Nations Cup XVII - End of the season
Back to top Back to main Skip to menuIt's time to say good bye to the XVII season of the Urban Terror Nations Cup. Winners, conclusions and season review inside.
The first season of the Urban Terror Nations Cup not hosted in ClanBase reached the end, and we expect it to not be the last one.
First of all I would like to thank Urban Zone Staff for allow the ClanBase Crew to work with them and keep alive one of the most important tournaments of the season. Also I would like to thank the UrT-TV crew, like every season they made a big effort to have GTV in almost every single match of the season. Besides the GTV we also had lot of matches streamed thanks to the Urban Zone Radio Team? and tastyspleen.tv, you can find all their shoutcasts in their youtube channel.
The tournament had a good number of sign-ups, nowadays have 25 teams (even if it was helped by the regions rules) it's quite a success. We were so glad to have nations playing for first time a Nations Cup, like Team India or Team ASEAN, we hope they enjoyed the experience and expect to see them next season. Sadly the number of drop-outs, no shows and other stuff during the group stage was big enough to think twice about allow those teams to play next season (obviously I'm talking about the teams who drop out and not about the new ones).
Now is time to congratulate the winners. Once again Team France proved why season by season since few years ago they are one of the favorites to win this competition and probably the country with more active players. During the whole tournament they showed no mercy over the rest doesn't matter which game type was played, winning every single match in both maps, excepts against Team Italy in quarterfinals, where they lose ut4_casa in Team Survivor and that was just by one round. Thanks to them Europe keep all the gold in the Urban Terror Nations Cup history.
For the statistics fans, this is their 3rd Nations Cup gold and the 3rd team who has been able to win 2 consecutive seasons, like Team Netherlands and Team Portugal did previously. In the global Nations Cup ranking they are tied with Team Netherlands with 3 golds, still far away from the 6 by Team Portugal, great dominator of the firsts seasons of this tournament.
Thumbs up for Team Australia for their silver, truly meritorious because this country has one of the smallest communities in the Urban Terror scene, does anyone else plays UrT in their country besides their National Team? and also considering that they never were really active in the regular competitions from this game. Like was explained in the Grand Final preview, during their first Nations Cup they reached the Quarterfinals, in their second the semifinals and the bronze, and this one, their third time playing this cup, they have been able to reach the final and take the silver home. We have to add to their personal awards a gold in the South American Nations Cup as guest team two seasons ago, and maybe a gold in this one as well in the future, with their progression we can expect everything.
In the bronze we have the biggest surprise of the competition (with Team Austria-Hungary permission), Team Brazil. Like I said previously, almost all of us expected them to reach the Playoffs, but not expected them arriving that far away, specially because they had few changes from their previous seasons lineup -hight5 Team based, and also because they were just no favorites in the bronze match. Maybe they had better luck with their pairings for playoffs than other teams but that's the magic of the hat. Anyway the fact is that they deserved this bronze trophy for all their work during the season, their best rank in all times, congratulations!
At last the 4th place goes to United States of America, the most European USA's team never seen. Like previous season the Yankees ended one step beyond the trophies, but good enough considering the North American scene is almost dead and having an almost new lineup than previous seasons. The lack of players forced them even to add an UZ admin to their team. They've been unbeatable in their home map, Abbey Capture the Flag, until the bronze match, good job.
To conclude thanks to all the participating teams, the GTV viewers, all the people who has been following this competition and all the people who has been helping to run this tournament. All of us will meet again in 2025 with the High Definition new engine version, I guess...
Nations Cup XVII | ||
Rank | Award | Nation |
1st | Team France | |
2nd | Team Australia | |
3rd | Team Brazil | |
4th | - | Team USA |