Status: Postponed

Match: 9L vs. Prostokvashino

Date: Postponed until further notice.

Maps: ns_tanith, ns_origin

9L: TBA

Prostokvashino: TBA

Result: TBA

Downloads: TBA

Preface

A more relaxing week for us than last, as we feel that we’ve got pretty good control over Prosto from the PCWs we’ve played — as opposed to last week, when we had no idea what to expect from Saunamen. Still, there’s no doubt Prosto have several able players, especially in Snake, bHack and mp and we’re going to have to play our best to get the 4-0 we want.

Points might end up not mattering much though. I don’t think it’s been decided yet if there will be semis or a straight final this season? I guess it’s going to be semis even though that makes the league portion of the season pointless. Makes no sense to me, but I digress… In any case I’m sure it’s going to be a GG as the Russians have proven to be one of the most civilised top teams and are always fun to play against.

Status: Finished

Match: 9L vs. Saunamen

Date: 24th of October 2010, 20:00 CET

Maps: ns_metal, ns_tanith

9L: Doctor, dux, enigmatic, Fana, franky, lagga, mOkezi, s4

Team Fantasy: jiriki, leipa, Nde, Peacham, Tane, Yufa

Result: 3 – 1

Downloads: HLTV demo

Recap

I was very pleasantly surprised by Saunamen turning up for this match. Hopefully this means they’re getting back to activity. We’d been practicing sporadically for this match, as we didn’t think we’d get to play it, but it turned out that was enough. Some excellent shotgunning by marko on metal, safe Fading by franky and pro Lerking by enig were high points of the match. Our alien rounds were rock solid, but we had some trouble on the marine rounds.

Saunamen surprised us by doing some weird one RT strat on metal, which really put us off our game, but we managed to win the game through sheer pressure on their starting Hive. Unfortunately we weren’t able to keep alien res down on tanith and ended up being swamped by fades even though we killed 10+. Kudos to Tane for carrying Sauna through the midgame as super risky Fade.

All in all I’m happy with our performance and we’re going to work hard on fixing our weaknesses in time for the final.

Status: Finished

Match: 9L vs. Team Fantasy

Date: 10th of October 2010, 20:00 CET

Maps: ns_veil, ns_lucid

9L: dux, Fana, franky, lagga, marko, s4

Team Fantasy: Aleksi, ekri, elynn, LizardKing, TrC, Varathar

Result: 4 – 0

Downloads: HLTV demo

Preface

The first match for our new team against the haphazard but veteran Team Fantasy. Judging by player strength alone, we should have this in the bag. However things are never that simple. We’ve only been playing together for a couple of weeks now and we’re still in the early stages of gelling as a team. Team Fantasy on the other hand have been playing together for years and won’t have any trouble in that department. The second map choice of ns_lucid adds another joker to the deck, which could benefit either team. Anything but a victory will be a disappointment for us obviously, but losing a round wouldn’t be too shocking.

Recap

This was a lock for us. No mistakes and clean, controlled play throughout. The kind of stuff that makes in-game leaders all moist. In summary: marko brought the aimbot shotgun, franky’s fade was as safe as the United States gold reserve and dux’ meds struck us like lightning seeking lightning rods. Good game.