BFB Semi Final results 2/2

The second semi final in the Battle For Berlin was played tonight. The winner will go on to face G2P in the Winners Bracket final and the loser will drop down to the 4th round of the loser bracket to face k1ck.









Anexis

R0SS
Night
Squall
sqzz
mAus
XyLoS

Mouse-Control

saKen
SQuid
Joshua
an7ho
filuS
zMk

Supply[/u]

Anexis started on the Allied side and begun with a heavy medic push high, as almost every team does these days, however they are more successful than most given that their medics are Sqzz, Squall and mAus. They capped the flag and planted lower within the opening 2 minutes. The Allies took a suit but their initial rush was shut down, as were the following few because of the standard artillery spam. SQuid was having bad connection troubles which were really hampering his sides efforts. Anexis planted main and East but were held up for a few minutes by some effective spam from the Axis side. Squall jumped up the back and watched his teammates die to the upstairs defence of MouseControl. Assuming there were no more Allies remaining, the Axis let their guard down which allowed the Fin to built the controls and begin the end of the map.

MouseControl had a similarly successful first stage attack as they took the flag on the first rush and stormed the command post right away to give themselves a massive chance of taking the map. The Anexis defence looked woefully unorganised and the Allies took full advantage, securing quick plants on the main gate and East. A crucial missed revive from mAus onto Night cost them a last chance at defending the controls and not even a brilliant 4 man frag from sqzz could prevent the Allies building the controls with 2 and a half minutes remaining. MouseControl had the entire Axis side dead and took up camping positions in the towers. Anexis were slaughtered on their respawn and the impressive MouseControl took the first map with over a minute to spare.


Radar[/u]

MouseControl were attacking full of confidence after their victory on supply but their initial attacks were repelled by the Axis. The Allies planted side three times only to see it repeatedly defused. They did however, grab the bunker and blow the main gate which was the trigger for a successful main-rush in which filuS took the West parts and karnaj (who had replaced SQuid) took the East parts. filuS hopped, skipped and jumped his way up the main road and through a hail of bullets managed to secure the arguably more important parts. karnaj however took the East the parts to the side entrance, which was not blown, and was killed by the ensuing respawn. Had he taken them across fake, we'd have been looking at a 4 minute time and possibly the game would've been over right there and then. The Axis regrouped to defend East and lost side and the command post in the process. 6 minutes left on the clock. Anexis had an East defence that even the oldschool UK clan BiO would've been proud of, but an airstrike from zMk had them scrambling and in the chaos the Allies managed to take the parts over the hill and far away. saKen secured the parts to set a time of 10.50 - but this game could've been over 6 minutes ago!

Anexis survived an early scare on defence and had to shape up if they were to avoid dropping into the loser's bracket. They began radar by attacking both side and main simultaneously. They had little success attacking the bunker and they wasted a precious 3 minutes in doing so. Once they had side and main blown, they attacked side as 6 players and looked to have the command post secure before a 4 man frag from An7ho followed up by a 3 man frag from zMk shut down the attack. The Allies took the CP in the next minute and sqzz took and secured East with 5 minutes left on the clock. MouseControl fell back to defend West and weren't really troubled by a disjointed Anexis attack - until a 6 man medic rush at main. The Allies took control of the Axis backspawn and set up an offensive crossfire which allowed sqzz to make a dramatic leap for the parts with 3 minutes left. The Welshman's leap was halted by an ill-timed Axis pause and he remained suspended in mid-air for the full duration. Once the game resumed, filuS found himself in a good position to take him down and with 2 minutes remaining the Axis had full control of the West parts. Anexis continued to push into the backspawn of the Axis where they met firm resistance in the shape of karnaj, who was more than making up for his earlier mistake. Panic began to set in as the seconds ticked off the clock and MouseControl's defence started to crack. sqzz took the parts but a double kill from joshua stop him running away. XyLoS jumped in to take the parts before they could be returned and with 29 seconds left he took them the long route through CP. Anexis had cleared the truck and it was a race against time for the Italian and he tried desperately to secure the objective. He emerged from the bunker with 2 seconds remaining and just as it looked like he would secure the documents in time he was smashed in a face with a panzerfaust from An7ho, but in doing so he absorbed all of the splash damage allowing sqzz to steal the documents as they lay and dive for the truck with literally 0.1 seconds remaining. In truly sensational fashion, Anexis beat the clock to tie up the game and show everyone why radar is still the best map in Enemy Territory.


Bremen[/u]

Elimination brought us to bremen and in all honesty after suffering such a desperately unlucky defeat on radar, I had my doubts whether MouseControl would be able to motivate themselves for a decider against a team who despite playing badly is full of winners. Anexis started on defence and begun well, repelling the opening 4 or 5 spawns and eventually losing the flag after good work from the Dutch duo of saKen and joshua. The Axis set up a solid CP defence and their key player mAus began to find his groove. Some excellent shooting from filuS and his sten broke the resistance and the Allies caught a lucky break and were able to take the keycard and build the CP simultaneously with 9 minutes left. MouseControl were finding the truck stage just as hard to attack and the pattern of the map continued, with Anexis laying down plenty of multifrags and MouseControl getting plenty of revives. Some further good medic work from joshua the Allies let them repair the truck and with 3.30 remaining the truck was at the second barrier, waiting for dynamites to blow. The truck continued unopposed from here as MouseControl set a time of 10.25.

Anexis will have felt confident given that they had over 10 minutes to set a time to progress to the Winner Bracket final, and rightly so as it took sqzz under 30 seconds to perform one of his trademark flag caps. A heavy selfkill from MouseControl let the Allies swarm the command post unopposed and the most important defensive stage fell with only 2 minutes gone in the round. With only the truck to defend for an eternity, Anexis were looking clear favourites for the game. Squall managed to repair the truck right under the nose of the Axis players and gg was called with over 7 minutes remaining. As soon as sqzz somehow secured the objective on radar, MouseControl never looked likely of winning the game, but they will feel very hard done by in defeat.


Anexis will play G2P in the Winner Bracket final.

MouseControl will play k1ck in the 4th round of the Loser Bracket.

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Upcoming games:[/u]
Thursday 10th - LB Round 4 - disQonnect vs. Queens[/b]
Thursday 10th - LB Round 4 - k1ck vs. MouseControl