LowLandLions
Qualification: Winner of the EPS Master Cup
Category: Challenger
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 DE THAEYE, Jannick (duncan)
 GERRITSEN, Roy (r0y)
ÖFKELI, Kenneth (Ofkeli)
PINTO, Decio (deci)
WUDDHISUKHIM, Ivan (Apollo) |
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LANGEROCK, Filip (dusty) - team manager |
LowLandLions’ birthday is still a long way to go, going live in February 2008. The birth of this Counter-Strike team find its roots in the last line-up of DigitalMind – ooh boy, this name is very popular. After D. Seesing (seezung, red.) and R. Gerritsen (r0y, red.) said goodbye to each other, last one mentioned received a task from his former management to form a new team. Gerritsen took the majority of Defusekids – they played one event under RedCode, but that name wasn’t a very lucrative deal for them – and choose to drop K. Ofkeli so he could take his place. Things didn’t go the way they planned is a polite way to close the historical dM-chapter. KODE5 was mediocre; almost beating Alternate aTTax (14-16, red.) and on the same day almost losing to the Belgian side 4DFX (16-14, red.) A continuously struggle was visible throughout the entire KODE5-tournament and they never recovered. They choose to hang up their mouse for a while… AGAIN!
Two months later, LowLandLions engaged talks with I. Wuddhisukhim (Apollo, red.) to form a new team. Their failed pad of destruction under DigitalMind, offered LowLandLions the possibility to open conversation with Wuddhisukhim. He decided once again to dust off this gear… and to start his search for a suitable line-up. As the bond with his former team mates was still strong; it was rather an easy choice for him to recruit his old friends K. Ofkeli and Gerritsen. The remaining voids were filled in by youngsters J. De Thaeye (duncan, red.) and D. Pinto (decio, red.), back-upped by one of the finest players in the Benelux Y. Bindo (luce, red.). The latter hasn’t played a single match under the L3-brand, but everyone expects to see him again on national tournaments where five Belgians is a requirement.
It’s not hard to understand why this team didn’t receive an invitation. There wasn’t a LowLandLions CS-team when ESL Benelux announced the EPS. Eager to qualify themselves for this league, to represent their brand, they set their hopes on the Master Cup – a cup between two late night cup-winners. At the other corner stood Rodcad Gaming who got totally destroyed at what saw many as one of RCG’s strongest maps, de_dust2 (4-16, red.). If you had a penny to place your bet on RCG on the second map at that moment, you would be rich today. After the first map, many people thought that the second map was a formality. But… Rodcad surprised friend and foe by revenging their lost map and thus winning de_inferno with an amazing 16-9. L3’s playbook got changed. The last map (de_train, red.) was close, exchanging round after round. Only when an RCG-player dropped due to PC-problems, the game was over for Rodcad. Their faith in victory got ‘lost in Tokyo’. LowLandlions took the advantage and shifted into higher gear; securing their entrance for the EPS Benelux. Harder then anyone had ever expected…
It’s still a mystery what this team will bring in the EPS Benelux. If we look forward to a well-oiled team with star players and young skilled rookies; they are able to overpower anyone, even the untouchable CyberNetsOnline. Let’s see if they get their act together on time.
L3’s EPS-road:
W1 06/04 – 21:00 vs DCC (de_train)
W2 13/04 – 21:00 vs oneway (de_inferno)
W3 20/04 – 00:00 vs CNO (de_nuke) – being played on The Party 6
W4 27/04 – 21:00 vs EDiT.BenQ (de_dust2)
W5 04/05 – 21:00 vs ethereaL (de_nuke)
W6 12/05 – 21:00 vs Logic.MadMouse (de_train)
W7 25/05 – 21:00 vs TEK9 (de_inferno)
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