3 v 3 : Second half of those 1st round match ups

By Scoop Teale Ace Duck Reporter for the CPS Tribune?????

Incredibly Monday saw another manic and packed house in the Match Server and Vent was heaving once more! But lets concentrate on where I left of last time and the matches for Sunday and Monday evening:

Matches for Sunday:

20:00hrs The Distillery V The Long Shots

21:00hrs The Grumps with a Viral Twist V Smoke & Mirrors

Matches for Monday:

20:00hrs Celts Commando?s V Baywatch

21:00hrs The Unforgiven V Family Affair Almost

Okay all this is subject to change but as we speak right now the match?s are going ahead as planned and we have the 1st match on Sunday night to get underway at 20:00hrs and will see ?The Distillery? made up of Lawman, Reef and TerryFnc taking on ?The Long Shots? who consist of Destroyer, The Landlord and Angelheart, This is a match that could well be the closest of all the opening round match ups it looks on paper to be very evenly poised.
If I had to favour either team I would edge it just towards The Long Shots as when seeing them practice there was some outstanding long range shooting going down.

Final match on Sunday night gives us two teams led by previous winners of each of the first two competitions that were held, Dai Nasty and Dre1978.

?The Grumps with a Viral Twist? comprising Dai Nasty, Virus Queen and Ragman taking on ?Smoke & Mirrors? with Dre, Scouse and Welsh Wolf.
This will be another match up that could go either way, with Dre in rare form at the moment and coming of the back of the last doubles victory he is one of the more open and aggressive players within CPS and along with Angie ?The Queen of Nades? and Welsh Wolf who is taking part in his first match will be openly in No Holds Barred Mode. How on the other hand will Dai?s team deal with them is the question? There is plenty of experience within the team and VQ is no slouch when it comes to the throwing of ?The Wayward Nade? out in all good book shops shortly??????????.?.
This could well be a match of opposites and a match I am hoping to be able to get home for?.

We now have two matches scheduled for Monday night the first to go will be ?Celt?s Commando?s? Celtic, Butty and TNT against ?Baywatch? consisting of the trio of Bagmeup, Avarice and Ratface yes the Beauty and the Beasts match up! We have Celtic with his hardened warriors Butty and TNT up against the beautiful people from ?Baywatch? this could be a case of slowing down the Sheriff as best you can and my advice would be pick your spots and pick them off! As close up will be difficult to beat the Commando?s If the Hoff?s Ping is stable then this could be close he has been coming back into some real form lately and has been working hard on the Claw!!!!!!!!
Ratface is another member of the Dogz brigade and so there will be an element of unpredictability within the team. Bagmeup is a seasoned veteran and nothing much phases him. It will be interesting to see if Teamwork plays any part in this match.

The final match that was originally to be the first match on Saturday is going to be Private Parts, Dogz and Merciless up against Zodan, Kristofaa and Manta, now having seen Zodan and crew practice over the weekend and last night I would have to slightly favour them in this match up, although they lack team experience they were playing very high quality stuff in practice. The experience lies with ?The Unforgiven? in team play as Partsy and Merciless have competed in team games before and with the added family pressure of Dogz on Zodan and Kristofaa {How can you beat up on your old man!} it could be a key element to the match up. If Manta can keep the opening minutes settled then I predict a win for ?Family Affair {Almost}?

News of a change in teams has reached us and sadly the ?The Gallic Elf Prince? Has had to withdraw due to unforeseen circumstances, however he will be ably replaced by the "Spirit Walker" who is I believe Mark from the historic and ground breaking TCC/RMG and comes with a fearsome reputation.

News of a change in team name with the Spirit Killers being renamed back to The Long Shots.

Well all that remains to be seen now is will all the matches get under way as planned. It has been hard work for Owlie and Dai to coordinate times and 36 players is no easy feat so ?Nuff Respec? to you both??..

If there is any more news I can bring you in the build up to the matches, rest assured I will do, and if there is none then like all good Press Ducks I will make something up!!!!

This is Scoop Teale Ace Duck Reporter Signing off for the CPS Tribune?????..