First Win in “Hot Phase”

Today, the so called “Hot Phase” of the Team Rounds Ladder begins. So I count our match yesterday against TerrorZocker.TMNF as the first match of the “Hot Phase”.

We started our warm-up and qualification for the match at 20:30 although most of the people were on the server much earlier. The qualification included 2 warm-up laps and afterwards 4 laps of qualifying with MotoGP points.

On Heads Up Labbe, Roa and Zooz qualified for the match. On Parameter Oxyde got a reserved slot, because he trained a lot and prepared himself only for this track. One spot was given to Labbe, who won all qualification laps. Zooz gave his spot to Roa, who had really crashy laps in qualification, that already showed, what we had to expect on Parameter for the match.

Although the times and constancy in the qualification wasn’t promising, the team was in a good mood to win this one.

So the match started with Heads Up and the Line-Ups:

TerrorZocker: Twista, Pantha, Bong

We Tame Frogs: Roa, Labbe, Zooz

First everything seemed to run smoothly on our home map and we easily had a lead of 4:1 with already 3 laps won by Roa. Somehow the concentration was gone after the first 5 laps and our team lost 4 rounds in a row and TZ took the lead with 4:5. In this 4 laps Zooz was the best driver with 2 wins, that sadly didn’t result in a point for our team. After this lack of concentration Roa came back with two lap wins and two points for wTf completed by Labbe and Zooz. After another crashy lap by our team, the tension raised to the maximum and the first map was decided in the last round at a score of 6:6. Roa again showed his skill with an impressive lap, so our team made this last point to 7:6.

Although the first map was won, still the possibility of a loss was in the air. Parameter came up as second map chosen by TZ. Already the qualification laps were filled with big crashes and also many guys, that couldn’t finish their laps. So it seemed as everything was possible on this map. There was only one line-up change: Oxyde replaced Zooz in our team. TZ didn’t change their line-up. Our team started well again with a 4:1 lead after 5 laps. This time Labbe made impressive 3 lap wins with very stable laps. As on Heads Up we lost some laps after the 4:1 lead, but this time at a score of 4:3 our team made a clear win with Roa directly followed by Oxyde and Labbe. This lap to 5:3 seemed to break their necks, because after this one, they only reached one draw and the match ended with the result 7:3 on Parameter.

To sum it up, it was a good race of our team. We won both maps, although it was quite close on Heads Up. Most Valuable Player was of course Roa with 11 wins in 23 laps. Also Labbe showed his skills, mainly on Parameter, where he won 5 of 10 laps. Zooz and Oxyde completed our teams perfectly and made this victory possible.

Thanks to all drivers and all, who tried to qualify. Also big thanks to all spectators, that joined the match server to support our team.

The first step to Premiership is done after this match. In the next days, there will be some other matches. The only one yet fixed is our match versus “New Found Glory” at Sunday, 22 of august, but there probably will be more matches as the qualification is in it’s “Hot Phase” now.

Cya all on server, Infinite (aka KamiKatze )