Post QR3 Power rankings

[fuckyougrim]

NC players: Zak, August, Captain, Sam, and Shai (for 3 games)

GRU players: SamTheButcher, GrogMonster, Inquisitor, The Blacknight, Two Smoking Gungs, Princepawn

NC v GRU:

Btw, I forgot the UT I was gonna do on the first map. Not sure how that happened as I had the damn page loaded on my other monitor. Anyway, samthebutcher was capping GRU, and I was capping NC. They went very thrall heavy, rest on arcs. We were much more balanced. They decided to die badly mid, I surround with our flanks. Their lock shots wer ill timed and coordinated, thus failed. Shai gives me credit for the win. Were up 1-0.

Game 2

Game 2 was much more hectic. I was still was capping for us. In a nutshell, they didn't match our east forces and got down in tags. Made a few bad plays and lost the game. Shaister did a gj. Sam loves his stats.

2-0 NC

Game 3

Game 3 was same story but different problems. They got too many arches and we got a heavy melee/breunor rush on flanks. Happened on their side of mid mostly. They tried to push mid but got sandwiched by captain and I. Then we took their last flag. We're up 3-0 at this point.

Game 4

This is where the NC magic happens. I credit this massive victory to my team playing well but also to SamTheButcher's dwarfing, which was horrible. I mean random ctrl clicking may have worked better / killed more. He got slaughtered by OUR sam. We both met south with our forces. I rushed my pigs in as sam held off samthebutcher. After scoring our stamp units, we surrounded and annihilated them. I think I killed 10 units with 1 archer. Here august showed off his 2t skills raping with 220 dmg. Just a well played and executed game. Its now 4-0 NC. Clutch play time, and we all know NC lacks no ability there. Let's see what happens.

Game 5

Both teams start with a large western force. NC was having trouble at first but then came back and rushed their western target. After that we ran to their base target and killed that too. East, however was a stalemate. Watching the clock I knew something had to be done to tip the scales. So.. I ordered august to run/survive and sam flanked thru east to attack the target. This worked and their target was mostly killed but now the time was very low. We didn't get their last target but we won 2-0 on that map, winning the match 5-0.

Pretty good for a team with no 2 ballers. GRU played very well except for game 1. I don't know what all the delaying fuss was about right before the match. They had 1 more player than we did. Oh course TSG and Grogmonster were quite annoying to play against, but SamTheButcher was cool and that helped. I kinda feel sorry for the pair bc their mouth keeps writing checks their play can't cash. Anyone else see a trend here? Princepawn was crun'd which was lol.


So.. Tcox vs SP is next.

I won't cover all the games bc they were one sided. However I have some points I would like to make. Tcox def need a designated cap. I think its too much for Stormrider to do by himself. Someone needs to step up and help him. Flatline should be their hevi hittur, his play stood out in the games. SP had some really good capping done by whats his face. However they only had 8 players which was enough, but could hurt them later. Tcox has the potential to take down some of the lesser teams, mb some of the better ones too. Needs organization and execution.


Deer vs TW

Oh man I felt badly for TW. They really suffer from players like renwood and bunny. Lack of taggers / scouts, defending flags, etc. Drunken was capping and did well. They had plenty of players there and and are a threat.


Age vs R3

Much of the same as above. R3 had some better play but lacked in players. AGE shows up again en force and takes down another team in the first game, then loses the rest. I think they are in the lower 8 so far, but R3 is right there as well.


Ok I'm over this already so I'm wrapping it up. Hopefully gamer will do one, his are better.

Power Rankings as I see it:

1. NC
2. SP
3. My Team
4.Tcox
5. r3
6. TS
7. Deer
8. age
9. TW
10. gru

[drunken]

I am trying to decide if you are being sarcastic about our matchup with time wizards or not?

[fuckyougrim]

Jun 18, 2012 1:35:21 GMT 2 drunken said:

I am trying to decide if you are being sarcastic about our matchup with time wizards or not?

Sorry typo, put deer where I shoulda put TW

its fixed

[vantobia]

Deer, feering their way into the top 50% of threat assessments, one day.

[drunken]

Jun 18, 2012 2:09:32 GMT 2 vantobia said:

Deer, feering their way into the top 50% of threat assessments, one day.

Time to cleave off Ratking or NC's Head and add another skull to deers trophy mantle wall.

[par73]

we only had 8 players? huh?

[fuckyougrim]

Jun 18, 2012 2:13:47 GMT 2 par73 said:

we only had 8 players? huh?

6 in game 2 in lobby

[rodeki11]

Review our games against My Team. Although we lost 4-1 by games, the match was actually much closer than that. If the point system were used, this would be evident.

[guest]

LOL!

Love the Ratking spoof.

[ratking]

My goodness I must have wrote a really good review to have it copied so. Imitation is he sincerest form of flattery they say. The spoof is funny yet hes spent little time analyzing the weeks best / most important match. Sp absolutely proved they deserve the #1 spot. I could see nc going to #2 no problem, but placing them in the top spot... just not right. I haven't looked at the ladders much but it seems their test will come a week or two from now. Severely lacking except for the nc v gru match which was how important? At least the match I did cover in-depth went down to the wire and was important as far as seeding goes.

[augustkamppur]

SP-

I'd guess that SP smoked a collective 2-3 ounces of marijuana during the QR. They probably drank 4-5 gallons of beer as well. It looks like they had some fun in their games, too.

That's not a slight at all. I don't think I've ever seen Paris care less about the outcome of myth games than in their match with deer.

Compare it to the Bullz films from last year in DE. Paris was alert, sharp and intelligent.

I don't think the QR was indicative of how strong SP are as a team. They could have done much better if they tried and I expect them to bring their best when they face My Team and NC. Anything less would be a disappointment.

NC-

We didn't have a lot of people show up to our matches, but we were the only team to go 15-0.

We had the easiest opponents, true, but it's not like we asked for it that way. We would have preferred to have My Team's schedule or SP's schedule.

As far as I'm concerned, we've been put at a disadvantage this entire QR because of a weak schedule, and we'll continue to be put at a disadvantage the next few weeks because of winning the QR.

To say "Sp absolutely proved they deserve the #1 spot" makes no sense. The QR proved absolutely nothing for the top 3 teams because the sample size was too small and the pools were uneven.

Perhaps they are the best team in the tournament, perhaps they aren't. I think very highly of EW and Paris and I'm really forward to playing against them at their best. We'll find out soon enough.