Update: Congratulations to Infused, winning Epic Lan!
Today’s the day!
viqun, hat, joskee, foster, payard, Tsu
01
Team Infused
plumb3d, greg, nvc, soniXzr, crzy, boomeh
TIME
Sunday February 27th
11:30 cet
05:30 est (na)
21:30 est (aus)
CASTED BY
- No cast information available
SOURCETV
Who will win this match?
Monster Munch (70%, 66 Votes)
Infused.Tt (28%, 26 Votes)
Tie (2%, 3 Votes)
cp_gullywash0-5 cp_granary4-3 cp_gravelpit1-2
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As I write it’s difficult to picture this environment as one suitable for an exciting LAN final, from my vantage point in the press area I can see a couple of players asleep at their keyboards (one of whom will be sporting some fetching WASD markings on his forehead by the looks of things), a Gamer.FM guy sleeping under what can only be described as a bath towel that’d need to be at least double its size to cover him and an epic.lan staff member who is literally making the floor shake with his snoring.
Never the less – in a little under two hours we’ll see the two highest seeded clans in the tournaments face off in the final.
infused: no doubt coming back from 3-0 down
Both teams have life difficult for themselves with clunky and slopping play from both sides allowing less capable teams to get far closer to victory than they should have done. Monster Munch were held at 1-1 vs. Twisted Play for an inordinate amount of time before eventually going on to win, and it doesn’t seem like infused are capable of playing properly unless they’re at least 3 rounds down.
Supersub Hat and Joske (no doubt planning his usage of the paintrain)
It leads me to believe that the outcome of today’s final is going to be decided less by who plays the best and more about who messes up the least. If you held a gun to my head I’d have to say that I expect Monster Munch to win, purely because of the improvement they’ve made during the course of the tournament. Viqun has played phenomenally well all LAN and during those make or break clutch moments has always been there to bail out his team mates. Super-sub Hat has proved himself as a more than capable substitute for the last-minute-lan-dodger Thalien, too. The only nagging feeling I have how easily and frequently Monster Munch loses their medic. I couldn’t say Tsu has had a fantastic LAN but at the same time I think his team has failed miserably in protecting him, at times I think he has been completely ignored – as a fellow medic it’s a feeling I know all too well and it sucks.
By contrast, Infused seem to be very medic-centric, I sat next to Crzy and watched for a while and it was obvious that Boomeh seems to genuinely care about his survival, constantly guiding him around the map to safety. If Infused do win it, I think it’ll come down to the focus on the basic tactical aspects of the game that’ll swing it.
We’ll be going live with our steam at around 10:15AM and have some treats in store for you, one of those being the ability to listen into the players comms in real time, hopefully!
In related news, I’ve uploaded a few more videos to the epic5 page and we’re working on cleaning up our “Knights of the round table” podcast, which involved ShoX, Spence, nvc, Tapley, joskee as well as the much less vocal David and Krimson talking about all things LAN related including controversial usage of the paintrain, taunt bug usage and our genuine, drunken views on epic.lan as an event.
Good luck to both teams!
Much love,
ShoX
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2011-02-27 by ShoX.
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.