TAW #2 vs. O.P.P. (Quake Wars FTM league)

This was the first official match for the second EU TAW team ever. The opponent they had to face was O.P.P. an opponent they didn't know much about.

TAW line up: Patamon (captain), Azztec, Nist and Frankenstein (=Wackocat)

First match: Volcano

The first map was TAW's choice, they picked Volcano and started on the attacking side. The team managed to get the first objective within a big 5 min, but on the 6th min while doing the second objective our captain, Patamon, went afk. A cat had entered his house and his dog was chasing it troughout the house. So the team had to play 3 vs 4 which is really hard. The other guys however didn't give up and still managed to finish the map in less then 12 min.

Now it was O.P.P. attack round. Patamon rejoined the team and it was a  4 vs. 4 again. The team managed to hold the first obj for about 8-9 min, which is very good. However they lost the second objective in less then 2 min. O.P.P. managed to finish the map about a big minute faster then out TAW team. 

Second match: Salvage

The score was now 0 : 2 for O.P.P. and we had to play there map choice on a map that we didn't practice as a team yet. It wasn't looking good for our team, but  they managed to start the match knowing that we had some pretty good individual players and an improving teamplay.

O.P.P. had to attack first. Absolutely by the quick attack, caused our team to fall immediately. O.P.P. managed to get a plant on the first objective in about 40 sec, which is very impressive. Already knowing we lost a map and the first objective within seconds, things weren't looking good. They already started on the second objective and managed to complete it for 80 percent.

And then something happend that nobody saw comming. All four of our guys remained icecold and all of the called out which possition they would take without having any practice on them. Patamon and Azztec  gave orders and got everybody into position. Nist took care of the objective area and was covering everyone of our guys from the back. All of them shouting the side O.P.P. was attacking from and they managed to get a reset on the objective.

Believe it or not, but our guys managed to hold the second objective until the end of match, which was a total of more then 18 min!!!

With a newly found spirit, our guys were ready to attack. They managed to get the first 2 objectives with 4-5 min and with a nice sneakplant of Azztec we were able to finish the map in about 7 min.

Thirth map: Refinery

It was 2 : 2 so they had to play a thirth map. The map was chosen by eleminating maps that the teams didn't want to play and so they had to play refinery.

First up was the attack from our own TAW team. Patamon cleary made orders and all of us were ready to get our needed 2 points. They needed 2 min to get to the objective and all of them managed to protect the hacker until the objective was done, then they proceeded to the 2 last objectives. Azztec got the first plant on, while Frankenstein got the other plant on. O.P.P. managed to disarm Frankensteins plant, but we got the other one. With combined effort our guys managed to get the other plan on as well and they finished the map in a little more then 5 min.

Well with our on fire, we started the last attack from O.P.P. They needed 3-4 min to get the forward and then they still needed to get the first objective. But with our team fired up, they didn't even got a look at the objective. So our team got the other 2 points as well.

Endscore: TAW 4 : 2 O.P.P.

Things are looking good for our team. Hopefully they can proceed to 4th division next season. I wish you guys the best and more updates are going to follow!