Filed under: Premier League

Cloud has put together some predictions for round 2 of Pro and put them up on the Premier forums. You can read them here. He's also picked a virgin of the week, which is a little like Monkey Boy picking the most talkative player in Subspace.

Filed under: Premier League

Here's the full schedule from all three leagues for this coming Sunday. All times are in EST. There's no point spreads for Pro games as pro predictions were never opened on MR for some reason:


Pro League Round 2

BIA (0-1) vs Unhallowed (1-0) @ 2pm

Fuel (0-0) vs Sterling (1-0) @ 3pm

Llamasery (0-1) vs Starseed (0-0) @ 3pm

Assassins (1-0) vs Creation (0-1) @ 5pm

Exultant (0-1) vs The Dark (1-0) @ 6pm

NightBane (0-1) vs Poke Her (1-0) @ 7pm


IML Round 2

IMLlamasery (0-1) vs Striker (1-0) @ 4pm (llamas by 0.5)

CR Virgins (1-0) vs FutureCrew (0-1) @ 4pm (CRV by 5.5)

Nightwatch (1-0) vs Secret (1-0) @ 4pm (NW by 1.0)

Liquid Inc. (0-1) vs StarFire Elite (1-0) @ 4pm (SFE by 8.5)

Prospect (0-0) vs ReDS (0-1) @ 7pm (Pros by 1.5)

(Fly-NDeath have a bye)


AML Round 2

SkyRakers (1-0) vs BENCHERS UNITE (1-0) @ 3pm (BU by 1.0)

Fly-NDie (0-1) vs StarFire Academy (0-1) @ 4pm (SFA by 1.0)

ReDS-AML (1-0) vs Warlords (0-1) @ 5pm (ReDS by 5.5)

Obivously the staff are so upset at my IML predictions that they've decided to sabotage them by trying to play all the games at the same time. Remember you can find out all the league standings, results, stats and predictions on MasterRater and all the latest news on the Premier League website.

Filed under: Premier League

Before I get into it a couple of corrections from last week. First of all CR Virgins didn't get knocked out of the playoffs last season by Invidium. That match was in the make-up round which meant that CRV finished the season at 4-4 and missed out on the playoffs. Also ReDS didn't have a bye in the first round of the pre-season, the result wasn't put up on MR for some reason They beat Liquid Inc.

Well the return of the Vorbometer saw me going 3-2. The two I got wrong were Secret's 12-1 hammering of Liquid Inc and Nightwatch topping ReDS in OT. The main thing I got wrong last week though was the size of the scores. LI/Sec aside the games were fairly tight with two match-ups decided in overtime. The round MVP was - according to blur's round 1 player rankings - Kejami of Nightwatch. He went 3-1 with 1 KO, 1 forced rep and the game winning OT kill on Blasteroids. Personally I would pick P-Mav as the MVP from the same game. His stats were 2-1, but he was a hero in OT as he saved Blasteroids once by repping for him and almost saved him a second time when, despite also being at 0 reps himself, he threw himself in front of Blasteroids and tried to draw NW's fire. I foresee a future career in the Secret Service. As I said in my AML predicts it's hard to pick a single LVP of the round without MR ratings, so I'm just going to go for Blasteroids who before getting splatted in OT went 0-2 with 3 forced reps.

So here's my predicts for Round 2 of Intermediate space squad combat league, which this week is brought to you by Armi and Danny (aka Mauler & Caerbannog) doing Motorhead:


CR Virgins (1-0) vs FutureCrew (0-1)
Peen> Vorbis did not mention me in his predicts :(
vorbis> it's your own fault for not having your name in caps
Peen> lol
Peen> I am the evil CR mutant from hell, and I expect I mention in the next round of playoffs
Peen> er regular season
vorbis> logged, for round 2 predicts
Peen> $

Vorbometer: 12-5 CR Virgins
Key players: Peen (CRV), the seven year itch (FC)
Watch out for: Peen. He's the evil CR mutant from hell.


IMLlamasery (0-1) vs Striker (1-0)
An open letter to Intermediate llamas,

This time last week in my opening IML predictions I wrote this single line concerning your game:

IMLlamasery belong in AML. StarFire Elite belong in Pro. You do the math. 12-1 SFE

I made this despite knowing the history of your squad and also despite tipping professional llamas to be competitive in their first season. The reason for this is, of course, the llama playing model (patent pending). With the llama playing model (patent pending) in full effect you are never going to get blown out in any game and will always compete for the full 45 minutes no matter who the opposition are. I should of taken this into account before making that round 1 prediction. The roster may be significantly weaker than intermediate llamas of the past, but it's never been about the individual llama. With the llama playing model (patent pending) in full effect the four become one - a Mecha Llama if you will.

I don't understand how I could of overlooked this last week and got my prediction so horribly wrong. It's that 'No Data to win in an exciting game' debacle all over again. Please let me take this opportunity to apologise to all llamas; intermediate, professional and alpha public.

Yours, Vorbis

Vorbometer: 5-3 IMLlamasery
Key players: bushes (llamas), Serrate (Stkr)
Watch out for: The llama playing model (patent pending)


Liquid Inc. (0-1) vs StarFire Elite (1-0)
Liquid Inc. belong in AML. StarFire Elite belong in Pro. You do the math. Although after saying that maybe LI's performance in round 1 isn't that much of an indicator of how the rest of their season is going go: This is a reply from Tajatte on the Premier forums on neef's (inferior) predictions thread:
I still stand by my statement of last week that LI always do well in seasons when More Majorum is on the roster, but right now I don't think they're ready to face a squad with the individual skill, experience and depth of SFE. With a lot of practice they could be ready in about 2009

Vorbometer: 12-3 StarFire Elite
Key players: More Majorum (LI), Garcon (SFE)
Watch out for: Me giving up on the More Majorum Corollary (patent pending) by next week.


Nightwatch (1-0) vs Secret (1-0)
Rumours of Nightwatch's death have been greatly exaggerated. By me. So Covert Agent is back playing and suddenly NW is performing at the level they've been at for the last few seasons. I'm sure it's just a coincidence though as I can't think of a single reason how the reappearance of CA would improve their gameplay so much in such a short space of time

The More Majorum Corollary may be looking a little dodgy but the Secret Activity Indicator is working at 100%. Their vets are practicing regularly and that's showed in their results so far. Kepi has been a good pick up for the departing Kinetics (to NW) and Jamurann (to LI), although I gather his English accent still sucks. As long as Secret stay active they should make the playoffs.

I haven't actually seen Secret play yet this season, so I'm going to pick NW in another battle that will be decided in OT. Also by picking NW maybe Czechmate will stop blaming me for the Middle East crisis.

Vorbometer: 9-8 Nightwatch
Key players: Covert Agent (NW), Kepi (Sec)
Watch out for: Nightwatch's impeccable teamwork. Remember there's no I in energy view. Team!, I mean team. There's no I in team. Phew, I think I got away with that one.


Prospect (0-0) vs ReDS (0-1)
$$$ game of the week $$$
Prospect come out of their opening round bye week to face ReDS who jump out of the Nightwatch frying pan into the Prospect fire (like that idiom? I'm on a motherfucking roll today.). Pros might suit ReDS more however as they are a much more aggressive team and their playing style should suit their better players like Madness and P-Mav.

It's hard to rank where Prospect stand right now without seeing them in the regular season. SFE have the deepest roster in IML, but arguably Prospect have a stronger starting four. After saying that though any team that has DeathKnight on it's roster isn't going to win a 2 dimensional spaceship title, it goes against the laws of physics. Prospect do have the talent who could get them over even that, although the space/time rip that a DK championship win would open up will cause reality to cease instantly. I'm sure he thinks it would be worth it.

There's no chance of this match going into OT. This will be like two heavyweight boxers throwing bombs at each other until a KO. Should make for an exciting game to watch and this is a match that really could go either way. I'm leaning towards Prospect purely because I like who they can play in the #4 slot as opposed to who ReDS have.

Vorbometer: 12-11 Prospect
Key players: Chronic (Pros), Madness (ReDS)
Watch out for: The Vorbometer fucking up yet again as ReDS hold on for a 3-1 win in OT and the spec freq commits mass suicide.

Filed under: General News

Sort of Subspace news. It looks like PrittK can come out of his spider hole now the Kazza lawsuits have been settled:


I guess when you have all that eBay money to throw around you can make things like this disappear. The news for Subspace is that this just might hasten the arrival of the next Continuum update. If you remember the last major update (0.38) had a bug with bomb prox which specially effected SVS zones. A pre-release of 0.39 was made public which fixed this, but the prox bug is still there for thors. It would be nice to see a full 0.39 release with this fixed.

Filed under: Random Crap

Caerbannog has slapped together a flash featuring everyone's favourite Magic: The Gathering player Di Shi. You can check it out here. Funny shit.

For some reason you can't directly link to the page. Copy the link location, then paste it into your browser of choice.

Filed under: Premier League

For the second straight week Assassins and Poke Her faced off in the SPL final and for the third straight week Assassins took the top spot. Here's how all the games went:


Round 0

Poke Her bt BENCHERS UNITE 12-1
MVP: Netherviod (PH) 4-1
LVP: Dazz (BU) 0-3
game time: 14:19
box score - game log

Assassins bt Prospect 12-2
MVP:Neo (Ass) 5-0
LVP:GiG (Pros) 1-3
game time: 20:38
box score - game log

Llamasery bt StarFire Elite 12-5
MVP: cay (llamas) 6-1
LVP: MfA (SFE) 0-1
game time: 21:00
box score - game log

Starseed bt CR Virgins 12-3
MVP: Bobby D (SS) 6-2
LVP: Peen (CRV) 0-3
game time: 22:08
box score - game log


Round 1

Assassins bt CR Virgins 12-6
MVP: bRUt (Ass) 6-1
LVP: Peen (CRV) 0-3
game time: 21:49
box score - game log

Poke Her bt Llamasery 12-2
MVP: zoo (PH) 4-0
LVP: R.O.C.K. (llamas) 0-3
game time: 20:26
box score - game log


Final

Assassins bt Poke Her 12-2
MVP: Travis (Ass) 2-0
LVP: Arch (PH) 0-3
game time: 18:59
box score - game log

You'll notice that the SPL now has its own stats site; UberRater. It's still not quite ready, but Beef has done a lot of work in a short space of time and so far it looks really good. Also, while MR is still not ready, UR can be used to parse Premier League logs.

Starseed couldn't continue in the tourney which is why CRV moved on despite losing. Assassins did beat PH 12-2 in the final, the reason it says 8-2 on the log is that the bot didn't assign the deaths to PH when slim and 0Nether specced. There was a restart in the final when zoo died while subbing in for Nethervoid and both teams agreed it should be counted as an ID. You can read the log of the first game here.

The rule changes from last week look to have worked. The pro subbing rule was something the SPL needed due to the shortness of the games and although the tie rule wasn't needed this week now that everyone knows about it there's no controversy about what happens in tied games.

There was another rule change that I didn't agree with though, although I completely understand why Beef had to do it. Assassins played right from the start rather than just defending their title in the final game. This was done because in week 2 Ass almost no-showed after having to wait approx. three hours for the games to be played out to the final. This takes away the pyramid aspect of the league, but it is better than the reigning SPL champs no-showing. Maybe a compromise would to give the squad the option of waiting until the final or playing from round 0.

Beef has put up the sign up thread for week 4, which also contains all the SPL rules and info you need. Go here to get your squad signed up. Games will start next Saturday at 3pm EST.

Filed under: Premier League

neef has slapped together some preditions for IML round 2 on the Premier forums. You can read them here. My own predicts should be up by tomorrow evening.

Filed under: Premier League

As promised last week, here's my predictions for round 2 of AML. My IML predicts should be up in the next couple of days and if I have enough time I may also slap together something for Pro.

I'm pretty much predicting blind here as I've only seen one game in AML so far this season. Maybe I should bring back the Blindometer, it worked for me when I was banned. Still, if a deep knowledge in the squads and the player base was a requirement for doing predictions then I'd never do any. Ever. The game I saw was pretty worthless as an indicator anyway as it was the BU vs Warlords game last Sunday where WL only showed three and played most of the game with two after freakmonger lagged out.

The MVP of round 1 was SkyRakers' JackMove who went 6-2 with 2 KO's, 2 assists and 8 forced reps in their 12-5 win over StarFire Academy. It's hard to pick out an LVP of the round without MR ratings, but looking at the logs I would have to pick Burnt Special (FnD) who subbed in for Deuce Deuce then died out nine minutes later going 0-2 with a wasted rep.

So here's the return of the Vorbometer to AML, which this week is brought to you by the Vader Sessions:


Fly-NDie (0-1) vs StarFire Academy (0-1)
Both these squads are coming off losses last week. FnD going down to ReDS was less of a surprise than how easily SFA were handled by SkyRakers. FnD are going to be lead on the field by Sagum. The question is can he get the support from the rest of his squad? Against ReDS the answer was no. Sagum went 3-3 in the game, the other four FnD'ers who played combined for three kills. If Editor gets active that will help them but their #3 and #4 slots look weak and that's going to keep them out of the top two (there's no playoffs this season in AML. All squads play each other three times then the top two move onto the three game championship series).

SFA on paper look like they should cruise into a top two spot. Divide and H.A.M are two players that should be able to thrive in the new AML and should get good support from a deep roster. The problem seems to be activity. H.A.M did show to the game, and managed to go 0-3, although Worker beat him to the LVP by dieing out first. There's so many SFE practicing - and they can't all be from the IML roster- I'm surprised that they didn't get a good showing.

All this makes the game hard to call. If the best of each squad shows then SFA should win, but if we get the same kind of showing as last Sunday then I'd favour FnD more. I'd be surprised to see two bad SFA performances in a row so I'm going to pick them in a squeaker

Vorbometer: 12-10 StarFire Academy
Key players: H.A.M (SFA), Sagum (FnD)
Watch out for: H.A.M grabbing the MVP and making up for last week's 0-3.


ReDS-AML (1-0) vs Warlords (0-1)
ReDS looked good in their win over FnD - I didn't actually see them, just read the log, but 'ReDS read good in their win over FnD' sounds stupid. They have three good starters in Super Bunny (who dropped down from ReDS IML), Papa T and Army and the rest of the roster should be able to handle keeping the #4 slot alive.

You already know what happened to Warlords. I think that they were the first victim of the new scheduling rules. WL have always liked to play games late, but BU are a Euro team. The bad news for WL is that this Sunday's game will also be played at 5pm EST. Even with a full showing ReDS would be a tough task to break down, another showing like last Sunday and Warlords would be wiped out inside ten minutes. An 0-2 start wouldn't be as disastrous as it would be in IML or Pro with the schedule this season in AML, but the pre-season favourites of most people are looking a little dodgy right now.

Vorbometer: 12-4 ReDS
Key players: Super Bunny (ReDS), Sacred Remedy (WL)
Watch out for: Anyone on Warlords actually showing.


SkyRakers (1-0) vs BENCHERS UNITE (1-0)
This should be that match of the round as it's the only one that features two teams coming off wins in round 1. It's hard to measure BU though as their match against WL didn't really show anything. BU were the most active of the AML squads in the run up to the roster lock and they do have some strong names signed up. The question against them is have they played enough together to compete with the big squads in AML? BU could be one of those squads who get better through the season as the player's get used to each other.

SkyRakers are a real throwback to the old AML in that they're a one man squad. They just let their aliased ringer do all the work while the rest of the squad tries not do die out. That description isn't entirely fair as the aliased ringer isn't really aliased or a ringer at all. JackMove (Belt) has been on SR for a long time, but I am surprised that he got a ranking that let's him play in AML - and considering I'm on the AML rankings panel that's saying something.

I think SkyRakers' season could be the opposite of BENCHERS UNITE's. They should get a lot of big wins early in the season before the rest of the squads find them out and realise that if they ignore JackMove and focus on the other three slots SR are an easy squad to beat. Of course if all the AML squads are reading this then SkyRakers won't win another game this season. That's the kind of power I wield.

Vorbometer: 12-8 SkyRakers
Key players: JackMove (SR), 1st (BU)
Watch out for: A lot of posts in a couple of weeks on the AML forums asking how JackMove got an AML rating.

Filed under: Alpha West

I've just been browsing a few ss sites this afternoon and I found what has to be the thread of the year on the Alpha forums. A little snippet:

This guy makes DeathKnight, ZDX and Don Cherry look stable. You can read the whole thing here.

Filed under: Premier League

There's still no logs up on MasterRater, but thanks to Mauler we have most of Sunday's game logs online. He's hosted the logs on his old predictions site. There's still a couple of games missing, but I'll come back and add them as soon as Mauler can upload them to his site.

So here's how the opening round of the regular season went:


Pro League Round 1

Assassins bt BIA 12-5
MVP: Dingo (Ass) 3-1
LVP: taifun (BIA) 1-3
Game time: 37:27
box score - game log

The Dark bt Creation 12-8
MVP: Blink (TD) 4-2
LVP: ZDeathX (Crea) 2-3
Game time: 44:00
box score

Sterling bt Exultant 12-1
MVP: Cloud (Ster) 6-0
LVP: Roughneck (Ex) 0-3
Game time: 15:31
box score - game log

Poke Her bt Llamasery 6-5
MVP: Mortok (llamas) 4-1
LVP: zoo (PH) 0-2
Game time: 45:00
game log

Unhallowed bt NightBane 12-3
MVP: blur (Unh) 3-0
LVP: valence (NB) 1-3
Game time: 32:11
box score - game log


IML Round 1

CR Virgins bt Fly-NDeath 8-6
MVP: Deadpulse (CRV) 2-1
LVP: Ghostbuster17 (CRV) 2-2
Game time: 45:00
box score - game log

Secret bt Liquid Inc. 12-1
MVP: Trash-Killer (Sec) 4-0
LVP: silly_n00b (LI)
Game time: 22:36
box score

StarFire Elite bt IMLlamasery 5-2 (after OT)
MVP: Garcon (SFE) 2-0
LVP: Lord Lincke (SFE) 1-2
Game time: 46:08
box score - game log

Striker bt FutureCrew 12-4
MVP: Pretender (Stkr) 3-0
LVP: Markypoo (FC) 0-2
Game time: 37:10
box score - game log

Nightwatch bt ReDS 8-7 (after OT)
MVP: Kejami (NW) 3-1
LVP: BigBanger (ReDS) 2-3
Game time: 50:19
box score - game log


AML Round 1

ReDS-AML bt Fly-NDie 12-6
MVP: Army (ReDS) 5-1
LVP: Burnt Special (FnD) 0-2
Game time: 35:50
box score - game log

SkyRakers bt StarFire Academy 12-5
MVP: JackMove (SR) 6-2
LVP: Worker (SFA) 1-3
Game time: 30:16
box score - game log

BENCHERS UNITE bt Warlords 12-2
MVP: Nugaa & Toffe (BU) 4-0
LVP: North Star (WL) 0-3
Game time: 11:37
box score - game log

You can find out all the latest league news on the Premier League website and all the league results, standings, stats and predictions can be found on MasterRater.

Filed under: Premier League

Life has updated his player rankings page on e7 after Sunday's games. The big questions are can Travis hold on at the top and can Supermarket hold on at the bottom?

You can read them here and read the feedback from them there.

Filed under: Warzone

When you first enter SSCX Warzone CTF there's always a banner at the top of the screen of the current WZL champions. With season 14 ending the banner has just changed. As the banner is only displayed for a few seconds I thought I'd let you check it out here too. Of course this has nothing to do with the winning squad just hapenning to be the squad I play for....




Fame at last.

Filed under: Premier League

For the last few seasons there's been two roster locks in Premier League covering Pro, IML and AML. From the start of round 1 of the regular season the rosters are locked. That means there's no more player movement between squads. If you're on a roster at that point you cannot switch teams, or leave your current team until the season is over. Players who are not on a roster can still be added to rosters by the league ops though. Then from round 4 onwards the full roster lock is in effect and no more players can join a squad.

The only amendment to this rule is if a squad joins a league during the season. At the discretion of the ops a new squad can take players from other rosters even if the lock is in effect. A good example of this is in AML a few seasons ago when ShitFuck replaced a dropped squad and most of their roster came from BlackNike. It looks like Integral are going to be added to IML in the next couple of weeks and although it looks like they already have a solid looking roster they may be allowed to take rostered players from other squads.

In the days leading up to the first roster lock there can be quite a bit of activity. So here's a quick round up of the transactions in Premier leading up to round 1:


Pro League
aiti (left Unhallowed, joined Assassins)
I should say re-joined. Aiti, according to him, is going to be inactive in Pro this season which is why, according to him, he's back on Ass. He was at their game yesterday, but didn't play. So Mop just had to settle for Dingo, Travis, brut and Bhang. Poor guy.

Sage (rejoined Exultant)
Sage actually asked for an AML rating, which he got (mostly I think as the ranking panel thought he was Sage_ from NW. As most of you know I'm on the AML ranking panel. I didn't rank Sage though as I haven't really seen him play and didn't know enough about him to give a yes or no on his appeal). But the most interesting thing about him is that he's ended back on Exultant after this post on the IML forums by Mr>$MOOTH.

roark (left Sterling)

7-Eleven (joined Sterling)

Tipsy Turtle (still on fucking Sterling)
Cloud>hv reminds me of a young cloud
Cloud>with less skill

Dantos (joined BIA)

Anamalech (joined BIA)
Me and Anam started playing subspace at around the same time and were on the same newbie Alpha squad together. Now I'm back aliased on an AML squad fighting for playing time, while he's going to be the key starter for BIA's playoff run. I hate you Jekyll =(

Bob Marley (rejoined Starseed)

BrokeStatus (joined Poke Her)

Pseudo (joined Creation)


IML
Kinetics (left Secret, joined Nightwatch)

Lemon Herb (joined Nightwatch)

targeter2 (joined FutureCrew)
targeter is pretty much a fulltime pb player now so it makes sense that he's ended up on FC

Br'er (left Prospect, joined Prospect, left Prospect, joined Prospect)
Well ... not really. But he did go on a name changing frenzy yesterday.

Jamuraan (left Secret, joined Liquid Inc.)

Kepi (joined Secret)
It's a shame Secret don't run a squad in AML anymore. Kepi could sub in for them during a match and get them thrown out of the playoffs. Ah ... good days.

Ho (left Striker)

LadyGaladriel (joined Liquid Inc.)

magic (joined Fly-NDeath)

noobie (joined Fly-NDeath)


AML
There's not much player movement in AML basically for two reasons. First of all this season AML is the smallest of the three leagues so that means less roster spots and less transactions as a whole. The second reason is the AML Rankings Panel. Players with a Pro or IML rating from past seasons who want to move down or players who have yet to get a rating need to be submitted by their caps to the ranking panel first to get a yes or no before they can be added to a roster. For this reason most of the player movement in AML happened well before the lock.

Nugaa & Toffe (joined BENCHERS UNITE)

Darq (joined BENCHERS UNITE)

Meekus (left StarFire Academy)

Pvc (left StarFire Academy)

Panny. (joined StarFire Academy)

vicious (left ReDS-AML)

Super Bunny (left ReDS, joined ReDS-AML)
DEMOTED!!!!11!ONE


You can check out all the rosters, plus find all the league transactions since the start of pre-season over on MasterRater.

Filed under: Dueling Arizona

This was posted today by Rage on the Pro forums:

You can read the full thread here.


Update

The ladder has already started. You can check out the current leaderboard here and marvel at my dueling suckage.

Filed under: General News

The new Subspace entry site GetContinuum.com has gone live, although it's still a work in progress. Over the next couple of days expect to see some tweaks to the text plus one line descriptions of all the zones listed, but so far it looks good.

Site designer Mildred has opened a thread on the WZ forums asking for feedback. If you have any suggestions you can post them here.

Filed under: Premier League

Expect results from all Premier League and SPL games on the blog in the next couple of days. Here's the screenshots I took while wasting my life in spec over the weekend:

Filed under: Premier League

When I first started this blog, during the start of the last Premier league season, one of the main reasons for doing it was that I was going to bring back my predictions. I ended up not doing any at all. but now with the blog back and the start of the Premier League regular season this Sunday I bring you the first full Vorbometer predictions in around three seasons.

As there's less squads this season I may do predictions in all three league. As there's only going to be a maximum of three games per week in AML I will most likely start predicting them from next week, but for this week it's just IML as that's all I have time to do.

So here's how the Vorbometer sees Round 1 of IML, which this week is brought to you by Armi & Danny aka Mauler & Caerbannog.


CR Virgins vs Fly-NDeath
Last season CRV finished the regular season 4-3 before going out in the first round of the playoffs to eventual champs Invidium while FnD won the new look AML (which in reality is the old look Spring League while the current look IML is supposed to be the old look AML, but with the current squad numbers it resembles the old look IML).

Both these squads bring pretty much the same rosters as last season with just a few tweaks. CRV are lead on the field by the CAPS LOCK KIDS DATAH, KURAH, PARAH and LUNAH. The unholy tankage of DATAH is particularly a site to behold. FnD are led on the field by ..... well actually I don't know as I haven't seen them play this season. These squads played each other in pre-season where CRV came out with an easy 12-2 win. I don't foresee Sunday's result being much different to that.

Vorbometer: 12-3 CRV
Key players: DATAH (CRV) Holly Molly (FnD)
Watch out for: The spectacular return, followed by the immediate meltdown and ?squadleave, of Don Cherry


FutureCrew vs Striker
Striker actually have a decent roster if some of their big names (bho, Felony, majeure, Win) become active and my expectations of Brave as a 4v4 captain have gone up since I noticed he put Speed on the inactive list. Striker are one of those squads that have a chance of going all the way or could implode. Just look at their pre-season results. Opening with a 12-7 win over CRV, then only showing three and losing 12-0 to SFE the next week. Their whole season could be like that.

FutureCrew seem to be the designated powerball squad in 4v4 this season, but unlike previous pb squads the only thing they're favourites to do is drop out half way through the season. Their best player by far is the seven year itch, but I just can't see where he's going to get the support from. If this is the future of IML I might as well kill myself now.

Vorbometer: 12-4 Striker
Key players: Felony (Striker), the seven year itch (FC)
Watch out for: Brave's parents. They're famous in Spain you know.


IMLlamasery vs StarFire Elite
IMLlamasery belong in AML. StarFire Elite belong in Pro. You do the math.

Vorbometer: 12-1 SFE
Key players: bushes (llamas), Garcon (SFE)
Watch out for: llamas in AML and SFE in Pro at the start of next season.


Liquid Inc. vs Secret
When it comes to 4v4 it's very easy to find out how LI's season is going to go. Just check their roster. If More Majorum isn't on it then they are going to suck. If he is on it then they're going to go to the playoffs. Trust me, it's that easy. As MM is on this season's roster LI are heading for a playoff spot.

Secret are another team I haven't really seen much of so far so it's hard for me to say how they will do this week. Though like LI it's easy to see how their season is going to go. With Secret is down to activity. If their vets are all showing and practicing then they will compete. But if they're only turning up to games while spending the rest of the week taking the grandkids to trips to the zoo and tending their prize winning petunias then it could be a long season. Finishing the pre-season 0-3 is not a good sign.

Vorbometer: 10-7 LI
Key players: More Majorum (LI), Nocarbon (Sec)
Watch out for: cose's prize winning petunias.


Nightwatch vs ReDS
I've managed to get through these predicts so far without a single football analogy, which has to be a record for me. I'm not going to break it here, but I do have a subspace analogy for you. NW remind me of Warlords just before they lost most of their starters to Dissent. They're a good squad who's best days are behind them and have gone stale. After a couple more seasons in the cellar Warlords managed to regroup by following the llama playing model. No sign of life in NWland however.

It's easy to blame Covert Agent for this because ..... well, because it's his fault. Years of hostility of anything not called IML by the worst league sysop ever has let NW pass their sell-by date as an upper level IML squad when they should of moved up and faced a fresh challenge. Energy view isn't going to help them this season. I'd be very surprised if they win a single game.

ReDS' season hasn't really started yet. After a bye in pre-season round 1 they took on NW in round 2, stomping them 12-1 before taking apart llamas 10-2 in round 3. Their season really starts next week when they face Prospect (who have a bye this round).

Vorbometer : 12-1 ReDS
Key Players: Tarnished Silver (NW), Madness (ReDS)
Watch out for: NW avoiding the shutout due to a P-Mav teamkill.

Filed under: Premier League

It's the start of the regular season in all three leagues this coming Sunday. It was also the first time that the new scheduling rules were used. It seemed to have worked OK first time out, with only one squad with a problem. That was AML Euro squad BENCHERS UNITE vs Warlords, who's original scheduled time of 6est was changed to 5est.

So here's all of Sunday's match-ups, along with the MR point spread. All times are in EST:


Pro League Round 1

Fuel vs Starseed (postponed by Fuel)

NightBane vs Unhallowed @ 2pm (Unh by 7.5)

Exultant vs Sterling @ 2pm (Ster by 5.5)

BIA vs Assassins @ 3pm (Ass by 4.5)

Llamasery vs Poke Her @ 5pm (PH by 1.5)

Creation vs The Dark @ 7pm (TD by 1.0)



IML Round 1

Liquid Inc. vs Secret @ 3pm (LI by 1.5)

CR Virgins vs FLY-NDeath @ 3pm (CRV by 7.0)

FutureCrew vs Striker @ 4pm (Stk by 4.5)

Nightwatch vs ReDS @ 5pm (ReDS by 5.5)

IMLlamasery vs StarFire Elite @ 5pm (SFE by 8.0)

(Prospect have a bye)


AML Round 1

Fly-NDie vs ReDS-AML @ 3pm (FnD by 3.0)

StarFire Academy vs SkyRakers @ 4pm (SFA by 1.5)

BENCHERS UNITE vs Warlords @ 5pm (WL by 4.0)

On Saturday the SPL will go into it's third week with Assassins looking to stay on top of the pyramid. Teams already signed up to play include Poke Her, CR Virgins, BENCHERS UNITE, StarFire Elite and Starseed. Games will start at 3est.

Check out the Premier League website for all the latest league news. You can find all the latest results, standings and stats on MasterRater.

Filed under: Premier League

Aiti has brought together the great and good from pro to rank all the squads going into the regular season. Some funny shit there, with my favourite being:

Filed under: Premier League

It's been a busy day over on e7. As well as life's player rankings you can also find Odin's Pro League pre-season recap where he looks back at how the squads and players have performed and looks ahead to the start of the regular season. As always it's a very interesting read and you can check it out here. Although you can make comments on the blog I'd expect to see most of the feedback on the thread Odin started on the pro boards which you can read here.

Filed under: Premier League

Life has just put up his first set of player rankings of the season on e7. You can check them out here and read the feedback to them on the Premier forums here. How he can not have HV ranked at the bottom of the bottom three I don't know, apart from that it looks like a pretty fair list.

Filed under: Premier League

Assassins stayed atop of the pyramid for the second straight week on Saturday defeating Poke Her in the final. Here's how all the games went:


Round 0

Unhallowed bt BIA 1-0
BIA no-showed

CR Virgins bt FutureCrew 12-6
MVP: LUNAH (CRV) 4-1
LVP: Chief (FC) 0-3
game log

Poke Her bt Llamasery 9-7
MVP: Arch (PH) 3-0
LVP: Crunchy+ (llamas) 1-3
game log

SFE bt NightBane 12-6
MVP: kev (SFE) 2-1
LVP: Hooker with a Penis (NB) 0-3
game log


Round 1

Unhallowed bt CR Virgins 12-9
MVP: Nova (Unh) 6-2
LVP: Grifter (Unh) 0-3
game log

Poke Her bt StarFire Elite 12-5
MVP: zoo (PH) 3-1
LVP: G o G o (SFE) 0-3
game log


Round 2

Poke Her bt Unhallowed 7-7 (tie rule)
MVP: Tool (Unh) 5-1
LVP: life (Unh) 0-2
game log


Final

Assassins bt Poke Her 10-9
MVP: aiti (Ass) 4-1
LVP: Enemy (Ass) 2-3
game log

If you read the final two logs you'll see that there was some confusion and controversy about the tie rule in the Unh/PH game. How it works is if the game is a tie after 30 minutes then the team that scored the first kill wins. I personally like it - it's the same rule that was used in Gladiator League and it worked well there. I think the main problem was that the players didn't know about it until after the game was over, despite it being spammed. As long as the ref informs the two squads at the start of the match I don't think that this will be a problem again.

The other rule that people didn't like was that the squads were allowed two full-ship subs. With the games being only 30 minutes long this didn't work well and from next week Beef is going back to Pro subbing rules (all subs are burnt expect for one minute after a death) for the tourney.

After only two weeks in existence, a couple of minor rule problems aside, the tourney has been a great success. Beef has put up the sign-up thread for squads to compete in next week's tourney. You can check it out here. The games will start from 3pm EST this coming Saturday in SSCX Chaos/League SVS and the blog will have all the results and stats when they're released.

Filed under: Warzone

Wing Cutter has just posted this on the WZ forums:

Check out the arena if you want to have a peak at the map. So far the confirmed squads are DOMINATION, Elder Clan, NightBane and Opulence with 89 players already signed up. You can read the whole WZ Cup thread here, which includes all the info you need to get yourself or your squad registered.

Filed under: Premier League

I'm going to do two posts this week covering the weekend games. Later on I'll post the results and stats from the Saturday Pyramid League, although I can tell you now Assassins stayed on top for a second week. This post has all the results from Sunday. The MasterRater log parser is still down so it's just the scores with MVP's and LVP's again. Here's what happened in all three leagues:


Pro League Pre-Season Round 3

Sterling bt Exultant 12-4
MVP: Lusty (Stl) 3-0
LVP: A Mirror (Ex) 1-3

Assassins bt Llamasery 12-6
MVP: Mop (Ass) 5-1
LVP: morphine (llamas) 0-1

Creation bt BIA 12-5
MVP: Caerbannog (Crea) 3-1
LVP: Euripedes (BIA) 1-3

Unhallowed bt Poke Her 12-1
MVP: Seismic (Unh) 3-0
LVP: Crayzee (PH) 0-2

The Dark bt NightBane 12-3
MVP: Blink (TD) 5-1
LVP: Ishy4Life (NB) 0-1

Starseed bt Fuel 12-1
MVP: Rukee (SS) 3-0
LVP: Ra (Fuel) 0-3


IML Pre-Season Round 3

Liquid Inc. bt Striker 12-9
MVP: addict (LI) 4-2
LVP: Amatai (Stkr) 2-3

ReDS bt IMLlamasery 10-2
MVP: Super Bunny (ReDS) 3-0
LVP: R.O.C.K. (llamas) 0-2

CR Virgins bt Secret 12-7
MVP: Krazikarl (CRV) 4-2
LVP: Trash-Killer (Sec) 0-3

Fly-NDeath bt Nightwatch 12-5
MVP: Missing (FnD) 3-0
LVP: Divsion by Zero (NW) 1-3

Prospect bt FutureCrew 12-2
MVP: Polizei (Pspt) 4-0
LVP: Haz-mat (FC) 0-3


AML Pre-Season Round 3

SkyRakers bt BENCHERS UNITE 12-4
MVP: JackMove (SR) 5-1
LVP: Dazz (BU) 0-1

Fly-NDie bt StarFire Academy 12-9
MVP: Sagum (FnD) 5-2
LVP: Over Kill (SFA) 1-3

Warlords bt ReDS-AML 12-1
MVP: ZoAnimus (WL) 3-0
LVP: dwath (ReDS) 0-3

You can check out all the latest results, stats, standings and schedules in all three league on MasterRater.

Filed under: Premier League

Br'er has just posted his predictions for the first regular season round in IML on e7. You can check them out here. I'm planning on getting my own predicts for IML up on the blog later in the week.

Filed under: Warzone

... elderslayers. After one hour and sixteen minutes of gametime ec took their second WZL title yesterday defeating Gust and DAMN_Yankees in four games. In doing so they probably set a new SS record in the gap between title wins as they are now season 1 and season 14 champs.

The playing style of WZ league games are determined in the first five minutes or so when the flags are distributed between the three squads. Yesterday ec grabbed 7 flags from the go then took them to the bottom left base while DY took the remaining flag to the castle at centre right. At the start of the game Gust only had half their freq filled (five players) so it was unlikely that they would look to take flags and hold a base at the start.

This flag distribution meant that Gust and DY were hitting es hard to take the flags, while es looked to counter at DY when they'd defended the attack and the other squads were greening. es' D held strong for almost an hour under this onslaught before DY finally got through. They managed to wall kill out six flags, while Gust's flank flew in behind them to take the remaining one and the base.

The focus now switched to DY's base. Gust's freq was now up to eight and they were hitting them hard, led by Red Cross' spider along with es (led by Tak and More Majorum), DY did lose the base to es at one point, but took it back.

While this was going on, More Majorum took Gust's single flag and then using a double teamkill move (which I missed as I was speccing the other base) es took DY's base and zinj escaped with the flags. It was now a case of zinj running with the flags, while the rest of the team protected More Majorum. Unfortunately with only seconds left before the win MM had to make a kill which reset the flag timer and with the extra time the base was lost when Ra killed him. By now es had set up at the centre top base with the remain 7 flags and the winning move was called.

es called a thor turret on Gust's flagroom. Ra had no chance. The kill was made by ec squad cap Wing Cutter. It was then a matter of getting the whole squad back to the base and defend the flags for the win. Which is exactly what happened. Here's the box score:

  |---| elderslayers WINS |----------------------------------------------------------------|
  |
  |   Game Time:01h 15m 54s     Record Time:55h 33m 04s     Record Jackpot:         0      
  |
  | Name                |   R|  RR|  K|  D|TK|FK|FL|FD|FP|  FT| S|   G|  KP|     AV                  
  | -------------------  ---- ---- --- --- -- -- -- -- -- ---- -- ---- ---- -------                  
  | Gades                 109 1.00  24  28  0  6  0  9  3  254  0  618 2427  101.12                  
  | zinj                  108 0.99  25  12  3  9  1  9  1  303  1  347 2650  106.00                  
  | Witlospock            105 0.96  35  23  0  1  0  2  1  180  1  689 3370   96.28                  
  | tak                   100 0.91  41  18  0  7  0  7  0   96  0  411 3933   95.92                  
  | unforeseen             99 0.90  24  34  0  7  1  8  2  186  0  526 2083   86.79                  
  |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  |  Record          Name                             Record          Name                           
  |
  |  Kills           tak             (   41)          Deaths          MunchaBunchaCru (   36)         
  |  TKs             Hoey            (    4)          Flags by Kill   zinj            (    9)         
  |  Flags Lost      more majorum    (   15)          Flags Dropped   zinj            (    9)         
  |  Flags Grabbed   more majorum    (   13)          Flag Time       zinj            (  303)         
  |  Saves           Witlospock      (    1)          Greens          newjackcity     (  729)         
  |  Points          tak             ( 3933)          Average         zinj            (106.0)         
  |  Rating          Gades           (  109)          Bounty Kill     NoHeart         (  398)         
  |  Killsprees      B R A S I L     (    3)          Long Killspree  more majorum    (   14)         
  |  Greens Total                    (14245)  

There's no rest for the WZ staff though. With the end of WZL the zone goes straight into preparation for the start of the cross zone WZ Cup. There should be a lot of news this week about which squads are taking part and how the draft will work. I've already noticed that there's a WZ Cup bot up in Chaos/league. So expect a few posts here about it this week.

Filed under: Premier League

All of yesterday's results are up on MasterRater, but I'm not going to post them here until beef posts the results and stats from the Saturday Pyramid League on the forums. In the meantime here's some screenshots I took over the weekend:

Filed under: Hockey Zone

This is taken from the front page of Center Ice:

There's also the thread about it on the Center Ice forums.

Filed under: Logs

P (BARBARIAN)>wzl over?
T               K.c.B> i want to get into league, but i'm pretty new..  is there
a newbie squad?
P :BARBARIAN:yes, we won
P :BARBARIAN:also, you have a stalker
P (BARBARIAN)>oh really? do tell me more
         o'doylerules> I COULD USE A WHOPPER
P :BARBARIAN:got a google hit to the blog with the keywards "AhmedF Picture
Subspace"
T              mAImER> amateur league
T                Devs> is di shi off the roster emolife?
            CptChaos+> Reaem can flip a whopper 50 feet in the air
            Crayzee> lol
  Mortok(202) killed by: Mop
Mortok killed by: Mop -- Assist by: Neo
Kill Time: 35:59
Mortok is OUT!
Score: 9-4 Assassins -- [4v2]
T              mAImER> any squad
         o'doylerules> OH NO
       o'doylerules> IT R OVER
P :BARBARIAN:twice actually
P (BARBARIAN)>haha
cay(200) killed by: Neo
Dingo(0) killed by: Neo
cay killed by: Neo -- Assist by: Dingo
Kill Time: 36:20
cay is OUT!
Score: 10-4 Assassins -- [4v1]
Dingo killed by: Neo [TEAMKILL] -- Assist by: cay
Kill Time: 36:20
Dingo has  2  lives remaining
                  cay> YES
  Score: 10-5 Assassins -- [4v1]
              develop> rofl
       o'doylerules> YES
              Ysera> lol
             Plumpy> lol
          CptChaos+> DINGLE
             mAImER> lol
P (BARBARIAN)>so had charas and his old site
T         Deuce Deuce> zzzz... if i rename "system32.exe" to "sdfsf.avi" it would
 open as porn
T         Deuce Deuce> muhahaha no one would ever notice
            CptChaos+> Mop>Dingo make Neo TK you so I get the MVP secured.
              Shaolin> lol
          CptChaos+> tis true!
C 6:Miner> wtf
  Cicada(204) killed by: Mop
P :BARBARIAN:http://extremetracking.com/open;ref1?login=subblogg
Cicada killed by: Mop -- Assist by: tak
Kill Time: 36:56
Cicada has  1  life remaining
Score: 11-5 Assassins -- [4v1]
C 6:BARBARIAN> pmav is excited he finally winnered
C 6:P-Mav> HEHE
P (BARBARIAN)>this definitely deserves a blog post
C 6:Devs> I WON
P :BARBARIAN:just there once, thought it was there twice
C 6:Devs> YES
C 6:Miner> i played for 5m im good
C 6:Devs> I AM CHAMPION
T                Devs> I AM WARZONE LEAGUE CHAMPION SEASON 14
T                Devs> YES
C 6:P-Mav> DEVS WON WZL
T                Devs> I FUCKING RULE
  Dingo(200) killed by: Cicada
Dingo killed by: Cicada
Kill Time: 37:25
Dingo has  1  life remaining
         o'doylerules> hahwah
           Maeniel+> lol
            Missing> $
                cay> !
                 Di> wtf
  Score: 11-6 Assassins -- [4v1]
C 6:BARBARIAN> HAHAH WZL SUCKS
                  Neo> lol
              Ysera> CICADA FTW
T               P-Mav> I AM WARZONE LEAGUE CHAMPION SEASON 14!  YES!
P :BARBARIAN:yeah, thought that too when I saw it. I'm going to do some posts
 about WZL tomorrow and I'll do one then
C 6:BARBARIAN> i should bump my old posts
              Crunchy> WTF COMEBACK
            Missing> FTW
T                aiti> thats nothing devs ?squad aiti
C 6:BARBARIAN> about how EC was gonna win it
            LoRdVeGaS> Di> how digo lose?!
T               P-Mav> LOL AITI
  Cicada(202) killed by: Dingo
Cicada killed by: Dingo -- Assist by: Mop
Kill Time: 37:49
Cicada is OUT!
Score: 12-6 Assassins -- [4v0]
Game Over!
Freq 100 (Assassins) is victorious!
Final Score: 12-6 -- Game Time: 37:51
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------+--------------------+
| F 100: Assassins        Ki/De  KO  TK  LO  SK  As  FR  WR  PTime  |  DDealt/DTaken  DmgE  |  AccB  AccG  AccT  |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------+--------------------+
P (BARBARIAN)>sweet. I dont even play and people sitll luv me
| Slot1: bhang             0/ 1   0   0   3   0   0   4   0  28:31  |   44242/ 60622   42%  |   34%   16%   21%  |
|   Sub: Neo               2/ 1   1   1   0   0   1   1   0  07:54  |    7919/  7769   50%  |   30%    5%    9%  |
| Slot2: Dingo             3/ 2   2   0   0   2   4   4   2  37:51  |   82469/ 74312   52%  |   46%   21%   26%  |
| Slot3: tak               2/ 1   0   0   0   1   2   5   0  37:51  |   80919/ 69128   53%  |   40%   16%   22%  |
| Slot4: Mop               5/ 1   1   0   0   1   1   3   1  37:51  |   70573/ 50136   58%  |   40%   15%   23%  |
| Team Totals             12/ 6   4   1   3   4   8  17   3         |  286122/261967   52%  |   39%   15%   21%  |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------+--------------------+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------+--------------------+
| F 200: Llamasery        Ki/De  KO  TK  LO  SK  As  FR  WR  PTime  |  DDealt/DTaken  DmgE  |  AccB  AccG  AccT  |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------+--------------------+
| Slot1: cay               0/ 3   0   0   0   0   1   3   2  36:20  |   70763/ 76992   47%  |   34%   16%   22%  |
| Slot2: Mortok            1/ 3   0   0   0   1   2   1   0  36:00  |   60763/ 81959   42%  |   43%   17%   23%  |
| Slot3: Cicada            3/ 3   0   0   0   2   0   2   1  37:50  |   64850/ 65832   49%  |   32%    8%   12%  |
| Slot4: Razar             1/ 2   0   0   1   0   0   1   1  28:19  |   52060/ 65067   44%  |   45%   16%   24%  |
|   Sub: morphine          0/ 1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0  00:54  |     562/  2978   15%  |   33%    0%   25%  |
| Team Totals              5/12   0   0   1   3   3   7   4         |  248998/292828   41%  |   37%   12%   20%  |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------+--------------------+
MRStats for this game can be viewed at: http://subspace.masterrater.com/viewgamestats.php?gameid=86701
MVP: Mop ( N/A)                 -- Runner Up: Dingo ( N/A)            
LVP: morphine ( N/A)            -- Runner Up: cay ( N/A)                
                  cay> gg ass!
              Ysera> gg Assassins
            Crunchy> GG asses
             Mortok> gg
  gg all
             morphine> gg ass
                Neo> gg
T               P-Mav> I AM WARZONE LEAGUE CHAMPION SEASON 14!  YES!
             Maeniel+> !disown
T                 tak> so am i
  MRBot-23 has switched to prac mode.
The captain queue is empty! Type '!cap' to nab a captain spot
T                Devs> YES WE ARE AMAZING
T               P-Mav> HIGH FIVE DEVS
T                Devs> YES TAK!
T               P-Mav> HI FIVE TAK
            maharishi> !cap
  maharishi is the new captain for freq 100
                  vik> !cap
  vik is the new captain for freq 200
            LoRdVeGaS> digitaldingo with 4 assists
P :BARBARIAN:heh
T                 tak> horray
T               Miner> yes
T           LoRdVeGaS> hi kat backwatrds
T               P-Mav> WE ARE WZL CHAMPS
T             Thizzen> pmav
T             Thizzen> who won?
T           LoRdVeGaS> BIA
T             Thizzen> wzl.
T             Thizzen> :)
T           LoRdVeGaS> RADAR
T               P-Mav> I DID
T               P-Mav> AND SO DID DEVS
T               P-Mav> AND TAK
T                Devs> :L)))
  The captain of freq 200 has left the arena, and has 30 seconds to return
                  vik> !remove
  vik is no longer the captain for freq 200
                P-Mav> Hey devs
              P-Mav> who won wzl
P (BARBARIAN)>and im out
                 Devs> MAV TAK AND DEVS DID
               Devs> YES
              P-Mav> YEs
P :BARBARIAN:later

Filed under: Warzone

I'll write a full match report of the game sometime tomorrow, but for now here's some screenshots I took after I subbed out at the 50 minute mark:

Filed under: Warzone

While the blog's been inactive season 14 of WZL has gone on and this Sunday at 2pm EST in ?go league in SSCX Warzone CTF will see the deciding game 4 of the finals series.

Taking part in the match are the four time champion all-Finnish squad Gust, the veteren mostly South American squad DAMN_Yankees and #1 seed elderslayers - a squad made by the merger of Elder Clan and darkslayers, as well as being the squad I play for.

So what's happened in the finals series so far vorbis? Since you asked so nicely I'll tell you. Gust took game 1:

Opposing team won (5400 points given)
|---| WZCTF rules!                 WINS |----------------------------------------------------------|
|   Game Time:01h 43m 25s     Record Time:55h 33m 04s     Record Jackpot:         0
| Name                |   R|  RR|  K|  D|TK|FK|FL|FD|FP|  FT| S|   G|  KP|     AV            
| -------------------  ---- ---- --- --- -- -- -- -- -- ---- -- ---- ---- -------            
| tak                   168 1.00  54  33  1 13  1 14  2  274  1  552 4756   88.07            
| xalimar               158 0.94  55  32  2  8  7  3  2  208  2  835 5182   94.21            
| newjackcity           131 0.77  32  36  0 11  4  7  0  135  1  711 3156   98.62            
| Witlospock            129 0.76  38  36  1  4  9  3  8  206  1 1380 3231   85.02            
| more majorum          122 0.72  38  33  3  5  8  0  3   86  2  725 3119   82.07            
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Record          Name                             Record          Name                      
|  Kills           xalimar         (   55)          Deaths          Farlig          (   45)    
|  TKs             DieAll          (    6)          Flags by Kill   tak             (   13)    
|  Flags Lost      NoHeart         (   14)          Flags Dropped   tak             (   14)    
|  Flags Grabbed   NoHeart         (   14)          Flag Time       tak             (  274)    
|  Saves           more majorum    (    2)          Greens          Witlospock      ( 1380)    
|  Points          xalimar         ( 5182)          Average         Ra              (104.8)    
|  Rating          tak             (  168)          Bounty Kill     Pempu           (  277)    
|  Killsprees      tak             (    6)          Long Killspree  Wing Cutter     (   12)    
|  Negsprees       Zinga           (    3)          Long Negspree   Zinga           (    7)    
|  Greens Total                    (20984)

In game 2 it was DAMN_Yankees who ate the victory cake:

  Opposing team won (5766 points given)
GameTime: 01h 47m 07s
Game over!
Gust [100]:0 pts          DAMN_Yankees [200]:4 pts          elderslayers [300]:0 pts    
|---| WZCTF rules!                 WINS |----------------------------------------------------------|
|   Game Time:01h 47m 07s     Record Time:55h 33m 04s     Record Jackpot:         0
| Name                |   R|  RR|  K|  D|TK|FK|FL|FD|FP|  FT| S|   G|  KP|     AV            
| -------------------  ---- ---- --- --- -- -- -- -- -- ---- -- ---- ---- -------            
| zinj                  118 1.00  31  27  0  7  0  7  0  183  1  617 3017   97.32            
| Pempu                 106 0.89  37  14  1  3  0  3  0  350  0  634 3155   85.27            
| Gades                  90 0.76  34  25  0  1  2  2  3  189  0  587 3174   93.35            
| Hoey                   89 0.75  19  17  2  5  0  5  0   93  0  696 1561   82.15            
| Chronic                87 0.73  29  40  0  1  0  1  0   88  0  857 2706   93.31            
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Record          Name                             Record          Name                      
|  Kills           Miner           (   44)          Deaths          Low Fuel        (   49)    
|  TKs             NoHeart         (    5)          Flags by Kill   zinj            (    7)    
|  Flags Lost      Hendrix         (    6)          Flags Dropped   zinj            (    7)    
|  Flags Grabbed   Hendrix         (    6)          Flag Time       Pempu           (  350)    
|  Saves           zinj            (    1)          Greens          Charas          (  978)    
|  Points          xalimar         ( 3803)          Average         xalimar         (111.8)    
|  Rating          zinj            (  118)          Bounty Kill     xalimar         (  590)    
|  Killsprees      Pempu           (    5)          Long Killspree  Pempu           (   32)    
|  Greens Total                    (18419) 

I think you can work out what happened in game 3. If elderslayers hadn't of won we wouldn't be having a game 4:

Opposing team won (3750 points given)
GameTime: 00h 13m 45s
Game over!
DAMN_Yankees [100]:0 pts          Gust [200]:0 pts          elderslayers [300]:4 pts    
|---| WZCTF rules!                 WINS |----------------------------------------------------------|
|   Game Time:00h 13m 46s     Record Time:55h 33m 04s     Record Jackpot:         0
| Name                |   R|  RR|  K|  D|TK|FK|FL|FD|FP|  FT| S|   G|  KP|     AV            
| -------------------  ---- ---- --- --- -- -- -- -- -- ---- -- ---- ---- -------            
| zinj                   38 1.00   7   1  2  5  0  5  0  188  0   52  406   58.00            
| more majorum           27 0.71   5   6  0  0  6  1  7  148  0  105  445   89.00            
| DieAll                 24 0.63   8   6  0  0  0  2  2   96  0  102  804  100.50            
| newjackcity            21 0.55   4   4  1  2  1  1  0  128  0   97  227   56.75            
| xalimar                16 0.42   3   0  0  2  0  2  0   90  0   18  119   39.66            
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Record          Name                             Record          Name                      
|  Kills           DieAll          (    8)          Deaths          Low Fuel        (    7)    
|  TKs             zinj            (    2)          Flags by Kill   zinj            (    5)    
|  Flags Lost      more majorum    (    6)          Flags Dropped   zinj            (    5)    
|  Flags Grabbed   more majorum    (    7)          Flag Time       zinj            (  188)    
|  Greens          Witlospock      (  184)          Points          DieAll          (  804)    
|  Rating          zinj            (   38)          Bounty Kill     Saurus          (  158)    
|  Killsprees      zinj            (    1)          Long Killspree  zinj            (    6)    
|  Greens Total                    ( 2186)

So it all comes down to one game this Sunday. A deciding game in a WZL finals is always interesting to watch. You can only take the game by a flag win - there's no overtime or time limit. A squad could take a surprising win inside the first ten minutes or it could turn into a real war of attrition over several hours.

There's no real favourite in this match. Gust have the experience of past final wins, DY have the 56k connections from São Paulo and es have my leet terrier defense. Check it out this Sunday at 2est.

Filed under: Premier League

The final round of pre-season will be played this coming Sunday in SSCX Chaos/League SVS. Also, this will be the last round played under the old scheduling rules. From the regular season on the schedulers (Crunchy for AML, WarEngine for IML and Mauler for Pro) will pick the times of the matches based on the preferred times the squad caps have offered. It will be interesting to see how it works.

Here's all the games, along with the MR point spread. All times are in EST:


Pro League Pre-Season Round 3

Sterling vs Exultant @ 3pm (Stl by 5.00)

BIA vs Creation @ 4pm (Crea by 2.00)

Fuel vs Starseed @ 4pm (SS by 3.00)

Assassins vs Llamasery @ 5pm (Ass by 6.00)

Poke Her vs Unhallowed @ 5pm (Unh by 2.00)

The Dark vs NightBane @ 8pm (TD by 4.00)


IML Pre-Season Round 3

Secret vs CR Virgins @ 3pm (CRV by 6.00)

Liquid Inc. vs Striker @ 4pm (Stk by 6.00)

IMLlamasery vs ReDS @ 4pm (ReDS by 5.00)

Fly-NDeath vs Nightwatch @ 5pm (even)

Prospect vs FutureCrew @ 7pm (Pspt by 6.00)


AML Pre-Season Round 3

BENCHERS UNITE vs Skyrakers @ 2pm (BU by 2.00)

Fly-NDie vs StarFire Academy @ 4pm (SFA by 2.00)

ReDS-AML vs Warlords @ 7pm (WL by 2.00)

For all the latest league news check out the Premier League website and you can find all the latest scores, standings and stats at MasterRater.

Filed under: General News

Mizerie has started a thread on the Premier League forums asking for feedback on how Chaos pub should be changed. Of course I couldn't miss out on an opportunity to write another one of my essays about my thoughts on how Subspace, or at least SVS, should be run. Here's what I said:


You can read the full thread here.