Conquer Cup Lite #4 Coverage

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Congratulations to Technique for winning his 3rd Conquer Cup Lite and 5th Conquer Cup tournament victory over all.

Technique’s path to victory was a difficult one facing many top players. He went 8-1 having to defeat _En1gma_, FieryWinds, ineedMoney18, Tribunus, and Sofronel in the finals.
Good work by FieryWinds in handing the 4 time Series Champion his only tournament defeat and also defeating the EA ladder #1 ranked SimpleForce.
Congratulations to Sofronel for making it to the finals.
In round 1 ineedMoney18, and yaric007 pulled off impressive wins.

Thanks to the #1 ranked EA ladder player SimpleForce/TorchLight for his participation. SimpleForce was a force to be reckoned with, but eventually was defeated in an Empire mirror match by FieryWinds. Any time you can take down the EA Ladder’s #1 ranked player it is an impressive accomplishment.

DETAILED MATCH ANALYSIS : FieryWinds v. SimpleForce

Round 3 Match FieryWinds (Empire ranked 22) Versus SimpleForce (Empire ranked 1) On Temple Prime.

FieryWinds First Two Mecha Bay Units are SuddenTransports

FieryWinds and SimpleForce both open with 2 DojoCores, 2 GeneratorCores, and 2 RefineryCores. One small difference, FieryWinds uses one GeneratorCore to run over some of SimpleForces Imperial Warriors near the northern OilDerrick. Both players produce and plant a MechaBay near their base OreRefineries as they battle for control of the two OilDerricks. Eventually each controls one OilDerrick. Neither player produces very many infantry units. SimpleForce’s first two MechaBay units are Tengus and FieryWinds makes 2 SuddenTransports. A very interesting opening by FieryWinds as he sells his MCV and places the Engineer in 1 of the SuddenTransports. At the MCV selling point FieryWinds only has 2 RefineryCores. 1 SuddenTransport goes south and 1 SuddenTransport heads north. SimpleForce does not have a DojoCore while FieryWinds has one DojoCore near the north OilDerrick producing TankBusters and ImperialWarriors. The northern SuddenTransport is filled with infantry while the SuddenTransport in the south has an engineer in it. The SuddenTransport in the south lets out the Engineer stored in it and the Engineer caps the southern OilDerrick.

FieryWinds sends 2 SuddenTransports and 1 Tengu into SimpleForce’s Main Base : ITS TIME FOR WAR

At this point SimpleForce has yet to scout the FieryWind’s MCV sell. FieryWinds manages to put 2 TankBusters and an ImperialWarrior into the CivilianStructure close to SimpleForce’s southern OreNode. The TankBusters open up on the Wall protecting SimpleForce’s OreReferiny and COllector. As the Wall goes down FieryWinds places the SuddenTransport into the spot where the Wall was destroyed making it impossible for SimpleForce to build another Wall. At this point SimpleForce has 5 or 6 Tengus but they do very little damage. SimpleForce’s economy is in trouble. SimpleForce produces a DojoCore. SimpleForce has 8 Tengus by the time his southern OreCollector and Wall are destroyed. Eventually SimpleForce takes back control of the CivilianStructure, but he loses his OreRefinery.

FieryWinds cripples SimpleForce’s Economy

FieryWinds Gains a Distinct Economic Advantage: Can he put away SimpleForce?
3 minutes into the game SimpleForce has one OreRefinery producing income while FieryWinds has two OreRefineries and two OilDerricks. Both players’ MechaBays are at tier 1. FieryWinds has about ten Tengus and SimpleForce has eight. SimpleForce builds another RefineryCore as FieryWinds sends all his Tengus into SimpleForce’s base. FieryWinds manages to take out SimpleForces only active Ore collector as he drops ten Jet TEngus into MechaTengu mode. The #1 Ranked SimpleForce is in deep trouble. He pulls his MCV up and moves it towards FieryWinds’ squad of ten Tengus. At this point FieryWinds has the game in hand. FieryWinds continues send wave after wave of Tengus into SimpleForce’s base eventually defeating SimpleForce.

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Conquer Cup #8 Coverage

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25th ranked Firgli took Conquer Cup #8 in a 3 game sweep over NukeStrike.  The 50 participants included many top 25 players.

SEMI FINALS

Two C&C Veterans faced off in a Soviet mirror in one semi-final. Namely, Reppin[stim] and Nukestrike.  Neither is competing very hard in this newest ladder season because they both own enough t-shirts.  But, they are winning rounds in the Conquer Cup.  Nukestrike swept the series 2-0.    Their first match really was a “mirror” as both went for a fast WarFactory foregoing a Barracks.  Both players’ first unit was a TerrorDrone with secondary weapon activated as both TerrorDrones raced to the centre of the map.  Terror drones and Sickles fought furiously in the middle of the map as Nukestrike elected to go for an Crane and barracks while Reppin elected to go for a SuperReactor and Airfield.  NukeStrike drove his MCV into his Crane and around that same time Reppin elected to sell his MCV, but didn’t have  a Crane.   NukeStrike using a Crane, Barracks, and WarFactory won out over Reppin’s Airfield and WarFactory.  Most of the fighting in the middle and later parts of the match occurred in NukeStrike’s main base.   A Reppin engineer came within a tenth of a second of taking over NukeStrike’s SuperReactor.  NukeStrike was willing to lose the game over it because he did not sell the SuperReactor he roared with a WarBear just barely stunning the Engineer.  A very intense and entertaining match.

Game two went to NukeStrike as well as the 2  time ConquerCup champion moved onto the finals with a decisive win on Infinity Isle.

Semi-final #2:  Firgli took on 18th ranked FieryWinds.  FieryWinds has only lost eleven ladder games this season and over 1,000 ladder game wins in total.  Firgli swept the series in two straight games.  No MCV pushing by Firgli.  An interesting opening of BootCamp and then Airbase for a game on FireIsland.

FINALS

Firgli swept Nukestrike 3-0 using a double BootCamp MCV push in the first two games.  In both games NukeStrike went with a fast WarFactory opening.  This made it easy for Firgli to capture both OilDerricks giving him some income as his MCV rolled into NukeStrike’s base.  Game 3 took place on Infinity Isle and despite the small map Firgli managed to Cryo-Freeze 5 NukeStrike’s OreCollectors from the same OreNode.  Game 3 was played patiently by both players.  Congrats to Firgli he has looked unstoppable the past two weeks.

Conquer Cup Lite #3 Coverage

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SEMI FINALS

Tribunus ( ranked #31 ) lost to Alias]Malle ( ranked #45) in semi-final #1.Tribunus selected Empire and Alias]Malle selected Allies.Malle first unit producing structure is an Airbase.  Tribunus opening includes 3 DojoCores but he only unfurls one near his closest Oil Derrick.  Once Tribunus sees the early Airbase build the 2 other DojoCores head for Malle’s Oil Derrick.  Malle gets out a quick CryoCopter whose first move is to shrink his MCV and send it straight to Tribunus’ base.  The multigunner Turret that strikes the fatal blow in the match is destroyed just as it is shooting the killing blow to Tribunus’ MechaBay.  Baseball is a game of inches…Red Alert 3 is a game of pixels.

Technique (ranked #6) defeats I_Must_Win ( ranked #82 ) in semi-final #2.

Technique as Allies does an ArmorFacility build on Infinity Island against I_must_winas the Soviets.

FINALS

Technique wins the finals against Malle 3-0.  Technique goes with the “Random” faction in the final two games. Technique seems to be the only top player effective with all three factions making the “Random” selection a real advantage for him.

Congratulations Technique, its a well deserved win.  Great Work using “Random”.