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Day Of Defeat: CAL Open Season 18 Week 5 Predictions

By: Omar Martinez - Published March 06, 2008 at 12:54 AM EST - Writer Archive
Donn "RagedK" Kovac and Lance "GodlessCommie" Barrett bring you the CAL Open Week 5 predictions, with a guest prediction from Omar "X-Spider" Martinez. The map is dod_donner.
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CAL Open Season 18 // Week 5 // Donner  

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X-Spider's Prediction: GLHFMB!!
Good luck, have fun! This match has been long awaited :D
Rage's Prediction: -|Ea|- by at least 40
Cal open match of the week by far. K-2 has risen to one of the top contenders for the open title, but all roads pass through EA. Watch Your Back will likely be teamed with allstar and go up against Poo and Rw, accompanied by a much improved Davis on third rifle. Mex will be too much for Blankclip and likely tip the scales in the favor of EA at tank. The Warcrew has been known for its strategic play and I have a hunch this match will be no different. Godless will do his best to hop from bunker to tank and even this match out, but i feel it will not be enough. Not including the fact that they are backed by Mex, EA's rifles are skilled with the garand aswell as the kar. K-2's rifles have yet to show this overall dominace in that class. If one of K-2's garands holds his own and Blankclip somehow slows the momentum of Mex, K-2 will take this. But I don't think that will happen, so I'm giving this one to EA.

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Rage's Prediction: dgf by at least 100
Dgf is a very solid team. I feel the loss last week was in part a bad performance by metalhead and the other heavy and light. Crooklyn is fast becoming a very skilled rifle and with sadmachine to back him up, the recent loss of chris will fade into the past. Bull will kill everything and be amazing. D7 will lag, make shots that shouldn't register, and fail to get hit but will still end up a bit short.
Players to watch: crooklyn, bullgooselooney
GodlessCommie's Prediction: dgf by at least 150
DGF with a disappointing loss last week I see them bouncing back strong, with Bullgoose dropping bombs sniping this week since he obviously can hit the crazy lagzillas proven in their match vs. arepa earlier in the season. Watch for Beta to be the bright light for Debores 7, but I don’t believe his back is strong enough to carry the whole team. Watch for crazy and sadmachine aka weeee to have bunkers on lock down! With –dt doing his crazy push/rush I see there to be a few cap outs on this very slow and stagnate map.
Players to watch: Crazymetalhead , Bullgoose, and Beta

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Rage's Prediction: nwP by at least 15
NwP isnt't having the comeback season they had hoped. With losses to Skull and Warcrew early, they are trying salvage this season. Schmiggs will dominate with a rifle and with his style of play I can forsee a very angry Evo rifle team. Every part of this match seems to be tilted in the favor of NwP and Evo will have to overcome alot to pull this one out.
GodlessCommie's Prediction: nwP by at least 30
Both these teams are 2 – 2, each looking for that 3rd win. Both having a great start for the season with 2 wins, but both teams have gone on a loosing streak. Watch this too be won by the autos of Nwp since their rifles will probably struggle against the high pings of Evo. Also, watch for un-hittable Super dominating all over middle. This is a key part of the season to make playoffs this is almost a must win for both teams!
Players to watch: Audio, SupeR, Berty, MeOwA.

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Rage's Prediction: Skull by at least 50
Promagix just can't catch a break. Chris, Muhbad, and grimace will be doing work on promagix tomarrow, and after last weeks match against Warcrew, Cal has been tough on this team. Lulz Nein seems to be trying his best but yet again this week it seems to be not enough.
GodlessCommie's Prediction: Skull by at least 40
After a bad last week for both these teams and a welcome back to open to Skull gaming, I see both these teams out to prove something. Promagix will have the advantage in the bunker with tony and partner holding it down. Forz is looking to drop bombs on this map, which he could almost hold mid single handedly. The key match up will be Christian/005 vs. Chris/Coolwhip with Skull having the advantage here also. I see Skull winning this but I don’t see them capping out!
Players to watch: 005, Nein, Forz, Chris`.

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X-Spider's Prediction: Flawless (80 - 74)
Both teams are very evenly matched! Flawless claims they are Main material, and proFound is a top contender in CAL Open this season. I see this to be a very slow match. If one team caps, it's over. Rage will hold middle while AllGunsBlazing will try to fight him off. Again, it's too close to call, but I think Flawless will barely take this because of the Frenchie(s).
GodlessCommie's Prediction: ProFound by at least 10 points
This is probably the MOTW with 2 stout teams. Profound coming of a big win last week against DGF, watch for them to be well prepared for this grueling battle!! Both flawless and profound have made several free agents pick ups to shore up their rosters for the coming week. I see the two key battles being the bunker battle between the heavies, which I think is nearly an even match up between stile/milo/sloth vs. Marlfox and partner. The other key will be the sniper battle; will Flawless be able to contain He is Legend? This will be a slow pace match up once mid is capped, everyone locked down in their defensive positions. Watch out for Rage and his nuclear grenades. I don’t see marl_fox as he sandbags open and aimtek being able to carry their team to victory.
Players to watch: Marl_fox, Stile, HeIsLegend.

 

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