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SURVIVOR NIGHT #4 - THE REPORT
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Another Survivor event, another collective display of contemptible selfishness, breathtaking ineptitude, staggeringly chicken-like headlessness... and Dirz. The old champions have been rousted from their cosy success nest and replaced by two brand new red victors; while the two hapless blue losers mumble imprecations and spam the admins' inboxes. It can only be Survivor!
If any of this has piqued your interest then please read on! And if not, feel free to sign up for the next one just to see what all the fuss is about
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>>> MATCH DEMOS <<<
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THE LOWDOWN
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Another successful event! Most people went home, if not happy, then at least slightly less unhappy than they usually are around here. Twnz was missing this time around, as was Stylefish, Riv, d1sc and a few others who showed up to the last one. XB had returned and was determined to get further than he had on his previous attempt or die failing; m1cr0 was similarly hungry for a better result than his mid-match exit in #3; and champion DJ was hatching all sorts of evil plans to win himself even more kudos
If there was one thing that organiser html needed to take care of it was even teams. This had been a problem in the previous event, with the reds winning practically every map, helped by the blues waving goodbye to many good fraggers too early. Twnz's absence would help rebalance the teams this time around and html did a great job of weighing blues against reds so that each team had roughly an equal chance. This was borne out by the fact that the reds were winning 5-4 by the time the 3v3 map was over
Man Of The Match must go to m1cro, the reds' best fragger by some distance, particularly late on in the match. It sounds unfair on Salva (but sodding isn't) to suggest that m1cr0 did probably at least about 75% of his team's fragging in the 2v2 rounds, letting Salva grab quite a lot of objectives just to make the poor noob feel better. Sphere was pretty certainly the only other candidate on the red team, and who knows what might have happened if he hadn't gotten voted off after the 4v4. Axl was brilliant in the first few rounds, but wasn't given the chance to make an impression on the later stages.
The blues had their own likely suspects: DJ is the obvious choice, working furiously alongside Fury to try to win just one map versus m1c and Salva, and winning the match's only permanent immunity almost as quickly as it was possible to do it XB was another excellent fragger on the blues, right up until he left; and Wakko was gone unreasonably early, through no fault of his own - up until then he had been doing about as well as anyone
One or two weird votes aside, the eliminations were not too confusing. Weak fraggers and objective non-getters were often the victims, and there was no-one in the 4v4 stages or onwards who did not deserve to be there. Each team did have its own style: the reds were almost all about fragging on attack and deffing very far back on defence, even from the first map, Gladiator][. They only had one person constantly willing to set launches: Sphere. The blues seemed far more selfish, hardly ever working together and only launching occasionally to try to win a second round. They had their own fraggers and even after DJ earned his permanent on Siege][ he still regularly came at or near the top of the defence score tables.
The match also had its controversies, but for those you'll have to read the map reports On the night the winners were the ones who won the win, the losers weren't, and Survivor now has two new champions!
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THE TEAMS / PLAYERS
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m1cr0 (46) - Champion
Salva (89) - Champion
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Dirz (22) - eliminated after 3v3
Sphere (01) - eliminated after 4v4
nightwing (25) - eliminated after 5v5
Mexanik (78) - eliminated after 6v6
Axl (24) - eliminated after 7v7
Timmah (02) - eliminated after 8v8
Pitbull (74) - eliminated after 9v9
Sleepy (07) - eliminated after 10v10
DJ (29) - Runner Up
Fury (42) - Runner Up
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XB (18) - eliminated after 3v3
Cyborg (76) - eliminated after 4v4
Phoboss (68) - eliminated after 5v5
Free (33) - eliminated after 6v6
Wakko (11) - eliminated after 7v7
Skalman (13) - eliminated after 8v8
NoMercy (54) - eliminated after 9v9
Gogless (47) - eliminated after 10v10
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How did they survive?
m1cr0: Up until the 5v5 m1cr0 fragged consistently well while being careful not to loom as too large a threat to anyone on his own team. The one time he did win an immunity (Siege) he voted out the main threat to himself, namely Axl. By the time the 5v5 came up he had cemented his place in his side and had some sort of alliance going with Salva. Whenever Salva didn't get the immunity m1cr0 could still bank on getting more points than the likes of nightwing and Mexanik, and really Dirz was his only threat, since m1c couldn't predict how someone so daft might vote. A mixture of fragpower and fortune.
Salva: He had the fragpower to stay well above the cluster of weaker players for the early rounds, and m1cr0 did himself and Salva a big favour by ditching Axl just in time. The clique of Salva, m1cr0, Sphere and Dirz lasted for a long time on frags, and the fact that Salva scored primarys in both the 4v4 and the 3v3 paved his way into the finals. Salva's clandestine (and apparently successful) attempt to sound out the identities of his teammates before the 2v2 hardly hurt his chances either. Nothing specifically prohibiting this is mentioned in the rules, so fair enough.
Dirz: God knows how this man got so far. He continuously took up defence positions which were no great distance from baffling, hardly geared towards letting him sear his way up the frag counts. His only (important) map immunity (Vampire) let him get rid of Mexanik where otherwise Dirz himself would have been instantly kicked, based on his pathetic 1 def frag. Should probably have been gone by the time Riverbed]|[AL came along, and yet he was only 2 frags away from being picked by Salva to go into the 2v2, secret conversations aside. GG to Dirz for getting so far with so little, that's the way the competition goes sometimes.
DJ: One word - permanent immunity. Unlike m1cr0 on red, DJ had no serious threats to his fragging after Siege was taken care of, since Wakko was unfortunate enough to get booted at that stage. Ironically, DJ proved he didn't even care about that, because Siege was the map where he landed on his +3 streak, having topped the tables on Golgotha and Bridge. Had one scary moment in Frigate when his Survival hung in the balance. Fury should have been leaning towards picking XB, based on the second round scores, yet DJ got the vote out of the blue and he was through to yet another final. He was always his team's best fragger and his performances in the 2v2 rounds should have won him more than nothing.
Fury: Like Dirz, there is no rational explanation as to why he got as far as he did. He did earn two primary immunities but there were mitigating circumstances for both: on Bridge he took a simple cave launch to win Charge 4; and in Frigate he was insanely lucky to take the Guns which DJ failed on, especially given that he had done nothing else in the round. He only really distinguished himself in the 2v2 rounds (in which he was great), and there were several moments where he could have been voted off. Survived by the skin of his teeth more than once, but in the end he did not look out of place in the final 4.
XB: Looks like he voted the wrong way on both his primary immunities, keeping "git" Fury in and booting some other poor sods out instead. Suffered all night long at the hands of fragho DJ, who constantly edged XB out on defence frags, right the way up to the 3v3 (particularly then in fact). Could never get his permanent defence streak going, again thanks to DJ, and was obviously being driven nuts for most of the match. It was no surprise that he ended up in the 3v3, but that he didn't go any further was a really big surprise. He could probably have done himself an enormous favour by teamkilling DJ at certain points, but either it didn't occur to him or he just couldn't find the time. Naja.
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SURVIVOR NIGHT #4 - THE REPORT
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Another Survivor event, another collective display of contemptible selfishness, breathtaking ineptitude, staggeringly chicken-like headlessness... and Dirz. The old champions have been rousted from their cosy success nest and replaced by two brand new red victors; while the two hapless blue losers mumble imprecations and spam the admins' inboxes. It can only be Survivor!
If any of this has piqued your interest then please read on! And if not, feel free to sign up for the next one just to see what all the fuss is about
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>>> MATCH DEMOS <<<
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THE LOWDOWN
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Another successful event! Most people went home, if not happy, then at least slightly less unhappy than they usually are around here. Twnz was missing this time around, as was Stylefish, Riv, d1sc and a few others who showed up to the last one. XB had returned and was determined to get further than he had on his previous attempt or die failing; m1cr0 was similarly hungry for a better result than his mid-match exit in #3; and champion DJ was hatching all sorts of evil plans to win himself even more kudos
If there was one thing that organiser html needed to take care of it was even teams. This had been a problem in the previous event, with the reds winning practically every map, helped by the blues waving goodbye to many good fraggers too early. Twnz's absence would help rebalance the teams this time around and html did a great job of weighing blues against reds so that each team had roughly an equal chance. This was borne out by the fact that the reds were winning 5-4 by the time the 3v3 map was over
Man Of The Match must go to m1cro, the reds' best fragger by some distance, particularly late on in the match. It sounds unfair on Salva (but sodding isn't) to suggest that m1cr0 did probably at least about 75% of his team's fragging in the 2v2 rounds, letting Salva grab quite a lot of objectives just to make the poor noob feel better. Sphere was pretty certainly the only other candidate on the red team, and who knows what might have happened if he hadn't gotten voted off after the 4v4. Axl was brilliant in the first few rounds, but wasn't given the chance to make an impression on the later stages.
The blues had their own likely suspects: DJ is the obvious choice, working furiously alongside Fury to try to win just one map versus m1c and Salva, and winning the match's only permanent immunity almost as quickly as it was possible to do it XB was another excellent fragger on the blues, right up until he left; and Wakko was gone unreasonably early, through no fault of his own - up until then he had been doing about as well as anyone
One or two weird votes aside, the eliminations were not too confusing. Weak fraggers and objective non-getters were often the victims, and there was no-one in the 4v4 stages or onwards who did not deserve to be there. Each team did have its own style: the reds were almost all about fragging on attack and deffing very far back on defence, even from the first map, Gladiator][. They only had one person constantly willing to set launches: Sphere. The blues seemed far more selfish, hardly ever working together and only launching occasionally to try to win a second round. They had their own fraggers and even after DJ earned his permanent on Siege][ he still regularly came at or near the top of the defence score tables.
The match also had its controversies, but for those you'll have to read the map reports On the night the winners were the ones who won the win, the losers weren't, and Survivor now has two new champions!
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THE TEAMS / PLAYERS
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m1cr0 (46) - Champion
Salva (89) - Champion
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Dirz (22) - eliminated after 3v3
Sphere (01) - eliminated after 4v4
nightwing (25) - eliminated after 5v5
Mexanik (78) - eliminated after 6v6
Axl (24) - eliminated after 7v7
Timmah (02) - eliminated after 8v8
Pitbull (74) - eliminated after 9v9
Sleepy (07) - eliminated after 10v10
DJ (29) - Runner Up
Fury (42) - Runner Up
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XB (18) - eliminated after 3v3
Cyborg (76) - eliminated after 4v4
Phoboss (68) - eliminated after 5v5
Free (33) - eliminated after 6v6
Wakko (11) - eliminated after 7v7
Skalman (13) - eliminated after 8v8
NoMercy (54) - eliminated after 9v9
Gogless (47) - eliminated after 10v10
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How did they survive?
m1cr0: Up until the 5v5 m1cr0 fragged consistently well while being careful not to loom as too large a threat to anyone on his own team. The one time he did win an immunity (Siege) he voted out the main threat to himself, namely Axl. By the time the 5v5 came up he had cemented his place in his side and had some sort of alliance going with Salva. Whenever Salva didn't get the immunity m1cr0 could still bank on getting more points than the likes of nightwing and Mexanik, and really Dirz was his only threat, since m1c couldn't predict how someone so daft might vote. A mixture of fragpower and fortune.
Salva: He had the fragpower to stay well above the cluster of weaker players for the early rounds, and m1cr0 did himself and Salva a big favour by ditching Axl just in time. The clique of Salva, m1cr0, Sphere and Dirz lasted for a long time on frags, and the fact that Salva scored primarys in both the 4v4 and the 3v3 paved his way into the finals. Salva's clandestine (and apparently successful) attempt to sound out the identities of his teammates before the 2v2 hardly hurt his chances either. Nothing specifically prohibiting this is mentioned in the rules, so fair enough.
Dirz: God knows how this man got so far. He continuously took up defence positions which were no great distance from baffling, hardly geared towards letting him sear his way up the frag counts. His only (important) map immunity (Vampire) let him get rid of Mexanik where otherwise Dirz himself would have been instantly kicked, based on his pathetic 1 def frag. Should probably have been gone by the time Riverbed]|[AL came along, and yet he was only 2 frags away from being picked by Salva to go into the 2v2, secret conversations aside. GG to Dirz for getting so far with so little, that's the way the competition goes sometimes.
DJ: One word - permanent immunity. Unlike m1cr0 on red, DJ had no serious threats to his fragging after Siege was taken care of, since Wakko was unfortunate enough to get booted at that stage. Ironically, DJ proved he didn't even care about that, because Siege was the map where he landed on his +3 streak, having topped the tables on Golgotha and Bridge. Had one scary moment in Frigate when his Survival hung in the balance. Fury should have been leaning towards picking XB, based on the second round scores, yet DJ got the vote out of the blue and he was through to yet another final. He was always his team's best fragger and his performances in the 2v2 rounds should have won him more than nothing.
Fury: Like Dirz, there is no rational explanation as to why he got as far as he did. He did earn two primary immunities but there were mitigating circumstances for both: on Bridge he took a simple cave launch to win Charge 4; and in Frigate he was insanely lucky to take the Guns which DJ failed on, especially given that he had done nothing else in the round. He only really distinguished himself in the 2v2 rounds (in which he was great), and there were several moments where he could have been voted off. Survived by the skin of his teeth more than once, but in the end he did not look out of place in the final 4.
XB: Looks like he voted the wrong way on both his primary immunities, keeping "git" Fury in and booting some other poor sods out instead. Suffered all night long at the hands of fragho DJ, who constantly edged XB out on defence frags, right the way up to the 3v3 (particularly then in fact). Could never get his permanent defence streak going, again thanks to DJ, and was obviously being driven nuts for most of the match. It was no surprise that he ended up in the 3v3, but that he didn't go any further was a really big surprise. He could probably have done himself an enormous favour by teamkilling DJ at certain points, but either it didn't occur to him or he just couldn't find the time. Naja.
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