I had to watch this one again. This was a game I should've won. I played well throughout but failed to strengthen or at least keep the advantage at different points. Impatience was ultimately my downfall...
I had the advantage early and for most of the game despite losing chunks of army and gold here and there. @Slythe: The reason why I did not finish or kill louis early was to prevent duck and persuade teaming me. This plan worked out well as the attention was focused on Persuade instead of me even though I had the clear advantage (outside of hero levels). At any point I could 1v1 anyone pretty easily if I needed too. When I had the highest gold and attacking Persuade, I had a strong advantage still.
However, instead of making a strong army and attacking, or camping in my base, I chose to go out with relatively weak forces and kept losing bits here and there and slowly lowered my gold count.
There were multiple instances throughout the game where I should've just continued to chill in my base and let the win come to me rather then go for it and press the action. Even with these mistakes repeated I still had a golden shot to win at the end. If only I saved a little bit more gold or had more patience. The ultimate call was losing SH (w/ TP) when again I could of camped my base even though I was doing well before that... charming 4 wyrms etc.
@LW: The reason I did not pressure Duck at all earlier was because he was of no real threat. Any undead has major problems versus a skilled orc player in FFA, especially with DR. Pure wyrms or whatever didn't scare me, my main threat was Persuade with hero levels. Now, with that being said, duck played his cards well and sat on gold for so long. Both duck and louis had much greater patience then me this game and I was surprised to see duck pump as much as he did in the end. He played it well.
As slythe said, it was an overall messed up game by me. Losing too much to Persuade and others when venturing out hurt me for sure, but even with that If I saved a little bit more gold or even just let the action come to me rather then seek it I would've had a big chance to win!
The others played well here. Duck obviously held out for the perfect time and pulled the victory out of bleak circumstances. Bright managed to create a winnable situation in the end and Persuade played well with what he had to deal with.
I was predicted by someone to have a low chance of winning this game but I disagreed. I'm back in strong WC3 shape now. I haven't played as much FFA as i'd like, but my game, in my opinion, is in the same tier as the best FFA players. I'm looking forward to the next season and some more FFA games :D. I hope we can get more active games daily for practice and for fun.
GL HF to the finals. Wish I was there. I will be rooting for Humans7ar!
+1 for Top Score in a loss +1 for Under 1 hour +2 for Under 45 minutes
All Random alone creates great, unpredictable games to spice it up some. Bonus point(s) for faster games will hardly be awarded but act as an extra incentive to promote more action packed games.
Silverpine Forest Twilight Ruins Deadlock (if not Deadlock, Monsoon) Other (Sanctuary)
Sanctuary is a big map made for 8 players. It is a very good FFA map even though it is not listed for FFA. Especially with 4 players. There are multiple mines and everything else needed for a quality FFA game. I think this season should have 1 special map and this should be it this season. I am sure Maga would vouch for this map also as we have had many good custom games on it along with other people. Give it a look.
I cannot play Thursday. I can play TONIGHT (Tuesday) any time or TOMORROW (Wednesday) any time. If not these days.... if it can be extended then my next day off is this coming Sunday in which I could play any time there also...
I work all day and night Thu, Fri, and Sat.
I hope we can get it scheduled today or tomorrow since the deadline is tomorrow. I've been able to play this whole time but we had to wait on different people. I don't want to lose out on a chance to play the game....
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