S20 - Week 3 Recap

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Hey guys! This has been a relatively quiet week for the league with only 2 matches played (that means we get to look forward to a full 12 games this coming week -- if you haven't scheduled your game yet, please do that soon). Congratulations to this week's game winners:

Tleilaxu
AlienWareOwnZ

Both this weeks games took place on the FML version of Thunder Lake. Personally, for a while I didn't really like this map -- thinking it was too cramped, too hard to siege bases, and too hard to move across the map's long walking distances. But after playing it for the first time in an inhouse today, I think it's actually a pretty nice cozy map and the creeps are friendly to undead :)


Q26:
The game opened up with Wreck fighting NoMercy2 over creeps. The sub for Dovekie, Tleilaxu goes for an early push on the surrounded Eshan, doing well in that fight, while Wreck wins out over NoMercy, finishing him off. The ensuing 3-way is broken by Tlei going on Wreck, but he finds out fast that Wreck is not easy to mess with. Tlei and Eshan team against Wreck, although both end up losing a lot in very scrambled fights. Eventually they are able to take Wreck’s main down while Wreck takes down most of Eshan’s main. Wreck relocates to a refugee camp, but struggles to stay on top versus the teaming while his opponents secure the final goldmines and Eshan rebuilds. Wreck and Eshan have a final crippling fight while the sneaky Tlei comes in and finishes it off.

Q22:
This was a gruelling game with htrt started surrounded by qwest and vyvanne, while alien had the left side to himself. htrt made an early peace with qwest and built up a great economy and great base -- that proved to be rock-steady when qwest turned on him (after htrt tank-whiped qwest’s main) and vyvanne joined in the teaming. Lots of sieging happened on htrts main, but he was winning out in the 1v2, even venturing out to hit vyvanne’s last expo a few times. Alien threw a few attacks at vyvanne as well, but mostly laid low. After a heartbreaking disconnect by the man on top, htrt, the game dissembled into a stale 3 way until Vyv and alien teamed qwest to death, and alien felled vyvanne in a final clash.

A final word: If you not installed GProxy yet, it is highly recommended that you do so before your next official match. GProxy is a tool that will allow you to rejoin games in the case that you disconnect and it can be a real life-saver. You can find instructions on installing it here: http://ffamasters.net/index.php?topic=1021.0