Celestial Tournament LiveBlogging: eF vs SiN

18:36GMT: What the hell. I have to say, I'm really starting to flag here. It's probably the lingering illness - I just can't sustain activity for more than a few hours without becoming really, really tired and sore. I'm sure sitting and starring at my computer for the past several hours hasn't helped either. Anyway, I'm going to be checking out the [eF] match because [MH]/[eF] looks epic.

18:37GMT: First, the upcoming matches.

9. #1 Esoteric Warriors vs #8 Battery Powered Best Friend
10. #2 Idiot Savants vs #10 Time is Running
11. #3 Mostly Harmless vs #6 Team Everfrost
12. #5 Ominous Latin Name vs #13 Listen To

So, looks like there were some upsets by the two loss teams. But, you know, not the ones I was expecting. Called the weakness of Rus Corp right but, yeah, that [acid] prediction isn't looking too hot right about now is it? Still, a good slate of games.

Match Six - Game One
Team Everfrost vs Serious Sin
Corrupted Isle

eF
W/A - YAA
R/Mo - BHA
Rt/E - Weapon of Remedy Rit
D/A - Melandru's
W/A - Eviscerate Axe War
E/Mo - Runner. Shatterstone Water guy.
Mo/E - Shield of Deflection
Mo/A - LoD/Infuse

SiN
W/D - Runner? Hammer Warrior with Pious Haste
A/W - Moebius BoA Sin
Me/Mo - MoR
Mo/E - Shield of Deflection
Mo/E - LoD/Infuse
A/W - Shadow Prison BoA
N/Mo - OoB and melee hate with Life Siphon
E/Rt - Shatterstone with Weapon of Warding

Mapped in just before the game started, so that's nice. And, oooh, Corrupted. Still, it's just another really tilted map like the Burnings and Jades, just in a different direction. Team eF is running with old school 5/3 split on this map. Broad Head Arrow, You're All Alone, and a weapon Rit. Their flagstand team is pretty hearty with two frontliners and a snarer. [SiN]'s got a 5/3 split too although it seems to be one of their Sins, a Necro, and an Ele/Rit.

18:45GMT: Dammit, got caught up talking to an old friend (someone who's been gone from the game even longer than I have and whom I wanted to give some tips to. I know what it's like to leave the game and come back with a lot of rust.) and checking out builds and missed the initial split. I'm going to have to restart this one.

19GMT: Blargh, I'm failing at live blogging. [SiN] resigns about 18 minutes in. Here's how the match went. [eF] rolled them from the start and took only two deaths the entire match. Lots of splitting, lots of running around in circles, and the morale chart looks like the Nile Delta by the end.

19:01GMT: Okay, restarting and actually watching the match this time. [SiN] does, I think, the smart thing and overloads on the back path sending only three to the flagstand to start. [eF] was trying to do the opposite and it winds up getitn ghteir Ranger killed. They send their SoD Monk back to help out and that leads to a bunch of Keystone Cops time as various splits roam around the map. But it works as [eF] starts earning kills and stranding [SiN] players where they can't be rezzed. [SiN]'s split works okay but their flagstand team just can't stand up to [eF]'s.

19:05GMT: Starting match two now.

Match Six - Game Two
Team Everfrost vs Serious Sin
Jade Isle

eF (same build, pretty much)
W/A - YAA
R/Mo - BA
Rt/E - Weapon of Remedy Rit
D/A - Melandru's
W/A - Eviscerate Axe War
E/Mo - Runner. Shatterstone Water guy.
Mo/E - Divert Hexes
Mo/A - LoD/Infuse

SiN
A/W - Shadow Prison BoA
R/Mo - BHA with Toxicity
Me/E - Panic with shutdown
Me/Mo - Migraine with degen hexes
N/Rt - Wither with melee hate
N/E - Tainted with minions
Mo/E - Divert Hexes
Mo/E - LoD

Boo-urns to Jade again. Not many changes from eF except for swapping in a Divert Hex. Game one winners don't like to switch their builds, I guess. Although in this case, can you blame them? The Sinners, on the other hand, switch things up although I'm going to go ahead and say a Toxicity build was a really, really bad idea.

19:07GMT: Not one minute in and there isn't a [SiN] player over half health. Massive degen and [eF]'s Ranger is using Toxicity to good effect. They are just getting rocked here. I'm amazed no one's died yet.

19:08GMT: And I really have to stop saying things like that. First kill of the match is Mesmer #3. Mes #4 follows.

19:10GMT: Boost time. This isn't looking good for [SiN]. Time to start build hunting.

19:15GMT: Yawn. This game's over. Time for a bit of a break. Here's the plan, I'm going to wait until the MH/eF matches are up and blog about those and then I'll take a break for eating and the whatnot. Then it'll be back to focus on another set of matches. With any luck, I'll be done before tomorrow's matches start!