[ENC] Semi finals finished

These are being played on 6.59d and since its taking so long for this competition to finish, thats seeming more and more like an out-dated version, but still its pretty interesting to see how things are going in this tournament. Two semi finals were played between Germany and Ukraine, and Romania and Bulgaria.

Germany vs Ukraine: (Download)

Germany picks: tinker/clockwork/naix/zeus/potm
Ukraine picks: enigma/warlock/kunkka/sk/rhasta

Germanys lineup is rather carry heavy, whilst ukraine's looks much more ganking/pushing oriented, with better teamfight capacity too. Depends really on how well germany can manage to gank, if they can constantly pick off a few heroes via ganking, they don't have to be forced into big teamfights that they can't win. Over a week ago I touted Ukraine as possible winners of the whole tournament, but Germany have beaten good teams like Denmark to get to this stage of the competition - watch the replay to see how it plays out :)

Bulgaria vs Romania: (Download)

Bulgaria picks: kunkka/maiden/lion/tinker/clockwork
Romania picks: potm/shaker/naix/alchemist/warlock

Well, bulgaria's lineup looks pretty gank oriented early on, with the intention of getting tinker nicely farmed up to bring the ownage out later (remember, this is 6.59d, so tinker can still refresh bkb). The Romanian TEG players have had success in recent tournaments utilising their signature strength-carry lineups, and with alchemist working well for them previously this isn't as strange a pick as it may first appear. The Romanian players will be familiar with the play style they're going for here, whilst perhaps Bulgaria won't be quite sure how to play against alchemist as he's not a common pick at all. Watch the replays to find out :D

All thats left now is the final, sad to see favourites like Denmark, Sweeden and Russia not being able to get to these stages, but we're still set for a great final, and a great way to finish off 6.59d in competitive play and fully move onto the new map.