Review [Issue 11] CSL Season 2 Review

[Lhamster 4,081]

Over the past 4 weeks clans from the English and German Communities have been fighting in the second season of the Cybersport League. For those that don't know, the format of the league is that each weekend for 4 weeks, the clans played in a round. After the 1st round, winners played winners and losers played losers for the following rounds. In each match, after 2 rounds the flags from both rounds we added together and the clan with the highest number of flags won. If they were tied, then 2 more rounds were played and the flags from all 4 rounds were added together. If it was still all square, the match was declared a draw and each clan got 1 point. For a win, a clan got 3 points and no points for a loss. Some of the matches were streamed live by the Cybersport Commentators or more commonly known as 'DJs'. The videos of these streams can be found on the Cybersport Livestream channel here. The results can be found here I'll take a look at what happened round by round. There are tie breakers going on to determine the final positions, but we'll look at them next Issue as they happen after this Issue is published.

Round 1

In Round 1 there were no major upsets, with the clans widely expected to have a chance of winning the CSL, such as the Dare Devils and The Mighty Midgets getting past their opposition with relative ease. The highest score of the round, 28-0, was recorded by the Dutch Warriors against Like A Boss. Even as early as the first round there were forfeits, with Armageddon getting a bye against the Noob Crew as NC merged with Still Amongst The Living. There was controversy in this round, with SATL and Behemoth being made to replay their match due to violations of the rules by both sides. SATL had won the original game, but BEE won the replay comprehensibly with 9 flags to 1, the majority of these flags coming in the 4th round when SATL had to change their players due to some having to leave.

Round 2

Again in round 2, there were no unexpected results, with the favourites comfortably winning their matches again. The highest score of this round, 15-0, was again recorded against the unfortunate LAB clan, this time by The Ironclads. Their were more forfeits this round as Volt Lightning and Armageddon pulled out of the tournament. This round was on Tribute, when meant the tactics were different to the previous round, as Tribute is smaller, and has more large buildings and the bases are smaller and so freeze is very effective. All the results in this round but 2 had the winning clan not conceding any flags, only PanzerKnacker and We Are Anonymous managing to take some consolation flags.

Round 3

Round 3 was played on Solikamsk, which again let to a variety of tactics, Mammoths in defence was a popular one. This round there were unfortunately 4 forfeits, but luckily 2 of the clans who had pulled out were drawn together, preventing more matches not being played. The scores were very similar this round, with four 2-0, two 3-0 and two 4-1 victories being recorded. Best of German, widely regarded as a formidable clan, surprisingly lost their 3rd match in a row, and were joint bottom of the table at this point. LAB got their smallest loss so far, but it was only due to forfeiting their match against Nitro Danger.

Round 4

This was the final round, and was played on Red Alert, which continued the trend of the maps getting smaller each round. The 2 big games this round were DD vs BEE and GCC vs TMM, as these would decide who finished as the top 2. GCC narrowly beat TMM, 3-2, TMM's 2nd flag was one of the best captures I've seen, they showed great teamwork to get the flag back to their base with the flag changing hands 6 times and GCC constantly trying to get the flag back and coming within inches of returning at least 3 times. DD beat BEE 3-0, with BEE having to defend heavily. This means GCC will play DD in a tie breaker for 1st place. Best of German managed to finally win, vs LAB, giving them their heaviest defeat yet, 34-0 in just 1 round, leaving them bottom of the table with no points. However, some inside information suggests that they will hopefully improve next season. There were some other heavy defeats, WAA beating ND 19-0, and CP beating Ghostbuster 12-0. So this leaves 7 clans on 9 points fighting for 3rd place, we'll find out how they and 1st place works next Issue.

~Lham~

Edited July 31, 2017 by Hexed

[Lazy.B0Y 1,000]

Nice work!

[Beerme 106]

Nice work

poor LAB

[r_TRUNKS2853450 14]

Yup guess which LAB is..it's mine!!! what a shame isn't it...i'm its member...

Edited May 7, 2013 by r_TRUNKS2853450

[SpreadLoveNotHate 374]

Not a shame, LAB is a great clan :)

[025413tank 17]

GOOD LUCK !!!!

[jazz20 1,181]

Nice work :)