Bloody hell that was close. It all started off quite nicely. I got the PA and dropped it off to our base, the medic amp the same, and the accelerator rune. Things couldn't be better. Quad was took straight away by pink, who railed!!!! 2 people as he left our base with it. Things we're set for a win. I'll give you my point from an attackers point of view. I started at the beginning to use the water route and lo and behold they didn't have anyone on the bfg. After abput the th attempt at their base I got the flag and made a run for it. Nobody followed me as pink took em out from behind. I thought to myself "I'm gonna cap here". I got to the rg area and heard the sounds of a bfg warming up. Please let it be ours I thought, I was proved wrong when I got gibbed into a million pieces. Ohh that was close stated Bluffy......u have no idea how close I was. Things after that took a turn for a worse for attackers. Somehow Cara(probably one of the best defenders I have ever seen) got the time accelrator and stayed inside their base. Another NL defender tried to control the bfg. Another one sat in the water below the quad.. Another defender sat outside their base.. That left to NL. Mrs paddock ran along the rg area leaving 1 nl roaming where required, usually in defence. So what happened...attack started to get murdered. I was having constant wars with the bfg guy, and being railed all over the place in the water. I tried using different routes, ie overland, but the buggers put a man in the corridor leading to their base. Things were'nt looking good. I usually got to their base but got hammered by cara due to my low health. Quad attacks didn't seem to be happening and TF started to panic. I then started getting messages.ie. We've gotta do a full rush....etc. I looked at the clock about 20 mins left. It looked like NL we're gonna go for a frag win...now that really gets to me. Then suddenly i got into their base after a bfg war by the bfg. I took cara out got the flag and ran for my life. Through the water, rails flying past me, up to midfield rg, it was clear, my god I'm gonna cap. Then suddenly our flag went...aaarrghh. I got into our base and two NL players we're there. I tried to run and bang...dead. Nooo came the reply from Bluffy. But then who picks up the flag...andy. Who was the hero next...natas as he fragged the flag carrier. A few breathless minutes and andy capped. Yes went the sighs of relief, you could almost see it, What happened next was amazing. I got to their base again and found their defence in disarray...bye...bye. Got the flag and ran like hell. All the way to my base being chased by NL defenders....all the way to our flag and capped. Get in there. As soon as I capped NLs falgw ent again as pink did his job...same way all the way to our base....3-0 to TF...about time. What did NL do then...did they attack, no they pulled more men back.....and that's how it stayed. Pinks and Bats suicide tactics proved the trick. Going in with only 100 health is a dangerous game, how the hell we managed to cap was unbelivable. Railing on our beach was magica. Defense held together well, with levi and andy both doing superb jobs, although according to levi they had little to do. That game was a milestone for TF. If we had lost we would have been kicking ourselves. NL quad control was different. They let us get the quad then when we we're attacking through water, they put two men in and railed/bfgd quad. A novel way of doing it.

The return leg should be a corker...we can go for a win or go for a frag win, but that's ages away....but I recon we go for a win...we'll see how league is at the time. PLAYED LADS - Bats

If we could get Leviathan and Andy tooled up and get them the amp we weren't likely to loose a cap, the whole match would depend on NLs tactics, if they went for a frag win with us going for caps we could be in trouble.

Game finally starts, I spot the amp has spawned in our base, and leave it for Andy, and what happens? bloody thing disappears before he can get it, I run of to get the powershield, running into resistance straight away, fortunately managed to win the timeaccel but someone beat me to the powershield, which proved hard to get all game, NL controlled it well. A few mins later and the red flag is taken, as it dosn't return for a few secs I know our attacker must be clear and head for the blue base to give cover, but not enough to prevent Bats getting a BFG up his arse as he starts his decent into the blue base.

Immediately the red flag is re-taken and thoughts of Christ there defence is weaker than I thought flash through my mind, Those hopes are soon dashed and other than a quick grab we fail to get a good grip on the red flag for what seemed an eternity.

Were NL going for a frag win? they sure had a good lead in that department, and our defence wasn't under too much pressure, but maybe that was credit to SKAR who railed like a demon to cover the Beach area.

It wasn't until the 25th minute amongst chatter about a mass BFG rush from [TF] that Bats managed to get back to our base with the red flag, only for the blue flag icon to go all grey Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Luckily I managed to frag the escaping flag carrier as they reached the 'beach' and return the flag, somewhere in between bats was fragged in our base but Andy picked up the loose flag and got the honour of the first cap.

No sooner had we got the first cap when Bats appeared with their flag again and got the cap he deserved only seconds earlier, amazingly Pink Porker immediatly grabbed a third to give us 3 caps inside 2 minutes, NL really paid the price for failing to recover defensively quick enough.

It stayed this way for the remainder of the game, I don't recall our own flag leaving its home again, and within the last 30 secs I find myself with the red flag racing back to base against the clock, only to get fragged by Mrs Paddock as I start my decent into our base. (I know how it feels now Bats)

Brilliant game to play in, I am sure NL are will be looking for revenge in the rematch.

MOTM - SKAR Gave us all a lesson in Railing. - Natas

Well it started off good, I spawned, ran like fuck only to see my beloved amp next to the HB, so just as I sprint to get it, the bast respawns which is why I took time out to tye 'shit' in at the con :) Despite that I tooled up as usual, flooded till I got a tech and was happy when Bats came hurtlin down the corridor and dropped me the doc. 5 seconds later and my amp was thrown infront of me, which I immediately picked up and dropped the doc for Levi. We had a few attacks comin in at start, well the odd bloke really, dunno how bad the attack was but it wasn't gettin into base much, soon as Bats got the flag I watched the Red flag symbol, prayin it wouldn't turn grey, 10 seconds later it did. Things got settled in and me and Levi were fine, Levi pokin his head up the passage, more so as the match went on, while I was happy in base wth my 50 rockets. Bit further into the game I started readin Incomin Quad messages from Skar, but with Levi at the corridor enterance, pullin back to be covered by a hail of amp'd rockets, not much got through. There was a point where a quad came crashing down the corridor, just as I had come out of flag rm from gettin armour, when I thought he was gonna slam a rocket right at me, but somehow he collided into Levi and killed him instead, so I was safe :) All in all it was pretty quiet, was a tad harder toward end as I think they started to rush a little, but I just ran off and hid in flag rm waitin for armour.

Highlight must have been when I saw Bats comin down the corridor with their flag, i think yes were gonna cap, only to see him blow up in my face with an NL straight behind him, I ran like fuck for that flag and thought that it had been returned, but I'd got it. I'd been supplied with a PS so I was ok, panicin like fuck, but ok. Then I heard the Flag taken sound and think shit again.. Luckily 10 seconds later Natas returned it and I managed to steel Bats' cap, to my great relief as NL had been winnin on frags, amazinly the other 2 caps followed in less than 1 minute, then I knew the game was ours :) - Andy

MOTM - SKAR