AFPL Chaos Ball #3

July 7, 2013

Prior to the event, we were told that IE Unseen dropped out of the event so we were bumped up from third place to second place. Which was good news. We just have to place well in the tournament consistently.
I will not delve into detail as far as each match went. I'm just going to outline what I noticed as weaknesses that we needed to work on.

The first thing I noticed is that 2nd string main snake guy was not moving up fast enough. In all honesty, if we failed to lane out the opposing team's snake, then we would have been dominated in all of our games.

Luckily, though I don't want to take all the credit, I was positioned at the 30 can bunker so I would always take out their snake as they come into it or as they move up. So we contained their snake side pretty well. But in the end, it just evened things out and we had to rely on our dorito side. Jeremy and Sammy were powerful players so I didn't have to worry too much.

Our second problem was that we, as 2nd string, were not talking as much as we should have. Though we succeeded in winning a lot of our games, I still could not shake the idea that the only voice we relied on was the sideline coach's. In the end, we were strong enough to overcome that shortcoming.

My personal weakness was that I was not moving away from the 30 can. I was there just making sure that the snake was covered. I was ignoring the dorito side all day long. Though we were never really dominated on that side, I probably would have better served my team if I had moved to the center 50 after I took out their main snake player. I have to keep in mind that I have to move up when we are up in bodies.

All in all, our team performed well enough to place third again. I wanted first place but we were pitted against Str8shooters and lost. We won our one on one games to place third. So we are known as the one on one specialists.
Things to work on: communication, training our 2nd string snake to move up faster, taking more ground when we are up in numbers.

I'm done.

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