Our pre-season round 4 game against Oracle X will be played on Sunday at 8pm EST.
We won our second pre-season game yesterday, taking out CRIPS 12-4. We started Jim Morrison, ampheres, vorb and Shadowseeker with Megus and expo subbing in. CRIPS actually showed four from the start (Bukkwild, macksks, Harry Dunn and White America) for the first time this season I think.
We dominated from the start, knocking out CRIPS one-by-one and never looked in trouble. Credit should be given to bukk though who managed to get a couple of kills when he was 1v4 and is currently the #1 ranked AML pilot on MasterRater. Our MVP was me ($) going 3-0 with 2 knockouts and 6 forced reps. Runner up was amps going 4-1 with 1 assist and 1 forced rep. You can get all the match stats here.
This match we really started to show what kind of squad we can be this season. The practice is paying off and our teamwork is looking really good. Our last pre-season game will be against fellow Alpha squad Oracle X. I'll post here as soon as I have a confirmed time.
Just a reminder that tomorrows AML game against CRIPS is at 6pm EST.
Also, I've set up a blog for Premier League which you can check out here. it's already proving popular with several posters signed up already, although I accidentally deleted it a couple of days ago and lost everything. Go me.
See what happens when I play? We lost our second pre-season game yesterday to Zeta 12-8. Zeta started The Tri Guy (Tritoch), ZL, HBK and digi while we went with Shadowseeker, ampheres, vomit, Geneva while I came on as a sub. We started well, controlling the match and after 18 minutes we were 6-4 up and had knocked out digi for the 4v3 advantage.
But just like the 7rom game we lost our composure and this time our opponents didn't let us off, knocking out Geneva and amps. Although we had also knocked out ZL to even it up at 2v2, Zeta were leading 9-8 and could sit back. I was next to go pushing too hard, leaving vomit in 1v2 and 10-8 down. He did his best, but we were never going to win from there facing Tritoch and HBK. The game still had a lot of positives for us though and we continue to build up our teamwork and shake off the rust in time for the regular season. You can read all the stats and get links to the box score and spec log here.
Our Round 3 game against CRIPS has already been scheduled and we will be playing them next Sunday at 6pm EST.
Our pre-season round 2 game against Zeta will start at 4pm EST this Sunday.
Here's all the scores from Last Sundays opening AML pre-season round:
Gamed bt Gods 1-0 (no-show)
Zeta-Squadron bt }Silence{ 12-6
Oracle X bt CtrlShift 12-4
ElementalForces bt Forever Silent 12-1
Anarchists bt TEAM HOCKEY ZONE 12-6
Wisdom Acadamy tw CHAOS*ZONE 11-11
StarFire Elite bt Blasphemy 12-5
CRIPS bt Shadow 12-5
Victimise bt 7rominence 11-6
Nightbane bt DeepBlue 12-5
Disavowed bt Llamasery 12-6
Fly-NDeath bt Liquid Inc 1-0 (no-show)
BlackNike bt Warlords 12-7
In other news the IML final was finally finished on Sunday. Money was granted a replay from the start, but with Dissent leading 2-0. Dissent went on to win 12-1 to take the title. I didn't see the game and it's a shame that the IML season finished in this way.
We won our first game back in AML today, beating 7rom 11-6. Our starters were Leaky, ampheres, bongman and Geneva (who only joined the squad on Saturday evening) with Shadowseeker coming on as a sub. 7rom went with Dissertation, Perseverance, Omegared and silly_n00b with no subs. We had an excellent start to the game pushing 7rom back and running up a 5-0 lead plus putting two 7rom slots on one life. The middle part of the game was a different story. We allowed 7rom back into the match to tie the score up at 5-5 and also Leaky was knocked out to put us 3v4 down. But that seemed to wake us up and we started playing well again, showing some excellent targeting to leave just silly_n00b alive. He showed some nifty moves to keep running from us and we were happy to let him run the clock out for the victory. Amps was named MVP, going 4-2 with 2 knockouts and 3 assists. Geneva was runner up with a 4-1 record, 1 knockout and 5 forced reps. Omegared got 7rom's bests stats going 3-3 with 1 knockout and 3 forced reps.
It was no surprise that we looked a little rusty in spots, but it's good to be back and we're on the right track. You can check out all the match stats here, there's also links at the bottom of that page to the box score and spec log on MasterRater. Next week we're playing another squad who are returning to AML in Zeta-Squadron. As soon as I have a time scheduled I'll post it here. I'll also post all the round scores from today, probably tomorrow.
Here's a full list of games being played tomorrow in AML:
}Silence{ vs Zeta-Squadron (3pm)
CtrlShift vs Oracle X (3pm)
ElementalForces vs Forever Silent (3pm)
Anarchists vs TEAM HOCKEY ZONE (4pm)
DAMN_Yankees vs Secret (4pm)
CHAOS*ZONE vs Wisdom Academy (4pm)
Blasphemy vs StarFire Elite (5pm)
CRIPS vs Shadow (5pm)
7rominence vs Victimise (6pm)
DeepBlue vs NightBane (6pm)
Disavowed vs Llamasery (7pm)
Fly-NDeath vs Liquid Inc. (9pm)
BlackNike vs Warlords (9pm)
All match times are in EST. For more info check out MasterRater and the Premier League website.
Our match against 7rom will be played this Sunday at 6pm EST. Once all the times are confirmed I'll post the whole round on here.