MLG Monday 4/14/08

[Zangief]

This is the in-advance thread, lets use this to discuss if and when you will be on, what you are looking forward to, and to wrap up afterwards. Post links to MLG Monday games played if you want, or anything else.

I can't say for sure if or when I will be on, but I will post if I figure it out soon.

[Zangief]

I squeezed in a few games with Bobby, Shoaib, and Adrenalin yesterday. Here is a quick recap of a some of them:

Hill on The Pit - Lost 250-248
My first game in almost a week, my BR was way off. Close game as you can see, it took nearly the whole 15 minutes, they had the hill at the end, it could have easily gone our way.

TS Narrows - Won 50-44
TS Narrows tends to be a very difficult and frustrating MLG game type for me. Its hard to get a set up really, and its so tempting to spawn and rush right into the action at the top of the bridge. But I did really well this game, mainly because I think the other team didn't communicate or really have an organized strategy. I was able to win a bunch of 1 v 1 battles. This game was awesome too because we were down, by about 10 most of the game, I totally thought we didn't have a chance. But we tied it up at around 44 kill, and I was able to grab rockets and pick up 4 kills to give us a cushion. Fun game.

TS Guardian - Lost 50-31
Went from a really good game to getting pwned. I couldn't get in any sort of groove, it was one of those game with bad spawns and double teams that make it frustrating. But the other team was really good, they deserve the credit.

Flag Narrows - Won 3-0
I think that with most random people you run into in the MLG playlist, you can outsmart them. That was the case this game. The other team was so concerned with kills in the top middle they didn't think about playing a smart flag game. They didn't make any effective flag runs, and obviously we did. One of my favorite things to do now on this game type is to grab the flag and hide at their base while they panic looking for it. Then when your team mates kill 2 or 3 of them, you can make your run and they don't know where you are. Communication is key in that strategy.

TS Construct - Won 50-29
What can I say, we knew that they weren't very good from all the noob bars, and it was apparent during the game they had no team work.

Flag The Pit - Won 3-0
Bobby is such a great flag runner, Shoaib and I didn't even know that he scored the first flag. I think we were both busy trying to return ours that he snuck it in.

Hill on The Pit - Lost 250-119
Last game of the evening, we got destroyed. The other team obviously had really good team work, they always had a good setup.

[Phoenix]

the hiding thing on narrows with the flag jeremy and i got from another team that we lost to a week earlier. they hid in the far end of the base. we tried that in the beggining but they caught us so we had to switch it up so we hid right near the flag spawn the place people usually hide to guard the flag with rockets or just guard the flag so the other team doesn't see them as easily as if you were hiding behind the fusion coils spot.

thanks for the compliment jeremy!! : )

[Zangief]

Yeah, I remember that game where they were hiding the flag.

[calico]

eff.. forgot