We lost our Glad game against Dissent yesterday in two games. At the start of the game there was no other Glad staff online but me so I had to ref the match, in the end this might of cost us. The bot wasn't set to game mode. This means that when I started it there was no one minute countdown and the game started immediately. I wasn't expecting this and had gone afk thinking I had a minute to spare. In the confusion of the start Dissent got a quick kill with Ohm's Law taking out ebola virus. I let the game go on and not restart. I did this for two reasons. First of all I was in the situation of reffing my own squad and didn't want to look as though I was favouring them. Secondly by the time the game started Portal Realm (The Gladiator League sys op) had come online and he was happy for the game to go ahead. The person who disagreed most with this decision was ebola virus who was the first person to die out leaving Snail and Demongo 2v3. Dissent are too smart a squad to lose from the position and went on to take the game 6-1.

Game 2 started a lot more smoother. Our starting line was Snail, HarryHood and Kuskus. We got the opening kill and were at 2-2 when we again went down a man early in the game, this time it was Harry that got put out. Again Dissent showed their experience by grinding us down as soon as they went 3v2 up. Also Snail lagged out leaving Kuskus on his own with one life left. By the time Demongo was subbed in Kus had been knocked out at there was nothing he could do. In the end we lost 6-2. You can find all the match stats by clicking here and you can read the game log here.

Considering the inactivity there's been in the squad since the last Glad game it's not that surprising that we looked and played rusty, specially as we were going against a squad who are deep in the AML and IML playoffs and undefeated in Gladiator. There was some good signs though, specially the start of game 2. We don't have a game next weekend. Our next game is Round 9 vs ROCK MUSIC.