beach — The middle of the Premiership has been so tightly-contested this season; three teams ended up on 14 points: All Tied Up, Revoluzion la Metagame, and SOLAR. Since All Tied Up have dropped, with kaidus joining Zaibatsu , this leaves the two teams tonight, RLM and SOLAR, to battle it out to see who earns that 4th place and goes into the playoffs alongside Epsilon eSports, broder and Zaibatsu.
Both teams have had roughly similar seasons. RLM have managed two wins overall: once versus controversy-central 90 Fov eSports, and the other against Last Man Standing. They managed to draw against SOLAR during the main season, but other than that, lost the rest of their games, picking up 1 point against All Tied Up. Their opponents tonight didn’t fare much better, taking away just one outright win in the main season, once again versus 90 Fov eSports, and they managed a draw with All Tied Up as well as RLM. They gained 2 points from their game against LMS, but failed to chip the armour of the ‘Big 3′.
Tonight:
Tonight’s match will be played, as will all the subsequent playoff games, as a Best of 3, with the first map being decided either by mutual agreement or a good-old heavy fist fight.
I caught up with ilike2spin from RLM to see what he had to say about the game and what he thought about going into the playoffs if RLM win tonight:
11:46 – beach: Are you confident about tonight? How do you think you’ll do in the playoffs if you do get there?
11:51 – Spin: From what i can tell neither team has really practiced the past 2 weeks or so and solar has a couple of subs so i don’t honestly know, would be nice to win this and make it to the playoff since that was the aim at the beginning of the season but i expect our season to end there
Roving reporter Arie grabbed Hycz for a quick statement as well:
Arie – serveme.tf: vani was removed from the roster recently, is it true skeej will be his replacement tonight?
Hycz: Yes, as skeej as been playing with us before it really helps when he is playing
Hycz: has* that would be :D
Arie – serveme.tf: 2. You and RLM have been very evenly matched during the regular season, are we likely to see a 3-mapper tonight?
Hycz: Yup.. but im fearing the worse rlm has improved a lot..
Hycz: But yes, there will probably be a 3 mapper
Hycz: 3 really close maps
Arie – serveme.tf: final question: If the teams can’t agree on the first map, a heavy fist fight is required, what’s your secret tactic?
Hycz: You know that old luring tactic that scouts did in div 5.. ye thats happening lure people behind a corner and taunt kill them WADDAP
Join us tonight on VanillaTV from the usual time of 21:15 cest: ladies-man Byte and SuddenlyStarMia will be your casters, with everyone’s favourite movie-maker BoneS on the stream; it’s sure to be an epic, close game, so don’t forget to tune in!
We’re casting the ESA grand finals instead! Go to tf.tv if you want to see RLM vs SOLAR!
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2013-07-07 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.