Legends Reborn vs. Total Freaks
Hey, hey, another match report by me! As promised (although it's a bit very late) here are the match reports from Legends Reborn versus the Total Freaks, the match which was played last Friday. Ah well, let's start, shall we?
Anyway, at first I wasn't actually going to report this match at all but I was kind of bored (parents away, no friends at home, so I was kinda alone at home) so I joined the pre-game server hosted by Grytolle and I asked (really) if I could do the logging for this one. Of course this was really appreciated, so I got in. Surprisingly, this match started on a decent time: TF was already fully present 10 minutes before the match started! If their results are as good as their timing for this match, they'll pass the group round easily. Anyway, time to start the match…
Round 1
LR = Bspaz, Cruk, Puffie40 (red)
TF = Unhit, Enigma, White Rabbit (blue)
Grytolle decided to do the time recording for this round, so don't blame me if the times are a bit unsharp. Anyway, the match server went up ten minutes before the actual starting time, but thanks to lots of "brb, toilet" and "phone" it took 10 minutes before the actual game could start.
The game started quite good. Both teams were playing very accurate, and flag losses were kept low to the minimum. Both teams played quite defensive, and first 3 minutes went by without scoring. Then, during the fourth minute, LR surprisingly broke open the match with two quick goals by Cruk and Bspaz. After these goals, TF desperately asked for a small time-out, mainly because of lag. The next minutes went by very confusing (Grytolle went brb, and no-one actually knew what to do) but after about 4 minutes, the host returned and the game went on with less lag (maybe that was thanks to me realizing I had three P2P-programmes on, sorry for that) After the time-out, I didn't take long before LR managed to score a third goal by Cruk, and many chances followed without goals. Just before halftime of round 1, LR pulled another one off, thanks to Bspaz again. After 10 minutes of playtime, the score was 4-0 in advantage of LR, breaking all expectations.
For a moment it seemed that the flame of TF was going to die a silent death, but around minute 12, Enigma made the opening goal for TF. A few minutes later, Unhit even managed o make 4-2. Just when it seemed like the match could become quite exciting after all, LR added another goal, thanks to Cruk again. The round seemed to be played for a long time, but during the last 40 seconds Bspaz scored another goal for LR and Enigma did this for TF, about 8 seconds before the end.
Results: 6-3 for Legends Reborn
Round 2
LR = Bspaz, Cruk, Puffie40 (blue)
TF = Unhit, Enigma, White Rabbit (red)
Grytolle and me decided to make a small change in the tasks for this match, because (in my honest opinion, of course) the time recording during round 1 wasn't very accurate (was the duration of the time-out 2 minutes? Or 5) so I searched for my stopwatch and we decided to both keep time.
The second round of this match started without much trouble, the only thing that occurred was a time-out of Puffie40 but it didn't really matter after all. The round started at exactly 18:32 GMT, which was 8 minutes after the end of round 1. The match started quite calm again and both teams were playing very defensive. In contrary to round 1, the opening goal wasn't made by someone from LR – it was Enigma again who opened the round by scoring 1-0 for TF, around 3:10. After that, many minues of silence followed due to very defensive play on both sides. The end of this equilibrium came around minute 9, when Cruk scored the first one for LR. The halfway mark passed by, and the total score was 7-4. Thanks to good work of Cruk, LR managed to score 2-1 around minute 11, but this would be also the last goal for LR in the match – however they didn't know it by then. After this goal, I guess TF started to realize what a loss would mean for them and so they started to play much more on the attack. And with results: White Rabbit scored his first goal in this match at 12:20, and Unhit made 3-2 for TF at 14:15. Many minutes of silence followed after this, and it seemed like the game was over and played.
Then suddenly, in the beginning of the 20th minute, Enigma scored again for TF! The total score was 8-7 for LR at that moment, so if TF would manage to score again they would end the game with a tie, which is of course better than a loss. However, LR kept defending their base very well and TF saw no way to score.
Round Results: 4-2 for Total Freaks
Comments by Chips:
"Every round has one match which doesn't seem really interesting in advance. In my opinion, TF vs. LR would be the 'anti-Match of the week' this time. However, it turned out to be a quite nice match after all. The teams were about equal, which resulted in a nice game which became better to watch every minute. The last minute even contained a cliff-hanger which I didn't see in any match of this season before! LR played really good in comparison with earlier matches, and TF, well, they did their best, but I guess their best wasn't simply good enough."
Final Score: 8-7 for Legends Reborn
Top Scorers
LR
Cruk (5x)
Bspaz (3x)
TF
Enigma (4x)
Unhit (2x)
White Rabbit (1x)
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Cracco Clan vs. VerSus
Because I was too lazy to write a whole report for ÇC vs. VS, I'll just stick to a short match-commentary by myself for this one. And I made some screenies too at the end of each round, so let them speak for me…
Comments by Chips:
"I heard ÇC say before this match that it would become one of great importance to them. Although I doubt that is true (I don't think JSZ would become a real thread for them and FoR has FoRfeited the first match and I don't know for sure if they'll show up in later matches) this match would certainly be a good one in ÇC's poule. Both clans are in a really good shape recently, and VS has very well shaken off it's image of 'Polish n00b clan' over time. Before the match started, I didn't really expect a really spectacular match and a semi-easy victory for ÇC. During the match, I saw that my expectations were coming true and that ÇC was going to win from VS without much trouble. However, at the end the ÇC members complained that they sucked during the match! I didn't really notice that, because the game went quite smoothly for the Cracco's. However, such statements indicate that ÇC is becoming an overwhelming power force in JJ2 and that they are getting seen as finalist clan more and more. As they like to say, the 'Imperial march' has really begun and it'll take much power from big guys (read: DM) to stop it. To be continued."
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