CEVOhas once again updated their playoff brackets. Check them here: http://www.cevo.com/playoffs/bracket.php?id=1515
We now have our first entry into the Championship match and two more teams that have been eliminated.
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This double elimination tournament will determine who is the CEVO Season 8 Open Champion. Good old fashioned linear 5cp excitement awaits our teams on cp_gullywash_final1. The Upper Bracket contains teams that have not lost in playoff play. The Lower Bracket contains teams that must win or go home!
Upper Bracket
#1 Immortal 6 aka The Pharmacy (11-0) vs. #7 OKNerd TF2 Dating Service (9-2)
Immortal 6 jumped on OKNerds Dating Service hard by racing to a 4-0 lead on Gullywash. The first round had Cranberry making some nice picks to allow i6 to easily take the middle point. i6 pushed the Dating Service all the way to the last point before Carni was able to successfully defend an initial push. Whiteybulger goes huge with a four kill streak to capture the last point for i6 giving them a 1-0 lead. Round two was dominated by i6 as they were able to win in less than two minutes. The third round saw i6 once again quickly taking the middle point followed by a lengthy fight to capture the next point. MembersOnly (Naysayer) was unable to pop uber in time to protect his players at last thus giving i6 the final point and a 3-0 lead. The half ended with i6 once again completing the round in a short time.
Bairmaster switched classes to pyro and then the Nerd Dating Service started to mount a comeback. The Dating Service were able to win their first mid-battle of the contest. Bairmaster was able to thwart a kritz by axtinguishing Vhalin. OkNerds were able to capture the next point following a lengthy battle that saw i6 losing many players in solo fights. OKNerd's scout was able to capture the final point as the pyro compression blasted defenders. The Dating Service were able to pick up one more round in quick fashion making the score 4-2 before finally falling to i6. Immortal 6 moves on to the CEVO playoff finals whereas the OkNerd Dating Service moves to the lower bracket.
Box Score -
Round 1**-**Immortal 6
Round 2 - Immortal 6
Round 3 - Immortal 6
Round 4 - Immortal 6
Round 5 - OKNerd TF2 Dating Service
Round 6 - OKNerd TF2 Dating Service
Round 7 - Immortal 6
Starting Lineup for Immortal 6:
Demoman - Cranberry
Scout - Spadez
Scout - Beat
Soldier - Vhalin
Soldier - Tesh/Whiteybulger
Medic -SolidMetalSnake
Starting Lineup for OKNerd TF2 Dating Service:
Demoman - Chumpp
Scout - Foreign
Scout - Carniverhorse (he's 12)
Soldier - bairmaster
Soldier - Sandwhiches Time
Medic - Naysayer
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Lower Bracket
Match One - ShortBus (8-3) vs. Superior Posterior (10-2)
Superior Posterior and ShortBus played a tightly contested match. Superior Posterior started off with a first round victory before ShortBus ran off four straight points to take a 4-1 lead. Part of the effort was amazing back captures of the last point by Mangachu. ShortBus' winning ways ended when they started losing battles for the middle point. Superior focused extensively on killing the ShortBus medic Syntic. Syntic not able to do much of anything as she died nine times in the last three round and was only able to build two uber charges. Superior enjoyed effective play by their scout, Akechi, who picked up 14 kills and posted a 3.667 kill assists per death ratio in the final rounds. Superior Posterior moves on to play Police Injustice.
Box Score -
Round 1 - Superior Posterior
Round 2 - ShortBus
Round 3 - ShortBus
Round 4 - ShortBus
Round 5 - ShortBus
Round 6 - Superior Posterior
Round 7 - Superior Posterior
Round 8 - Superior Posterior
Round 9 - Superior Posterior
Starting Lineup for ShortBus:
Demoman - Mangachu
Scout - Jerry Jiggler
Scout - Phen
Soldier - reaL
Soldier - Tzakaru
Medic -Syntic
Starting Lineup for Superior Posterior:
Demoman - duwatna
Scout - Akechi
Scout - earshot
Soldier - Gurge
Soldier - Zebra Cakes
Medic - Skuxx
Match Two - Lonely Hearts (7-3-1) vs. SWAG PANTALONES (9-3)
SWAG PANTALONES was a recipient of a forfeit victory over the Lonely Hearts. The Lonely Hearts were a tournament favorite but a scheduling issue did not allow the teams to play. CEVO League admin - DMorgan was kind enough to let the teams attempt a match on Sunday (1/15) even though the deadline to complete the match was Friday (1/13). The Lonely Hearts were only able to get five players readied up into the CEVO client by match time. They decided to award SWAG with the forfeit victory. The PANTALONES move on to take on the Dropaholics.
Look for more exciting 6v6 competitive action as CEVO launches the very first North American Vanilla tournament:http://www.cevo.com/index.php?page=event&id=231
A special thanks for the eXtvcrew for casting Immortal 6 vs. OKNerd TF2 Dating Service.
Originally published on CommunityFortress on Monday, 16 January 2012 17:06 by sdogg2m.
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