1 v 1 FINAL
Wish vs Twnz - Match Report
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Their first encounter in this tourny had left Wish with a 4-1 victory, although two or three maps could have belonged to either player. Twnz had been very strong against Riv and had certainly got his practice in, so we speccers anticipated a close and hard fought match, in spite of Wish's on-paper routs. Unfortunately this match became a bit of a non-event after the second map, when a mixture of bad luck and indecision cost Twnz dearly in a map which he himself had picked.
Bad luck aside, Wish never looked like losing anything. He was far too strong with all weapons and refused to rely only on his maddeningly accurate sniper. His movement on attack was as quick as Twnz's and he made almost all the right decisions at the right times. And on defence he got his positions bang on and his weapon choice perfect. Twnz, by contrast, could be seen with a sniper in hand at nearly every objective, whether attacking or defending, and when he missed Wish made him pay. I don't know if this was some strategy he had against Wish, but if it was it failed to work in a big way.
In spite of Wish's characteristic modesty and Twnz's irritations on maps like AutoRIP, 4-0 was a very fair result from a spectator's point of view, and serves to illustrate that perhaps there will only ever be one winner in a 1v1 AS tourny as long as Wish is playing. But this would mean that DJ was right about something for once, so I dunno...
>>> MATCH DEMOS <<<
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MAP 1 - DESERTSTORM (Twnz pick)
ROUND 1
Having already done a match report of Wish v Twnz, I was running out of ways to describe sniper kills. I felt the onset of a headache when Twnz nudged into the Bunker on his first run and began attacking Wish's belt, but it was thankfully over reasonably quickly. Wish held off his first three runs but on the fourth he accidentally dodged backwards down the ramp and let Twnz gain the high ground and take the button on 9:04, still a decent hold, given that Twnz died on the objective.
From here Twnz was armed with the sniper he needed, but things should have been more grim for Wish, who was left with rockets, minigun and flak. This part should have been quicker then because Twnz's sniper had been anything but weak throughout the tourny. This did not prove to be the case, however, when Wish just wore Twnz down outside and then suicided to catch him at the back with some flakballs
One high run with an alt-hammer onto the roof allowed Twnz past but Wish must have heard him land and reacted in time. Twnz did also sneak through at one point with 1hp but Wish was there again and the clock was dropping into some pretty low numbers. One bright spot was that Twnz managed to find two more piles of boxes to get stuck behind, to add to the pile he found vs Riv. We on spec began to think he was being sponsored. Twnz needed to kill Wish around the bottom of the ramp to have any hope, and the breakthrough came with around five and half minutes to go, Twnz squeezing to the button on 5:27 and, once again, dying on it.
Mortals might be expected to hold Underground 1v1 vs Twnz for about minus eighteen seconds, yet Wish managed a more promising one and a half minutes![:\](/images/smilies/submitted/smark/ohwell.gif "Oh Well :\")
He was allowed snipers again and if it was Twnz-shaped he was hitting it 
Attacking with literally no other weapon but sniper had gotten Twnz next to nowhere at all, and at 2:17 he hit upon the idea of swapping to minigun. He dropped Wish instantly at the low entrance and hopped to the objective in 7:47, Wish flakking himself in the face small consolation.
ROUND 2
It took Wish about half as long as Twnz to take the Scud, helped by Twnz falling off the sniper ammo side as Wish ran upwards. Twnz needed the hold of all holds on Samsite but Wish wasn't interested, faking Twnz out by taking the pads and then doubling back and running behind the tent. Unsure, Twnz had to check the back route and Wish took his opportunity to turn around again and go high. He was all the way through the spawn by the time Twnz had realised and run to the ramp healthpacks, but Wish was incoming high with 100 / 50 and Twnz had only 73hp to work with. Sure enough, Wish hopped high with no problem, evading Twnz's rockets and scoring on 6:37, only forty seconds from the Scud
Two more passes and he was through the Underground, then Cavern Passage was taken shortly afterwards, leaving Twnz in two minds about where to defend. Wish was killing him more than he was killing Wish, and when the red player came high Twnz's sniper could not stop him winning the map after a mere 2:29
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MAP 2 - BALLISTIC (Wish pick)
ROUND 1
By 9:28 Twnz's armour was gone, along with Twnz himself, Wish's sniper ignorant of things like armour. He held Wish off for a while longer but at 8:28 Wish reached the armour at the same time as Twnz and off came the blue player's head
two millimetres from the powerup. Thus Wish was through with 48 / 100 and Twnz waved his head goodbye again at the Genny door. Wish pulled out a new trick to take the Genny, clambering onto the barrels and then up onto the pipe to minigun the very corner of the hitbox, Twnz missing him with sniper from only feet away. The clock said 8:01.
Twnz had effectively flushed seven objectives in the last four and a half minutes and for the love of god he needed some defence time at the Warhead. In a failed attempt to look clever, Wish hammered twice to reach the door surround, but he was spotted before he could make it up to the cliff with the vent. He dropped and Twnz tucked him in, so he tried again. With one in every two Wish attacks coming with armour and vials Twnz needed to a) take the pads and b) be aggressive up front. This worked for a decent amount of time and his sniper nest shots were hitting Wish before he could even get inside. Wish made it all the way to the lift just as Twnz moved through the high nest door, but Wish got in the window and the door refused to open again for Twnz, blocking him for a couple of seconds and allowing Wish all the way to the Warhead before Twnz's mini finally saved it
But Twnz couldn't keep this up indefinitabubly and Wish got there on the 5:02 mark after some iffy Twnz decisions. Wish didn't sui after the Warhead and Twnz needed a cheap kill, so he feigned at the flak cannon until Wish ran past and then attempted to mini him in the back. Wish responded by using his sniper rifle to wheel Twnz up the gangplank and aboard the H.M.S. Failure
A handful of runs later and Wish was in the Ops Room but, just as he had in their previous faceoff, Twnz saved the button with a point blank secondary shock 
He pushed forward but Wish found a shock at the ammo ledge that Twnz had previously dropped, and Twnz was down and out. Until he emerged from the spawn door and got the one pistol shot he needed on Wish to take his last 7hp and save it for the second time in a row. This was desperate stuff from Twnz, however, he should not have to defend this way. The next Wish run was the last: he came high with pads and jinked past as Twnz committed himself to the low right entrance. Twnz's shock misses chased Wish to the Final on 6:41 
ROUND 2
Twnz brought the Gate under his spell in record time, and Wish found that the tables had been turned on him as he started losing armour and hp at an astonishing rate. Specs who had started off betting on whether or not Twnz would get the Genny suddenly went quiet. Nevertheless, Wish being Wish, he got his sniper oiled and began controlling the armour. Twnz finally got to the vials only to be taken down by a fierce minigun blast which killed him off quicker than an insta shot
Only several kills in a row would do Twnz any good now, and when that run finally came it left him a scant 2:20 in which to attack Warhead and Final 
As in Desert attack, Twnz was again in sniperonly.com mode and it was doing him no favours. What Wish started with sniper he finished off with mini or flak and Twnz could get no farther inside than the thigh pads, which he invariably found missing, attached to Wish's buttocks. With 45 seconds to go Wish got his spree as Twnz hopped into the nest with no armour, and that was the end of anything interesting involving that.
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Wish vs Twnz - Match Report
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Their first encounter in this tourny had left Wish with a 4-1 victory, although two or three maps could have belonged to either player. Twnz had been very strong against Riv and had certainly got his practice in, so we speccers anticipated a close and hard fought match, in spite of Wish's on-paper routs. Unfortunately this match became a bit of a non-event after the second map, when a mixture of bad luck and indecision cost Twnz dearly in a map which he himself had picked.
Bad luck aside, Wish never looked like losing anything. He was far too strong with all weapons and refused to rely only on his maddeningly accurate sniper. His movement on attack was as quick as Twnz's and he made almost all the right decisions at the right times. And on defence he got his positions bang on and his weapon choice perfect. Twnz, by contrast, could be seen with a sniper in hand at nearly every objective, whether attacking or defending, and when he missed Wish made him pay. I don't know if this was some strategy he had against Wish, but if it was it failed to work in a big way.
In spite of Wish's characteristic modesty and Twnz's irritations on maps like AutoRIP, 4-0 was a very fair result from a spectator's point of view, and serves to illustrate that perhaps there will only ever be one winner in a 1v1 AS tourny as long as Wish is playing. But this would mean that DJ was right about something for once, so I dunno...
>>> MATCH DEMOS <<<
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MAP 1 - DESERTSTORM (Twnz pick)
ROUND 1
Having already done a match report of Wish v Twnz, I was running out of ways to describe sniper kills. I felt the onset of a headache when Twnz nudged into the Bunker on his first run and began attacking Wish's belt, but it was thankfully over reasonably quickly. Wish held off his first three runs but on the fourth he accidentally dodged backwards down the ramp and let Twnz gain the high ground and take the button on 9:04, still a decent hold, given that Twnz died on the objective.
From here Twnz was armed with the sniper he needed, but things should have been more grim for Wish, who was left with rockets, minigun and flak. This part should have been quicker then because Twnz's sniper had been anything but weak throughout the tourny. This did not prove to be the case, however, when Wish just wore Twnz down outside and then suicided to catch him at the back with some flakballs
One high run with an alt-hammer onto the roof allowed Twnz past but Wish must have heard him land and reacted in time. Twnz did also sneak through at one point with 1hp but Wish was there again and the clock was dropping into some pretty low numbers. One bright spot was that Twnz managed to find two more piles of boxes to get stuck behind, to add to the pile he found vs Riv. We on spec began to think he was being sponsored. Twnz needed to kill Wish around the bottom of the ramp to have any hope, and the breakthrough came with around five and half minutes to go, Twnz squeezing to the button on 5:27 and, once again, dying on it.Mortals might be expected to hold Underground 1v1 vs Twnz for about minus eighteen seconds, yet Wish managed a more promising one and a half minutes
He was allowed snipers again and if it was Twnz-shaped he was hitting it Attacking with literally no other weapon but sniper had gotten Twnz next to nowhere at all, and at 2:17 he hit upon the idea of swapping to minigun. He dropped Wish instantly at the low entrance and hopped to the objective in 7:47, Wish flakking himself in the face small consolation.ROUND 2
It took Wish about half as long as Twnz to take the Scud, helped by Twnz falling off the sniper ammo side as Wish ran upwards. Twnz needed the hold of all holds on Samsite but Wish wasn't interested, faking Twnz out by taking the pads and then doubling back and running behind the tent. Unsure, Twnz had to check the back route and Wish took his opportunity to turn around again and go high. He was all the way through the spawn by the time Twnz had realised and run to the ramp healthpacks, but Wish was incoming high with 100 / 50 and Twnz had only 73hp to work with. Sure enough, Wish hopped high with no problem, evading Twnz's rockets and scoring on 6:37, only forty seconds from the Scud
Two more passes and he was through the Underground, then Cavern Passage was taken shortly afterwards, leaving Twnz in two minds about where to defend. Wish was killing him more than he was killing Wish, and when the red player came high Twnz's sniper could not stop him winning the map after a mere 2:29
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MAP 2 - BALLISTIC (Wish pick)
ROUND 1
By 9:28 Twnz's armour was gone, along with Twnz himself, Wish's sniper ignorant of things like armour. He held Wish off for a while longer but at 8:28 Wish reached the armour at the same time as Twnz and off came the blue player's head
two millimetres from the powerup. Thus Wish was through with 48 / 100 and Twnz waved his head goodbye again at the Genny door. Wish pulled out a new trick to take the Genny, clambering onto the barrels and then up onto the pipe to minigun the very corner of the hitbox, Twnz missing him with sniper from only feet away. The clock said 8:01.Twnz had effectively flushed seven objectives in the last four and a half minutes and for the love of god he needed some defence time at the Warhead. In a failed attempt to look clever, Wish hammered twice to reach the door surround, but he was spotted before he could make it up to the cliff with the vent. He dropped and Twnz tucked him in, so he tried again. With one in every two Wish attacks coming with armour and vials Twnz needed to a) take the pads and b) be aggressive up front. This worked for a decent amount of time and his sniper nest shots were hitting Wish before he could even get inside. Wish made it all the way to the lift just as Twnz moved through the high nest door, but Wish got in the window and the door refused to open again for Twnz, blocking him for a couple of seconds and allowing Wish all the way to the Warhead before Twnz's mini finally saved it
But Twnz couldn't keep this up indefinitabubly and Wish got there on the 5:02 mark after some iffy Twnz decisions. Wish didn't sui after the Warhead and Twnz needed a cheap kill, so he feigned at the flak cannon until Wish ran past and then attempted to mini him in the back. Wish responded by using his sniper rifle to wheel Twnz up the gangplank and aboard the H.M.S. Failure
A handful of runs later and Wish was in the Ops Room but, just as he had in their previous faceoff, Twnz saved the button with a point blank secondary shock He pushed forward but Wish found a shock at the ammo ledge that Twnz had previously dropped, and Twnz was down and out. Until he emerged from the spawn door and got the one pistol shot he needed on Wish to take his last 7hp and save it for the second time in a row. This was desperate stuff from Twnz, however, he should not have to defend this way. The next Wish run was the last: he came high with pads and jinked past as Twnz committed himself to the low right entrance. Twnz's shock misses chased Wish to the Final on 6:41 ROUND 2
Twnz brought the Gate under his spell in record time, and Wish found that the tables had been turned on him as he started losing armour and hp at an astonishing rate. Specs who had started off betting on whether or not Twnz would get the Genny suddenly went quiet. Nevertheless, Wish being Wish, he got his sniper oiled and began controlling the armour. Twnz finally got to the vials only to be taken down by a fierce minigun blast which killed him off quicker than an insta shot
Only several kills in a row would do Twnz any good now, and when that run finally came it left him a scant 2:20 in which to attack Warhead and Final As in Desert attack, Twnz was again in sniperonly.com mode and it was doing him no favours. What Wish started with sniper he finished off with mini or flak and Twnz could get no farther inside than the thigh pads, which he invariably found missing, attached to Wish's buttocks. With 45 seconds to go Wish got his spree as Twnz hopped into the nest with no armour, and that was the end of anything interesting involving that.
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Up he came again with armour and keg, passing Twnz's spam easily and taking 3 and 4. Twnz dodged into 3 as Wish came out, and Wish locked him in there with his minigun while he made his escape up the ramp. Twnz could only suicide and flail at Wish with pistols as he ran to the Detonator on 
Congratulations to Wish, the winner of the January 2011 1v1 AS Cup!!! 
