TWLJ Week 6 Hot or Not

[Marge]

Impala vs Thunder: 41-50

This turned out to be a surprisingly close game. Impala has yet to win a game this season but they have come relatively close on several occasions; this was one of them. About midgame, Thunder seemed to fall apart and had a less than mediocre performance. Luckily, led by Fludd (12-6) and Ceyve (12-7), they managed to pull through in the end and reclaim the first seed in the TWLJ standings. Sodly (4-10) had the only poor performance on Impala’s end. Although they have not yet won a game, I have to give respect to Impala for actually making these past two weeks interesting. Playoffs may be out of reach for you guys, but keep up the solid play and you TWLJ newbs will gain some valuable experience for the upcoming TWL seasons.

Sage vs Respect: 35-50

I am disappointed in Sage. Not only did they choose to show a line with a minority of javs, but they allowed Paradise of all newbs to MVP. I’m just kidding Paradise, you’re ok. Anyways, the worst performance came from Major Crisis (1-10). Hard to blame him though, it’s like me going 1-10 in an LD (something that would not really be unexpected). Led by Eelam (12-7) and Paradise (14-8), Respect pulverized this less than adequate Sage lineup. I’m not exactly sure why Sage chose to throw this winnable game. With Thunder as an opponent next week, they just put themselves at risk of losing two in a row and sacrificing a high playoff seed. Hopefully this loss doesn’t have a significant impact on Sage in terms of first round playoff matchups; otherwise the decision to throw this game will be heavily regretted.

Dice vs Boss: 45-50

Well, this is the one everyone has been waiting for. What a remarkable turn of events to say the least. Dice’s undefeated season came to a halt at the hands of Boss of all squads. I guess the decision to play basers instead of javs came back to kick Dice right in the ass. It was in fact the poor performances of Cig Smoke (1-4) and Jamal (3-6) that cost Dice this match. I am not exactly sure as to the reason, but in a shocking move, Dice axed Maketso following the loss. Would be interesting to find out why as many believed Maketso to be one of the guaranteed starting five for Dice. Anyways, enough about the losers, it’s time to honour the winners. There is no doubt that 98% of the win has to be attributed to the brilliant pair of Kid Cudi (16-8) and Toxie (15-10). Each one independently accumulated more kills than all the other team members combined. This win was crucial for Boss, as a loss could very well have meant an end to their playoff hopes. They are now in a 3-way race with Respect and Sage for the final two seeds. The deciding factor will most likely culminate with whoever wins the Boss vs Respect matchup taking place in two weeks. It should be a very interesting game with a desperation feel to it. Good work this week Boss, keep it up!

Rapid vs Fatal: 50-43

This was a battle of two squads who now appear to be out of contention for a playoff berth. Fatal no longer has a shot, and I highly doubt Rapid will win all three of its final games. Nonetheless, for the sake of this Hot or Not and for the purpose of observing developing javs, it is still important to analyze these games. Lordy (5-10) and Riksa (3-8) were probably the defining factors in the loss. The rest of Fatal performed adequately but were unable to compensate for these two. Rapid on the other hand, experienced consistent play from most of its players. Creature (14-10) has been striving to get my attention in these articles for the past 3 weeks. Although he choked horribly (started like 9-2), he still ended with the most kills in the game and deserves some respect. Herbalist Yangyun (13-10) [fucking hate writing that name out, get a shorter name god dam] and Qyll (11-7) also had strong performances. With playoffs seeming out of reach for both these squads, the remaining games should serve developmental purposes. You never know, these squads can also break some hearts and upset one of the three on the brink of elimination.

Mad vs Shinobi: 50-43

This was generally a very balanced game. For the first time in a long time, Mad decided to show a line that can arguably be its starting five. The game was ultimately dominated by one player who led Mad to the victory. Turban (16-9) had by far his strongest performance of the season. It is unfortunate that I will be unable to give him the Hot this week given the dominance of the Boss duo over Dice, but on any other week he would have received it. No one player on Shinobi really lost it for them, they were simply outplayed. It is difficult to predict what this loss means in terms of playoff seeds, but with tough games against Sage and Dice still left on the schedule of Shinobi, there is a slight possibility that their berth is at risk. All in all if they want a chance at a post-season, Shinobi must bring their A-game from here on out and beat one of the aforementioned two.

In summary:

Hot of the Week: Kid Cudi/Toxie combo
Honourable Mention: Turban, Paradise

Not of the Week: Sage for their awful showing
Dishounrable Mention: Sodly, Cig Smoke/Jamal

Until next week, stay classy Trench Wars Leaguers!

[HoTlAvAkInG]

i guess i will have to show up next match then..
bummer

[Draft]

Anyways, the worst performance came from Major Crisis (1-10). Hard to blame him though, it’s like me going 1-10 in an LD (something that would not really be unexpected).

jav is his main ship..

[PjOtTeR]

Some might say Im a sore loser about this, and to them I have to say, then so be it I dont give a fuck about you if you think that's the case. All I have to say it is rediculous how certain players are allowed to play in TWL with the spike they have, it has nothing to do with skills or an even playing field, something I hope TWL-ops strive for. Without the lag of mostly vys and turban; Mad would have never won. When you see Vys bomb and then eat 3 pairs of bullets and a bomb, before dieing to a second bomb, causing nearly the entire opponent to be low nrg and rushable and thus losing every momentum cause of the spike and eatage, you know that is lag that should warrant some1 being specced.

If I am the only person that sees it this way, please say so, but dont be a pussy afraid of being called a whiner and a guy looking for excuses... I dont need to give excuses for losses, I've lost plenty, and I wont bring excuses and I wont whine about shit if I think there was a fair game. I've lost plenty of games where I thought it was an even playing field and a fair game and you wont hear a fuckin thing from me. But if I do think the playing field was unfair, I sure as hell wont hold my mouth about it. And the people thinking now: he always whines when he loses to me, should stop the game-influencing shit they are doing...

Oh, and fixed

No one player on Shinobi really lost it for them, they were simply outlagged.

Oh and someone fix the stats on TWL page so it also shows TKS, which will show how many TKs Mad had, which will show they suck immensely cause they dont watch where they bomb and just expect their lag to do the job, which works since nothing is done about it.
(We made 38 kills, plus atleast a few TKs ourself, score was 50-43, so Mad Tk'd atleast 5 times, Plus the amount of Tks we made which are at least 2... so they TK'd a minimum of 7 times... and not because they were trying to tk, cause the score was 38-38 at some point and in games that close you dont try to tk...

P.S. Staff should understand that the ppl pulling a Zerzera, or using rediculous cheat programs in a private arena are no harm to the game and the league in particular... It's the people that try to adjust their lag so it's hardly noticable but gives them a great advantage, it's the people that try to cheat just so much that they get a small advantage, but will get away with it cause it is hardly noticable, It's those people that ruine the game... Someone getting caught for doing such a thing should be banned for a long time and for multiple seasons of TWL. This is a problem! and if you do not recognize it as a problem this game just will lose whatever little credibility it ever had.

[Downfall]

I thought Maketso was top jav in dice ~_~. They have enough playable javs tho.

[bone thug]

Boss doing big tingz

[Dwopple]

megaman agreed to let cig smoke play if he said that penn state was better than michigan at college football.

Maketso was axed because hes an emo baby after every week (win or lose) in LJ, though i do not agree with the axing.


Tune in next week for why grandmastahs is a complete douche bag, thats all for now on The Real World: Dice.

[Eugene]

great read, very well written - unlike half the trash on this forum.
if you are thinking of taking up a career in journalism let me know, I work for the sportswriter's desk at Sportsnet Canada.

[Infrared]

Some might say Im a sore loser about this, and to them I have to say, then so be it I dont give a fuck about you if you think that's the case. All I have to say it is rediculous how certain players are allowed to play in TWL with the spike they have, it has nothing to do with skills or an even playing field, something I hope TWL-ops strive for. Without the lag of mostly vys and turban; Mad would have never won. When you see Vys bomb and then eat 3 pairs of bullets and a bomb, before dieing to a second bomb, causing nearly the entire opponent to be low nrg and rushable and thus losing every momentum cause of the spike and eatage, you know that is lag that should warrant some1 being specced.

If I am the only person that sees it this way, please say so, but dont be a pussy afraid of being called a whiner and a guy looking for excuses... I dont need to give excuses for losses, I've lost plenty, and I wont bring excuses and I wont whine about shit if I think there was a fair game. I've lost plenty of games where I thought it was an even playing field and a fair game and you wont hear a fuckin thing from me. But if I do think the playing field was unfair, I sure as hell wont hold my mouth about it. And the people thinking now: he always whines when he loses to me, should stop the game-influencing shit they are doing...

Oh, and fixed


Oh and someone fix the stats on TWL page so it also shows TKS, which will show how many TKs Mad had, which will show they suck immensely cause they dont watch where they bomb and just expect their lag to do the job, which works since nothing is done about it.
(We made 38 kills, plus atleast a few TKs ourself, score was 50-43, so Mad Tk'd atleast 5 times, Plus the amount of Tks we made which are at least 2... so they TK'd a minimum of 7 times... and not because they were trying to tk, cause the score was 38-38 at some point and in games that close you dont try to tk...

P.S. Staff should understand that the ppl pulling a Zerzera, or using rediculous cheat programs in a private arena are no harm to the game and the league in particular... It's the people that try to adjust their lag so it's hardly noticable but gives them a great advantage, it's the people that try to cheat just so much that they get a small advantage, but will get away with it cause it is hardly noticable, It's those people that ruine the game... Someone getting caught for doing such a thing should be banned for a long time and for multiple seasons of TWL. This is a problem! and if you do not recognize it as a problem this game just will lose whatever little credibility it ever had.

my god.. you should be banned from forums for this

[Zizu]

it's not like we chose to give it away really. just 4 of our 5 starters couldn't show (work w.e) also i barely managed to play that one before i had to go and miss our ld. so lucky for respect that we didn't have our starters online.

[Major Crisis]

jav is his main ship..

My main ship is spec.

[Turban]

blahblahblah 40 lines of text and whining.

Hello? Don't grab that razorblade yet, Pjotter.

Shinobi had a good game, no doubt about that. I am not sure if you deserved the win, but it was good match none the less. Yet, for some odd reason, you decided to log on to the forums and start ranting about our squad having a bunch cheaters and laggots and how you lost because of that.

I am getting sick of people calling me a lag cheater. It happens every single game I play and is getting old very fast, so please just stop it already. Sorry to dissapoint you, but my latency was as good as it gets that game. It is impossible for me to get below this from Finland:

PING Current:120 ms Average:120 ms Low:120 ms High:150 ms S2C: 0.1% C2S: 0.0%

The lowest latency possible is governed by the laws of physics. Specifically, by the speed of light. ~120ms is as fast as it gets from Finland to Trench Wars server located in Washington, DC.

Just admit your defeat. We won fair and square, or do I have to write a novel about how you guys literally ate over 8 bombs that game? You would most likely just deny my claim, as narrow-minded as you are, and counter it with another long post how your players did not lag. Unfortunately you would be lying then, as your squad had the only lagout that game. :fear:

post scriptum: keep up with the 2 TKs per game ratio, Spawnisen! Love you.

/end of rant

[PjOtTeR]

I am getting sick of people calling me a lag cheater. It happens every single game I play and is getting old very fast, so please just stop it already.

Why do you think it happens every single game?
TADA, and I know your problem with getting a good connection, but I doubt a steady 120 ms connection spikes that bad. Also, your lag is not near as rediculously stupid as vys his is. And yes people whine when they are annoyed or when they think unfair things are happening. Why do you think people whine about "unjust" bans, or "unjust" warnings even? Same reason...

And as I stated in my post, if I am the only person who sees it this way, and thus likely the only person who experiences it this way, Ill stop my rant and just go laginduce since that's the new standard and as long as I stay within limits it seems like it's allowed.... Oh no, wait... I'd rather quit then do something so silly just because you cannot win the normall way, so if I'm the only person thinking about it this way, yes ill just quit like the 20000th person... I remember a couple of jd's in which certain players did not spike stupid and lagged normall, they got trashed... but then poof their lag was up again and they dominated... crap like that is silly, I cannot do anything about it, cause if I could I Would and thus I have to make silly forums posts about it hoping the people in charge will see this matter. It is just stupid how people didn't spike nearly as bad 5 years ago, sure they spiked further but not just at the most convenient times.

[Turban]

Uh-oh?

I wonder if the reason for that is that there is a group of sore losers, just like yourself, that have to make up excuses about others lagging? Well guess what, you're both right and wrong. I am a laggot, but so are you.

You, one who are from Netherlands, should never complain about people lagging. You have similar lag than any of us normal players that live in Europe, and we can not do a shit about it. Live with that lag, as you are a laggot, no matter what you say, that fact will never change.

As for the cheater reports, I have never been warned or banned for having latency issues in a TWD/TWL game. The moderators will either just check my lag and leave as there is nothing wrong, or tell the cheater reporter to stop crying as he/she has more lag than I do.

You should just stop caring about people "eating on your screen", that is what I do. I see several eats every round and keep my mouth shut about it. I just do not see any point of whining to everyone about minor things like eats, because they did not hit on their screen. That's all that matters to me at least. Maybe I just don't care as much as you do, who knows? That's just the way I am.

Why can't you do the same? Why are you so friggen stubborn? Why can't you realize that you are a laggot, just like me? Man up and stop crying, seriously.

/end of rant again.

[bone thug]

Pjotter there is nothing the foreign kids of SS can do so stfu and stop your crying, you make it seem like you live and breath for SS. Give it a break kid.