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Day Of Defeat: CAL-Invite Season 18 Week 1 Predictions

By: Robert Hull - Published February 06, 2008 at 3:36 PM EST - Writer Archive
Robert “sp0rk” Hull is joined by amor’s Alex Kirk to break down week 1 of CAL-Invite on Railroad 2.
3xtreme LCM Humiliation vs. JETTY

Robert: Normally, this would probably be a very good match to watch, say like 3 or 2 or even just 1 year ago, but unfortunately most of these loveable players don’t put in practice time like they probably would have if a cpl or 4 were coming up. That being said, cypher will probably de_stroy Gotfrag’s self-proclaimed best player ever in motiv, but with an interesting change in what I thought would be rifle teams, john gale and joey harter will be rifling long/mid against s0v and scott fleener. In apartments we see a long-absent from the scene batman and mogers against the regular kellenoyster and wedo who has recently been a stint of time as a sniper in Invite source, so we shall have to see what’s going on there. And the ever interesting train car will probably be dominated by jetty’s steve hisey much to the dislike of rambizzle, unless ricky decides to mg or prone, which probably wouldn’t be a bad idea. JETTY takes this one due to cypher just holding things down and not letting 3hLCM not getting middle as much as they’d like to.

3hLCM < Jetty 30-100
Players to watch: cypher, kellenoyster, fleener, g4le f0rc3 w1nds

Alex: There's been some controversy about 3h being moved up, and unfortunately I don't think this match will be a true test of whether or not they belong. As much as I love the 3h boys, I don't really see them having much of a chance here unless s0v cheats more than usual. Motiv, as we know from his GotFrag posting, is better than everybody, so that will certainly help. Johngale from JETTY will run around and shoot everything in site before the other team even realizes the match has begun. Sean Kalas will be too busy copying me in DoD:S and mm1ing to really do anything worthwhile, and wedo will be too busy at Burger King. I'm also curious to see how Josh Brown does on his return to DoD.

JETTY by 200
Players to watch: Cypher, john gale, motiv, s0v.



AYEBAYBAY vs. That’s a Paddlin’

Robert: I rather wish I had watched AYE’s match against thunder to see how they had dealt with that, and TAP did lose to nPg like I thought they would, and hopefully that was a good reality check for those players. All that being said, I’ll bet AYE gives tap a run for their money, especially if nick uses the mg (YOU BETTER NOT, EVEN THOUGH I JUST PREDICTED IT, CAUSE I WANT IT TO BE A GOOD MATCH) because then stealth will probably pick off a few more players than he normally wouldn’t if nick was sniping, but vasily’s flawless (LIKE THE MOVIE, LAWL) aim should help to reduce stealth’s impact alongside of Tiacus who performed well last season, but then he has to deal with Fluxx and the tennis pro, who’s shots are as accurate as his serves, and hopefully his on-court prowess and agility carries over to the e-world. I’m going to take a minute here to realize a sign from the e-gods because this song the team is named after just came on the radio, I kid you not. On to apartments, AYE brings pirate and badnews, two of probably the least talked about heavies in main, although very solid, probably won’t be able to compete with the ever-wonderful to ring in cal-placement Scott “glorious” angus and doc. Train will be ham’s stoss over lockdown’s whatever he decides on. But, I think we’ll see an upset here, unless tap puts in playtime this week.

AYEBAYBAY > TAP 60-50
Players to watch: stealth, vasily, scangus, nick (assuming he mgs, lol)

Alex: Uhhh, lol. Kevin "stealth" Gardner is going to be too busy getting his headphones caught in his chair and throwing a fit to know what's going on. That or he'll be in bed by 7 PM, which will render him useless. Lockdown is still too hurt over the lack of Chili's nachos to really care about DoD or anything in general. Christian will be too busy making people taste the steel. While Fluxx will be too busy winning LANs for awful games. Basically Badnewspanda and pirate are going to be carrying AYE on their back. For TAP, it'll be doc cheating as always, and Ivan being amazing as always. Tiacus is sick too, as he aimbots vs. LEGION apparently. Last I heard the TAP guys played COD4 a lot, so that might hurt them.

TAP by 50
Players to watch: Ivan, Tiacus, Badnewspanda, pirate.
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