Will the travel agency’s 2-frag loss curse continue on Sunday?
During an active QuakeWorld competition, Sunday night often happens to be the night when all the action takes place. This week’s Sunday is no exception as the quickly progressing Russians NoPasaran will take on the quite recently founded travel agengy, I mean QuakeWorld clan, Star Alliance. So far during this NQR season, NoPasaran have played six games and Star Alliance seven games. However these teams are separated by 7 points, which places NoPasaran on the 9th position while Star Alliance sits on 5th place.
Star Alliance though could be one or two positions higher if the lady luck would have been on their side during the first few games of the season. The so called 2-frag curse comes from the fact that Star Alliance lost to KOFF and Slackers by 2 frags, the map also happened to be e1m2 on both cases, which coincidently also happens to be NoPasaran’s home map! Some of you might remember NoPasaran’s fabulous performance on e1m2 when they almost beat Fragomatic. 10 minutes into the game, NoPasaran were actually leading by 30-40 frags. Fate had different plans on that night, but it sure sent out a warning to their future opponents.
NoPasaran! are obviously newcomers to Gold division but they have shown the whiners just how brave they are. Although they have lost 5 out of 6 games so far this season, there hasn’t been any single sign of giving up by these fellas. Instead they have actively tried to improve by practising against top dogs like The Viper Squad.
By quick thought this game may seem like just another gold blowout but there is actually something interesting that could happen in this game. The interesting thing is that NoPasaran does have chances to get two points from this match. How is that possible? Well, unfortunately the requirements list is a bit tough from NoPasaran’s point of view as it includes: A-lineup, A-teamplay and Star Alliance’s curse to continue on e1m2. The first requirements they will without a doubt try to fulfill but the last one isn’t up to them. If the curse is gone, so are NoPasaran’s chances to get two points out of this match as I don’t see them beating Star Alliance on dm3 or dm2, unless they have exceptionally weak lineup.
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Star Alliance [ 2:0 ] NoPasaran!
e1m2: 238-123 / dm2: 277-106SA’s lineup: reppie, lakso, mawe, goblin
NO’s lineup: Zepp, B1aze, xpr, StarlinG
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