WCA 2010

Got back from World Cup Asia in KL this morning. We came 3rd. I'm pretty happy with it. We fought our way through a difficult pool winning against Datis, SWAT, Demonz Red, Boonie Dogs and drawing to French team Bad Element and German team Dirty Annihilation. All of the games were extremely difficult and it really seemed like any of the teams from our pool could have gone on to win the tournament. There were plenty of moments where we were on the knife edge of losing games but thankfully instead of cracking we were able to use it to pull together and bring it back. We finished the prelims in 2nd seed to SWAT.

This left us to play Xtioneer/Xfox in the quarterfinals (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjil0Fj9zlI). We won this which left us to face Datis in the semi-finals. It was a difficult game. I think we made a bit of a mistake not conceding a 2v1 point when we should have, which left us grappling for time to make up points. The game finished at time in Datis favour sending them on to play the championship game, which they won. Datis are nice guys and I'm happy for them to have won the tournament!

This left us to play for 3rd and 4th. I felt like we were playing good enough to win the event, and I think we came up against a semi-deflated Ronin team, so we were able to beat them 4-0 and take 3rd. We finished the PALS series in 2nd place.