So with the summary of the teams complete, H2k have taken an alternative look into the competition, selecting the teams which we personally believe should have the spotlight for particular underdog reasons. This is an exclusive H2k News Feature and Alternative Pre-Coverage, enjoy.

I start this news post off by focusing on probably the most popular discussion at the moment. Qoob. Qoob are a South African originating COD4 team, and I feel they should be spotlighted particularly because of their nationality. This team has not only had the privilege of having its own country host the 2010 World Cup Football, but now has the ability to boast they have a full team lock and loaded ready for Histories biggest COD4 BYOC LAN event.

QOOB - South Africa, first the World Cup, now AEF.

The team, one of its kind out of 55 other teams, has a sophisticated line-up of 5 South African players, who have been the skeptical of the Community’s eyes with other players growing all the more curious to who exactly the first African tea participating in a European cup are.

Despite their short time playing together as a team, they find themselves already familiar within the scene and renowned in Africa as somewhat National heroes, boosting their much-needed confidence for the competition.

The Line-up is as follows:

Trevor qu1k_sh0t Henry
Greg Rora Van Der Spuy
Andrew xiR Harper
Wesley W1ckeD Hatfield
Alan K1ddo Hatfield 

Its hard to quote this team as the no.1 South African team, because of the lack of LANs there, their results only consist online of tournaments and one-night cups which are highly rated within the COD4 scene.

It is also hard to expect massive results from this team, but we’ve seen mad things happen in history which relate to underdogs, so you can call it pressure, you can call it confidence-boost, but all this hype is well deserved and I wish this team all the best of luck in the competition.

Luck Of The Irish For 'Good In Theory'?

Another team, which I am proud to be discussing, is a team, which the spotlight seems to have missed on other content websites: Good In Theory. Has nobody noticed that these are the only Irish team supporting the competition? Good In Theory are also an out-numbered underdog team, having 5 Irish Players out of roughly 280-odd participating in the event. Although a fairly unknown team within the scene, and not many sources online relating to their team line-up, one can only wish this team the best of luck as they represent the small island which parts from the United Kingdom. They go into the competition not only representing themselves, not only the United Kingdom, but also Ireland as an independency. Good Luck to the players as they pursue the pot of gold at the end of the COD4 competition in Belgium!

Germany 4v52, But How Many Will Qualify?

The final spotlight focus to be introduced is Germany. There are only four German teams participating in the Belgium event this weekend, and it is important to remember this could bring pressure to said teams because they aren't only representing themselves, but together they are representing Germany. Two of these teams are two very well-known and very well-respected teams, team SPEED-LINK and ThermalTake. Both well established teams within their regional scenes, it will definitely be a very good competition if both of these two teams qualified and even met each other further in the competition.

The other two German-based teams participating in the competition are two fairly well-known names within the scene, with some well-performed online/offline results. These two teams have some further pressure because they dont just have to compete as Germany, but they also have two higher anarchy German teams in the mix. These two teams are known as Hardware4u Gaming and Anexis Esports. 

What brings further controversy to this event is the unfortunate draw of results for the groups. Both Anexis and SPEED-LINK appear in the same group, narrowing the chances of all the German teams qualifying the group stages. With this in mind we wish the teams the best of luck and hope that even with the odds stacked against them they prevail and show the rest of the competition why they dont need the German Octopus to predict them the first place prize.

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