Quantumality
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Posted - 2011.06.23 03:36:00 -
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I think it all comes down to wow...grats Outbreak and Hydra on your win.
Very nice read Duncan, thanks for posting. Also props for all the effort you guys put in to providing awesome fights up to the final. I don't have the ISK to have all those fits, or the dedication to do that much training, and it is cool to see people who do reap the rewards of their time and effort. From your account at least Darkside and PL also put in large amounts of training, and that showed clearly in the tourney as well.
I always love how all the armchair warriors (me included) can say what they would have done differently in the final match (ok, if it were me I would have wiped all but Laedy out then SD'd 0utbreak's gang, but who cares). I haven't seen anyone here realize what most likely happened AT THE TIME when people had to make decisions. Commentators and everyone else are always talking about how the wrong move by a pilot or the wrong decision by a FC can cause a loss.
I can only imagine what was going on the TS3 server during the match when you realized 0utbreak was owning Hydra when it was already agreed Hydra would win the match. I mean seriously, the Hydra setup won in practice, so much so it had to be toned down and the rush had to be extra tanked. You were trying to give the good fight, and no one noticed soon enough that things were going in the wrong direction too fast. It went farther and left you with very few options for a clean finish that still left Hydra with the field. I'm sure all you guys have thought of at least a hundred different ways you could have ended that match better - now that you have actually had time to think about it because it isn't the heat of battle.
Props for being in the position where you didn't have time to think of the best way to finish things because you were fighting a match that both was the envy of any other alliance being able to have (owning both teams in the final) and something CCP will probably work hard towards making sure it can't ever happen again (and likely to the detriment of potential tournament entrants in the future).
Enjoy the prizes, and just hide out on Sisi for a week or so till this blows over.
CCP: thanks for all the work broadcasting this in HD and having some awesome commentators flown in for the matches. There were some truly great fights this tournament. Please keep doing tournaments, but hopefully without swinging the new rules bat harder than necessary. |