OMWT Week 8 SummaryPick and Ban Statistics for Weeks 7+8Postponed MatchClawViper 5-0 L u m i n o u s Semi-Finalsffstar0716 5-4 ClawViper The match was anticipated to be a highly exciting match-up, with both players showing both good and poor performances throughout the tournament, and also the clash of playstyles - One which uses a mouse only, and the other who used a tablet and keyboard, totally different input devices. The warm-up maps certainly warmed up ffstar's right hand and ClawViper's left hand. ClawViper chose to ban Gypsy Tonic and Confession, paying heavy respect to ffstar0716's ability to play non-standard maps. On the other hand, ffstar0716 showed similar respect in terms of Hard Rock, banning both Exist and Shiroi Yuki no Princess. ClawViper immediately took the hint and opened up with Gigantic OTN, the remaining HR map. ffstar0716 put up a good fight in Gigantic OTN, obtaining only two misses, but his 479 combo wasn't enough to beat ClawViper, who had 773 combo with also two misses. ffstar0716 then picked Scarlet Faith which was a comfortable map for him, known to be excellent hidden reading. True enough, ClawViper broke repeatedly at the start while ffstar0716 showed a very stable performance throughout the map. Despite settling down later and racking up a 922 combo, ClawViper's combo was just no match for ffstar0716 who just missed once and obtained 1200 combo, a comfortable lead he never let up. ClawViper then picked a DT map, My True Love. it showed promise to be a close affair at the initial stages, with both players keeping up with each other, breaking at similar areas. However, it was ClawViper who managed to rack up a 500 combo, while ffstar continually broke throughout the map. That proved to be the difference as ClawViper took home the win, making it 2-1. Ffstar then proceeded to pick squartatrice, an extremely streamy map that ClawViper struggled with. His victory was never in doubt as he only missed near the end, dominating ClawViper in the map, levelling it once more to go 2-2. ClawViper, hoping to get more from DT then turned to Electric Angel. Similar to My True Love, it was a see-saw battle, but ffstar was the one who managed to pick up a combo first, and came out ahead this time to lead for the first time in the match. Ffstar then went for another streamy NoMod pick - Just Awake. Both players fought neck-to-neck throughout the map, all the way to 700 combo where ffstar finally missed. ClawViper went on to FC the map, levelling the score once more at 3-3. ClawViper then went for Highlander, a HD pick. However, he broke early, and after 400 combo broke once more, while ffstar only missed once at 600 combo, letting ffstar get ahead once more at 4-3. Ffstar looked to close out the match with the final HD pick - Kunoichi. With ClawViper's early miss, the writing looks set in stone as ffstar appeared to be extremely stable in his HD picks. However, after an awkward miss, ClawViper managed to make the comeback as he never dropped his combo for the remainder of the map, Levelling it for the 4th time at 4-4. In order to prevent this kind of scenarios, this is what the tiebreaker is for! Both players entered the tiebreaker nervously, and it was tense as the combo continually built up, from 100 to 200 to 300. . . . . .until 1200 combo. Then, shortly after ClawViper missed a whole stream to instantly fail the map, and ffstar reached the break with his combo still intact, the match clearly in his favour. Ffstar never gave ClawViper a chance to come back, as he managed to ride the momentum all the way to 2600 combo, as ClawViper could not obtain any form of a decent combo above 500 in the later stages of the map. Before the end, the winner was already decided, with TequilaWolf the referee declaring ffstar's 5-4 victory 1 minute before the game ended. It had a rather anticlimatic end, but it was a good battle.
NazzzF 2-5 Rumia-This match looked to be a battle of a HD player against a battle against a HR player at first glance - but as the match progressed, Rumia- was the one who proved his doubters wrong. NazzzF went for the bans against Gigantic OTN HR, and My True Love DT. Rumia- then popped a surprise, banning Gypsy Tonic and the infamous Confession DT instead of any HD picks! NazzzF then opened the match with a HD pick, Kunoichi. Rumia- struggled throughout the whole map, obtaining only a measly 286 combo as NazzzF obtained 862 combo and totally dominated the first game, leaving Rumia-'s bans difficult to understand. Rumia- quickly levelled the score with Exist HR, where he proved to be more consistent with HR, edging out NazzzF by a comfortable 3 million points. NazzzF, spurred on by his easy win in the first game then proceeded to pick another HD map, Highlander. However, this time, it wasn't only Rumia- who did not put up a convincing performance, as NazzzF also struggled with the map. Eventually, Rumia- was the one who came out ahead by 2 million points, a surprising result. Rumia- then proceeded to pick Neuronecia, one of the most non-standard maps in the mappool. His mastery of the map was put on full display, as he only sliderbroke once throughout the whole song, obtaining an amazing 900 combo, his victory never in question to go 3-1 up. NazzzF then proceeded to pick Matryoshka. The game was a tight affair, with both players staying extremely close to each other for nearly half the song, but it was Rumia- who broke right before the break, giving NazzzF a huge chance to pull away. However, NazzzF broke shortly after, obtaining only a small advantage from Rumia-'s mistake. However, what unfolded next was even more interesting, as Rumia- began to rack up a huge combo as NazzzF missed once again, going into the lead. However, as it looks like Rumia- might pull away with the match, he broke once more, and NazzzF slowly began to recover the deficit, and actually went into the lead! However, he missed at the closing stages of the song, and Rumia- managed to squeeze out a last-second comeback with a mere victory of 27,000 points to go 4-1 up! Wew! Rumia- then seeked to close out the match with Squartatrice. This time, NazzzF looked to be struggling at the initial stages as Rumia- went into a strong lead, before missing. He looked to have a solid advantage at this stage, but NazzzF began to rack up a high combo. Rumia- then missed again, as NazzzF' managed to continue to gain combo and overtake Rumia- in the closing stages of the song to bring the score to 2-4, another comeback at the closing stages! NazzzF then picked Scarlet Faith HD, arguably the hardest HD map to play in the mappool, and it looked like he was ready to get back another point. However, Rumia- surprised everyone by holding a very strong combo as NazzzF struggled to play the map, reahing 880 combo before breaking as opposed to NazzzF's 352. Rumia- came out of the match winning 5-2, to remain the only undefeated player in the tournament, waiting to see who he will face in the grand final.
Loser Bracket Final RoundNazzzF 5-4 ffstar0716Both players went into the match with the psychological advantage to NazzzF, who had swept ffstar 4-0 earlier in the winner's bracket, and was the one who knocked ffstar into the loser's bracket. However, ffstar0716 is riding on the confidence after beating two favourites, caleb123456 and ClawViper consecutively to get this far.
NazzzF banned Gypsy Tonic and Neuronecia, both unorthodox NoMod maps that ffstar is known to be good at, while ffstar chose to ban Shiroi Yuki no Princess (HR) and Just Awake NoMod.
NazzzF opened the map with a HR pick of exist. Both players went neck-to-neck, both full combo-ing until the first break. However, ffstar broke very shortly after the break, perhaps due to nervousness, giving NazzzF the lead which he never let go of until the end. To make things worse, ffstar failed the map near the end and couldn't revive, making it 1-0 to NazzzF. Ffstar then surprised with picking the remaining HR map, Gigantic OTN. His strategy appeared to pay off initially as NazzzF appeared to struggle with the map at the end, and ffstar picked up a rather comfortable lead. However, NazzzF found his momentum shortly after, picking up 500 combo to come from behind to take the lead in the final 10 seconds of the map to make it a 2-0 lead! NazzzF then picked Electric Angel DT. Once again, the match was a ridiculously close affair, with NazzzF taking the lead in the initial stages. However, halfway through the map, ffstar started to rack up a large combo, eventually overtaking NazzzF. However, once again, NazzzF found the final burst of combo at the very end, overtaking ffstar at literally the last second, winning by 39k score to go 3-0 up! At this point, ffstar must be wondering whether everything is just against him today after 2 very narrow losses. ffstar then went for a pick which he was fairly confident with, Scarlet Faith HD, in a bid to get his first point and some confidence. His plan worked out, and it was a fairly comfortable victory as ffstar held nearly a 1000 combo to completely dominate the match, netting his first point. NazzzF then went for another DT pick - My True Love. This time, ffstar held the lead as he racked up a 500 combo, but once again, NazzzF threatened a comeback midway through, when he picked up a 400 combo. However, the break disrupted his momentum and it was not to be as he broke instantly after the break, giving ffstar his 2nd point. Ffstar then went for another one of his pocket HD picks - Kunoichi. It appears that the close battles are not coming to an end, as both players kept combo all the way until the break at 700 combo. Once again, the break proves to be a momentum and amplifies the nerves of players, as ffstar broke very soon after the break followed by NazzzF! While it looked like because NazzzF broke later, he was in prime position to win, he broke again once shortly after, allowing ffstar to come from behind to level it at 3-3 from 0-3 down! His turn to pick now, NazzzF went with Matryoshka, one of his favourite NoMod maps as he also picked it against Rumia-. NazzzF had several early misses giving ffstar the lead for the match. However, besides that, NazzzF went on to full combo the rest of the map with 886 combo, coming from behind again to finally get his 4th point. Ffstar went for the Confession DT pick, a very unorthodox DT map which he demonstrated his prowess against caleb and was banned against him by ClawViper. His prowess with unorthodox maps continued to show, as he obtained nearly 600 combo opposed to Naz's 400 combo, and it was a comfortable win for him to level it at 4-4. It was then time for the tiebreaker.
Fun fact going into the tiebreaker: Ffstar had played 3 tiebreakers against Conflict, TequilaWolf and ClawViper and won all three of them. However, NazzzF showed his confidence by putting on the Hidden mod for the tiebreaker. In the previous tiebreaker against ClawViper, ffstar obtained 2600 combo, but it was not to be this time, as he was the one who broke first at 900 combo. In fact, NazzzF was the one who continued to get a higher and higher combo, as the audience watched in awe of him obtaining up to 2626 combo with the HD mod before he finally broke. The writing was on the wall as soon as ffstar broke the second time, and he gave up the rest of the match as he knew that the comeback will not happen. Similar to the ClawViper match, it was an anticlimatic end to an amazing battle, truly one of the best matches of the tournament so far. Congratulations to ffstar0716 for taking 3rd place, and NazzzF will be the one who challenges Rumia- in the grand final of the OMWT!
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