Welcome to the forum thread preceding my glorious best of 11 victory against Rufus!

Wager
alexclusive wins: Rufus has to change his tagline to whatever text alexclusive picks for one year (excluding only text that might get Rufus chat banned)

Rufus wins: alexclusive has to share a photo of him wearing Masters underwear on his head in the community (which, as per me, isn’t even a punishment)

Templates
[In brackets: Player who picked it]

Game 1: Australia (alexclusive)
Game 2: Turkey LD (Rufus)
Game 3: Discovery (alexclusive)
Game 4: Unicorn Island (Rufus)
Game 5: Greece LD (alexclusive)
Game 6: Great Lakes (Rufus)
Game 7: Yorkshire Brawl (alexclusive)
Game 8: Numenor (Rufus)
Game 9: French Brawl (alexclusive)
Game 10: Volcano Island (Rufus)
Game 11: Randomized Strat ME (alexclusive)

We picked in succession, any MTL templates neither of the players had vetoed were permitted.

Kenny
Kenny announced to live stream game analyses, details will follow!

Make your bets in this thread and enjoy the fight!

Regards,
CONSEQUENCER

Game 1: Australia

https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=36049267

Pro tip: For better overview of the match, change Rufus's colour to Deep Pink!

Rufus 6, Alexclusive 2.

Rufus winning: Australia, Discovery, Greece, Great Lakes, Yorkshine and Numenor

Fun one!

Looking forward to it :)

Marcus Aurelius clears both.

Rufus looks good in a deep pink! Fun stuff

#i believe in Marcus

I bet on Marcus Aurelius

Hey guys, I'll be doing a hype stream at some point this weekend, probably on Sunday night (CST), I'm not sure what time you guys want so let me know.

If you have guest commentators you want me to reach out to, or if you want to guest commentate DM me here/on discord/or post here.

I'll probably let them get 2 games ahead before actually reviewing games, and I'll set stream dates to try to keep pace with them.

I would like to request rakleader and Forsaken as guest commentators

Edited 11/4/2023 03:22:27

Rufus takes the lead with a beautiful win on Australia. Make sure to check the chat when analysing the match!

--- Standings ---
alexclusive 0-1 Rufus
Upcoming: Turkey LD

Game 2: Turkey LD

https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=36068492

very interesting australia game. I love this template for the difficulty of choosing +1's. Just overall very different and interesting with picks

My qualified and informed takes on the challenge:

• 1. Someone must choose a different color for spectator engagements. I am sorry alex but all colors with patterns must go and I don't know how you stay sane with that.
  
  
• 2. I think the wagers are uneven, I'm sorry Rufus but I suppose you will also have to change your name back to Sun sun sun ! ✹ if you lose.
  
  
• 3. My tip to alex: Stall your games to the 3 day mark frequently and make sure to join games slowly. It will drive Rufus crazy.
  
  
• 4. My tip to Rufus: Look into some guides such as the MH guide and apply strategies such as clusterpicking or coverage picking. Consider that varying templates may need varying strategies.
  
  
• 5. My bet is 6-4 for alex, clinching the match victory with a completed volcano bonus.
  

Edited 11/4/2023 09:23:53

And never forget the honey comb

Edited 11/4/2023 09:46:18

Thank you for the tip Beep, but I am already reading the MH strategy guide every night before sleep.

Beep, you are the best xD

Actually, regarding "my tip to alex": Rufus saw me committing after 7 minutes on Turkey, rose up to the occasion and recommended me to think about my picks longer, which peaked in an extended bilateral discussion about the forcedness of LD games (and me taking 10 minutes longer to commit the very same picks).

I’ve decided that while watching these games I will only watch them with alexclusive in hot pink to match the python logo.

The (precisely) matching colour is Mardi Gras. When I designed the Python logo draft, I used the colour code of the ingame colour Mardi Gras so that it would look nice next to the colour I used back then.

Yeah it’s sounding like hot pink to me (I’ll use Mardi Gras if I can)

--- Standings ---
alexclusive 0-2 Rufus
Upcoming: Discovery