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Match 2W13 - Winnowing Round
Jack of Betrayber defeats The Regular Order of Fries 52-17
Review by Wight Slayer
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The score for this match was 52-17, so I wasn't expecting much.
The teams are composed of people I don't know, so I didn't
expect to care.  b.net was down, so I watched it anyway.

J.B. seems to be Japanese (judging from the in-game chat),
and I don't speak Japanese, but most of what they say is
probably along the lines of "go kill that", "it's already dead."  
J.B. had competent strategies which they executed competently.

I risk perpetuating a stereotype by saying this, but they were
also very polite, thanking their captain for their troops each
and every game.  What they did to ROoF, on the other hand,
wasn't at all nice.

Outnumbered 5 to 2 in both of the first two games (one of
which was caps), and 5 to 3 in the third, ROoF's mood
was grim.  Gangrene says it best, seconds from the start
of the first game: "heh, we are so dead."

And die they did, but maybe not as quickly or as emberassingly
as the score indicates.  ROoF's strats were basic (they had no
choice in that), but in all three games the opening conflicts left
ROoF with small material advantages. They managed to keep
these small advantages for most of games one and three, and at
one point in game three (fr) it looks like they might actually
win.  

The cruelest moment in the match comes with 6:14 remaining
in game two (lmoth).  Murgen (ROoF's captain) is fighting
an arc/lok duel on the right side.  CRC (J.B.'s captain) sends
tries dodging a ghol in from the front (not where Murgen is
looking).  Murgen cuts it down out of hand, and goes back
to his duel.  CRC sneaks a ghol around the hill.  Murgen
fires--hits the hill--and goes back to his duel.  The ghol
comes into range of some idle loks.  They cut it down out
of hand. They take the archers and each other out for
 good measure.

Both teams in this match earned my respect.  J.B. showed
up when they were supposed to, played hard, used their
advantages to good effect, and--of course--won the match.  
ROoF played hard, showed some skill (they aren't noobs),
and fought to the bitter end in every game.
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