Going into this game I was looking to make some changes after starting the season 0-3 (our worst start in any league Vic have played). First of all I decided to bench myself so I could run the game from spec and give us some direction which I felt we've lacked while I was playing. Also I decided to mix up the starting line and added two veteran players who had yet to play this season. Our Starting line was ampheres, bongman, Editor and Savman with Shadowseeker subbing in. Narchs went with wasteofammo (aka former Vic player Wasty), nismo, G_BoNe and Shadowslayer.
The game started well for us. After ten minutes the score was tied at 1-1 with nismo killing bong while G_BoNe was TK'd. We were playing well together and pushing narchs back, they were saved by a bit of fortuitous lag that kept us from getting more kills. Then it went wrong. The next 4 kills were all on us and Sav was forced to sub after two deaths. But unlike the last couple of games we managed to come back. We pulled it back to 5-4 and were looking strong.
At the 27 minute mark Wasty killed Shadowseeker to give narchs a 2 kill lead and a 4v3 advantage. We didn't give up though and were targeting G_BoNe who was on his last life. But at the 31 minute mark narchs got two kills. At 8-4 we had to go on the all out attack to try and get back and narchs soaked it up to take the game 12-4. The MVP went to nismo who went 3-0 with 1 knockout, 3 assists and 5 forced reps. Our best player was Editor who went 2-3 with 1 assist and 2 forced reps.
We are improving as a squad, but we're still losing games against teams we should be beating easily. I think our problems are practice. We rarely practice together as a squad during the week and it shows. This is our first season back though and we will get better through the season. Next up is fellow Alpha squad Llamasery. I've started scheduling with Crunchy and will post here when I have a time confirmed. Finally here's the links from yesterdays games:
