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RedRocket Jumps to #1 in BCL

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It's safe to say the BattleCity League has come back to life with a vengeance! After a few seasons that were fun, but plagued with short-handed battles or forfeits, Nightwish decided to try something a little different… INSANE CARNAGE BATTLE BCL! Two weeks ago 20 players engaged in a 5 city war and last week 24 players took part in a 6 city battle ! With refs and other players online, 10pm EST Thursday has seen server population jump over 30!

HELP MAKE THESE BATTLES EVEN BIGGER! Tell everyone when the next game is so more and more players show up! Make sure everyone know that all players who show up can take part and EVERYONE who shows up will receive a cool new tank for the next week! There will of course also be the grand end of season prizes that participants can win!!! 

I'd love to see a 10 city war with over 40 players on the server! SPREAD THE WORD! THURSDAY 10pm EST BE ONLINE!!! 

Last week Zhantrim, Bartise, Surge and DoubleB83 were the members of the last team standing! Everyone on their team earned 3 points in the BCL standings (2 orbs + win)! You don't need to be the last team standing to earn points though! The team of Anox, RedRocket, JetLi and 1illest also all earned 3 points because their city got three orbs before being orbed by zhantrim!

RedRocket, who went into the night with 2 points, finished the evening with a total of 5, launching him up the standings to #1 overall ! DoubleB83 and JetLi are right behind him with a total of 4 points each!

Will RedRocket be able to hold onto the #1 spot and win the Grand Prize of $25 to spend at the BC Store?! Find out this Thursday at 10pm EST as the battle continues…!

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Harbin orbs Armidale

Surge's nice move

Surge's nice move 2

Autumn BCL 2007 game 3

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The third game of the league was a blast featuring no less than 26 participants.

The game also sent several new players into the fight for the overall prizes. 

Game 3

 

Participants

 

Skopje:

Evil

Invincible

Scubasteve

(one more I did not get the name of)

 

Jakarta:

1illest – Mayor 3 assists

Anox – 3 orbs

Jetli – 3 assists

Redrocket – 3 assists

 

Kuala Lumpur:

Testament

Bastard

Latinolucio

Eclipse

 

Mango:

Tankinator

ltdb4

Meanbitch

Morsmorde (Legions)

 

Harbin:

Zhantrim – 2 orbs + win

Bartsie – Mayor 2 assist + win

 Surge – 2 assists + win

DoubleB83 – 2 assists + win

 

Armidale:

Rise Against

Hotshot

CRFRIDER

Op Ivy (Genghis)

 

Jakarta orbed skopje after 11 seconds tieing for the fastest orb in BCL history. 

They then proceeded to take out Kuala Lumpur moments later.

A few minutes later Harbin orbs Armidale.

Harbin and Jakarta now doubleteams poor Tankinator and Jakarta gets the orb after 12 minutes of play.

Harbin orbs Jakarta at the end of first OT with merely seconds to go.

 

GG to all teams

 

 

 

BCL round 2

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Read all about the second game of this fall's BCLThe battle of six cities.

After a very long draft in the meeting room with some people suffering from silencedisadvantages the game was set to begin.

Results:

Bishkek (Knights) Orbs Mango
Jakarta (rise against) Orbs Skopje
Kuala Lumpur (Merloch) Orbs Jakarta
Bishkek (Prince) Orbs Kuala Lumpur

Team 1 – Bishkek

Tankinator (w,2a)
Bastard (w,2a)(crfrider)
Knights (w,O,a)
Prince (w,O,a)

Team 2 – Kuala Lumpur

Merloch (o)(Anox)
Darkluigi (a) (Morsmorde)
DoubleB83(a) (Orchery)
Jetli (a)

Team 3 – Mango

RedRocket
TestamenT
Billiam
Evil

Team 4 – Skopje

Zhantrim
Ayana
Meanbitch
Lakender

Team 5 – Jakarta

Jizohn (a)
Rise Against (o)
Latinolucio (a)
Hotshot (a)

Team 6 – Hanoi

As some people did not get drafted from the five teams a sixth city was opened.
However the ones who joined left before end of grace without building anything.

Referees

c0rey and Nightwish, assisted by Zhantrim and Rise Against after they were orbed.

The game

The game started out with a huge pressure on Mango and Skopje from the rest of the teams. Bishkek received the first orb when taking out Mango. The referees were made aware of a smurf in Skopje and politely asked the person to rejoin. However as his city was under a heavy series of hard blows they did not endure with only three players until Ayana could join back. Skopje was the second city to go executed by Jakarta.

In Kuala Lumpur Zhantrim's old clansmate Merloch took charge in the assault on Jakarta to avenge the orbing of his friends city. It did not take too long before Jakarta trembled as also Bishkek joined the attack. Jakarta was orbed by Kuala Lumpur as the last city falling during regular time.

In the first overtime the two remaining cities Kuala Lumpur and Bishkek both had 3 turrets taken away by the refs. Bishkek had the upper hand a long time and were very eager to finish Kuala off even when their attacking squad was torched and even kicked for attacking after the time was up.

In the second overtime both teams lost another 3 turrets and all ten mines. At first it looked like Bishkek would get the orb but Kuala Lumpur made a brave recovery and turned the events from their base down to their enemy's.

The third OT started hard for Kuala when their mayor lagged out and did not leave a successor. It took some time before the third period of overtime could take place as both cities were robbed of all turrets. Knights tried to run in and get Kuala Lumpur before the OT started but got torched by the nearest referee and buried in a pit of fire. When the last OT finally started both Knights and Prince came running in for the CC. Knights made a huge pile of bombs in front of CC the clear the wall and suicided before Prince was given clear path with the orb.

Bishkek with it's inhabitants stand victorious until the next game.

Tankinator, Knights, Prince & Bastard Ranked #1

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This Thursdays BattleCity League was the most exciting event we've seen on BattleCity for a long time! 28 people were online for the game which is incredible! Everyone who showed up, whether they were picked for a team or not, received a free custom tank for the next week!

Organizing events like this are no easy task so we couldn't be happier to see how many of you took the time to show up and participate. I know logging onto the server and seeing everyone there put a smile on my face! Nightwish is already actively discussing ways to make things run even smoother next week, so we definitely hope to see you all again on Thursday October 11th!

 

This Thursday the battle ended up having 5 teams! That makes for one very huge war! Here is the Orb Log:

Bishkek (Knights, Tankinator, Bastard, Prince) Orbs Mango (RedRocket, Testament, Billiam, eVil)
Jakarta (rise against, Jizohn, latinolucio, HotShot) Orbs Skopje (zhantrim, Ayana, meanbitch, Lakender)
Kuala Lumpur (Merloch, darkluigi, DoubleB83, Jetli) Orbs Jakarta (rise against, Jizohn, latinolucio, HotShot)
Bishkek (Prince, Knights, Tankinator, Bastard) Orbs Kuala Lumpur (Anox, morsmorde, Ocery, Jetli)

 

The big winners for the night were Knights, Tankinator, Bastard and Prince who picked up 3 points and moved into a tie for first place overall! The championship could still easily go to anyone though since with 6 teams participating, the winning team could possibly get 6 points in a single night if they orb everyone and win!

RedRocket, Testament, New B and Gunman are still close behind with 2 points each! Latinolucio, rise against, HotShot, Jizohn, Merloch, darkluigi, DoubleB83 and Jetli also picked up 1 point this week!

 

Help us make the league even more fun! Tell everyone you see when the next game is so we can get even more people online for the next game! Remember, there are great prizes to be won and all you have to do is show up!

Thanks again to everyone who participated this week! Lets work together to make it even better next week!

Nunivak by Fryguy

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Congratulations to FRYGUY!  Who has won the CDC for Nunivak!  He received quite a handful of votes to pull himself very far ahead of other participants of Nunivak.  Please see below to see criticism's for each of your designs and how to improve on your city building skills.

Fryguy, please choose the next city for the CDC.

Thank you to all who have participated in this event.  Please keep doing so and we will have yet another successful CDC!

  

Nunivak Decoder:

1 – morsmorde
2 – hardcore (1 vote)
3 – fryguy (7 votes)
4 – bartsie (1 vote)
5 – alex2121
 

Surge's thoughts on your designs:

Design #1
I really like most of the entrances on this city because they are unique and probably work well.  On the other hand, the one entrance on the east side is not so good.  Say goodbye to your zooks a lot, and possibly the sleepers.  Once those go, your CC is VERY open with no more turret backup around it.  I like the rest of the layout but I just think that your south side needs to be worked on more

Design #2
This design definitely does not fit into the "tightly-packed" category.  There is a lot of extra space in the city.  Extra space in your city means more room for enemies to move around INSIDE and shoot turrets with ease.  Try to focus 1/3 of your turrrets on the outside and 2/3 of the remaining turrets on the inside.  Any attacker can bomb all of your outside buildings with ease, so that needs to be changed.  

Design #3
Overall a very solid design with good examples of turret angles, factory placement, and good use of terrain at Nunivak.  Every entrance seems well protected and the city does a good job of giving commandos a lot of space to manuever around in.  The only thing I would change is make some sort of quicker exit out to the south-east entrance.  I think you may have some problems in that area.   

Design #4
The biggest problem I see with this city are the placement of your two turret factories, right next to each other and very open to suicide bombing.  Another problem is that the lasers and zooks are right next to each other.  How are your commandos going to defend when someone blows these factories?  The city is also easily orbable from the north-west (all it takes it two turrets) so you might want to work on that entrance.   

Design #5
This city is easiest to orb at the west end of the city.  Even though you have 3 turrets guarding the CC, that is not enough if 2 players attack there.  There is one major problem with this city…way to many turrets on the inside leaving your commandoes dead from friendly fire.  Not only would that happen but it looks quite hard to manuever through.  Try to get better factory placement and better turret angles that hurt the enemy but not your own!