The second group stage is over. France and Germany have qualified for the offline finals. Bulgaria, Sweden, Czech Republic and Russia will play deciding matches.
With France's win over Greece earlier tonight, they were ranked just above Bulgaria, being automatically qualified for the offline event hosted later this summer. They needed five points to get ahead of Bulgaria, and the French team surely did deliver. 5 straight wins, every match ending 2-0. Strong names as ToD, Wolf, PheniX and blaST made sure that France will be the ones who qualifies automatically together with Germany.
France defeats Greece 5-0 (10-0) | |||||||||||||||||||
PheniX | > | Vankor | 2-0 blaST | > | ZoRD | 2-0 | ToD | > | iblazatar | 2-0 | Wolf | > | Thomas | 2-0 | ToD | Wolf > | ZoRD | iblazatar 2-0 | |
Looking at the rankings, we see that France and Germany won their groups, and Bulgaria and Sweden placing as the runner-ups in each group. Third place went to Czech Republic and Russia. This means that Bulgaria goes up against Russia, and Sweden faces off against Czech Republic. The winner of these deciding matches will also be travelling to the offline finals striving to win the first prize which is 6,000€.
ENC Group A Ranking | |||||
# | Team | P | W | L | +/- |
1. | France | 18 | 3 | 2 | 40:19 |
2. | Bulgaria | 17 | 5 | 0 | 38:19 |
3. | Czech... | 13 | 3 | 2 | 28:30 |
4. | Denmark | 11 | 3 | 2 | 28:31 |
5. | Switzerland | 11 | 1 | 4 | 24:33 |
6. | Greece | 5 | 0 | 5 | 15:41 |
ENC Group B Ranking | |||||
# | Team | P | W | L | +/- |
1. | Germany | 19 | 4 | 1 | 42:18 |
2. | Sweden | 19 | 4 | 1 | 39:21 |
3. | Russia | 14 | 4 | 1 | 35:27 |
4. | Netherlands | 9 | 1 | 4 | 24:36 |
5. | Ukraine | 8 | 2 | 3 | 21:36 |
6. | Poland | 6 | 0 | 5 | 18:41 |
Links
ESL.eu/ENC - European Nations Championship