S20 - Week 5 Recap

[FML|red7z7]

We're back again with another short week of games. This round has two of the smallest 4 player maps out there, Twisted Meadows and Deathrose -- but don't let that fool you into thinking the games are fast. With 3 games in a week, we already have about 6 hours of play. Congrats to this weeks winners:

zTsoso
j33.
GoodBeast

Deathrose Games


Q30:
Qwest goes for a fast spider creep for summon items, but turns up one scroll of animate the dead. There are huge creepjacks at the hydras, with fetta nabbing a deathmask for his BM from Renaud. Renaud, not one to take creepjacking lightly, goes balls-out on fetta crossmap, while the undeads qwest and GoodBeast protect the orc by hitting Renaud. The undeads then hoard and it turns into a 4 way standoff with the undeads teaming Renaud and fetta sitting in his little 2nd base. The teaming rotates to qwest, followed by GoodBeast taking out renaud, at which point qwest and fetta have very little. GoodBeast moves quickly to take out qwest before they are able to coordinate a teaming against him. GoodBeast could have even ended the game with 1337 gold had he not spent it on that last wagon.

Q33:
Deathrose is a great map for early game expansion confusion, as demonstrated by Seksi taking out j33's first clockwise expo. j33 tries to kill junkerzam's clockwise expo to no avail. Seksi then takes down Valefort's expo in a very early attack before the middle red creeps have been crept. j33 and Junker fight a bit with junker taking down j33s only mine at least once and j33 fighting it back. The teaming begins against Seksi, who quickly becomes broke. Then j33 is teamed. Junker bases seksi and j33 takes out junker with his last faerie dragon army. But who could have predicted any other outcome for this match, with the qualifier number being j33's namesake.

Twisted Meadows Games


Q36:
Here Eshan, DV- (sub), zTsoso, and Steppin (playing his old main race) duked it out. This map has extremely low gold count, so after DV- took down Eshan's corner expo and took it for himself, Eshan was stuck at under 2k at the 30-minute mark. Soso and Steppin exchange some blows, but soon team rightfully against the much richer DV-. Soso and steppin decide to finish off the dire Eshan, then the cycle of teaming rotates. Soso loses his main. All players are broke. Soso does serious work on their undeads' bases before they return the favor by taking out his tanks. In a chaotic near hero-war situation, soso came out ahead, taking down the undeads' last heroes and sealing the victory.

A final public announcement: it's very important that any player or obs who streams an official match puts a 15 minute delay on their stream in accordance with our league's rules. If an obs is found streaming with no delay they will be kicked from the game by an admin, but of course we don't want to do that so please follow the rules!

[junkerzam]

nice recaps as always red

[DV-]

Nice read

[FML|Mage]

Nice quick write up and good to see GB back!