Finland vs Poland
After being late for 10 minutes couse polanders couldn't end their warmup, the game launcher.
First map : q2dm3 - server : Chef's Battleground - Teamplay|160.45.60.210:27920
First map was dm3 picked by Finland. The beginning was very messy, both teams shared quad and rail. Then some positions for teams started to clear. provi didn't give much control of rail to Poland, though Poland was slightly better at quad area. Still owning the rail very well, Finland got back their quad/SSG area too. Since the middle Jent and provi started showing off. They were both enough to stop whole Poland. Jent owning every quad and provi railing respawned polanders made a very good duet.
Second map : q2dm2 - server : Chef's Battleground - Teamplay|160.45.60.210:27920
Next map was dm2 chosen by Poland. They were wise to pick this map, couse they have very good tactics on it. mkuh ruled the lift almost all time and Assasin cleared the RL and below lifts area. Jent was suposed to keep this position but it was a black game for him... Only thing finns could do was try to get some quads. Actually provi did quite well at mega lift but it wasn't enough, still polanders got more quads. Eventhough when Finland succeded in bringing the quad from the pool safely there wasn't very much use of it becouse all polanders hided safely it the lift.
Third map : q2dm7 - server : Chef's Battleground - Teamplay|160.45.60.210:27920
Then dm7 followed. It was a very even game. Finland had more control of red armor with provi and Jent owning it amazingly, but still in the rest of the map Poland overmatched them. mkuh tried his best for RL and the others on SSG/Hyper area. 5 minutes left to play it was first time when Poland took lead. After that the game was extremly even for 3 minutes and only in last 2 minutes Finland got their final advantage.
Fourth map : q2dm1 - server : Chef's Battleground - Teamplay|160.45.60.210:27920
On dm1 Finland also had lead for most time. They tried to used their new tactics with Damiah at lift. At first it was working out quite well but when polanders got lift from Damiah and took rail control the game changed dramatically. In few minutes Poland took lead and increased it up to 20 frags. Scooby was the main fragger there owning the megaroom very nicely. This time Poland fought to the end and won the map.
Fifth map : q2dm5 - server : Chef's Battleground - Teamplay|160.45.60.210:27920
After map elimination, where Finland kicked off dm6 and Poland dm8, dm5 left to play. As you can see from the score Finland was totally overmatched here. Poland showed very nice teamplay. They always thought back the armor and only then attacked for quad. It was very hard for even provi to stop 2 armored polanders. Anyway provi was amazing on this map. He scored almost half of his teams frags. Watching from his POV it seemed that Finland was winning. However, Poland was stronger this time. GG!
Conclusion
By the way this wasn't a surprise for me! Poland always had nice team with good tactics and skill and now when they got ability to play even with some ping advantage they just had to believe they were good enough to win. Short question before the game:
([NDML]d34d) are you planing to win finland tonight?
([NDML]d34d) hard question?
([NDML]d34d) :>
(POL|Scooby) yea i plan
(POL|Scooby) sky aint the limit!
Goodluck Poland in the finals and Finland in loser bracket game against Belgium or Sweden!