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The second and final online qualifier for 3rd Generation Intel Core Challenge by Inferno Online has finished and saw eestralis qualify for the $10,000 event taking place on May 12 in Stockholm E-Sport Arena.

A total of 64 teams participated in tonight's qualifier which started off with sixteen groups of four, followed up by a sixteen team single elimination best-of one bracket to determine the sixth participant for the event.

Of the notable participants, Virtus.pro, zNation and TMVG all fell short in the group stage which only saw one team advance from each of the groups. Swedish mixteam duttdutt and Tommy "Potti" Ingemarsson's team ICSU also went out early in playoffs.

Finnish mixteam eestralis featuring Tomi "zabaz" Verkkoperä, the older brother of WinFakt's sniper, took out eSuba 16-3 on de_train and advanced to grand finals by beating Markus "pronax" Wallsten's mixteam AWTR with a 16-11 score on de_inferno.

Freon could face his former teammate BASiC in Stockholm 

ATOC made their way to the grand final by first knocking out AliGon in a close 16-14 battle on de_train in the quarter-finals and then taking out dakarma with the same score on de_inferno in the semi-finals.

The grand final took place on de_train and saw the Finns starting out strong as counter-terrorists, racking up a 12-3 lead at half with former Online Kingdom member Joni "Freon" Huumo on top of the scoreboard.

Verkkoperä secured eestralis the second half pistol round with four kills on the outer bombsite, and his team went on to win the match 16-3, and the second online qualifier.  Intel Core Challenge by IO online qual. #2Best of 0 ATOCMatchpage 3 16 7th May 2012 eestralis 3Train 16

The following teams are now qualified for 3rd Generation Intel Core Challenge by Inferno Online:

SK Gaming	fnatic	ESC Gaming
WinFakt	Wikipediots	eestralis

The final two spots will be awarded via LAN qualifiers to be held at Inferno Online on Thursday and Friday. HLTV.org will be on-site in Stockholm to provide you with full coverage of the 3rd Generation Intel Core Challenge by Inferno Online.