Flex Pisses on You; You Deserve It

Flex’s words from a comment on this blog, edited for readability. His general message, which I echo, “Stop making excuses, a win is a win. They/we won three in a row, it’s not random or because of lag.”

Author: Flex, Editor: Concord

I respect you guys both, so this is not directed to you akira or pike, but just settling something nobody should confuse with SP.

SP was never a defense focused team. We employed 3 Attacker and 3 Defenders for all 3 Ladles (if it takes me to point that out to you, you obviously don’t know shit about Fortress and need to stop talking about it). There is enough footage of us to know exactly how we play and I’m not concerned about that at all.

Last Ladle, Plus+ sent 2 attackers and 1 late attacker with the rest in defense and used their main strategy of playing extra safe (on an American server I might add). Nice try though. In Ladle 31, we witnessed Twixted Xats take it a step further and split ultra early and have 4 defenders and 2 attackers. When I mean ultra early, I mean 3/4 of the map was the split line. You can imagine how boring and disconnecting it was for our defense. I bet it was Durka’s idea, lol. Kind of ironic. As if bringing Sumo camping concepts to Fortress is such a innovating idea. I’m not impressed at all. If anything, those who did complain about us, should feel stupid now that they’re actually fine with these tactics (if they are). (And they were always fine with them, in my opinion, they needed an excuse- Concord)

Don’t get confused, either. I’m not complaining nor am I worried. It takes one or two simple adaptations to bring out the major flaw in those kind of strategies, even without changing SP1’s current formation.

We are not the ones who make the round last for more than ten minutes, which happened in the semi finals both in Ladle 29 and 30. If we wanted to, that would have been the case against Twixted Xats this Ladle.

They won the first match and as far as I can remember they did not get in once without centering or holing. Insanity was the last one alive nearly 90% of the match on SP. I don’t think that was something they did, but rather that we failed to prevent. It’s happened before and it was never because of the other team, but rather because of us. I’m going to just assume we were just playing really bad. Though their excuses are that their defense disconnected, (which is their own fault), we definitely made sure we would step the game up the next matches and we did. Unfortunately they have their excuse. Oh well..

I guess us winning 3 Ladles in a row and something like 20-3 matches since the last 3 Ladles isn’t good enough a good reason for why we beat them. I guess we never have bad moments and when they lose, it was because of mistakes and when we lose, it was because of us being purely bested! When I speak of my team, I know it’s flaws and strengths and I can definitely say; this Ladle most of SP1 was reckless and not taking things seriously till the scores showed us losing. Those who have played us should know the raw skill we have and when we lost it, we were no where near that level of play.

Editor’s Choice: March

Compguygene posted this on Play Fortress shortly after his Wild West squad won a Ladle game. Yesterday they almost won a Ladle.

Original Post Date: March 3rd, 2009; Author: Compguygene

I have posted before in this space about my plans to build the ‘ole Wild West into a Fortress PowerHouse!  Goal number one has been accomplished, we got a victory!  We got past the first round!  Gratz to the Plus team for totally owning us in the second round.  I fully expected to face you.  I fully expected to lose! Well Done!  By the way,  Shock was supposed to lead our offencive unit and call our new offence,  unfortunately, he could not attend.  By the next ladle we will have at least two more trained offencive strat callers!  Had things been better organized we might have had a chance in the second round. But watching on my .3 client minimap, I will have us much better prepared.  Thank you for the lesson in pwnage Plus!

For those of you reading this and trying to build fortress teams.  Half of the Ww players in this ladle never played fortress before 10 days ago.  But they had mad skillz in other game modes.  Now, having tasted the blood of their downtrodden enemies.  They want to play fortress even more.  So, don’t be afraid to recruit that awsome CTF or Sumo or HR or DF player.  You just have to teach them to deal with the lower rubber and the basics of fort.  I have seen my more creative players do stuff that works, in competition, that no self-respecting Fortress-only player would ever think of trying.  The strength of the Ww team, is quick, creative, flexible strats and thinking.  You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet people!

See you all on the Grid,

Compguygene

RudyCan’tFail had the Best Time…

Congratulations to Speeders. That’s three, as if anyone was counting. Notorious Emoticons proved to be way more than a fluke. Twixted Xats showed they still have some fire. Crazy Tronners, Freelancers and Plus (snatch) all fell a bit short of where they would have liked to end, so did twelve other teams.

This was one of the most defensive Ladles to date. That’s what happens when you take away attacking, and then take away holing. Ladle 32 will either be a war of defensive tactics or something absolutely absurd. Can’t wait.

Ladle 31 Power Rankings

Speeders. The first word of the post, the first team, the winner of the last two Ladles. With back-to-back wins, the landscape changes to prevent a dynastic rule over Fortress. Can the other teams, not yet unified under a single banner, shake the iron grip Speeders holds over Fortress? Or will the Speeders achieve what many thought only possible in Team Sumo Tournaments, three-peat? These are the questions, tomorrow holds the answers. Those answers may be anything, but they will invariably have consequences.

Roster Query

In order to avoid as much time and space wasted on predicting who will play what position in the Ladle, I am asking for team rosters with positions from as many team captains as wish to give them. Any information you wish to give will improve the quality of the upcoming Power Rankings. Just reply with a comment, thanks!