Whatsoever, as I posted in my new game, the first days in January I can play all days from 13-17.30 CET (starting times) as well as mondays and tuesdays at 20 CET.
Works for me, how about today 1st January at 20 CET or 2nd January at 20 CET then ?
Narrow paths map, favoring lots of air units. Strong cast and no orc ! I hope Renaud will power through one of the other three but it might be dicey as none of them is likely to be killed quickly, my bet is still on Noexx for the win.
Cumulo is the favorite there but both Airenikus and Shave have also what it takes to win, unpredictable and fairly even match, will Airenikus try to snipe Cumulo out of the finals ? Mystery !
ep and Joggel both proved to be quite crafty so Alien will have to be careful, also this is an 8 player map so the spawns will once again be key. LssL can win his 1v1 early as well but seems a bit under the other as far as gold management goes, I predict a quick match because of a lack of scouting and bad spawns, winner ep !
Three NEs who contracted the tank-hate disease, main bases can be close ... I've got the feeling there will be many rebuilds. At this game Gradient is pretty damn good.
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Fetta Inc. vs Zig Zag ZIGGURAT! vs Bad Manneroths vs Free Ena
I see Mog killing betoon, peanut trying to rush Jaod and failing then Mog cleaning everyone. Please don't do it ! Boomtown can be pretty fun as it allows strange build orders as well as quick pushes.
If Drunkamo is vs Trunks the match might be interesting, let's hope so or that Dinamo will begin the year with projects of being sober. Will it hold ? On this map the demon hunter can reach a pretty disgusting power level and as it's an 8 player map we'll likely see a DH 5 just from creeping. There can be funny spawn positions and terrible ones, from an entertainment point of view; I hope to see a 4-men sandwich with dinamo and Trunkz in the middle or fetta between Trunkz and Junker with a dinamo alone in the wild.
SSssnake moves incoming 8D Wreck and Eshan are the favorites there, MrSweets might be able to get an imba BM but I expect the two americans to scream at the top of their lungs from the top of their 20k gold heap to get TomToast to do the dirty job.
Interesting match, spawns will be key as in any 4-way in an 8 players map, i hope no one will be surrounded. If fetta has some time and manages to get good items he can be a serious threat to Mog or Renaud, I see Mog as a favorite since he's the most adaptable here but spawns will dictate a lot.
:icon_lol:yet another seksi/Eshan match, this time with hightac and iwantwc4 as attendants. This map favors agression heavily, agressive creeping especially and rebuilding is chancy at best. I see seksi dominating/killing 1 player fast very fast and then a protracted 3-way, Eshan wins it if he reaches that stage.
Noexx is the clear favorite there and that will likely make for a complicated but short game, no real room to rebuild and relatively little gold here so I don't see Gradient winning. Going with a fully dominating performance by Noexx !
Best cast here, no one is overly susceptible to get tomed by anyone. Since the map is large, I expect a full creeping before anything happens and then gold management will prevail. At this game I see Joggel going out and then a longer 3-way between alien wreck and jaod. Either wreck or alien will end up pissing jaod too much and the third one will take the win.
Serious business, even the 4th player will have 65 points minimum so everyone will qualify here, also the winner will make top2. Two NE, two UD, who is surprised ?!
The map seems to favor NE because of game changing items so I expect a rather agressive game from both Tyrant and Reinforcement before the two elves start spending their 30k gold hoard on items, the mercenary with heal wards is also available on this map which usually favors NE as it lessens the efficiency of UD nuking. Maybe we'll see tyrant play orc ?
I see j33 winning this if he isn't set back by spawning position too much.
M29 Eshan GEASS Wrecktify Slythe
One demi god amongst mortals : eshan is already qualified with at least 60 points, he also has a shot at top2 if under.sta wins or finishes 4th in M28. For the others they must not finish 4th, 2nd or 3rd will give them enough points to have a decent shot at qualifying with 55 points (but probably a tie breaker so top score will matter). Obviously a win means qualification here so there will be fighting
Keeping all that in mind this is a dangerous cast where everyone can win, GEASS is probably the best as far as fighting goes and will probably win his first 1v1 but the others are no pushovers and will make him pay his wins, also obviously teaming will occur... this should be a long game. Make it epic with semi finals in sight, make it tragic !
The timing of the other games will matter here, perhaps there will be some pressure to win at all costs for the 45 points guys
M30 Zs.SuperCumulo Mog[skynet] Jaod_ Junkerzam
Cumulo and Mog one head above the Jaod and Junker, a pretty important head as they can still hope to qualify with a 2nd/3rd place while junker and jaod have to win to qualify.
Mog promised Jaod a suicide last FML game in the heat of teaming, is he a man of his word ?! Cumulo the Capybara rider (thanks to Olympics I discovered this weird beast and some live in Peru, sorry for Llamas but Capybaras are cooler) will hoard as we all know but ... will his main die while he has 20 or 30k ? Hopefully this time around he will be the one to attack and not the one trying to scrap up a last second defense. Junkerzam's gold management, while good, is probably his weakness in this cast, it will be hard to prevent Jaod, cumulo and mog to hoard obscene amounts of gold. It might be an extremely passive game for 1 hour with everyone hoarding tons of gold, spawning positions will be important and I hope everyone will be bunched up, with Mog and Cumulo in the middle of the sandwich for an action-packed game.
Mog showed good things this season so i'll go with him, Cumulo's greed will be his demise.
M31 Noexxx ARcTic.KYOTO Ponty Darkermirror
Here everything is simple : win => qualification, everything else => out. I expect Noexx to go on an unstoppable rambo rampage with ultra heroes or ... a very tame game with unpredictable outcome. Still going with Noexx because ramboing is fun to watch
M32 Tleilaxu zTsoso QQs WeAkUD
HASTA LA VICTORIA ! Everything will be sacrificed, promises will be broken, terrible oaths of vengeance will be pronounced, spells and blades will matter as much as words, only the dirty winner will get out of this den of teachery.
QQs seems just a tad behind micro wise in this cast so I expect an opportunistic game from him while I think Laxu will try to necrowagon someone before switching. Soso's race will matter and I hope we will get to see him playing a flawless hu game so I'm going with him as a winner !
Winner takes all, la victoria o la muerte ! Fetta_Cook has only tacos to work with, pinballs and tocka's towers are not edible but a well fed BM can even chew iron. Still I believe in a dominating performance from Alien, he is the only one here that i can see able to snowball his way to victory even in face of teaming.
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