IN OPEN 3, WE QUALIFIED TO PLAYOFFS!!!!
With being only 1 game away from playoffs we felt the pressure this week. We decided to just go with a simple comp and play simple combo ult strats so we don't have much room for mistakes. However, 1 of our main players, Prancer, could not make it online in time to play the first map so we had to sub in sideshowbaldhead.
For map 1 we didn't know what to expect as we haven't scrimmed abyss much especially with the current roster. The team felt confident after winning the pistol and securing 7 rounds on attack. However when the sides switched and after losing the bonus the pressure of losing the chance to qualify got to us, and we started to slip up giving unfavorable fights and poorly adapting. We ended up losing 8-13
With only 10 minutes to queue into a second match we quickly changed players, and queued hoping we get a match. We got out second game of the night, it all came down to this, if we lose this game we don't qualify to playoffs. We got attack side first, this is ideal for us since we have a double duelist comp, we started with a quick execute on A site to catch the defenders off. We closed out the pistol round and quickly got the bonus allowing us to snowball. With a dominant 11-1 half (kamui threw) we felt confident on the defense half to close out. We won the pistol and closed out the map 13-2. Qualifying us to premier playoffs.
A/N: This premier stage has been a Rollercoaster, we couldn't play 2 of the weeks and we had various players get comp banned, have to cancel last minute, and take breaks. But we managed to secure playoffs. I would like to thank all fo you for being so kind to us and for encouraging us on our journey. I'd also like to thank kalavyan, sideshowbaldhead, yukky, and c9 oxy for helping us through out these last few weeks.
p.s. We will probably stream our grand final (and other games) on discord tonight, send a dm to me (prancermane) or cloudberry (sylt.hjortron) if you'd like to watch it.
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