*** UPDATED WITH GRAND FINAL RESULTS ***The playoff for the norwegian ESWC-spot starts this saturday. The winning team will take home 25,000 NOK + travel expenses down to Paris. The first semifinal is due to start tonight at 20.00 CET, with the second one sunday at 10.00 CET. The matches will be played on stage, with best of three maps!The online qualifier for the norwegian ESWC-playoff ended last saturday, and the two teams that qualified for two of the four spots in the playoff was:Winner of 1st online qual. Horses of Lars (sigurd,chobo,nov,cy,hlars)Winner of 2nd online qual. BX3.Orcbite(m1kkis,phnien,skurki,prb,polly)In the BYOC played at BYLAN, AGENT.no took a winning streak, beating Infurity.mix in the Winnerbracket-final securing them a spot in the playoff. The last spot for the playoff was taken by Glanslaget! They secured the fourth and final spot after beating Lions 16-12 in the last round of loserbracket, and getting a massive 16-2 win in the consolidation final vs infurity.mix! Firesenz was really great in these matches!Lineups:AGENT.no (centeks,spity,yakin,baseraper,ultra)Glanslaget (kalsa, maak, andz, ensa, firesenz)ESWC qualifier playoff BO3 Semifinal 1 Saturday 20:00 CET:BX3.orcbite vs AGENT.noDe_Inferno 13-16De_Nuke 12-16AGENT.NO moves on to the Grand Final!AGENT.NO knocks BX3.orcbite out in the first semifinal! We just saw two great maps, where BASE, spity and yakin really clutched so many rounds. prb and m1kkis put up a really great effort, but in the end the teamplay of AGENT.no was unbeatable. You could hear the teams shouting behind the casters as the rounds were played out, so this was a great piece of norwegian gaming history.ESWC qualifier playoff BO3 Semifinal 2 Sunday 10:00 CET:HoS vs GlanslagetMAP1: WO 16-0MAP2: De_dust2 16-14Horses Of Lars eliminates Glanslaget!Glanslaget failed to meet up at the 10.00 CET deadline for this semifinal. The reason is unknown for me, but they really could not afford the one map penalty. On De_dust2 it was a tight game,but Horses Of Lars won their first map 16-14! They came with cold fingers, as they haven't played since the online qualifier last weekend. Good game.ESWC qualifier playoff BO3 Bronzefinale Sunday 13:00 CET:BX3.orcbite vs Glanslaget2-1 !BX3.orcbite secures 3rd place!BX3.Orcbite takes a disappointing 3rd place in this national qualifier. Im sure they had hoped for more. The 5000NOK is at least not too bad for a 3rd place. Lets hope they will bounce back quickly!ESWC qualifier playoff BO3 Grand Final Sunday 18:00 CET:AGENT.no vs Horses Of LarsMAP1: 16-14MAP2: 16-10AGENT WINS THE NORWEGIAN ESWC QUALIFIER!AGENT.no wins a dramatic game versus Horses of Lars! Ultra's team takes home a very nice 25000NOK including travel expenses for the trip to Paris 30. October! The team was qualified for the playoff through a very hard BYOC tournament at BYLAN. And without even a single map lost to anyone, they manage to win the playoff too! Horses of Lars takes home 12500NOK for the 2nd place. Congratulations to Norways Best Counter Strike:GO team; AGENT!Brackets: http://binarybeast.com/xCSGO1310055#brackets VODS:IRC Channel: http://#ESWC.no-csgomale - Below you can find information about the BYOC. -This weekend the two last spots for the playoff will be decided with a 16-team BYOC at ByLAN, in Bergen. The playoff with the final four teams is set to be played Saturday evening and Sunday morning.The teams competing are the following:Agent.no (centeks,spity,yakin,baseraper,ultra)Lions (rubino,krs,paint,tiller,slaaen)H2k (Leffa,tacky,rod,centryZ,moen)Foreign.no (equal,bamzE,aimingwrist,Begave,mercurio)Xcluded (aim,hellnex,HELLFIRE,CYNEX,FiX)Mighty Morphine flower (SawYer,Woltoros,Hjelleboy,Matty,Uranus)Glanslaget (kalsa, maak, andz, ensa, firesenz)Bergen Seagulls (Akerizor,mÅke,Clodicity ,Oytal,NinjaSåkk)Swag (unknown lineup)Kjør bare kjør (krtoi,centralize ,BarryBombPlant,Artiefex,LaFlamme)Pythagoras (Racego,Sour4Powe ,xxxZolidxxx ,The Skylab ,Norwayhap22)Infurity.mix (Sirius,sKratch ,Miztaken ,Mystic,Drolsum)Kompanjong (unknown lineup)Lions 2(female): (HaySS,aurora,HellRose,Cazzidy,Hedje)Well, the first day of the BYOC is over, and teams such as Lions 2, Bergen Seagulls, Pythagoras, MMF and kompanjong has been eliminated.Glanslaget took a great win versus Lions (16-7?) in the first round. Unfortunately they were set up against h2k,and after a very tight match where maak(glanslaget) played a great game they lost 16-13. Other worthy mentions is that 'kjør bare kjør' has won two great matches versus 'swæg' and 'MMF'! they wil now be put up to a bigger test, seeing AGENT.no as their opponent. Also we can see that 'infurity.mix' has won two in a row vs two actual clans; foreign.no and xcluded. It will be exciting to see what they can do against h2k!The semifinal matches of winner bracket are the following:AGENT.no vs kjør bare kjør 16-5infurity.mix vs h2k 16-5Loserbracket round two:xcluded vs Bergen Seagulls 25-21glanslaget vs swæg 16-0Loserbracket round three:team foreign vs Lions 15-19xcluded vs glanslaget 1-16*** UPDATE ***We are moving closer to the finals of the BYOC, AGENT.no just played a 16-5 win versus KBK. Infurity.mix took a massive win against 'strong-on-paper' h2k! 16-5 was the score and for me it seems like the norwegian scene is completely open as for now. This means the first teams ready for the winnerbracket final are AGENT.no and Infurity.mix! The winner of this match will get a spot in the final four.In the loserbracket we just saw a great match between Lions and foreign. Lions got a great start leading 7-1 as terrorists, but after that the match was pretty much tight. Aimingwrizt put in a very good performance for foreign side, forcing Lions to overtime. In the overtime Lions made sure they won the pretty easy. Worth mentioning is Rubino's great play, KRS's fast scoping and slaaen's 4kill! This means we will se a very interesting match in the fourth round of loserbracket. Tacky's h2k will play versus Lions, and this match will be streamed at twitch. The other match in loserbracket is not set yet due to some delay in round two, but it's very likely we'll see KBK vs the great aimers of glanslaget!Loserbracket round four:KBK vs glanslaget 0-16Lions vs h2k 16-13Winnerbracket final:AGENT.no vs Infurity.mix 16-11***UPDATE*** - AGENT.NO third team to playoff! -Lions has just won a very tight match against h2k, sending tacky and cENTRYZ home a bit earlier than most of us had thought! glanslaget continue their streak with a massive 16-1 win versus xcluded. Now glanslaget wil be put up to a big test versus centralize's KBK, and the winner here will meet Lions for the last match of the loserbracket. In the winnerbracketfinal, AGENT.no won 16-11 against Infurity.mix! This means that AGENT.no just got a place in the final four playoff, and Infurity.mix will face either Lions/KBK/Glanslaget in the consolidation final. This match will decide the last spot in the playoff!Loserbracket round 5:glanslaget vs Lions 16-12Consolation FinalInfurity.mix vs glanslaget 2-16 !Brackets: http://binarybeast.com/xCSGO1310040 VODS:IRC Channel: http://#ESWC.no-csgomale News: BX3.Orcbite have taken "emop" under their wings.