-known teams which will be battling it out in the event. Fnatic, given the seeding prediction of 1st, have the pressure on to perform in event, but with the likes of “Stevy” it ‘shouldn’t be a problem’. TLR come back with a fairly new line-up, only being picked up 2 weeks before the event, they claim this doesn’t add any pressure and although are hoping for top3, they are happy to be facing the likes of Fnatic and hope to make an impression in the tournament.
I personally believe this group has all the spotlight teams in the competition. These teams are not only representing themselves or their organizations, but also their countries. With teams such as 
Five, 
AIRBORNE Gaming and 
Good In Theory participating the event being the solo teams representing their respective countries, its definitely one group that should be kept an eye on, all eager to impress the crowd!
Other teams in the competition include two Belgium teams, Adversity and s!de effex, both wanting to impress on their home soil as they rage through the Belgium Event.
Group B:
This group contains such organizations as #1vital.dBGame.EU,
Vivarium, 
oSk Gaming and SIXDAYS. These teams are all participating the event with the teams of achieving the top 3 positions. As with every other team in the competition, its definitely going to be a grudge match.
There’s some more familiar faces in this group, appearing YoYoTech and RAGE.nl. Both teams will be looking to out-play the other both being seeded in consecutive positions (8th and 9th) so they will be looking to prove the predictions wrong and take it one step further…
Another Unique team is 
Qoob. First hosting the World Cup for 2010, now representing South Africa, being the only South African team for many years on the COD4 scene and also in the Benelux competition.
Group C:
Group C contains a lot of familiar faces, whether seeded or not, the likes of 
TCM-Gaming, SPEED-LINK, Epsilon and Team fuZion in the group, it will be one that can only lead in ‘every man for himself’ with every team wanting to excel as early as possible in the competition.
Other teams appearing in this group are plusONE, Hardware4u and Team Visualize, all sophisticated teams with the ability to top the qualifiers if luck is on their side.
Group D:
Group D contains our very own H2k, after months of practice for the event they go with the intention of not only making an impression, but also winning the event if possible. Already being seeded 3rd the confidence and moral of the team high, and they hope to leave at the same level.
Some fairly known faces in this group, 4Dead Gaming and iQPAD being two of them, with iQPAD being seeded 14th, they are looking to only push the predictions and beat them. Some teams that are looking to make an impression on the competition are B1G, 
PGS Gaming, Intolerance Esports and Anexis Gaming, making it hard for the spotlighted teams to qualify.
Group E:
Out of the blue it seems that neighbours will have to clash. Both Nemesis Esports & Nemesis Esports teams have been drawn for this group, so it proves to be battle of the nations as England meets Holland in a battle to gain bragging rights within their shared organisation.Reason Gaming and 
eSbua make an appearance in this group, both being two well-respected teams. With eSuba’s team originating from the Czech Republic and Reason being one of the British Pride teams, Both these have been seeded in the top 15 brackets (eSuba 14th and Reason 4th).
This competition also includes Team Infused, New Cool Collective and vital.dBGamez– who are looking to qualify in order to hopefully meet their European counterparts later in the competition. (Group B)
Group F:
Power Gaming, being seeded 5th in the competition is a team, which are definitely trying to top the top 3 positions. Being seeded only 2 places below the top 3 puts an impression on them, which can push them to make it happen.
Also featuring in this group is Fragmasters, Iuro, Psychotic Gaming, MouseControl and Visualize Your Enmity. Fragmasters hope to live up to their CS:S shadow, being one of their most infamous teams for performance and Mouse Control becoming a talked-about team within the scene which puts more pressure on them to make an impression on the rest of the competition at AEF.
RAGE.Esports are also featured in this group, the only Russian team in the organisation, which hope to outplay their counterparts which appear in group B, showing that Russia > Holland if met further in the competition.
Group G:
This group contains the likes of 
zeroPoint! From Hungary, one team that has already been spotlighted by Tek-9 as a main competetor in the competition, stating they are definitely ready to bring their A-game in order to shock the public with their positive results being seeded 10th already. Imperial are another well known team being seeded 7th, they bring their European line-up to the competition with the sheer ambition to dominate their group and take it further than 7th place.
Other teams featured include Team-Sypher, Team Omega, Origine-online, waL* and 
Gamersreject. Gamersreject, being the only Croatian team in the competition, hope to show that their regional players are ones to watch out for. Origine-online and Team-Sypher bring up some controversy being two strong French teams in the competition, narrowing the chances of all French teams qualifying in the competition, they look to show each other who is the stronger.
Group H:
This final group in the 56-team competition contains thermaltake, one aspiring team, which we can say, have been practicing for this event for the past 2 months, making two team-changes with their aims to WIN the competition in Belgium this weekend. High hopes, good luck!
Obvious faces Dignitas have been seeded 2nd, and are coming confidently to the event this weekend, hoping to take it further and take the gold medal in Belgium, being another highly British-pride organisation its one everyone will most-definitely be monitoring.
Other teams featured include MondialServers (15th), Team Derailed – who again, shadow their infamous CS:S team which have already made an impression in the GB Source Scene, DreaM Gaming, Aimotion and Sublime Multigaming.
So lets take another look at the groups and their standings/seeding:
Group A:
Group B:
Group C:
Group D:
Group E:
Group F:
Group G:
Group H:
Source: http://www.tek-9.org/news/aef_groups_released_by_vita_nova-2934.html?page=5
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