Victimise - we come from alpha to steal your women and rape your cattle

I hope everyone had a good Christmas. I'm back home for a couple of days before heading off again for the New Years weekend. After that things should be back to normal here. Anyway, here's what's been happening with the squad since I posted last.

AML

We lost to Oracle X in our last game 12-0 after only showing two. The most disappointing thing about this is not the result, but the fact without me there no-one else made the effort.

This now puts us out of the race for playoff spots, but we still have two more games to play in the seedings round. The first of these is this Sunday against Blasphemy.

The focus in AML is now on next season and I'll have more to say on this next week.

SmallPub League

We no-showed the first two games in SPL. This is not a big surprise though. I was gone and the squad was only in it's early stages. Numpf (the league coordinator) was aware of this and rather than award no-show losses against us or even kicking us from the league he decided to postpone the games. The roster now now looks stronger, although we still have two more slots to fill before the roster lock this Sunday.

The next round of games is this Sunday and we'll play two matches. The schedule isn't out yet, when it is I'll try and get it up on here.

SPL Webpage up

There's a temporary webpage up on the Powerball website that has all the links, rules, schedule and other info you'll need to know about SmallPub League.

Once a permanent page is up I'll add it to the Other Leagues section on the links to the right. For now you can reach it by clicking here.

SPL Round 1 Schedule

Here's the full schedule of the opening round in SmallPub League. All but one team plays two games. All times are in EST.

Victimi$e vs S.O.B.S @ 7:30pm

Chi Inc vs Requiem @ 8:00pm

Dijonnaise vs Victimi$e @ 8:00pm

Audtistic vs Dijonnaise @ 8:30pm

Cheap Squad vs Chi Inc. @ 8:30pm

Requiem vs S.O.B.S @ 8:30pm

Cheap Squad vs Citius Spawnus @ 9:00pm

Impeccable vs Amalgam @ 9:00pm

ds.exe vs Audtistic @ 9:00pm

Amalgam vs Citius Spawnus @ 9:30pm

Impeccable vs ds.exe @ 9:30pm

For more info and all the latest league and zone news go to the Powerball website.

Possible Postponement

Right now there's a vote taking place in AML with all the AML captains who's squads can still make the playoffs. The staff are asking the captains whether or not DAMN_Yankees should forfeit the games that Venice Beach played in.

If the caps vote yes then the first seeding round will be postponed a week as the match-ups will change. There will be no change for us though, DY would drop to a finish of sixth in the division which would still be above us. So we would still play OX.

Personally I don't know why a vote is needed. The rules are obvious. If a player is caught double-squadding then the team forfeits all the games that player played in. So by that you can guess that I voted for. And don't get me started on Covert Agent's decision not to punish Dissent at all.

Unless the decision is made later today I probably won't be here to post the result as I'm going on holiday for ten days from tomorrow. I was hoping to sign-up another poster to update the blog while I'm gone but so far no luck.

AML Seeding Round 1 Time Confirmed

We'll play Oracle X this Sunday at 8pm EST (1am GMT).

Everything you wanted to know about the seeding rounds....

...but were afraid to ask. Basically here's how it works. The two divisions now merge into one big ladder league. All the squads play 3 rounds of games, which means you can move up three slots if you win all your games. After that the top ten squads go on to the playoffs. This gives the final playoff seedings a bit more balance. So here's how the league looks now:

 #  Squad               W  L T   K   D Diff

--------------------------------------------

 1  Llamasery          11  1 0 104  62  +42*

 2  ElementalForces    10  1 1 108  41  +67*

 3  Damn_Yankees       10  2 0 115  41  +74*

 4  NightBane          10  2 0 117  57  +60*

 5  StarFire Elite     10  2 0 122  55  +67

 6  BlackNike           9  3 0 105  56  +49

 7  CtrlShift           8  4 0 112  77  +35

 8  Secret              8  4 0  92  71  +21

 9  Wisdom Academy      7  4 1  94  69  +25

10  Fly-NDeath          8  4 0  99  85  +14

 

11  Warlords            7  5 0  84  71  +13

12  Disavowed           7  5 0  87  76  +11

13  CRIPS               7  5 0 100 102   -2

14  Anarchists          6  6 0  72  80   -8

15  Oracle X            6  6 0  97  75  +22

16  Victimise           6  6 0  67  77  -10

 

17  Liquid Inc.         4  8 0  84  98  -14

18  7rominence          5  7 0  68 105  -37

19  Zeta-Squadron       4  8 0  57  90  -33

20  Blasphemy           4  8 0  60 104  -44

21  ShitFuck            2  6 0  29  56  -27

22  }Silence{           2 10 0  43 112  -69

23  TEAM HOCKEY ZONE    1 11 0  42  96  -54

24  CHAOS*ZONE          2 10 0  34 122  -88

25  BALLISTICS          0 10 0   0  36  -36

26  DeepBlue            1 11 0  32  97  -65

I've split the table into three groups. The first group is the top ten, these are the teams that would make the playoffs if they started today (teams with an asterisk have a guaranteed playoff spot). The second group are teams that can still make the playoffs if they win out in the seeding rounds. The third group are teams already out of playoff contention. Got that? OK, here's how the first seeding round looks:

Llamasery vs Elemental Forces

DAMN_Yankees vs NightBane

StarFire Elite vs BlackNike

CtrlShift vs Secret

Wisdom Academy vs FlyNDeath

Warlords vs Disavowed

CRIPS vs Anarchists

Oracle X vs Victimise

Liquid Inc. vs 7rominence

Zeta-Squadron vs Blasphemy

ShitFuck vs }Silence{

TEAM HOCKEY ZONE vs CHAOS*ZONE

DeepBlue and Balls aren't taking part in the seeding rounds. I'll post the round again once the times are confirmed.

Stats Update

I've just finished the Results/Stats section by adding links to the scores and standings from the two RZJPL seasons we played, plus the MSHL roster from our gone and mostly forgotten attempt to set up a hockey squad. Once we start playing SPL I'll add links to that too.

The only thing left for me to do now is the player profiles, which are slowly coming along.

Very slowly....

AML Make-up Round Results and Final Standings

StarFire Elite (10-2) bt Disavowed (7-5) 12-3
MVP: The Deist- (SFE) 3-0, 2 KO (+129)
LVP: Sephiroso (Dis) 0-3 (-229)
Game Time: 32:00

ElementalForces (10-1-1) bt Oracle X 1-0
OX no-show

DAMN_Yankees bt Disavowed (7-5) 12-1
MVP: Maple Leaf (DY) 4-0, 1 KO (+132)
LVP: Zosa (Dis) 0-3 (1-75)
Game Time: 23:13

Victimise (6-6) bt Blasphemy (4-8) 12-1
MVP: ampheres (Vic) 2-0, 1 KO (+108)
LVP: Kni8mare (Blas) 1-3 0-206)
Game Time: 16:48

DeepBlue (1-11) bt Zeta-Squadron (4-8) 1-0
Zeta no-show

Final Regular Season Standings

Balder Division

 #  Squad               W  L T   K   D Diff

--------------------------------------------

 1  Llamasery          11  1 0 104  62  +42

 2  Damn_Yankees       10  2 0 115  41  +74

 3  StarFire Elite     10  2 0 122  55  +67

 4  Secret              8  4 0  92  71  +21

 5  Fly-NDeath          8  4 0  99  85  +14

 6  Disavowed           7  5 0  87  76  +11

 7  Anarchists          6  6 0  72  80   -8

 8  Victimise           6  6 0  67  77  -10

 9  7rominence          5  7 0  68 105  -37

10  Blasphemy           4  8 0  60 104  -44

11  ShitFuck            2  6 0  29  56  -27

12  TEAM HOCKEY ZONE    1 11 0  42  96  -54

13  Ballistics          0 10 0   0  36  -36

Thor Division

 #  Squad               W  L T   K   D Diff

--------------------------------------------

 1  ElementalForces    10  1 1 108  41  +67

 2  NightBane          10  2 0 117  57  +60

 3  BlackNike           9  3 0 105  56  +49

 4  CtrlShift           8  4 0 112  77  +35

 5  Wisdom Academy      7  4 1  94  69  +25

 6  Warlords            7  5 0  84  71  +13

 7  CRIPS               7  5 0 100 102   -2

 8  Oracle X            6  6 0  97  75  +22

 9  Liquid Inc.         4  8 0  84  98  -14

10  Zeta-Squadron       4  8 0  57  90  -33

11  }Silence{           2 10 0  43 112  -69

12  CHAOS*ZONE          2 10 0  34 122  -88

13  DeepBlue            1 11 0  32  97  -65

Victimise in Powerball

After Cashball the next league in Powerball is SmallPub League. I was unable to get a roster spot on the teams made so far, so I've decided to cap my own.

The squad will be called Victimi$e, although it's not strictly a Vic squad as only myself and bongman will probably be the only Vic members on the squad. It just makes things easier for me to use the Vic name and current chats.

Right now I'm waiting for my league login before I can start sending out invites to join the squad. SmallPub is 6v6 with a roster limit of 9 players. For more info on the league go here.

AML Make-up Round, Victimise 12-1 Blasphemy

After the worst ever start in the squad's history, losing our first five games, we managed to fight back yesterday to even our record at 6-6 after beating Blas 12-1. We started bong (weasel), amps (wb), Leaky (wb) and myself (wb) with Jim (weasel) and expo (wb) subbing in. Blas only showed three to the game, who were Dre (wb), Kni8mare (lanc, weasel) and Fate (terrier).

The game started a bit shaky for me as I started spiking and had to quit and come back just before the go. Once I got back the game had started which meant I had to burn as I joined the game late. It's one of those quirky rules. If I waited until the go then lagged out and came back then I wouldn't of been burned as I hadn't fired or engaged. In the end it wasn't a problem as we dominated the game from start to finish.

Blas started in a turret with Dre driving and kni8 and Fatal as gunners. As usual in these types of games the start was slow. We just trailed the turret and looked to burn their specials and waited until we could trap it. That came at the six minute mark when I did the damage, killing Dre and Fate.

Blas didn't try to get the turret set up again so after that it was a simple matter of using our one slot advantage to break them down and knock them out one by one, which is exactly what we did. We wrapped the game up in sixteen minutes with only one death. Amps was the MVP going 2-0 with 1 KO and 1 forced rep. I was the runner up going 2-0 with 2 assists and 3 forced reps.

Next up for us is the seeding rounds. We have three games to get ourselves into a top ten position and a playoff spot. Two wins should be enough for us to do it. Our first game is against Oracle X, a team we've already beaten in the pre-season. I've started scheduling and will post here as soon as I have a confirmed time.

Finally, here's all the links from the game which includes some good screenshots for a change.

Full Match Stats
Box Score
Spec Log
Player Stats
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2
Screenshot 3
Screenshot 4

We Won

We beat Blas today 12-1. Blas only showed three and started in a turret, but we broke that up and ran out the easy winners. Amps took the MVP.

This gave us a final record of 6-6 and a very good chance of making the playoffs. After starting the season 0-5 that's a pretty impressive turn around.

Look out for a full match report, with stats and screenshots tomorrow.

Ballistics Results Overturned

Mizerie has just posted this on the AML forum:

Well here it is, the moment you all have been waiting for. Or at least bashing me about. Did you ever doubt I would do it?
The large outcry about the Ballistics in AML and the issues that have risen from the ashes of this regular season has brought to my attention one thing... I want to do what is right for the season and the players.

As the new sysop and the person that brought Ballisitcs into AML I take full responsibilty for my actions and the decisions I made. The last thing I want to do is make career crushing mistakes in my first season as Sysop. After alot of deliberation and discussions with several people I have made the decision to change the results of several games this season.

But before I tell you exactly how I will change the results I want to quickly remind everyone of what our goal was. Ballistics was joined into AML as a shadow squad that would prevent a long season of No Show wins and bye rounds for the Balder Division. Ballistics was encourged to play hard and keep it competitive. They were allowed to play one 1 starter in each game and they broke no rules this season by doing so. Also when I first told everyone that Ballistics would join us in AML I tried to make it a win-win situation by saying that Ballistics would not qualify for playoffs and that loosing to them wouldnt effect your standings....but not every team played ballistics so that became a difficult situation. I also added that teams who could beat Ballistics increased there chances of making playoffs while loosing to them would make no difference. This in the end turned out to NOT be the case thus the decision I am making.

All teams that Lost to Ballistics will now WIN that round (1-0 NS win).
-BUT-
to remain fair and sticking to my word that by beating ballistics gives you a better chance at playoffs I am also making this change:
All Teams that Beat Ballistics by X number of points will have the score changed to an X-0 Win.

example:
Team A lost to Ballistics 3-12. It will be changed to a 1-0 Win
Team B Beat Ballistics 12-8. It will be changed to a 4-0 Win.
This gives those teams that were powerful enough to beat ballistics nothing more than a slight advantage in differential.

All player stats will be removed for the games played against Ballistics.

I hope that everyone agrees with me on the decision I have made. I believe it to be fair and just. It straightens things out and helps with the unfortunate issues that arouse at the end of this season.

I wish everyone the best of luck in the post season and playoffs.

-Mizerie
AML Asst. Manager

You can read the full thread here. So what does this mean for Victimise and the rest of the season? Well first of all the new Balder Divsision standings now look like this:

 #  Squad               W  L T   K   D Diff

--------------------------------------------

 1  Llamasery          11  1 0 104  62  +42

 2  Damn_Yankees        9  2 0 103  40  +63

 3  StarFire Elite      9  2 0 110  52  +58

 4  Secret              8  4 0  92  71  +21

 5  Fly-NDeath          8  4 0  99  85  +14

 6  Disavowed           7  3 0  83  52  +31

 7  Anarchists          6  6 0  72  80   -8

 8  Victimise           5  6 0  55  76  -21

 9  7rominence          5  7 0  68 105  -37

10  Blasphemy           4  7 0  59  92  -33

11  ShitFuck            2  6 0  29  56  -27

12  TEAM HOCKEY ZONE    1 11 0  42  96  -54

13  Ballistics          0 10 0   0  36  -36

So if we win our make-up round game tomorrow against Blasphemy that gives us a final reg-season record of 6-6. That's only one game off the playoff spots and with three seeding rounds to come we have a good chance of getting into the top ten and making the playoffs for the first time since AML Season 8.

AML Make-up Round Schedule

Here's all of Sunday's games. There's no MR point spread as there's no new schedule put up on MasterRater for this round, the orginally postponed matches are updated. All the times are in EST.

Disavowed vs Starfire Elite @ 4pm

Oracle X vs ElementalForces @ 5pm

Disavowed vs Damn_Yankees @ 5pm

Blasphemy vs Victimise @ 5pm

DeepBlue vs Zeta-Squadron @ 6pm

For all the latest League news, plus the schedules for IML and Pro, check out the Premier League website.

Still in the Playoffs

Crunchy has posted something very interesting on the PremBlog, you can check it out here.

Basically it's a table that shows who will make the playoffs this season and how low you can finish in the final standings and still qualify by winning in the seeding rounds.

If we beat Blasphemy on Sunday we'll finish 8th in the Balder Division tied with narchs and 7rom, which according to Crunchy means we'll still make the playoffs if we win all three seeding rounds.

So the playoff outlook isn't as bleak as I thought it was after the Balls loss.

AML Round 13 Results and Standings

Before I get into the results I thought I'd point something out. In the match report I said that demerol was the MVP of our game. That was taken from the box score from the bot on the match log. The ratings on MasterRater are calculated differently and Kyre was the MVP on that. So in his first game for Vic, despite us losing Kyre still MVP'd the match.

DAMN_Yankees (9-2) bt StarFire Elite (9-2) 12-5
MVP: Zombie (DY) 4-0, 1 KO (+175)
LVP: G o G o (SFE) 0-3 (-225)
Game Time: 38:13

NightBane (10-2) bt CtrlShift (8-4) 12-5
MVP: twIsta (NB) 4-1, 1 KO (+126)
LVP: Soul Assassins (CS) 1-3 (-146)
Game Time: 41:40

Secret (7-5) bt Fly-NDeath (7-5) 12-0
MVP: Trash-Killer (Sec) 3-0, 1 KO (+83)
LVP: U.S.S. Enterprise (FnD) 0-3 (-207)
Game Time: 15:14

Llamasery (11-1) bt Anarchists (5-7) 12-2
MVP: Lord Schnitzel (llamas) 4-0, 1 KO, 2 FR (+83)
LVP: Shadowslayer (narchs) 0-3 (-99)
Game Time: 33:27

Liquid Inc. (4-8) bt CHAOS*ZONE (2-10) 12-1
MVP: Faid (LI) 9-0, 4 KO (+181)
LVP: CrazySexyCool (CZ) 0-3 (-87)
Game Time: 14:43

Blasphemy (4-7) bt TEAM HOCKEY ZONE (0-12)
THZ no-show

Disavowed (7-3) bt ShitFuck (1-7) 1-0
SF no-show

Wisdom Academy (7-4-1) bt }Silence{ (2-10) 1-0
Silence no-show

BALLISTICS (6-4) bt Victimise (4-7) 12-9
MVP: Kyre (Vic) 5-3, 5 FR (+119)
LVP: Bortas (Balls) 0-3, 4 FR (-256)
Game Time: 32:28

CRIPS (7-5) bt Zeta-Squadron (4-7) 1-0
Zeta no-show

Warlords (7-5) bt Deepblue (0-11) 1-0
DB no-show

Standings

Balder Division

 # Squad                W  L T   K   D  Diff

---------------------------------------------

 1  Llamasery          11  1 0 109  67   +42

 2  Damn_Yankees        9  2 0 105  42   +63

 3  StarFire Elite      9  2 0 115  57   +58

 4  Disavowed           7  3 0  89  58   +31

 5  Secret              7  5 0  99  82   +17

 6  Fly-NDeath          7  5 0 103  97    +6

 7  Ballistics          6  4 0  89  85    +4

 8  Anarchists          5  7 0  78  92   -14

 9  7rominence          5  7 0  68 105   -37

10  Victimise           4  7 0  63  88   -25

11  Blasphemy           4  7 0  59  92   -33

12  ShitFuck            1  7 0  31  68   -37

13  TEAM HOCKEY ZONE    0 12 0  46 108   -62

Thor Division

 # Squad                W  L T   K   D  Diff

---------------------------------------------

 1  NightBane          10  2 0 117  57   +60

 2  ElementalForces     9  1 1 107  41   +66

 3  BlackNike           9  3 0 105  56   +49

 4  CtrlShift           8  4 0 112  77   +35

 5  Wisdom Academy      7  4 1  94  69   +25

 6  Warlords            7  5 0  84  71   +13

 7  CRIPS               7  5 0 100 102    -2

 8  Oracle X            6  5 0  97  74   +23

 9  Zeta-Squadron       4  7 0  57  89   -32

10  Liquid Inc.         4  8 0  84  98   -14

11  }Silence{           2 10 0  43 112   -69

12  CHAOS*ZONE          2 10 0  34 122   -88

13  DeepBlue            0 11 0  31  97   -66

Stats Update

I've added another load of squad stats that interests no-one but me to the blog. Along with all the Premier League stuff I've added as much Gladiator League and Dueling League stats that I could find.

I had to trawl through ScoreMaster on archive.org to find some of the pages and the player stats are incomplete on some of the seasons, but it was worth doing just to get Fat Fuck's roster linked as well as proof the The Underlord has played an actual league match. No, really. Looking for these stats I found some old 2v2 logs on the mailing list which I've uploaded to the Log Bank.

The last part to go up is the RZJPL section and I may add a roster page for the short-lived MSHL squad. I'm also still knocking out the player profiles. The plan is on having them all done by the end of this AML season.

Click the results/stats link on the menu to the left to check it all out.

AML Make-up Round Time Confirmed

We're playing Blasphemy this Sunday at 5pm EST (10pm GMT).