Coming into the Campaign Cup Russian Legion Moscow,
the former CPL team sits in first place in the season
rankings race with 194 seed points of a possible 200 in
the Semipro League (SPL). Second place belongs to
countrymen Red Storm Moscow with 176 seed points as
we head into Campaign Cup. Amsterdam Heat and Five
Star Lleida round out the top four of the SPL.
As expected all four of these teams made it through Friday
and Saturday and into the Sunday Club. Ramstein Instinct,
Copenhagen PB Club, Birmingham Disruption, Vision
Marseille, Bad Boys Oss, Joe Bar Pelissanne, Ronholt
Blast, Vienna United, Lucky 15s Staffordshire, Dynamix
Metz, Ranger Warsaw and Vision PPC Grenoble all also
played their way to Sunday in the CPL.
Eight CPL teams move ahead from the ocho round to
the quarterfinals, including three of the four previously
mentioned top four in the standings (Five Start lost
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to Amsterdam Heat) plus, Joe Bar Pelissanne, Lucky
15s Staffordshire, Ramstein Instinct and Birmingham
Disruption. In the quarterfinals there were three blowouts
and one close match. Amsterdam Heat advanced easily
beating Joe Bar Pelissanne 4-0, Lucky 15s Staffordshire
played a great game beating Vienna United, Ramstein
Instinct did all they could to pull off the upset against Red
Storm Moscow but came up one point short, and Moscow
Red Legion beat Birmingham Disruption 5-1.
One of the surprises of the entire tournament was how
well Lucky 15s Staffordshire played. In fact they played
their way all the way to the CPL finals after showing none
of this talent the first two events of the season. But the
finals were the end of the road for them as Russian Legion
Moscow took it to them, winning 5-1 in the final game of
the CPL in the UK.
In Division One it was RMG Symphony Bratislava taking