We kicked off season 12 with a solid 9-8 win over SFA on Sunday. The pre-match went as expected. AznWonderland no-showed and the official result is a 1-0 win for us over them. After that we played our unofficial game. As SFA didn't have a roster up on MasterRater the bot couldn't run in game mode and we had to play with it in prac mode. The only real difference that made was that the game length could only be 30 minutes. Considering the playing style that StarFire Elite have always used it looked like the game would go the distance and that's exactly what happened.

I was pleased that I got seven people playing time. We started stool (weasel), bongman (spider), Lex the Imapler (warbird) and crazyman (weasel), then subbed in Jam-Z (warbird), CHARCUTRON (weasel) and ampheres (warbird). SFA's starters were Agent, Something Dutch, K2Grey and vt with Solar Hydro as their only sub (all in warbirds).

We started the stronger, we the more aggressive but we were never more than two kills ahead until bongman knocked out Solar Hyrdo for a 7-4 lead. The game was pretty disjointed as you'd expect from a pre-season match and a couple of our subs weren't as smooth as usual. But we never looked like we were going to lose the match at any point.

Not much else to say really. Typical early pre-season game, but good to start with a win. Here's all the stats from the match:

Full Match Stats
Box Score
Spec Log
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2
Our final pre-season game is this Sunday against Untarnished. I'll post here when I have a time confirmed. I'll try and get up scores from all the round 1 games sometime tomorrow.

posted by CelebPixx on Tuesday, March 08, 2005

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