Survivor #4 - The Report...

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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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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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10v10: Gladiator][
Primary: Win
Secondary: Radio > Switch One > Ancient Warrior > Wall > Bridge

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NB: Sometimes the clock times noted are time elapsed, sometimes they are time remaining. Sorry if this is confusing, but it should be obvious which one I mean, depending on whether it's the first round or the second round.

ROUND 1 - RED ATTACK

Salva got off to a meaningless blinder, getting boinked onto the Bridge, courtesy of the selfless-if-a-bit-dim Sphere. He was immediately noobed by DJ and by that time the Bridge was packed with blues. Dirz and m1cr0 were trying all sorts of sneakage along the edge of the Bridge(S5), while Sleepy had only learned the map so far as to keep getting nudged into the water. Beginning a pattern that would last throughout the match, Sphere set up a hammer, aided and abetted by Salva, to send Mexanik along the cliff. Lone backman DJ caught him on the hill, although Mex took off most of DJ's health and all his armour (DJ can find armour anywhere ). No matter, because Timmah arrived shortly afterwards from the same launch and took the Wall(S4) after 1:49, right under the collective nostrils of Wakko, XB and Cyborg.

Sphere was quickest to the Sword only half a minute later, while both teams split up in both directions. The likes of Axl and Timmah were trying their hands at jumping into the arena from the ramp, although there was no permanent immunity to be had this time by twatting the Warrior. Free was climbing the frag table early and had obtained a solid lead, Pitbull being red's best fragger in addition to knowing the map, unlike some others on his team. With flashbacks of the last Survivor still ringing in his tiny brain, m1cr0 was the first to try climbing the side hill to drop to the Gate, although the Warrior had not yet been reached by anyone, thanks to the def leetage of Skalman, Free and Gogless. Fury would not leave m1cr0 alone and hopped onto the Gate roof to pistol whip the feigner and his 26hp; meanwhile Sphere was again setting hammers, this time into the arena, so that people like Dirz could land in front of the Warrior, completely miss him in a minuscule room with a spread of six rockets, and be forced to flak first NoMercy and then the Warrior(S3) in the face before his armour could disappear

Axl failed to impress even himself by climbing the hill, dropping down with 26hp and sprinting around the back of the defenders' hut Salva joined him seconds later and ran all the way around the back of the arena: lost, baffled or just Dutch, we'll never know. Blue dumbasses like Fury and NoMercy were trying to clean up inside the arena floor, getting themselves anywhere but high on the frag table for their troubles. Gogless and Phoboss were pushing down the hill with flak cannons, more sensibly, but Free and Skalman felt more content at the back, and so it was that Free was the one to introduce Dirz to his enforcer, just as the red player caught the Gate button after 4:15. Free's attempt to spawn camp came to nothing and the reds steamed up the inner ramps to the Barricade, while unpractised pillocks like NoMercy and Cyborg took years to suicide for the new spawn.

Dirz was first to the armour, although Mexanik had less luck going for the invisibility on the other side. Sphere was again setting a single hammer along the bridge, but this time he had no help to begin with and so m1cr0 could only get halfway across before landing in a sea of plasma. Next nightwing waited for the double hammer and dodged magnificently, landing on the side railing and hopping to the Bridge objective on 4:45. Cyborg, XB and Gogless had the sense to begin flak spamming the lower left door, while Sphere and Timmah attempted a sneak around the back, soon to discover that a hammerjump isn't good enough to get you up there Wakko, XB and Free were all hovering around the top of the frag count, on roughly 19 apiece, but Mexanik paid such things no mind, spotting a very fortunate break in the defence and running up to take Switch 1(S2) and 2 on the same run by the 5:51 mark.

Free wasted time by going for the sniper rifle and promptly getting minigunned before he could get started, and XB took the opportunity to snag another three kills. No amount of creeping could get the reds anywhere near the Radio, even with Sphere setting yet more hammaz, and most of the blues had the sense to push forward to the bottleneck and tear the reds down with mini bullets. Sleepy got off a hammerjump onto the first big box and tried to reach the Radio by running through the def spawn but this was obviously doomed to failure. The problems which would later plague Free in the 1v1 tourny were beginning to make themselves known here as he started to beam around the place, but his fellow backdeffers were holding the last of the secondary immunities well. That was until Axl found a space in between blue spawns and reached the Radio(S1) on 7:53 with little trouble

XB was way ahead of everyone else on blue by now and it would take a mammoth effort to dislodge him from the top of the table. Dirz and Salva were both as interested as each other in taking the Final objective: Dirz decided that boots were the answer, and a couple of jumps brought him to the side ledge of the temple, where he feigned to no purpose; with Sphere's help Salva meanwhile had reached the house roof and dodged to the temple stairs, meeting some more blue miniguns upon landing. On his next run he went a bit mad, heading way round to the right in a laughable attempt not to be seen approaching a chokepoint Not as mad as m1cr0, who by this time was behind the temple, perhaps thinking there was a secret tunnel or something. If anyone other than warping Free had been inside the temple Dirz might have had some trouble when he decided to unfeign and jink in, but Dirz finished the lone backdeffer off with 8hp remaining to him and took the Win(P) with 17:18 remaining. A promising attack on such a big map, but there had been nothing much wrong with the defence either.

ROUND 2 - BLUE ATTACK

Blue were less interested in launches than the reds had been, and poor ickle Wakz0r was left to get the Bridge(S5) all by his selflet. Cyborg would have had more chance of taking the Wall(S4) if he'd had better than low hp and no weapons; and Wakko getting creative by the catapult availed him nothing either. XB's sneakage > all when he chose his moment to go right and... get blown up. Fury was less pointless, finally getting there with hp to spare on 6:05. The reds were deffing much farther back than the blues had, but their lastman saves were better and the blues were refusing to launch. Which team would prevail? Who cares at this point.

It was lovely to see Free get twodged by the mortar, although so many blues were pouring up the hill towards the arena that we began to wonder if they knew the map. DJ got pinged over the arena wall and met Sphere's primary flak coming the other way at point blank range. Airshot, beeyatch! Fury meanwhile took the Sword to go with his Wall, and the launchers constantly flying into the arena were getting closer and closer to success, thanks to Free's launches. Free could afford to do this, round 2 or not, as he was nowhere near lowest fragger, Gogless, Nomercy and Cyborg struggling jointly in that particular relegation zone with a mere 2 each Sphere and Dirz had set up camp in the arena and DJ and Wakko working together was not even enough to kill that Warrior. Sphere resorted to taking hammer launches and doing headstomps on Skalman, so easy was the arena def finding it.

Gogless was now bottom fragger, still on 2, and wasting more time by heading for the Gate before the Warrior was even close to being damaged. More and more blues started having the same idea, perhaps hoping for an easy 10 points from the Gate, and so the red def reacted by mostly clearing out of the arena and watching the hill. Free had the good fortune to get over the wall and get a flak off in the direction of the Warrior(S3) with three and a half minutes to go. The top frag spot was currently m1cr0's, but there was still plenty of spammage to go, and lots of points to be had from saves around the Gate. The list of blue zeroes noobed bang on the Gate switch included Axl, Fury, Wakko, XB, DJ, Skalman, Wakko (again), DJ (again), Phoboss, Fury (again), NoMercy... on and on it went, most of those kills riding on the bullets from m1cr0's enforcer, which had by now taken him to 28 kills, nearly double anyone else's. Two and something minutes to go!

For some reason nightwing set a hammer for Mexanik, trying to boink him onto the Gate roof. Not pointless for Mexanik, who was very very close to lowest fragger with a paltry 9, two above Sleepy. With 1:39 to go DJ eventually got to the Gate, taking his points to an Olympian 8 (-2 frags gg). Mortar ftw, DJ The Gate was no immunity, though, and so Switch One suddenly became all important to everyone on the blue team, including current voter, Free. Barricade and Bridge still had to be sorted out, however, and Sphere wasn't helping them by nicking their invisibility. No launches were forthcoming and it was a simple case of minigun charge versus plasma charge. No-one was topping m1cr0's still climbing frag count and with 30 seconds to go there was no longer any point in either team doing anything. Free's vote was safe, m1cr0 had completed one third of a possible permanent immunity, and Pitbull was now crapping himself on lowest 10 def frags...

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RED IMMUNITY: Dirz (P)
TOP DEF FRAGS: m1cr0 (33)
ELIMINATED: Sleepy
Fair?: More frags than Mexanik or nightwing in round 1, and 1 more frag than Pitbull in round 2. Not a stellar performance, but you would have expected Pitbull to say goodbye at this point.

BLUE IMMUNITY: Free (S2)
TOP DEF FRAGS: XB (37)
ELIMINATED: Gogless
Fair?: Totally. Lowest frags on both rounds, no objectives, may not have known the map properly.

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9v9: GolgothaAL
Primary: Win
Secondary: Dungeon > Hurons Path > Undead > Hurons Temple
Permanent: Obtain 6 or more objectives

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ROUND 1 - RED ATTACK

Wakko and DJ started duking it out on the cliff for snipe kills and the reds decided against any backlaunching shenaniganarianisms. Mexanik took the Temple(S4) after a couple of runs, and the blues packed mostly inside to get in some ripperage. DJ led the way by picking up all the ammo in the world, but NoMercy on the cliff was keeping up with him nicely with only a sniper Timmah's dodge launch for Axl was worthless and just wasted time for everyone involved. Tim's next dodge launch was more successful for Mexanik, which proves that Axl's dodging is suspect, something I always knew to be true Of course Mexanik immediately died. The man who took the Undead(S3) was eventually m1cr0 on 1:58, although it was Axl's and Dirz's minigunning which had cleared most of the way for him.

Only seconds later the selfless Sphere put up another launch, this time a hefty door launch, to send Mexanik upwards with his own rockets. This earned Mex Hurons(S2) with no preamble, way before the blues could sort themselves out in decent def positions. Still tingling from his Undead win, m1cr0 was more than happy to take a box launch to the Siege tower, only to explode in the doorway from a bunch of rox belonging to Cyborg. Sphere was meanwhile setting running launches for the likes of Mexanik, and he and Timmah both flew around a lot with not much of a result. Finally m1cr0 got up the ramp, dodged off again brilliantly, then tried again to take it around the 8:37 point.

DJ's right tower sniping had still not managed to take him about Cyborg's top 18 frags, but he stayed there to watch the Dungeons attacks. Pitbull was unnoticed by DJ and everyone else when he dodged down to the right, until he met Cyborg, who was already standing on the low roof waiting for him. Cyborg criminally let Pitbull try to BT along the ledges, and Pitbull even more criminally fucked this up and fell down, although he compensated by grabbing Dungeons(S1) on his first run. He, Salva and Axl were all encamped at the Attackers entrance, just waiting for it to open with no resistance from the failing blues.

The primary was still up for grabs and Golg's final is down to luck, not skill. Everyone was interested and even Sphere was no longer setting launches for his teammates. Cyborg had fucked up his def frags with that whole Pitbull thing, letting DJ creep above him with some fine sniper work, and now DJ was busy spamming the left bridge while Cyb was working on falling off the right one. Mexanik and Salva both pushed past DJ's spam to nearly get shots off on the Heart, but both failed unbelievably, Salva in particular certain his minigun had scored it. Pitbull squeezed through amid the confusion and fired! Nope, Heart(P) stolen by nightwing on the opposite bridge after 4:29

ROUND 2 - BLUE ATTACK

Once Skalman had returned from the longest bathroom break in the world and clicked, the blues were off the blocks and heading for the Temple. Snipe-hos Axl, m1c and Salva had all taken up positions on the right tower, Axl seeing all his kills stolen by the other two. And yet not one of them took the perfect opportunity to teamkill! DJ quickly had Temple(S4) and Doors under control, although he was taken down as the doors opened, allowing XB to take the easiest Undead(S3) possible (with full hp) on 4:01.

Half the red team stayed outside low to mop up, while Sphere decided to sit on the right tower (0 pts btw), waiting to spot outside launches. Timmah and nightwing were just as dumb, sniping off the cliff I mean why? Most of the reds had the right idea, however, either spamming the bridge, sniping off it, or pushing down the stairs against waves of Myms. The Mym who got closest first was the until-now quiet Wakko, taken down right in the door by nightwing's point blank headshot Too late, though, Wak only just managed to sneak Hurons(S2) on the line by 3:33, DJ close on his heels.

As they had from the start of the round, Salva and m1c were fighting over the top def spot, having long ago left Axl way behind. Salva was trying his hand at sniping from the tower, while m1c was risking life and limb down by the healthpacks. Phoboss and NoMercy were happy to try to set rocket launches for their team but success was something other than theirs as DJ was getting sent in all directions as a result. Timmah was by now choosing to defend the back cliff with rockets and there were several red players on a severely low 2 frags. Cyborg nudged into Siege with 2:33 remaining, leaving DJ in the dust.

Sphere chose not to suicide after this, instead running up the Siege tower behind the attackers, hoping for some lucky hammer kills. DJ was busy taking a running launch to the Dungeons and was nearly around the low corner before Axl caught him with a brilliant midair snipe kill from the left tower Such shots were taking Axl out of the low frags danger zone, although he was nowhere near Salva's enormous 17. XB took the Dungeon with next to no hp under the noses of the low reds and their spammage, although a series of blue deaths left Phoboss confused and alone at the Attackers, which he gladly took on 1:51.

A blue win was on the cards, and Salva's def lead was unassailable by anyone other than m1cr0, who had more to gain, what with his pwnage in the previous map. Axl pulled off a nicely-timed flak shot on Fury, who couldn't believe it when his hammerjump and mini shot failed to off the Heart(P). That honour went to Free who appeared seconds later on the right bridge, making a mockery of Pitbull's, Axl's and Timmah's lastmannage. A 2:56 win.

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RED IMMUNITY: nightwing (P)
TOP DEF FRAGS: Salva (17)
ELIMINATED: Pitbull
Fair?: Not many frags on either round, although Timmah was lower in round 2 and could count himself very lucky. Things could have been different for Pitbull if only those mini shots had connected on the Heart in round 1

BLUE IMMUNITY: Free (P)
TOP DEF FRAGS: DJ (25)
ELIMINATED: NoMercy
Fair?: 15 def kills in round 1 wasn't bad at all, but Free (who really again did nothing in round 2) just looked at the bottom of the pile - NoMercy had 2 kills, he was gone

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8v8: Bridge
Primary: Charge 4
Secondary: Final Assault > Secondary Assault > Main Gate

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ROUND 1 - BLUE ATTACK

Phoboss and Free got high spawns, like most people, and tried to set a double under the bridge. The invaluable sniper nest spot had been claimed by m1cr0, determined to have a go at that permanent, and all the other reds had found rifles and were firing at the blues from all directions. Except, that is, the water, allowing low spawning XB to swim up with the belt and reach Base and Second(S2) within 30 seconds of the start, negating Cyborg's Gate(S3). Only two immunities remaining!

While most of the blues pushed low, and most of the reds packed in there for cheap kills, Fury was lucky enough to respawn in the cave just before XB took Second. It was this which allowed him to take armour and Cyborg's lubly cave launch and lurch to Charge 4(P) on 15:10. Then followed a prolonged period of Fury pwnage, when he took Mexanik and Timmah (twice) around the other charges. Red bridge deffers were falling to his might and he was able to take the three remaining charges before Salva finally offed him with a pott

DJ had meanwhile found the Final(S1) from low and it was up to the reds to decide amongst themselves who would top the frag table. Work was needed if m1cr0 was to continue what he had started in Gladiator][ and sniping from the back was getting him nowhere. He thus followed the lead of all the other clever people on his team - not Dirz then - by pushing forward to spam the ramp. Dirz's beach sniping was for nothing when Free grabbed belt and boots and used Wakko's sniper tower launch to land all lovely on the button on 2:26, taking him to 110 points and thereby indicating that he had done nothing else for the whole round Never mind, the vote was Fury's anyway. And Axl had managed to snag himself the def count with 13, more than double m1cr0's. Start again, m1c!

ROUND 2 - RED ATTACK

With such a short time in which to attack, the only feasible objectives were the Main Gate and perhaps Second. Dirz got off the necessary shots to take the Gate(S3), passing Sphere's single hammer under the bridge. Realising that no-one was interested, Sphere hammered low with the cave armour, getting inside the Base and hovering near the button while the rest of his team tried to catch up. He secured Second(S2) for himself when m1cr0 arrived shortly afterwards, a nice strategy of time wasting for selfish reasons. That's how to Survive!

With Final surely out of the picture, only one question remained to be answered: who would claim top frag spot on the blue team? No-one using the Upper Base door tele anyway, since Salva and Dirz both camped it with hammers for a little mini competition There was another question: would anyone on red hate Sphere enough to take a launch to the Charges? The answer to that was Yes I believe it was Mexanik who eventually sent Salva up and with 0:28 remaining Salva had all four in the bag, including the all important Charge 4(P). Everything else was now irrelevant except points being added to the table. The lowest reds needed cheap objectives like Bridge or Final (or even the Detonator); the lowest blues needed to get in some quick spam. Salva took another launch with a belt but got shot several times in the air by Fury, who saved it for a blue win.

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BLUE IMMUNITY: Fury (P)
TOP DEF FRAGS: DJ (18) (+2)
ELIMINATED: Skalman
Fair?: Pretty random, Skal was low to middle on both rounds and got two more frags than no-longer-needing-to-try Fury in the second round.

RED IMMUNITY: Salva (P)
TOP DEF FRAGS: Axl (13)
ELIMINATED: Timmah
Fair?: Unusually, Salva had paid attention to his team's round 1 score, in which Timmah came lowest with only 5. This was what killed off Tim's participation in the tourny, because his round 2 score was 2 points above Axl's and nightwing's 2 each. So yes, fair.

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7v7: Siege][
Primary: Hidden! (Second Tower Doors)
Secondary: N/A

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ROUND 1 - BLUE ATTACK

The first thing XB did was what I always do in pugs - dodge into the water (helps if you're on the blue team). Free was first along the bridge, only to run into right-idea-having Salva, determined to get in some front spam while he still could. Cyborg joined XB in the water, while DJ ran bridgewards with the belt (quelle surprise). I was hoping to see some intelligent front def from both teams in this map, since in Survivor it makes absolutely no sense to camp on the roof. It's not a pug! Continuing his tradition of never letting me down in any matter regarding stupid, Dirz made his way to the roof even before the Gatehouse was gone Someone kill him for god's sake.

DJ and XB both arrived at the lift from different directions at the same time, XB getting there first and hammering up to the Main Tower Doors. Dirz shocked him beautifully from the tower roof just as XB took the obj, and XB surely thought he had claimed the Primary immunity. Wrong-o! Axl and m1c were once again at odds on defence, staying behind around the gate to kill off any blues still running along the bridge, and ending up as the only reds getting any meaningful kills as a result.

With the immunities hidden it behooved the blues to take any free objectives going. Tnega and Gate had been taken already by Phoboss and Free respectively, but the important one turned out to be the oft-overlooked Second Tower Doors(P), and the man on the scene was Cyborg on 9:09. He then snagged the irrelevant Gatehouse straight afterwards, Dirz again pulling off a miracle shock from the roof just a m1cr0second too late - it was also too late for Fury, who was at that moment flying through the air from a barrels launch. Speaking of m1cr0, he was again clambering up the table by camping above the gate, scoring lots of bridge kills, thanks to Cyb taking so long to score the Gatehouse.

Sphere and Dirz, the sentinels of stupidity, were now entrenched on the roof and seeing very few low runners to score from. They seemed to be relying on the blues setting rocket launches from the popular spots, but who would be so stupid as to set a launch for a teammate and flush away a valuable point? Fury, of course! He waited around to dark launch Phoboss, while inside the tower DJ and Free were trying their luck up the vacated tower ramps, having bypassed Salva's lame telecamping That went nowhere and Fury's launch had since failed to send Phobos anywhere near the roof button. DJ and Free again teamed up after Free discovered a lovely belt, and DJ surprisingly darked Free, with XB watching from the sidelines. Free was doing fine until Dirz and Sphere combined some combos to blast him clear of the button and back to earth.

By now Salva was on the roof, sensing an opportunity for some fwagz! He got to see XB dark DJ only seconds after Free had been waved goodbye to, but DJ didn't have a belt to work with and he was dead before he even landed. It proves my point when I say that all three roof deffers - Salva, Dirz, Sphere - were among the four lowest fraggers on red, and points mean prizes in this game! Cyborg meanwhile set the worst water launch in the world for warping Free, and more and more blues were trying to push through the tower just to finish the round off. Sphere found himself alone on the roof, thanks to lots of blue pushes and ill-timed red deaths. DJ was sure he had it when he reached the roof for a 1v1, but Sphere's rippers immediately took his head off. Who was behind him to capitalise? No-one. Phoboss got pissed off and decided to launch Free, with another belt, from the dark spot and onto the button - quite literally beamed up - on 5:30, Sphere, Dirz and nightwing this time failing to d0ng him off the edge. And Axl had only just managed to squeeze above m1cr0's 20 def kills by one point.

ROUND 2 - RED ATTACK

Surely, with round 1 out of the way and Wakko still posted missing, the blues could all relax? Cyborg's vote was pre-determined as long as Wakko was still afk, so round 2 would be over in a flash, unless any blues felt like having a crack at the def frags perm. DJ was one decent round away from his coveted permanent, and even if Wak had been playing it would be too late by the end of the round for Cyborg to spend his vote on DJ. But he would need to find a good position first...

Salva took Tnega, belt and a dodge into the water to start with, thereby avoiding DJ's bridge rocket spam. Free was mad enough to go to the roof - madder with his ping - but everyone else just started hitting each other low. Salva wasted some of his belt on a backhammer to the Gatehouse, having arrived from the water tele, only to see Axl pilfer it from under his nose, but of course neither knew that Second Tower Doors was the important objective. The empty server slot had been filled by html and so the reds could have been smart and flocked to his def position, since html was the only man on the server who knew where the primary was. Salva wandered right past Second Tower, leaving m1cr0 to backhammer from above the gate and bunnyhop into html's shock spam, his bacon saved by Dirz, who dropped html with a minigun just as m1cr0 landed on the Second Tower(P) on 3:43.

With only one objective remaining, nightwing tried to dark Dirz but it failed badly, sending Dirz into the water and sparing idiot roof deffers Phoboss and Free the indignity of having to pott him Dirz landed in the moat and called nightwing a bad word The blues further cemented their idiocy when Salva sprinted all the way up the tower, past precisely hardly any inside deffers, and just ran directly onto the button while the two blues looked on Meaningless to winnar m1cr0, but Salva enjoyed it. DJ had his own victory to enjoy - four maps in and he had won himself a ticket to the 3v3

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BLUE IMMUNITY: Cyborg (P)
TOP DEF FRAGS: DJ (10) (+3 = Permanent Immunity)
ELIMINATED: Wakko
Fair?: Nope, totally unfair. Some problem with skins or textures prevented Wak from joining the map in either round, thus all the other blues players were safe from elimination, including perm-approaching DJ. Good news for them, bad news for Wak Also sucked for Cyb, who didn't really get to choose whom to eliminate.

RED IMMUNITY: m1cr0 (P)
TOP DEF FRAGS: Axl (21) (+2)
ELIMINATED: Axl
Fair?: Axl had somehow repeatedly smeared m1cr0's fragcounts in the dirt on both this map and the previous one, and had so far been one of the best defenders in the match. He could pose problems for m1cr0 later in the tourny and so m1c ditched his main threat.

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6v6: Vampire
Primary: Win
Secondary: Switch > Barricade

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ROUND 1 - RED ATTACK

The blues all pushed forward to the Barricade(S2) (taken by Sphere) from the start, deciding correctly that there was little to be gained by camping down at the Water Wheel. It was this vacancy which would allow the first person to reach the tunnel to take a nice ten points, and this person was m1cr0, reaching the Wheel on 9:22, thank you very much. But everyone still wanted that tantalising win for the immunity, and the blue def were still mostly dumb enough to fall back to the Switch, DJ and XB the only ones with the sense to push forward to the Barricade. They weren't getting much bang for their buck, however, and it was middleman Free who was top of the fragcount

Having not bothered to practise the map, neither attackers nor defenders were going for the incredibly useful belt and armour, and so Dirz and Sphere (are they a meta-team or what?) minied their way to the Switch together from the right. Sphere made the mistake of continuing to shoot at his pursuers, while Dirz turned and grabbed the Switch(S1) off him on 8:32. A quick push to the Doors allowed Salva to win it with little in the way of interesting eventuation, but the win was what counted.

DJ could relax for this map and the following two, and the only defender who couldn't sit back and let the points fall where they may was the one on the bottom of the table, and at this point that spot was hovering between Phoboss and Cyborg Neither dared to push forward and m1c and Sphere both came agonisingly close to clinching the win. The final say on the Chain(P) went to Dirz, who turned up unlooked for after 2:25. Free had topped the frag table with 12 points; by contrast Phoboss had lost the blue frags battle with a mere 5 and must have been hoping that second round syndrome would kick in to save him.

ROUND 2 - BLUE ATTACK

This was the last map in which anyone could take another stab at the def frags immunity - after this one it would cease to matter. Free now needed to come top in the next two maps for his permanent, and someone else had to kickstart their own streak on red, now that Axl was gone.

Fury got the last shot on the Barricade(S2) and raced Cyborg to the Water Wheel. Most of the blues were heading for the Switch even before the Wheel was gone, which we see people doing all the time in this map Not Cyborg, though - he brilliantly feigned death beside the belt rock, failing to realise that this would get him absolutely nothing. It was nightwing on red who had the most sense, pushing well forward all the time and therefore getting plenty of up front kills, putting him safely above everyone else. XB tried to set a running launch for Fury, realising too late that Fury does not move like a normal person. Cyborg and DJ eventually spotted a break in the backdef and DJ pummelled his way to the Switch(S1) with just over a minute on the timer. The last thing he needed was another immunity, so someone else really needed to take the Chain ftw.

Phoboss did exactly what I hoped someone would do - kept his rockets, ran down the right ramp and Balli-Genned the Door from far far away on 0:39, while everyone else bungled around with their pulse rifles, doing just enough damage to the reds to allow Fury a plasma MONSTERKILL The win was still available for the blues' vote and it didn't take long for XB to run backwards up the side tunnel and kill the Chain on 0:21, m1cr0 failing to kill him off all the way. Salva had managed to sneak up the score table with 9 frags. Could this be the beginning of another permanent immunity?

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RED IMMUNITY: Dirz (P)
TOP DEF FRAGS: Salva (9)
ELIMINATED: Mexanik
Fair?: Mmmye, last and second last over both rounds, lowest total points.

BLUE IMMUNITY: XB (P)
TOP DEF FRAGS: Free (12)
ELIMINATED: Free
Fair?: Top fragger on def he may have been, but he didn't keep an eye on his round 2 score and came joint lowest with 2 points. Could just as easily have been Cyborg, except his number got placed higher than Free's on the table. Darn the luck!

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5v5: TheDungeon]|[AL
Primary: Win
Secondary: Falls > Lake

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ROUND 1 - BLUE ATTACK

1:23 was probably the longest Lake defence I have ever seen in any competition, the reds combining really well to hold off the blues who were incoming from all directions. Surprisingly, no-one on red took up the one position guaranteed to rack them up the frags - the flak ledge - but what few the others let through were mopped up by Dirz's leet backmanisation Finally m1cr0 dodged from high to the Lake(S2) after spotting the other four reds pushing a bit too far forward, and he owned Dirz in the face with a well-timed primary shock. XB picked up the armour and prepared to go high, but m1cr0 had already reached the front end of the bridge and sent him into the lava, wasting 100 armour He ended up in the same patch of lava on his next run and then pushed low, but the shock campers were all over anyone who dared approach. Phoboss held back with rockets and waited for a likely candidate. The only one stupid enough was Cyborg who got predictably sent several miles directly upwards and not fantastically far forwards It was high time for XB to start coming good in this match, his contribution to the immunities thus far had been thin, and so he managed after four or five runs to grab the boots and pads, swivel his hips, and jink past last man nightwing to snare the Falls(S1) with the help of the boots, 6:34 remaining. Still a great defence from the reds, although not from M.V.P. Salva, who was struggling

XB made it all the way to the Skull Lock on the same run before he died, taking the low armour en route, but he couldn't quite get all the way there before getting taken down by a frantic red backdef. He was the catalyst for Phoboss killing the Skull Lock off on 5:48, pulling several defenders out of position so that Phobbles could shove Cyborg out of the way and claim some points. DJ was first through the open doors but he failed his hammer to the shock, getting twatted upon landing. A few more pushes and XB found himself running up the tunnel and being confronted by elite backmen Sphere and m1cr0, the latter managing to catch XB midair with a great sniper save As he had in Bridge and Vampire, Fury again went a bit mad, tearing the last standers down with his mini before he got offed in good time. And Dirz Leo'd off the floor - yep, I saw it, Dirz

Salva was literally the only red willing to push forward - he needed the kills for that perm - and he was making headway, eating up the space between his 18 and m1cr0's top 22. But too many blues were getting past Salva's front def and reaching the final stairs, every one of them getting popped right on the final stairs in quick succession, boots and armour or not. Every time Salva got a kill m1cr0 seemed to get one too, and Sphere wasn't doing Salva any favours by making constant saves on the last stairs. Anonymity was all very well but it was by now obvious to the blue team that red had five fraggers on their team, with little to separate them on the frag table. Any eliminations from now on would be a big loss.

With one minute and thirty seconds to go Salva was on 28 and m1c on 29 - Salva needed to either spam or teamkill for his +2 streak Being a hermaphrodite of honour, he chose option A, and so he was posted missing at the back when XB turned up six seconds later with boots and armour, jumping madly onto the stairs and happy to be launched into the Escape(P) by the rockets of Sphere. Neither of the top red players' scores had changed in those six seconds and there went the last possibility of another permanent immunity Dirz had reason to worry, though, he was last on a still respectable 22. This shows you how total the reds' teamwork and fragging ability was in this round. Also, Fury was last on blue with 25 (one objective, 15 kills) - more on this later.

ROUND 2 - RED ATTACK

Balanced though the teams had been at the start of the match, a vague imbalance had somehow crept into the match by this point, clearly in the reds' favour. The blues could not be expected to hold this lot off for nearly nine minutes, and so the only thing on their collective mind was the old "Don't Be Last In Round 2" rule With no dedicated backman it only took Dirz until 7:35 to reach the Lake(S2). The armour was grabbed by respawning m1cr0 and he led a massed charge high. Sphere got in front of him to run at the Falls, but m1c stayed back to take Dirz's hammer launch. The blues went after m1cr0, leaving Sphere to jink through the Falls(S1) on 7:02.

The first red push on Skull came to nothing, and the blues' hold on that objective was at least a bit more impressive than that of the reds. But the front deffing blues were falling like medium-sized cakes that fall quite often, and three reds charged high at once, too much for the backdef. The until-now very quiet nightwing took the Skull down, even as m1cr0 tried to steal it off him, rather than maybe covering his teammate On the blue team Fury had been last in the previous round and he was bloody well last again in this one, noobing about on a microscopic 5. Trubl? He haz it He at least had the sense to push forward to spam the low stairs at the end; Phoboss had no similar grasp of cleverness born of desperation, instead camping at the back. He needed DJ's help to take down sneaky Salva on his first run, although Sphere was there directly afterwards through the spawn with his boots and armour to finish off the Escape(P) after only 3:03.

Fury had managed to add four more points to his defence tally between Skull and Escape, and thus it was that Phoboss was slightly last with 6. XB had evidently considered dropping Fury for his attack failage, but opted for Phoboss instead, hoping that the Fur monster would bear such charity in mind come future rounds...

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BLUE IMMUNITY: XB (P)
TOP DEF FRAGS: DJ (12)
ELIMINATED: Phoboss
Fair?: Middle of the road attacker and only-just-last type of defender. Unfair perhaps, but anyone else would been even unfairer.

RED IMMUNITY: Sphere (P)
TOP DEF FRAGS: m1cr0 (29)
ELIMINATED: nightwing
Fair?: Definitely not if you ask me, nightwing was easily holding his own amidst such fraghos as Salva, Sphere, Dirz and m1cr0, and over the two rounds it could be argued that Dirz was less impressive. I have no clue to why Sphere picked nightwing

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4v4: Riverbed]|[AL
Primary: Charge
Secondary: Tunnels > Compressor > Outpost

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ROUND 1 - RED ATTACK

The blues needed a decent hold on this map to get their mojos back, so they could be forgiven for wetting themselves a little when Sphere, having long since deciding to stop all the launching, took less than 20 seconds to take Outpost(S3) and Compressor(S2), unseen by any blue weedy blind newblets :cool: His brilliant run continued as the wall came down, and he was through past the def spawn and 1cm from the Tunnels, only to catch XB's quickdraw minigun in the back of the head. Unbelievable save, Sphere not helped by having caught the door surround

The fragging strength of the reds was pushing the blues farther and farther back, although the blues had a healthily equal quota of points, each on 4 or 5. Wave after wave of red attacks came to nothing, notably when Salva hammered to the def spawn roof and dodged into the Tunnel mouth, only for DJ to pull off a last second headshot save to keep it alive As soon as that happened the other three reds appeared at the box at exactly the same moment and together pulled off a brilliant quadruple clearance, Sphere headshotting XB and m1cr0 getting the other three for an astonishing group ultrakill - be sure to check out the video of that one One of the coolest moments of the entire match imo The Tunnels(S1) were deservedly m1cr0's a second later, at 8:39.

The first red push through the Cavern Passage was met with a wall of blue and Fury and Cyborg were forced to push forward to try to make up ground on top fraggers DJ and XB. It was Cyborg who criminally let Dirz slip through the high route for a dodge onto the Charge, or so Dirz thought until DJ pulled off another miracle air headshot to save for the second time within forty seconds. Salva and Sphere quickly came low, with the entire blue team chasing them, and Sphere's attack on the obj was useless as he got boomed within millimetres of it, leaving Salva to appear from behind the pile of boxes and claim what Sphere couldn't. The Charge(P) and thus the immunity were his on 7:50 - lucky for him because until then he had been the most likely red to be voted off - and the blues had one more chance to sort out their defensive pecking order

XB stayed behind the spawn to watch m1cr0 going for the high route, but decided there was little to be gained by chasing him or probably even warning his teammates. The blues all stayed low to tot up the kills and so it was that m1cr0 dropped from the bridge and ran down the high tunnel to finish the round on the 3:43 mark, his rocket cluster flying straight past backman Fury's face. A rubbish round by Salva but the immunity was all he cared about; meanwhile Cyborg was bottom of the def score table by one measly point on 11.

ROUND 2 - BLUE ATTACK

The reds' hold on the Compressor area was much more noteworthy, and even Salva was firing on all cylinders, even though he had no need. After a few abortive attempts by all four blues, Fury was the man who finally grabbed the rockets and dodged to the bunker, taking the Compressor(S2) down on 2:28 amid a shower of sniper shots, negating XB's Outpost(S3) immunity. Fury was the victim of another midair sniper save by m1cr0 only moments later, saving the Tunnels for at least a while longer.

DJ waited until all four cocky reds had pushed way forwards of the Tunnels(S1) and then materialised from the sniper hangar to just walk over to it on 1:35, heading down alone to the Cavern Passage. With those open the blues trundled inside, and Dirz did his lowest def spot no favours when he blew both himself and XB up with rockets in the right tunnel. Salva and m1cr0 were comfortably on top, with Sphere hovering around the middle, and Salva made a low save on one blue, only to be taken down by the one behind him, whose name was Fury. The blue player's way to the Charge was clear... or not. He couldn't believe his luck upon finding both Dirz and m1cr0 practically sitting on the objective, and the two reds combined to introduce Fury to the inner workings of his own kidneys.

The scene of the crime was deserted by m1cr0 and tenting Dirz was left alone on the Charge. XB came high and was totally ignored by Sphere, who surely spotted him. XB dodged onto the Charge(P) with 4hp left to him, securing the immunity he had so craved That one was on 0:46 and Cyborg, the only blue player to so far fail to claim any objectives, had a rather large problem. The win no longer mattered to anyone really, and the one important thing was the reds' defence scores. With Sphere on 11 and insane backman Dirz on a lowly 8, Sphere was all ready to wave Dirz off and settle down for some 3v3 action. And then Salva pounced!

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RED IMMUNITY: Salva (P)
TOP DEF FRAGS: m1cr0 (18)
ELIMINATED: Sphere
Fair?: Up to this point, if I had wanted to pick a red man of the match it would have been Sphere. He got objectives when he needed to, set way more launches (all of which worked) for his team than any other player on either team, fragged like a demon on attack and defense... Almost a perfect record, brought to a shuddering halt by the arbitrary brain patterns of someone from the Netherlands. That's Survivor for you

BLUE IMMUNITY: XB (P)
TOP DEF FRAGS: DJ (16)
ELIMINATED: Cyborg
Fair?: Firmly last in both rounds. DJ was safe anyway and XB had to choose between Fury and Cyb. Points are critical at this stage if you have no immunity, and last place is the obvious pick. Fury had again narrowly avoided being voted off by XB

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3v3: Frigate
Primary: Win
Secondary: Hydraulic Compressor > Ship Entered

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ROUND 1 - RED ATTACK

All three reds chose different ways to fail: Salva's hammer to the back deck went nowhere; Dirz wasted the armour trying to bunnyhop to the Ship and failing; and m1cr0 got shot off the pier and into the water, resorting to a brief swim to the underwater entrance. Fury caught him before he could cause any mischief, and DJ continued to own Salva on the deck. Dirz picked up the armour for the second time and finally managed to score the Ship(S2) on 5:03, meeting Fury's flak with his nostrils. The next armour was m1cr0's but he met XB coming the other way on the gangplank. He ducked inside and hid in the corner of the door, waiting for XB to follow. He did, and m1c blew them both up.

Salva was meanwhile being true to himself - in other words he kept noobishly hammering to the back deck or sniping DJ in the head from the spawn, doing nothing much of anything much of much else. He tired of this and camped on the armour, waiting with Dirz for a door launch. Endlessly pushing XB tried to put a stop to that by entering the spawn room and pistolling the unmoving Dirz to death - this was incidentally XB's first kill (nearly two minutes gone!) and he had work to do - but Dirz respawned right on top of his own corpse and together he and Salva got off the door launch they needed, albeit Salva had no ripper.

Fury had spotted him, however: he hammered to the roof with a belt and so began an epic 1v1 battle between Fury's mini and Salva's rockets Fury came out on top and Salva was back to square one. Meanwhile m1cr0 had taken advantage of the confusion and taken down the Compressor(S1) on 3:42, much to Salva's frustration - an easy win had been lost to him. Dirz tried a backhammer with belt from the guns, failed it, headed up the inner stairs and met XB's flak heading in the opposite direction The blue player was going nuts trying to score kills - after three and a half minutes his total had reached only 2, well behind Fury's or DJ's, in spite of being his team's most aggressive defender. Time after time red players were charging up the last set of stairs and yet somehow XB, camping near the pads, was missing them

Salva put an end to the misery by taking the Guns(P) from low after 3:53, when Fury chose exactly the wrong moment to wander through the high door to check on launches. Some interesting scores for this round, check them out

ROUND 2 - BLUE ATTACK

After such a totally inept red attack surely the immunity to be won here was the Guns. The blues realised this and were off the mark quickly. Dirz again chose the weirdest available option by trying to fill a space which didn't need filling, grabbing the belt and hammering to the ship roof Way to avoid frags, Dirz XB thus found it easier to run into the Ship(S2) and hop along the main route to the Compressor, chased all the way by Salva's enforcers. XB was down to 25hp - just one more shot, Salva! - when he dodged gratefully onto the keg, and his shockage was enough to pull down the Comp(S1) on 3:24.

Salva had used up the last of his ammo and could only swipe at XB ineffectually with his hammer as XB jumped up past the inner stairs with his own hammer. He thought he had it as the doors opened for him, but m1cr0 was right behind him on the stairs and he tucked XB in with some flak work XB was now relying on either himself getting the Guns or everyone else failing to get it. This looked plausible when you consider that DJ and Fury were still both on 0 points each, but less so when you looked at all that time left on the clock.

He respawned and hung around by the armour, hoping for a miracle, but DJ and Fury had not been idle. The armour was already strapped to DJ, who was busy hammering to the roof. He and Fury, running from low, arrived in the final room at the exact same moment. DJ died, Fury lived, effectively filching the Guns(P) from under the noses of his teammates.

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The 2v2 Draft

With blue winning the map and with DJ's permanent immunity now invalid, Fury was faced with a choice of either XB (22 pts and twice Fury's indirect benefactor in previous rounds ), DJ (0 pts and with no credit in Fury's favours bank), m1cr0 (opposition player, comparative unknown) or Dirz (just as unknown and opposing, and with one fewer round 2 frag than m1cr0). XB must have been hugging himself

As we know, Fury went for DJ. It's up to him to explain his choice, but I can think of at least two reasons. This left Salva to pick from m1cr0 (teammate and almost constant top red deffer throughout the later stages of the match), Dirz (teammate) or XB (opposition player, unknown, well last on round 1). Another fairly obvious choice and a real coup for Salva, who courted controversy by asking for the identities of his teammates in teamsay. He argued that they could have lied, but this still didn't sit well with certain players on the opposition

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RED IMMUNITY: Salva (P)
TOP DEF FRAGS: m1cr0 (2)
ELIMINATED: Dirz
Fair?: Absolutely. Dirz had ridden his luck a few times in past rounds but his bad def positions had finally caught up with him and he was a goner. :cftchase:

BLUE IMMUNITY: Fury (P)
TOP DEF FRAGS: DJ (14)
ELIMINATED: XB
Fair?: If Fury eliminated XB based on his Frigate defence then yes, it was. If he eliminated him based on XB's Frigate attack then no, it wasn't. If he chose DJ based on the fact that DJ played well enough to win the match's only permanent immunity then yes, it was. If he chose DJ in spite of XB having sorted Fury out twice in other maps then no, it wasn't. This argument could rage and rage...

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2v2 - MAP 1: Ballistic

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ROUND 1 - BLUE ATTACK

Memories of Survivor #3 came flooding back to us all, in which Twnz and DJ raped killerdude and Stylefish across three 2v2 maps to win the championship. DJ and m1cr0 had both been owning their respective frag tables all night long and there was some sort of balance between those two. But on paper Salva vs Fury was slightly less balanced, and while Fury had been playing well he hadn't caused anyone's jaws to drop. Then again, neither had Salva Maybe this wasn't going to be a rout. The final say was probably going to come down to either DJ or m1cr0.

Refusing to be disheartened, DJ and Fury pushed out with their sniper rifles d1ng1ng, even in spite of m1cr0's inevitable spree after only 45 seconds. Salva joined him on that particular achievement board shortly afterwards, and then followed a long and depressing period of each red player finishing what the other started. The breakthrough finally came on 7:19 when the blues got the two concurrent kills they needed, allowing Fury to eat Gate.

Salva took up position at the Genny and trusted m1cr0 to camp at the armour, but Fury and DJ were quickly in and Fury ran at Salva, waving his arms around and shrieking like a small girl whose lollipop had gotten stuck up a tree. Salva held him off until m1c could get back in time. DJ had meanwhile hung around the Gate to wait for the next lot of armour and it was that which enabled him to get an attack spree around the bunker, too late to get into the sniper nest while he still had some armour left. They both bullied Salva in the Gen room; Salva took down Fury with his mini, but DJ was flakking the Gen from the other corner the whole time, and it fell on 6:17 - not terrible.

Both reds had 12 points and both blues had 8 frags - perfect synergy and there were no weak links on either team. There was a strongest link, however, and that was DJ, heroing his way up the lift, killing Salva high after an extended 1v1 with m1cr0 in the main room, then fending off m1c again and avoiding Salva's last hope minigun to take the Warhead on a brilliant 5:32, a real shoe to the nuts for the gawping reds. It only took three or four more runs each for DJ and Fury to claim the Final, Fury clearing the last room out and dodging onto it on 4:25. Salva and m1c were having a lot more trouble offing the blues than they had expected.

ROUND 2 - RED ATTACK

The Gate was under control by 4:20, Salva having claimed it and the Lasers. Most of the fragging was being done by m1cr0, however, he on 9 and Salva on a laughable 1. DJ and Fury were mopping up Salva with no problem, but m1c was a real thorn in their side, what with his minigun being just as strong as his sniper But the blues' teamwork was even better than had been the reds, and with three minutes to go Salva and m1cr0 were no nearer the Genny than they had been when the round started. Surely a blue win?

Wrong, of course. Both reds got the kills they needed and rushed through the Gate with very low hp. Fury got dropped by m1cr0 as Salva rushed towards the Genny via the vials route, and DJ was only just too late around the corner to stop Salva and his 16hp jumping into the Genny room and killing it off on 2:43. Salva - 2 kills and 3 objectives; m1cr0 - 16 kills and 0 objectives He ain't heavyyyy but I'm carrying the bastaaaaard

A hammerjump took Salva anywhere other than into the sniper nest and DJ checked low to catch hiding m1cr0 with some minigun action. All the blues had to do was hold the Warhead for two minutes or so and the win was certainly theirs. The reds shoved through on their second run and both came low, the blues dying forward simultaneously and forced to both fall back to camp the Warhead. Salva nearly got past Fury but the save was made. DJ failed by Leoing right in front of the low ramp, leaving Fury alone to fend off m1cr0 with his full hp and 45 armour - it wasn't going to happen and the Warhead was gone with 1:46 remaining.

We knew there was tragedy in the wind when Fury pushed low left and DJ low right. One or two red runs later DJ took down m1cr0 on the right but Salva was hiding just around the corner in the high route, hoping m1cr0 would take the Ops Room button. DJ checked and Salva chose that moment to pop out, blowing DJ up with rockets and leaving Fury to check back and chase him to the Final. This wasn't good enough and DJ couldn't get out of the spawn door in time to keep Salva from winning the map on 4:22 Good blue start flushed down an awful ending, and m1cr0's 20 frags (compared to Salva's 4) was clearly the main event. The reds had won their first pick. Could the blues find ways to cope?

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2v2 - MAP 2: TheDungeon]|[AL

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ROUND 1 - RED ATTACK

Salva's perfect rocket launch fired m1cr0 straight onto the back wall, forcing Fury and DJ to scramble around trying to mini first m1c and then arriving-on-the-scene Salva. The Lake was still secure, however, and DJ and Fury held off another red run before both suiciding at the same time for renewed hp. Big mistake. Fast moving m1cr0 was well inside the Lake on 9:30, while the blues were still trying to escape from the spawn area. I think when DJ suicided he didn't expect Fury to do the same

The armour got strapped to m1cr0's boobs and Salva sent him beautifully from Lake to Falls only 15 seconds after the previous spawn had been won. The blues had no way to counter it, other than both camping in the Falls door, which they of course didn't. DJ's decision not to suicide after the Falls was important, because he took the armour and chased m1cr0 all the way to the Skull, Fury holding Salva off for just enough time to allow DJ to pott them both and regroup. Salva only needed two more runs to take Skull on 8:14, dodging past DJ before he could react with rockets.

The final run was half luck / half masterclass by m1cr0. He took on DJ under the shock rifle and DJ minied him to around a quarter of his hp before inexplicably running off to chase Salva up the left stairs. He couldn't reach him and saw that Fury probably had him anyway (which he did), so he suicided, leaving m1cr0 to run into the def spawn and draw fire while Salva respawned and came up again. Once Salva was back m1cr0 hit the spawn door button and DJ and Fury had to work together to finish both reds off in the middle. None of the four had full hp but Salva headshotted DJ, once again leaving Fury alone at the back. He took Salva to 5hp but not under and Salva was the Winnar on a scandalous 2:19 Not a high fragging round by the reds, but then it hardly needed to be with all that armour and stuff.

ROUND 2 - BLUE ATTACK

The first thing Fury did was jump into a wall of Salva's rockets, leaving both reds to wear down DJ's armour before he could reach the Lake stairs. Fury was not long in hopping high and he managed to dodge to the Lake on 1:55, neatly avoiding the red crossfire. Salva's attempt at armour stealing was useless, but the blues needed every bit as good a Falls launch to have any hope of taking the map. Such a launch was provided by Fury, sending DJ right to it on 1:37, with lots of armour left over upon landing.

Neither red was noob enough to suicide and the blues watched their two pieces of armour vanish in quick succession: Salva and his 2hp picking up the bodysuit; m1cr0 running high for the pads and vials We needed those, dammit! Refusing to despair, Fury dodged off the pads ledge and into the spawn route, meeting m1cr0 returning from high at the back. The red player came off worst and Fury blew up the Skull on 1:12, giving himself and his teammate at least two, maybe three runs to the end

Salva was still not dead since his Falls spawn and he just managed to combo Fury and nick the boots before finally getting bumped. Nice powerup control by the reds, but DJ had meanwhile headed back to the armour and was coming at the final tooled up. Fury made two or three solo runs 1v2 while DJ waited around the spawn for the pads to resurface - the idea was sound but there was now so much time lost that he only had one chance at it.

With 30 seconds to go Fury headed left, DJ went right, and both met up around the spawn button. Fury ran up the middle, doing his absolute damnedest to both erode the reds' hp and draw their fire away from DJ, who Fury thought was behind him. Well, he was behind him but just a bit too far behind, so when Fury inevitably fell DJ was still hanging around halfway up the hill. This was his big mistake, as he was now facing Salva and m1cr0 alone. More and more armour and hp got shaved off and it was actually Fury who managed to reappear and headshot Salva in a desperate attempt to win. Fury's backhammer got him onto the last stairs, DJ still too far away, but m1cr0's mini cut Fury down and DJ was never going to make it. As well as he had been playing, this particular loss was all DJ's fault, and he admitted as much

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2 - 0

 

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2v2 - MAP 3: Riverbed]|[AL

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ROUND 1 - RED ATTACK

Oh goody, another snipe / mini map! And another red pick. DJ died high at the wrong time, at least from Fury's point of view, as he was then forced to try to chase Salva, who was heading along the left ledge and had reached the Compressor by 10:43, thanks to m1cr0's backup. Another few red charges were imminent and all they needed was for both blues to fall at the same time. This duly happened only a minute later, even in spite of DJ's superb minigunning. 17hp was all m1cr0 had when he sprinted to the Tunnels on 9:52, dying in the door (of course).

Fury and DJ held the front well in the low tunnels, Fury cleaning up whatever DJ let through and vice versa. Eventually they both found themselves chasing Salva running along the high route, and DJ prrted him before he could do his dodge. But both blues had dropped low as a result, leaving the high route undefended against people like m1cr0 and things like thigh pads. The red attacker did the sensible thing and waited on the high surround until Salva turned up. Salva's side hammer from the low route was not allowed to work, thanks to a contemptuous sniper shot from DJ.

Fury got tired of m1cr0's hiding and suicided to try to remedy the situation; of course this was all the invitation m1c needed and he dropped onto the Charge at the exact same second as DJ shot him. Again. Luck moar! The blues got killed in the new spawn and fell back, DJ getting an important headshot on m1cr0 just before Salva could door launch him to the end. Fury pushed way forward, leaving DJ with the backman position. Both deffers were doing well to hold off the red runs, but neither did well enough when Salva was allowed to hammer up to the high route and come at the final from there.

Fury and Salva had earlier faced off on the Frigate roof, and this was like that revisited. With only 29hp Salva found himself trapped in the high tunnel, unwilling to turn back but equally unwilling to drop into Fury's minigun, which was down there staring at him. Fury's ammo couldn't last forever, though, and it promptly ran out, leaving him with only a hammer. Carpe diem, Salva seized the day, dropped, fired, completely missed thanks to DJ's door blocking, and got splooged by Fury's hammer Brilliant Of couse m1cr0 had reached the same spot by this point, but DJ was already in place to teach him a flak lesson into the bargain. His next run was more successful, flakking the final on 4:04 and, naturally, dying just as it fell. Sigh.

ROUND 2 - BLUE ATTACK

This one had final round written all over it. DJ took until 1:17 to finally blow up the Compressor and there wasn't enough time in the world to take the blues to the end of the map. DJ did get close to the Tunnels after Fury took most of the heat, but Salva was forced to teamkill m1cr0 with some rockets to keep DJ away Fury skipped in anyway on 0:38 after Salva meesed up royal, but with the clock looking the way it did there was no value in anything any more. The match was over and the reds had prevailed

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Congratulations to m1cr0 and Salva, Survivor #4 Champions !!!

 

[TIMMAH]

Well done m8 awesome report! I need some more practicing :p

 

[§phere]

Epic report

 

[Meteor]

The report describes the tournament in such a sharp, rich and detailed way, that the own feeling while I was reading the report made me nearly believing, that I was a real manifested part inside the already now gone live ingame experience from that day myself , and not only a now smiling report reader who is hailing and praising Useless for providing all that minutely detailed extra insider information.

 

[Vitz¥^]

Nice work m8, loving the video reporting too, but maybe you could get away with one or the other, both seems like excessive amounts of work for you! Very nice and in depth and with that certain "useless charm" you possess

 

[nightwing`]

nice report enjoyed reading

I could (maybe) have done better as I did in TheDungeon]|[AL if I hadn't 300/400 ping f6 before that map because my brother was playing some crappy facebook games at same time I was playing survivor
btw I was really expecting that I would be kicked after 9vs9 or 8vs8 so I felt a bit frustrated for leave after TheDungeon]|[AL as, imho, I had done my best so far in survivor.


lol @ siege launch, I was using hidden weapon and used the right hand launch aim aka FAIL

 

[Pitbull]

The report describes the tournament in such a sharp, rich and detailed way, that the own feeling while I was reading the report made me nearly believing, that I was a real manifested part inside the already now gone live ingame experience from that day myself , and not only a now smiling report reader who is hailing and praising Useless for providing all that minutely detailed extra insider information.

this

 

[RighteousFury]

Brilliant report! Realy appreciating the time and efford you put into this useless!

 

[Hudson]

awesome work!