Mordu's Tourney: Round 1 Roundup

 Many misconceptions were dispelled this weekend regarding the perceptions in New Eden. When the virtual dust cleared only the strong survived. It seems many of us underestimated certain groups and overestimated a myriad of others. While some are still baffled by the absence of groups like STB, Tritan Industries and Betamax in the competition. While one can hardly blame CONCORD for limiting the contest to 16 contestants, some felt differently. We reached out to Quickgloves of STB who took the opportunity to bash the decision to include two ROFL groups into the tourney. "CONCORD did not properly screen the event. This tournament was a flop. Some corps couldnt even field the full 16 needed. ROFL House had to play its own team KEQ Cmon man really how do u lose that match !! LOL ... My comment to ROFL is this DUMB MOVE NOT ONLY DO U LOOK BAD ONCE WHEN U GET STEAM ROLLED BY REAL CORPS BUT U GET TO LOOK BAD TWICE GJ!! YOU ARE SO SMART! To the guys like Betamax and Tritan that got left out its really a shame."


A source inside Tritan Industries had this to say: "Hey, I personally think there are some shenanigans involving the teams chosen for the upcoming Dust tourny.  Do you guys recall if CONCORD EVER said anything about selecting teams from separate regions? Because if so, then I know that Tritan had already submitted by then, and the “official rules” said first 16 teams, nothing about first 8 from each region." STB's and TI's frustration notwithstanding, the early indications are that the following undefeated corps are in the best position to win  the tourney.

1. The Imperfects - No surprise here. Despite not being top five in War Points, the tourney favorite won going away in all of their matches and wasn't even playing at full strength. Sources confirmed that the bravado filled Protoman was not logged into the VR Trainer being used for scoring for any of their scheduled matches. They already have the mental edge of teams publicly lamenting going against them. Still the team to beat.

2. The Seraphim Initiative - Here again, this group is right where we predicted. Still our choice to meet The Imperfects in the championship round and our sleeper choice to win it all should the favorite stumble.

3. Zion TCD - Many accused them of weak competition after beating a partial squad of OTB, but a unit can only beat the opposition put in front of them. Finished the first round 3-0 easily.

4. ROFL House - A bit of a surprise here as many scouting reports accused this group of being 'zergs'. They dominated early and often but like Zion TCD, were also accused of beating weak competition. There also seems to be a bit of a controversy surrounding their alliance getting two groups into the tourney while many groups did not get any. Was it to their benefit that they were able to have a match against their allies at KEQ?

Although they did lose a match to SI, many felt WTF Beta is still among the best teams in the tourney. Next weekend promises to feature much better matchups as most of the cannon fodder and weaker opponents have been eliminated. We are certainly looking forward to it.