After breezing through their QR with only a tie with Aesir as their only blemish, 9boo was poised to make a strong run in the DE top bracket.  Unfortunately, good looks, bribes, and lap dances can only go so far.  They fell rather abruptly to the Cacrajou Circle in DE2.  In their first bottom bracket matchup, they meet Wolfpack, who, like 9boo, fell to an upstart team in LoA in the top bracket.  The match seemed destined for a great set of films as two highly qualified 4 trows teams square off in double elimination.

Unfortunately, WP didnt exactly show up for this match...literally.  Though 9boo sports a 7 team roster in all 3 games, WP only has 4 members.  Down 3 players to a talented team like 9boo eventually adds up to a loss.  Despite the uneven numbers, WP puts up a strong fight.  Minus the game 3 collapse, the matchup is a good watch.  One can only imagine how WP would have done if they matched 9boo in numbers.  The MVP of the game is Andir of 9boo.  Despite his little mishap in the Caer ctf game, he provided excellent game play and sported quality damage while captaining the team to two victories

Game One - [Capture the Flag] [Caer Cadarn (Light)]

Pregame talk is filled with references to the bible.  Andir is referred to as "father," burning stakes are mentioned, and a comment on how Moses is Jesus' son is quickly mentioned.  The last blasphemous biblical reference will bite 9boo in the ass at the end of this game.  

WP goes heavy with pus and archs, while 9boo carries a load of thralls and dwarves and goes skimpy on the archers.  Both teams go with a 3 prong attack with only a light thrall Defense.  First battle occurs up North between Gore and Imoen.  A fairly nice rush attack by Gore doesnt materialize all too well, and after a melee battle and a arch vs dwarf/warrior fight, all that is left standing are 3 Imoen archers.  WP is up in percentage 70 to 61.  Next battle occurs down South between Andir and Mand of 9boo and CyberBob.  Bob does an excellent job repelling Andir's pus and uses his own pus to freeze and chop down Mand's melee units.  WP is up 62 to 38 at this point.  9boo's mid offense goes back to its home flag for Defense.  WP surrounds the flag in 3 directions.  They manage to chop down 9boo's defense with their mass of archers, but 9boo still holds on strong with the excellent dorf work of Andir.  I think i spoke to soon.  After backing the WP offense from the flag, Andir's dorf aims a bottle right at a tree.  Bounce goes his direction and his remains are scattered about the green forest lawn.  After that, WP swoops in and surprisingly takes a victory.

And how did the mistaken biblical reference hurt 9boo? At the end of the game, Andir attempted to bring out his Moses unit, which he was hiding behind a tree, as a last ditch effort to hold the flag.  Initially, he instructed it to bring down a wall of water down on the WP army, but Moses refused.  The comment "Moses is Jesus' son?  Go read a bible you frickin Atheist" quickly runs across the game screen.  Moses disrobes himself and it is revealed that is in reality a Charlton Heston unit.  With NRA cap and a rifle, Heston ditched the 9boo game to join a Gimble Hunting game in Gonen's Bridge.  

That was my attempt to be funny.  If you didnt laugh, lightning will come down from the heavens and strike you down from where you are

Game Two - [Flag Rally] [Lichen Unto Death (Light)]

Both teams go with basically the same units, except 9boo goes heavy with dorfs while WP acquires more thralls.  9boo goes with two separate armies up N and down S while WP goes with a 3 prong attack with a strong mid force.  The North battle features Mand and Tor against CyberBob.  Outnumbered, Bob eventually loses ground and is forced to give up his flag.  The second key battle occurs in the middle.  With the threat of WP's mid force taking their home flag, Andir decides to meet up with WP's large force.  With only a dorf, the general, and a few melee units, Andir manages to repel pus, kill off a dorf, and chop down one by one WP's large warrior force.  With WP's North and mid forces destroyed, 9boo maintains solid D while touching all 6 flags

Game Three - [Assassin] [If I Had a Trow...]

With their backs against the wall, WP needed to step up in this last game in order to stay alive in MWC.  Imoen provides a shout out in pregame talk:

Imoen: Let's hear it for Clam Chowder!

Finally, someone realizes how talented Clam Chowder is.  After the shout out, the soup was given a shoe deal and was signed by the Washington Wizards to a 5 year, 50 million contract.  Beat that Tyronn Lue!

Both teams go with basically the same units.  9boo goes with a three prong attack, but WP sports an unusual and risky strat.  They go heavy on D with only a Trow/myrk melee on offense.  Nevarr sports 44% of WP's units, holding 3 morts, 1 lock, the villagers, and a large maul melee.  Now understand that this is a player who had only 8% of WP's units in each of the two previous games.  The jump from 8% to 44% is like asking Monica Lewinsky to give head, bake bread, AND sing yankee doodle dandy.  WP puts their D down South while 9boo hides their villagers at their home base.  Muppet, who carries the WP offense, eventually loses his trow faster than George W Bush can spell "strategery."  9boo surrounds the WP villagers from every angle.  Wiz sneaks in an excellent lock shot that takes out Nevarr's 3 clumped up defending morts.  With mortars, fireballs, and eventually a healthy trow surrounding the WP D, the villagers eventually meet their doom.  WP, only down 3, needed to provide excellent game play to win this game.  Unfortunately, being outnumbered, they couldnt provide a stunning game 3 performance.