Premier League Finals Schedule

ProBowl
Assassins vs Sterling @ 4pm EST

IML Finals
Llamasutra vs. No Contest @ 4pm EST

AML Finals
Victimise vs Fly-NDeath @ 5pm EST

All the matches will start this Sunday, are best of three and the first two games must be played. It's up to the two squads caps to decide whether to play a game 3 on Sunday or the following week. I did my best to get our game scheduled to a later time, but we got stuck with 5est. I'll be back on Sunday to let you know how we got on.

AML Semi Final, Victimise 12 EyeQ 2

We should of made it in season 6 when we were knocked out by the eventual champions Unforeseen in the semi finasl and we made an unexpected run in the season 12 playoffs to make the finals against Gods only to lose in two games. Now after what turned out to be a disappointing season we get the chance to take care of some unfinished business and finally take the AML title home.

The game itself yesterday was fairly uneventful. We started me, Asinine, a fool (all 'birds) and Joe Bane (weasel) with Inigo Montoya (weasel) subbing in, while EyeQ went the whole game with T.k.c., Xill, mashem and Nasty Devil (all 'birds).

As expect EyeQ came out very passive and looked to lob at every opportunity. We were happy to play the lob game with them until we started to burn them down and push out loners and target them out. We went 3-0 up after the first 13 minutes, took control and never really looked back. EyeQ hung in there for a little while longer, but once Inigo subbed in to really step the pace up they folded. Here's all the stats:

+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------------+---------+----------+----------+----------------+
| F 200: EyeQ      Ki/De TK LO SK AS FR WR WRk Mi PTime | DDealt/DTaken DmgE | AcB AcG |    W-L   |   Ki/De  |  Rat TRat ERat |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------------+---------+----------+----------+----------------+
| T.k.c.            0/ 3  0  0  0  1  1  1   7  0 36:19 |  31660/ 60211  34% |  33   7 |    2-7   |    6/16  |   -8  477  533 |
| Xill              0/ 3  0  0  0  0  3  4   6  2 31:08 |  39011/ 44658  46% |  31  17 |    2-9   |    9/20  |  -28  467  789 |
| mashem            2/ 3  0  0  0  0  1  4   6  1 35:09 |  27454/ 37421  42% |  24   9 |    1-4   |    5/10  |   -1  480  700 |
| Nasty Devil       0/ 3  0  0  0  1  1  0   3  2 37:06 |  42220/ 55297  43% |  28  10 |    2-10  |    9/23  |   -2  459  357 |
| TOTAL:            2/12  0  0  0  2  6  9  22  5       | 140345/197587      |  29  10 |    7-30  |   29/69  |   -9  470  593 |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------------+---------+----------+----------+----------------+
| F 100: Victimis  Ki/De TK LO SK AS FR WR WRk Mi PTime | DDealt/DTaken DmgE | AcB AcG |    W-L   |   Ki/De  |  Rat TRat ERat |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------------+---------+----------+----------+----------------+
| a fool            3/ 0  0  0  0  0  3  0   0  1 37:06 |  55034/ 32239  63% |  30   9 |    3-4   |    9/10  |  +14  530  800 |
| vorb              3/ 0  0  0  2  2  3  0   0  1 37:06 |  38179/ 24934  60% |  22   7 |    3-5   |    5/7   |  +20  514  806 |
| Joe Bane          1/ 1  0  0  0  4  3  0   0 10 37:06 |  52450/ 43333  54% |  32   7 |    1-2   |    2/7   |  +11  496  877 |
| Asinine           0/ 0  0  1  0  1  0  0   0  0 23:38 |  26406/ 24359  52% |  27  13 |    5-3   |    3/11  |   +1  443  834 |
|  Inigo Montoya    5/ 1  0  0  2  1  4  0   0  1 13:08 |  19339/ 23183  45% |  42  11 |    3-4   |    9/14  |  +16  459  988 |
| TOTAL:           12/ 2  0  1  4  8 13  0   0 13       | 191408/148048      |  29   9 |   15-18  |   28/49  |  +12  488  861 |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------------+---------+----------+----------+----------------+
MVP: vorb (+20)      -- Runner Up: Inigo Montoya (+16)
LVP: Xill (-28)      -- Runner Up: T.k.c. (-8)
Box Score - Spec Log

and no, I don't know how I ended up with the MVP over Inigo either. As I ended up playing the whole match I forgot to take any screenshots. Our focus now turns to FnD and the best-of-three finals series. Mauler should post a time either later this evening or tomorrow and I expect FnD cap Knives and myself to look to negotiate a later time than that as both squads prefer to play as late as possible.

Once there is a confirmed time I'll post here, along with the times for the Pro Bowl (Assassins vs Sterling) and the IML Finals (Llamasutra vs No Contest).

We Won

We best EyeQ 12-2 today to make our second AML finals series. Not the most exciting of games, but I'll put up a match report sometime tomorrow.

Update

Much like our season, I've let this blog slide in the last few weeks. But thanks to the new pyramid system we still have a lifeline.

After a good start we ended up losing five of our last six games to go from a seemingly-safe spot in the upper part of the IML tier to drop down into the AML basement. The lifeline is that we can still make the AML finals.

Last Sunday we got a bye in the first round and go straight into today's semi final where we face fellow Alpha squad EyeQ. The winners of that game will go on to face Fly-NDeath in the best-of-three final.

I've updated the player stats and results - which you can check out on the sidebar - and I'll be back later today after the game with the result.

Round 6, Victimise 12 SkyRakers 4

Another good performance from us yesterday. With the squad now back and playing for a month we've started to gel and are now set in the middle of the IMP tier after three straight wins.

We started Anamalech(warbird/weasel), a fool (weasel/warbird), Dank Season (warbird) and agentgeorge (warbird). Our subs were a pool (warbird), Asinine (warbird), TrickStar (warbird) and BLU-82 (terrier). SkyRakers went with Kepi (weasel), ozzi (warbird), AOL (warbird) and Static Burn (warbird). Their subs were The Element (warbird), noskill (warbird) and pac-man returns (warbird).

We got off to a good start with two kills by Anamalech, then a DK by Dank/ozzi to make it 3-1 us after twelve minutes. SR kept it close from then on, when we looked like pulling ahead they struck back and the score was 4-3 us at the twenty seven minute mark. That would be as close as they'd get.

SR have decent starters, but a very weak bench which we took advantage of when the subs started. In just over three minutes of match time it went from 4v4 and 4-3 to 4v2 and 8-3 to us. Our only other death in the game was a teamkill. Anam was the MVP going 4-1 with 4 assists and an amazing 12 forced reps and is now the highest rated player in the league. Also a shout out to BLU-82 who played in his second-ever league game yesterday - six years after his first one for Vic in Spring League. Here's all the stats.

+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------------+---------+----------+----------+----------------+
| F 200: SkyRaker  Ki/De TK LO SK AS FR WR WRk Mi PTime | DDealt/DTaken DmgE | AcB AcG |    W-L   |   Ki/De  |  Rat TRat ERat |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------------+---------+----------+----------+----------------+
| Kepi              1/ 3  0  0  1  0  4  2   3  1 30:01 |  44009/ 32948  57% |  29   9 |    2-2   |    6/7   |   -8  502  975 |
| ozzi              1/ 1  0  1  1  0  3  1   0  0 22:28 |  36540/ 34324  51% |  45  10 |    1-1   |    4/1   |   +3  521  984 |
|  The_Element      0/ 2  1  0  0  0  0  2   4  0  7:44 |   9523/ 14342  39% |  44   7 |    0-2   |    1/5   |   -8  491  702 |
| AOL               1/ 0  0  1  0  0  3  0   0  1 30:40 |  50633/ 36611  58% |  31  11 |    2-4   |   10/10  |   +7  547 1237 |
|  noskill          0/ 3  0  0  0  1  1  0   0  6 12:31 |  18224/ 26572  40% |  65  23 |    0-4   |    0/9   |   -2  484  900 |
| Static Burn       0/ 1  0  1  0  1  0  1   2  0 13:21 |  20958/ 21776  49% |  32  10 |    2-3   |   11/7   |   -3  536 1274 |
|  pac-man returns  0/ 2  1  0  0  0  0  0   2  0 20:37 |  20235/ 32789  38% |  27   9 |    0-1   |    0/2   |   -7  493  978 |
| TOTAL:            4/12  2  3  2  2 11  6  11  8       | 200122/199362      |  34  10 |    7-17  |   32/41  |   -2  510 1006 |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------------+---------+----------+----------+----------------+
| F 100: Victimis  Ki/De TK LO SK AS FR WR WRk Mi PTime | DDealt/DTaken DmgE | AcB AcG |    W-L   |   Ki/De  |  Rat TRat ERat |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------------+---------+----------+----------+----------------+
| agentgeorge       0/ 1  0  1  0  0  2  0   0  0 31:01 |  21377/ 56998  27% |  28  12 |    2-1   |    0/2   |   -1  483  779 |
|  a pool           1/ 1  0  0  0  0  1  0   0  0 12:08 |   6436/  9804  39% |  17  10 |    1-0   |    1/1   |   -1  499 1022 |
| Dank Season       1/ 1  0  1  1  1  2  0   0  1 20:28 |  26583/ 36315  42% |  51  22 |    3-0   |    2/1   |   +4  508  970 |
|  Asinine          1/ 0  0  0  0  3  3  0   0  0 22:39 |  26260/ 20821  55% |  41   8 |    3-0   |    2/2   |  +10  515  902 |
| a fool            1/ 0  0  2  0  1  1  0   0  0 31:44 |  29512/ 27985  51% |  25   4 |    2-0   |    5/1   |   +6  522  955 |
|  TrickStar        2/ 0  0  0  0  0  0  0   0  0 11:05 |   5122/  5372  48% |  26   3 |    1-0   |    2/0   |   +3  503 1022 |
| Anamalech         4/ 1  1  1  1  4 12  0   2  2 37:34 |  75619/ 50818  59% |  50  16 |    2-0   |    9/1   |  +28  566 1013 |
|  BLU-82           0/ 0  0  0  0  1  0  0   0  1  5:20 |   1800/  1209  59% |  16   1 |    1-0   |    0/0   |   +4  504 1022 |
| TOTAL:           12/ 4  1  5  2 10 21  0   2  4       | 192709/209322      |  37  10 |   15-1   |   21/8   |   +6  512  960 |
+-------------------------------------------------------+--------------------+---------+----------+----------+----------------+
MVP: Anamalech (+28)      -- Runner Up: Asinine (+10)
LVP: Kepi (-8)      -- Runner Up: The_Element (-8)

Full Match Stats - Spec Log


No Screenshots for you this week as I wasn't on my home PC. I thought we would be matched up against either ReDS or Nguyens in the next round, but it now looks more likely we'll be playing Nightwatch. I'll post the full schedule when it goes up tomorrow.