Profile of CieZ

Not sure how a win-hack prior to game connecting/loading would work. Heck, I'm not sure a win-hack even after the game starting would be feasible to accomplish on a regular basis. The logic just doesn't follow based on my understanding of how the battle servers work.

Hello,

A) Why should g.dot playing on a Paula smurf? Thats new for me.

B) Where is your rematch game? Where you were axis and they allies.^^ On which map you played axis vs them?

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C) about the P.S. I kind of agree, but acutally the map and spawn has more influence on the game then factions.

I have no real evidence that it is Gdot, just a bunch of circumstantial stuff including:
*He always uses 4v4 style builds (MG spam into schreck blobs into Werfer spam for example) - Gdot's primary game mode is 4v4. (He has been rank 1 4v4 many times)
*Him and Paula are good friends and have played together in the past. (Gdot is actually the only player Paula has an active 2v2 AT rank with).
*Him and Paula both hate me and Momo, so they have motive to snipe us.
*His in-game banter/the way he speaks.

Again, totally circumstantial but that is my best guess. Could be anyone though. Sorry to Gdot if it is in fact not him.

They are welcome to post the other game with us, they beat us as Axis on Ettlebruck (Allies are 2-0 in recent games between us, go figure.) The game on Ettlebruck was more of a stomp in their favor to be honest, we didn't keep it close. This game was closer than it looked in my opinion. Had we not caught the Elefant in the Artillery Cover that I aimed at the Panther Command Tank, it could have given us a lot of trouble. The timing on my second Comet to come and clean up the Elefant was another lucky break as well as managing to barely trade my AEC and initial Cromwell for a Werfer + Stuka. I wasn't positive we were going to win until the Elefant went down, it was a close game that I thought is worth a watch. Both sides doing their best to adapt to the map/current situation. [Although the Elefant was a little questionable against Comets + Priests + ~4 AT guns when the tech for Panthers was already achieved].

Overall, I thought this game was a good demonstration of the USF + UKF play that Momo and I pioneered and wrote a guide about many patches ago, nice to know that it still works as intended - it wasn't meant to be a pride post. We've beaten them before, they've beaten us before. There's no pride posting from either team because we're probably pretty even in win/loss over plenty of games.

But at the end of the day people are going to assume that any replay is a pride post I guess. What can ya do.

https://www.coh2.org/guides/43650/rtn-allied-2v2-guide

^The guide we wrote.

You call walking up to an mg and gunning it down through a sea of player made yellow cover crates "clever"? I find the late game craters just makes long range infantry and hmgs fair less useful since the CQs infantry basically have a shield when walking up to them.

Think about how much easier it would be to chase down that sniper since it no longer takes less RA while walking through all the craters?

You're exaggerating quite a bit, it is rarely feasible (let alone advisable) to charge through yellow cover at an HMG... you'll still get suppressed despite the player-made (or any) yellow cover.

Not to mention that generally late game, buildings and environmental green cover has been destroyed. If you took away the advantage of crater/player created cover late game infantry would bleed even more heavily than they do now.

Short range troops already suffer late game because they're always forced to close in to do any damage. On one or two maps this is fine, but on most it becomes increasingly difficult with the late game power of LMGs, tanks and in general large armies running around.

It also doesn't make sense within the context of the game. My squad is inside a crater, which the game displays as yellow cover but I don't get the bonuses if I'm moving? It's awkward and counter intuitive.

A change like this would be an indirect buff to LMGs, which are already disgusting in many late game situations while directly nerfing a handful of units that aren't at all problematic.

This one sentence doesn't solve the problem. It doesn't specifically say, "If you can't make the finals, you will be disqualified from the entire event and not be eligible for any prizes." It's incomplete. If it had said that in its entirety, Noggano would have known to intentionally lose the Semi-Finals. Nobody would have guessed that he could have his second-place prize completely revoked if he couldn't show up in Vancouver. As others have said, you don't just re-arrange the brackets to suit you or to try to be entertaining. If you start moving the brackets around as you see fit, you destroy the integrity of the entire event (which was supposed to be single-elimination tournament), and you make the results an illegitimate sham. Why should DevM have to beat Jesulin twice?!?

I could read those exact rules posted above and assume that since Noggano cannot go to Vancouver, he forfeits the Finals match. He should still get the 2nd place prize money of $1000. Citing those Terms and Conditions and saying that the organizers are handling this fairly is B.S. in my opinion.

The email sent to players said what would happen if they were unable to attend in Vancouver. RedWings or Von posted it earlier in the thread. Kyle's wording was quite clear.

Sucks for everyone to be in this situation. I feel for Noggano, and he's one of my favorite players, but the official rules per Kyle's email say that a failure to be able to make the trip to Vancouver result in a DQ and the next player being moved up.

Wish they were written as more of a spot swap (Jesulin plays Von for the chance to go then the loser plays Noggano for 3rd) but it is what it is.

At least we still get live finals, which is pretty cool.