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Thus, us awaits the match between the winner of two last  EDL, by the best duel player of Europe on quake2,  Damiah and by the conqueror of the latter season  RDL and  UDL - Blaizz.
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Let's remind, that Blaizz unique who has managed to defeat Damiah on one map in EDL3... It was not possible even for  Purri!
The scheme of organization of Show-games:
Winner will be certain from best of 5 maps.
Maplist: q2rdm2, q2rdm7, ptrip, q2dm1, q2dm3, q2duel1, q2duel5, ztn2dm2, ztn2dm3.
Each player must eliminate 2 maps from this maplist.
Player who was start elimination will choose the first and the third played maps, another player will choose the second and the fourth maps. If will 2:2, fifth map will played.
Considering, that each player will eliminate two maps, it is possible to make such forecast:
Blaizz eliminate ptrip and rdm2, Damiah eliminate ztn2dm2 and q2dm3.
After that there are following maps: q2rdm7, q2dm1, q2duel1, q2duel5, ztn2dm3. Most likely on 100 % will be played q2dm1 and ztn2dm3, and here two more maps are hidden by a fog - they have identical chances to be the chosen players. My forecast: 3:1 in favour of Damiah.
Stay tuned on #rdl.q2 irc channel for match time and GTV adress info.
In the first! Many thanks  Daelmun for the help with translation of this review on English!
Blaizz has shown a simply brilliant game in this tourney! I
am pleasantly suprised... But is there a reason to be suprised? For the last
couple of years Andrey has grown into a player belonging to the top level,
not only in Ukraine but also in Europe. Excellent tactics and equally
impressive aiming skill, combined with the ability to play very well with
high ping - those virtues are the main reason why Blaizz
already can play equal with the best players in Europe.
You're probably intrested in how the maps were chosen?
As you remember, I made the decision that the players could eliminate the
opponent's strongest maps, but this was done without taking into
consideration the fact that these games were supposed to be show-games.
Naturally, with that in mind, the more reasonable approach was that each
player could play on his strongest maps. After all that's what's most
intresting for the spectators. I am happy that both players came to the same
conclusion and made the logical choice of going along with this approach.
Blaizz's maps -> ztn2dm2, q2dm3
Damiah's maps -> q2rdm2, ptrip
Deciding map (if needed for a 5th game) -> ztn2dm3
The order the maps were gonna be played: ztn2dm2-> q2rdm2-> q2dm3-> ptrip
Now let's write about the games in greater detail.
ztn2dm2
This is Blaizz' strongest map. I don't even remember the
last time he lost a game here, but maybe you do? This game was
Damiah's chance of getting revenge for his loss on this
very map in their previous meeting in EDL3. But it turned into another
fiasco for the Finnish player. What lessons to learn from this game?
Purri is best advised being extremely well prepared on this
map if he doesn't want to follow in the footsteps of Damiah
( Purri and Blaizz are playing in the same
group in EDL4). Final result-> 9:2 in favour of Blaizz -
q2rdm2
Wake up Damiah in the middle of the night, plant him
infront of a computer and force him to play you on rdm2 :) Do you think you
will have a chance at winning? I do not think so. His extreme ability to
predict the moves of and to counter all possible actions of his opponent is
what characterizes Damiah. And on a map like q2rdm2 he can
utilize his clever play and ability to predict his opponents actions, like
the true master he is. As the screenshots show, a map where
Blaizz had no chance-> 18:4 win for Damiah -
q2dm3
Personally I really enjoyed the game on this map. A very tense and close
game that turned into a duel of two minds: both focused immensly on not
making any mistakes. In the first half of the game Damiah
had a slight advantage and lead some frags. But in the second
half of the game, the table was turned and Blaizz didn't
let his chance of comeback slip away. He managed to force
Damiah on the run, making him slow down his game hiding from the chasing
Blaizz. As a result the game went into overtime. But in the
overtime Blaizz made one crucial mistake which proved to be
fatal, quite possibly it was a result of pressure from
Damiah. If you want to watch the demo to see what happened with your own
eyes, I will not go into further detail-> a must see! Those who saw it live
will know exactly which moment I have in mind. The result-> 7:5 in favour of
Damiah -
ptrip
Everything pointed towards this map being the last one: this is the map
where Damiah tears almost all opposition into peices. Who
could possibly fight back? It turned out Blaizz could put
up quite the fight, he struggled like a lion throughout the game. In cases
like this the final score doesn't give the correct picture of how close the
game really was. Result-> 24:5 in favour Damiah -
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I wish to personally thank the developer of q2pro, SkulleR.
You have done an awesome job with GTV, and all the 30
specators who followed the games by connecting to it will always remember
you with a kind word!
Thanks Alexander_The_Uzver for setting up and running the
dedicated GTV-servers!
Thanks Blaizz and Damiah for a fair,
uncompromising and beautiful game!
Also thanks to Italian  quakers for providing a server where
Russian, Ukrainian and Finnish players can play fair. ps: in the days to
come there will be a review of RDL2 | |
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i must change my makeup man 
i lost too with same score in EDL3 
