WCG 2009 Preview: Group H

It is time to finalize the group previews for World Cyber Games, as we have reached the very last group and it is  time to tell you what will go down in Group H.

Group H is a a group of five, it will be up to two teams to decide, who advance as first and who as second. The teams have following lineups:

Evil Geniuses	HellRaisers
Danny "fRoD" Montaner	Ioan "Edward"  Sukharev
Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert	Ivan "Johnta"  Shevcov
Tyler "Storm" Wood	Yegor "markeloff"  Markelov
Travis "tuBBy" Bechtol	Kirill "ANGE1" Karasiow
Matthew "Warden"  Dickens	Georgiy "v0lt" Мazur

Lords of Heaven	_u5_
Khaled "4Lwa7sh" Al Jodar	Yousaf "Carnage" Masud
Abdulla "Blanka" Al Neaimi	Hussain "aRsEnIcK" Mirza
Ali "Sticker"Al Mehairi	M. Umar "MeGaToN"  Nawaz
Reyadh "U43_KB" Al Nuaimi	M. Umar "roObin"  Sajjad
Abdulla "Ztara"Al Muhairi	M Awais "wazZuP"  Saeed

NSD
Abhishek "HeckleR" Sonpar
Bhavesh "LaLa" Nachnani
Aakash "Nobby" More
Vikrant "VicKy"  Shah
Karan "ViPeR_K"  Thadaney

Just as Group G, it is down to two teams to decide, who will claim top spot and who will advance in second place. American qualification winners from Evil Geniuses come into World Cyber Games with a third place finish at ESEA Invite Season Four. The team will, however, be forced be forced to use a standin for the competition, as their Finnish member Tomi "lurppi"s Kovanen, is unable to play, due to nationality issues. The team will use Travis "tuBBy" Bechtol, who also helped the team win the American qualifier.

They could possibly be slight favorites in this group, but is going to be close. They will face off against the Ukrainian representative from HellRaisers, expecting that these two teams will be the only ones able to fight for further participation in WCG 2009.

The former DTS.chatix arrive in Chengdu with a wide series of mixed results. The form has been going up and down for the team recently, but they will have to pull the strings together in Chengdu, if want to make it further than the round of 16. Beating Evil Geniuses might be an uphill struggle for HellRaisers, but it could also be the opposite, if they hit their winning-streak, where they usually are hard to stop, they could go for a win. It is going to be between these two teams, to decide first and second place.

Hailing from the United Arab Emirates, Lords of Heaven attend WCG 2009 in hope of putting up a great show. With the recent Global Challenge in Dubai, it is obvious, that the teams from the country with its high exclusivity have to gain new heights, to reach level of the international top teams. Last year in Cologne, the UAE representative Assassins List were able to get a max of four rounds, against the Finnish top team of the group. It might be possible for LoH to cash in more rounds this year, but nothing more than that and possible a third place in the group, is what the team will manage.

Indian team NSD will be in a in-fight with _u5_ not to place bottom last in this group. A good result against LoH could even grant them third place in the group, if they hit a strong stream against the team hailing from UAE.

Expected to place bottom last, _u5_ from Pakistan are eager to improve its country’s match-record at WCG, where a fifth place of the group was secured buy the 2008 representatives from Incredibles. Also we can expect from them a possible upset against LoH or NSD, to move up one spot.

Reports indicate that the Indian representative will not make it to Chengdu. Untill further noticed, we assume that they will make it.

HLTV.org's final placing prediction:

1. Evil Geniuses
2. HellRaisers
3. Lords of Heaven
4. NSD
4. _u5_

Related

Preview: Group A
Preview: Group B
Preview: Group C
Preview: Group D
Preview: Group E
Preview: Group F
Preview: Group H

SteelSeries competition

Whodo you think will win Group H? By leaving your prediction in a commentbelow, you will have the opportunity to win a SteelSeries QcK+ CustomLimited Edition mousepad. You can pick your favorite, as there is awide range of mousespads to choose from (fnatic, mibr, MYM, SK and more(stocks are limited)).

XLBet with odds on Group H

Bet big on the match to decide the top two. Evil Geniuses are favoured in a 0-4 handicap, with odds 1.62, while if you have a feeling that HellRaisers will nail this then, then you can score odds 2.10.

XLBet will be your home for all odds during World Cyber Games, go check out the available odds right here.