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Winter 2007 Statistics

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Regular Season Statistics

Team Player GP Orbs Assissts Plus/Minus MVP GP-Mayor
               
TC Merloch  1 0 1 1 0 1
TC Ballsout  2  2  0  2  1 0
TC BoC  4  0 3  2  2  2 
TC c0rey  1 0 1 1 0 0
TC Bartsie  1 1 0 1 0 0
TC Gangster  3  0 1 -1 0 1 
TC Surge  1 0 1 1 0 0
TC Makaveli  1 0 0 -1 0 1
TC Scile 1  0 0 -1 0 0
TC Batcho 1  0 0 -1 0 0
TC wdouglas 1 0 1 1 0 0
               
Team Player GP Orbs Assissts Plus/Minus MVP GP-Mayor
               
CWN Anox 2  0 1  0  0 1
CWN Ender  5  0 0 -5 0 1
CWN Knights 2  0 0 -2 0 0
CWN Nightwish  4  0 2  0  2  3 
CWN Flash  2  1 0 0  0 1 
CWN Cable 2  1  1 2  0 0
CWN Redxkingz  3  0 1 -1 0 0
CWN Deceth  3  0 1  -1 0 2 
CWN ~Warlord~ 1 0 0 -1 0 0
CWN Camo 1  0 0 -1 0 0
               
Team Player GP Orbs Assissts Plus/Minus MVP GP-Mayor
               
OR cseow 5  0 4  3  3  5 
OR Orber(Major)  1 1 0 1 1 0
OR JetLi  5  1  2  1  0  0
OR Method  3  1  2  3  0 0
OR Clientel  2  0 0 -2 0 1
OR Asian01  1 0 1 1 0 0
OR Jizohn 2  1 0 0  0 0
OR Pirate  1  0  1 1 0 0
               
Team Player GP Orbs Assissts Plus/Minus MVP GP-Mayor
               
LGN rise against  5  0 2  -1 0 4 
LGN Warlord  3  2  0 1  1 0
LGN Gunman  1 0 0 -1 0 0
LGN Hardcore  2 0 0 -2 0 0
LGN -IGGY-  5  1 3  3  2 2.5
LGN Nems  1 0 1 1 0 0
LGN Friguy  3  0 2  1  0 0.5
LGN Stig  3  1  1  1  1 0
               

Playoff Statistics
 

Team Player GP Orbs Assissts Plus/Minus MVP GP-Mayor
               
LGN -IGGY- 5 0  3  1 2 5 
LGN Warlord 5 2  0  1 2 0
LGN Stig 5 0  3  1 1 0
LGN Rise Against 2 0  2  2 0 0
LGN Friguy 1 0  1  1 0 0
               
Team Player GP Orbs Assissts Plus/Minus MVP GP-Mayor
               
OR cseow 4 0 2 0 2  2
OR JetLi 3 0 0 -3 0 0
OR Jizohn 5 1  1 -1 2  2
OR Pirate 3 0 2 1 0 0
OR Clientel 2 1 0 0 0 1
OR Tissuissue 1 0  1  1 0 0
               

Winter BCL Continues Tonight

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Don't miss the action tonight as the 4 teams go at it again with Clan Without Name facing Team Cream and Outrival facing Legionnaires. Team Cream is undefeated (3-0), while the other three Teams are tied with a 1-2 record.

For those who haven't already noticed, the BCL Awards for last season were posted last week! Go take a look to see who won what! 

Battle City’s First Hold the Base Event!

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Hosted by Method

After the BCL’s second game had concluded, I decided to use the fact that there was a lot of people to try out my Hold the Base event for the first time since BCC has been released.

While my idea to capitalize on many people on the battlefield didn’t work, enough people showed up to make it worth it anyways.

For those that don’t know what a HtB event is, here’s a quick sumup: each team starts in an empty city near the base. The base is in fact a cc surrounded by plenty of buildings and defence. The goal is to have your orb sit on the base’s cc for 30 seconds in a row. First team to achieve that wins. In order to win, a team can resort to any kind of tactic they so wish.

To set up the event and make sure it went well, I got help from Iggy, Rise and Wdouglas.

First game lineups

Corrientes: Gangster, Billiam, Cseow and Solomon

Rio Cuarto: Asian, Stig, Clientel and Lefault

Cambridge: Iggy, ~Warlord~, Patter and Surge

Recap

First game started with Corr and Rio going at it. While Corr decided to build a regular city, Rio built up to the base. Everyone were slowly making their way through the base’s layers of defence except for one person: Billiam. He decided to go attack Rio instead and since there was barely any defence there, easily orbed them. At that point, Cambridge was open to make room for more people to participate. While both Cambridge and Rio were busy rebuilding, Corr could use that time to get closer to the base’s cc. They indeed did so, but decided very soon to go attack Cambridge instead. Turned out Rio had had the same idea and they ended up doubling poor small Cam. with everyone suiciding to bomb the factories, Billiam once again only had to walk on the cc and got the orb.

After that, people really started focusing on the base more, probably because they were beginning to feel the cc close. Rio were the first ones to make significant progress. Going from the north, they were able to bomb and shoot their way to the cc, even opening it up with bombs. Problem was there was still a good deal of plasmas surrounding the cc and they all died. Billiam tried to take the opportunity to make a rush for it but got killed 1 tile away from cc. Rio decided (although not unanimously from what I gathered after the game 😉 ) it was best to shoot the remaining plasmas before rushing for cc. At that point Cam was still south and kept digging as fast as they could to try to reach the cc first. Rio had the upperhand at that point and could of won, all there was left to do was to stay alive it seemed. Unfortunetaly, they didn’t and Billiam was able to rush the cc through the few turrets Rio hadn’t shot. He might of died on the cc but not before dropping the orb. With Rio having just died themselves and Cambridge still south, no one was able to shoot the orb and Corr won. They got to orb the admin inn for 150 pts as a result.

Second game lineups

Rio Cuarto: Cseow, Billiam, Gangster and Patter

Corrientes: Iggy, ~Warlord~, Solomon and Surge

Cambridge: Clientel

Recap

I had to do something else at the same time so I didn’t get to see all the match. Still, here is what I saw:

This time, the base was much bigger and with a lot more defence. Teams started more conservatively from what I saw with each team building a classical style city. After some time had passed with both teams slowly making their way through the base, Rio was somehow able to orb Corrientes. After that, they even blocked off the cc, preventing them from rejoining. They might of orbed them another time too, I couldn’t say. By the time I realised it and fixed it, some players had given up it seems. In the mean time, Rio also orbed Clientel in Cambridge. Iggy then joined Cambridge with Clientel. At that point however, Rio had things well under control and were closing in fast on the cc. With Iggy and Clientel stricly focusing on the south, Rio was able to open up the way from the north, shoot the walls and drop the orb. At that point Iggy finally realised what was going on (or finally decided to follow the admin’s advice to go north 😉 ) but it was too little too late as Rio did a good job of sealing off the cc to protect the orb. Again, Rio got to orb a 150pt admin inn.

Congratulations to the winners and a big thanks to everyone who participated. Hope you all had fun and I hope this event can be done soon!

Winter 2007 Schedule & Results

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*** Check Schedule Post in Forums HERE to be aware of reschedules not indicated on this page

Regular Season Schedule: 

Wednesday December 27
Legionnaires v Outrival 930pm EST/830pm CT
Team Cream v Clan Without Name 1030pm EST/930pm CT

Wednesday January 3
Outrival v Clan Without Name 930pm EST/830pm CT
Legionnaires v Team Cream 1030pm EST/930pm CT

Tuesday January 9
Legionnaires v Clan Without Name 930pm EST/830pm CT
Outrival v Team Cream 1030pm EST/930pm CT

Monday January 15
Team Cream v Clan Without Name 930pm EST/830pm CT
Legionnaires v Outrival 1030pm EST/930pm CT

Monday January 22
Legionnaires v Team Cream 930pm EST/830pm CT
Outrival v Clan Without Name 1030pm EST/930pm CT

Monday January 29
Outrival v Team Cream 930pm EST/830pm CT
Legionnaires v Clan Without Name 1030pm EST/930pm CT

Monday February 5
Legionnaires v Outrival 930pm EST/830pm CT
Team Cream v Clan Without Name 1030pm EST/930pm CT

Monday February 12
Outrival v Clan Without Name 930pm EST/830pm CT
Legionnaires v Team Cream 1030pm EST/930pm CT

 

Game Results:
 

Dec. 27 – 9:30pm EST
Outrival wins

Outrival defeats Legionnaires
Referee: zhantrim
Match Report by zhantrim

Outrival MVP:  Orber(Major)
Legionnaires MVP: none

Legionnaires- (Tallinn)

RiseAgainst *mayor
WaRlOrD
Gunman
HaRdCoRe

Outrival (Bergen)

Cseow *mayor
Jetli
Method
Orber (Major) *orb *MVP

Team 2 orbs Team 1 two minutes into the game with a series of rapid attacks by OM. He never let Team 1 get going and they had less than 20 buildings when orbed.

Team 1 should get back to the drawing board as Team 2 demonstrates the efficacy of practice sessions.

 

Dec. 27 – 10:30pm EST
Team Cream Wins

Team Cream defeats Clan Without Name

Referee: zhantrim
Match  report by zhantrim

Team Cream MVP:  Ballsout
Clan Without Name MVP: none

Team Cream (Barentsburg)

Merloch *mayor
BoC
c0rey
Ballsout *MVP *orb

Clan Without Name (Tallinn)

Anox *mayor
Ender
Knights

Team 4 didn't bother to show enough players and were promptly owned by Team Cream. Pissed about the Grand Melee, they took the new tactics to the extreme, bombing and lasering anything that hit the ground. Team 4 didn't stand a chance.

Game. Set. Match. MVP of game 1: BallsOut

Following the game, a scrimmage was held.

Team A:
Merloch
BoC *mayor
BallsOut

Team B:
Anox *mayor
Method
zhantrim

The scrimmage was incredibly intense and lasted for well over an hour. Both teams displayed good BCL Season 4 tactics and the battle raged back and forth. Turret rushing, laming, bombing, suiciding, and mining were in full effect. I only hope we can see some more games like this in the regular matches once people polish their strategies.

 

Jan. 3 – 9:30pm EST
Clan Without Name Wins

Clan Without Name defeats Outrival
Referee: zhantrim
Match Report by zhantrim

CWN MVP:  Nightwish
Outrival MVP: none

CWN (Barentsburg)

Nightwish *Mayor*MVP
Flash *Orb
Cabel
Redxkingz

Outrival (Kiev)

Clientel
JetLi

Team 2 only bothered to show 2 players. Team 4 showed a full squad plus some extras who helped to ref.

After a brief amusing stint of turret rushing by Clientel, Team 2 was crushed.

 

Jan. 3 – 10:30pm EST
Team Cream Wins

Team Cream defeats Legionnaires
Referee: Nightwish
Match Report by Nightwish

TC MVP: BoC
Legionnaires MVP: none

Team Cream (Kiev)

Boc – Mayor/ MVP
Surge Shouter/cheerleader
Gangster – Addition/mascot
Bartsie – Orb/mustage

Legionnaires (Barentsburg)

Rise Against – Mayor
HardCore – 

Very much like game 3. Legionnaires failed to show a full team. Rise still grabbed an advantage by killing off Merloch in the duel for the first pick, but as Legionnaires were unable to choose among the 4 cities provided they were given barents by the allmighty ref nighty.

The game began by a hard turretrush from Rise until some creamy dude blew turretfacts and ended their advance.

Rise was suddenly left with no cash and a horribly unprotected CC and was orbed after 3 minutes with only 3 buildings standing.

 

Jan. 9 – 9:30pm EST
Legionnaires Win

Legionnaires defeat Clan Without Name
Referee: zhantrim
Match Report by zhantrim

Clan Without Name MVP: none
Legionnaires MVP: -IGGY-

Legionnaires (Tallinn)

RiseAgainst – Mayor
-IGGY- – Orb, MVP
NeMs – Commando

Clan Without Name (Bergen)

Deceth – Mayor
Ender – Commando
Nightwish – Commando

Game 5 (3vs3 Night) was the most balanced to date as teams are starting to get the hang of the new BCL. Both mayors got started with a bang and were able to lay 3-4 factories before the laming kicked into high gear. The Legionnaires began bombing like crazy and managed to take out both greens and plasmas. Deceth was able to rapidly rebuild as Rise continued to expand his base. The bombing continued and Deceth again lost several key factories. By this time, money was getting tight and Deceth was out of cash. Rise brought greens inside their base and mowed down defender after defender. Several key attacks later and team CWN fell to their might.

Team 1 claims its first victory!

 

Jan. 9 – 10:30pm EST
Team Cream wins

Outrival Forfeits
Referee: zhantrim
Match Report by zhantrim

Outrival MVP: none
Legionnaires MVP: none

Team 2 (Outrivals) didn't bother to show up. Nor did they post their intention to reschedule. The win by forfeit goes to team 3.

 

Jan. 15 – 9:30pm EST
Clan Without Name Wins

CWN defeats TC
Referee: Method,  Finn, Rise, Friguy, IGGY
Match Report by Weebo

CWN MVP: Nightwish
TC MVP: –

CWN (Barentsburg)

Nightwish – Mayor, MVP
Anox – Commando
Cable – Orb
Deceth – Commando

TC (Tallinn)

Makaveli – Mayor
BoC – Commando
Scile – Commando
Gangster – Commando

Game 7 was another quick battle, classic of this seasons BCL with teams still adjusting to the extremely fast pace starting from the moment the ref says go.

Both teams opted for building a base rather than trying to turret rush or some other tactic. BoC was the first attacker, taking his laser to CWN and causing some trouble and stress for a while until turrets were finally able to clear him.

CWN attacked second, and were able to cause some trouble with their lasers, killing Makaveli with his own defense and slowing down TC's ability to build. Meanwhile, BoC was stuck on CC, so CWN was able to build up nicely without disturbance allowing for them to send 3 attackers.

TC made the same mistake CWN made their last game, they demo'ed their laser research which is a classic tactic to make room for more cash and researching other items. With the fast paced action, CWN found themselves bombed to the ground and unable to shoot bombs, just like TC in this game.

 

Jan. 15 – 10:30pm EST
Outrival wins

Outrival defeats Legionnaires
Referee: zhantrim
Match Report by zhantrim

Outrival MVP: cseow
Legionnaires MVP: –

Outrival (Bergen)

cseow – Mayor, MVP
Method – Commando
Jetli – Orb
Asian01 – Commando

LGN (Tallinn)

RiseAgainst – Mayor
-IGGY- – Commando
Friguy – Commando
Stig – Commando

Game 8 was fast and furious. Both teams brought four of their best to see who would emerge victorious. Cseow began in classic style, guarding his cc with buildings, terrain and turrets. This proved key and is a lesson that team 1 should learn well. Leaving their cc wide open with all but a spaced-out plasma guarding it, the :egionnaires fell prey to the bombless orb by Jetli (nice skillz btw). MVP goes to cseow for building with style.

Stay tuned for next week as the BCL keeps heating up!

 

Jan. 22 – 9:30pm EST
Legionnaires Win!

Legionnaires defeat Team Cream
Referee: Nightwish
Match Report by Nightwish

TC MVP: none
Legionnaires MVP: Stig

LgN (Tallinn)

Iggy – Mayor MVP
Stig – Orb

TC (???)

Ganster – Mayor
Batcho – Late arriver

As the fight for the playoffs tightened up both teames surpriced by showing shorthanded. For a long time it looked like IGGY and Gangster were going to battle it out on their own. They fell in luck eventually and the huge 2 vs 2 battle began.

Iggy early showed his experience as mayor and had a nice little city up and rolling very fast as stig were tormenting Gangster trying to mess up his building. When Batcho finally arrived he tried similar activities at IGGY's base but were pretty unsuccessful.

As it was closing to look like a long game Ganster was first to build the orb giving Batcho a new edge in the battle. However he allso sealed off his own greenfactory with other buildings giving Stig a nice time attacking.

Stig suicided in to bomb the greens while Ganster was preoccupied rebuilding the wreckage in other parts off his city and greens fell merely seconds before Stig was back with the ball.

Gangster beat Stig in duel.

 

Jan. 22 – 109:30pm EST
Outrival wins

Outrival defeats Clan Without Name
Referee: zhantrim
Match Report by zhantrim

Outrival MVP: Jizohn
CWN MVP: none

CWN (Barentsburg)

Nightwish – Mayor
Ender – Commando
Reddxkingz – Commando

OR (Bergen)

JetLi – Commando
cseow – Mayor, MVP
Jizohn – Orb

This one was a thriller. We knew it was going to be great when Jizohn beat Red in the duel by a single point of damage. Choosing first, cseow grabbed Bergen, which seems to be his favorite city. CWN took Barents.

Knowing they were down a man, Team launched out of the gates with a stream of houses northward toward the enemy base. Within moments, they were 2/3 of the way toward blocking in CWN's cc with buildings! If they succeeded, CWN would be locked in for the rest of the match!

Ender tried his best to prevent this tactic by sitting on the open tile, but this only prompted Jizohn to yell: "TURRET HERE! TURRET HERE!" Breathtaking seconds ticked by but they could do nothing to stop it: soon, a green death machine dropped onto the last open cc tile.

Nightwish soon died and the carnage began, with turretfire mowing down the spawning CWN troops. Ender tried his best to block in the enemy factories with turrets of his own, but it was to no avail. Soon he died and was added to the meat grinder. Red stayed alive and kept yelling for mayor, but Nighty was too distraught to think clearly. It was all but inevitable.

Team Outrival drops the orb and gains a precious win. They are again to be congratulated for their superior tactics, which have catapulted them forward in the race for first place.

Cseow and Jizohn gain co-MVPs this match. I couldn't pick just one.

 

Jan. 29 – 9:30pm EST
Outrival wins

Team Cream forfeits, Outrival wins
Referee: zhantrim
Match Report by zhantrim

Outrival MVP: –
Legionnaires MVP: –

Team 3 didn't bother to show up. Thanks for wasting everyone's time. Team 2 gets the win by default and team 3 loses control of first place.

 

Jan. 29 – 10:30pm EST
Legionnaires win!

Legionnaires defeat Clan Without Name
Referee: zhantrim
Match Report by zhantrim

CWN MVP: none
Legionnaires MVP: Stig

Clan Without Name (Barentsburg)

Iggy – Half Mayor
Friguy – Half Mayor
WaRlOrD – Orb
Stig – Commando, MVP, arrived late

Legionnaires (Tallinn)

Deceth – Mayor
Knights – Commando
Ender – Commando
~Warlord~

This was the greatest league game of the season. It all started with a showdown in the meeting room between WaRlOrD and ~Warlord~, each calling out the other and valuating their respective mothers. Putting their money where their mouth is, they each volunteered to duel for the choice of cities. In a glorious display, ~Warlord~ smacked down WaRlOrD in record time. Rumors are circulating that ~Warlord~ actually IM'ed WaRloRd during the battle to freeze his keys. The jury is still out, but either way, ~Warlord~ had carried the day.

Back in the meeting room, Deceth was overjoyed at the early victory and saw it as a harbinger of things to come. Once the cities had been chosen and the combatants joined the field, everyone quickly realized that Team 1 was down a player. How would this affect the match?

The game got underway, with each team respecting the one minute grace period. Each city had approximately 15 buildings before the initial attacks began. Despite their advantage in numbers, CWN decided to 4d the two Legionnaraire attackers for far longer than they should have. This may have been their undoing. Finally, their forces began pressing the attack and as expected, they forced Team 1 into a defensive stance.

Backs against the wall, none of the Legionnaires could afford to leave. Although CWN never truly opened the city, they came very close to that critical moment where all goes straight to hell in a handbasket.

Deceth even turret rushed. Twice.

28 minutes into the match, Stig joined the beleagured Legionnaire troops. Trumpets sounded in the mist! Within seconds, their defensive ranks were bolstered and WaRlOrD raced off to attack. It was devastating. Without a defender (they were all still attacking), CWN had no chance. Greens and mines went up in a puff of smoke and it was only a matter of time before it all came crashing down.

The orb came in the 30th minute with Iggy dropping offensive greens as reinforcements.

MVP goes to Stig because he turned the tide of the battle.

 

Feb. 5 – 9:30pm EST
Legionnaires win!

Legionnaires defeat Outrival
Referee: zhantrim
Match Report by zhantrim

Outrival MVP: –
Legionnaires MVP: Warlord

LgN (Kiev)

Iggy – Mayor
Friguy – Commando
WaRlOrD – Orb, MVP
Rise Against – Commando

Out (Tallinn)

cseow – Mayor
JetLi – Commando
Clientel – Commando
Jizohn – Commando

The opening duel showed cseow dropping IGGY with two shots left in his tank.

This was to be his only victory.

The game got underway with the new 1 minute grace. Friguy and Warlord decided to ignore this and were promptly flambaged. Within 2 minutes, lag hit the game hard and the entire team of Outrivals lagged out.

A redo was declared. Straight up hopscotch style.

The game opened again to see Warlord ignore the grace a second time. He was flambaged again.

Both teams built up full and the battle waged fiercely at both bases. There were several close calls at the Legionnaire base, the most severe of which saw their plasmas and mines drop to the might of Jizohn.

Although the fighting was intense, Jetli either got bored or was called to the dinner table, because he left without warning. Now a man down, it was only a matter of time. Team 2 succumbed to numerous strong attacks and the orb dropped 36 minutes into the game.

MVP to WARLORD for doing far too much damage for one guy.

LVP to Prince for attacking a league city and earning himself a kick.

 

Feb. 5 – 10:30pm EST
Team Cream wins

TC defeats CWN
Referee: zhantrim
Match Report by zhantrim

TC MVP: BoC
CWN MVP: –

TC (Kiev)

BoC – Mayor, MVP
BallsOut – Commando
WDouglas – Commando

CWN (Tallinn)

Ender – Mayor
RedDxKingz – Commando

This game really isn't even worth writing up a report. Team 4 only showed half of a squad.

BoC owned Ender with two meds remaining in the duel.

Ender tried to mayor using a touchpad laptop mouse. RedDxKingz drove off and did god know's what while Ender was brutalized at base alone. His "city" fell within 2 minutes.

MVP to BoC for dueling like a banshee.

LVP to CWN for sucking.

 

Feb. 12 – 9:30pm EST
Outrival wins

Outrival defeats CWN
Referee: wdouglas
Match Report by wdouglas

Outrival MVP: cseow
CWN MVP: none

OR (Tallinn)

Cseow (mayor)
Method
Pirate

CWN (Barentsburg)

Flash (mayor)
Camo

The pregame duel was between Pirate and Flash, it lasted quite a while, but Pirate managed to take out Flash to gain the edge in choosing Tallin. Team 4 didn't choose a city, Flash wanted to be surprised and ended up in Barentsburg.

The match officially began at 8:48 with a 1 minute grace period. Cseow built quickly in what was obviously a predesigned city, and had some defense up before the grace period was over, while Flash struggled somewhat in building without a design.

After a quick attack from Method, he returned to his base and grabbed some bombs and the orb. Meanwhile, Flash tried to keep building but didn't get too far. Method headed back to Barentsburg and took out greens and lasers, then ran in for the orb.

The match lasted 4 minutes with team 2 coming out on top. Cseow gets the MVP for building quickly, and mayoring efficiently.

 

Feb. 12 – 10:30pm EST
Legionnaires win

Lgn defeats TC
Referee: zhantrim
Match Report by zhantrim

Team Cream MVP: –
Legionnaires MVP: wdouglas

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Team 1 wins.

Team 3 showed one player.

Yay BCL.

MVP to Doug.