The Finnish qualifier for DreamHack Winter concluded this evening, seeing Power Gaming win the Grand Final against munkka.

The qualifier was staged in Helsinki, starting yesterday. The qualifier would find one team qualifying for DreamHack Winter with travel and hotel expenses paid. Five teams had found their way to the qualifier, where four teams advanced from the group stage, to the playoffs.

Power Gaming and munkka both went to the Grand Final without the bigger trouble. Power Gaming should however have some trouble with the munkka mix in the Grand Final, seeing them take a 16-11 win on inferno. Second map dust2 was a close affair too, but Power Gaming this time managed to lock down a 16-12 score. Final map nuke was once again an uphill struggle for Power Gaming, but with key rounds going in their favor, they started to look better. Power Gaming went from 12-14 to 15-14, but munkka forced overtime by taking last round of the ordinary playing time.

Two times overtime should be needed before Power Gaming could close it down with 22-19 on nuke and 2-1 overall. Not a too impressive result prior to the team attending World Cyber Games 2009 just 9 days.

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Power Gaming hereby qualify for DreamHack Winter, going into the tournament which has expanded from 16 to 32 teams. Power Gaming will be on show next at World Cyber Games in Chengdu 12-15th of November, followed by DreamHack Winter in Jönköping 26-29th of November.