It is Sunday the 21st of March and the day of the first ever fnatic Female Counter-Strike tournament hosted by their PLAY micro-site. As we reported yesterday, the tournament was to have 28 teams competing, in a 32 team bracket, meaning 4 teams would receive a BYE into the next round. The Play staff earlier released the brackets for the tournament, revealing that Pink Zinic along with Burning, aTTaX and mousesports would receive those next round BYE’s.

Bracket:

Quater-Finals	Semi-Finals	Finals	Winner
Zinic
[2:0]	Zinic
unFinished
	[2:1]	Zinic
Millenium
[2:0]	Millenium
Burning!
		[2:0]	Zinic
aTTax
[1:2]	69ers
69ers
	[0:2]	mouz
we are
[1:2]	mouz
mouz

Stay tuned to myZINIC.com for further updates on the Fnatic Cup and of course to see how the mighty Pink Zinic do.

As you well know, the ladies here at Pink Zinic regained their title of Major Series Champions, they will now also keep that title after ESL announced the end of the Female Competitions in their Major Series. However, female gamers are urged to not despair as the end of Female Gaming in the Major Series has opened a new door, which contains the new ESL Female Section. This section will contain all female gaming action, from Counter-Strike to CS:Source, the tournament structures will remain the same and of course will include some cash prizes!

So to kick of the section, the Electronic Sports League staff have put together a European League, which will feature the best teams battling it for the title. While other teams have to go through various qualification stages, our girls have earned themselves a place in the league, bypassing the qualification stages. Joining them will be the remaining teams who finished in top four of the last Major Series, they are;  German teams we are … and Frankfurt 69ers, and finally the French team of Burning!.

When asked what she thinks about the new ESL Female Section, Captain Mayra ‘IpSa’ Perez had the following to say:

“We are looking forward to it!!!“

Stay tuned to myZINIC.com for updates on upcoming tournaments and of course news on the new ESL Female Section!

Hello! long time no see =)

Today it was VERY cold here in Sweden, I’m so freaking tired of this weather now. There’s so much snow and It’s freezing outside. I haven’t even been outside today. I just ordered a pizza because I can’t go to the store and buy any regular food, it’s too cold :( I really want to go on vacation right now in a warm and sunny country until this snow has gone away.

Last weekend I was at a party with some friends, It was nice just hanging out and listen to hardstyle <3 best music there is!

Yeye, lets talk about cs now! We won EMS leauge again, so awesome! We really played good thru this whole league so i think we deserved it. I’m SO looking forward to ESWC this year. At Disneyland, I’ts so cool. And the prizemoney is briliant. So i really hope we get far and win this :)

Now I have some stuff to do, talk to you later :)

The final game of the Electronic Sports Leagues Female Counter-Strike Major Series has  just concluded, with Pink Zinic reclaiming their titles of Major Series Champions!

They managed to beat the German team we are in the finals 2-0, ending their unbeaten run. The first map the teams were to play on was de_dust2, a map which was chosen by the Germans. Although they put up a tough fight, it ended up going in Zinics favour. The second map of de_nuke proved the key to the girls success, captain IpSa chose correctly yet again leading to the map and game win.

Map 1 - de_dust2
Zinic  CT [8:7] T we are
Zinic T [8:2] CT we are
Final Score: Zinic [16:09] we are

Map 2 - de_nuke
Zinic  CT [13:02] T we are
Zinic T [03:00] CT we are
Final Score: Zinic [16:02] we are

Overall Score: [2:0]

Your Major Series Season Five Champions:

- Julia ‘Julie’ Strunkowski
- Zainab ‘zAAz’ Turkie
- Sophie ‘inzane’ Regner
- Mayra ‘IpSa’ Perez
- Irene ‘iReNuKa’ Sanchez

Join me in saying well done to the girls, lets hope they continue their success in the upcoming tournaments, Keep it up!

Tonight, after many reschedules, the girls will undergo their final challenge in the ESL Major Series. They will be defending their title against the German team of we are, who throughout the tournament have not lost a map. Similarly, the Pink Zinic ladies have also not dropped a map, so the game will definitely decide the better team and also, champions.

Like before, the game will be played in a best of three format, the three maps to be played will be de_dust2 (we are choice), de_nuke (Pink Zinic choice) and the deciding map will be de_train.

Pre-Match Statement from Pink Zinic:

“Woah, we made it pretty far and put a lot of effort so far in this Major Series season. Coming so far, you get of course even more hungry for the victory then you are already and we really went to take the victory in this match - it shall be exciting!”

The game will be played at 20:00CET, the HLTV IP is hltv4.verygames.net:27084, be sure to stay tuned for updates and of course to support your favourite team!

The Semi-Final of ESLs Major Series has concluded, with Pink Zinic once again coming out of top with a straight 2-0 victory. The game was against the French team Burning!, who last week also managed a straight 2-0 win. However, on a high, ours girls managed to carry the momentum from the mousesport revenge to this game.

After the two maps of train and tuscan were eliminated, the French side chose to start with inferno. A map which proved challenging for both teams as it went into overtime. With the pressure on, it was the mighty Pinc Zinic to come out on top and win the map 21-16. It was then time for the second map, nuke, which was chosen by Zinic. The map selection by captain ipSa proved invaluable as they took the map in a straight 16-01 victory.

Pink Zinic		Burning!
	-vs- [21:16] inf [16:01] nuke
iReNuKa inzane zAAz IpSa Julie	Matchlink	Juuuuuuu Leeya SaAku aKaSha tOrkA

The next match will come in the form of German team we are, who have had an impressive run in the playoff bracket as they have not lost a map yet. The final will be played on the 4th of February (Next Thursday!) at 21:00CET, be sure you are around to support your favourite Counter-Strike team.

Tonight the girls here at Pink Zinic will be participating in the Semi-Final of the ESL Major Series. The game will be against the French team Burning!, who last week defeated Be-The-Best in a straight 2-0 victory. Like all the other Playoff games, the game will be in a best of three format, with inferno, nuke and dust2 being used.

Pre-Match Statement from Pink Zinic:

“Last week we played mouz in the playoffs and could knock them out on two maps which was a very important game for us and we were glad to be able to show our good game. In the next step to the EMS finals we have to manage to win over b! which actually eliminated BTB from the tournament last week. That shows that we have to play yet another time a good match in order to be able to win. We are convinced to be able to so!”

Pink Zinic		Burning!
	-vs- inferno nuke dust2
iReNuKa inzane zAAz IpSa Julie	MatchlinkPlayoff Bracket	Juuuuuuu Leeya SaAku aKaSha tOrkA

If you want to support the girls, you can watch via HLTV (hltv4.verygames.net:27084). The match is scheduled to start at 21:00CET, be sure your on time to support the mighty Pink Zinic!

The lovely ladies here at Pink Zinic last week defeated mousesports in the Quarter Finals of the Fifth ESL Major Series. The game, like all the playoff games, was in a best-of-three format, with Zinic coming out on top with a straight 2-0 victory.

The girls got straight down to business on the first map, with mousesports hardly putting up a fight they took the map of de_nuke 16-03. They gained the advantage and they capitalized on it early on by taking the half 13-2. The mousesports team seemed to have given up on the map by then, but managed to claw one round back.

Down but not out, the Russian team still had a chance to pull it back on their map choice of de_inferno. However, on a high, our girls once again started as CT and put 11 rounds on the board, they then won the remaining 5 rounds to win the game and match.

Pink Zinic		Mousesports
	[2:0] 16:03 (nuke) 16:07 (inf)
iReNuKa inzane zAAz IpSa Julie	Matchlink Playoff Bracket	Ashlee Greeny sve Exilia ehu

The victory here means the team have got revenge after the Pan European Tournament in Poland a few months ago, it also means they are one step closer to the final. Their next challenge will be in the form of French team Burning, which will be played this Sunday at 21:00CET.

Hello blog!

Sitting in ventrilo with zaaz now and talking some random, ehm, STUFF  :D We have just played some “random/noobpublic” and have been ghosting and stuff, a lot of fun! Tomorrow I have school so need to go to bed soon. Need to do some homework and I also wanted to write a blog for all our fans out there :) and then I am good to go!
Last event in Poland which was overall pretty fun, we ended second place wich isn’t so good. We didn’t play our game so it went kinda bad. But we will forgot what happened and look forward to our next event and win it - you can’t win everytime and maybe this 2nd place was a good experience for us overall.

I have been sick now three times in a row so I am kinda unlucky but I have been to the doctor and it seems like I had a normal flu first (no swine flu!!!) and then I got earinfection AND tonsillitis which means that your throat hurts very much.I ate soup for a whole week which wasn’t very fun! But now I’m feeling better and I hope I don’t get sick again this winter he he. I also just bought a gym card so I have been very good and been working out alot, feels really good and is a good thing next to Counter-Strike.
Hope everyone enjoyed my blog this time. Feel free to tell me what you are up those days or what you want me to write about in my next blog in the comments below.

Talk to u next week! hugs

P.S.: The photo on the right was done back at when we founded Pink Zinic.

After we placed second and won 2000 USD at the Pan European Tournament in Poland on Saturday, it was Sunday were we had a lot of time to relax. Nisse is right now writing on her new blog to give you all updates about the crazy players party which took place Saturday night - pictures are also set to come. Sunday evening at about 22:00 CET we left from Warsaw airport back to Copenhagen and arrived just before midnight in Denmark.

While waiting for the luggage IpSa and Irene talk in a new video interview about the matches in Poland, share thoughts about Poland and give you a more insight view on Pink Zinic. Additionally also guddo who is originally the team manager of mTw but went with AurorA Gaming to Poland, comments on female gaming and the event.

Make sure to check this almost 10 minutes video out on the frontpage of myZinic.com or watch it directly here on YouTube. Pictures from the event with Zinic are right here.

Stay tuned for more content within the next days.