Cannot really say how it goes on sunday... if you guys want keep the 17 CET slot and iīll see if i can make it.
When we donīt find another time except next week same time (which i also can only confirm late notice) go for the suggested and sub me (again) if i wonīt be able to join.
so we can try to play this sunday around 13 CET? Atleast keep checking fmlmasters/discord if we can make that or similar time happen. Iīd say letīs try this sunday.
So....here we go again. Season 30! Some have the chance to net a 2nd win and there are plenty of guys that are overdue with winning a season. Itīs gonna be glorious.
Match 1
Slythe Joggel Peanut rbr.Godfather
very very interesting
Match 2
Gradient DV SuperCumulo Eshan
DV> Gradient & Cumulo > Eshan >> DV>Cumulo
Match 3
qwest GEASS Rain Betoon
qwest best shape from what i know, but geass obviously always dangerous with his micro & race and last season shown patience and tryhard. Havenīt Rain see play long time so absolutely no clue - he holds the finnish stripes high. Betoon is to me - solely for his accname an alltime favourite.
Match 4
Lil Tic mrSweets Noexxx Airenikus
hopefully we see two orc vs 2 humans, but i doubt airenikus will play orc. so itīll be interesting to see what approach Tic will take, how effective sweets herofocus will be, how much noe will care and what openings airenikus can create or will present for him.
Match 5
aarnikratti ep123 b100death FAiL.Life
aarni has do deliver, but can he handle the pressure he created around himself as the hyped new school ffamaster? i think he can. ep is pretty active and in shape though and b100 seems to be as precise and clinical as ever. Life has some fml experience and will be underestimated due to his inconsistent showing and basically never playing inhouses.
Match 6
Jaod Trunkz Junkerzam Jiexa
havenīt seen jaod, trunkz or jiexa playing much or at all lately, which makes junkerzam the logical favourite. But normally it could be everyones game. jaod pretty strong vs trunkz early, while junker also has a chance vs him, but suffers from the fate of a rdm player timing wise against that strat i suppose. If jiexa can survive midgame heīs in for a surprise.
Match 7
Vyvanne supremo Fetta_ook QQs
looking forward to how this gonna play out! supremo and fetta always in for some giggles and maybe qqs wanna make them bend their knee to him and his humankings crown.
cumulo, i made a tom hanks reference in the obs chat :D saw it the same (although i might called him forrest gump, cannot remember ^^)
Sheeesh - that game was beautiful - for bondage fetish lovers, masochists and overall mostly a torture for everyone involved. On the other hand it served for some special circumstances and unique situational scenarios: cannot remember ever watching that weird island & cliff hopping in such a nerdy, intensive way. Also how cumulo and geass worked together to get the camp & spank 2.0 guy from his treasure island, i mean how many items cumulo did geass give? ( tic missed it to steal them with invi heroes before they were handed, thatīd be a fun move :D).
Players breakdown from my POV:
Janker: Played a strong early 1v1 vs geass with good timing. His choice for tinker/panda was good, maybe with potm woulda gain more mapcontrol which is so important vs humans, especially mass tp/baserace/islands. Was hard for him when cumulo pushed him that much with a big gold advantage, sticked around quite well, when he was almost out already, but suffered from cumulos will to take out air army, mb cuz he feared chims vs builds in baserace + tinker.
Cumulo: Spanked all of them one by one but missed to take one out, he most likely coulda take it 1v2 with his gold advantage. Kept his cool during the game quite well and hustled until the end.
liltic: seemed to plan that game about sticking around until his heroes are 6, atleast the Am, retreating to islands, manipping & teaming without using any gold early, hoping to outgold them in the end by losing minimum amount of slack and flying once again under the radar. It almost worked out but fire got fought with fire and to face two mass-tp humans in such a scenario limited his chances by a lot. Missed some chances to take out geass castle/workshop or cumulos last buildings.
geass: just did enough not to die early vs janker, was in a bad spot or atleast really not in a good spot but made some good choices and moves later (adding griffs to army to have more dps to kill cumulos AM, killing tics t2 hall with paladin being staffed there, making workshop (after HOURS of not knowing how to deal with islands!!!), end sequence with taking island by his own) and stayed composed and tryhard until the end. Never had thought it would work to build constructions for getting mortar and gyros. In the end he was the last man standing his ground on that right cliff like the last emperor of the iron throne in game of thrones...after many kings were slaughtered or atleast sent into exile.
There were a couple of close moments were the tides could have turned, like last peasant killed and revived, crititcal buildings not found in time etc...how it is often the case and luck played once again a big role.
The issues with islands are that they made up for so long, complicated games when ffa is complicated enough already. It can be so stressful and seemingly unfair and lame. Geass and cumulo stayed relatively calm for that...the guy who executes the island lame is always in the better psychological position and just takes the advantage of having the literally the upperhand when everyone could decide to do the same - which is really an easy thing to do. Island can be okay to me when they are used in a baserace scenario though to make buildings less easy reachable, but not with camping or building mass towers. Sometimes it seems legit - when you get overteamed pretty hard - to retreat to an island and defend from there when you donīt have any other opportunity to survive. But people seem to tend using those tactics way too early and too often these days, same as crying for help with 20k in bank when itīll appriopiate to call help when youīre down to like 2k etc...
The thing is with abusing islands in almost every game spoils the fun - atleast to me - a lot. Although I donīt have too many really tough island camp & lame games in FML as i can remember. Mostly in bnet ladder games that occured and was super annoying - because on the one hand you want to win but u know it will take a lot of extra time (and u usually need someone to team up with that is aware of whats going and can communicate in a proper way) and you donīt want to encourage the island lamer to go on with this style of play, once he gets way more wins than he usually would get.
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