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03/26
SEASON 1 DONE: ZVEZDA CROWNED! LUKA VUJASINOVIC THE EUROLEAGUE ONLINE CHAMPION!
Famous co-commentators in the stream: Sasha Vezenkov joined on Sunday in 3rd place match before he had to left to a Greek League game and Jaleen Smith has been part of the Final 4 as co-host the whole weekend.
Saturday: SEMIFINALS
First semifinal was a offensive showdown, between Zvezda and Maccabi (Luka Vujasinovic vs Aleksandar Gavalyugov) and the second one the defensive battle between PAO vs Real (Mislav Dvorski vs Jure Holesek).
While Zvezda had pretty close game till the end, Panathinaikos quickly decided the game in the middle of the second quarter, having comfortable lead.
Both higher seeded teams won and PAO was on fire on both ends of the floor and after the blowout win vs Real, chances for winning the title seemed to be 55:45 for PAO.
SUNDAY: 3rd place and Final
Gavalyugov injured himself in reallife practice before and full of pain, he has not been able to focus on the game, so Jure and Real decided game early in their favour.
Real Madrid and Jure Holesek end up with bronze medal.
THE FINAL
Huge showdown between neighbor countries: Croatia x Serbia (Mislav Dvorski vs Luka Vujasinovic) and, this was not all: both with first season ever in VEL Virtual Euroleague and both in the Final. But also to mention: Panathinaikos vs Zvezda, as Pao's fans are friends with Partizan - Zvezda's fans with Olympiacos, it was kind of a derby final. Both pro-gamers know each other well from other international tournaments, proAm etc., so the game went also back and forth and biggest lead was 9 pts in favour of PAO, and 8 for Zvezda at the end of the game.
Zvezda had to fight back in the third of the deficit. Tremendous Ben Bentil got the Final MVP award.
1. CRVENA ZVEZDA (Luka Vujasinovic / SRB)
2. PANATHINAIKOS (Mislav Dvorski / CRO)
3. REAL MADRID (Jure Holesek / SLO)
4. MACCABI TEL-AVIV (Aleksandar Gavalyugov / BUL)
03/23
SEASON 1 FINAL 4 ON THE WEEKEND!
The upcoming Final 4 (of season 1) promises a lot new things.
For the first time ever in our leagues, all 4 Final Four participant are qualified in the best 4 gamers' round for their first time.
Also not to forget, that although we have gamers from 17 nations, (13 of them from Europe) still it has been a Balkan regions' domination all over this play-offs.
This results in final four participants from Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Bulgaria.
Respectively, the first semifinal on Saturday 14.00 CET will be between Luka Vujasinovic from Serbia vs Sash Gavalyugov from Bulgaria, with the matchup Crvena Zvezda vs Maccabi.
The second semifinal will be approximately 1hr later and features: Mislav Dvorski from Croatia vs Jure Holesek from Slovenia with the matchup: Panathinaikos vs Real Madrid.
The 3rd place match and Final will follow on Sunday.
All games on stream on Youtube in "Virtual Euroleague" channel and host Viktor Vladov will be joined by Overtime.hk Coach, Liaqat Ali and the most-likely upcoming Euroleague MVP Sasha Vezenkov and ALBA Berlin Guard Jaleen Smith.
