Battle of the Giants: Toxjq vs av3k

Upper Bracket Round 3: Johan "toxjq" Quick vs Maciej "av3k" Krzykowski.

The first match of this upper bracket quarter final was Monsoon. Av3k scored the first kill of the match after winning an LG fight for the Yellow Armor. Toxjq would quickly recover though with a quick kill off of his Rocket spawn and an early 3-1 lead. Toxjq would play a very passive defensive game with his lead, but it would catch up with him as avek caught him on the jump pad to LG where he would finish toxjq off with the shotgun. Av3k would follow up the the jump pad kill with a string of quick spawn kills and put himself right back into the game with a 1 frag deficit and 6 minutes to go. Toxjq's patient game would pay off in the long run though. His distant control of the rail spawn would stop Av3k from attacking with full force, allowing Toxjq to slowly pick away at Av3k's health and soon turn into a comfortable 12-6 lead with 3 mins remaining. Av3k would mount a small comeback late in the match, but the defensive rocket play of toxjq would secure him the 1st map victory 14-10.

Next was Av3k's map choice, Placebo Effect. Toxjq took advantage of an early RL spawn and surprised Av3k at the Red Armor to gain the 1st kill of the match. Shortly after, a well timed aggressive lightning gun attack from Av3k would catch Toxjq off guard and Av3k would jump out to an early 5-2 lead. Av3k's strong mix between defensive rail play and aggressive lg and plasma attacks seemed to catch Toxjq off guard. With five minutes left Toxjq was able to score and MG frag at the plasma spawn and score a few spawn kills with the LG, narrowing Av3k's lead to 23-10 but thats as close as he would get. Av3k finished off strong with his mixed aggressive playstyle and took the map 30-12 tying it up and leaving it to a deciding third map.

The third match came down to Phrantic. The match begun with a long rocket fight in the lower area of the map, which would result in a kill for toxjq and an early 2-0 lead. Toxjq started off the map with an effective passive control of the Upper Yellow Armor while keeping steady pressure on Red Armor with grenade spam. For the first ten minutes of the match, Av3k put on steady pressure to try to steal control of the upper Yellow Armor, but had no success giving up another 6 kills to toxjq. Av3k was finally able to break the upper control of Toxjq after getting Red Armor and attacking at a slower pace then usual, and trade off frags with him for the foll3wing two minutes. Toxjq's incredible rocket placement seemed to stun Av3k for the most part though, stopping Av3k's aggressive Lightning Gun play repeatedly. His impeccable rocket prediction allowed him to play the run-away game for the final two minutes to close out the map, and secure his place in the Upper Bracket Semifinals vs. Cooller.