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Blunder of the Week
DE Round Two - Myrkridon
After carefully reviewing most of the films from the second round of Double Elimination, I have selected the 9Boo team as the recipients of this week's edition of Blunder of the Week. This match wasn't decided by one single big mistake, but rather by a whole series of major errors one wouldn't expect from a team that considers themselves to be as good as 9Boo claims to be. Instead of playing at the level of the 4-trow threat that they're made out to be, 9Boo plays at the level of...oh...the old Cacra that got dead last in "The hardest Myth 2 tourney so far". Well, maybe a step below, since they lost this week's match to Cacra. Losing to Cacra is kind of like losing to that skinny nerd kid in 7th grade who always gets picked on, but has decided to learn karate and stand up for himself; it looks pretty darn embarrassing on paper. Now, on to the meat and potatoes...
2T02 - Cacra vs 9Boo

Dark Star The first screwup was made right at the very start of the first game, when Croaker and Dark Star attempt to attack Cacra's middle force. Croaker controls all 3 9Boo trow and a pack of berserks, and apparently he doesn't have custom formations...what a shame. Dark Star controls the artillery, with 2 dwarven heroes. This dynamic duo is up against pretty much the same setup of units on the Cacra side, the only difference being that Cacra has a fetch instead of the extra dwarf. Anyway, Croaker decides to rush the Cacra melee head on -while letting his trow moonwalk all over the place, of course- and Dark Star backs him up by blowing up half of Croaker's own zerks with the dwarven heroes. With all the zerks destroyed and one of his Trow dead, Croaker backs his surviving Trow off and runs around aimlessly, slowly getting killed by Cacra's soulless and Trow.
Fetch vs Soulless on hill Several other displays of idiocy are made during this time; 9Boo fails to secure the mid ball they had stuck against their cliff earlier by bringing it up on their mountain to safety, and a Cacra dwarf blasts it off so one of their trow can run away with it, giving Cacra a 6-5 lead in balls...Oxicet suicides his small flank trying to hold a hill that has no balls near it that need protection...and Dark Star loses half of 9Boo's maxed-out soulless to one Cacra fetch.
The latter 2 mistakes really should be virtually meaningless, aside from giving P. McCartny of Cacra a hard-on over his impressive ratios. Cacra still doesn't have a single soulless on 9Boo's side of the map, and 9Boo has had plenty of opportunities to pile their 5 balls onto their mountain.

Ball defense Well, they still have a couple balls fairly low on the hill (isn't laziness grand?). Although 9Boo does finally wake up and gather one up to safety, the other gets blasted off the mountain by McCartny's dwarf and an ecstatic berserk gleefully grabs it and runs off laughing. Even more embarrassing, Bombtrack's single spider carries off a high ball right from under Oxicet's, Goddess Mei's, and Lady Arwen's noses (yes, all 3 of them controlled the spiders and soulless guarding the balls). Finally the game ends, thank God...and 9Boo loses 8 balls to 3.

The rest of the games pale in comparison to the first game. Of note; Dark Star and Lady Arwen throwing a crying fit and leaving mid-match (coincidentally, this was when 9Boo started to win some games). As we all know, nothing kills team morale quite like having 2 players going off on an ego trip and leaving when their team refuses to let them captain another big loss.

Anyhoo, 9Boo gets dumped to the bottom bracket with an early elimination looming in their future, while Cacra continues on in the top bracket and gets to face off against an opponent with many past MWC failures under its belt: Triple Nipple.

So, what has Myrk taught us today?

1. Cacra finished last in the TBT tourney, earning the title of "worst of the best" or something, yet they could still take on 9Boo.
2. How many 9Boo does it take to screw in a light bulb? The answer doesn't matter, since all their light bulbs got stolen by little spiders while they weren't watching. (haha funny)
3. Ditching the egotistical players is the best move any team can make, as evidenced by 9Boo winning 2 out of the remaining 3 games once Dark Star and Lady Arwen left.
4. Paul McCartny, i.e Blade, was Cacra's MVP in this match. Thorman is slitting his wrists as I write this.
5. Based on the play seen in this match, I have decided that Cacra will.....oh screw it.