German Championship 2023

The German Championship is part of the official Nintendo European Championship tournament to crown the best team in Europe. The final tournament took place offline at Gamescom in Cologne on the 25th of August. There were four online qualifiers for it. The qualifiers were organized by Dapple Productions in cooperation with Nintendo Germany.

1st Qualifier: (9th of July 2023) Black Lotus was the first team that qualified for the final at Gamescom. Noctis, Wasabi, Zay, Anger and Barli absolutely proved themself worthy to play on the big Nintendo stage. The second team that qualified that day was Enperry Scrimshaw with an impressive roster of TommiEcho, Ty\_n, Ben, Heaven and North. Here we witnessed that the old champion, BackSquids, will not be competing again and that the German crown will most likely not be an easy task to archive. The VODs of the tournament can be found here.

2nd Qualifier: (15th of July 2023) The winners of the second qualifiers were Haarige Hinterländler. Toyoben led Storm, Okami, Meiko and Shouko to victory over the second-place team Centopia. Kirbay, Yaru, Lufre, Endor and Pat had an amazing run but in the end, they could not beat this insane team in front of them. You can find a playlist of the matches of this qualifier here.

3rd Qualifier: (22nd of July 2023) The third qualifier saw a clear victor and gave us an insane team for the final tournament. KaiZer, consisting of Mika, WMajin, Fly0, ZerraZ and Whis are just people to be afraid of if you are unlucky enough to face them. Though if it will be enough for the German championship will be seen in the final tournament! The second place in this tournament also qualified for the final like the weeks before. Energie Kopfnuss finally qualified after getting third in all of the qualifiers before this one. Erik, Akio, Kenshin, Tamako and Mevlingo must have been more than happy about this result. Watch the VODs here.

4th Qualifier: (29th of July 2023) This tournament was the last opportunity to qualify for the final tournament. Reverse took this win after showing us a growing performance with each prior tournament. Yame, Smmuiii, Yοshι, 7fox and ★OliverNEW likely trained a lot to get this win! Die Randoms took the second place of this tournament and with that, all teams had been decided. Wiesel, MyMyX, Momo, $ћınınǧ and Fursay saw their chance and made the most of the moment. You can find the VODs on the YouTube Channel of Dapple Productions here.

The final match took place on the 25th of August at the Gamescom in Cologne. All teams participated in a Single Elimination tournament to crown the best team. The tournament featured an insane show and even the head of Dapple Productions, Alice, could be seen on the big stage. It was commentated live by known German casters Wadsm and Cyo.

In the end, KaiZer took the win over Haarige Hinterländler in an insane close 3-2 match, crowning them the German Champion of 2023.