It's about time. The match was the messiest we've played all season, which was probably due to the fact we only managed one warm up 4v4 game before the match, but right now I'll take a win any way I can get it.

We went with Leaky (wb) , ampheres (wb), Savman (wb) and Shadowseeker (weasel) as our starters and for the first time we didn't use any subs (another reason why we won?). Secret's starters were Trash-killer (lev), cose (weasel), Tursiops (jav) and Nerve Impulse (wb) and whirl (wb) was their only sub.

We started badly. After only 54 seconds Sav got caught out by trash-killer's lobbed L3 bombs and repped too late. But we got the next 3 kills for a 3-1 lead after 8 minutes. Then Secret started having problems. Cose, who was on his last life, lagged out and at that time they only had Who? in spec who was too laggy to get in. So for the next 5 minutes it was 4v3 in our advantage. We couldn't get any more kills though as secret ran from us well. Whirl eventaully turned up to sub cose and I made a mistake in strategy that almost cost us the game.

Whirl was dropping off to save himself which made it effectively 4v3 to us, but I was targeting Whirl instead of leaving him alone. This got us split up and we lost our teamwork for a while. It also allowed Secret to get some kills on us. They tied the score at 3-3. We pulled away, but they came back again to tie it up at 6-6.

Although the scores were tied we looked the much stronger team. Secret had two slots on their last life and were well down on the special count. We had got our teamwork back and were pushing them all over the map. The next two kills decided the game. Savman knocked out Whirl, then Leaky killed Tursiops to make it 8-6 and 4v3. Secret did try and make a come back and trapped amps against a wall to knock her out, but Leaky got our second knockout, this one on trash-killer, to make the score 9-7 and 3v2 with only a minute left on the clock.

We ran out the clock to get our first regular season win of the season. Leaky was the MVP, going 4-1 with 1 knockout, 1 assist and 6 forced reps. After so many game where we have started well, but lost our teamwork it was nice to see us start well and then carry that through the for the full 45 minutes.

Our next game is against ShitFuck and I've already started scheduling. I'll post here as soon as I have a confirmed time. Here's all the links from the match, I've added the screenshot of our post-game victory lap to the screenshots section on the site.

Full Match Stats
Box Score
Spec Log
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2
Screenshot 3

posted by CelebPixx on Monday, October 18, 2004

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