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The inaugural season of ELeague will conclude on Saturday, when the grand final will take place at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center in Atlanta. Semifinals are scheduled to take place on Friday, meaning we currently have four teams that remain in the competition for the $390,000 first-place check. Lets take a look at how each of the teams made it up to this point.For clarification, the format of ELeague is such that the 24 teams were split into six groups of four. Those four groups first played round-robin group stages, with two games against everyone, for seeding purposes. All four teams in each group then proceeded to intra-group playoffs, from where the winners made it to the actual playoffs, while second- and select third-place teams were placed in a last-chance qualifier bracket.FnaticGroups A through C produced no semifinalists, but group Ds top dogs Fnatic have made it this far. ELeague marked the return of Olof olofmeister Kajbjer Gustafsson, who prior to his injury was considered the worlds best player, and thus set high expectations for the Swedes. The all-time greats finished its group with a 5-1 record, losing a map against FaZe following a 16-0 thrashing in their first encounter, but the team was also tested by Canadian Team SoloMid, who put up 13 rounds in the opener on cache.Kory Semphis Friesens TSM also took a map from Fnatic in the Group D playoffs, but ultimately fell short in a close three-map series. The groups final then saw Fnatic steamroll FaZe, the team that had stolen a map from it days earlier, with two comfortable wins to guarantee a spot in the playoffs.In the quarterfinals of Eleagues playoffs, Fnatic were paired up with EnVyUs, a French squad that once battled for the title of the worlds best prior to winning a major in 2015 and slowly beginning a decline. While Fnatic is not at its peak either, the Swedes, led by Robin flusha R?nnquist, ground out a win on cobblestone to start the series, and dominated Kenny kennyS Schrubs team on dust2 to clinch a 2-0 win, and a spot in the semifinals.NaViFacing the previous world champions in the first semifinal will be the ex-CIS juggernaut Na`Vi, a team that claimed the throne of Group E by having a better round difference than mousesports (both squads share the same record). The team, starred by Ladislav GuardiaN Kovács, split the games against mousesports and North American Echo Fox, but were able to close out a quick 2-0 win over fellow ex-CIS team FlipSid3 to make the semifinals of the group.In Group Es playoffs, Na`Vi showed up in significantly better form than its earlier series against Echo Fox, and lost just 13 rounds across a two-map series, that sent Sean sgares Gares team packing and put Na`Vi through to the final of Group E. In the final, the team, coached by former member Sergey starixIschuk, faced FlipSid3, which it had previously defeated 2-0 in groups, and easily came out on top with another 2-0 win to secure a playoff spot.mousesportsMeanwhile in Group E, mousesports finished with an identical 4-2 record with losses to Na`Vi and FlipSid3. The team, led by arguably the worlds best player Nikola NiKo Kova?, also played a close series versus Echo Fox, and scored a win over FlipSid3 in overtime. This meant mousesports round differential was significantly weaker than Na`Vis, giving NaVi the top seed going into the playoffs.In the playoffs, mousesports was expected to go through FlipSid3 only to fall to Na`Vi later, but it fell short of that. While FlipSid3 had previously won few best-of-three series as underdogs in the teams lengthy history, it handily bested mousesports with two 16-9 wins led by Counter-Strike 1.6 superstar and former Na`Vi member Yegor markeloff Markelov, marking the beginning of the teams rise. It also sent mousesports to the last-chance qualifier.Mousesports were drawn in a tough bracket, having to face G2 -- arguably a top-three team in the world -- in the opener. However, illness forced Cédric RpK Guipouy from the French team to stay home, and a legendary performance by NiKo was enough to send the Frenchmen packing with an overtime win on map two. Then, the teams coach Aleksandar kassad Trifunovi? now was the teams in-game leader -- a key change from the group-stage portion of ELeague -- and was paired up with FaZe.The duo split the opening maps, making cache the decider. FaZe won nine rounds in the opening half, and a 5-0 start on defense quickly saw it with a commanding 14-6 lead. However, NiKo once more refused to lose, and his heroic performance saw mouseports win five rounds in a row, and then ultimately forced overtime, in which the squad prevailed.With playoffs beginning, mousesports were again underdogs versus Danish Astralis, a team that had outplaced NiKos team at the major despite having to attend with a stand-in. But Nicolai dev1ce Reedtzs team surprisingly had no answers to mousesports -- partly due to mistakes in the map veto process -- which gave the Danish Astralis its worst loss on mirage at 2-16. It was swiftly eliminated on map two, as mousesports clinched the teams best-ever placing in CS:GO.Virtus.ProThe fourth and final team still in the competition at ELeague is Virtus.pro, whose campaign started in Group F. The Polish side led by former member Jakub kuben Gurczyński, who now acts as the quasi-in-game leader from a coaching position, wound up losing the top spot in the group to EnVyUs, the team Fnatic knocked out later, due to dropping nuke to Gambit in their series. Versus EnVyUs, Virtus split the games while also securing two wins over compLexity.Janusz Snax Pogorzelski and company had a much easier route through the last-chance qualifier. Group F rivals Gambit took them to overtime on dust2, but failed to put up a fight. Likewise, Australian Renegades could contend on only one map, and it came after losing cobblestone in a lopsided game. Virtus.pro were through to the playoffs of ELeague following two quick wins.In the quarterfinals, Virtus was paired up against Filip NEO Kubskis rival for the title of the GOAT in Counter-Strike 1.6, Patrik f0rest Lindberg from Ninjas in Pyjamas. 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The largely Brazil-based media contingent wanted to talk about the last major tournament game played at the Estadio Mineirao, a mens World Cup semifinal two years ago that did not go the host teams way. Decidedly so.Yes, Kelley OHara replied, she remembered watching Brazil and Germany play that day.No, Hope Solo said, she didnt imagine another 7-1 scoreline would unfold in this tournament.They played along, but their focus is less on any history already made and more on history yet to be written.Already the only country to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals in womens soccer, the United States is attempting to make it four in a row. Doing so would guarantee another unprecedented feat: becoming the first team to win World Cup and Olympic titles in back-to-back years.The only way to claim such prizes is to play like the experienced team that this group is.And not like the inexperienced team ... that this group also is.More than half of the U.S. roster is taking part in the Olympics for the first time. That is notable turnover for a team that won gold four years ago in the London Games. Yet only four players in Brazil are part of a major tournament roster for the first time.More to the point, only four players havent won a major title.Given that 2011 World Cup champion Japan didnt qualify for this Olympics and only six players remain from Germanys 2007 World Cup championship team, the American roster that has so many Olympic rookies also owns a near monopoly on experience winning an event of the same magnitude as whats about to unfold across Brazil.The starting lineup Wednesday could have six first-time Olympians. It also could have seven world champions, eight if Morgan Brian reclaims a spot after dealing with a hamstring injury.We have a lot of new faces in their first world championship, and then we have a lot of world champions, as well, midfielder Tobin Heath said. So in that way I think its great because we have that depth of experience, but we also have this great energy about the team that everyone is excited to be here because this is a world championship. Everyone wants to play their role.The United States first opponent is evidence that this tournament is tricky in its own fashion. Though New Zealand hasnt beaten the U.S. women in the World Cup and in the Olympics era (New Zealands lone win in the series came in 1987), it is not the pushover it once was. The United States won 4-0 in the most recent meeting a year ago, but the margin was just 9-3 in the four relatively recent games that preceded that encounter. That included a 1-1 draw on American soil in 2013.Compare that to a 34-1 U.S. goal advantage in seven meetings between 1993 and 2008.Especially in a group without either African entrant -- both South Africa and Zimbabwe are untested programs at this level -- these Olympics offer the Americans little breathing room and even less time to catch their breath. Assuming the U.S. women advance from Group G, they will play their first four games in 10 days, compared to a 15-day span for the Americans first four games in last years World Cup. And if the United States doesnt win Group G, that fourth game might well be a quarterfinal against Germany. Things can go wrong quickly in the Olympics.Add to it that the Americans enter the game againsst New Zealand with at least moderate injury question marks.dddddddddddd Coach Jill Ellis said Tuesday that Brian, Heath and Megan Rapinoe are all actively training and available. She made it sound as if Rapinoe would be counted on more in the future, which wouldnt be unlike the situation Ellis managed with Alex Morgan at the outset of the World Cup a year ago, while Brian and Heath are closer to unencumbered options.All the more reason the United States needs to play from the outset like a team that has been here before.And for as much talk as there is about turnover and new faces, understandably, some have been here before. Likely starters Morgan, OHara and Becky Sauerbrunn were Olympic rookies in 2012; now they are the experience. Carli Lloyd is after her third gold medal, perhaps on her third winning goal. Solo becomes only the second American womens soccer player to travel to four Olympics (the first as an alternate).I know what to expect on a daily basis, Solo said of the roster. But I dont know what to expect when you have the intensity of a major tournament, when you have two days between every game -- how some of the players are going to recover, especially some of the players coming back from injury, especially some of the younger players. Its a mentally and physically very taxing tournament. It can be emotionally taxing as well.I think thats fun, to not know what to expect because somehow, [in] some way well figure it out. Whether its through subs, whether its through putting your arm around someone like Mallory Pugh and being like, Well get through this. Its not always going to be pretty, but well figure it out. That theme keeps appearing when the players with the most experience talk about this team, perhaps surprisingly, given at least the public perceptions of many of the players involved. Whether seen as intensely introspective, like Sauerbrunn, intensely outspoken, like Solo, or just intensely focused, like Lloyd and Morgan, they are now the core of the experience that Ellis said brings a voice of levity to the locker room.That seems to be the identity they want, knowing that we will make it out to be their strength if they win and their weakness if they lose.The casualness of this team is, I think, a positive thing, Morgan said. In the past its been so tense leading up to tournaments because we had very intense players like Abby [Wambach]. I think not having a big player like that, thats very loud and intense, I think its good for us. Because I think for the younger players, they might stress out over seeing just how many games we have in such a short period of time and the impact we can have at this level. I think its good to have.It is a young team, but its a team on which almost everyone has experienced what is required to win a title.It isnt the same team that entered past Olympics. It enters off World Cup success instead of disappointment. But the goal is the same.Every time we play in a major tournament, we want to win, Lloyd said. So I think there was that motivation, and its almost like the year after the World Cup you are able to make things better. But I think its just [about] winning. Im a winner. Every time I go out there I want to win. No matter if its a World Cup or Olympics, whether were going for a fourth consecutive or whether we havent won, thats just kind of the nature of this team. ' ' '