ESFI World

The Intel Extreme Masters World Championships are being held at CeBIT, Hannover and are currently in to the final stages of competition. During the course of today the organisers will crown four champions and award some huge amounts of money to those players. Tournaments in Quake Live, Starcraft 2, Counter-Strike and their latest addition, League of Legends will all conclude today.

Yesterday, the League of Legends competition opened up with a lot of support from the spectators and several of Riot Games' staff. However, the outcome was something that no one expected, even Riot Games' German Community Manager, Daniel Klein predicted that SK Gaming would dominate.

The outcome however was entirely different and myRevenge swept the competition aside, winning every game they played and securing themselves a position in today's grand final on the stage. ESFI World was able to talk to their team captain Tim 'WetDreaM' Buysse directly after they defeated France's Against All Authority and earrned the right to first pick during the todays final.

"We already won once against them in the first group stage but this one was much easier than the first one for sure. The more games we play and the more games we win, the more confident we get so we're excited for tomorrow and hope we don't lose against [aAa] tomorrow," he explained.

Having won every game during the first day of competition, Buysse admits that the team feels "confident" but "it would be sad to lose tomorrow."

"We didn't expect to win everything today but we of course wanted to go through to next stage in every round. Everyone just wants to win, that's our strength I think."

"We never have been the better team, we never have been number one. There are a lot of tournaments and we get to a lot of finals but we lose a lot. Our strength is that we practice everyday except maybe Saturday, where we play for 6-7 hours a day and do all our team builds – in the end it's really paying off like your seeing [at the Intel Extreme Masters in CeBIT]."

Surprisingly, for a team that has dominated a competition, all but one of their members has never played at an offline competition. Their captain, Buysse admits that he is surprised by his team's performance and recites memories from his first offline competition: "I was pretty stressed and nervous!"

Looking ahead to the the grand final on the mainstage, the young Belgian expects some nerves but believes he can use his experiences from the past to assist his team in adjusting to playing infront of large crowds. "It'll be the first time for everyone to play on a mainstage and I think there will be nerves then for sure but I think my team can manage. After seeing them play today I'm pretty sure they'll manage and if they don't I'll pull them through," he tells ESFI World.