We have a Champion!

After 6 weeks of matches and almost all matches being fully played, we are ready to crown our PG iCTF Draft Spring 2022 champions!

Let us take a look at how the final went:

We had Improbable Immediate Flag Extraction facing off vs Team UwU.

After the server had been decided and a cointoss was done, the maps were clear and we were going to see: Rune( IIFE()), Acrony( uwu`), Broken Limits ( uwu`) and Anfractuous ( IIFE())

Rune
Rune started off heavy with uwu` taking an early 1-0 lead but IIFE() immediately equalized on the countercap. This basically set the tone for the rest of the map as we saw both teams capping flags left and right. On IIFE()'s side we saw r3v0lt3 with some very nice and fast runs capping 4! flags in total. On uwu` :3ennoo:3 had a very good grudge game and capped 3 for his team. This map had some crosssteals with some flagdropping shenanigans which were very interesting to watch on stream. (thanks promises and bat' for the nice stream!) It ended in overtime where IIFE() took away the victory on this very cap-heavy map.



Acrony
This was uwu`'s first map choice and since they were 1-0 in maps behind they had to make up for it on their own map. They brought in yk and his mid powers were immediately
utilized with him topping the frag meters and grabbing a whopping 0 times. Grabs on his teams side were not really needed from him though as :3ennoo:3 and skye were grabbing plenty. IIFE() brought in captain Deaod for this map to tighten their defense with AnNiHiLaToR.
Once again this map was very close and uwu` took the lead only to see it equalized by AnNiHiLaToR after a nice pick-up train on the flag run.
With 15 seconds left on the clock and the score, 2-2 we saw skye grab the flag once more and the entire uwu` team was up high to cover him. In the end, it was yk who rewarded himself and his team for the nice map he played by capping the flag on the dying seconds of the map.



Broken limits
The second mappick for uwu` who swapped out yk for Brasco again. And IIFE() swapped Qbit for seeya. After 1 minute it was once again uwu` taking an early lead after Brasco had a nice run and raced a flag home. Soon after both flags were gone but :3ennoo:3 was sneaky waiting in the opponent's base and returned the flag giving uwu` the 2-0 lead. Duy saw the opportunity to do something back and bring them back in the game to 2-1. And not late after that r3v0lt3 had another clutch run, once again tying the game to 2-2. With 8 minutes left in the game :3ennoo:3 had a very nice run making it 3-2. uwu` decided to lock down the map after that securing their 2nd map win.



Anfractuous
IIFE()'s second mappick and with the current score, a must win map. They swapped out Deaod for Qbit and uwu` brought back yk for Brasco.
After 7 minutes of some back and forth it was once again uwu` taking the 1-0 lead with a nice run by :3ennoo:3, with a quick 2-0 and 2-1 straight after. Once uwu` got to a 4-2 lead it was basically over for IIFE() and they tried some hail mary with full attack. As often that only lead to the other team capping more and it resulted in an 8-3 map win for uwu`.



Match view can be found here: Match report

And with 3-1 in maps now this means that our champions are:



So please join me in congratulating the team:



As for the rest we would also like to congratulate the second place:

Improbable Immediate Flag Extraction: Deaod, AnNiHiLaToR, Qbit, seeya, Duy and r3v0lt3

And third place:

Team D-Mich: dmich, tOx, nani, Murder, rusty2280, SCREAM^

I would also like to thank some people:
- All the captains for making this a very smooth cup to run.
- All the streamers, making sure we covered almost all maps that were played.
- Skarn, AcidSlam and FluX for helping with running this cup
- miSa for the nice interviews!
- The ratings group, for trying their best to make the ratings as fair as possible.
- All the pickup admins at PG for making sure the servers were ready for us.
- And once again Decl for providing this awesome website for us to run this event on.

And last but not least all of you for playing yet another event with us and keeping this game fun and alive. See you all next time.

Waterkater.

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