Sydney Gamers League LAN and Team Exile5

On Saturday the 28th of January over 16 players from Team Exile5 embarked on a journey, a competitive gaming journey. The players represented two separate divisions, Battlefield and Call of Duty who were prepared to compete against some of the best competition in Australia.

The LAN was located at Rosehill Racecourse Exhibition centre which had booked over 500 prepaid seats and was prepared to host over 1000’s visitors and gamers. The event hosted games ranging from Real Time Strategy, First Person Shooters and even social games such as a pool table and ping pong. The main competitions our teams were competing in were Call of Duty: Professional, Battlefield 3 8v8s and 4v4s which are currently two of the most seriously competitive FPS games on the market.

The Call of Duty: Pro competition consisted of 12 x 5 man teams that had players that are considered freakishly good and teams that are possibly rated best in Oceania. The Day 1 competition was a group format elimination which had 2 groups of 6 teams with the top 3 in each group moving through to the final stage on Day 2. On Day 2 the top tier teams competed in a knockout format in a Best of 3 maps.

The Team Exile5 team progressed through the competitors calmly and made it into the Grand Final in which they versed MindFreak in nail biting intense match. Unfortunately Exile5 Call of Duty lost in the Grand Final match in a close ending coming second overall in the Call of Duty: Pro.

From Left to Right: Spachala, Qwertz, Bradalz, Presto, Samson

The Competition in 8v8 Battlefield 3 consisted of 9 teams which is huge amount of players, especially at lan. The main dominant teams in the Competition were Carnage, NFY, Star Warriors and Team Exile5 who progressed into the finals after a round robin tournament.

Team Exile5 made it into the Grand Finals against Carnage in a Best of 3 maps competition. Carnage selected Grand Bazaar for the first match where Team Exile5 won both Rounds on the map by only a limited ticket margin. Team Exile5 selected Damavand Peak which can be one of the most difficult maps if you make a single error. The Exile5 team won the map by a significant margin making them the Battlefield 3 8v8 Champions.

Top Row from left : Frnzy, Sol, Syrim, Cryptik
Bottom row from left: Floormassacre, ViBe, Cecil, 1mmort4l, Beefay

The next Competition was Battlefield 3 4v4s with around 8 solid teams. The Exile5 team split into two and both teams mananged to make it into "x5 vs x5 Grand Final" after knocking out Carnage and NFY their main competitors. The Grand Final map played was Grand Bazaar which ended up being a seriously close match between the two teams although Alpha team managed to scrape through with 4-2 win.

SGL was one of the most interactive and engaging environments that you have be there to experience it.

Top row from left: , Frnzy, Samson, Cryptik, Sol, Beefay, Syrim, Presto, Bradalz
Bottom row from left: Floormassacre, Qwertz, ViBe, 1mmort4l, Cecil, Spachala

Special mention to everyone who was there who made the event what it was and the sponsors Western Digital, Coolermaster, CM Storm and iinet for getting us there and providing us with gear to make us guarantee our results. We would also like to say a massive congratulations and thanks to our friends and organisers at Sydney Gamers Leage (SGL) for putting it all together again for 1,500 bandwidth hungry gamers.

http://www.sgl.org.au/

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