The wait is finally over.

After an extended delay due to EA muppetness, CG has announced the groupings for its premier tournament. BC2 has attracted clans from all eras of Battlefield – mixed with a few COD rands – providing a diverse array of competition arguably uniting the best in one format. Hopefully these elder statesmen throw away their Gustav’s (aka Big Reds) for the sake of the tournament and we will witness some A+ action.

Closer to home we’ve amazingly drawn clans we’ve scrimmed throughout the past month; AEF.bw, Fray, Deadly Combination, Vital eSports and Carnage. Vital branch off the infamous hax0r clan once known as Instant Death, eyes will be upon them no doubt but according to the community the threat lies in Fray. We shall see how it pans out, personally I cannot wait for the game against the BlackWatch to resume 2142 hostilities … the talk is Fray should top the group, if that indeed is the case they may have improved out of sight from our last meeting.

Kick off is Wednesday the 7th of April on Laguna Presa, followed by White Pass that Sunday versus TBA.

GL HF, we’ll be batting for 2142.

Wow.

Due to popular demand, a brief report of the game against 6P…

Starting on attack, we went in with a mindset of being methodical, ensuring we got all the sites without a real emphasis on attack. Job done, near enough to 20 minutes with our forces held up only at Phase 3 despite their chopper having a minimal effect.

On defense we got blitzed in 8 minutes. What happened? Well honestly we still do not know however, 6P breezed through our first two phases as expected but we amassed their vehicles for phase 3 defense. Phase 1, 6P executed ye olde Jihad flurry at B site which initially failed only to be reinforced by the second respawn of the UAV. A site went down to a jihaded APC who successfully circumnavigated a minefield – kudos. Phase 2 must have got ninja’d, in possession of their armour and with control of the hill – A site went down with B site going a second later (literally).

Never mind we thought, our Phase 3 defense had yet to be penetrated so we were pretty confident given that our chopper was up, we had both pieces of armour, there was no environment to work with, all paths into A and B site zoned, infantry on sites as insurance and then … lolwut? Both sites go down simultaneously with no apparent UAV jihad (chopper had it down), no visuals on enemy troops and generally no idea how / what / how / when / how it happened.

Phase 4 went down extremely quickly with the chopper circling, we’re not sure how they got through again but suspect the out of bounds hill featured.

We wish 6P and tsw the best of luck in the final, no doubt all eyes will be on 6P to witness the brilliance. We thank CG and Talnoy for putting on the beta tournament and set our sights on a (hopefully, large format) GameArena tournament.