Saturday's competitions saw InnerCatalyst (Sieghardt) defeating Core and Covenant2 to advance to the finals bracket where they faced off against IWMSAN - I Wear My Sunglasses At Night (Kain). IWMSAN won against the first Team and then won against team First, heh, ya, I waited all wiik to make that joke. In the Division 3 Finals, InnerCatalyst broke IWMSAN down and rolled to victory. In the First Round 9v9, InnerCatalyst was in control from the start. Round 2 3v3 fights saw IWMSAN's entire team fall to one group of 3. And in Round 3 1v1's, I saw an Orc get a one-shot kill with a Drac Bow. Talk about awesomesauce. Of course, there were claims of "OMGHAX!", but think about it. There's 20 players, 4-5 GMs and only 2 people fighting. And you know every eye is on the fighters. So, how the hell are you going to get away with hax?
Here are the Replays and Movies. (yes, movies!) InnerCatalyst is Blue Team, and IWMSAN is Red Team.
To view Replay files, extract them to C: Program Files Lineage II Replay, then start the Lineage II client and click the Replay button in the lower right corner of the login screen. You will see the files listed and can select and play them from there.
Replays (.l2r files compressed with WinRar):
Movies (XviD encoding .avi Format):
Division 3 Finals 1v1 (90.6mb)
Sunday's battles raged all day long, and what can I say about Covenant1 (Devianne) that doesn't sound like I'm worshipping them. They steamrolled to the Finals over DarkVengeance and Dynasty. Dynasty gains special noteriety for showing the poorest sportmanship thus far, for refusing to fight the Round 3 1v1 matches against Covenant1 claiming that the 9v9 should be refought as one of their members had disconnected. Check the Replay in the Div 4 Semi Finals, and you can see that it wouldn't have mattered, Dynasty was just out-matched from the start.
On the other hand, WarCry is happy to give it's "Most Honor in the Tournament" Award to FallenAngels of the Kain server for fighting despite only having 6 of their 9 members present. They even managed to win the Round 3 1v1 matches, so I would like to think that if they had those other 3 it would have been a different outcome.
Lining up against Covenant1 in the Division 4 Finals was StygianUnderdogs (Kain) who defeated Legacy and FreemenOfDev. This was looking like a monumental battle as both Teams had won their preliminary and semi matches by sweeping their opponents. But in the end it was Covenant1 who stood victorious.
Here are the Replays for all of the Division 4 matches. I'm sorry to say that due to a Fraps error, I didn't get Movies of the Div 4 matches.
Replays (.l2r files compressed with WinRar):
Congratulations to all the participants and again, many Thanks to the Lineage II Team for getting WarCry the chance to cover the Battle Tournament!
Stay tuned for the Finals this Saturday!
