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Re: S26 M31
Okay, Wednesday 18:00 EST / 24:00 CET confirmed.
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Re: M31 Result
Special game ^^. Some thoughts: About my play: Handled the early aggression by seksi poorly. Tping to natural mine with mass skellies, which got devoured... I wanted to break 50 early, but scouted not enough to know against whom i will be. Honestly did not expect to fight fiends and destros early. Woulda been able to defend smoothly with pumping instantly once i had enough gold/lumber. Failed to buy tp at my side expand and lost 2 heroes middle top in the process...was bad. Did okay with coming back into the game, not giving seksi more xp and focused on macro. Then i maybe wait too long with using my army, shoulda maybe try to take seksi or gradient out when i had 80 pop. Lost all my heroes to seksi, when i was at gradient, rly sucked. When i finally moved my army, which was only 56 by then i actually wanted to attack seksi, but he lured around the shop and woulda kill some and made me use tp etc, when my gold was already rly low. I needed some xp for mk lvl 6 and getting my panda closer to 5 and 6 so it was also ok to go for eshan. I got 1 hero and some units there which was okay, but i stayed too long and killed 2-3 buildings too much and most importantly did not backstabbed seksi, coulda snipe his dl atleast and then i lost my panda in the process when he turned on me. Not enough i lost my mk while i was in seksis base trying to charm the wyrm, but somehow he was out of range, which was strange given the vision and distance. Was distracted too long and couldnt save mk, totally shitty sequence. After that it basically over for me, needed harder 3 vs 1 but with only panda from eshand and gradient tping out early in fight it was over, since i had no gold anymore for tp. I feel i suffered from the late hour and also the accu bot, which usually is quite bad for me. Seksi play: he played the most aggressive from everyone, so it was not a undeserved win. He was way too much at me for my taste xD and he turned on ppl rly quickly. 2-3 Times i was rly close to suicide him, but he somehow dodged that bullet. Eshan´s game: had very fast, greedy creeping and some itemluck and being able to creep all red key creeps. Tomed gradient a couple of times and missed the chance around the 25 mark, when he basically just needed to make 100 and wipe seksi´s base/army. Most likely woulda give him the win. Was a bit too passive late game, when he sit a lot. Was a bit unlucky with seksi and me going him and killing almost all. Had a good shot for coming back, but was unlucky with seksi finding his rebuilds faster. Also coulda kill some of his army for getting some supply off to revive hero quicker. Gradient: Had some early success vs eshan and had a good fight vs me and hung strong, almost being able to snipe the win in the end. With better usage of items/summons or focusing on seksi a bit earlier he´d most likely snipe the win. Rather bad herocombo though, woulda switch the naga for tinker/beastmaster/panda. Pissed me off with his transmuting, when we needed to focus on others more :). December 08, 2017, 04:16:04 pm |
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Regular Season Wrap Up
Season soon comes to an end and it´s time to look back and sum up a little bit. One of the longest seasons it´ll be and a unique one for sure. Season´s System: The team aspect brought a fresh approach and was a nice hybrid between more classic fml and TBR. It definitely was good to have the 25% share points, since othwerwise there wouldn´t really been a teamfactor, besides fighting for your favourites maps. This brings me to the next point. The map choices and decisions about who´s playing on which map. At first, with the original format, i´d expected to have much cherry picking and hard discussions about the maps in the teams. Atleast for my team i can say, that it went really smoothly all along. Partly due Wreck´s more laissez-faire style of captaining, aswell as my rare map-vetoing or favorizing. With Dinamo being basically the only one, that liked to play a certain map almost every round, it was most of the time just a logical development of finding the maps for each player. Also there were mostly a nice varitey and mix of maps each rounds, with probably just a few bigger maps missing. With the overall opportunity to pick maps, it was a lot more player friendly imo, than just giving maps for each round (of course there were ways of more diplomatic map choices via veto or similar in the past fml season). Of course the concept of the season helped some players to quailfy for the post season, aswell as it denied some the access to the playoffs. But that´s how it goes. Shoulda thought about it beforehand joining the season and not waiting until the end and then complain  .Overall i felt there was some drama, but surely not as much as in some previous seasons. No clue how intense it was in some teams internally, but overall there were just the standard bad blood in few matches, plus maybe Trunkz´ complaints, Shave´s trolling and a few unfortunate player exits from the competetion during the season. But all in all, those were the common things, that occur every season. Besides the little troubles there were a lot of players that surprised with their play and results, both in positive and negative way. Together with those performances, the teams turned out to be kinda balanced, atleast most of them and in certain scales. Here we have big differences though, how those teams were formed. Some were founded via friendship, symphaty and love ´n´hate like rage quitters. Others were formed by captains due to player´s strengths and past good experiences together like the Zig Zag´s. And few just were created out of nowhere or picked by admins, like the free agent squad. Apropos Admins. Big thanks especially to the ones who made this season work so smoothly and well. Worpex ofc, Mog, Renaud from the official side and of course the amazing helpers of those like Hightac, Ponty, Aarni,Wreck, Cumulo and many more. Either with hosting, results, replays, sheets, Streams & Casts. Besides the need of willed players  , those who are motivated, qualified and able to help are such an important part of the success and joy of this FFA/FML we got rolling here for quite some time now!Continuing with a look to player´s performances. Note that i did not watch every game, but maybe around 75% of them, either via replay, stream or obs. I´d like to begin with my team, Bad Manneroths : Wreck had an truly memorable run this regular season. He won 4 out of 6, with having the chance of winning in the two losses aswell. He played especially well in that deadlock game and also on anarchy castle. Some casts were not that hard and he could use the opportunities that were there really well with nice decisionmaking and strong use of the elfish race. Peanut had a pretty neat showing the first 3 rounds. R1 i remember him countering alien rly well, but then struggling a bit with making the right calls. But he made that up with a very strong r2 and r3 performance. Especially that epic silverpine game, where he had to raze the island lame by Shave almost alone and then going into a long 1v1 against Junkerzam were impressive. Unfortunately he missed the two last games. Also he abandoned the human race for undead, which i can partly understand  .Dinamo had a terrific R1 game, where he outmaneuvered the other players and made perfect choices to win vs Soso in the and made him leave the court like a broken man. After that strong start he struggled due to vodka and bad shape. Had good chances in the final round to win, but seemingly lost his cool. But that can happen with fetta and trunkz being in your game. My own season was resultwise disappointing. Since i calculated with atleast 2 wins. I put some time into practicing creeproutes and thinking about combos, strats, but it rarely paid off, together with some mistakes, that turned out to be costful. I still had fun in most of the games, especially 2nd half of the season. Except R2, where i knowlingly used a strat, that would been very hard to end up winning with (orc ground tc/alch on greenville, but somehow i had the itch making it work ), i played stuff i´d expected to have a higher chance of winning with than using standard cheese, even though they maybe looked pure fun. Now to the other teams: Zig Zag: On paper the strongest team with 2 fml champs, and 2 multiple finalists. They had a strong first half and choked a bit in the 2nd. Mog: Pretty strong season. Did not expect him to perform so well. Prolly put some time into getting in shape. Used power of elf and his experience nicely. Cannot recall a specific game, except our´s, where he got my heroes in the end thanks to double speed aura, found at creeps  .Tyrant: R1 stole the win from Renaud with nasty manips and ugly play. R2 was stronger. He seemingly lost some motivation afterwards, or mb after r3, where he lost to wreck and alien, who focused more on him and had limited timeframe. Rough r4/5 games with some mutual love between him and Cumulo. Showed a strong last round, except the big throw in the very end. Still hits the semis, but have not been seen in 2 weeks. Let´s see if he shows up ^^. Junkerzam: A few good games and some where he seemed to be kinda sloppy and making questionable calls. I appreciate he plays random most of the time, but from my POV undead/elf fits his style way better. Rough R 5/6 games. Eshan: Strong start, but struggled then with some bad calls and unfortunate outcomes. Seemed to be prepared and very motivated throughout the season and had some really good openings and starts. Picked mostly instead of randoming and sticked maybe a bit too much on passive play instead of taking his chances a bit more offensively. Suicide Squad: Ponty: Tried hard in first 4 rounds, trolled in 5th and no showed in 6th. Was close to winning atleast 2 games. Showed some good ffa meta and improved overall play. Shoulda been awarded with atleast 1 win, imo. Noexx: everything below 50% is not acceptable. Rather weak season. Can happen. Due to rl obligations missed 1 game and was not able getting into good shape. Shave: HE WON A GAME. Some nice tryharding, and some garbage time. Alien: Got a well deserved win last round. Ended up top score a couple of times, w/o winning. Seemed to be a bit distracted, not in mood to tryhard or right shape in few of his games. Was expected by many to win much more. Rage Critters: Aarnikratti: Just like Ponty he showed some good games, without being able to net more than one win. Seemed not to be as active as before. Kinda made some bad decisions, like in R1 vs Karfal. Overall also improved and performancewise a really good season. Hightac: Won several games, also as obs and was close with a few others. Strong showing. Obviously fell in a love with manipping aswell and some good scouting in a couple of games. Airenikus: Pretty good season. Very good decision making throughout the season. Had just 1 bad game and even with sometimes questionable gamestyle he brought home many points for himself and his team. LssL: New to fml and being in many really monstrous casts. Did not lose motivation over a couple of 4th place finishes and showed some good riflemen action and overall potentional for upcoming seasons. Free Ena: Trunkz: Very strong r1/2 games where he overcame teaming and did few mistakes. Some tough games in mid of season and closed the season with a big freewin and a hard fought r6 game with a lot of support by fetta. Had some rather easy casts and not hard initial 1v1, but definitely showed improvements in decisionmaking, adjusting style to his ever good creeping and micro. QQs: One of the biggest surprises this season. Showed some really good resilience and played his cards really well. Tom: Also much improved and came close to finish a few games in stronger fashion. Some wrong decisions cost him 1-2 games. Still needs some practice controlling big armies, but nice ffa meta already. Jaod: Many topscore games. Performed a bit low resultwise. Showed a bit too much aggression in some of his games. With a more diplomatic and patient approach he might end up winning 1-2 more and being a worthy semifinalist. Fetta Inc: Betoon: Kinda new to FFA/FML, but showed 1-2 nice games. With some more experiences a nice addition to team orc and the community. Seems like a relaxed guy and has potential. Fetta: It was not fettas season. IWantWC4: Oldschool come back smurfing. Had tremendous success the first two rounds, but then somehow lost his groove. Not sure if he got focused more, was not in shape or just suffered from the sometimes very random ingame events ffa offers  MrSweets: Being a good orc abuser with decent amount of experience and good micro, he lacked some luck and better overall decision making. Will do better next time. Free Agent Squad: Gradient: Beat the odds various times. Really memorable games with nice hustling, staying in game and making the right calls, with being a dangerous player trying to take out and to let in the game  . Not many expected that he´d end the season with 505 winrate. Was always very game.Supremo: Gave some players a hard time fighting him midgame, me included but suffered from not talking enough or being diplomatic enough, combined with bad ping and sometimes just underpowered hero & unitcombo. Focused more on goldmanagement later rounds, but was not enough to get away with a win. Showed to all games and is a unique addition to the FFA scene. Tox: Entered late in the season and had some good games, showing his strong micro and also improved manipping and overall awareness. Missed to secure some more points, but is always a threat and can do much better next season. Joggel: Seems like an experience ffaer, but rather new to fml format. Had some nice fighting games, but being stuck in tough casts, not allowing him to grab more points. Has good potential to increase his amount of better results in upcoming fml seasons. Church of Renaud: Renaud: Strong first round, w/o being able to finish as winner. Struggled in midseason, but had a good win in the final round. Still has left a lot in the tank and is a force to reckon with. Cumulo: Brought home 3 wins. A bit surprising to me to be honest. He used the advantages of human on certain maps especially well i guess, and did not mess around with naga/beastmaster too much. Had a very strong game on Twisted meadows. Ep123: Late replacement for seksi, who made a mysterious exit from the league and the team. Showed good performances, also in inhouse matches, but still has not seen too much of him. Looks like a overall strong ffa player, who is a worthy opponent afaik. Valefort: Not sure if he started from r1. But with his good understanding of the human race, combined with strong micro, he had some good games without ending up on top, due to some tough casts and maybe a bit lack of tryhard ffa mentality. Seemed hard to manip and scouts rather well. Miscellaneous: That you could face the same players two or even three times in a row, can be fun or annoying, but spices things up for sure.  Hopefully we won´t have to long of a break until next season to keep especially the newer guys attracted and use the success of the season for the next one immediately. Peace out. January 09, 2018, 11:17:52 am |
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Re: FML Season 28 | Round 1
Many questionsmark about this season. I like to see some new players (atleast to me) and a couple of guys that have not played for a longer time. For myself - i started playing again like 2 weeks ago and had a 8 month break before that. In that time i checked results on ffamasters but have not seen any replays or streams besides about 15 mins of the previous FML final Vod/Stream (and 1-2 times a HT stream), did not read any discord stuff etc. So i am not really up to date what´s going on here and also need some time for adapting to the many changes of the latest patches. Match 1   Joggel  Donald-Trump Eshan  supremoJoggel seems to be a well rounded player with a lot of potential. Trump and Eshan are both as seasoned and experienced as they come, seemingly rely a lot on cheesy tactics, manipluations and try-hard attitude. Let´s see if they are teaming up because of their similarities of fight for each other´s death. Supremo is the guy that you are rooting for when obsing his game and damning him when you´re playing against. Please get NOEXXX as a Caster for that!!! Match 2 Mog[skynet]  SuperCumulo  Ugrilainen TrunkzMog stepped away from leading the ravenclaw pack and representing as FML admin? So he can focus more on his FML FFA is my answer to that. He is dangerous and a threat to everyone - a loaded weapon! Another final to the impressive resume of the peruvian star of the ffa scene: Cumulo. He has to prove something and will face his previous final conqueror. Ugrilainen had many hours of bootcamp with TH000, 120 and Changyu Wine. Micro won´t be a problem for him, but the mystic ffa mechanics might be a hole in his armor. Trunkz does not need to be active in FFA to stay in shape. Playing the Piano, Jungling vs superhuman creeps in LOL and styling his hair in less than 15 minutes every morning keeps his reflexes intact. Match 3   b100death Jaod  Peanut DovekieA game full of well microing, proud, stubborn individuals. b100 makes a surprise comeback with a strange reason in wanting to fight dovekie and instantly gets his wish - good for him and his motivation and hopefully also for us as the interested follower. Jaod seems to be quite inactive lately but with feeding his little daughters, preventing them from grabbing the dangerours things and being a husband and provider he still has the multitasking and stresstested mindset to compete in the filthy mother of all free-for-all gametypes. Peanut can be a unstoppable force or a complete fallout. With that strong cast he hopefully can channel his inner FML CHAMP and show up with his A-game. Dovekie is best with talking about how good he is with this 100& of the time, would he just bless us a little more often with his actual presence in games so we could learn from the best that ever done it. I for myself will watch the replay of his game from his perspective and feel simply amazing, for the mere of 30 minutes that the stomping will last. (No offense, Dovekie, just trying to use ur image for a poor attempt of being funny) Match 4  Gradient Jiexa_b Seksi VyvanneHa, great game. Greadient and Jexa both veterans at FFA with their own style. Seksi and Vyvanne ( feels strange to write that, for me it´s still elsha-of-iel, DR HHS ROBO) very good micro and all around knowledge of the gametype. Seksi probably a bit more emotional player and much more versatile and Elsha analytical. Match 5 SteppinRazor Airenikus  jOeybadass mrSweetsSteppin FTW, whe he shows up and won´t suicide during the first 15 minutes ;-). I heard he practiced a lot under his secret AKA "RazingStepper", so have an eye on him. Airenikus wins 100% of games with me being in it, but besides that he has to struggle with his either super aggressive (necrowagon hello) or passive (hoard, manip, orc trifecta) play. Joey is sometimes like a raging bull or a tamed horse getting a new saddle. He is my favourite here, unless the russians will team their eastern europe comrade unnecessarily long. Mr.Sweets (not to mix up with the formerly best australian ffa player Sweets) is a nasty herofocuser with a lot of resistance in him, but could use a chill pill sometimes. Match 6  aarnikratti  ena1337 ToX GodfatherAARNI KARATE - POOF > Ena down to his knees PENG > Tox flat out on his back CRASH > Godfather face first into the mood >>>> The triumphiant return of the FINN Aarni good all around ffaer, but you never know if he is trolling or you are hoping that he is trolling once he talks about FFA ;-). Ena and Tox crazy ass guys with too good micro and too less manners :P. Godfather one of the guys i rly don´t know, besides that he looks like a solo-crossover with nice passion for the game. My bet is on him or OFC AARNI KARATE. Match 7  Fetta_ook Reinforcement- Headintheclouds JunkerzamOnce Fetta decided to make a fool of himself entering another FML season i had no doubt with applying aswell! Fetta is a legend. Period. He will show up with a perfect gameplan until it all goes downhill at the 200 second mark of the game. He will make an insane comeback anyway and let us giggling in disbelief. (Kidding, bro, i look forward to our next game where i will feed you so you can protect me with decent levels from far worse players ) Reinforcement or simply Cement, the conrete russian power-undead is a force to reckon with and might will strive in this season and show the results he is supposed to. Headindtheclouds i cannot say much about, unless he is a big cumulo fan? Junkerzam is like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide. Hard to predict and full of surprises with a ragy, loud and ruthless side and a calm and focused one. Match 8 Pinballmap JSRGN AJIKAIII SlythePBM is Back!?! Woop Woop . Last game we played he made sure i lose and i won´t be mad at him if he´s doing it again ;-). JSRGN or Diablosssssss is a guy i heard from only. Like a really oldschool, original FFA player. Considered as one of the best, most influental players at that time. looking forward to rush him out cold with his panties down or getting owned strategically and OUTSMARTED hard. AJIKAIII or Alkash? Is a very good human player with slick micro and a good sense of human FFA prowess, but sometimes lacks the will to do the dirty work. He is considered as one of the best human when motivated and i hope i can finally see him succeed vs a player like diablossss with me being out of the game observing it and talking smack together with PBM, HT and MMT. September 24, 2018, 04:52:56 pm |
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Re: S28 M18
ok. confirmed October 23, 2018, 07:00:14 pm |
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Re: FML Season 28 | Round 3
Match 17 (Winner's Bracket) Lil Tic Seksi AJIKAIII reinforceement-Hope for twilight ruins, don´t really know the other maps, though. Seksi is the overall powerhouse here, but Alkash and reinforcement are able to challenge him microwise, LilTic knows some nice ffa mechanics and with human a lot is still possible. A lot of questionsmarks to me, because alkash and reinforcement are still not so familiar to me in the ffa context. Either it´s gonna be a nice action game or an easy win by seksi, or both. Match 18 (Winner's Bracket) Slythe ZsSuperCumulo Gradient SomethingWickedAnother rather big, classic, epic map in market, nice! Interesting lineup for sure. Cumulo hopefully gets his internet ready for the game so there won´t be a fast 3way again! Human is traditionally strong on the map and with a fml win and a couple of final appearances he is the clear favourite here. Also Peru seems to rock it in Wc3 atm with Walter (why not Rüdiger?!) going to WGL?! Gradient refined his playstyle and has very effective creeproutes, fast expanding and beautiful baselayout skills, also he is not shy of using the joy of tinker - among other ways to unleash relentless macrowars on you until the 100 food chippo is here for a big purple sky surprise. Somethingwicked is a smart player who mixes it up with ud. Don´t know about his activity and have not seen him play or play with him for a long time. Cannot predict that game at all. Some thoughts: A lot of hoarding... :D or early attacks by Cumulo or Somethingwicked on me or Gradient or each other. Maybe a dominant win by Cumulo, maybe some nasty teaming against him or me. Some dead heroes to creeps 100%! Match 19 (Winner's Bracket) Eshan noexxx Dovekie ObserveAndLearnHope for Silverpine, best medium sized map, but deathrose can create nice games aswell, although it offers more tricky situational stuff. Eshan likes deathrose games, especially w/o me i suppose , so let´s hope he gets that map where he has a good creeproute. Too bad his swiss opponent Noexxx knows that map damn well aswell, due to his FML win on it. It´s the game for Dovekie to show what he´s made of in FML. If he wins this, i join his fanclub. Joey hopefully can tome and eliminate eshan early so he can fly a bit under the radar in a 3way with Dovekie and Noexx are focused on each other. October 23, 2018, 08:14:45 pm |
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Re: S29 M22
np with postpone, but the earliest i can play is Thursday 14.
February 09, 2019, 11:21:57 am |
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Re: FML Season 29 | Semi-Final
Season slowly coming to a conclusion and damn, some surprises there aswell as some expected stuff. The three most tryhard ppl (besides maybe 2-3 others) and competetive nerds in Cumulo, Liltic and Eshan made it again to final or semi, meanwhile there were a big bunch of "go with the flow & mood“ players. Cannot say too much about the entertainment factor of games, since i watched 2 streams and obsed 2 games only. I feel like the new pts system made the race tot he semis & finals pretty close that it´s inevitable to make atleast 2 or even 3 semifinals to make it more fair. Also it would grant more playoff and higher tension games, which usually makes for more fun and drama. To the semis: Junkerzam seemed like a possessed crazy cat, trying kinda hard, doing his Bonkerzam stuff. Using his new/ fetta bromance account appleofagonay (long live the alliteration) brought him luck (let´s forget about that unfortunate disc, can be happy he did not get preteamed in 50% of his games like eshanna). Fetta somehow will also be in that game due tot he strong scandinavian-4-month- of- darkness spirit link, that also helped him to get the necessary level to advance in R4 and bring the swedish assnaked-alpha-apathy to the light to everyones delight - once again. Reinforcement plays quite consistently and saved last seasons finals after the withdrawal from his fellow russian. I just saw the infamous first round game by him where he went tunnel vision early vs shave for the cancellation of his early first expand. He uses now some tinker, panda, alchi combo or whatever, to me he is still undead… we´ll see with what he comes up. And hopefully, once he makes it tot he finals, admins will write his name correctly on ffamasters…. Eshan will be crawling about a hideous strategy to puppet and manip the other guys already and digging deep in his memories which player could be biased towards another, holding grudges or having certain tendencies and for that eshan will be getting help by cambridge analytics for some detailed big data research. He has by far the worst micro of all these players and that´s why he probably gets ignored, but of course he will be paranoid about getting analed early, so he will build asap 80 food and chat for his utter life. Shave did not distract himself by chatting nearly nonstop crap in discord with simply leaving it – weak move. But he raised to be an unstoppable force with the help of some cheesy alchi/mk/pal mass air strat, he better plays something not so imba or i foresee him being preteamed out after 15 mins, sadly. Or maybe using the name of his big idol Yane redesigned the structure of his braincells and let him become the real Gosu, SuperSaiyajin Level Ultimate Number. That first round fluke in the matrix started the whole process and created the outburst of genetic freakiness. I´d wish Reinforcement will win this cuz he seems the most relaxed, cool guy, but both Junkerzam and Eshan with their experience in tricky games have a slight edge imo, leaving shave as a small underdog. But overall that game seems to be wide open to be won by any of these players. February 21, 2019, 04:11:58 pm |
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Re: FML Season 29 | Final
Lol Worpex discrediting Cumulos win, but giving smurfer win to real account? Welcome back to the stoneage. 3 standard human players, sigh. Hopefully we see 3 different hero combos, i atleast predict 1 Panda, maybe 2. An Alchi, Bloodmage or Tinker would be also appreciated. They all have experience in playing finals and 2 former champs aswell, so let´s see if nerves will play a role. Geass not around much but had very good results. He used to be the guy that only played Am/Mk/Pal and using 95% of time only breakers and tanks - jeez! But with the copter buff he seems to cheese with those aswell and i even saw gryphons in that game where he got rather mopped by DenisKa. Since 3 humans gryphons are not to play a big role except in maybe some early rush attempts. First round game we played together and he initiated hard 3v1 teaming so he it seems he is tryharding and motivated to grab a win at all costs. Only can remember that he was in 1 final before, where he faced noexx so he has both experience in finals and facing a good human, maybe that´s a good experience he can build on. Liltic´s keeps it really basic, focusing on the easy peasy things to execute w/o making many mistakes, nor taking many risks. Still have not seen much from him while playing with him or obsing games (3/3), despite having good macro (of course as human you can grab mines quickly, and u often can fight w/o losing much thanks to heal/staffs/mass tele) They should be aware of his style by now. To me he is the underdog here despite having good stats and won already 1 season, maybe that will help him another for grabbing another win...let´s see how much fun he will have with the czech airforce aka gyropcopter hit and run happiness, which can be nearly as annoying as alchi-transmute, blademaster & bat harrass. Cumulo not much around either, but seems game in every season and entering the later stages pretty consistently. (playing on own maps, hi! ) He seems to be a bit more relaxed and not being that querulantic and crazy pain in the ass for making drama or feuds, only of course with the common eshan hatred.Usually he plays to gain big amounts of gold, but also seen him use the early pushing power by human, so looking forward what tactic he will chose or be forced to chose. Hopefully he won´t suffer from peruvian shitnet, so we don´t have to see a disc in finals. Junkerzam did it, again! After being on the edge of defeat for hours in the semis he somehow found a way to win even with near double suicide. But he had pulled out the right moves at the right time and used some effective tricks and moves to proceed in the season. He has a lot of experience on the final map, but a lot will come down of what race he will be. I still think his strongest races are ud/elf, while i barely ever seen him play orc and with human it´s just the basic stuff, getting wins with it doesnt necessarily indicates that you are good with it (when you play the standard cheese). Orc will be vulnerable early most likely and if he gets to the later stages either buildraced or teamed for having good heroes and humans usually only fear the fighting and herokilling power of orc and none other race. His Ud style doesnt fit fighting human well from what i´ve seen so far and with elf you either need to be trunkz or play panda/kotg/potm and getting high levels and a lot of gold on a map like twilight to have an overall chance vs human from my POV. Although Tinker/Alch could be an alternate choice in heroes, we´ll see. I´d like to see Junker win since it´s cool when someone wins both semi and final which is hard to do and also cuz he is a random player and already been in the finals 2 times (?) before. So guys put on a show, spot´s on you... February 26, 2019, 07:14:22 am |
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Re: FML Season 32 - Round 4 !
Recently i started to watch some ffa streams again, watch results and even read some discord chat. Nice to see a new season be played out with seeing some familiar and newer names. It would been super cool if the final cast would been: Neytpoh, Sheik, Syde, Trunkz. But that's wishful thinking and most likely 1-2 others will also enter the final playoff game of this season. M22  Enjoi SyDe Peregrine M00seEnjoi looks like a good undead with decent fundamental undead mechanics and micro. Probably lacks some experience in FML but seems overall like a promising prospect. Syde has really fine and robotstyle army control. I don't know how much he plays, but it seems that he is far from being as active as he used to be like 1-2 years ago. Considered as one of the nicest and balanced guys in FML and the WC3 1n1 scene overall he should stay like that but maybe just forget about that aswell as long as he is being in a game of free for all! ;-D He could try to channel the flow he had when he was facing me on some deathrose game 1,5 years ago. I was watching his streamtape afterwards and he was shouting „putain“ when i stayed around to harras his expand with single Paladin after he repeatedly killed my main with 100 before i could produce army (thanks to a lack of lumber). I had a good jiggle seeing and hearing that and i was fine with him winning, but i could not let him getting that win so smoothly after several warnings for „letting me produce units bro“ :-). Perecringe/ Eshan/ Nightwing etc. That guy is on a roll, duh? 3 Wins and another win in a sub game :D. Seems like people being ignorant about his history of how he is winning games or simply do not care about it. Just after a few moments of watching some of his games, chat or stream i was triggered. I bite my tongue most of the time when i see and read from that guy but once in a while there needs to be a reminder to other players and maybe newer ffaers, who maybe don´t know what this dude is mostly about. He stands for so many things why FFA is sometimes such a mess: 1. Stalling games (just waits, plays passively, drags gameprogression out, tires people out making them lose patience) seemingly having all the time in the world to win a freaking ffa game. 2. Heavy manipulations nonstop. And not only during a game (there are plenty of heavy-users and you should not trust anyone's words in a FFA game anyway) but that guy does it before games and after games, too! There is not a single other player that created so much drama and chit-chat after a game. Usually after he loses, ofc course. When he wins he is all about praising the others play (sure, they probably played exactly in his cards), complimenting their fighting skills (who cares about winning fights, when you lose the game afterwards) or calling himself lucky (yeah indeed: lucky about the others ignorance and carelessness). 3. Extremely toxic. Carries past ingame-drama or events and uses that for manipping opportunities. (just look at his r4 prediction thread. He implies that he is ready to get rushed by Syde for stealing the win from him in r1. That's called reversed psychology and he hopes that neither Syde or anyone else actually does what he proposes. Also blames people on ladder so much and prematurely about preteam and maphack which causes a very hostile environment to play in. Apparently he is around everywhere these days. I saw him saying his two cents to basically every matter on discord, streaming games (i saw Gradient, Supremo, Punpun, Sheik game) where he mostly insults guys (Supremo & Gradient) and trying to make fun of them or blaming Sheik for being manipulative and passive – a good example where he blames others for stuff he is doing himself nonstop and way harder. Then talking about how Qwest is Sheiks biggest rival in a potential final with those two...hello pregame manips ~.~ Furthermore i recognized how he wrote in a scheduling threat from another match, trying to force those players to play it asap...n/c. All this omnipresence is somehow suspicious and is mostly used by him for manipulative purposes. Also it is really hilarious how he streams games in the beginning of a season when he got rank 1 somehow again (ofc with avoiding tough casts and all the stuff being mentioned above) and then it says „rank 1 FFA“ in the stream description but of course once the season would progress and he is in danger of losing the „to-him- so-precious-rank 1" to someone else he stops streaming because of being afraid that'll be used against him. But early on for flexing and probaly some attention issues he needs every of his 5 observes to know which ranked player they are watching... :D Additionally he was streaming some months ago with the tag „god of ffa“ or king of ffa or whatever it was...- more accurate it would be: Her Shameless Lameness, the spoiled princess of Manipville. Excuse the wall of text but please see this as it is: An appeal to not let Perecringe get away with his lame unscrupulous playstyle. Here are my quick tips dealing with him: Go hard on him in games, get rid of him whenever there is a chance to. Don't believe whatever he says. Think by your own and scout (especially for hidden armies, zeppelins, items). Ignore him outside of games unless he obviously once again trying to create a web of manipulative content – then expose him and point to it. M00se: He is around for a while now and showed some good games on TBR if i remember right. He is a little bit of a predictable undead standard user so he might need to mix it up with necrowagon or unholy frenzied wyrms and fiends. Gotta be a tough game for him but he if he flies under the radar he maybe has a shot in a long 4way when he can survive until the 3way with a good bank. M23 qwest Voxius Neytpoh ostoneQwest is just a beast when he is motivated and in shape. His mechanics are top notch and he has those not just for the generic undead micro but also for the manipping parts in a game. He tries a lot of mimics during a game but is a very creative player (despite his sticking to armies with just gargs & a few destros or wyrms most of the times) with "inventing" the „qwest build“, finding places to make islands or developing strategies for a lot of scenarios. I disliked it mostly playing vs qwest because he is a wrecking machine and also because of his nasty manips, but he usually does not create any drama or manips after or before games. He seemingly has some animosity with Neytpoh (stemming probably from some final i cannot really recall or additional other games) which i don't know much about. Hopefully they can figure it out in r4 game or even before, so it won't stand in their way in a potential semifinal or final clash. Voxius: Around for a while now and even though his results have been quite forgettable until now he seemingly enjoys most of the games and the community. Sometimes he switches a bit quickly from liking guys to hating the same guys shortly after or the way round. He should maybe try to stay a bit more balanced and relaxed and think twice before being friendly with certain guys or being offensive to others :). If he plays his cards right he might be able to snatch some good points in this game. Neytpoh: Looks like he is in a very good shape atm and playing not only solo (he is easily top 20 EU when active) but also being refining his ffa-skills in order for a run playing for the title – he is undoubtly one of the big favourites for it. Strong showings in first rounds with just carelessly giving away a win in that – admittingly – unique sappering ending sequence. Qwest cannot touch him in pure micro battles but in every other aspect. Will be interesting to see how they handle their rivalry. Ostone: He is such a good player when being in shape and motivated but he been around so little the past years and it's a bit of a pity. M24  rulaZ GivenToFly Peanut VyvanneRulaz is a smart player with most of the times good decision making. His army compositions are also often well balanced. Sometimes it appears that he fades when it becomes a bit more chaotic. So when he stays composed and focused i see him winning this, depending on who subs and how motivated Vyvanne will be. GivenToFly aka Seeker i only know a little bit about. Is he the same guy as Flameseeker? Pretty solid and experienced player but maybe needs to try a bit harder these days. He and Vyvanne were suiciding each other some other game and here we have the chance to see if they get over that and start playing smarter or if that story will be re-written. Peanut: Will be subbed. The guy has much potential but gets poked a lot by technical issues. When he is active and doesn't suffer from internet oder laptop issues he should be a safe pick for a semifinal. Vyvanne: Such a good player but the myth around him often stands in his way. Somehow he is targeted a lot although he has not been around that much the past years. Maybe switching to his orc style will be a refreshing change. M25 junkerzam Leluaami 5te1n fetta_ookJunkerzam: A bit unlucky he ran into Neytpoh early in two of his games. The first time he actually had a good shot but stumbled under the pressure. Known for being an aggressive and brash player he has a big task ahead of him in that tricky cast. Leluaami: One of the most improved players during the past years. Sometimes he seems a bit shaky in his approach but when he gets into his flow he is hard to beat these days combining strong elf play with different strats and herocombos and the ability of staying around and coming back into many games even when it's looking tough. 5Te1n: The stars aligned early in the ladder season with him wiping the floor with his pitiful opposition. Unfortunately he lost his magic but here is the inevitable outcome: He will qualify for the semifinals. First he will grab 23 points and then every other who might stand above him in the rankings will receive penalty points for being unacceptable rightwingers with no desire for progression and happiness in life. fetta_ook: Few days ago i watched Seksis stream and he was playing on market square vs some cheeser orc. At first i was a bit unsure who that guy could be but then this happened: That orc proposed peace to Seksi which he accepted. Then Seksi had to fight in his own base vs strong undead, struggling to keep his heroes alive, but he fought the undead back who had to tp out. Seksis DK was low on HP and DANG that blademaster popped out of nowhere and assassinated the Deathknight with his sword. Perfect example of how to identify a fetta_ook in your game ;-). He was playing decently btw in that game so he might have a small chance of pulling of an upset here IF he and his fellow swede do not suicide each other. If they actually do suicide there will be a lot of nice 2n2 action needed to heal their relationship! M26 sheik trunkz headintheclouds LIONSheik: First time i saw him around was in TBR 1 when he was part of the legendary TMNT alongside me. He had a couple of good games but came up short and he was in good company with that! Since then a lot has changed and besides being a very consistent solo and 2n2 player with good results he seemingly also gathered enough experience in ffa to win games repeatedly. His season showed that he is getting a polished ffaer more and more. Besides the obviously present micro he strings the other aspects of the game together very well. Trunkz: created that cool and very effective elf strategy which was copied many times. What is a strength in having experience with so many games playing the same strategy there also is a weakness in it since it is very predictable yet oftenly so hard to beat. From what i'ven seen there is only a good way to rush him early once the demonunter is not lvl 6 or even better not yet lvl 5! After that it becomes incredible hard to fight him and if there is no coordinated teaming (to which every player has to succumb sooner or later) basically the only chance is to baserace (to which he also adapted better during the years). Given that it will be interesting to see if there will be a fair clash between the powerhouses sheik and trunkz. Headintheclouds/PunPun: I remember having some heated inhouse games with him. He is a good elf with getting better understanding of the overall ffa game. I saw some of that infamous regame mess on imaginary friends where he showed some good and some developable stuff. If he can control his temper and stay cool and composed he has a shot as an underdog in that strong cast. Lion: Sorry if he does not have an aka i don't know anything about him. M27 NoMercy2 tukimkim aarnikratti letshavesomefunNoMercy2: Always was wondering why it was 2! Is it meant to be „to“ and for style purposes it is 2? Or had he an account NoMercy and wanted to do another account and what else could it have been than NoMercy2?! ;) He seems a bit rusty. Wasn't he around when cumulo was active? He got some experience and might be able to show more than he has so far in the season. Tukimkim: The guy has a background in melodic music. His name just sounds cool when be spoken. Besides some cryptic chat in discord i can say nothing about him except that the peruvian recruiting program works apparently well! Aarni-the-karateguy: After his brilliant R1 game i thought he could make a walkthrough in S32. Sadly he have not played it consequently the next rounds when he had sheik in some trouble early after a good rush or teaming neytpoh poorly and not finishing perecringe. I'd like to see a focused and more tryhard aarninator in this game to give shave a run for his money. Letshavesomefun: Interesting how „shave“ developed from that accountname :D. Reminds me of how „Reinforcement“ would become „Cement“ suddenly (good luck on your 1v1 journey and stop losing games vs Arma the way you did, i was rooting for you and game1 was a pretty cool one). Shave is a walking contradiction and an enigmatic phenomenon. Being a fashion influencer on discord, sharing his beachvolleyball and tinder stories with the world and plague his gaming buddies with his windows95 PC (is it true that he got a new one after all?!) and still being able to pull out miracles like winning games with strong casts (like the final last year and r3 game) despite his practice contains of 95% chatting. M28 Gradient SelfControlMe supremo Airenikus Gradient: Legendary polish power! Most famous FFA player outside of the FML/discord FFA bubble for sure. Emperor of Grubby in FFA and Solo. Since his supremacy in FFA bored him he decided to went fulltime MD pro and finally prepares to face Alice in a Best-of-9 Series 1n1 MD. He will either be subbed because of playing MD or shows up, bash his opponents in 25 mins, takes 23 points and joins another MD. Selfcontrolme: Not the most powerful aka name. Up to interpretation. I have not seen a game by him so far. Supremo: Together with Gradient my favourite Gimmick player. His strat is underrated and can work once his DH gets lvl6. He suffers a lot from his bad ping and having problems communicating in a game due to lack of english, although it became better! Airenikus: Imo he should stick to Orc or Undead. Last time i saw his human i did not like it much. He has the ability to stay in games even though facing adversity. In the past i often experienced how much i dislike the tone of his manips but you cannot deny that he has good understanding of the ffa mechanics and a good sense for sneaking wins. Cannot say in what shape he is currently but he is almost always able to compete and is probably the favourite here. I hope being able to watch that game somehow and see in what form he handles supremo and gradient because it's so tough with them in 3ways. May 13, 2021, 01:53:26 pm |
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