Our Man of Match : [LT]Chefamen
Their Man of Match : [BC]?
Match comments :
Well Today LT faced up to the reputable BC in a UKTFCL ladder clan match. In reality this match along with the next few matches are very important to both LT and BC in terms of ladder positioning. As the season draws closer to its end many of the matches become crucial for all clans concerned. There were two slight hiccups at the start of the match, firstly BC could only manage 7 players that was fair enough and can happen to all clans from time to time. The second hiccup was even more painful, after getting onto the server we found we did not have rcon. This followed a scramble to try other connotations of the rcon password and luckily we finally found it after 5 minutes of searching, now the match could begin.
The First Map was CZ2, a map all clans are quite concerned about as it is jointly new to all of us. We all had to rely on the few tactics we had and hope for the best, until it became apparent how the game was going. Despite a small hiccup at the start where 3 of the LT team seemed to do the tele frag thing. LT soon got off to a flying start. LT were picking away at the command points slightly faster than BC for the first quarter of the game including a complete cap of all flags. The Second and Third Quarters changed around quite significantly. BC now took the upper hand quite cleverly even if I do say so myself. On one side they started to heavily attack the LT base and they were also putting up some fierce fights in the command points. BC managed a full cap then a cap again, much to the astonishment of the mIRC onlookers. The Final quarter saw LT rally and again take back the leading role, managing another full cap and with their overall (just) prominent score they just propelled themselves into the lead and clear.
The Second map was ROCK2, as this map started it was noticed that BC were building in prematch, there is nothing in the rules to stop this but LT don't do it and felt a bit annoyed at this action(see conclusion). ROCK2 a generally hated map for all clans as it is very hard to cap on this map without the grace of god. The map started off pretty even both sides attacking touching the key and dying really quickly thereafter. This continued for the first 3 quarters really, both teams were having lag and connection problems loosing players here and there. LT continued to get the key to the GC but were constantly thwarted by the elusive BC Soldiers, Finally just as the Last quarter started LT managed to cap. At this point disaster hit LT (I have to say that because they lost me :) [LT]Chucky_M dropped from the game taking his defensive Sentry Gun with him. It took a little while for the LT defenders to rally around and cover this but in that time the Defenders took a bit of a hit, finally losing the Key and BC capped. Seeing this on mIRC [LT]Bugs-Bunny finally joined in Chuck's place. At the closing stages of this map BC managed to get the key and get clear towards the Gas Chamber. [LT]Chefamen set off in furious pursuit and just (only just) managed to kill the dastardly scout a few turns from the GC.
In Conclusion an excellent game by both sides, both sides played very well and despite winning LT are quite aware how close it was on both maps. The prematch build caused a bit of concern, we play that pre match is exactly that and pre, i.e. before the match so any building in this time is wrong. That said it is not currently against the rules at least not in black and white, we would like the rules amended here. Despite this minor misunderstanding which thankfully did not affect the game this was probably the hardest earned win LT have had so far. RAH BC! and RAH LT!
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