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First week over

2012-03-26 03:28 by ParadokS

Sunday game night came and went, as 10 teams went head to head across 2 groups to kick start this first season off. There was tons of games and action, lets give you a brief overview.

Wtih a total of 10 teams having to play at the same time we did expect some irregularities. But to see 9 teams ready to go on time was a positive surprise.

Not all teams had a chance to get some practice rounds in before the official games, mostly due to our delayed live-stream draft on Wednesday. That wasn't visible tonight though, as all teams seemed pumped and ready to fight at 18:30.

Group A
Let's get it out of the way quickly then. Darkki's Bliss had problems fielding their lineup as both Trash had PC problems shortly before deadline and fix decided to do a houdini an hour before as well without giving sign of life.

Fix being Darkki's first choice in the draft this was naturally a big blow for their team. Due to delays they were not able to field a team against ParadokS' Rocks. Trash however did come back in time for them to play against Milton's Militia. Without fix though it was a blowout victory for Milton's team and tonight's biggest victory.

Milton was about to have another easy game against Dimman's Dimension as dimman did not show up for his team in time either. With car trouble setting him a map behind, Milton took a comfortable first map win, where Moltas noticeably stepped up and had a very good round.

Dimman showed up for 2nd map and was determined to turn it around. Moltas had another good round, but Purity with a shady connection and some rust in the old bones woke up, topfragged and Milton's Milita barely took home this victory with a 3 frag margin.

Will be exciting to see how Milton fairs next Sunday against the remaining teams. Lets hope they have full strong lineups to give this unstoppable warrior a run for his goldrush-money.

bps' Evilness had a rough night dropping 0-2 games to both Dimman's Dimension and later to ParadokS' Rocks. The latter ended with a fullstart on DM3 for Para's team and it was Rock'N'Roll for the next 20 min as tonight's 2nd big victory was logged.

This however was not the trend as the majority of tonight's game were very tight and where turnovers and comeback's were exchanged multiple time in several rounds.

ParadokS' Rocks have decided to open a small window for Darkki's Bliss as they will try to get the game played during the week, rather than taking the WO right out. If however both teams are not able to play this game, the WO for Para's team will be granted.

So unless Darkki can get the game played AND win over Para's Rocks, it will most likely be Darkki vs bps next Sunday, fighting over the coveted playoff spot.

Group B

With en_karl being absent from the live stream draft pick, and arguably having a weak seeding list, en_karl's Snarl was one of the teams no one picked as a winner. From the poll What team will go all the way?, he got 5% of the votes and the goldrush betting wasn't going his way either.

But his team was indeed the big surprise tonight. En_karl really stepped up and lead his team to victory in the first game. With 2 epic performances,winning 2-0 over Murdoc's Muppets, as many thought to be one of the top 3 contenders this season, with a very strong teamplay oriented lineup. I wonder if Murdoc will get hate-mail from goldrush betters after this debacle.

en_karl's late game was against zero's hero's facing a fierce DM2 combo of both zero and StrikeR. En_karl took the challenge head on, fueld by the confidence from the first game and although they did not win it was only a 10 frag loss.

StrikeR had to bail during 2nd and 3rd map due to previous engagements leaving zero and his merry men to pickup the slack and close this game with 1 more map win. 'Monkey see, Babymonkey do', and so they did. karl had lead the way and both niw and krab stepped up in this game as they took a comfortable win on E1M2.

Many considered both niw and krab weak choices for en_karl, but this team seems to work more like a well oiled machine working in unity and is actually leading this group heading into next Sunday's matchups.

On the other end of the scale we got Carapace's Nutcases. However his last place in the groupstages thus far might be misleading to most. With a lineup consisting of purely current and former SD players this almost feels like a clan among mix teams. Cara's first game was against Murdoc's Muppets and a nailbiting E1M2 ended with a 5 frag win for the Muppets which could really have gone either way. Murdoc's team seemed little more dominating on the following DM3 giving out a 0-2 loss to the nutcases.

The last match of the night was played between Nitram's Rams and Carapace's Nutacases.

Carapace wanted to show that his team belongs in the top tier and gave a great performance on DM3. Razor, despite having major ping and PL issues, had no problems keeping up either. Time for another nailbiter on the next map - you guessed it - E1M2. Another crazy 7 frag difference match went against Carapace on what must seem to be his nemesis map so far.

The decider was no oneside affair either, as both teams were fighting for the win to the very end. Nitram must just have felt unstoppable as he continuously plowed through those nutcases. We actually saw some pretty nice play from both rst and carapace this round but nitram was just here, there and everywhere.. usually with QUAD.

This group seems wide open still and it's really hard to say what's gonna happen next week. Carapace will however have to work extra hard to try and stay in the game for the playoffs and at the same time it seems evident Murdoc need's to lose at least another game next week.

Upcoming games and more...
We have already added upcoming games for next Sunday. Match predictions and goldrush additions will most likely be added during Monday.

Demos for all games can be found on http://demos.quakeworld.nu/ untill we find a more permanent solution directly implemented on the draft site.

Finally a great 'THANKS' goes out to all the players that showed up and wanted to play your hearts out. We saw so many tight games and comebacks. There was a lot of whine from the spectators though "How can we run more ezquake clients so we can spec multiple games simultaneously?" was a common request :)

We sincerely hope you will all be as enthusiastic next Sunday when we will settle the scores, send 2 teams out on the railings and the rest into an epic playoff.

Links:
Live Stream Show - youtube.com
Finalized Teams and free agents
Goldrush
Demos
Schedule

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#1 cuky - 2012-03-26 04:05 (78.45.94.XXX)

nice job, tired para :) and when you ecticing us let's watch Milton's team and here again demos link:: http://demos.quakeworld.nu/download.php?id=94

#2 razor - 2012-03-26 09:37 (81.201.222.XXX)

Nice report! keep it up!

To clarify I didn't actually lag vs nitrams team, or well just the usual 1- 5 pl, but it was actually unusually stabile. We played alot better vs nitrams team, they feel like the stronger team in our group though.

Vs murdocs in the other hand I had 100 ping and 60 pl for like 18 minutes on e1m2 and on dm3 I timed out in the middle of the map when it was still undecided.. I had 100ra/160hp/rl/lg/50 cells and quad.. felt like -99 all over again with those damn modem timeouts..
I give it one more chance then im switching isp :)
Was so damn frustrating..

#3 dimman - 2012-03-26 09:44 (195.60.68.XXX)

Nice job Para! A comment regarding this:

"Milton was about to have another easy game against Dimman's Dimension as dimman did not show up for his team in time either. With car trouble setting him a map behind, Milton took a comfortable first map win, where Moltas noticeably stepped up and had a very good round."

My team were leading the game for about 15-16min until an unfortunate give away of RA and letting Milton slip away, which turned the whole game to their favour. I think it was a really impressive performance by my team and more even big parts of the game than it sounds like! =)

#4 er - 2012-03-26 10:08 (62.21.65.XXX)

"Demos for all games can be found on http://demos.quakeworld.nu/ untill we find a more permanent solution directly implemented on the draft site."

Well, challenge-tv is up, running smooth and You can smell DonKing's hunger for demos ;)

#5 phren - 2012-03-26 12:08 (85.230.188.XXX)

Thanks for hte update, couldnt follow everygame. One thing woth mention, caras vs nitrams @ e1m2, ~3mins left we had the map locked down for a secure win, then nitram, with quad, decided to BORE right into xero, leaving two rl packs for caras team +ya +quad almost forcing us to hide our pants out to win.

#6 nitram - 2012-03-26 12:11 (85.119.130.XXX)

Haha, that was gg. Funniest moment so far in Salvation ;e

#7 Milton - 2012-03-26 12:30 (87.94.161.XXX)

You missed the real fun in that moment though as darf(?) had said something like "a quadbore would be nice now" in QTV ~5 seconds before Martin delivered it :L. QW spectators haven't seen such "LOL" and "haha" flood since Tuoppi and Sandy left us.

#8 murdoc - 2012-03-26 12:32 (31.223.160.XXX)

epic :D

#9 Hooraytio - 2012-03-26 12:51 (85.228.246.XXX)

I miss Tuoppi :(

#10 ParadokS - 2012-03-26 13:29 (77.105.214.XXX)

#4 There was some silly filesize cap on chtv before, so you coudn't upload a zip with 2 and 3 4on4.mvd demos included. At least demos.quakeworld.nu swallows those like a breeze. Don't know if it has been fixed on chtv yet, might check later.

#11 Kapitan Kloze - 2012-03-26 14:01 (94.42.3.XXX)

Ask Kingpin what he did to me in one of dm2 pracs before Salvation. That's what I call the awkward moment :D

#12 D - 2012-03-26 15:19 (194.15.212.XXX)

seems like everyone is having alot of fun!! 10 teams and alot of insanely even games.

I hope this is the future (or atleast a part of it) because the game haven't felt this fun and exciting in a decade.

#13 yrpi - 2012-03-26 17:32 (85.229.132.XXX)

One idea to solve situations similar to what happened to Darkki's team, would be to allow any team to pick a player that is currently online from the free agents pool (temporarily). That way you can at least avoid walkovers which, to be honest, must be seen as a failure (even though no one can foresee all issues). Let's hope we won't see any walkovers whatsoever!

#14 ParadokS - 2012-03-26 18:02 (77.105.214.XXX)

Yeah I did think of that, but too late cause the game was too much delayed already by then. And hard to discuss with other admins, because most of them are captains and were all playing ;D

But we will probably make than an option next Sunday.

#15 fastidious - 2012-03-26 19:23 (76.223.252.XXX)

there's really no good option when a top draft choice doesn't show up. a free agent won't compare in skill but at least the game would happen then.

#16 HANGTIME - 2012-03-27 17:32 (149.254.56.XXX)

how about having an irc Chan where reserve players hang out to show they r available. Then if teams r short they can check the list of available reserves for that day. Could also be useful if any lower div clans need a standin for prac

#17 ParadokS - 2012-03-27 18:01 (77.105.214.XXX)

Just use #draft.qw ? Most ppl that join such a channel idle anyways. Better to just ask in #draft.qw + a .qw

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Scheduled date	Team 1		Team 2	Grp	Score		D



May 03, 20:30	Nitram's Rams	vs	Milton's Militia	F	2 - 3	17
Apr 22, 20:30	Nitram's Rams	vs	En_karl's Snarl	SF	3 - 0	4
Apr 22, 18:30	Milton's Militia	vs	Murdoc's Muppets	SF	3 - 0	0
Apr 15, 20:30	ParadokS' Rocks	vs	Nitram's Rams	QF	2 - 3	9
Apr 15, 20:00	Carapace's Nutcases	vs	Milton's Militia	QF	1 - 3	0
Apr 15, 19:00	Murdoc's Muppets	vs	Darkki's Bliss	QF	3 - 0	2
Apr 15, 18:00	Dimman's Dimension	vs	En_karl's Snarl	QF	0 - 3	1
Apr 01, 21:30	Darkki's Bliss	vs	Dimman's Dimension	A	0 - 2	0
Apr 01, 21:30	Zero's Heroes	vs	Carapace's Nutcases	B	1 - 2	1
Apr 01, 20:00	Milton's Militia	vs	Bps' Evilness	A	2 - 0	2

	bps' Evilness
	carapace's Nutcases
	darkki's Bliss
	dimman's Dimension
	en_karl's Snarl
	Milton's Militia
	murdoc's Muppets
	nitram's Rams
	ParadokS' Rocks
	zero's Heroes