VODs:
Do ElemV have all the elements required to take the game?
Are Lutuset set to take the match?
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Ally — Welcome kiddos to this Week 4 (just kidding, they’re still on Week 2) fixture between Lutuset and Elemental Violence where both teams have had very different starts to the season. Elemental Violence are looking to pick up their first points of the season after their first week defeat to SOLAR 2013 while Lutuset will be looking for a win to stay in contention with the aforementioned leaders of the division. The maps tonight will be Badlands and Snakewater, Snakewater having already seen an upset this season with Pokeman (formerly myDGB) taking the map off BFF, we’ll have to wait and see whether Snakewater becomes a map for the underdogs in later weeks…
So then, the teams for tonight:
Medic – Kastos
Demoman – Byte
Soldiers – War and Shrike
Scouts – HeadHunter and E-thug
Since their main pre-season roster changes, veering on folding at one point (or at least replacing their scouts), E lemV have recently picked up Byte as their maincaller for the season to replace Coco on demo, who’s voice was too smooth and relaxing and allowed people to drop their focus during games.
I had a look at Byte’s VOD of their week 1 match against SOLAR and the team seemed to have a few teething problems to say the least. After a good first 15 minutes in contention on Gullywash, ElemV just seemed to lose more of the fights that were closer earlier on and managed to lose a lot of players in those fights through a few in the team being too over-aggressive initially.
This was followed by a fast paced Snakewater where ElemV lost out 7-2 in 20 minutes due to, in my opinion, SOLAR playing with much better dm and constantly picking off Kastos after mid-fights. Whether they agree with the calls or not, the rest of ElemV will need to adapt fast to the new style of play Byte is bringing if they want to compete in Div1 this season.
I spoke to War from Elemental Violence earlier to get his thoughts on tonight’s match:
“We’ve been playing Lutuset often recently and have had no problems dealing with them, their scouts are their main strength but we feel as soon as we take them out of the game it’s a lot easier for us. In my opinion Lutuset scared me last season with their lineup, their changes seem to have made them quite average. I think the game will be close, our team were really close to folding so to get anything out of this would actually be a bonus, as long as we go in to the game with a level head I think we can do it, but if we approach it with the same attitude as the Solar game we could easily crumble.”
Medic – m0re
Demoman – Salmon
Soldiers – Spudge and Tumpelol
Scouts – Rake and Santtu
Lutuset have undergone a bigger roster revamp in recent times than ElemV, although probably weren’t as close to folding in doing so. A few weeks ago Honky was brought in soldier, m0re on demo and Rake on scout to replace the army-bound MInd but in the past week, medic Jose has decided to stop playing meaning Salmon has come in to replace m0re, who himself made the move to medic. (….so much )
In their Week 1 game, Lutuset comprehensively smashed Splendid Gaming 5-0 5-2. Looking back through the logs of their first week fixture, it was surprising to find that on the second map, Lutuset managed to output less overall damage than their opponents, which I will have to attribute to some great team coordination and using Jose’s heals to full effect. The overall damage is even more a surprising statistic when taking into account a huge 12k output from m0re (who took only a third of the heals as well… imagine what he could do with 60%, eat your heart out Zebbosai) Also despite having team play as forte, during the game I’ll be watching Rake and Tumpelol to make the big plays.
“We haven’t played much, but we think we can take EV on a good day. We also haven’t gotten quite used to our new lineup either, but we’re getting there. Should be an interesting match.”
I think tonight we’ll see Lutuset coming out on top with Badlands being the map where ElemV could look to take a point or steal a win. I don’t think off classing will play too much of a big part in the game tonight, according to Rake he hasn’t been sniping as much lately, and besides if he does, in the words of War “I outsnipe Rake all day every day”.
The game tonight will be covered by VanillaTV by a currently unannounced combo by mostly like featuring Pledge + 1 on the mic and AnimaL on the stream.
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2013-02-11 by Ally.
Recovered from the Internet Archive (archived copy) as part of tf2esports.com's preservation of VanillaTV's TF2 coverage. The original site is no longer online. All rights remain with the original author; reposted for historical reference.