Tournaments
phil  /  4 Jun 2009, 14:23
Oldschool: Round of 16
After the preliminary rounds (wrought with walkovers) we are finally getting to the good stuff in the oldschool tournament. I still don't understand why people sign up and then don't play, I would much rather have 16 good players sign up and every game be a hot pro game, rather than have 128 people and 64 walkovers. Anyways, read on for the bracket breakdown and some predictions...
In the winner bracket we already have some hot match ups. Indeed, these games may shed some light on how good the shape is for some of the dreamhack participants.

fifi vs troll
The fix-killer troll is matched up against the fix-lovar fifi. Fifi will have to play good in order to avenge his immortal teammate's honor, because troll has shown he is not scared of a big name.


Kwibus vs XantoM
If XantoM wants to do well in the dreamhack tourny, he has to completely own Kwibus, and kwibus is not a noob at all. Kwibus may be replaced by witka, depending on the outcome of their pending walkover in the previous round. Either way, the ball will be in XantoM's court.

Avenger vs bent
Bent had what some might say an upset victory in straight maps over Medar. Avenger, of course, is the duelmania runner up to reppie some years ago, but we haven't heard from him since then and the real question is how long it will take him to get back to his old shape. Recent pov and ztndm3 results show he is not too far from it already.

BulaT vs VVD
Late entry VVD, developer extra-ordinaire, is paired up against the unstoppable BulaT. VVD has quite a number of duel tricks up his sleeve, so it will be finnesse against brute aim power of BulaT, and the confidense will be on the side of Ufa for sure.

LocKtar vs rikoll
If it was allowed by rules, these two might as well play 3 DM4. But it is forbidden by the rules! So we will see how these DM4 loves will do against each other on other maps. LocKtar is the favorite for dreamhack, and his form will be tested here.

goniec vs pkk
Goniec has very good aim, and pkk is one of those immortal duelers that lurks in the background and can always kick ass on demand. Ping might be an issue in this match, and I hope it is not too much.

ParadokS vs xer0
ParadokS is another player that is also signed up for dreamhack. Everybody will expect him to steam-roll over xer0, but it isn't over till the fat lady sings...

soma vs bls
And finally there is soma vs bls (blasphemer?) I actually have to give a slight edge to bls here, just because there are so many other polish players signed up, so I am sure there is a lot of practicing going on.

You can see the brackets here

And the website is here: quakephil.com/oldschool
Comments
2009-06-04, 17:39
I will win my way through losers brackets and then win the whole tourney :E
2009-06-05, 12:31
Nice predictions filly!
2009-06-06, 12:47
Yeah apart from me marked as swedish, very nice!
2009-06-07, 12:39
where can I find when and who will be playing? (shedule), irc ?
2009-06-07, 16:44
Well, we used to have qwschedule but that seems to have died with the qwdrama site.

Sometimes they'll announce the games in plenty of time and a fixture will get added to http://goldrush.quakeworld.nu/ by admins, but it's rare these days aside from finals. You're only likely to see those games if someone spams over the irc bot as they're starting.

Another communal schedule page permanently linked on the front of qw.nu would probably be welcome, but that would take work, and qw doesn't pay. :<
2009-06-09, 08:32
avenger played in eql9 and very well in an otherwise weak team -> PHC
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