Masters take an uncontested first place + tournament win (once again) with an excellent 5-1 record, while ONE! secure second place for themselves with a solid 4-2 record.


Standings ~ MASTERs: 4-1

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Oops. Fixed.

I'm going to be in Canada for the weekend so no updates for you bastards. Not that you deserved one in the first place.

I fully admit that I don't know most of these clans very well, but One and Outlaws are both doing a lot better than I expected

Update #31 - August 19th:

I'm visiting houses in motion?

3v3 -

• Deadman's Rise of Rome:
  Tournament Winners: Jefferspin/Master Atom ◆Elite◆/Master of the Dead (MASTERs)
  
  
  • No games completed this week.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 5-1 / Outlaws: 4-1 / Lynx: 4-2 / French: 3-3 / Blitz: 1-4, ONE!: 1-4, Turtles: 1-4
  
  
• Europe [FINISHED]:
  Tournament Winners: Master of the Dead/Master Sarah♦/Sephiroth (MASTERs)
  
  
  • Great week(s) for Turtles, who finish their (and the tournament's) last two games on EU. They win both matches against French and Lynx, which bumps them into third place (losing the tie-breaker against ONE! cost them second). With Lynx and French still tied with an overall 3-3 record at the end of the tournament, Lynx edges into fourth due to winning their tie-breaker match against French. Europe is the first 3v3 tournament to completely finish, with another (dysfunctional) Masters team taking the overall win.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 5-1 / ONE!: 4-2 (1-0) / Turtles: 4-2 (0-1) / Lynx: 3-3 (1-0) / French: 3-3 (0-1) / Outlaws: 2-4 / Blitz: 0-6
  
  

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2v2 -

• China [FINISHED]:
  Tournament Winners: Master of the Dead/Master Ryiro/PanagiotisTheGreekFreak and Timinator • apex (MASTERs)
  
  
  • China is finished.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERS: 5-1 (1-0) / Turtles: 5-1 (0-1) / Lynx: 4-2 / French: 3-3 (1-0) / ONE!: 3-3 (0-1) / Outlaws: 1-5 / Blitz: 0-6
  
  
• Guiroma [FINISHED]:
Tournament Winners: Beren • apex and Muli (ONE!)


• Guiroma 2v2 is finished.

Standings ~ ONE!: 6-0 / MASTERs: 4-2 (1-0) / French: 4-2 (0-1) / Outlaws: 3-3 (1-0) / Lynx: 3-3 (0-1) / Blitz: 1-5 / Turtles: 0-6


• Final Earth:
  Tournament Winners: Master Farah♦/#Master [QB] and Timinator • apex (MASTERs)
  
  
  • QB replaces Farah for whatever reason on FE and the MASTERs team continue to dominate with their recent win coming from Blitz. With this victory, Masters bring their total wins to 5 - which seals their tournament win on FE. Masters finish CL with an astounding 8/11 tournament wins (the other 3 going to ONE! and Lynx); another impressive statistic in their already impressive list of impressive statistics for CL9. On the opposite end of the spectrum, the Blitz team is one loss away from passing Lynx to become the dead-last team on FE.
    
  • Some bad news for Masters (good news for Styxie, since she almost made me cancel my trip to Canada so I could update this game), as they lose the possibility of sweeping FE due to their loss against Outlaws. Apparently everyone fucked up in this game. What do I know. Masters finish FE with a 5-1 record, while Outlaws grab another win to potentially snag a podium finish. Meanwhile, ONE! are still slower than Turtles...
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 5-1 / Turtles: 4-2 / ONE!: 2-1 / Outlaws: 3-2 / French: 2-3 / Blitz: 1-4 / Lynx: 1-5
  

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1v1 -

• Volcano Island:
  Tournament Winner: Master Jz (MASTERs)
  
  
  • Bad week(s) for ONE! on Volcano Island, as PJ017 loses his final two games against Outlaws and Blitz. In the match-up of the subs, Njord demonstrates how to use a substitution well - scoring a win for Outlaws (actually, scoring all wins for Outlaws on VI). However, this game pales in comparison with the brutal sludge fest that happened between PJ and awesomeusername of Blitz which lasted 21 turns. A really fun game to watch (possibly the best one I've seen yet), but ultimately good delays and predictions won [spoilers] the match. Overall, the standings of VI have been determined. Even though there is one game left to play (Master Jz [Masters] vs alexclusive [Lynx]), the outcome doesn't change the standings as Jz will still be in first and alexclusive will still have lost the tie-breaker to fourth place (USA Biches of Turtles). However, ONE! did win the tie-breaking match against Turtles, so PJ edges above Biches to end up in a podium finish despite both having the same win record. alexclusive might even join the party if he manages to beat Jz, but he still finishes the last of the three as he lost both head-to-head match-ups.
    
    Here is the awesomeusername/PJ017 game: https://www.warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=13705919
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 5-0 / Blitz: 4-2 / ONE!: 3-3 (1-0) / Turtles: 3-3 (0-1) / Lynx: 2-3 / Outlaws: 2-4 / French: 1-5
  
  
• Guiroma [FINISHED]:
  Tournament Winner: master of desaster (MASTERs)
  
  
  • Guiroma 1v1 is finished.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 6-0 / ONE!: 5-1 / Turtles: 4-2 / French: 3-3 / Outlaws: 2-4 / Lynx: 1-5 / Blitz: 0-6
  
  
• Strategic Greece [FINISHED]:
  Tournament Winner: AWESOMEGUY (Lynx)
  
  
  • Strategic Greece is finished.
  
  Standings ~ Lynx: 5-1 (1-0) / ONE!: 5-1 (0-1) / Blitz: 4-2 / MASTERs: 3-3 / Turtles: 2-4 (1-0) / Outlaws: 2-4 (0-1) / French: 0-6
  
  
• African Elitism [FINISHED]:
  Tournament Winner: master of desaster (MASTERs)
  
  
  • African Elitism is finished.
  
  Standings ~ MASTERs: 5-1 / Lynx: 5-1 / French: 4-2 / Turtles: 3-3 (1-0) / Outlaws: 3-3 (0-1) / ONE!: 1-5 / Blitz: 0-6
  
  
• Phobia [FINISHED]:
  Tournament Winner: malakkan (ONE!)
  
  
  • Phobia is finished.
  
  Standings ~ ONE!: 5-1 / Outlaws: 4-2 (1-0) / MASTERs: 4-2 (0-1) / Blitz: 3-3 (1-0) / Turtles: 3-3 (0-1) / French: 1-5 (1-0) / Lynx: 1-5 (0-1)
  
  
• Strat ME [FINISHED]:
  Tournament Winner: #Master [QB] (MASTERs)
  
  
  • Strat ME is finished.
  
  Standings: MASTERs: 5-1 (1-0) / Outlaws: 5-1 (0-1) / ONE!: 4-2 / Turtles: 3-3 / Blitz: 2-4 (1-0) / Lynx: 2-4 (0-1) / French: 0-6
  

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Current Standings:

Position     Clan                 Points     Max Points      Change In Position
1st          MASTERs              190         193            =
2nd          ONE!                 138         155            =
3rd          Turtles              115         120            ▲▲ 
4th          Lynx                 115         118            ▼
5th          Outlaws              112         121            ▼          
6th          French               93          97             =
7th          Blitz                52          61             =

Masters (1) have an even week with a 1-1 record in FE netting them an increase of 4 points to their TP, but a decrease in 4 points to their MP ceiling. Masters have one more game left to play, against alexclusive of Lynx on VI.

ONE! (2) have a bad week, with PJ017 costing them 6 points (2 1v1 losses) off of their MP ceiling. They subsequently have a net loss of 6 points. ONE! have a boatload of games left to play on FE (3), and a single match left on DRoR - against Outlaws.

Turtles (3) have a great week, with 2 3v3 EU wins giving them an increase of 10 to their TP, and, therefore, a net gain of 10 points. They have the same TP as Lynx, but a 2-point higher MP ceiling, which boosts them from 5th to 3rd place this week. Turtles have one more game left to play, against Blitz on DRoR.

Lynx (4) lose directly to Turtles and, as a result, get surpassed by them. They have a net loss of 5 points this week. Lynx have one more game left to play, against Master Jz of Masters on VI.

Outlaws (5) have a nice week, with a 2v2 and 1v1 win boosting their TP by 7 points. They have a subsequent net gain of 7 points. Outlaws have a 2v2 game left on FE against ONE! (not created yet) and a 3v3 game left on DRoR also against ONE!.

French (6) lose a 3v3 game against Turtles to have their MP ceiling fall by 5 points this week. French have one more game left to play, against ONE! (ongoing) on FE.

Blitz (7) have a 1v1 win and a 2v2 loss this week, which gives them a net loss of 1 point. Blitz have a 2v2 game left on FE against ONE! (ongoing) and a 3v3 game left on DRoR against Turtles.

I will be doing Clan-by-Clan MVPs along with the CL9 Overall MVP tomorrow. Or maybe not. Who knows. I don't.

Masters have tied Apex's record of 190 points in one CL season with that win on Final Earth!

Congrats and well deserved Masters!

Jz Vs Alexclusive will be very significant so..

No pressure.

How is that significant?

It's important to determine place 3 to 5.

How's it more important than the other 3 games still to be played by Turtles/Outlaws?

It's important for masters if we break the all time record or just tie it

Ah, that's your last game remaining. Gotcha.

Midway through typing the MVP post, I realized a lot of my statistics and summaries were based off of the current standings of Div A. Though none of the current ongoing games affect my view of who should become their respective clans' MVPs, I am using data that will likely be out-of-date in a few days. This makes me look stupider than I already am, so I am postponing the creation of the MVP post until after Division A is complete.

I already have my acceptance speech written down.

Two games left of CL! it will decide third to fifth place!

Edited 9/10/2017 20:35:42

2 Games left are Outlaws vs ONE on RoR and Final Earth..

If outlaws win last 2 games, They will finish 3rd ahead of turtles and lynx.

If they win just 1 game they will finish ahead of Lynx to finish 4th

and if Outlaws lose both games, They finish 5th.

Good luck then! :)

I don't think the last two games had ever such a big impact on the final results.

How is this still going?
But good luck Outlaws!

Edited 9/10/2017 21:09:21