beach — 16 teams started off in their epic quest to win or claim back the money for their team’s tickets to attend Multiplay’s Insomnia 49 LAN in August. Now only three remain: the first, Decerto, are guaranteed a spot in the Grand Final as they made it through the winners’ bracket undefeated. The other two, Galant (aka HoverCrabs) and Furbo Pandas, will battle it out tomorrow at 20 cest, and the winner will proceed on to the final at 21:15 cest.
VanillaTV – HoverCrabs vs. Furbo Pandas – i49 Online Qualifier Semi Final – Badlands [Map 1]
VanillaTV – HoverCrabs vs. Furbo Pandas – i49 Online Qualifier Semi Final – Snakewater [Map 2]
VanillaTV – HoverCrabs vs. Furbo Pandas – i49 Online Qualifier Semi Final – Granary [Map 3]
HoverCrabs
sid, Spicy, TroX, sammie, mort, Galant
12
Furbo Pandas
i-series Online Qualifier Lower Bracket Final
TIME
Thursday July 11th
20:00 cest
14:00 edt (na)
06:00 est (aus)
CASTED BY
SOURCETV
Who will win this match?
Furbo Pandas (65%, 13 Votes)
HoverCrabs (35%, 7 Votes)
cp_badlands3-5 cp_snakewater4-3 cp_granary3-4
Furbo Pandas
12
Decerto.Ozone
i-series Online Qualifier Grand Final
TIME
Thursday July 11th
21:15 cest
15:15 edt (na)
07:15 est (aus)
CASTED BY
SOURCETV
Who will win this match?
Decerto.Ozone (56%, 9 Votes)
tba (44%, 7 Votes)
koth_viaduct_pro3-1 cp_badlands1-6 cp_snakewater1-5
These two games are certainly not to be missed. Furbo Pandas cruised through the first two rounds of the tournament, until they met their opponents tonight, HoverCrabs, on cp_gullywash in the third round, where they were knocked down to the lower bracket. However, Hildreth and his boys picked themselves up out of the dust and soldiered on through the lower bracket, beating MIPC and
d-d-Did I Stutter? to get to the Lower Bracket Final tomorrow night. HoverCrabs had a good run through the Upper Bracket until the Upper Bracket Final, in which they lost to Decerto on cp_snakewater; their opponents if they beat Furbo Pandas tomorrow.
The Lower Bracket Final should be a fairly even match – HoverCrabs had a very successful season in ETF2L Season 15, finishing top of Division 2a with a maximum of 36 points, giving them automatic promotion to Division 1 next season. Furbo Pandas, already an established Division 1 team themselves, finished 2nd in Division 1, and are set to play LMS for a chance to be promoted to the Premiership Division for Season 16. HoverCrabs obviously have the potential to play Division 1 at a decent level following their excellent performance throughout Season 15, so here’s hoping they give Furbo Pandas a run for their money tonight!
If Furbo Pandas make it to the Grand Final, it’s sure to be a close game – these two teams drew in their main season match in ETF2L this season, interestingly enough with Decerto taking cp_badlands, the map for the LB Final tonight, 6-3. However, even if HoverCrabs overcome their opposition in the Lower Bracket Final and make it to the Grand Final, it surely shows that they have the skills necessary to play at FP and Decerto’s level, so either way it’s definitely not going to be a game to miss.
As far as the brackets show, both games will be played as a BO1 – the LB Final will be played on cp_badlands, a repeat from the first round of the tournament, and then the map for the Grand Final is yet to be confirmed. However, Byte has promised to chase this up to see if this is actually the case, and we will update this article and let you know what the format will be ASAP.
So once again join ladies’ man Byte and SuddenlyStarMia on the mics with a yet-to-be-confirmed streamer directing you around all the action at 20 cest on Thursday for the Lower Bracket Final and 21:15 cest for the Grand Final to decide who will be winning those tickets, and who takes home the 6x Plantronics Gamecom 780 Headsets. Multiplay have also kindly agreed to provide 2 more headsets for our viewers to win in our classic VanillaTV competitions, so don’t forget to tune in for your chance to get your hands on one!
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2013-07-10 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.