Hello and welcome to the 4th EuroQ2L division 3 final match between estonian clan stop and polish clan xDivision!

It was probably one of the most dramatic matches I've ever seen and you're about to find out why...

After about 1.5 hrs of server-searching we decided to play home/away.

1st map -> q2dm1 (stop's choice, xD's server)
Average ping 68 vs 52 in favour of xD. Not the worst.

First of all, stop was totally confident that they are going to beat xD to the ground in dm1, because frankly, it's their home map. Is now, was in 2000, and will probably be in 2010. But what happened? Stop soon found out that they couldn't hold rail very well, could hold base even worse and couldn't hold lift at all. The match was quite even, everybody were very anxious to get hold of any positions, but control was gained and lost very quickly. xD started to pull ahead and a little while before the end, 5 min or so, stop found that they were ~20 frags behind. Things weren't looking so good. Then the impossible started. stop finally got a hold of their game, literally at the last moment, and started fragging. Shad and Reaper made the final inhuman push with a tasty RL/railgun combo and got 6-7 frags. Then this:

xD|h1d3 didn't see xD|x-Ray's handgrenade ** Teammate Kill **

A tie. Few seconds to go.

xD|JUBY was blown away by stop|mobzter's super shotgun

No-one could believe it. stop wins 127 : 126!



2nd map -> q2dm3 (xD's choice, stop's server)
Average ping 52 vs 71 in favour of stop. Still OK.

Now, this map made stop quite nervous, because of the narrow win in dm1 and also because polish are notoriously strong on dm3. The first minute seemed to confirm stop's fear - xD got both the first quad and first invulnerability. But then quite quickly stop got hold of the base and Shad finally got his game going at the rail. Very quickly the game turned into a fragfest by stop. xD got owned all over the place. Shad the Insta Bastard just kept on railing and topped out at 73 frags! In the end xD got some quads and made some nice frags, but it was obviously too late. So xD's game totally broke down on their strongest map, while they almost won dm1 which stop is the toughest on? More surprises to come.

Stop wins 205 : 78.



3rd map -> q2dm8 (stop's choice, xD's server)
Average ping 62 vs 54 in favour of xD. Not a big difference.

This one stop was hoping to win by a large margin, not because they're good at it, but because (supposedly) xD was not. The game started, but again, things were looking tight. xD was taking the lead. 4 min was played and stop was down by 9 frags. Stop started to catch up on xD again and when half the match was played, it was a tie around 50:50. Then xD started to own. Stop couldn't hold the railgun very well and xD seemed to be getting a better use out of powershields. Things for looking grim for stop, as they definetely didn't want to play dm6 with xD.

4 minutes to go and stop is behind 72 : 90.

stop is trying desperately to frag some sweet polish female/athena.

2 minutes to go and stop is behind 88 : 99.

Just a little more?

1:17 to go and finally a tie at 99 : 99! At this point everybody is quite nervous. Stop kept their heads cool, regrouped with WiCkeD at the hyperblaster (which was the only position really under control). xD put everything they got into attacking stop but this time it wasn't enough.

Stop wins 106 : 102!



GG xD. Nobody knew practically anything about you in the EU scene, but now you've made a nice debut, second place at EuroQ2L division 3! You really gave stop a run for their money.

And the real congrats goes to stop, a team full of quite oldschool players, most of whom already quit playing in 2001 and are now making quite a sweet comeback.



European Quake 2 League division 3 winner is clan stop from Estonia!