Not everyone playes qw in the easter holidays (shock horror), but as many as 28 games were added to the played games list. Eight of those games were reported as WO's. According to the schedule, last week of play was the easter week, but we will let all teams get this seventh week to finish off all of their games. That means that all clans can keep on playing until Sunday. Sometime Sunday night / Monday morning we will stop reporting games, and we will pick up the last pieces Monday night. After that we sort out the "WO issue" and set up the playoffs. As you all know, all divisions got promotion/relegation playoffs, but since some clans obviously are placed in the wrong division, plus that division 2 only got 8 teams, we will have to make some adjustments to which teams that will be in those playoffs. It looks pretty clear to us that the top three teams in division 6 are placed wrong. In division 4 we got 6-7 idle teams etc. NQR5 should probably be much better now that we know the skill level of all clans, so we have to adjust the promotion/relegation playoffs to this new knowledge, there is no point having a promotion/relegation playoff if the outcome of that playoff does not affect the NQR5 division setup at all.

To the games that got played then:

In division 1 Antiquad from Finland played vs countrymen Clan Malfunction and Swedish Campbusters. Vs CMF they lost 0-2 after having no chance on dm3 and dm2. Vs CB it was much tighter, but AQ lost this series 0-2 as well. CB won dm3 with 38 frags and dm2 with only 2 frags, margins not being on the Finns side. We should mention that Phil of CB played his two first maps of the season and he was a big reason for denying AQ any points in this game. CMF is at the top of the table having played all their games.
But both Slackers of Scandinavia and euro clan Firing Squad have yet to play the only unbeaten clan so far; disorder. These games will determine the 1-4 placing and by that also settle who will meet who in the semifinals.
Slackers got 6 points in two games when they played euro clans Miscellaneous Misfitz and Lockup. MM showed some resistance on dm2 but got crushed on dm3. Vs Lockup it was a 3on3 game, and both e3m1 and dm2 was a walk in the park for the nqr4 championship contenders.
MM and Lockup also faced each other, and Lockup won their home map e3m1 rather easy. Then on dm2 Lockup showed MM that they also can play dm2 and they secured 3 points.
Lockup even played two more games and they met two more euro clans; Hyphen and Firing Squad. Hyphen apparently did not like e3m1, but on e1m2 and dm3 they were too strong for Lockup though, and they won the battle 2-1. Vs FS Lockup did not manage to get any points as they lost it 2-0 after strong performances by FS on both e3m1 and dm2, Lockup was helpless vs the strong Firing Squad.

One game in division 2 got played as Swedish Hellfire took on Bored With Life from Russia. Mutilator played again for HF and the Swedes did not give the Russians any chance at all, taking home a comfortable 2-0 victory.

In division 3, Campbusters Team 2 from Sweden apparently got their asses in gear when they got four games played and by that they got all their games played this season, nice active comeback from CB2, gg dudes. They lost three of the games 0-2 and won the fourth game 2-1. But all those 0-2 losses were not big losses, so nice played by the Swedes even if they did not get that many points.
Vs countrymen Quake-o-holics they were outran though, loosing both e3m3 and e1m2. Nice to see SoD! play some qw again btw :)
Vs New Wave from Russia they lost another e3 map pretty hard; e3m7. Then back on e1m2 they played a nice game again but the Russians were too strong.
Vs Polish clan Ax3 they finally got a victory. Ax3 won first map, dm2, but CB2 then won two maps in a row, e1m2 and dm3, and collected their second victory of the season.
Vs FUDOH from Norway they got unlucky again, loosing e1m2 162-165. Then on e3m7, well, CB2 do not like e3 maps =)
The Norwegians played another Swede team; Maniacs. [0] played as usual good on e1m2, but ran into a brick wall at e3m7. Decider map, dm3, was a tight game, but the Norwegians could raise their hands \e/ and pick up 2 points.

Division 4 got a couple of games played and German clan Dybbuk collected 3 points after winning dm2 comfortably, second map they won on WO.
Gods of Hellfire from Belgium showed the Finnish division favorites Kala that they can play, but the Finns eventually won it 2-1. Dm3 was a good fight but Kala was a little stronger. On e1m2 GOH showed their skills and they won it with over 40 frags. On decider map, dm2, Kala proved why they are the best team in this division and they won it with over 100 frags.

In division 5, Paranoids from Hungary/Czech are one game closer to glory, as they stood up against the challenge from Feske Gobbah from Sweden. PARA stopped the FG star players and took home an important 3 point'er, after victories on dm3 and e1m2. A 2-0 victory over Frag Shack will secure PARA division victory, SSC can get equal many points as PARA if they beat FS and FG 2-0, but PARA beat SSC in their internal fight and will claim top spot if both teams are equal on points.
The Artists from Poland played two games, and they lost one and won one. Vs their countrymen; Dreadful Offensive Squirrels, they got 3 points after easy wins on dm3 and dm2.
They got a much tougher fight vs Vet's from Sweden. E1m2 went to the Swedes quite comfortably, but the Pole's stroke back on dm3, leaving dm2 as decider. Vet's played very well and did not leave The Artists a chance, a little surprise maybe, as kurwas usually are strong on this map.

Division 6 saw four games and Hell Patrol from Poland got their third 2-0 victory vs St?l-Kalle Klanen from Sweden. SKK gave the Pole's a good fight on e1m2 but could not manage to deliver the same resistance on dm2.
Then we saw a 3on3 game when Swedish fnu won 2-0 over the French dudes from Mais Quad Bordel. Both e1m2 and dm2 were easy points for the Swedes.
Clan HOT from Sweden played two games and their first victim was hannovers Head hunter from Germany. Both maps, dm2 and e1m2, will not go down in history as close calls.
Then the game we all had been waiting for, the game that would decide who would win division 6; HOT from Sweden vs Thangorodrim from Finland. {T} chose e3m6, but HOT showed strength and won the map 143-119. Dm2 also was a good game, but HOT once again showed that they are worthy the top spot in division 6, and they took that one home too. 2-0 vs their hardest rival for the division title is very strong indeed. If HOT does not walk on the biggest mine in qw history vs Speed Up, they are the division winners.

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