Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to announce the last #ET-Cup Final ever(?).

It will be a clash between two equally skilled teams, two teams who have never met before - at least not with this lineup composition.Both teams have got Eurocup experience - one some more so then the other. One team was formed more than a year ago and the other just some months ago. One team was recently in the headlines for not going to CDC 4 and the other for reaching 5th in the recent Eurocup!
Every single visitor with an IQ above the average and good scene knowledge, should know about who I am talking about. Yeah, your guess is right; We got the strong polish powerhouse Authentic-Gaming who will fight against the nearly all croatian side Cortana.

Both teams have overwhelmed their opponets in this competition and have progresses with ease.

Here's how both teams got here...

Authentic-Gaming:
Groupstage:
» won vs. aero
» won vs. n1ce
» won vs. decline

Playoffs:
» won vs. suffering
» won vs. Incomplete!
» won vs. onemove

They only lost 1 map against n1ce.et!

Cortana:
Groupstage:
» won vs. Proliferate
» won vs. Bahama Mamas
» won vs. Friendly Fire

Playoffs:
» won vs. cave'coh
» won vs. Mentiz
» won vs. bSTURZ

They only lost 1 map against Mentiz!

The Final will take place next Tuesday. So make sure you get your popcorn!!

Matchdetails:
¬ Date/Time: Tuesday, 22th January @ 21.00 CET
¬ Maps: sw_Grush_te/Radar
¬ ETTv-IPs: ETTV-IP
¬ Lineups:
Authentic-Gaming: Michalek, zMk, dialer, naga., phobeus, krein
Cortana: rimi, frozz, gmx, calisto, mama, komar

As usual, we got in touch with a member from each team,

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gmx: We know that authentic is a strong team from poland, we never met them on the battlefield but we are confident and we will do our best not to let down our managament @ cortana and win. Sad to hear they're not going to cdc lan. Shoutout to TAG.

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Esclaw: Our way to the final was quite easy, we havent got any problems with our opponents. But now, in the final, we will meet the strongest team in the cup. I can only say that we will do our best to win this game.

Additionally I asked some people for their Predictions:

PetriP-TNT: I'd love to give it but I'm not really in with the scene lately so I don't really know their line-ups and all... is cortana that FroZZens team? If so, 4-0 to Authentic. They got fobje and all!

Worm: Since authentic is playing really solid their last games, and they're (most likely) going to the upcoming CDC4, they're in my favour. Although Cortana shouldn't be underestimated, they've been playing together for a long time.
But what this game concerns, I'll go for Authentic as the outcoming winner, In a close fight. 4-2 Auth!

chosen: authentic proved to be inet only - so i guess we have the upcoming and last et cup champion in a very bad shape and far from deserved.
It was a nice cup though and it's very bad for et to let such an organisation go inactive. I wish the best of luck to cortana.

decem: hard to say since its played online, offline it would be without doubt cortana, but I believe the experience & talent of eurocup frozz will lead cortana to atleast 4-2 victory, if not 4-0.

Besides I watched both semi-finals again and I was about to write a Matchreport for both - but since I was a bit drunken last night and just woke up some minutes ago I am out of time. Sorry for this.
Nevertheless I hope you`ll enjoy the match - thx for the time and thx to spree for the banner!

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