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World of Warcraft: Dallas Round 1 Group Play Roundup

By: Rob Maher - Published October 04, 2008 at 1:42 PM EDT - Writer Archive
GotFrag checks in on the first round of play at MLG Dallas with video and more.
The first round of matches were extremely intense. Pandemic started off strong with a decisive victory 3-0 over Gravitas Duelists. This was a big upset, considering Pandemic fell to Gravitas in Orlando 3-1 and finish fifth, while Gravitas went on to take second.

Chris "Douja" Cossey explains what happened in Orlando, and why they were able to overcome Gravitas so easily in Dallas. "Last event we lost a crucial game to them which swung the entire match in their favor. This event, we have Ecilam and ran our RMP comp against them, pretty much we're a different team than we were in Orlando."

BMFC was also able to set a great tone for their tournament, starting off with a quick 3-0 victory against Cya Bro. Darren "Thorrior" Vinarsky commented on the key point of the match for his team. "In the first game, they rushed me down, they got me to about 10%, but i wasable to intervene out of their LOS, and was topped off. From that point on we had the upper hand. In the third game they tried an RRP comp, but that just didn't work at all.

On the opposing side, Steven "Pballerlol" Strasberg gives his insight on way his team failed to take a map win in the match. "We ran the Shadowplay comp for the first two games but due to the lack of cc and the poor coordination of dps, we lost quickly. We decided to go with 2 combat rogues and a disc priest in an attempt to gib the warlock, but we hadn't practiced it and our 2nd rogue played very poorly. Quick loss."



Pandemic and BMFC would meet in the second round, in what proved to be an extremely intense match-up.

The first game really says it all. Pandemic took down Ocius quickly, but Thorrior was able to finish off Ecilam who wasn't paying attention, thinking his team had already won. This resulted in a 2v2 where aimless went full throttle on the Douja. Thorrior finished him off again, just after aimless died. A 1v1 ensued between Thorrior and Nitrana who had half health with Thorrior coming out on top.



Pandemic seemed stunned after this map, but were able to bounce back and take map two as Ocius got over aggressive, getting himself killed.

Teams made no changes, BMFC stuck to their game plan and stayed cautious. They took the next two games decisively for a huge unexpected win over Pandemic.




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