Championship Gaming Series Season 2: Friday, June 20 report

3D.NY vs. Dallas Venom

Friday’s competition began with a FIFA 08 match between Dallas’s Barmoa and New York’s WiZaKor. Both players remained tied in the first half until WiZaKor scored an extra goal. Additional points eluded the players in the second half. As a result WiZaKor walked away with a 2-1 victory.

Initially it looked like New York would follow its FIFA 08 win with a victory in Forza 2. Dark Storm rocketed into the lead on the first lap. The race nevertheless stayed close. Dallas’s team eventually knocked Dark Storm out of the lead. This vehicular trauma caused the New York racer to finish fourth. Fortunately for New York, its other racer ComeBackDan sped into first place. Ultimately New York came out two points ahead, 4-2   New York’s winning streak would continue in Dead or Alive 4 (DOA4) female as Coolsvilla soundly defeated Phoenix, 5-0 on the DWA Coliseum stage.

These victories culiminated into New York’s 11-4 overall lead going into Counter-Strike: Source (CS:S). Dallas would need a extremely strong showing to have a shot at victory. This desire came to frutition as Dallas overwhelmed New York in the first half as the counter-terrorists, winning 7-2. Dallas barely lost the second half as the terrorists, 5-4. Nevertheless Dallas won the match with its overall score of 11-7.Despite Dallas’s CS:S comeback, New York still held the lead, 19-14, going into DOA4 male. Dallas’s undefeated player Master needed to score 5-0 to tie the game. Cheppelle ended these hopes by beating Master in the first round. Master went on to beat Cheppelle, 5-2, but New York won the overall match, 20-19.

San Francisco Optx vs. Carolina Core

Another close Forza 2 race opened the second franchise match. The four players remained close the entire race, until Carolina’s Phantom pulled in front to win first place. San Francisco’s Miximup and Sackamonjaro then followed, bringing the starting score to 4-3 in Carolina’s favor.

San Francisco came back in the first round of CS:S by scoring 7-2 as the counter-terrorists on the map de_inferno. This fortune did not translate into the second half as Carolina dominated, 8-1.  This brought the overall score to 10-8 in favor of Carolina.

With the score at 14-11, San Francisco still had three opportunities left to take the lead. The franchise made slight progress after Stermy led it to a 2-1 victory over Anomaly in FIFA 08. Things began looking even brighter for San Francisco after DOA4 male. Although Carolina’s OffbeatNinja won the first round,  NinjaCW showed why he is the second highest ranked player in the league and defeated him, 5-1.

San Francisco held the lead for the first time in the match.  Carolina would need a 5-2 victory to win outright. This would be easier said than done for Carolina’s player Mystik considering she had to face Vanessa, San Francisco’s up until recently undefeated DOA4 female. Mystik pulled out the stops and won the first three rounds of the match. Vanessa began to come back in later rounds and eventually triumphed with a narrow 5-4 over Mystik. This gave San Francisco a much needed 23-20 victory. The team moved up to third place while Carolina is now tied with the Chicago Chimera in fourth.