[x5.Crescendo]

On Monday, Team Exile5 faced Team Ascension's academy roster TAcomp for the first week of DuSt League.

x5 are pleased to announce a victory, with the following results:

MetalCore < Nesnow (Map: Coda)
chankim > Nesnow (Map: Terraform)
chankim > Schnitzel (Map: Moonlight Madness)
chankim > Lingsanity (Map: Iron Fortress)
chankim > Nistic (Map: Bridgehead)

Metalcore, given his strong showing in the Fight for the Flight #2, was sent out first but was regrettably unable to overcome his opponent on this occasion.

Exile5 sent out chankim next - with space for another academy member to take a shot at glory if Chan fell - while Tileä held herself in reserve as the team ace.

It turned out, however, that Chan was all it took to secure the win: after a nervous start, evidenced by some forgotten upgrades, he nonetheless took apart his Terran opponent with a strong display of the ling/bane/mutalisk style. With the momentum gained from that first win he proceeded to all-kill TAcomp.

With the team's first win on the board, Exile5 have set ourselves up for a strong season.

Our thanks to DuSt Gaming for creating this event, and giving our players a chance to shine!


Current standings can be found at the DuSt League website here: http://www.dustleague.net/


After the event, I asked the players involved in playing/organising the first match their thoughts:


===x5 Metalcore===

How did you find your first showing in the DuSt League, and what did you learn from the game?

MetalCore: It wasn't what I hoped for. Recently I have been focused on my tvz and tvp specifically for ACL Melbourne so getting a tvt as the opening match, against a GM no less, was more than I was capable of beating. It just showed me what I have to improve on but that's for another day

Next event, what map and matchup would you hope for if given the choice?

MetalCore: Give me TvZ/TvP on Coda or Terraform and I'll kick butt and take names


===x5 chankim===

Chan, in your first showing for Exile5, you achieved an all-kill of Team Ascension's academy in the DuSt League. First of all, well played!
How did it feel to get the all-kill?

Chan Kim: It was pretty cool since I've never done something like that before, and I had no confidence going into my games

Speaking of the games, which did you enjoy the most, and what happened in it?

Chan Kim: My game on moonlight madness vs Schnitzel, I feel like everything went really smoothly for me that game. I skipped speed and went for a fast muta build, and my opponent did a 4 hellion runby which I defended with slow lings and only lost 1 drone. Then I flew across the map with my mutas after killing a banshee and killed a bunch of scvs, did a roach switch then won the game.

With a lot of teams present in the DuSt league, are there any specifically that our team will need to be particularly wary of, in terms of roster strength?

Chan Kim: PSISTORM and Flipsid3 seem pretty strong.

Are there any players you are hoping you will get to take on in a future series?

Chan Kim: Not really, I don't have a rivalry against anyone in those teams or anything so it doesn't matter to me who I play as long as I'm able to win

And this time around you won with style! Thank you, Chan!


===x5 Tileä===

As you were the team captain for the series against TAcomp, Tileä, first of all thank you for taking care of the logistics and keeping things organised.

You also streamed and observed the games as the series played out: I'd like to ask which game impressed you the most - what happened in it?

Tileä: No problem! I enjoy being part of organised events, so it was my pleasure.

The game which was most impressive to me from a personal perspective was Chan's game against Nesnow on Terraform (g2). It was a pretty standard macro game where Chan just damaged his opponent's economy for a while before winning with a superior army/economy. However, Chan has issues performing well while people are watching him play so I think that game was a good first step in getting over that problem and becoming a better/more rounded player.

The most impressive game to me from a mechanical perspective was Chan's game against Schnitzel (g3) where he executed a strong muta into roach timing against mech. I think it was the game where Chan played the most smoothly / was least affected by nerves.

With a lot of teams present in the DuSt league, are there any specifically that our team will need to be particularly wary of, in terms of roster strength?

Tileä: I think we definitely got placed into the easier of the two divisions. I'm not very familiar with the current state of the NA scene so I may undervalue some teams. With the little I know I think the main teams in our division we'll need to be concerned about are BrawL eSports and Complexity, in the other division there is also PSISTORM Gaming, Flipsid3 Tactics, TAPro, and Team Gravity.

Are there any players you are hoping you will get a chance to personally go up against in a future series?

Tileä: No. I've been out of the scene long enough that I don't have any strong friendships/rivalries that I hope to continue. With that said many of my old teammates/friends are playing on team JimJims in the other division (I was planning to play with them until I joined Exile5 instead) and I think getting a chance to play them in the playoffs would be neat.


===Final Thoughts===

I think it's fair to say that we can anticipate a strong x5 showing in the DuSt League, and the other team leagues x5 shall be participating in!

The team's next DuSt League match is on Monday, 24 August, where x5 will be taking on DuSt Gaming themselves - a team which boasts two strong Terran players particularly well known to us here in SEA for their results: PSiArc and Spear.

GLHF All!

[Philosopher]

oh next monday sounds like a super aweosme game...hopefully I can catch it while at Uni.

Good job to x5, looks like the pick up by Chankim is paying off already. Can't wait to see Tils play soon o/.

[asdfSchnitzel]

wtf i didn't lose to chenkim what is this sorcery

Quick Comments

syfChadMann:

I think they are talking about the good American Terran, Schnitzel. >.<