Main Round about to be formed
In the beginning, many teams had to play the Qualifying Rounds 1 and 2, and after that, ENC had twelve teams that fought for a spot on the Main Round, where another six teams were waiting (these ones didn't need to play the qualifying because of their performance on the last seasons). These teams are:
The six teams already on the Main Round (the stars is GosuGamers rating of the teams, ***** is best)
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rtt/flag2/denmark.gif Denmark *****
This team might be the overall favourite team, as they got all the stars from the Ravens team together with former mym player Playmate
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rtt/flag2/jerman.gif Germany *****
Also a team many people expect to be in the top with players from dmZ and Ks.Int they should be ready to perform well
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rtt/flag2/swedia.gif Sweden ****
Made of former SK and the swedish part of former mouz and some other swedish top-players. Loda recently made a new team, TLT, so he is probably in good shape and ready to lead this team through the tournament.
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rtt/flag2/ukraina.gif Ukraine ****
Even though DTS havent preformed super lately, they still got a lot of power in players like Travka and shouldnt be underestimated.
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rtt/flag2/rusia.gif Russia ****
Russia was probably the best team in the old VP/Rush3d days, but now Russian teams arent really at the top anymore, but still they should be able to do something with players like Azen, Blowyourbrain and Lightofheaven.
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rt...2/norwegia.gif Norway ***
With Xeodive players Nike and NozG, they have players from the top of the dota-scene, and they might do well.
The six qualification teams
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rtt/flag2/kroasia.gif Croatia *
With Minitito as leader, they might do well, but besides minitito they dont have many top-players and they will have a hard time against the big nations.
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rt...2/bulgaria.gif Bulgaria *
Bulgaria have a collection of players from ReT, but besides that they dont have many top-players and like Croatia they will have a hard time
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rtt/flag2/rumania.gif Romania ***
Consisting mostly of TEG and Next players they have a decent team and should be able to do well.
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rt...2/slovakia.gif Slovakia **
Mostly SGC. Should be underestimated, but SGC havent been very active recently so it is hard to tell.
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rtt/flag2/czech.gif Czech Republic *
Consisting of Esuba, who havent performed well lately, and other rather unknown Czech player, so the expatations for Czech isnt really that high, but still they shouldn't be underestimated as they managed to beat United Kingdom in qualifier.
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rt...2/polandia.gif Poland **
Players from Low HP and UU. Looks liek a decent team, but Low HP havent didnt perform very well in last Pick League, so it is hard to tell.
We at GosuGamers got statements from some players who are fighting this championship. Check them out!
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rt...2/bulgaria.gif (UtherX) Bulgaria has some great DotA players and we finally were able to show our quality by successfully qualifying for the Main Round in the DotA ENC 2009. We are really proud of our achievement and we'll try to play even better in the groupstage. It will be hard to face teams such as Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Romania, etc., but we have faith in our ability. We wish good luck to all participants in the main round and may the best team win.
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rt...2/slovakia.gif (SGC`Tulex) To be honest I dont think we would be able to reach the absolute top against allstar teams of Germany, Russia or Denmark, but as you already saw in a game against Israel we have a potential! Our goal would be therefore lets say 8th place and higher. We arent much prepared since most of players would rather go train with their own teams instead of nations team(Especially we SGC bastards)
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rtt/flag2/czech.gif (eSuba|SuRpR1se) The main round will probably be the moment of truth. There are many good teams in the tournament and we are aware of the difficulty of our upcoming match. We haven't been training a lot, we have played just three matches so far which we have hopefully won. We would like to use some unusual strategy and take our enemies by surprise. We hope for more nice matches with a happy ending.
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rtt/flag2/kroasia.gif (CRO|CroXo) Hello, Iīm CroXo, team manager of the Croatian national team. Our chance to reach the finals are not very high, cause there are a lot of national teams with players from great clans. Our goal is to reach the third place in the group stage to ensure the main round in the next season. We didnīt train very often, but we trained a little bit before the ENC has started. We are going to prepare very well for the mainround , cause we know that we have to fight against big teams.
We wish every team good luck and a lot of fun :=)
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rtt/flag2/ukraina.gif (DendiQQQQQQQQQQ) i think we going to be top1-2-3
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rtt/flag2/swedia.gif (LodaQ) We're really looking forward for this season of ENC, mostly caus we are a new team and we need to get some high lvl games played! I believe that the first few games will decide if we will own this season or suck =)
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rtt/flag2/rusia.gif (blowyourbrain1d) We are rdy for 100% and aiming only top 1. we are playing wit this team for the first time on such a tournament and we definitely will do anything to become the best.
http://www.indogamers.us/ftpidgs2/rt...2/polandia.gif (PDL|LowHP^Cup) Okay everybody, here we are! The Polish nation amongst the best of the world. We are ready like neve before to conquer ESL Nations Cup! With such personalities, as EG.Fanat1c, Marian, Yrk, BeMyValentine and other representatives of, LowHP and UF Gaming we are ready to place the polish flag as high as possible.
On May 27th, ENC will know the teams which will face each other. The games starts on June, 1st and ends on July, 5th. We will be covering the Main round with news and replays, don't miss it!
source: Gosugamer
