The first upsets at the Extreme Maters III Continental Finals should already take place in the first round of the group stage.

The team doing really well in 2008 and are defending champions of Extreme Masters, mousesports, should see their first loss as they face emulate in the round. Lead by a really well playing Mathieu "R!Go" Bridet, emuLate was able to cash in a victory versus the defending champions. The French team had ever seen it’s WCG gold medals in 2007, been on a very long downswing, is it about to change?

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The WCG silver medalists from SK Gaming should also see starting problems, as the Germans from Alternate won a very intense and close match. Alternate should thank their captain Jan "mooN" Stolle, who played a much important factor in Alternate winning.

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Before the tournament started, mTw mentioned that Alternate actually played really well and despite the lack of practice manage to destroy the Danes totally. Alternate candidate to go far in this tournament?