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beach — Right, seeing as though broder vs. Epsilon was a massive anti-climax, I’ll try again…HYPE! Yes that’s right, tonight Epsilon take on Crack Clan.
This looks set to be a real clash of the titans; both teams have had strong seasons so far and Epsilon, unsurprisingly, are yet to lose a map.
Epsilon’s Week One game was versus Team Doctrinal, who they polished off in around 20 minutes (total), winning Gullywash in just 7 minutes. Week Two was the game which built up so much hype and let us all down (thanks broder…), when Epsilon once again rolled, winning 6-1, 5-0 on Badlands and Snakewater respectively. In Week Three Epsilon faced off against Quarantine, who despite putting up a good fight on Snakewater, eventually lost 5-0 on Badlands and 5-3 on Snake. Finally, Epsilon’s most recent game against Pokeman ended with that all-too-familiar scoreline, 5-0, 5-1 on Gullywash and Process.
Crack Clan have also had a good run so far, although not quite as flawless as Epsilon. Their Week One game was against Pokeman, a game which Crack Clan took, winning 6-2, 4-2 on Badlands and Gullywash. In Week Two they faced Team Doctrinal, who, after having such an appalling game against Epsilon, were probably looking to improve and at least make it past the 10 minute mark. They did, but Crack Clan still managed to win the game, winning 5-2 on Badlands and 6-3 on Snakewater. Crack Clan’s Week Three game versus BFF was their worst result so far, with both teams picking up 3 points as Crack Clan won kaidus’ favourite map Snakewater 5-2, but conceded Gullywash 3-2.
Let’s take a look at those rosters we all know and love:
Epsilon eSportsMedic – KnoxXx
Demoman – numlocked
Scouts – Stefan and basH
Crack ClanMedic – Admirable Demoman – brego
Soldiers – ipz- and minimoose
Scouts – smzi and TviQ
The clash to watch here will be numlocked versus brego. Both Demomen are incredibly talented and brego has certainly proven himself that he can easily compete against the best Demomen in Prem. However, will numlocked’s superior Prem experience be the deciding factor in this showdown? No doubt TviQ will have the sniper rifle in his hands as always, particularly on a map like Process; full of open spaces and long sight lines that enable a monster like TviQ to pop some heads.
Crack Clan’s recent PCW results have been mixed, as they drew 2-2 on Granary and won 5-2 on Process against BFF, but despite getting a 2-2 draw on Snakewater versus broder alsolost 4-2 on Gullywash. I couldn’t find any logs for Epsilon in any PCWs they’ve played recently, but as Admirable’spost mentioned the fact that they were getting ‘routinely smashed’ by KnoxXx and co., Epsilon have presumably been continuing their winning streak in practise as well as in officials. Speaking of Admirable’s recent post, it seems Crack Clan have also been attempting to review their strategies in order to give them a fighting chance against Epsilon…whether this works out for them remains to be seen.
I caught up with numlocked earlier, who gave a (very) short comment:
Super confident, but hate the maps.
Seb’s evident hatred of these two maps might put Crack Clan in a slightly better position…after all, they claimed that Process was their home map, so do they still have this attitude?
I also spoke to Admirable in the hope of hearing some of those famous wise words:
We’ve been making steady progress in the last week towards a more comprehensive play style. The team atmosphere is better than ever and there is a lot of self-belief. We have a lot of play time against Epsilon on Snakewater and as such I feel well prepared. Process is obviously our home map, so I can be fairly confident in predicting a straight two map victory for Crack Clan.
So there we have it, VanillaTV will be streaming this live from 21:15 cet; Arx and Beta will be handling the speech, with AnimaL on the stream providing excellent camera work as always.
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2013-02-20 by beach.
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.