Season 31 Playoff Preview - Main
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:38 am
I'm sorry if Main and Open will be released so late, my laptop died yesterday and my pc died a 3 days ago, so I didn't have a computer to write this on until today 
I would like to thank Milo for helping me out with the playoff preview(<3)
Thanks to everyone who contacted me(Thunder,gskill,92dt, 1080p, HK, p2o + someone I probably forgot who contacted me on steam).
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Illuminati - illuminati
John : Now that the season is soon over, what are your overall opinions on how your team preformed so far?
Milo : I think we've done well considering we're top of the league with a 9-0 record (Yes, I know it's actually 9-1). We've really come together and started playing as a team and it has benefited us a whole lot. Another aspect we've done well is picking players that work well with each other.
John : What's your starting lineup?
Milo : We don't have a set starting 6 because people have other obligations that they need to tend to on Sundays. Our team is comprised of players that are washed up, , new to the game and players who haven't been a top player for a while.
However, we've a squad of 7 that includes;
Bour (Doesn’t really frag like he used to in the past but his communications skills and map awareness is really crucial)
John (Our wildcard. Shows up when he's needed and has performed quite well.)
Milo (Well, I'm simply the gamechanger)
Paintball (Puts serious frags on the scoreboard and has been an avid team player in recent weeks)
Poizoned (All around beast. He frags, caps, and straight dominate)
Statik (Possibly the best third in main at the moment. He's so underrated it's not even funny. Well it's because he just dumps on kids)
Stile (Frags a lot and I rely on him to lead in game sometimes.)
John : What was your most difficult match of this season?
Milo : I honestly don't think we have had many “difficult matches”. But if I were to choose one it would be definitely be the match against 1080p. We under estimated them and it almost cost us the match.
John : What team(s) surprised you this season?
Milo : Just the teams that dropped down to the main division really. You would think they would perform better than they did in invite, but it doesn't seem the case here.
John : How do you see your chances in the playoffs?
Milo : Chances are good but we got the harder side of the bracket, and for some reason we keep playing decent teams almost week in and week out. Anything can happen, but we’re looking to win it all.
John : Any comments or shout-outs?
Milo : Shout-out to John for doing the playoff preview, shout-out to the fam doing their thing in invite, and most definitely shout-out to Kanye West, J.Cole, and Mac Miller. All three dropped dope albums in the past week.
Haters shake my hand but I keep the sanitizers on deck. - KiD CuDi
had skill - h.skiLL
John : Now that the season is soon over, what are your overall opinions on how your team preformed so far?
Tenks: Hmm. We beat bad teams really easily and good teams beat us really easily. We don’t scrim or practice. Our overall attitude is carefree until playoffs, then the sweatbands come out.
John : What's your starting lineup?
Tenks: No idea.
I’m pretty sure I heavy. Dye-life rifles. Brett lays on his belly..And Flux is still learning how to use punctuation. I don’t know who Kanguh and Loki are nor what guns they play.
John : What was your most difficult match of this season?
Tenks: I’d say the most difficult match of the season was when 2 seasons ago Brett lost main finals for us on RR2.
John : What team(s) surprised you this season?
Tenks: Illuminati. And not because they are good, but because they were able to make it this far w.o getting a player from their team banned from tpg.
And as far as the team I’m least surprised by? 92DT – some players are destined to remain forever in main.
John : How do you see your chances in the playoffs?
Tenks: If Brett doesn’t play , pretty great actually…Almost a guarantee. If Brett plays though that’s a whole different story. YEESH
John : Any comments or shout-outs?
Tenks: To all the cheaters who remain in this community. Nice life.Oh and Paula Deen and Rambizzle
People think I’m maaad, so why don’t you tell um I’m maaaad……sollaaaaaar - KiD CuDi
3xtreme Humiliation - |3h|
John : Now that the season is soon over, what are your overall opinions on how your team preformed so far?
Mogers : I think my overall opinion is that we have done exactly what we intended to do. Sandbag in main, run middle of the pack, have lots of fun and try to piss off Defiance.
John : What's your starting lineup?
Mogers : Starting lineup should be Scorch, Mogers, Stealth, JoelEdmunds, Laura, Cass
John : What was your most difficult match of this season?
Mogers : Our most difficult match of the season was against deadbolt for sure. That team is beast with wintehs and todo. Those guys are way too cute.
John : What team(s) surprised you this season?
Mogers : I think the team that surprised me the most was 1080p. They gave us a good match on Donner.
John : How do you see your chances in the playoffs?
Mogers : I see us winning Main, pretty easily. We should beat NoGo by one point, just because we are the team of destiny. Destroy illuminati in the 2nd round... if they make it there. Then beat someone else in the finals.
John : Any comments or shout-outs?
Mogers : I'd like to give some shoutouts to Canada Day on July 1st. To Khoi for being super understanding and letting us play Monday. To statik for being awful at dod. A big shoutout to Eric Sears for having his heart broken by Courtney, and for filling in in matches.
1080p - 1080p
John : Now that the season is soon over, what are your overall opinions on how your team preformed so far?
Defiance : I would characterize our season as being unlucky. We are currently 5-4 heading into the last week, yet we have lost all 4 of our matches by a combined total of 83 points. We definitely can play with anyone in the division if our starting 6 actually shows up and stays connected during matches.
John : What's your starting lineup?
Defiance : Sniper - Nugz, Rifles - labotic, mare heavies - defiance, shifty, utility - disturbed
John : What was your most difficult match of this season?
Defiance : Probably h.skill on anzio, but thats more to do with the map. We don't scrim as a team at all, and anzio requires too much teamwork for us.
John : What team(s) surprised you this season?
Defiance : I thought NoGo would be a lot better, but I guess they are struggling to get 6 every week.
John : How do you see your chances in the playoffs?
Defiance : I think we can play with ANYONE in the division when we are all there and playing our style of match.
John : Any comments or shout-outs?
Defiance : Good luck to everyone in the playoffs and I hope everyone had a fun season.
92 Dream Team - 92DT
John : Now that the season is soon over, what are your overall opinions on how your team preformed so far?
Muresan : Well to start it off,we were all pretty pumped to play in invite. We ended up winning our first match of the season, then it went all down hill from there. We lost a starter,an we never had six. We would be lucky to get four every match,an now i think we're all just happy to play, Win or lose. I think we performed the best we could changing 2 starter's at the end of this season, an happy of the team play we have now in such a short notice of time.
John : What's your starting lineup?
Muresan : Our starting line up really range's depending on who show's up but this is starting for the rest of the season.
Heavie 1- Majl
Heavie 2- Muresan / poo56
Rifle 1- CK
Rifle 2- Vertex
Rifle 3 / Light - Aznhunter
Sniper - Muresan if needed, The Bear is gone for 2 month's touring with his friend's band.
John : What was your most difficult match of this season?
Muresan : I'd say our most difficult match was against gskill,it was the 2nd match of the season an they completely shut us down.No matter what we changed up or pushed different, they countered everything an ended up beating us real easy.
John : What team(s) surprised you this season?
Muresan : The most team that surprised me the most would be , Illuminati. Only saying this because i know some of them really well, an i know how easily some of them can rage depending on any given situation. Devin not helping that out at all, But we ended up playing them a few week's in main after we were dropped from Invite. I knew they were good,but i didnt know how good they were together until that match. It was really close, but at the end they ended up beating us.
John : How do you see your chances in the playoffs?
Muresan : I'd like to say our chance's are good. We have some good player's, but with no chemistry yet. I'd like to see us in the final's against Illuminati after seeing what happened to 3h, but im going to go ahead an give it up to the Illuminati since they have they're starting line up again.An milo retiring after this season, GO GET IT MILO.
John : Any comments or shout-outs?
Muresan : Shout out's would be to The Bear who is lucky traveling with his friend's band for the next 2 month's. Hope your having fun an hopefully banging hot chick's. Ive hung out with The bear before in RL,an have seen him hook up with some pretty nas** ass chicks. < 3 bear
NoGo Gaming Faction - NoGo !
John : Now that the season is soon over, what are your overall opinions on how your team preformed so far?
SpoonIsBad : I heard that every story, fiction or otherwise, begins autobiographically, and this certainly is no exception.
It was another amphetamine hangover. The tight stomach, sore jaw, stiff neck, and the generally zombified blur of everything that makes a static drone of your day until eventually fading. It's hell's middle-ground - no mans land. Too burnt out to do much of anything but still too buzzed to get the sleep you need. Besides, who really gives a shit about DoD anyways?
That's en excerpt from my newest novelette, "Love your Abuser", a story about masturbation, and Day of Defeat. please buy the e-book for your kindle.
We're 4-6-0. The 0 always puzzled me...
Our performance has been pretty mediocre, but here at the NoGo Gaming Faction Syndicate, mediocre is what we strive for.
John : What's your starting lineup?
SpoonIsBad : Any 6 of us that are online, but this season it's been something along these lines.
- Sniper: Bluerelolver or Khoi
- Rifles: apple1mak, Bausch, Khoi - Maybe Mandy Sheen, depends on if the planets are aligned properly with the moon. I don't remember the whole explanation, it could be every other full moon. Truth be told, no one really knows what possesses Andy to play. But when he plays he surely is possessed by something... l0ry maybe.
- Heavy: Mino, Ace, SpoonIsBad
John : What was your most difficult match of this season?
SpoonIsBad : I missed a lot of this season due to conflicting schedules with irl. But of the matches I played, the most enjoyable was probably against drunkboLT last week on Chemille.
John : What team(s) surprised you this season?
SpoonIsBad : None. When the season first started I didn't know who h.skiLL was, but after using my Ovaltine decoder ring I was able to decipher their alias' and it made sense.
John : How do you see your chances in the playoffs?
SpoonIsBad : Mediocre, 3h should be an easy win but I can't comment on anything after. The slightest amount of detective work (http://www.tpgleague.org/dod6/team/1816/) would show you that nearly half the team didn't even join until 2013. They are clearly new to the game.
John : Any comments or shout-outs?
SpoonIsBad : William "Sik Black Bear" Blackwell, I know your winter hibernation is over. Please return home.
deadboLT - deadboLT
John : Now that the season is soon over, what are your overall opinions on how your team preformed so far?
Todo : Based on original expectations, I'd say we performed pretty poorly. After doing well in Open and Intermediate, there was little choice but to move us up for this season. Problem was that we didn't really have a consistent 6 that was collectively good enough or cared enough to do well at this level. So akiro did some recruiting, picking up good players like ward, Seanality, ZOOk, and defrag in hopes of competing. But inactivity, lack of chemistry, and a dearth of heavies eventually did us in, and we had no choice but to revert back to the relaxed culture of showing up for an hour each Sunday and yelling at each other.
John : What's your starting lineup?
Todo : Whoever shows up. The most accurate guess is a random 6 among myself, akiro, wintehs, crawtona, jeff, ZOOk, Seanality, and bnzr. I've been trying to think of some sort of selection game we could play, but to no avail. Maybe elimination hot potato in spawn.
John : What was your most difficult match of this season?
Todo : Probably the Illuminati match on anzio. I didn't personally play, but I think that was the most talented 6 we fielded at any point this season, and we got ripped apart. It hammered home the fact that we don't have enough heavies and our teamwork is suspect at best. Honorable mention to the NoGo match on RR2, where the teamwork discrepancy was probably at its clearest.
John : What team(s) surprised you this season?
Todo : Personally, I'd say NoGo. They don't have some of the big names that other teams do, but after the RR2 match, I was impressed by how well they worked together. We then had them on the ropes late on Chemille, but they regrouped well and pulled away convincingly.
John : How do you see your chances in the playoffs?
Todo : I think we're going to beat the shit out of h.skiLL and then lose to someone else. But mainly, h.skiLL = out of shit once we're done with them. No more shit. I also really like our chances of a ventrilo blowup and a ~12 hour team breakup.
John : Any comments or shout-outs?
Todo : Thanks to John for doing this. KliQ blows.
I would like to thank Milo for helping me out with the playoff preview(<3)
Thanks to everyone who contacted me(Thunder,gskill,92dt, 1080p, HK, p2o + someone I probably forgot who contacted me on steam).
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Illuminati - illuminati
John : Now that the season is soon over, what are your overall opinions on how your team preformed so far?
Milo : I think we've done well considering we're top of the league with a 9-0 record (Yes, I know it's actually 9-1). We've really come together and started playing as a team and it has benefited us a whole lot. Another aspect we've done well is picking players that work well with each other.
John : What's your starting lineup?
Milo : We don't have a set starting 6 because people have other obligations that they need to tend to on Sundays. Our team is comprised of players that are washed up, , new to the game and players who haven't been a top player for a while.
However, we've a squad of 7 that includes;
Bour (Doesn’t really frag like he used to in the past but his communications skills and map awareness is really crucial)
John (Our wildcard. Shows up when he's needed and has performed quite well.)
Milo (Well, I'm simply the gamechanger)
Paintball (Puts serious frags on the scoreboard and has been an avid team player in recent weeks)
Poizoned (All around beast. He frags, caps, and straight dominate)
Statik (Possibly the best third in main at the moment. He's so underrated it's not even funny. Well it's because he just dumps on kids)
Stile (Frags a lot and I rely on him to lead in game sometimes.)
John : What was your most difficult match of this season?
Milo : I honestly don't think we have had many “difficult matches”. But if I were to choose one it would be definitely be the match against 1080p. We under estimated them and it almost cost us the match.
John : What team(s) surprised you this season?
Milo : Just the teams that dropped down to the main division really. You would think they would perform better than they did in invite, but it doesn't seem the case here.
John : How do you see your chances in the playoffs?
Milo : Chances are good but we got the harder side of the bracket, and for some reason we keep playing decent teams almost week in and week out. Anything can happen, but we’re looking to win it all.
John : Any comments or shout-outs?
Milo : Shout-out to John for doing the playoff preview, shout-out to the fam doing their thing in invite, and most definitely shout-out to Kanye West, J.Cole, and Mac Miller. All three dropped dope albums in the past week.
Haters shake my hand but I keep the sanitizers on deck. - KiD CuDi
had skill - h.skiLL
John : Now that the season is soon over, what are your overall opinions on how your team preformed so far?
Tenks: Hmm. We beat bad teams really easily and good teams beat us really easily. We don’t scrim or practice. Our overall attitude is carefree until playoffs, then the sweatbands come out.
John : What's your starting lineup?
Tenks: No idea.
I’m pretty sure I heavy. Dye-life rifles. Brett lays on his belly..And Flux is still learning how to use punctuation. I don’t know who Kanguh and Loki are nor what guns they play.
John : What was your most difficult match of this season?
Tenks: I’d say the most difficult match of the season was when 2 seasons ago Brett lost main finals for us on RR2.
John : What team(s) surprised you this season?
Tenks: Illuminati. And not because they are good, but because they were able to make it this far w.o getting a player from their team banned from tpg.
And as far as the team I’m least surprised by? 92DT – some players are destined to remain forever in main.
John : How do you see your chances in the playoffs?
Tenks: If Brett doesn’t play , pretty great actually…Almost a guarantee. If Brett plays though that’s a whole different story. YEESH
John : Any comments or shout-outs?
Tenks: To all the cheaters who remain in this community. Nice life.Oh and Paula Deen and Rambizzle
People think I’m maaad, so why don’t you tell um I’m maaaad……sollaaaaaar - KiD CuDi
3xtreme Humiliation - |3h|
John : Now that the season is soon over, what are your overall opinions on how your team preformed so far?
Mogers : I think my overall opinion is that we have done exactly what we intended to do. Sandbag in main, run middle of the pack, have lots of fun and try to piss off Defiance.
John : What's your starting lineup?
Mogers : Starting lineup should be Scorch, Mogers, Stealth, JoelEdmunds, Laura, Cass
John : What was your most difficult match of this season?
Mogers : Our most difficult match of the season was against deadbolt for sure. That team is beast with wintehs and todo. Those guys are way too cute.
John : What team(s) surprised you this season?
Mogers : I think the team that surprised me the most was 1080p. They gave us a good match on Donner.
John : How do you see your chances in the playoffs?
Mogers : I see us winning Main, pretty easily. We should beat NoGo by one point, just because we are the team of destiny. Destroy illuminati in the 2nd round... if they make it there. Then beat someone else in the finals.
John : Any comments or shout-outs?
Mogers : I'd like to give some shoutouts to Canada Day on July 1st. To Khoi for being super understanding and letting us play Monday. To statik for being awful at dod. A big shoutout to Eric Sears for having his heart broken by Courtney, and for filling in in matches.
1080p - 1080p
John : Now that the season is soon over, what are your overall opinions on how your team preformed so far?
Defiance : I would characterize our season as being unlucky. We are currently 5-4 heading into the last week, yet we have lost all 4 of our matches by a combined total of 83 points. We definitely can play with anyone in the division if our starting 6 actually shows up and stays connected during matches.
John : What's your starting lineup?
Defiance : Sniper - Nugz, Rifles - labotic, mare heavies - defiance, shifty, utility - disturbed
John : What was your most difficult match of this season?
Defiance : Probably h.skill on anzio, but thats more to do with the map. We don't scrim as a team at all, and anzio requires too much teamwork for us.
John : What team(s) surprised you this season?
Defiance : I thought NoGo would be a lot better, but I guess they are struggling to get 6 every week.
John : How do you see your chances in the playoffs?
Defiance : I think we can play with ANYONE in the division when we are all there and playing our style of match.
John : Any comments or shout-outs?
Defiance : Good luck to everyone in the playoffs and I hope everyone had a fun season.
92 Dream Team - 92DT
John : Now that the season is soon over, what are your overall opinions on how your team preformed so far?
Muresan : Well to start it off,we were all pretty pumped to play in invite. We ended up winning our first match of the season, then it went all down hill from there. We lost a starter,an we never had six. We would be lucky to get four every match,an now i think we're all just happy to play, Win or lose. I think we performed the best we could changing 2 starter's at the end of this season, an happy of the team play we have now in such a short notice of time.
John : What's your starting lineup?
Muresan : Our starting line up really range's depending on who show's up but this is starting for the rest of the season.
Heavie 1- Majl
Heavie 2- Muresan / poo56
Rifle 1- CK
Rifle 2- Vertex
Rifle 3 / Light - Aznhunter
Sniper - Muresan if needed, The Bear is gone for 2 month's touring with his friend's band.
John : What was your most difficult match of this season?
Muresan : I'd say our most difficult match was against gskill,it was the 2nd match of the season an they completely shut us down.No matter what we changed up or pushed different, they countered everything an ended up beating us real easy.
John : What team(s) surprised you this season?
Muresan : The most team that surprised me the most would be , Illuminati. Only saying this because i know some of them really well, an i know how easily some of them can rage depending on any given situation. Devin not helping that out at all, But we ended up playing them a few week's in main after we were dropped from Invite. I knew they were good,but i didnt know how good they were together until that match. It was really close, but at the end they ended up beating us.
John : How do you see your chances in the playoffs?
Muresan : I'd like to say our chance's are good. We have some good player's, but with no chemistry yet. I'd like to see us in the final's against Illuminati after seeing what happened to 3h, but im going to go ahead an give it up to the Illuminati since they have they're starting line up again.An milo retiring after this season, GO GET IT MILO.
John : Any comments or shout-outs?
Muresan : Shout out's would be to The Bear who is lucky traveling with his friend's band for the next 2 month's. Hope your having fun an hopefully banging hot chick's. Ive hung out with The bear before in RL,an have seen him hook up with some pretty nas** ass chicks. < 3 bear
NoGo Gaming Faction - NoGo !
John : Now that the season is soon over, what are your overall opinions on how your team preformed so far?
SpoonIsBad : I heard that every story, fiction or otherwise, begins autobiographically, and this certainly is no exception.
It was another amphetamine hangover. The tight stomach, sore jaw, stiff neck, and the generally zombified blur of everything that makes a static drone of your day until eventually fading. It's hell's middle-ground - no mans land. Too burnt out to do much of anything but still too buzzed to get the sleep you need. Besides, who really gives a shit about DoD anyways?
That's en excerpt from my newest novelette, "Love your Abuser", a story about masturbation, and Day of Defeat. please buy the e-book for your kindle.
We're 4-6-0. The 0 always puzzled me...
Our performance has been pretty mediocre, but here at the NoGo Gaming Faction Syndicate, mediocre is what we strive for.
John : What's your starting lineup?
SpoonIsBad : Any 6 of us that are online, but this season it's been something along these lines.
- Sniper: Bluerelolver or Khoi
- Rifles: apple1mak, Bausch, Khoi - Maybe Mandy Sheen, depends on if the planets are aligned properly with the moon. I don't remember the whole explanation, it could be every other full moon. Truth be told, no one really knows what possesses Andy to play. But when he plays he surely is possessed by something... l0ry maybe.
- Heavy: Mino, Ace, SpoonIsBad
John : What was your most difficult match of this season?
SpoonIsBad : I missed a lot of this season due to conflicting schedules with irl. But of the matches I played, the most enjoyable was probably against drunkboLT last week on Chemille.
John : What team(s) surprised you this season?
SpoonIsBad : None. When the season first started I didn't know who h.skiLL was, but after using my Ovaltine decoder ring I was able to decipher their alias' and it made sense.
John : How do you see your chances in the playoffs?
SpoonIsBad : Mediocre, 3h should be an easy win but I can't comment on anything after. The slightest amount of detective work (http://www.tpgleague.org/dod6/team/1816/) would show you that nearly half the team didn't even join until 2013. They are clearly new to the game.
John : Any comments or shout-outs?
SpoonIsBad : William "Sik Black Bear" Blackwell, I know your winter hibernation is over. Please return home.
deadboLT - deadboLT
John : Now that the season is soon over, what are your overall opinions on how your team preformed so far?
Todo : Based on original expectations, I'd say we performed pretty poorly. After doing well in Open and Intermediate, there was little choice but to move us up for this season. Problem was that we didn't really have a consistent 6 that was collectively good enough or cared enough to do well at this level. So akiro did some recruiting, picking up good players like ward, Seanality, ZOOk, and defrag in hopes of competing. But inactivity, lack of chemistry, and a dearth of heavies eventually did us in, and we had no choice but to revert back to the relaxed culture of showing up for an hour each Sunday and yelling at each other.
John : What's your starting lineup?
Todo : Whoever shows up. The most accurate guess is a random 6 among myself, akiro, wintehs, crawtona, jeff, ZOOk, Seanality, and bnzr. I've been trying to think of some sort of selection game we could play, but to no avail. Maybe elimination hot potato in spawn.
John : What was your most difficult match of this season?
Todo : Probably the Illuminati match on anzio. I didn't personally play, but I think that was the most talented 6 we fielded at any point this season, and we got ripped apart. It hammered home the fact that we don't have enough heavies and our teamwork is suspect at best. Honorable mention to the NoGo match on RR2, where the teamwork discrepancy was probably at its clearest.
John : What team(s) surprised you this season?
Todo : Personally, I'd say NoGo. They don't have some of the big names that other teams do, but after the RR2 match, I was impressed by how well they worked together. We then had them on the ropes late on Chemille, but they regrouped well and pulled away convincingly.
John : How do you see your chances in the playoffs?
Todo : I think we're going to beat the shit out of h.skiLL and then lose to someone else. But mainly, h.skiLL = out of shit once we're done with them. No more shit. I also really like our chances of a ventrilo blowup and a ~12 hour team breakup.
John : Any comments or shout-outs?
Todo : Thanks to John for doing this. KliQ blows.