Match Report: VLR vs GDs

VLR squad: Jay, Del, Beard, Ejay, Leggy and Niall.

After everyone sitting in the lobby for a fair while chatting, we managed to get the reserves to leave and got down to it. First game was Domination on Afghan. Jay (hosting) started the game...then ended it immediately as GDs had seven on their teams. After the false start, the game recommenced. We cheekily used our experience from the false start to sort neatly who was running B and who running C, so started the game with both bases. GDs quickly managed to take one back off us though, but we responded and took one back ourselves. The game went on much like this for the rest of the game; a ding dong battle with bases exchanging between teams. The layout of Afghan means the bases are placed roughly in a circle, rather than in a line like most maps, which meant it was difficult to hold two bases for any length of time. Some great captures from Niall, and a well organized defence with plenty of communication over the headset meant we could edge them out 200-179 for a good start, despite me spending a lot of time stood next to attacking enemies without realising they were there.

Then came Hardcore TDM on Karachi. With all due respect, we blitzed them on this. Jay mentioned that for this people should switch to UAV as a killstreak, and we pumped in the UAVs (even though mine seemed to be set up wrong) and had the GDs' score pretty much doubled for the whole match. Leggy played like a beast and lead us to a 7500-4200 victory.

This meant we had won the best of three match, but we carried on to play the final game regardless, Beard encouraging us to push for the whitewash. It was Search and Destroy on Terminal. VLR struggled at the beginning, Dano in particular gave us a lot of trouble as the GDs took the first few rounds convincingly. I played like a lemon, struggled immensely and was on 0-4 (though if my memory serves me correctly Beard was too...) I switched to the riot shield which got me a few kills, and a special mention goes to Beard for a heroic effort to leap a fence for a care package...however I imagine his sense of triumph was lessened somewhat when it turned out to be a resupply. We managed to claw it back to 3-3 and overtime, but in the final round GDs were too strong and they took the win 4-3.

The final score, then, was 2-1 to VLR. A well faught game played in good spirits by both teams - thanks to Dano and the Gamerdads. A strong competitive debut for VRL with some great communication over the headsets. Well done guys.