Farewell groupstages, hello elimination!
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25 Nov 2006, 17:58
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-19.09pm: FF beat zP's time by 1.03m, score now 2-0 to FF
-18.55pm: zP fullheld on radar round 1by Fear Factory
They said 5v5 was dead, they said ET had no lan future, well guess what. The groupstage games have been nothing short of truely worthy of this superb venue that the players and spectators alike find themselves in today. And today, Enemy Territory forgot the rulebook. The script got left in the hotel room and we've witnessed some major suprises and upsets. Right now I can hear Conrad of Headshot Radio telling his fellow casters that the cdap pi - Fear Factory game is an "amazing match", and his delight isn't just founded purely on being Polish.
Lets go back to the beginning of the day. At 11.00am we had 6 ET teams ready to do battle and the first game of the day was a strong Fear Factory side facing a relatively unknown everto outfit. Any optimism they may have been carrying however was completely wiped back in their faces with a dominant 4-0 win by the FF veterans. Simultaneously, group B saw the clash between Delta and their unusal tags vs The Netrunners in what became known as the group of death. The game didn't fail to live up to its tight predictions and went all the way to a decider before Netrunners managed to clinch victory on supply.
Delta may have been able to take a round of Netrunners, but their resolve was not able to hold as they crashed to a second defeat 4-0 at the hands of zeroPoint leaving the Poles facing an early exit from the tournament. Perhaps the loss to NR was more a morale crushing blow, as zeroPoint would go on to find life much more difficult against NR later on.
Back to group A and cdap pi's game against minnows everto. Previously when potter had told me he thought pi were less a threat than Netrunners I scorned him, but upon arriving at the venue it was clear to see why he was of such opinion. With no perfo, no toxic and no previous lan experience, cdap needed the safety of a decider map to see off everto, and leave them with more a worrying omen than a win against their name with the end result at 4-2.
By 4pm we started moving onto the serious games; the games which decided who played who in the double elimination bracket. Group A winner plays group B runnerup and vice versa, and the matches of zeroPoint vs Netrunners and cdap pi vs Fear Factory would determine who played who.
Kicking off with zeroPoint and the early signs were with the Europeans. Having learnt that NR were viewed as ZP's biggest rivals in the tournament it was no great suprise to see the score draw level at 2-2. But when the teams clashed for the third round on braundorf, the outcome was more than just an upset. zeroPoint had been viewed by most including winning a landslide poll on Crossfire as clear tournament favourites, and when Netrunners took the map to record a 4-2 victory, confusion reigned supreme. Nevertheless it was a deservered and well fought contest, and one NR will be extremely happy to have won, setting up a meeting with cdap pi in the double elimination bracket.
Meanwhile the final group game saw a confident Fear Factory side up against the rattled cdap pi, who looked nervous and lacked any potency when attacking the first round on radar. Fear Factory meanwhile streamrollered their way through after cdap believed that having returned the radar parts they could relax, but they were punished for this lax by the sound of secured west radar parts. Moving onto goldrush and FF must have thought the match was theirs, but they hadn't reckoned on some stout cdap pi tank defense, who clearly weren't ready to give up the ghost anytime soon. They held Fear Factory back and had an almost millenia to attack, for which they duly accepted and sent the match to a decider on supply. cdap pi attacked first, but their memories of weak attacking on radar came back to haunt them, as they set an impossibly slow time thanks to several wonderful last second dynamite defuses and teamplay. If cdap were alive, Fear Factory were superhuman, planting the bunker gate within a minute and setting stupidly fast time to leave cdap looking at their mice as if to say, "what just happened?".
So now we have our double elimination first two matches, with Netrunners playing cdap pi and zeroPoint up against Fear Factory. There's plenty more action to come!
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19.31pm RESULT: Netrunners 4 - 2 cdap pi
19:27pm RESULT: zeroPoint 0 - 4 Fear Factory
-19.09pm: FF beat zP's time by 1.03m, score now 2-0 to FF
-18.55pm: zP fullheld on radar round 1by Fear Factory
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They said 5v5 was dead, they said ET had no lan future, well guess what. The groupstage games have been nothing short of truely worthy of this superb venue that the players and spectators alike find themselves in today. And today, Enemy Territory forgot the rulebook. The script got left in the hotel room and we've witnessed some major suprises and upsets. Right now I can hear Conrad of Headshot Radio telling his fellow casters that the cdap pi - Fear Factory game is an "amazing match", and his delight isn't just founded purely on being Polish.
Lets go back to the beginning of the day. At 11.00am we had 6 ET teams ready to do battle and the first game of the day was a strong Fear Factory side facing a relatively unknown everto outfit. Any optimism they may have been carrying however was completely wiped back in their faces with a dominant 4-0 win by the FF veterans. Simultaneously, group B saw the clash between Delta and their unusal tags vs The Netrunners in what became known as the group of death. The game didn't fail to live up to its tight predictions and went all the way to a decider before Netrunners managed to clinch victory on supply.
Delta may have been able to take a round of Netrunners, but their resolve was not able to hold as they crashed to a second defeat 4-0 at the hands of zeroPoint leaving the Poles facing an early exit from the tournament. Perhaps the loss to NR was more a morale crushing blow, as zeroPoint would go on to find life much more difficult against NR later on.
Back to group A and cdap pi's game against minnows everto. Previously when potter had told me he thought pi were less a threat than Netrunners I scorned him, but upon arriving at the venue it was clear to see why he was of such opinion. With no perfo, no toxic and no previous lan experience, cdap needed the safety of a decider map to see off everto, and leave them with more a worrying omen than a win against their name with the end result at 4-2.
By 4pm we started moving onto the serious games; the games which decided who played who in the double elimination bracket. Group A winner plays group B runnerup and vice versa, and the matches of zeroPoint vs Netrunners and cdap pi vs Fear Factory would determine who played who.
Kicking off with zeroPoint and the early signs were with the Europeans. Having learnt that NR were viewed as ZP's biggest rivals in the tournament it was no great suprise to see the score draw level at 2-2. But when the teams clashed for the third round on braundorf, the outcome was more than just an upset. zeroPoint had been viewed by most including winning a landslide poll on Crossfire as clear tournament favourites, and when Netrunners took the map to record a 4-2 victory, confusion reigned supreme. Nevertheless it was a deservered and well fought contest, and one NR will be extremely happy to have won, setting up a meeting with cdap pi in the double elimination bracket.
Meanwhile the final group game saw a confident Fear Factory side up against the rattled cdap pi, who looked nervous and lacked any potency when attacking the first round on radar. Fear Factory meanwhile streamrollered their way through after cdap believed that having returned the radar parts they could relax, but they were punished for this lax by the sound of secured west radar parts. Moving onto goldrush and FF must have thought the match was theirs, but they hadn't reckoned on some stout cdap pi tank defense, who clearly weren't ready to give up the ghost anytime soon. They held Fear Factory back and had an almost millenia to attack, for which they duly accepted and sent the match to a decider on supply. cdap pi attacked first, but their memories of weak attacking on radar came back to haunt them, as they set an impossibly slow time thanks to several wonderful last second dynamite defuses and teamplay. If cdap were alive, Fear Factory were superhuman, planting the bunker gate within a minute and setting stupidly fast time to leave cdap looking at their mice as if to say, "what just happened?".
So now we have our double elimination first two matches, with Netrunners playing cdap pi and zeroPoint up against Fear Factory. There's plenty more action to come!
now we are trying to beat netr
did the kurwas steal the skill of zP! ??????
lol @score....
this was the (2weeks) idle challenger :P