Gamers Rade Pavićević and Vučeta Šćepanović will be part of the Montenegrin national team at the final competition of eEuro2021, which will be held in the temple of football, at Wembley, between the semi-final and final matches of the European Football Championship. Pavićević triumphed the night before last at the final tournament of TOP 8 PES players from Montenegro in the qualifications for the aforementioned competition.
PES (Pro Evolution Soccer) is a video game that simulates football matches, and UEFA recognized the potential of gaming and started a great story last year - eEURO or European Championship in PES for all 55 of its members.
At the final Montenegrin TOP8 tournament, which was organized the night before last by the Association of Electronic Sports of Montenegro (SESCG) and the Football Association of Montenegro (FSCG), and under the auspices of UEFA, in addition to Pavićević, the best players from Montenegro competed - Samir Ramović, Nikola Malović, Rade Pavićević, Ivan Ražnatović, Drago Mandić, Bojan Tatar, Filip Šoć and Demir Ramović.
"The competition was strong because the best gamers from Montenegro were in the competition, but since I have already played two online tournaments and had excellent results, this one was not difficult for me either. At the start, I counted on the fact that I was the best, so I wasn't afraid of any of them," Pavićević, who says he regularly plays PES, told Vijesti.
"I try to play at least an hour every day, because practice is essential if you think you're going to improve. And how much time I will spend playing depends on my obligations", points out Pavićević and adds that when he plays at home, his father is a loyal fan.
"He follows a lot of my games, sometimes he is even more annoyed than I am," recalls Pavićević with a laugh, who admits that he much prefers online tournaments, but by winning the final tournament, he showed that he does well even when all the competitors are live on one place.
As the best player of the tournament, he joined the Montenegrin champion in PES, Vučeta Šćepanović, and this duo makes up the Montenegrin national team for the competition of the 16 best national teams that will fight for the title of European champion in PES at Wembley.
The draw for the qualifying groups for eEuro2021 will take place on Monday, February 8 at 20 p.m. with a live broadcast on the UEFA website.
"Thanks to the fact that our national team won ninth place in 2020, Montenegro will be in the first or second hat this year, so we avoided all the stronger national teams at the very start, so it will be much easier for us to pass the first part of the competition. Last year, our representatives had the strongest group, they played with Italians, Ukrainians and Portuguese, and they are great players. Here, despite the excellent teams they competed with, they managed to pass the quarterfinals and reach the ninth position. Let me emphasize that last year there were five Blakan teams among the 16 best teams, so in addition to the Montenegrins, good results were also achieved by competitors from Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the last championship, Italy won, although the great national team is always from Spain, while, for example, our competitor Vučeta likes to play with the Romanians the least", reveals the details in front of the TOP 8 PES tournament organizer Filip Šoć.
Šćepanović has experience with the eEuro final tournament, because last year he and Demir Ramović brought the Montenegrin national team ninth place at the European championship in PES, whose prize fund was 100 thousand euros.
Gaming fans had the opportunity to watch the matches of the TOP 8 qualification tournament of Montenegro, as well as the eEuro qualifications themselves, live on the SESCG YouTube and Twitch channel, with excellent commentators Đorđe Rudović, Vučeta Šćepanović and Marko Vuletić.
The Top 8 finalists were preceded by two online qualifying tournaments with about 40 registered players from Montenegro. The four best players from these tournaments each advanced to the TOP 8 stage.
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