Alessandro "stermy" Avallone has won the ESL GameOn Italy Finals and has now placed for the European Finals.

In the Italian Finals, he has managed to win every single match without dropping one map. His first two games started off with default wins, but after that the action kicked off. Alessandro managed to beat spartano in the upperbracket final without any problems, and then did the same in the grand final. You can find the bracket and results right here.

Now he has qualified for the European Finals. Here he will meet some of the best players, who are all looking to represent their country in the best possible manner. There will be two groups of five players. Of each group the top two will go into the playoffs, which are single elimination, with a best-of-five map system.

Stermy is placed in Group A, alongside fox (Sweden), Av3k (Poland), GaRpY (United Kingdom) and dunpeal (Turkey).

//Roald "roy_chez" van Buuren

After a tough qualification stage, the ESL Extreme Masters World Finals are coming closer and closer. The event, held from the 2nd till 6th of March at CeBIT, holds the best four of the best American, six of the best European and the two best Asian players. These players will be spread into two groups of six.

Alessandro "stermy" Avallone has been placed in group A, alongside players such as Cooller, Av3k and rapha.

Group A	Group B
rapha	DaHanG
chance	Vo0
Av3k	Cypher
Cooller	strenx
stermy	fox
Asian Qualifier	Asian Qualifier

//Roald "roy_chez" van Buuren

Alessandro "stermy" Avallone finds himself in the ESL Extreme Masters Game On National Playoffs! The Game On Cups are being held in ten different regions and with Italy being one of them, Alessandro is one of the hot favourites to make it to the European Finals, where ten of the best European players will be representing their country.

Now the groupstages are over, where stermy has beaten his country mates Rickmage, zip and lechung without dropping a map. He will now face DiMiTrI in his first playoff match, the upperbracket quarter finals. Other notable names in the Italian National Playoffs are cdv, spartano and exp.


For the playoff tree, head over to this page and for the groupstage results go here.

//Roald "roy_chez" van Buuren

Missed all the action of the ESL Extreme Masters European Championship Finals? Do not worry, the ESL staff has recorded all matches that took place and have uploaded the VoDs to their website. All Alessandro "stermy" Avallone his matches can be seen on ESL TV, so sit back and enjoy some great Quake with commentating by the always entertaining Joe Miller and James Harding.

Groupstage matches:
vs fox (2-1 win)
vs dem0n (2-0 win)
vs noctis (2-0 win)

Playoffstage matches:
vs strenx (3-0 loss)
vs calipt (3-0 win)
vs fox (3-2 loss)

//Roald "roy_chez" van Buuren