Author Topic: S20 - Week 4 Recap (Read 1075 times)

FML|red7z7 · « **on:** December 15, 2014, 03:12:23 am »

Today marks the end of the second round of qualifiers, with a total of 12 games played this week alone. With so many games to cover, let's get started... Congrats to this week's winners -- we saw two 50-point winners, 5 new winners, and an impressive 5 wins by subs.

Mog[skynet]

Ostone

Qwest (x2)

Noexxx

Alien-

i-never-smile

Fetta_ook

Brainman

Nline

Seksi

DNIWE_VOVA

Thunder Lake Games

Q15
Game starts with a double surround with

Mog and

DV- forming the bread and

Tyrant and

Elessar forming the meat of the sandwhich. Mog opts for his signature tinker. A rotational attack happens with DV- on Elessar while Tyrant takes out DV-s main with chims. Elessar goes for the solo BM mass tower mass bats strategy. Tyrant and Mog exchange a few blows, but then Mog blasts DV- away after peaking at 30k gold. Mog and Tyrant continue to have huge battles, with Mog eventually wiping out Tyrant's main while Elessar bats out Mog's main. Tyrant gets based, and Mog is able to siege Elessar base with panda/tinker while successfully defending against the bats/BM.

Q16
Another double surround with FML-founder

Worpex and

Nline on the outsides, and

Junkerzam and

LifeForRent on the insides. Junker tries to break out on Nline while LFR tries to break out on Worpex. Both players have a bit of difficulty with this, although Junker was able to get quite a bit of gold in the bank during his 1v1. The game teeter-totters in a 4-way for a bit while Nline tightens the vice on Junker, and Worp finishes LFR. Nline stood on top of the 3-way and neither opponent was able to take him down with his big orc heroes despite their final attacks.

Q21
In one of the longest games of the round,

j33 started surrounded by

Letshave, and

Nooblex, with

ostone alone. Nooblex and Ostone duke it out for a while, then peace, then duke it out again, with Ostone coming out on top. Letshave and j33 fight a long back-and-forth with j33 ahead in heroes and letshave slightly ahead in economy. In the 3 way, letshave mass TPs to take out ostone's main, but is left with just heroes. j33 and ostone are maxed out at 80 pop but soon join letshave's ranks with essentially just heroes remaining. It turns into a long 3 way with broke-ass players. Unfortunately, letshave had to leave the game unable to stay for the end. j33 and ostone have a final hero battle with ostone clinching the win.

Q23
This game

Ugrilainen made a rare appearance, alongside

Screpi,

AJIKAIII, and

Noexxx. Ugri did a fast fiend rush taking down Noexxx's expansion. However, Noexxx bounced right back with gryphons and went on Ugri's main, taking it down and quickly reaching level 6 on his archmage, similar to round 1. Screpi went a fast 80 push on Ajika who was not fully prepared for it. However, before Screpi could gain too much of an advantage from fighting with Ajika, Noexxx appears strong in the 3-way, alternately attacking both players with mass TP. Ajika leaves after his 2nd base is attacked, and Ugri is not able to rebuild fast enough while Noexxx takes down Screpi's buildings.

Monsoon Games

Q14

zTsoso was surrounded by

Brainman and

uRgent, with

DV- on the other side. uRget went fast fiends on soso, but soso retaliated forcefully and uRgent couldn't handle it and left. DV- and Brain had intense fiend battles, with Brain showing strong DR-first play. Bloody battles happen left-and-right, with some teaming on Brain for a while. Soso holds on with minimal gold, even mining with mass TP at one point. Brainman pulled ahead in the end with a solid wyrm-heavy army.

Q17
Even spawns for

CallMeImba,

Seksi,

Audigy,

AJIKAIII in my personal pick for match of the week. Audigy and Ajika go head-to-head on the right while Seksi and CMI fight on the left. The game goes for a while with two long 1v1s. In a show of great micro and macro, Seksi is able to take out CMI over time and eventually severely damages his main. The game turns to a 3v1 vs. Seksi, but at that point he has more gold than all his opponents combined and a significant hero lead, so he is able to fight them off in sequence and take the game in a dominant performance.

Q18

Valefort spawns surrounded by

DNIWE_VOVA and

Fail.Life with

Spielman on the opposite side, who opens up with a rare Beastmaster first. Soon, however, Life goes hard on Spielman with an early push, while Vova chooses to crossmap hit Life's main, forcing him to TP. This situation repeats itself in deja-vu fashion a few minutes later, although the second time Life is virtually defeated, having sustained damages from Valefort also hitting his main. The confusing attacks continued, with Vova taking out Valefort's main while Valefort hit Spiel. With Spielman hitting Valefort as well, it is was a straight-forward path for Vova to finish it off with his 10k+ gold.

Q19
This game we got

Sparkle going his classic rifle build against

SteppinRazor while

qwest goes fast 100 on the fellow

Kpect. Kpect is taken out quickly being unprepared for such a large attack, and Steppin also falls slowly to Sparkle, ultimately being finished off when qwest moves to that side of the map. An early and hearty 1v1 between Sparkle and qwest ensues, with qwest just one step quicker in taking out Sparkle's expansions. In the end, qwest's aboms + strong undead nuke secures the win.

Q20
This game featured

Magadanksy,

Brainman,

fetta_ook, and

Red7z7. I won't say too much about this game having played in it myself, but congratulations to fetta_ook for a solid comeback victory. Strong performances from both Maga and Brain as well, with Maga taking the 11 pts for top score.

Q24

Renaud surrounded by

Tleilaxu, and

KenoStrikesBack, with

qwest alone on the left. Renaud went a quick 100 on Tlei, taking down his main base, with Keno attackin qwest taking down a couple expansions. Qwest soon decides to go against Renaud, while Renaud tries to finish Tlei. But Keno soon turns on Renaud as well, giving the surrounded player a tough 1v3. Qwest launches a full-fledged attack on Renaud, who's faerie dragons don't match up to the mass garg army. After Renaud falls, qwest sails to victory with his mass garg and hero advantage vs. his crippled opponents.

Q25
In this seemingly random-heroes game,

Elessar goes TC, SH, DR with berzerkers,

i-never-smile goes tinker, DH, potm with all sorts of ground units,

Lightweight goes farseer, TC, SH and

fetta_ook goes DL, DK, Lich. fetta expos across lightweight, then launches necrowagonwyrm on lightweight's expansion, but Lightweight counterattacks and defends with his great wall of towers. Lightweight revealed a very new strategy, the pause-for-manip. Lightweight then goes beast-mode on fetta, taking him out. Lightweight is teamed for a bit, and then just before i-never-smile hits lightweight's main, lightweight gives the 5-second countdown to cease-and-desist, but ins does not oblige and Lightweight leaves the game. The 1v1 that follows is an interesting back-and-forth match with i-never-smile coming out on top with his unheard of ballistas/glaive throwers.

Q27
Last and probably least, this match we had

Brainman (sub),

Ludix,

SuperPrometeusX, and

Alien- (sub). The game started with lots of early fighting over the top and bottom expos. SPX hits Ludix expo, while Alien goes on Brainman and beats him out. SPX loses a fight at Ludix's expo and Ludix has a quick retaliation at SPX's natural. Alien goes after Ludix, however SPX tries to keep Alien in check. Then, like a pit-bull, Ludix goes into "kill mode" on SPX, throwing his last 100 army at all of SPX's towers. When he loses 60% of his army he leaves the game, leaving SPX in shambles versus the 10k+ Alien who finishes off what was handed to him.

That's it for week 4 -- please check back soon for the round 3 matchup postings. With so many wins going to subs, there is still great opportunity for players to win a game and qualify for the main stage.