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Round 1
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PLAYOFFS 1
Playoff Edition
Round 1
Hot or Not Archive:
WEEK 1
WEEK 2
WEEK 3
WEEK 4
REPLAY
PLAYOFFS 1
Note: The delineation of "Winner" and "Loser" ahead of Quarter-Finals and Semi-Finals indicates if the match is in the upper bracket (Winner's bracket) or lower bracket (Loser's bracket.) Team's in the Winner's Bracket are NOT eliminated from Playoffs; they are sent down to the Loser's bracket. Any match lost in the Loser's Bracket results in elimination from the playoffs.
It's also worth noting, that "Winner's Semi-Final" and "Loser's Quarter-Final" function exactly like Conference Semi-Finals or Conference Finals in major sports -- Whoever advances from the Winner's Semi-Final does NOT advance to the finals -- they advance to the Winner's Final. The two teams advancing from the Winner's Final and the Loser's Final meet in the actual championship Finals.
Check out Turban's schedule posts to see the Playoff Brackets:
http://forums.trenchwars.org/showthr...ayoff-schedule
http://forums.trenchwars.org/showthr...ayoff-schedule
http://forums.trenchwars.org/showthr...ayoff-schedule
TWLD
Winner's Semi-Final
Burn vs. Fierce
50-45
Round 1
Despite being sans Racka, Weak, and Weaver, Burn took the fight to Fierce's A-Team, as Apok, DEEZ NUTS, and LaSenza returned to action after taking the Replay week off.
Raazi (14-9) continued his domination of TWLD, proving to be Burn's best warbird this season after helping Cobra to the Finals last year, leading Best (13-8), Ogron (10-9), Mythril (6-9), and Ease (7-10) to the W.
LaSenza (13-10) and Apok (12-10) came out blistering hot, with good outings from Vash (10-10) and Geio (9-10), but warbirding legend DEEZ NUTS (1-10) had one of the worst playoff performances of his storied career, putting Fierce in a 0-1 hole.
HOT: Raazi
NOT: DEEZ NUTS (1-10). I was your first teammate in Trench Wars in 2003. I said "take it easy on me", not "do your best Geio impression."
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Fierce vs. Burn
50-47
Round 2
This was an incredibly tough match, going down to the wire as Fierce narrowly pulled out a 50-47 win at the end. All ten players in the match had between 8 to 12 kills and 9 to 10 deaths, making this the most evenly spread game in recent TWLD playoff memory.
Apok (11-9), Skepsis (10-9), Vash (10-10), Lasenza (10-10), and DEEZ NUTS (8-9) managed to close out Burn and secure the victory, tying the match at 1-1.
On the losing side, Best (12-10), Ease (10-10), Raazi (9-10), Ogron (8-10), and Mythril (8-10) fell 3 kills short of clinching the match.
HOT: Apok
NOT: None
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Fierce vs. Burn
50-40
Round 3
Apok (14-8) once again managed to rally his troops late, and get the win, ahead of Skepsis (12-9), Vash (8-6), DEEZ NUTS (8-8), and LaSenza (7-9).
Raazi (10-10), Ogron (10-10), and Mythril (8-10) seemed in good position to lead Burn to the W, but with the score tied at 35-35 Best (7-10) died out light years ahead of everyone else, leading to a devastating 5v4 advantage barely past the halfway point of the game, which Fierce had no trouble exploiting, while an underwhelming Ease (5-10) didn't help things, either.
Burn will take on Dudgeon in the Loser's Semi-Finals this weekend.
HOT: Apok
NOT: Best
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Winner's Semi-Final
Potenza vs. Cobra
50-31
Round 1
Potenza wiped the floor with Cobra's entrails, then hung Rasaq's (1-8) corpse from them, to show future opponents what they're in for, as Creature (10-10) and Ricko (9-10) couldn't stop their teammates from imploding, as Riverside (6-10) and Kentaro (3-10) got smushed.
God-King Okyo (17-9) annihilated them, going Super Saiyan ahead of Iron Lagcheater (12-5), Cres (9-7), Serviceable (6-4), and Forces (6-6).
HOT: Okyo
NOT: Rasaq (1-8)
NOT: Clark Kentaro (3-10). You can't spell KRYPTONITE without OKYO.
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Potenza vs. Cobra
50-39
Round 2
Potenza improved to 9-0 for the season, finishing Cobra off as Iron Survivor (16-6) tore them apart with a plethora of invisibullets and flying through rocks, alongside Okyo (13-10), Served (9-6), Forces (7-8), and a dookie performance from Cres (5-9).
Kentaro (10-10) picked up his game round 2, but it proved too little, too late, despite good rounds from Ricko (9-10) and vys (9-10), as Riverside once again held them back, with a pathetic 4-10, while Creature was underwhelming with a 7-10.
Potenza will take on Fierce in the Winner's Final this Sunday.
HOT: Iron Survivor
NOT: Riverside (4-10). Like Baby Moses, Cobra should also abandon you by the riverside. Awful.
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Loser's Round of 16
Vikings vs. Dudgeon
50-48
Round 1
Jones, playing out of his friggin' mind, looked like an in-his-prime Adrian Peterson out there, dropping an insane 20-8 to lead Vikings to this impressive Round 1 victory, leading Ison (10-10), Steep (8-10), Ravos (7-10), and Cloth (5-10) to the well-deserved victory.
Dudgeon saw good outings from Stayon (13-10), Zizzo (12-10), and JAMAL (12-10), but were let down by omega red (6-10) and megaman89 (5-10).
HOT: Jones!
NOT: megaman89 (5-10)
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Dudgeon vs. Vikings
50-47
Round 2
Zizzo (15-9), megaman89 (14-9), JAMAL (8-9), dreamwin (7-10), and Stayon (6-10) edged out Vikings in this battle of the titans, winning by a whole 3 points. Wowzas!
Jones (12-10) and Cloth (14-10) continued to bash heads in on newbie squad Vikings, but despite passable scores from Ravos (7-10) and Steep (7-10), Ison's 2-6 proved the difference, despite a strong sub from ugly (5-4).
HOT: Zizzo
NOT: Ison (2-6). The only time anyone has ever used your name positively in a sentence, was "Hey, come quick! Game of Thrones is on!" Dookie.
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Dudgeon vs. Vikings
50-43
Round 3
Three-league legend and general all-around forum asshole megaman89 (15-9) led Dudgeon to the victory, as Zizzo (13-8) continued to excel in a ship he's not known for, while JAMAL (11-8) finally played up to exceptions, while the mighty Vikings proved too much for dreamwin (7-10), Stayon (4-6), and Elven (0-4).
Major Crisis (14-10) continued the theme of basers excelling in TWLD this week, putting up fierce resistance, but despite more good play from Jones (9-10) and Cloth (8-10), Steep (6-10) was sub-par, Ravos's 5-5 sub came too late, and Ison (1-5) once again sank his squadron's ship, finishing 3-11 for the day. Gross!
Dudgeon will face off against Burn in the Loser's Semi-Final, while Vikings is eliminated. It was a great run in TWLD this season, despite the sour note it ended on.
HOT: megaman89
NOT: Ison (1-5). I ran out of puns for your name this season. Thankfully, you ran Vikings' TWLD into the ground, and are now eliminated.
HONORING THE FALLEN
Jones (Vikings)
Jones (Vikings)
Jones ended his TWLD season leading the entire league in Kills Per Game, with a 12.33 average over 9 games, as well as the record for most kills in a round, with 20, while posting the second most kills up to this point, with an amazing 111-77 record. All this while on one of the worst warbirding squads in the league. Kudos!
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Loser's Round of 16
LEGO vs. Paladen
50-37
Round 1
ROWS (15-10) tore into Paladen, leading Joemama (10-7), Flew (9-9), energy (8-5), and turban (8-6) to glorious victory.
For Paladen, Plead (10-10) was the lone bright spot, as jebass, AFRI, dour, Jessup, and little buddha were a buffet of suck, with Racketeer (4-3) piloting a palatable 4-3 substitution.
HOT: ROWS
NOT: jebass (4-7). If jebass had Ease, DEEZ NUTS, Ricko, Banzi, Blood and demonfaze on his Roster, he'd still start himself. The only thing you should start yourself is the car in the garage you eventually use to intentionally asphyxiate yourself with.
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Paladen vs. LEGO
50-33
Round 2
Paladen bounced back to push this to three rounds, as little buddha (12-3) and Racketeer (11-3) showed up big time, absolutely decimating LEGO with monster performances, ahead of Plead (12-9), Jessup (9-8), AFRI (4-7), and dour (2-3).
Turban (12-10) was the only force resisting the onslaught, but couldn't buoy negative scores from ROWS (9-10), energy (1-4), Flew (6-10), Joemama (4-10), and Pat B (1-6).
HOT: little buddha
HOT: Racketeer
NOT: Joemama (4-10). If Geio was the worst player on a good team this year (although Riverside makes a strong argument), joemama was definitely the worst player on a bad team, with a league-leading -26 differential in TWLD. The only way anyone would ever compliment your warbirding was if your plus-minus in warbird determined the weather -- schoolchildren around the world would be praising your play in hopes of cancellations.
Do LEGO a favor and cancel your internet subscription.
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LEGO vs. Paladen
51-48
Round 3
Despite a pro sub-in giving themselves an extra death, Paladen fell two kills short of keeping their season alive, as Flew (13-9) and Turban (12-10) put the nail in their coffin, leading energy (9-9), Joemama (9-10), and ROWS (7-10) to the W.
Paladen went out swinging, as Racketeer (16-10) was a freakin' beast, as was dour (14-10), as the two almost carried Paladen to the promise-land with a ridiculous 30 kills combined. Sadly, AFRI (9-10), Alextron (1-2), jebass (0-3), Jessup (4-7), and Plead (4-9) all negged.
LEGO will take on Cobra in the Loser's Semi-Final this Sunday, while Paladen is eliminated!
HOT: Flew
HOT: Racketeer
NOT: jebass (0-3) and Plead (4-9). They both played horribly, but jebass also gets bonus NOT for awful captaincy and delinquent substitutions. He once subbed out Aerin for himself years ago on Paladen (our best player, and one who had dropped 17 kills the week prior) while he led the rush the entire game and lured 9000 kills, turning a 7-kill lead into a 7-kill defeat. When asked why he subbed Aerin out, he said "because he was -3. that's the rule." This idiot took advantage of Jessup while he was down on himself and got him to ?squadgrant Paladen to himself, and now they're stuck with his shitty captaining forever.
HONORING THE FALLEN
Racketeer (Paladen)
Racketeer (Paladen)
Racketeer went out with a bang, burning LEGO for 16 in a tough 50-48 Round 3 loss, putting up an impressive 87-71, 30 kills ahead of anyone else on Paladen, and one of only two players on his squad to go positive this season, with a solid +16. His 87 kills were 15th best in the league despite the handicap of playing on a bad team, and he proved he very much belongs in TWLD. Nice work!
kyo> lik me said me gonna fuk newb ricko..... Was very easy to dismantle.. Suk...
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