Ireland vs Italy - 6(ish) Nations
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18 Feb 2009, 14:33
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Welcome to Wednesday’s Six(ish) Nations Championship! It’s match week two and the irresistible Italians take on the irredeemable Irish, in what’s being billed as another David versus Goliath mash up. This the first match proper for the Irish, and they’re eager to overcome the doubters and get off to a winning start. Should they lose tonight, it'll be a constant uphill battle to avoid being awarded the Wooden Spoon.
In their first match of the competition Italy enacted an enthralling comeback, turning over what seemed an irreversible lead for the English and eventually clawing their way back from two maps down in order to share the points with the then despondent English. In little over an hours worth of game time, and four maps played, this was a flashback to the glory days of Enemy Territory – as two teams slogged it out, testing their mental stamina to the limits.
The Italians managed to hold England for over twelve minutes on Supply, primarily thanks to an impressive outer defence of the depot, repelling wave after wave of English attacks and holding them outside the walls for over four minutes. Assuming Italy have worked on improving their attack, they’ll be confident of taking the map tonight.
Battery is what throws some spice into tonight’s match, with teams reporting difficulties in practicing, and it being a map not regularly used in competition – assuming Ireland are fully prepared and can overcome the initial stage relatively easily, could this be their map to shine?
Ireland vs 
ItalyCompetition: 6[ish] Nations Championship
Time: 22:00 CET
Format: Best of three (BO3)
Maps: sw_battery / Supply
ETTV: GamesTV.org
France
England
Scotland
Wales
PortugalUpdate: having talked to the teams, the majority wanted to play the standard best of three (Bo3) - and so the competition will henceforth. Details on what we'll do regarding the Italy/England result tba.
Tonight, nations collide. Tune in from 22:00 CET!
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por: play 2games?
See post below.
its kind of shit if you ask me, it just drags.
The few main reasons was to increase the actual game time (personally don’t think an actual ingame time of 20/30 minutes is worthwhile), included with that being it’s mixes / ‘for fun’ so figured they wouldn’t be playing regularly anyway, it's not a 'serious' comp so we can experiment with new formats and to make the league format more competitive (no playoffs).
The reasoning for this is that the [CB] map list is almost entirely >7 minute per round maps. Assuming minimal delays (which can be done) that gives you about 30/40 minutes game time per match. Again assuming minimal delays and all the maps played a match shouldn’t exceed much over an hour, which I don’t consider excessive. I can understand that losing a 2 map lead probably feels like shit, but this’ll probably be the exception not the rule.
I think England were more pissed off than they might’ve been because they didn’t realise the format (though it has been in every news post & explained to the caps prior to the comp) so went from “yay we’ve won” to… losing a 2 map lead can feel like a loss, plus the massive delays waiting for the sublime players.
That said, if the majority of captains agree, and we can work something out with the England/Italy result, I’ve no problem in reverting to the standard.
i just think it should be the best of 3 every game, makes the games more exciting as one team are definetly going to win instead of playing for all that time and ends up turning into a draw.
also (i know its to late now) but i dont see why portugal are in this cup, they have nothing to do with the 6nations.
Excitement is relative ! A draw can be great… Anyone that watches footy can tell you that :p
England/Italy result remains iffy.
im sure it will still be reverted, 6-1.
England
Italy
Scotland
Ireland
Wales
Portugal
actually it looks like 7 nations to me