Celestial Tournament: The Second Aftermath
I must away to rend my clothes and put on a sackcloth. I have done the gods some grevious injustice and must, somehow, make amends. A curse has been visited upon my house. For, you see, my guild lost their second round in the Celestial tourney this very evening.
A rough night as we basically got spanked. Lost 0-2 and weren't really in either match. Hats off to Pints N Quarts as they were running a pretty nasty pressure build. Both of the builds and strategies behind them that we tried didn't work. We were able to put a lot of pressure on them ourselves but we weren't able to get kills. Even though PsQs was running a man down and had to use a Healer hench. Leading to a pretty weird build for their human Monk (And a bit of a delay at the start of the match. We get 20 minutes and they were well within that but it didn't do anything for my nerves to rush to get ready and then have to sit around and wait with the tension mounting. It's okay, though, because we did the same thing to them between the matches as we switched up builds and got ourselves in order.) but whoever it was did a good job of fighting off our spikes and keeping people alive. There were, perhaps, some mistakes we made, some calls that could have gone differently, but the simple fact of the matter is we got outbuilt and outplayed. Not going to win when that happens.
It was a good game and we played hard but I'm upset we weren't more competitive in it. Just, you know, no moral victories or anything of the kind. We've been doing well in ladder matches and, I think, starting to gel as a team so it's disheartening. I mean, it's not like we're bound for the rounds of 16 or anything. But I just felt like, even though I don't know what we could have done exactly, we could have done more.
Ah well, that puts us at 1-1 with 3 points and we'll move on to the next round. The good part about a Swiss tourney is that, as you go along, you eventually find your level. We should play against a team with a similar 1-1 record and they'll hopefully be a good match.
UPDATE:
Main XoO lost to Stylish Crew 0-2. They had a lot of problems with lag on the Korean servers but it still sounds like they put up more of a fight than OoX did.
RoX also lost 0-2 leaving them winless for the tournament. All in all, a pretty rough round in Xenland.
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3 comments:
Ouch, Saus. My condolences.
Losing to Healer Henchman always sucks. :/
It sucked and blew, all at the same time.
:(
The worst thing is that right now I can't point a finger to an obvious giant mistake we made and say "let's not do that again".
Losing to Healer Henchman always sucks.
It does. I'm still pretty upset about it, honestly.
Like Clamatius, my main problem is I can't point to one thing and go, "yep, that's what cost us the match." We just got solidly beaten and not knowing why is the most annoying part. The biggest thing I can point to is that we just weren't getting kills. They were running a condition/pressure build and we should have been able to handle it but we broke. They didn't even though, watching on obs mode, you could see their team degening like mad and we were knocking out their defenses like LoD (Plus, you know, they only had the one human healer. ) But while we had them riding that 1/2~1/4 health mark constantly we just weren't able to tip them over. On the other hand, we'd be pressured and spiked out relatively easily. Splitting didn't work so well either as they owned our splits with their weapon Rit runner.
It's something of an ongoing problem - our lack of offense, namely, and inability to get kills. I can't figure out why except that, you know, we're not all that good. And I really don't like that answer.
Hope your match goes better Lemming.
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