Monday 20 February, 2006 The Last Pride Wins Taipei Challenge
The Last Pride, newly-crowned Guild Wars World Champions, played the winner of the Taiwan Regional Playoffs in the Taipei Challenge, which took place on the final day of the Guild Wars event. The Taiwan Regional Playoff Champion is a Hong Kong guild called Mission Impossible, already a fixture on the Guild Wars Ladder. The Last Pride claimed victory in the Taipei Challenge, but not without an impressive fight by the Taiwan Regional Winners. Congratulations to The Last Pride and to the Taiwan Regional Champion for a fine challenge match!
Saturday 18 February, 2006 Last Pride Wins Guild Wars World Championship!
The second match between defending champion War Machine and top rated guild EvIL began with EvIL having the home field advantage, and their selecting Warrior Isle for the map. War Machine split, sending one force with the Guild Thief out the side door up to EvIL’s back door. EvIL split, too, and attacked the back door of War Machine’s base. At 1:10, War Machine was already all the way up inside EvIL’s base, working on NPCs. At 1:20 they took down one Archer. At 1:35 they took down a second.
Saturday 18 February, 2006 Last Pride Wins Game #1 in Finals
The 1st game of the Guild Wars World Championship started with The Last Pride (EvIL) challenging the Korean Regional Champion, War Machine (WM). The map for the first game took place on the Frozen Isle map. At the start of the game, both teams pushed towards the Flag Stand. War Machine immediately did its normal 4 and 4 split, but EvIL’s entire team pushed towards the flags.
Saturday 18 February, 2006 Taiwan vs. Hong Kong in Exhibition Match
Teams from Taiwan and Hong Kong met in an exhibition match on stage at the Taipei Game Show. Both teams ran an IWAY build. Both teams headed directly to the center and there was an extended period of fighting, after which Hong Kong took the advantage.
Friday 17 February, 2006 Last Pride Wins Match #4
The second game took place on EvIL’s map; EvIL selected the Frozen Isle map to execute their split strategy. As the game started, iQ headed straight to the center and then pushed for some early NPC kills. iQ took down one Archer, and EviL fell back to fight.
Friday 17 February, 2006 EvIL Takes First Game
As the match began, both teams rushed towards the Flag Stand and started a direct assault. In a full out battle, The Last Pride (EvIL) took an early lead by killing two Idiot Savant (iQ) players at the 1 minute mark, and 2 more shortly later. iQ resurrected and dove right back into the fray. They tried some strong Gale locks but couldn’t get a kill.
Friday 17 February, 2006 War Machine Comeback in Close Match
At the beginning of the game, WM pushed into LuM’s base using the back door. LuM retreated back into their base using the front door, from which they had earlier exited, and surrounded WM and proceeded to kill three of four of them. After that both teams attacked the Flag Stand in the center and each inflicted heavy casualties on the other team.
Thursday 16 February, 2006 EviL Wins Match 2
The Valandor tried a risky move, splitting their team before 2 minutes had elapsed in the game. EviL responded by capitalizing on Val’s reduced numbers and pushed through the front door, forcing Val to regroup. EviL was able to beat them in a straight-up fight, and pushed through to victory at about the 8 minute mark.
Thursday 16 February, 2006 EviL Wins 1st Game
The Last Pride (EviL) won the first game of the Match 2 of the GWWC. It was a well-fought match, with a lot of back and forth and not a single death until the 13-minute mark.
At that point, EviL made a good push and dropped both of Val’s Monks. EviL then continued the push and killed a few of the NPC’s in Val’s base. Val ressed and pushed EviL out of the base, resulting in more combat just outside of Val’s base. EviL got a series of good kills, pushed into the base, and killed the Guild Lord at about the 22 minute mark.
Thursday 16 February, 2006 LuM Claims Victory in Match No. 1
After a short period between games for guild discussion of builds and strategy, both LuM and Te swapped out builds for the final game of Match No. 1. Te went with a spike build using a large number of Mesmers, and LuM was able to counter the build quickly. At 9:30, LuM took the victory, which moves them on to the next level of the competition, where they will face War Machine in Round 3, which takes place tomorrow.
