Estonia vs United Kingdom

Well, I wasn't admin for this game but as noone seemed to have time for it , I threw myself in their irc-channel.

After a lot or problems (read: serverprobs/mapchoice/overflow/settings) we could finally start.
Orion chose q2dm3 and q2dm8 for UK and Shuggener took q2dm7 and q2dm8 for Estonia.
Server was Telenet Quake2 Warserver (TDM)|195.130.132.156:27911 where we don't have the Admin code, which made it obviously a hard game to admin.
Estonia had a slight ping-disavantage (around 15ms more then UK), but it seemed the most fair server to me.
Anyway, off we went!

First map : q2dm7 (Estonia's choice)

This game looked like some kind of FFA game at the first sight. Nite and Flash-- rushed around the map with any weapon they could find , and fragged quite a lot. From Estonia's side, Corp and shuggener played a nice game, but not nice enough to win it. 4ever had some nice jump-actions at RL but this wasn't enough to win the map. UK fragged a bit more in general, and win q2dm7. Close and good game.


Second map : q2dm3 (UK's choice)

The game started, and the score was very close again.
Pegleg secured rail most of the time , and showed us some nice skills. Estonia made their base at SSG and fragged quite evenly with UK. Shuggener took most of the quads and gets an impressive netfrag. Orion and Zipgun were dominated at quad, while Mj tried to hold RL and take the Invuls. Anyway, this map was the closest of them all. UK had rail , Estonia quad and both team shared the Invuls.
UK had a small lead for some minutes, but Estonia quickly made the score even with some very nice quadruns.
The last seconds were thrilling, both teams kept fragging and the score was 120-120, with 3seconds left. Shuggener killed his last prey with quad, while Pegleg made a double railfrag. Unfortunately he killed someone from Estonia and .... a teammate too. Final score : 121-120 !!! GG


Third map : q2dm8 (Estonia's choice)

Well , after 10minutes we realised PowerShield wasn't on here, so we restarted the game. (UK were winning that one)
After voting (???) we started again. After some minutes again, we knew PS wasn't on (wrong vote/not passed?) again, but teams kept playing. UK had rail and hyper under control and played a very strong game. Orion didn't die for 15 minutes the others were just (spawn)railing around. Shugg was the only Estonian who showed some resistance and fragged a bit, but clearly not enough to bring UK's victory in danger. Nite also had a nice game , with almost no armor and only some railguns.


Fourth map : q2dm8 (UK's choice)

After a little bit of moaning about the server, Estonia was ready for the last map. PowerShield was voted on now , and we started our third dm8 game tonight. Pegleg started timing the powerups and almost had them all. The same scenario as the first q2dm8-game started. UK outrailed the Estonians, and all carried a powershield. Orion played a nice game on hyper and only died once. Estonia wasn't what we can call motivated, and when bish.ee overflowed, they didn't mind playing 3v4. Then Mj (who also overflowed) went chasing. n1 Mj! Anyway , the game ends and UK win with a large difference.


Conclusion

This was a very nice game for two maps, where the score was extremely close, but dm8 kinda screwed it all... Even without PS , UK showed they know how to play it and won over a demotivated Estonia. GG both!