S20 Qualifiers Postmortem

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Greetings to one and all. This update is coming to you a little late as I was on vacation through the holidays, but it should take nothing away from our final victors of the qualifier rounds. So congratulations to those players:

Qwest (king of subs)
Magadanksy
Tyrant66
Ludix
zTsoso

This marks the final additions to the list of players who qualify for Season 20 (Qwest squeezing in with 31 points to replace i-never-smile). The full list of palyers can be seen in the rankings page. In this cast of players we have 4 previous FML champions and 5 previous FML finalists if my counting is right. Compare that to the 30+ players who did not qualify which includes 2 champs and 3 finalists, I would say the qualifier was an overall success. If nothing else, certainly one to be remembered for the crazy amount of sub-wins. Thanks again to all players for participating -- and if you're eliminated, stick around because we will always be needing subs. Also, stay tuned for more events that will be announced soon. Here's a brief recap of the games from last week.

Deathrose Games:


Q32:
Elessar, Lightweight, Ludix, and Fetta_ook duked it out in this extremely lightning-paced game. The game opens with two fast 1v1 roll-overs, ending in a single culminating orc fight between Ludix and Lightweight in which Ludix claims victory convincingly, bladestorming all of Lightweights casters, showing again that he is one of the strongest players that snowballs quickly in his games.

Q39:
This game with CallMeImba, Qwest, Noexxx, and Fail.Life starts off with chatoic 4-way fights in the middle over the red hydra camps. Then in one of the most frustrating sights, Fail falls to early teaming and leaves. Noexxx superbly utilizes mass-tp as he has done throughout the qualifier, but it is not enough as he is eliminated from teaming before he can find CMI's last tree. CMI is winning the fights up until the very end, but loses to Qwest blitzing in and destroying the last tree.

Twisted Meadows Games:


Q29:
Audigy is out fast from quick wyvs from Prometeus. Maga pulls ahead with the best macro accruing 12k+. Bryan and prometeus duke it out in a bloodfest -- to the point of no return where Maga sweeps it up with much more gold than the others. The game apparently was not very enjoyable due to heavy lag, but according to the betting page many people should be happy with the result, seeing the 3-time champion qualify for the main season.

Q38:
What happens when you put 3 undeads and an orc on a small island with little gold and let them do as they please? Well, it may not be certain, but in this case you get a fast elimination followed by a long, dangerous 3 way where the remaining players hide armies and must whittle each other down, each decision having high-impact on the game. Screpi fell early to Vova's rush (with pitlord). There was a lot of back-and-forth teaming with Tyrant showing great micro in the final battle to take down Ajikaiii.

Q34:
The game starts with a cruel 3 man teaming exacted on Ajikaiii that is painful to watch following Tleilaxu taking down Aji's first expo quickly. Tlei is subsequently teamed to death and it comes down to a nice final 1v1 between zTsoso and letshavesomefun, with soso taking the upper hand and clinching yet another sub-win.