Crazy Tempest CTF ! (Quake Champions)(TigerBLUE)

A superb/well balanced CTF match played on TEMPEST last night.
Team RED: WoMD1, Sakharok, EuthanasiaTrip, killpill
Team BLUE: KaPoufe, Sedmund, Cams7, TigerBLUE
This was a crazy game ! 10mins each side and very well balanced by RonnieRailgun (cheers Ronnie !). I'm always very nervous about Tempest matches, I never feel I can adequately defend from the HA side of the map and even on the other side it can be very difficult...especially if the attacker(s) have movement advantages and heavy armour (eg. Sorlag/Clutch) because they can easily be away before you can do enough damage to take them down. Looking at the teams I honestly thought Team BLUE would get stomped on but I was wrong...this match could very easily have gone either way !
At the end of the first half it was 4-4 but with the change of ends I thought RED would pull ahead...but as it happened BLUE gradually got the upper hand and to my surprise we found ourselves 8-4 5mins into the second half...shortly after that it all went pear shaped LOL
At 15:48 I push my position to help cover Quad too far, I can see Cams7 is ready to take Quad and there are no RED players there so I'm feeling pretty comfortable but I then hear our flag is under attack and I'm not in a good position to stop it (or even see it)...in the time it takes me to step back, look right/down and back again Sakharok has managed to get all the way to the Quad position with our flag, Cams7 is dropping down and EuthanasiaTrip now has Quad ! arggggh !!! I manage to land a rail on the FC but I'm easily dispatched by EuthanasiaTrip with Quad LG and 2s later they CAP ! We're now in complete disarray and I'm fragged by Quad LG again almost immediately after I spawn, WomD1 is speedily away with our flag and as I spawn at HA I can see our flag in transit with no way to stop it. As HA is about to spawn I decide to wait a few seconds to armour up before heading back to base, they CAP, HA spawns but before I can get back to base Sakharok has already got our flag and is on his way home again ! (man he's fast !). I try to pursue but I can't stop him before he CAPS and makes the score 7-8 ! I'm in their base at this point so make a play for the flag and somehow pull off a tripple kill...but I end up facing the wrong way and the next fight doesn't go well...in hindsight I should have just made a run for it on the top level but I can see Sedmund down below and I end up dropping down to help just as he gets fragged so I'm on my own and it's curtains. I then spawn back in my own base but a well played 3 man attack secures RED yet another CAP and our 4 CAP lead has vanished in what seems like the blink of an eye ! The score is now 8-8 with 3mins to go !
You'll have to watch the last 3mins to see what happens next ;-)
Great game :-)
wp all :-)

[@TediI47]

mvp moves and chases near the end, gg

[@tigerblue42]

Heh, I was feeling pretty devastated losing the 4 CAP lead in the "blink of an eye", which in my head all started with my mistake of pushing the Quad position too much...it's very tricky to defend that end of the map sometimes because the enemy can enter the base from at least 4 directions...top/SNG (from Quad) which was covered ofc, below SNG (from Rail), opposite SNG (from HA), opposite SNG and to the right (up the stairs and round or from HA and round) and if they have a ranger they can also dire orb through that grate at the bottom of the stairs...you feel quite vulnerable if you're a defender on your own there, especially if you're also trying to help cover a Quad spawn and playing a champ that doesn't have any movement advantage. I was so chuffed that my decision to go for that CAP paid off and over the moon with that defence ! :-) VGG ! :-)