This was the final of platinum trophy winner bracket, so a game with some tensions was expected..

.hr picked dm1 and dm7
tok picked dm3 and dm2

After a brief server discussion, both teams agreed to play on swiss baslerquaker q2 battleground.

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1st map was q2dm1 picked by team hrvatska.

LINEUPS:

Hrvatska: loopi, necro, damir, lesser
Team On-line Killers: redaw, auth-, jol, kabal

Altough I was expecting an easy game for us on this map, tok showed me wrong from the very beginning.
Both teams were fighting for mega-room the whole match, but all failed in securing it for a longer period of time - so none of the teams were allowed to make a bigger frag lead. Unfortunetly kabal dropped two times, so we had to pause the game - where after the second pause Damir forgot how does the NMY look like, and he chained off 200+ health from me giving tok a better chance (n1) :)
I think the main reason .hr won this map is because tok was attacking more with railguns, and we attacked more with ssgs, rockets etc.. So when tok players died we had railguns and when we died they had rocket launchers, thus we were fragging more.
None of the teams showed some special teamplay abilities on this map, Necro perhaps displayed most individual skills.

Q2DM1 .hr wins over tok 134:116


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2nd map was q2dm3 picked by team tok.

LINEUPS:

Hrvatska: lesser,loopi,necro, dx
Team On-line Killers: redaw, auth-, jol, darus

Tok had a nice start here getting the first penta, killing our quad-runner and locking the map down. They also showed very nice teamplay abilites on this map which resulted with them taking every penta, and a larger number of quads.
However if I remember right, more than 90% of their quad-runners were killed by either loope (thats me) or necro with grenade attacks and that is what stopped them from getting any bigger frag difference into the game.
Tok was leading the game with atleast ten frags for most of the game, but somewhere arround five minutes before the end Necro focused more on rail (where dx was having some problems), secured it and stole a couple of quads resulting in a score turn-over and second map win for team hrvatska.
Tok was the better team on this map, but I also have to say Dx displayed most individual skills being the only player with positive net, and battleing a high isdn ping.

Q2DM3 .hr wins over tok 132-126


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3rd map was q2dm2 picked by team tok.

LINEUPS:

Hrvatska: lesser,loopi,necro, damir
Team On-line Killers: redaw, auth-, jol, kabal

Before the game started, hrvatska was aiming to play dm7 and tok was complaining and looking to play dm2. So hrvatska agreed to play dm2, all except Necro who boycotted this and disconnected from the server. So after alot of irc fighting just about as ipool (thats me) was ready to give w/o to tok for the entire match necro connected and we were ready to rumble!

Tok again had a nice start here, getting the first mega, quad and then securing the RA with a nice ladder jump if I remember correctly. So after the first shock hrvatska focused on quad, and tok focused on attacking it via RA. Quite an equal battle for most of the game, keeping the score equal (@10:00 40:40) for allmost fifteen minutes. All croatian attacks on RA failed, as well did most polish attacks on quad. But then somewhere arround five minutes before the end the balkanian hand kinda gave up on RA, and started fragging more both with quad and some campy spawn-fragging thus creating a twenty-frag difference before the end of the game.
Both teams showed some fair teamplay on this map, but perhaps the best individual was kabal for his very good control of the RA lift.

Q2DM2 .hr wins over tok 109-86

So after this 3-map thriller tok gets relogated into the loser bracket battle, while hrvatska will wait for their challenger in the PLATINUM TROPHY FINAL.

GG both, and gl in future games!