Recap of the Blitzkrieg Masters Amsterdam 2018!

Gamers.com.mt has put in a tremendous amount of preparation for the world's first Battalion 1944 Major ever in the form of the Blitzkrieg Masters Amsterdam 2018, through our various interviews and content coverage. The best 16 teams in the world battled out for the $50,000 total prize pool, between the 27th and 30th of September. We've let the dust settle before breaking down how the first world championship of Battalion 1944 was.

Roughly this time last month, we sat down and interviewed all team captains in preparation for the event. It added greatly to the tension, as every team confessed their intentions to win it all and listed out the top competition. Sadly, not all interviews could have been published as certain teams left the competition. Overall, as an esports journalist, I received a warm reception from the community as we all coordinated on a Discord server to ensure that everyone received their interview! Everyone was ready for an event. 

And so it commenced, during that definitive weekend of competition, starting with pool play across all four groups. Within moments, bracket play was ready to begin with the following teams: Primal, LGC, Demise, Method, Entropy, 1UP, CRG, V.pro, nn, AVENUE, FE and of course, Endpoint. It should be noted that Primal was the only North American team still present at this point in the competition. Sadly, they quickly found the door in the first round of the bracket. Meanwhile, the Europeans continued competing until 4 were left for semifinals; Method, Demise, CRG and Endpoint. 

Demise, who faced EndPoint in the final, had an equally impressive importance to arrive at the grand final, having only conceded one map up to that point, one less than EndPoint. Demise and EndPoint both swept their respective semifinals in the forms of Method and Comrade Gaming respectively, with the latter placing third. There isn't much to commentate regarding the final, except for the fact that it was a rather dominant BO5, in which EndPoint certainly deserved to be crowned the champions. 

I had virtually sat down with Mark Horner of EndPoint, being the team captain - little did I know that it would be his team winning it all with him as the crowned MVP. Of course, many of our other interviews pinned the veteran team as a favourite for the event; safe to say that they filled those expectations. I do recall the interview as the most charismatic one which was conducted, with his clear intentions of winning the whole thing while I did have to edit certain words which couldn't be published, being much harsher than 'noobs'. Yet, such confidence may only be applauded after their victory, as "mark", "rEpIn", "synde", "cozje" and "reflexR" dismantled the competition, proving to be back-to-back champions. 

Full tournament details can be found here.

With the event complete, one begins to ask - what's next for Battalion 1944? Gamers.com.mt will be announcing something very exciting soon until then, congratulations to Team EndPoint! Let's see if we can grab an interview with the champions.