Frost Final Out Battery In

Its been another good week for the ET masters tournament having all ready seen some quality clashes. Heres a brief review of some of the games.

[uGroup A[/u]] is unfortunately not going to be a massively exciting finish. With the drop out of KIH and zeroPoint cruising to a straight 4:0 win it leaves elite walking home licking their wounds being now unable to qualify. The final game in this group will be a battle for first spot between Pingwins and zP

[uGroup B[/u]] is on catchup this week, last night seeing 141 and Helix finalling starting of their campaign. Helix will have to work hard however to bounce back from a decisive beating from the seasoned 141 team. Both squads have had their share of issues recently with talk of Squall leaving 141 and then deciding to stay and for hx we saw Sanda & Spirea again removed from another team with Bull and Azz0r replacing them. (nice breaking M!lk's microphone btw Azz0r)

[uGroup C[/u]]
823 viewers tuned in to see a closely fought match between cZar and Impact Gaming, the latter taking the win 4:2 after beating cZar on braundorf in the decider. Opening the game on frostbite and impact without their usual lineup (since Azz0r sabotaged M1lk's microphone) were marginally beaten by cZar after a great return of the docs when Impact looked set to steal the first map. Turning to supply and the game was less close with Impact setting a reasonable time on attack and looking comfortable on the defence even though they were forced to now replace Tiigeri who is still suffering from internet issues. A poor defence and quality attack from cZar looked like enough to take braundorf however Impact's attack on braundorf was swift and direct and good enough to win the game.
The TLR game was as expected a very one sided affair with Morrigu losing 4:0 to a strong TLR team that really did not look like it even had to go into high gear in this game.
A comfortable win and TLR have qualified for the elimination stages in 1st place having not yet dropped a map. The winner of the Impact - Morrigu should go through to the next round unless it ends in a 4:2 victory for either side and cZar manage to beat TLR 4:0 in their game in which case cZar and the winner of mQ - Impact would be tied with an 8/8 score.

[uGroup D[/u]]
A win for Auxilla 4 - 2 over the finnish powerhouse that is Negative Image and Polar eSports taking a 4:2 win against Violence is Bad. These results have left this group wide open with every single team being able to qualify. You can be sure that the final games in this group will be a tense affair with no one daring to make a mistake.

Round 3 Changes[/b]

The dates for games in round 3 to finish have been extended until Wednesday 21st March. This is to accomodate some of the teams that are struggling to keep up with the fast schedule but also to give some teams a little more time to prepare for a change of map.

Frost Final B3 has unfortunately been a large disappointment to many of the teams that have been practicing this map. Unfortunately the map maker has tried too hard to adjust the design based on the comments he received on b2. B2 was too biased to allies, B3 it seems is just the opposite. Its extremely hard to attack this map and will result in almost certain full holds by both sides as we have seen in practices played so far.
That being said yesterday evening in the tournament private channel i asked the team leaders of nearly all the clans their opinions on the map and unfortunately there were no teams wanting to play it. I agreed to replace the map and opened the floor up to suggestions for a replacement. A couple of maps were mentioned however Battery seemed to be the most obvious with a lot of teams also wanting to see this played in the forthcoming EC. To this end i made a decision and that is that round 3 will be Radar and Battery however there are some stipulations.

Stipulations
- I do not intend to make a new config for this tournament however mines are not permitted on battery. Mortar is already removed. All teams should be aware of this and if mines are placed (and no one is gonna bullshit me by saying i accidently laid a mine that killed 6 guys) it will result in a forfeit loss of the map.

- Since this change is late notice for this round only you may agree with your opponent to play another map on the map pool. If you cannot agree on a map then you will have to play Battery.

- Battery is now part of the map pool and for further stages of the tournament it will be part of the map list so you will "have" to start practicing it because in later stages you cannot agree to change the map. It is only allowed to change for round 3.


I'd like to make it clear that i do not have anything against the map frost final and i think that hopefully when the right changes are made this will be a good map for all to play however at this stage it is not ready for competitive play.

i hope everyone is enjoying the tournament and coverage of round 3 will be posted when all games are scheduled.

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