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My name is Trevor “qu1k_sh0t” Henry, clan leader and captain for =BFB= and the laRd team, this is the third part of the MPLD competition that took place over the weekend of 5 – 7 September 2009!

As a sponsored player with one of the strongest teams in Call of Duty 4 Online in South Africa, I took some new Logitech peripherals to a monthly LAN in Pretoria. Part 1 introduces this small series and why I am here. Part 2 looks at a few of the games and this the final part, is a small testament to the Grand Final between team xP and team sG.

A brief recap of the tournament so far, shows that =BFB= Trevor “qu1k_sh0t” Henry and =BFB= Andrew “xiR” Harper competed alongside 3 other gamers against some of Joburgs strongest teams! Coming out undefeated so far, xiR’s Pimps had made it to the Grand Final of the tournament. With no losses to their name, in order for sG to win, they would need to beat xP twice!
As sG were coming from the lower brackets, they had just defeated sKy Gaming in a close 13 – 10 game. sG got the choice to choose map first. The map that was decided was mp_crossfire a map that sG favoured as it is extremely fast paced. xP started off on the slightly more difficult side, defending first. It was apparent from the get go that xP was going to have an uphill battle. Round for round it went down to the wire and after an intense first half. On the more difficult side managing a score of 4 -8. xP now had the task of attacking, however being a mixed team on attack, they lacked the co-ordination to take advantage of the map balance to attack. After putting up a valiant fight, sG won 13 – 8 on the first map.

As the format was double elimination this meant the map choice of xP would be the final decider! The winner of mp_crash would be the victor of the MPLD COD4 Tournament! As the game started out once again xP found themselves on the slightly more difficult side of attack. Trading rounds back and forth xP grabbed a few then sG grabbed a few! The pressure was rising however xP maintained an almost level score! On a map that favours defence xiR and his Pimp’s managed a score of 5 – 7. Once again setting themselves up for an easy win in the second half!

Synergy Gaming however, had another thing in story for the xP team. They rushed A bomb site, the whole sG team pushed together shutting down the xP players time after time after time. With the score teetering closer and closer to the a win for sG disaster struck. The sG sniper’s pc over heated. So a time out was called, 10 minutes to allow the PC to cool down and continue the game with both teams at full strength. During this break xP did some shuffling, swapping out weapons, positions and strategy! And as the game came back to a live final, it was one way to the finish line.

xP seemed to have found some vigour that they did not have previously winning round after round, with some exceptional play from the Special Ops Class of Donovan “CaPunT” Gairns. Winning 2 crucial rounds alone against 2 sG players! It seemed losing the momentum lost sG the game. As the game drew to a close at 13 – 10, sG did not take another round! xiR’s Pimp’s was crowned champions once more, and from 3 appearances having 3 wins. xP pulled a game back from the brink of loss and Synergy Gaming was bitterly disappointed. However they walked away knowing they played well!

xP Champions Once more!

The team played consistently well throughout the tournament and emerged victorious! The full tournament breakdown can be found here.

Personally the biggest achievement for me, was using all new equipment, the new Logitech G13, the Logitech G9x mouse and the Logitech G35 headset. And with no time to adjust the products performed flawlessly. Allowing me to reach the end goal of winning with my fellow team mates! I will run a thorough in depth look at each of the products used throughout the weekend and give some feedback on pricing and availability coming up to rAge 2009!

Don’t forget that Incredible Connection will be at rAge this year. And we are bringing some Incredible products at even better prices! Stay tuned to find out more!