WCS Europe Finals - We have a champion

So it's official.

We have a Sc2 European champion and his name is Stephano!

A majority of people in the community would probably already have agreed before the WCS Europe finals that Stephano was the best SC2 player in Europe, but to those few who didn't, Stephano certainly proved his worth.

Stephano beat Vortix in the grand final and took the 1st place trophy without ever really having looked truly threatened this weekend.
The fact that Stephano's original airplane from America to Sweden was extremely delayed so that he didn't arrive until shortly before his first game only made his dominance even more impressive.

An essential thing to add is that it's actually the first time that a European champion of a sport also has the coolest hair in Europe.

A very important part of what the players were fighting for in Stockholm were the seeds for the WCS world finals in Shanghai in November.
The 6 european players that managed to qualify were Vortix, Lucifron, LoWeLy, BabyKnight, Grubby and Nerchio along with Stephano and Socke who had already qualified earlier.

Congratulations to them all.

Stephano dancing everyone's pants off

 Stephano giving high fives while scouting for possible groupies

Stephano proudly waving the flag of his homecountry USA (no wait, is that right?

BabyKnight getting his prize thinking that it is hopefully the first of many to come

WCS Europe finals

Today's the big day!

The WCS europe finals in Stockholm will begin in less than an hour and we are excited as hell.

The 32 best European players are fighting for the honor of calling themselves the best european player. On top of that they are all there to fight for their share of the 60.000 dollar prize pool and more importantly the six seeds for the world finals in Shanghai later this year.
Check out the brackets here

Above everyone else we are of course cheering for our danish hero FXOBabyKnight!
To honor him we've created a small "dramatic chipmunk"-inspired video, and in our unbiased opinion he is even cuter than the original chipmunk.

Apart from BabyKnight we will also be cheering for two following really cool Nordic players.

WWSortOf

FnaticNaama

But most of all we are just looking forward to seeing a ton of great games.

Check out the main stream here

Oh and if you haven't heard blizzard just announced that the prizepool for the world finals in Shanghai will be a neat 250.000 $ with 100.000 $ going directly to the winner.
Not bad at all for the nerd who ends up winning it.
Especially since we all know that nerds only need money for two things.
Computergear and energydrinks.