Let’s not speak immediately of the final, which remains episode after episode without surprise, with the victory of the Trelleborg team. No, what made this online tournament so successful was the number of participating teams.
29 teams came to confront the 10 prequalified “seeded teams”, ie more than 120 players warm behind their screens. Because this round was played online. Coronavirus obliges, it could not have been otherwise. It is ultimately a winning formula for Giants Software, even if the audience measured on the Youtube channel seems less.
Can we say that these new participants gave the regulars a hard time? Unfortunately not, and only a new team managed to break through to the finals: “Team of elite guys”. Under this name, we expected a high-performance team. Especially since it fell against Vyfuk, an average team, in the quarter-finals. It is not so. “Elite” players will be out with a 100 point gap. And it is therefore Vyfuk who will go to the semi-finals to meet the terrors of JZD.
The Krone team, represented by Creative Mesh, was in the spotlight with the release of the Straw Harvest DLC. The successful team will go on to the semi-finals before meeting defending champions Trelleborg. Unsurprisingly, the latter will qualify for the final against JZD.
The Czechs are climbing!
The surprise may come from here. JZD is the rising star of this FSL tournament. The team stands out at each round. So much so that today she manages to topple Trelleborg in one of the 3 games in the final! The score differences are never very important and the defeat of JZD during the 3rd final match is only due to loss of time (at the level of the bridges in particular) but never to strategic errors. In short, Trelleborg imposes itself once again at the FSL, but the next online tournament, which will take place on May 16 and 17, could well have some twists in store for us.
The teams (excluding seeded)
360 CORNSHOT NOSCOPE
AAF ZEMĚDĚLCI
AUDI A6
AAN BAUERSBUAM
BUMMEL BÄREN
DAUNAI LTU
DIE BIO BAUERN
DILVEER SINGH
DOMAIN-GOTL
DRY_CLAN
FARMERS OF CATALONIA
FARMING COMMUNITY
FARMING_POWER
FJ AGRAR TEAM
GRANJEROS
JZD CZECH REPUBLIC
LANDWIRTSCHAFT3.0
LS19
OFFICIAL MYSTERY
NORWEGIAN FARMERS
SCHIGGY
STANI'S TEAM
SWISS FARMING
TEAM OF ELITE GUYS
TEAMPOWER
THE TIGERS-
TYLERISCOOL
VYFUK
WHITE BULL
In this period of confinement, Giants offers almost every day, an FSL stream that allows to see the teams training in friendly matches. The show is certainly less grandiose, but we can see different techniques taking place. To be continued in German on the Farming Simulator Youtube channel.