It's Saturday afternoon, my team just arrived at the LAN center after a crazy night! We all screwed ourselves over and got like three hours of sleep...owned. When we got back to our hotel room we held a team meeting that was much needed and lasted until 6:30 am but I'll talk about that later.

The weather in Chicago yesterday was pretty bad, it hailed and snowed a bit so the roads and sidewalks were slippery. Good thing my mom got me this nice new jacket, kept me all toasty! Everyone definitely stayed in the LAN center more because not only was the weather so cold, but the matches were so intense!

As soon as we got to the LAN center we only had ten minutes to prepare our warkeys and ventrilo server before we had to vs Kupo Attack in the Lower Brackets. We definitely wanted some practice time and it probably would have been better to have that team meeting before the match because I think it would have turned out a lot differently, but oh well.

Final Match for PMS- Kupo Attack

I was pretty much dreading this match from the minute I heard we had to play them. People may see Kupo Attack as a random team of mixed friends, but I don't really see it that way. If you think about it, they're just like any other team...just not official. They were all like best friends and pretty much played with each other every single day, so they had just as much if not more chemistry than us.

In all honesty, I felt pretty discouraged from the start. Miss-Ashe lives with her boyfriend, Zaku, who was the leader of Kupo attack. He has heard my team talk, strategize, pick heroes and even rang for us in scrims. He knew all our weaknesses, strengths and which heroes we were good with and vice versa. Unfortunately, we didn't feel like we had as much information about them. Luckily, I don't think it made that much of an impact because we still managed to land heroes that we liked and were comfortable with, it was just our teamplay that was lacking.

I soloed Shadow Fiend top as Sentinel vs MajinDevil's infamous Zeus. My micro was pretty good and I was landing most of my shadow raze's, I kept a lot of pressure on him and didn't let his nukes keep me back. I was out-leveling him at one point but then once Zaku ganked me as Viper and I had no clue he was coming. Nevertheless, I was the most farmed and ended with the most unit kills in the game. By the end I had Blink Dagger, Bottle, Boots, BKB, wraith bands and some gold. I didn't get to farm a damage item because I started to die a lot more towards the end and I bought back once.

It was pretty obvious to my team that our weak play was not necessarily lack of skill, rather frustration and anger building up inside of all of us. We've had some internal problems lately and the friction between us was really obvious that game. We allowed ourselves to get caught way too many times and our execution was poor. This definitely was not close to our best play, because I've seen games where my team would execute almost flawlessly in battle.

So unfortunately, we were out. Kupo Attack played really well, kept pressure on us, warded the map well and executed team battles better. I have to give a shoutout to Eva aka Miss-Selphie who played with Kupo Attack instead of us because we had 5 without her. She played a really good thd and definitely made the game harder for us.