After having some strong teams knocked out of the winners bracket their chance to come back and take a victory is still alive. They will have to work hard for it, but all the teams are ready to put in the effort. Here's what happened in the Loser's Bracket Round 2!
Niggas With Attitude (vs) Japan Restoration Party
After being knocked down to the losers bracket it hasn’t dampened either of the teams spirits. Game one opened with No_Re_I_Go_Eat drushing Sorachi but some good walling prevents to much damage. A massive feudal war breaks out with LeKy taking a lot of damage and he takes even more early castle. The Imperial Age push from Japan Restoration Party hits and LeKy has no way to defend and resigns out. Game 2 is won by Niggas With Attitude after some impressive teamwork and defending. In game 3 Sorachi losses a villager during the boar lure which hurting him quite badly and had trouble dealing with the early scout push of LeKy. Niigita manages to get some good pressure onto No_Re_I_Go_Eat but it’s not enough to stop him going castle and killing off Sorachi with Knights. After the 2-1 win for Niggas With Attitude they will be advancing to the Winners Bracket round 3.
2K4 MY ASS (vs) Corro mas não
2K4 MY ASS were introduced to the losers bracket by TyRanT Z, which is nothing to be ashamed about. To test whether or not they were worthy of making the next round Corro mas não stood in their way. The first game starts of with Riut walling in and OnlyRook getting hit by a drush, which slowly transitions to everyone walling in. Riut manages to get his army into Fire_’s base but it is trapped but skirmishers. Riut then hits Imperial and drops a forward siege workshop on _Just_Goku_ and Corro mas não manage to take the game from there. The next game was played fairly standard and Riut was hit by mass skirmishers from Fire_. Fire_ went up to elite skirmishers and dropped a forward siege workshop however Riut was able to fight this off with knights barely. Behind this Fire_ went Imperial and the GG was given by Corro mas não sending us into game 3. The loser of this match would be knocked out of the tournament, so it’s didn’t go easy. A good drush from Fire_ hurt OnlyRook quite badly at the beginning of the game not allowing him for an early scout push. Riut manage to force _Just_Goku_ into fighting with his villagers but it wasn’t enough to stop 2K4 MY ASS hitting castle earlier and being able to take a strong lead in the game with their technology advantage. With some great cavalry archer harass from Fire_ they were able to take the game and advance to the next round.
SY-B (vs) PL
SY-B had been knocked down into the losers bracket by TyRanT B, one of the tournament favourites. Here they had to beat PL to get another shot at the top spot. Game 1 opened with a 5 militia drush from both Jackk and Yo_. Yo_managed to fast castle of the back of this and get some knights out to deal with Jackk’s archer push. Jackk manages to get a monk defense against Yo_’s knights. The game stayed fairly even until Imperial where Shai__ managed to get up to paladin and take the game. Game 2 had one of the most successful drushes I have ever seen with Yo_ snagging 5 villagers and 3 milita with four of his own leftover to continue the harass. Yo_ then hit a fast castle time and managed to kill off more of Kymu’s villagers were the resign is hit and Yo_ has played one of the most impressive game of the tournament, we’ll see you in the losers bracket round 3.
PoJ A (vs) PoJ B
The two PoJ teams had to fight it out this round to see which would continue to the next round. Game one was fought so hard we even saw Escape lame the deer of DeepSea. TokiwaMiao managed a decent castle time but couldn't do much with the knight harass he had planned. The castle age warfare is long but PoJA is able to hit Imperial and take the game with the technology advantage. The second game opens with everyone drushing except chocobo, but the game quickly moves into a standard Feudal war with Escape and Deepsea both walling themselves in. As the game progressed PoJA slowly started sneaking ahead when Chocobo broke TokiwaMiao’s town center with knights and rams and continued to gut the entire base. From here PoJB was forced out of the game and PoJA will be advancing to round three after some brilliant teamwork.
You can find Losers Brackets Round 2 Recorded Games here: viewforum.php?f=649
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