Swiss Round 5: Threefolder vs Freeziez
Video heads up: NFSW language and lots of trance in the background
I expected this round to be close, but not like this. As freeziez said after the round, "I was shaking the whole time." I imagine Threefolder was shaking fairly intensely during this too.
Freeziez got first pick and chose
Megas, to which Threefolder responded "my best is 38." Although pretty close, Threefolder kept up a small lead through the first half of the round. The two seemed pretty easily matched, neither managing to really pull away with the points. Threefolder looked like he had the map in the bad, but then Freeziez stole two blues in a row, right out from under his nose, and it went back to being anyone's game. Some coarse words followed in voice chat, but Threefolder managed to end up on top, by just barely stealing the last red gem from Freeziez to prevent a tie. Final scores were
106 - 104.
Coarse language was spread all around, but Threefolder stuck to it and picked
Sacred for his first pick of the match. He felt pretty confident about his abilities on it, and with a good first few spawns, things looked like they were going his way. Both players missed the same blue gem more than four times together, and Threefolder felt confident, up 20 points after a minute and a half. Pulling some D strats, he seemed so set on the win that Freeziez commented "gg" in chat. Threefolder's response? "I'm fine with beating him 65-46." Things looked in Threefolder favor until Freeziez pulled out a nice spawn abuse and was closer to the blue on the next spawn. With 30 seconds left the scores were tied, and it became anyone's game again. Threefolder started going crazy trying to collect the gems, and only managed to squeak out a victory,
91 - 90. Things were not looking well for Freeziez.
With some hesitation, Freeziez decides to go with
Basic Agility Course for his second pick. Will this be his last level? Of course not, you can see how long this write-up is, and probably already know the result by now. One minute in, and Threefolder starts freaking out about gems not appearing on his radar as Freeziez steals blue after blue. Freeziez keeping it
cool, with Threefolder desperately Super Jumping to the various gems and going out of bounds. With 1:30 left, Freeziez is up 17 points. This doesn't bode well for Threefolder, who clearly voiced it with a "Good [happy sprinkle donuts] game." Misses and gem steals all over the place, Threefolder takes a nosedive, with Freeziez winning
143 - 100.
With no idea for his second pick, Threefolder goes with
Marble it Up, calling it "The only map I'm slightly [happy sprinkle donuts] decent at, that isn't Sacred." Freeziez found his skills again, as Threefolder started making lots of little mistakes that were going to cost him. Regardless of how angry he was getting, he was keeping the scores pretty close... at least for the first minute. With 3:30 to go, Freeziez was up by 10 and Threefolder started having trouble landing his jumps. The two were neck and neck for quite some time, but the pressure was really getting to Threefolder. At 1:45, Freeziez starting pulling away with multiple blue steals. After the third blue, Threefolder rage quit, leaving Freeziez some free points to bring the scores to a nasty
117 - 79.
The randomizer, cruel as always, picked the final map of
Architecture. Starting off badly with a mistimed gryocopter, things did not bode well for Threefolder. Freeziez started guessing spawns well, keeping a few points in the lead. Threefolder remarked how was "already on the ramp because he's [happy sprinkle donus] magical." After a pretty terrible couple misses and another bad gyrocopter, Threefolder was losing 58-36. Freeziez pulled a partial D strat (lowercase d?), but ended up taking the last red anyway. Was it a smart move? It probably didn't matter, because he was up 79-59 after a blue steal, with 2:00 left on the clock. Even with a two blue steals, Threefolder still wasn't quite able to pull back from Freeziez's lead in time. With 20 seconds on the clock, he got torn to pieces by the ice fans. Nearly 5 seconds left on the clock and he's down 4. A blue appears in the distance. He shoots for it... ... ... ... ... and overshoots just slightly, missing it. Freeziez barely wins,
110 - 106.
Final reactions:
Threefolder: "[Happy sprinkle donuts] multiplayer, I'm never playing it again"
Freeziez: "I was shaking most of all 5 maps. Cost me Megas"
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