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Week 3 overview
We are now pass midway for group stage for twdt. With another exciting weekend behind us, it is time to check how the teams did and what are their chances moving forward.
Now to games:
Ambush
3rd week rating: perfect (5 wins from 5)
How is it going overall: now clearly among the top tier 4 teams in league
Ambush made some trades last week and by the look of it, they have really worked out. First game vs strong dice team started as bad as it could. Turban was late so ambush started with 41 vps, rojo had no idea res cap was back and struggled with that, so in early stages ambush was dominated and at some point was already -12. After turban appeared and subbed rojo, slowly but surely ambush started making a comeback. Key KOs on struggling flew and zizzo gave ambush 5v4 and 5v3, they nicely took advantage of and saiyan KOd the last remaining dice players for important win. Same lineup saiyan/turban/hulk/bluff/lee started against terrorist team as well, which was more dominant game with terrorist never really having a chance. Turban again mvp with 14-9 but rest of team also very solid.
In jav, ambush had easy schedule with struggling cloud and prime as opponents. Both games were dominated with Kim fitting nicely to new team and turban once again having great games mvping in both matches.
In base, ambush faced thunder, who was also missing some key players. Besides some laps of concentration, team with lee/rojo under turban/rucci/saiyan over and joe/cig smoke sharking and azuline terring had no real issues ending with perfect weekend.
Tasks to work on: With playoff spots pretty secure, praccing teamwork maybe testing some alternative lineups and players could be on table. Jav has been weakness for ambush, those 2 weekend wins are nice, but they played against 41.5 vp cloud and prime who has only won 1 game of jav entire season, so time will tell if the new setup with Kim involved is true contender for title.
Pure Luck
2nd week rating: looking very strong in everything (5 wins from 6)
How is it going overall: Top of table and not looking back
Tiny also gave chance to new traded players with unlimited and whispus both getting start in their first wb game against legendary. Unlimited did fine, but whispus pretty much choked with 3-10 and being first one out. That did not matter though, as vys was on fire with 21-6, backed up with dak going also 17-8 and pure luck got a comfortable win. In second game though, pure luck got one of those rare defeats as they were totally not prepared for the creature show that they witnessed. Banks replacing whispus did not better at all and rest of team also couldnt handle creature turning on the aimbot (20 kills from 66 shots is crazy).
In jav, tiny/vys/rampage trio is really looking great out there. Both games vs first terrorist and second vs cloud were one-sided affairs, in both games tiny also used different lineups showing how versatile this team really is with scuzzy/whispus playing girst game and banks/rekashi second game.
In base, pure luck is only team still going undefeated out of all leagues. First game vs struggling prime should not be even mentioned and second game vs Thunder gave them no worries as well. They got 2 games left vs ambush and power, lets see if they continue their winning run.
Tasks to work on: tiny has been doing well leading the team, comfortable lead on table, alot of players getting chances to play. Also trades have been spot on, so i would not change a thing.
Power
3rd week rating: Okeyish (3 wins from 5)
How is it going overall: above playoff line, but alot of work still to be done.
It was somewhat improvement for power, but it had also to do with schedule as both base games were vs bottom table teams.
Things are not looking good for power in wb. They are only team yet to win a single game. This also did not change last weekend with game vs legendary. This time trying stayon in lineup with bacon returning, result was still pretty clear loss, even though they were 5v4 at some point of game. Looking at data it looks like they were just outbulleted with legendary shooting over 100 more.
First jav game also sucked with bacon/stayon choking out early. Okyo also poor with 4-10. He did improve massively though for second game against Thunder, mvping with 15-9, solid support from rest of team as well.
In base Power dismantled 2 weakest base teams in cloud and prime without any issues with zid/dare taking sharking role.
Tasks to work on: things are not really looking that good for power and it feels weaker compared to previous zid draft league teams. They are still one of the strongest teams in jav and could be title contenders there if they make it to playoffs, in base there are questions about that second shark role besides zid and in wb they are just godawful. Still they got 2 point advantage now over legendary, who has their own issues, so for now they look to be holding on to their spot.
Legendary
3rd week rating: Still weak (2 wins from 5)
How is to going overall: Currently not making it to playoffs
Legendary did that somewhat weird trade on lockdown last week and now ended up playing with max 42vps in wb. In first game vs pure luck they had no chance whatsoever with entire team going negative. In second game vs power they reshuffled a bit and started with lineup jabra/hosack/bombed/animeboy/raazi and that did better. Animeboy mvpd with hosack also supporting nicely.
Legendary is by far the worst jav team out there, 0 wins so far and game vs dice also showed why. Entire team went negative with temu 5-10, jabra 4-10. This lineup just is not clicking in any way.
Base games were historic, as finally, after losing again clearly to terrorist, they got their first win of season against cloud. But yea, looking at legendary now, they are only expected to win games in wb and in jav/base, they can only win if opponent is missing half their lineup. And they need to pick this up if they even want to dream about playoffs. Not sure how to solve it.
Tasks to work on: Difficult to suggest anything, sometimes players may be good but they just dont work well together. Sprackle as shark could help the lopsided setup for base team, but for jav, maybe some big trade could turn things around?
Dice
3rd week rating: doing okey (3 wins from 5)
How is it going overall: Among the top tier, looking forward for playoffs
Creature was the main player for dice for this weekend. Early signs already in lost wb game vs ambush, where he went 14-10, in second game vs pure luck, he really came alive going 20-7. Flew was clearly one of the players wanting to forget the weekend with 5-10 and 3-6 games in wb.
In jav Dice had 2 easy games with both power and legendary giving up without much of fight. Creature and cape carried their team, but everyone really doing their job. With 5 wins, dice is currently the best team in jav and title favorite.
In base dice gave debut for 6.5* shark cow lives matter. It was an interesting experiment as it gave them opportunity to test very solid spider lineup of drose/banzi/zizzo/sword/creature. IN the end though, terrorist was stronger team by far, so time will tell if we see cow lives in another game this season.
Tasks to work on: very solid in duelling leagues, so keep creature showing up like this. IN base, they have taken the points where they could, but they just seem to be missing something to really fight top teams.
Terrorist
3rd week rating: keeping it stable (3 wins from 6)
How is it going overall: you never know what terrorist team shows up against you, sometimes best ever, sometimes choking
So to counter last weekend great performance in jav, this time terrorist decided to drop the ball there, losing both, but keeping strong performances in base and a rare win in wb.
Burnt was star of the show for wb game vs thunder going 11-3 and getting 3 vital KOs in the game. So very solid start of weekend. For some reason they started with different lineup vs ambush with both new players ra/berzerk flopping hard.
In jav they got first dismantled by pure luck and then again against power team. In the end, every team wants to win the league, so solid group games and making it to playoffs have no value if those clutch games you still lose. Work to be done there.
In base though, terrorist keeps delivering and looks to be the main contender vs pure luck for title. This time they took out first legendary and then dice with cripple doing very solid debut as shark for this season.
Tasks to work on: some questions to be addressed for that jav performance last weekend. Base looking solid, wb needs some unexpected heros to get some wins.
Cloud
3rd week rating: horrible (1 win from 6)
How is it going overall: time to say goodbye?
In the ultimate bottom dwellers match, cloud faced off with prime in wb game. Despite emotionally unstable renzi going 4-10 and being first one out, mythril had his best game of this league with inspired 20-7 performance, cz also very solid as 6.5 going 8-8 and cloud took hard, but deserved win. Renzi continued his bonkers weekend with being subbed out at 2-6 after 3 minutes against thunder, which resulted in cloud playing 2vp under. Add hellkite going 2-10 and myth really had no changes to change this outcome.
In jav renzi completed his transformation to teenage girl with 4-10 after 7 mins against ambush and renziless but 40 vp cloud had no chances in second jav game against pure luck.
Not much was also expected from base games with dutch baser continuing his role as terrier and hellkite having to shark. In first game vs power they got outkilled by almost 140!. In second game vs legendary, 100 took sharking role (to be said he did horribly). So another clear loss.
Tasks to work on: Only way this team can have any chance is if all key people actually show up and dont go emo in games.
PS! I AM SORRY RENZI, I NEVER WANTED TO HURT YOUR FEELINGS!
Prime
3rd week rating: horrible (1 win from 5)
How is it going overall: would be even worse, but there are other struggling teams out there
Prime had pretty good game vs cloud in wb, but just couldnt handle mythril doing his things. Sarger started his poor weekend with 1-5 before going subbed.
In jav they had very good game vs thunder, who was missing some key players. Racka played well, as did sarger with solid support from rest of team. Second game vs ambush though was nightmare for sarger going 0-10 (with a tk!) and dwopple going 3-10. They really never got going.
In base though, they are hopeless as looks like apt didnt even bother showing, so racka had to terr again without much success.
Tasks to work on: feels like this team has given up, looking at that bizarre trade offer, although on paper, they can still make it as they have still 9 points up for grabs.
Thunder
3rd week rating: horrible (1 win from 5)
How is it going overall: early season success still keeps them above the line, but last weekend was horrible.
Thunder was missing some key players, mainly rainbow seeker, but also draft this weekend and drop in results was visible.
First they lost to terrorist, not really strongest wb team out there, despite ease going mvp with 17-10. But low vp horrorshow (shaun 1-6, menel 2-4) and burnt having game of his life on other team gave them the narrow loss. They improved vs cloud with jamal going 16-4, supported by ease.
In jav they had luckily only 1 game, as that performance vs prime was so bad they would have for sure lost also their other game. Mikkiz/ekko/shaun all going heavily negative.
And in base, without rainbow, they just dont have the spiderpower to support, in both games they got heavily outgunned against first ambush and then pure luck.
Tasks to work on: as weeks go by, they seem weaker and very heavily depend on rainbow seeker to give necessary support for ease. Rainbow can be also hit and miss, so Thunder performances are really unpredictable. FOr now they need to focus in securing that playoff spot, but this could be one of those low ranked teams really going far, especially in duelling leagues.
So after another week we seem to be having 3 tiers:
pure luck, ambush, terrorist and dice seem all comfy and thinking of playoffs already, power and thunder have had some bad luck with showups, but potentially still look like playoff teams and legendary/cloud/prime just are worse off and probably by now already demoralized and facing bad shows in upcoming weeks.
Players of the week:
WB: ease, vys, mythril, creature, turban
Jav: turban, tiny, creature, cape,
Base: saiyan, turban, rucci
Best low stars:
WB: ekko, lee, cz530
Jav: omega red
Base: tiny, cow lives matter, lee
Now to games:
Ambush
3rd week rating: perfect (5 wins from 5)
How is it going overall: now clearly among the top tier 4 teams in league
Ambush made some trades last week and by the look of it, they have really worked out. First game vs strong dice team started as bad as it could. Turban was late so ambush started with 41 vps, rojo had no idea res cap was back and struggled with that, so in early stages ambush was dominated and at some point was already -12. After turban appeared and subbed rojo, slowly but surely ambush started making a comeback. Key KOs on struggling flew and zizzo gave ambush 5v4 and 5v3, they nicely took advantage of and saiyan KOd the last remaining dice players for important win. Same lineup saiyan/turban/hulk/bluff/lee started against terrorist team as well, which was more dominant game with terrorist never really having a chance. Turban again mvp with 14-9 but rest of team also very solid.
In jav, ambush had easy schedule with struggling cloud and prime as opponents. Both games were dominated with Kim fitting nicely to new team and turban once again having great games mvping in both matches.
In base, ambush faced thunder, who was also missing some key players. Besides some laps of concentration, team with lee/rojo under turban/rucci/saiyan over and joe/cig smoke sharking and azuline terring had no real issues ending with perfect weekend.
Tasks to work on: With playoff spots pretty secure, praccing teamwork maybe testing some alternative lineups and players could be on table. Jav has been weakness for ambush, those 2 weekend wins are nice, but they played against 41.5 vp cloud and prime who has only won 1 game of jav entire season, so time will tell if the new setup with Kim involved is true contender for title.
Pure Luck
2nd week rating: looking very strong in everything (5 wins from 6)
How is it going overall: Top of table and not looking back
Tiny also gave chance to new traded players with unlimited and whispus both getting start in their first wb game against legendary. Unlimited did fine, but whispus pretty much choked with 3-10 and being first one out. That did not matter though, as vys was on fire with 21-6, backed up with dak going also 17-8 and pure luck got a comfortable win. In second game though, pure luck got one of those rare defeats as they were totally not prepared for the creature show that they witnessed. Banks replacing whispus did not better at all and rest of team also couldnt handle creature turning on the aimbot (20 kills from 66 shots is crazy).
In jav, tiny/vys/rampage trio is really looking great out there. Both games vs first terrorist and second vs cloud were one-sided affairs, in both games tiny also used different lineups showing how versatile this team really is with scuzzy/whispus playing girst game and banks/rekashi second game.
In base, pure luck is only team still going undefeated out of all leagues. First game vs struggling prime should not be even mentioned and second game vs Thunder gave them no worries as well. They got 2 games left vs ambush and power, lets see if they continue their winning run.
Tasks to work on: tiny has been doing well leading the team, comfortable lead on table, alot of players getting chances to play. Also trades have been spot on, so i would not change a thing.
Power
3rd week rating: Okeyish (3 wins from 5)
How is it going overall: above playoff line, but alot of work still to be done.
It was somewhat improvement for power, but it had also to do with schedule as both base games were vs bottom table teams.
Things are not looking good for power in wb. They are only team yet to win a single game. This also did not change last weekend with game vs legendary. This time trying stayon in lineup with bacon returning, result was still pretty clear loss, even though they were 5v4 at some point of game. Looking at data it looks like they were just outbulleted with legendary shooting over 100 more.
First jav game also sucked with bacon/stayon choking out early. Okyo also poor with 4-10. He did improve massively though for second game against Thunder, mvping with 15-9, solid support from rest of team as well.
In base Power dismantled 2 weakest base teams in cloud and prime without any issues with zid/dare taking sharking role.
Tasks to work on: things are not really looking that good for power and it feels weaker compared to previous zid draft league teams. They are still one of the strongest teams in jav and could be title contenders there if they make it to playoffs, in base there are questions about that second shark role besides zid and in wb they are just godawful. Still they got 2 point advantage now over legendary, who has their own issues, so for now they look to be holding on to their spot.
Legendary
3rd week rating: Still weak (2 wins from 5)
How is to going overall: Currently not making it to playoffs
Legendary did that somewhat weird trade on lockdown last week and now ended up playing with max 42vps in wb. In first game vs pure luck they had no chance whatsoever with entire team going negative. In second game vs power they reshuffled a bit and started with lineup jabra/hosack/bombed/animeboy/raazi and that did better. Animeboy mvpd with hosack also supporting nicely.
Legendary is by far the worst jav team out there, 0 wins so far and game vs dice also showed why. Entire team went negative with temu 5-10, jabra 4-10. This lineup just is not clicking in any way.
Base games were historic, as finally, after losing again clearly to terrorist, they got their first win of season against cloud. But yea, looking at legendary now, they are only expected to win games in wb and in jav/base, they can only win if opponent is missing half their lineup. And they need to pick this up if they even want to dream about playoffs. Not sure how to solve it.
Tasks to work on: Difficult to suggest anything, sometimes players may be good but they just dont work well together. Sprackle as shark could help the lopsided setup for base team, but for jav, maybe some big trade could turn things around?
Dice
3rd week rating: doing okey (3 wins from 5)
How is it going overall: Among the top tier, looking forward for playoffs
Creature was the main player for dice for this weekend. Early signs already in lost wb game vs ambush, where he went 14-10, in second game vs pure luck, he really came alive going 20-7. Flew was clearly one of the players wanting to forget the weekend with 5-10 and 3-6 games in wb.
In jav Dice had 2 easy games with both power and legendary giving up without much of fight. Creature and cape carried their team, but everyone really doing their job. With 5 wins, dice is currently the best team in jav and title favorite.
In base dice gave debut for 6.5* shark cow lives matter. It was an interesting experiment as it gave them opportunity to test very solid spider lineup of drose/banzi/zizzo/sword/creature. IN the end though, terrorist was stronger team by far, so time will tell if we see cow lives in another game this season.
Tasks to work on: very solid in duelling leagues, so keep creature showing up like this. IN base, they have taken the points where they could, but they just seem to be missing something to really fight top teams.
Terrorist
3rd week rating: keeping it stable (3 wins from 6)
How is it going overall: you never know what terrorist team shows up against you, sometimes best ever, sometimes choking
So to counter last weekend great performance in jav, this time terrorist decided to drop the ball there, losing both, but keeping strong performances in base and a rare win in wb.
Burnt was star of the show for wb game vs thunder going 11-3 and getting 3 vital KOs in the game. So very solid start of weekend. For some reason they started with different lineup vs ambush with both new players ra/berzerk flopping hard.
In jav they got first dismantled by pure luck and then again against power team. In the end, every team wants to win the league, so solid group games and making it to playoffs have no value if those clutch games you still lose. Work to be done there.
In base though, terrorist keeps delivering and looks to be the main contender vs pure luck for title. This time they took out first legendary and then dice with cripple doing very solid debut as shark for this season.
Tasks to work on: some questions to be addressed for that jav performance last weekend. Base looking solid, wb needs some unexpected heros to get some wins.
Cloud
3rd week rating: horrible (1 win from 6)
How is it going overall: time to say goodbye?
In the ultimate bottom dwellers match, cloud faced off with prime in wb game. Despite emotionally unstable renzi going 4-10 and being first one out, mythril had his best game of this league with inspired 20-7 performance, cz also very solid as 6.5 going 8-8 and cloud took hard, but deserved win. Renzi continued his bonkers weekend with being subbed out at 2-6 after 3 minutes against thunder, which resulted in cloud playing 2vp under. Add hellkite going 2-10 and myth really had no changes to change this outcome.
In jav renzi completed his transformation to teenage girl with 4-10 after 7 mins against ambush and renziless but 40 vp cloud had no chances in second jav game against pure luck.
Not much was also expected from base games with dutch baser continuing his role as terrier and hellkite having to shark. In first game vs power they got outkilled by almost 140!. In second game vs legendary, 100 took sharking role (to be said he did horribly). So another clear loss.
Tasks to work on: Only way this team can have any chance is if all key people actually show up and dont go emo in games.
PS! I AM SORRY RENZI, I NEVER WANTED TO HURT YOUR FEELINGS!
Prime
3rd week rating: horrible (1 win from 5)
How is it going overall: would be even worse, but there are other struggling teams out there
Prime had pretty good game vs cloud in wb, but just couldnt handle mythril doing his things. Sarger started his poor weekend with 1-5 before going subbed.
In jav they had very good game vs thunder, who was missing some key players. Racka played well, as did sarger with solid support from rest of team. Second game vs ambush though was nightmare for sarger going 0-10 (with a tk!) and dwopple going 3-10. They really never got going.
In base though, they are hopeless as looks like apt didnt even bother showing, so racka had to terr again without much success.
Tasks to work on: feels like this team has given up, looking at that bizarre trade offer, although on paper, they can still make it as they have still 9 points up for grabs.
Thunder
3rd week rating: horrible (1 win from 5)
How is it going overall: early season success still keeps them above the line, but last weekend was horrible.
Thunder was missing some key players, mainly rainbow seeker, but also draft this weekend and drop in results was visible.
First they lost to terrorist, not really strongest wb team out there, despite ease going mvp with 17-10. But low vp horrorshow (shaun 1-6, menel 2-4) and burnt having game of his life on other team gave them the narrow loss. They improved vs cloud with jamal going 16-4, supported by ease.
In jav they had luckily only 1 game, as that performance vs prime was so bad they would have for sure lost also their other game. Mikkiz/ekko/shaun all going heavily negative.
And in base, without rainbow, they just dont have the spiderpower to support, in both games they got heavily outgunned against first ambush and then pure luck.
Tasks to work on: as weeks go by, they seem weaker and very heavily depend on rainbow seeker to give necessary support for ease. Rainbow can be also hit and miss, so Thunder performances are really unpredictable. FOr now they need to focus in securing that playoff spot, but this could be one of those low ranked teams really going far, especially in duelling leagues.
So after another week we seem to be having 3 tiers:
pure luck, ambush, terrorist and dice seem all comfy and thinking of playoffs already, power and thunder have had some bad luck with showups, but potentially still look like playoff teams and legendary/cloud/prime just are worse off and probably by now already demoralized and facing bad shows in upcoming weeks.
Players of the week:
WB: ease, vys, mythril, creature, turban
Jav: turban, tiny, creature, cape,
Base: saiyan, turban, rucci
Best low stars:
WB: ekko, lee, cz530
Jav: omega red
Base: tiny, cow lives matter, lee
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