With day one in the Enemy Territory tournament completed it is time to do a quick analysis on what has happened and look ahead for tomorrows games.
As expected, Dignitas had close to zero resistance in any of their games. It has to be said that the team didn't play as solid as one would expect. Even much lower ranked teams were able to make use of the scarse flaws in the Dignitas defenses. Then again, it has to be said that these matches were only little bumps on what is an expected mountainous road tomorrow and sunday.
The Dignitas guys are relaxed and will peak when it is necessary, as we all know it is the sleeping giant that just needs more real barking for it awakes.
The more interesting parts of day one are definitely the performance of the mix teams and zeroPoint!.
The ET community has raised some huge question marks around the zeroPoint! team, wondering how strong they will be without Butchji and how well it could actually improve before it will face Dignitas again.
Talking to the zP! guys, the morale and determination to win are both high. The team is boasting of confidence that neither teams such as defining stars, kih, black magic or a dtekt will be able to stop them from reaching the winner bracket final.
However words don't count in tournaments, it's the bullets that matter. Their first real test was today's game against Black Magic.
Radar was the first chosen map and zP! had a rusty start on it. Despite some initial good rushes for the flag, they struggled when the cp had to be taken. Black Magic defended considerably well and fended off the first three full attacks. zP! decided to co-ordinate several split attacks, but it only resulted in more delay. In the end it took zP! 9:04 to complete the objective.
However, no one seemed to be too worried in the zP! camp and they proved it. zP! was able to defend all three initial objectives for 1,5 minutes before side was planted. zP! continued to defend very well and gave bm a very hard time to keep the cp, which proved to be key in winning the map despite a slow time.
It took bm 5 more minutes before they could start to push for the parts, but as radar is a punishing map for teams that only formed recently, bm didn't manage to coordinate a set of good attacks to break zP! defenses.
While there are two clear favourites to settle the score for second and first, Black Magic, KiH and defining stars are definitely not out of the loop yet.
KiH might be the underdog of the three after it lost to bm 4-2 and is forced to secure their third spot in the group tomorrow to avoid early eliminiation.
But it is a known story that mix teams can do surprisingly well as tournaments progress. Mix teams take huge leaps in improving itself in only the few matches they get to play.
Both bm and defining stars have a good chance of qualifying for the playoffs and they are obligated to do so with the skill they have in their ranks.
For tomorrow, match ups between these teams will be very interesting and are expected to be close...
http://www.clanbase.com/news_league.php?nid=241112&lid=3024
As expected, Dignitas had close to zero resistance in any of their games. It has to be said that the team didn't play as solid as one would expect. Even much lower ranked teams were able to make use of the scarse flaws in the Dignitas defenses. Then again, it has to be said that these matches were only little bumps on what is an expected mountainous road tomorrow and sunday.
The Dignitas guys are relaxed and will peak when it is necessary, as we all know it is the sleeping giant that just needs more real barking for it awakes.
The more interesting parts of day one are definitely the performance of the mix teams and zeroPoint!.
The ET community has raised some huge question marks around the zeroPoint! team, wondering how strong they will be without Butchji and how well it could actually improve before it will face Dignitas again.
Talking to the zP! guys, the morale and determination to win are both high. The team is boasting of confidence that neither teams such as defining stars, kih, black magic or a dtekt will be able to stop them from reaching the winner bracket final.
However words don't count in tournaments, it's the bullets that matter. Their first real test was today's game against Black Magic.
Radar was the first chosen map and zP! had a rusty start on it. Despite some initial good rushes for the flag, they struggled when the cp had to be taken. Black Magic defended considerably well and fended off the first three full attacks. zP! decided to co-ordinate several split attacks, but it only resulted in more delay. In the end it took zP! 9:04 to complete the objective.
However, no one seemed to be too worried in the zP! camp and they proved it. zP! was able to defend all three initial objectives for 1,5 minutes before side was planted. zP! continued to defend very well and gave bm a very hard time to keep the cp, which proved to be key in winning the map despite a slow time.
It took bm 5 more minutes before they could start to push for the parts, but as radar is a punishing map for teams that only formed recently, bm didn't manage to coordinate a set of good attacks to break zP! defenses.
While there are two clear favourites to settle the score for second and first, Black Magic, KiH and defining stars are definitely not out of the loop yet.
KiH might be the underdog of the three after it lost to bm 4-2 and is forced to secure their third spot in the group tomorrow to avoid early eliminiation.
But it is a known story that mix teams can do surprisingly well as tournaments progress. Mix teams take huge leaps in improving itself in only the few matches they get to play.
Both bm and defining stars have a good chance of qualifying for the playoffs and they are obligated to do so with the skill they have in their ranks.
For tomorrow, match ups between these teams will be very interesting and are expected to be close...
http://www.clanbase.com/news_league.php?nid=241112&lid=3024
Kapow did much better than I expected, it'll be pretty interesting to see how they do against the mix teams and maybe dtekt. Defeated, yeah, but by how much?
And bm vs defs will be a very interesting match. :)
but, pics? :<
I would not have extpected the team to suddenly suck bigtime without butchji and playing with keran. Imo that whole idea was bs