[etqw] The Netherlands (vs Germany)

Team Germany vs The Netherlands

I think as most of the other members of the netherlands we saw this match as a done case, since the team has been quite a mess after the start of the nc:

First we took on Croatia in a one-sided match for The Netherlands which ended in 4-0. A week or so after we were forced to forfeit to Poland because we were not able to get enough members to play,2easy quit etqw not too long after the nc started, and xizu also lost interrest in etqw (he only wanted to play cdc with Coolermaster and then quit). Not too long after that we had the face Team Czech Republic to decide who would advance to the playoffs. Our team stumbled through the match and that's how we met our opponents Team-Germany.




On papers Germany was looking way stronging then our lineup. Team Germany decided to show up with HEADi (Speedlink), Sporty (Speedlink), mikeX (Ocrana), NeoX (ex-Team-Thermaltake), Copykill (Ocrana) and chaoz (Speedlink). Our lineup was going to be Waste (team-ephix) Lukos (team-ephix) Longbow (cod4 player,ex-hMgaming), dmasterX (Team Coolermaster), RuFio (4kings) and 7ele (team-ephix)


The first map was going to be Area22. Having played speedlink on that map before i knew it was going to be very very hard. We started off well as strogg by claiming our own spawn, and 30 secs later we had control off their forward spawn aswell. Waste went aggressive with the cyclops and 2 tries and 3 minutes later we had the HE-Charge on the first objective. After waste and our infantry holding the outside germany decided to fallback into the mininglaser-stage. They decided to hold the tank on the main road, which was giving waste a hard time but it was not as effective as it can be on the mining laser itself. This is why our infantry had a chance on the objective. I took the accurised into the mountains and it wasn't long for germany was gone and engineers were able to finish the build. With 7 minutes past we went into the last stage. The service door was quickly planted and we started moving towards the last objective. suprisingly we found that we had killed almost all the germans and we made a good push and planted the HE-Charge at around 10:50 (9:10 from the start). We had 4 guys covering the plant, so we started the rain off nades which killed of 4 out of 6. Me and dmasterx jumped in the gib off the engineers but got stuck in the rain off nades by waste. This gave Germany a chance to revive and they made the defuse with less then 1 seconds (ya..) to go. After that we lost 5 more minutes to get the final HE-Charge on leaving a time of around 15 minutes.

Then Team-Germany started to attack, they whiped away our first line off defense with ease, and they needed the same time as us to finish off the second objective aswell after pushing from the hills hard. The Netherlands were setting up for the last stage but it was a bit of a mess. Germany picked us off one for one and managed to get the plant in rather easily, leaving a time off around 10 minutes on the board.

Team Germany 2 - 0 The Netherlands

The second map was sewer. Being slightly demotivated by the pity loss on the first round we started to defend the emp generator as strogg, though we felt confident we had a really good chance on this map since we felt we felt we were doing good versus them in duels. Germany managed to push in the apc and tank after a couple of minutes and went to the second stage (planting the bombs on the sewer entrances). It took them several minutes to get it planted but when they did they did it really hard. Most of the dutchies were killed for a long time and when it blew we saw 4 germans going in. Only thing was, someone was really sure they didnt have an infiltrator yet. So we rushed to the south entrance and set up the weirdest defence i have ever done in etqw. I was holding the 4 germans inside of the sewer controls. we held it like that for around 3-4 minutes, then 2 of them decided to rush out. We picked them off and made a full-push inside to finish off the last 2. After that we had a good time defending the south entrance, until 5 minutes before the end they decided to blow the maintenance hatch. A good combined attack flushed us out and they were able to set a time of around 18 minutes.

Since we didn't have any tactics for the attack yet, there were conversations on ventrilo on what we were going to do. after half a minute someone (edit: Lukos) came up with "engineer-rush". I've only experienced these rushes in the lower-skilled matches i've played but still for the heck of it i wanted to try. Rufio was up for it aswell, and after a bit of nagging waste also agreed to leave his tank in the main base. So we spawned and the 5 of us hopped into an armadillo. Waste needed the second one for himself (FAT). We raced towards the generator and ignored the germans shooting at us. They had never seen this coming and so the tactic became a succes. 4 Engineers jumped on the construct, after the germans shot 3 of the itwas up to dmasterX to finish the job. After a HUGE round of yelling and cheering on ventrilo we went onto the second objective where germany was giving off us a hard time. They kept reclaiming the forward spawn making it hard to cover the plants on the sewer entrances, which cost us alot of time. After 15 minutes we were able to get south. Strangely we found none of the germans inside and so waste and me were able to hack the objectives pretty easily.

Team Germany 2 - 2 The Netherlands

The third map was going to be a decider, after picking out maps salvage was left. We knew we had a very good chance after out last performance on a infantry map. Germany did not take too long to get the first objective and so it was up to us to set up a good defense on the third. After being very pleased with the win on the second map it seemed everyone was going well and we held germany off for a long time, 7-8 minutes. then they were able to break through. Our 3rd defense on the salvage was not as strong and so they were able to set a time 1 and half minute before the end of the map (18:30[/]).

As strogg we knew we had alot of time, though Germany was holding us well at the first objective. It was not untill rufio managed to pick off 2 guys at the office that we could get the plant in. After we quickly moved on the the mining laser, which we cleared out extremely fast by attacking from 3 sides. Shields went up and the construct was a fact. we moved forward and planted the walls. though rufio decided to go for the ninja plant. He managed to get through but got hit by a mine so the german chased him. Instead of hacking the door i used teleport and hided on the balcony. The germans didn't have an engineer until 10 seconds before the explosion. I sprayed the 2 nades i had left and then started to duel the engineer (which i lost). Though it had cost the engineer to much time and so the salvage blew up. we had over 10 minutes left leaving a time of 8minutes[/] (original 18)

Team Germany 2 - 4 The Netherlands

Cheering and unbelieve was going on ventrilo for another hour. Walked through the house for a beer for several minutes but was unable to find one. Decided to write my very first journal on crossfire since i became member of the community just to cool me down for the night. i want to say thanks to our german opponents for making it the close match that is was.





What i had seen as a unnecesary quarterfinal had become one of the greatest and most exciting gaming matches i had ever played.




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Engineer rush video (fraps/vegas):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiUZV03zdrU
http://rapidshare.de/files/38762950/nationscup_NEDvsGER_sewer_engineerrush.wmv.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8409162506892491816