A little story about the Pev’s PTS Ice Breaker Tourney

So today was the first RC and RC Rev tourney of the year. The day started early for everybody, myself more so then others due to my working the night before and not getting to sleep till around 2am. The Cville crew left Cville at around 6am for the ride up to Pev’s and got there around 8am. RC Rev arrived a short time later and the teams readied for a day of intense match-ups.

After the captains meeting and the field walking, the teams took the field. Both RC and RC Rev were playing the open class division, which consisted of 12 team’s total. The division was uncapped PSP mode (12.5 BPS vs. our pumps) and featured several Pev’s teams and other Pev’s locals. The field was a little bigger then a normal 3-man field with a dominate snake side. However if you played the so-called d-side right, you could destroy, but mainly the games were decided by who won the snake side or at least it was that way till the finals. One new thing
that was going in place for this event was points didn’t matter, you needed to win and do it quick. The top four teams would move on based on the best winning times average.

RC Rev had the first game and despite making all the bunkers, ended up losing. The next game was an RC game and we had a clean break-out and managed to get a K, but despite everything we loss or so we thought. After the other team hung the flag, they were assed two penalties, one for a hot gun (335FPS, and 314FPS) and a ramping gun penalty (20.5BPS). All said and done, they didn’t have enough bodies left after the penalties were left and we wound up getting the win by default, which gave us a pull, hang and a maximum time win. The next games went by with RC Rev fighting hard, but coming up short. RC on the other hand was 7-0, but that would soon
change. Despite winning against several top teams, we were dealt out first loss by The Flying Biebers (PEV’s/Justice Kids). We were then dealt a second loss by Desolution (aka Justice Kidz), however we turned it back around and we won our last two games.

The last game for both the RC rev and the Rockin Cocks was a pump vs. pump battle. Each team had seen each other play all day and knew all the breakouts for everyone. The game started with clean breaks on both sides. However RC got a K and another after I got into the snake and then Amish and I ran down Scott who was trying to hold down the back center. This double team move could have gone bad, but luckily my paint missed Amish. After the game was over RC was 9-2 and was the 2nd place team going into the semis. RC Rev wound up going 2-9 3-8 for the day.

The semi-finals placed RC against Desolution in a best 2 out of 3. The first game was nowhere near close as Desolution burned all 3 of us off the break, but we had a new breakout for the finals. The game started with all teams making their bunkers and some paint flying back and forth for a few seconds. However we got a K and I got into the snake and the game ended a few seconds after that. Game 2 went Desolution and it was down to a game 3 decision to see who was playing for first. The breakouts were even again, however Desolution seemed to forget about me and I managed to get in the snake again. I crawled down the snake and came up on their side, from I managed to shoot all 3 Desolution players and RC was headed to the finals with a score of 2-1.

The finals were interesting as the number 1 team going into the finals The Flying Biebers lost to the 4th place team Relentless Attack. Both teams were underdogs and everyone was surprised to see a pump team playing for 1st and 2nd in a Open Class Tourney. The first game went quick to Relentless Attack and the second game was the same. We got a early K in game two, however they shot O as he moved out two the corner and then proceeded to split the field and eventually pulled it out for the win. All said and done RC had taken 2nd place overall in the first PTS of the year.

In the end both teams played well. The reffing was great and big shout out to DC Illuminati for the job they did. The field was amazing as always and the event ran very smooth and on time. The paint in combination with are new Stiffi barrel’s was excellent. Hopefully this was a sign of things to come and both teams are looking forward to our trip to New Jersey for the first event of the ECPPL.

Chrispy