Cracco Clan vs. Legendary Blades

The second semi-finals, of the second season of JJ2WC. How nice. This match would be played between LB (who did a surprising good job by defeating clans like [si] in the group round, thus placing itself in the semi-finals) and C'C, the Cracco's, who are on their way to the final part of their "Imperial March". Anyway, it's time to start off with this report…

First about the pregame, as usual. About 25 minutes before the actual game time I launched the pregame server, with the level "Security Breach v2" by BlurredD as war map (the same map as DM vs. VS) One by one, the players entered the server and a few minutes before 18:00 GMT everyone was gathered, including the supervisor for this match, R3ptile. Thanks to the fact that everyone was in before time, the match could begin a little earlier.

Round 1
LB = Shaney, Master Sven, IronLight (red)
C'C = Anakin, Yasco, Chiyu (blue)

It took however a while before everyone was in place. Many wrong joiners and unclearness about who would play for C'C (alright, it was also a bit my fault…) and several disputes between C'C and LB members (mostly in Dutch, so I could actually post it here without getting it removed probably ) the game could finally begin at 18:09, after several warnings by the cupadmin and supervisor.
R3ptile wanred my several times to not ask who scored during the match, but insubordinate as I am (hehe) I asked it anyway, and most of the time I got response, although I couldn't identify every single one of the many goals. Indeed, "many". This game turned real soon into a complete fragfest for both clans, because both clans decided to work with an offensive strategy (C'C probably mainly because they didn't see any thread from their enemy so they could play pretty offensive, and LB because… well, just because they're LB)

The first minute went by pretty balanced, however Chiyu opened the game pretty quickly with a goal after 58 seconds of playtime. Yasco then again scored 2-0 at 1.35, and another one at 2.30, quickly followed by Anakin's first goal at 2.55. It already started to look like the Cracco's would rage over the Blades like a rhino over a cream pie, but the game seemed to stabilize for a while. Then again, Chiyu and Anakin scored their second goal at 5.00 and 5.15, making the total already 6-0 in advance of the Cracco's. A while later, the only goals of LB were scored: two quick ones by IronLight. After that, C'C quickly reformed and they started to continue their offensive albeit alert strategy. This neat combination resulted in a goal by Yasco at 7.20, followed by a hattrick of Chiyu (7.35 – 8.01 – 8.44, and even a fourth one at 9.10) C'C seemed to be unstoppable because Yasco and Chiyu scored AGAIN even before halftime, making it 13-2. I started to wonder and realise that this could actually become the first match with a victory before endtime. Thanks to another goal from Yasco at 10.15, this feeling even got stronger. Chiyu scored another one at 11.27, but from then the game became quite stable again (if you can call 15-2 "stable") Anyway, the next C'C goals came at 14.04 and 14.42, scored by Yasco and Chiyu again.

Then, the trouble started. It happened very fast, so I couldn't completely follow it myself (I was too busy writing all the goals of C'C down, to be honest) but for some reason Chiyu managed to stuck himself around 15.30 and the game was paused. According to the rules of JJ2WC, players can't move in a paused situation except when it's really necessary. Master Sven of LB however moved on so Shaney asked him polite on teamchat to stop moving. R3ptile, the supervisor, didn’t get this completely and asked in public "Who was moving?" Shaney answered too quickly and, probably accidentally, used to word "idiot" in his answer to R3ptile, thus insulting the supervisor. R3ptile asked him to apologize a few times, and Shaney agreed to do this directly after the match, which seems a logical solution (Chiyu even confirmed he said "I do apologize" during the actual match) The match went on, but R3ptile wasn't satisfied with this so he decided to abort the match at 16.20, giving C'C a forfeit win with 20-2. After this, serious fights started inside the server (mostly in Dutch again) first against Shaney's stupidity, but later on also about the supervisor and between the two clans. R3ptile wanted to start the second round (I was unable to host the second round) but LB wasn't able to find a third player because Shaney was kicked.

The results? LB left the tournament, and a few minutes later the staff of LB decided to shut down to whole clan. Most of the LB members already decided to move over to C'C and some stopped. C'C leaves this match with mixed feelings: happy because of the fact that they reached the finals and unhappy about the way how they did this. LB is dead, and DM automatically wins the third place in JJ2WC2. Congratulations.

Match comments by players:
Shaney: "This is a sad day for our clan. Not only we lost the first round of the match due to a forfeit loss, but because of this the clan is unable to stay alive any longer. This is already the third time R3ptile gives us something like this: in the first match Saddam was banned because R3p thought he was Vegito, although it later appeared he wasn't a faker. We would have won that match, but now it was an equal score. Later, a match was postponed 30 minutes because [si] didn't show up although we should have won by forfeit. And now this! This season is tinted with power abuse. We don't really care about a loss from C'C, but in this way, we lost without honour."

Chiyu: "I have mixed feelings about this victory. Of course it's logical that you don't insult a supervisor during a match, but Shaney offered to apologize after the match. The way things went during this match wasn't smooth and especially if you look at the things that happened with LB before during this JJ2WC it's sad that they leave the tournament like this. I'm happy that C'C can advance to the finals, but it was definitely a victory with a bitter taste."

ChippieBW: "This is surely a black day in the history books of JJ2WC. While all the group matches went smoothly and without any major problems (except some logical forfeit losses and some lag) this is truly an embarrassing match for the whole JJ2WC organization. Sure, it was stupid to say "idiot" to a supervisor but I don't think a match should be cancelled directly. It shows that such a tournament can be based on emotional reactions, which it shouldn’t be. It's sad that it happened to LB again, and that the clan is now dead because of it. I already expected C'C to fight VS finals, but not this way."

Results: 17-2 for Cracco Clan, due to a forfeit loss raised to 20-2.

Top Scorers
C'C
Chiyu (9x)
Yasco (6x)
Anakin (2x)

LB
IronLight (2x)

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