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

We won our second game of the season on Sunday, beating Wretcheds 7-6 to put us back in the playoff picture. We used the same starting line as last week, although with a slightly different ship selection. They were Nick (weasel) Asinine (warbird), Lex (Warbird) and stool (warbird). Jeru (warbird) was our only sub. Wretcheds started Pretender (warbird, terrier), Forklift truck (terrier, warbird), deleterious (weasel) and Maeniel (warbird, weasel). Their only sub was psychobunny (warbird).

The game started out as expected; very slowly. Wretcheds are a very passive team and hard to break down. The opening minutes of the game were all about map position. Wretcheds were looking to take us into boxes and corners of the map so they could hide and lob, as well as use Forklift's terrier bullets off walls. Meanwhile we were looking to take the game to the centre of the map where there's very little obstacles so we could use our more aggressive style to push them back, burn them of specials and make the kills.

For the first twenty five minutes this is how the game was played. The score was 3-2 in Wretcheds favour, but both our kills were on the same slot which meant that psychobunny was playing with one life. This made Wretcheds even more passive, with psychobunny playing deep behind his three team-mates.

The problem with playing like that was that when we finally caught up with him he would be isolated. Which is exactly what happened at the 27 minute mark when Jeru (who had subbed in for stool two minutes earlier) took him out with an assist from Nick.

The game was effectively over from that point as Wretcheds just don't have the aggressive players to come back from 3v4 down. They continued to play run and gun and we were happy to wait until we got them in the centre of the map to open up on them. With 7 minutes to go we were 7-4 up and cruising to a win. This is where Wretcheds decided to abandon their passive style and rocket for kills. But it was too late and we ran out the clock. Wretcheds did get two kills to make it 7-6 with three minutes to go, but that just gave us more reps to keep them away and that was the final score.

The match MVP was Jeru, who went 3-0 with 1 KO and 1 forced rep. Credit should also go to Nick Rivers who went 2-2, with 3 assists and an awesome 10 forced reps. Here's all the stats and stuff from the match:

Full Match Stats
Box Score
Spec Log
Player Stats
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Next up is Anarchists. If we beat them we will go into the seeding rounds in the top eight and in a playoff spot. Just a reminder that the game has already been scheduled and we will be played next Sunday at 5pm EST (10pm GMT).

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