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.
