Wolves, PD, Na`Vi, n! to EMS Finals

Groups C & D of the RaidCall EMS One Fall Group stage have now concluded, and it was Copenhagen Wolves, Party Daddlers, Natus Vincere and n!faculty who won their spots for the LAN Finals later this month, while notably Astana Dragons failed to move on.

In Group C yesterday, German side featuring best Dutch player Chris "chrisJ" de Jong knocked out the team of CIS superstars Astana Dragons, first beating them 21-17 on de_mirage_ce and then in the rematch for second place 16-8 on de_cache.

dupreeh continued his amazing form and led CPH Wolves to the LAN finals

Despite suffering some DDoS attacks, Copenhagen Wolves strolled to the first place of that group, defeating solemn 16-3 on de_dust2_se and then Party Daddlers 16-2 on de_mirage_ce.

Here are the complete stats from Group C participants:

Group D took place today and Natus Vincere made sure that the CIS region will be represented in Germany by defeating ALTERNATE 16-12 on de_dust2_se and n!faculty 16-11 on the same map to take the first place.

Na`Vi will be going to Cologne

In the losers' match ALTERNATE and AWESOME played overtime to stay in contention for second place, and the German team prevailed 21-18 on de_inferno_se. However, n!faculty got the better of them on de_dust2_se with an easy 16-5 victory, joining NiP and fnatic as the third Swedish team at the Finals.

Astana Dragons and ALTERNATE will have to settle for having secured spots for Winter season's cups, while these 8 teams will be making their way to Cologne, Germany in two weeks' time.

VeryGames	NiP	CPH Wolves	Natus Vincere
UniversalSoldiers	fnatic	Party Daddlers	n!faculty

As it was announced recently, the format of the Finals will be different this time, starting out with double elimination group stage on day one, followed by semi-finals and the final on day two.

Also worth mentioning is that despite using the "_se" maps throughout the season, ESL will now switch to regular maps for the LAN event.

If you live nearby or plan on traveling to Cologne for the event, you can purchase the tickets to the venue with a 25% discount by using promotional code "hltvorg" at the official website.

HLTV.org will be on-site to bring you full coverage of RaidCall EMS One Fall 2013 Finals from October 26-27th in Cologne, Germany.