PBM+HPL End Of Season Tourney
PBM+HPL End Of Season Tourney
The last tournament of the 2005 season was a united PBM-HPL event. It was great since not only we saw that the next season would bring us a united league but also because 12 teams registered. For us this event meant very much, as we were just one point below team "Immortals" in the overall standings.
Placing ourselves higher than immortals was vital if we wanted to climb in the first overall place. Since we had difficulty to bring all Supreme players to play, two Dogs D'Amour players joined our team for this event. We want to thank Vassiliadis Vassilis and Kalamakis Neno for joining our ranks for this event and helping us achieve our goals, and also thanks to team Dogs D'amour for lending them to us.
As the tournament started, it was very difficult for us in the beginning to determine where would each of us play since we did not know the style of play of our two guest players. But quickly we managed to determine how we could adapt our team to the field and with some quick changes we were able to rock the field. We entered the semi-finals as the second seeded team. In the one bracket we were playing with team "immortals" and in the other bracket team "Goblins", which had only wins in the prelims, was playing team "Molon Lave".
The two semi finals came out to be PBM and HPL "finals", and thus the final would be between PBM and HPL teams. In our first semi final game some chopping problems led to the first game ending in a draw. We entered the second game to pick a quick win and place ourselves in the drivers seat. If we wanted to win the first overall place of the PBM we would have to win this semi-final bracket, realizing this we went on to play a more conservative style of paintball and we managed to lock the field and pick a draw which automatically sent us in the finals to face team Goblins. At this point we had fulfilled our primary goal, to win the First PBM place.
But Supreme is always starving for wins and went on fighting in the finals. We lost our first game but we saw that our game plan was working, so with some small adjustments we went on to win the remaining two games and place ourselves in the first place of the united HPL and PBM tournament. It was a great way to end the season, First overall place in the PBM, first place in the last PBM tournament and first place in the last HPL tournament.
Thursday, November 24, 2005