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the
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score was 15-6. here is the update by rake:
Well now, it looks like defiance has just won the ISB Winter Invitational
Tourney - defeating local rivals [NITE] in an entertaining series
of rounds. We were warmed up and confident coming in, and decided
on a starting lineup of atastypie, fate, phyzics, and myself.
After steamrolling them 5-1 on their map pick (map12) we decided on
dm6 as ours - with the final map being dm6 as well. In a baffling
move, NITE subbed out driver8, easily their best player, after the
loss on map12. I honestly think that this was their undoing as our
confidence level climbed after watching him leave the server. We stuck
it to them on dm6, and made a comeback when down 4-2 to get the win.
with the score 10-5, we had almost no chance of losing going into
the third game as NITE had to sweep it to force it into OT. Unfortunately,
they all gave up after losing the first round of the third game, and
we trained them 5-1 (again).
Good games and well played... now we see if we get to play the East
winner to determine TEH ULTIMATE GRANDE CHAMPEION WINNAR OF TEH INTARWEB
GAEMING THINGS!!11
i was correct on 12 of 15 predictions. the teams that won in upsets
no longer exist: crd went inactive with some of their starters moving
to clearscreen, dixx did the same thing except their players migrated
to axis west, and c4 has been touched upon in older posts.
isb was a great tournament, and i look forward to another. until then,
you should pay attention to cal
ra3. |
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update
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it appears that the finals are... oh my! |
>:(
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over
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vr
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NITE
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over
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dixx
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to me this shows the current dominance of northwest ra3. defiance
took out powerhouse southern clans (oz, team VR) and NITE took out
the other non-northwest competition (pr) while getting by a close
week3 game vs dixx. there is only one game left.
what is teh going to happen? |
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update
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what has happened? THE HORROR |
>:(
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over
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xc
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vr
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over
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nails
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nite
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over
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pr
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dixx
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over
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crd
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there are 4 teams left and things look great. judging by the final
teams, the only adjustment i would have made to the seedings would
have been to exchange either defiance or oz with kt. the fact that
two of the strongest teams (wtshit i said defiance is good but everyone
says we sucks omg im going to go cry myself to sleep on my giant pink
heart pillow) in westcoast ra3 had to face eachother off in the very
first round is rather silly. the switch would have made these final
4 teams: oz, vr, nite and def -- who can contest with that?
it didn't work out that way, but there are still 3 games left in the
first isb invitational. did i say first? is that a hint to the organizers?
perhaps?
i have heard of an upcoming double elimination tournament, starting
when the isb finals are finished. hopefully we can get more teams
in, but keep the same 'informal/play it when you can' style. the xtgl
seasonals were about as good as you can get for rocketarena, and now
that the xtgl stopped running tournaments other people have started
to step up. its a good time to be playing quakethreearena.
on a non-tournament note, lets talk about c4!. poor c4, they had a
strong lineup when this tournament started, but all the starters left.
last week they picked up a new player named phaser, who just so happened
to add some real hardcore skill to the clan. unfortunatly phaser has
a history real hardcore
skill. one step forward, one step back. keep on pluggin away =)
do i have anything to say about the actual matches played this week?
i saw the demos, they were just games. check out whats
coming up. |
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update
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3 more west games have been finished: |
>:(
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over
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oz
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n^
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over
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mal
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vr
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over
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wx
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the only game left to be played is between HB and pr. quater final
games have begun to be schedualed, and you can find my predictions
for how things will turn out here. wtshit happened
to oz after the defiance match?
two of my predictions for this week failed: one was because the clan
i predicted to win didn't actually have the players i thought would
be in at the time (that clan being c4: 3 players from the starting
linup left -- syztem is still there) and the other was a game that
probably won't have an outcome on the overall tournament. |
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update
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The
following games have been played: |
xc
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over
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tfa
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dixx
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over
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kt
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crd
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over
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c4
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first
things first: if you want me to post a write up of one of your matches
that have already happened, pm me in irc. send me demos and i'll have
something to say.
crd took down a less than stellar c4 lineup. c4 lost a lot of the
players which had been recently recruited -- players that were talented
but dont exactly contribute to clan stability. the team that played
was not the one you would have expected to see play when looking at
the original isb rosters. props for the win crd, c4 is going to be
gunning for you :o
you can look at my entire bracket
prediction if you wish. games that turned out as i thought they would
are blue, games that turned out different are red. games that turn
out different have the predictions for the weeks after them adjusted
accordingly. the only predictions i will change are ones made that
include a clan which was knocked out -- if my opinion of who is going
to win a match changes before it happens, i won't adjust it. there
are a couple of occurances of that right now.
the lower half of the bracket is getting more interesting now. i see
pr, nite and crd all with great chances at going to the semis. this
matches the upper bracket, where oz, vr and defiance all have good
chances at reaching their semi. there should be some great games over
the next few weeks!
check out the actual
isb tourney bracket which is updated more often than what i do. |
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update
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Here
are my predictions for the isb rocketarena tournament (west). Yes,
I play for defiance. Yes, this makes my predictions biased. No,
I don't think I am wrong. No, don't pm me on irc telling me how
wrong I am. For now I have predicted this week's matches and created
a bracket of the tournament to represent how i think things will
go.
I will be updating as the weeks go by, highlighting my errors and
all.
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