Game Report

Match info

Team1: Setti
Team2: MyrmidonI
Time: 2008-01-12 18.00 UTC
Place: Setti CSS server (css.setti.info:27015)

Result: Setti - MyrmidonI 3 - 27 (1 - 14, 2 - 13)

Preface

In the beginning

The first step towards the match was taken in September 2007. Team MyrmidonI had had more of their players playing at Setti CSS server. k1ller suggested very unofficial match between Setti and MyrmidonI.

The original idea was to organize match ad hoc style with one extra player on Setti team for handicap. At the time team MyrmidonI had busy schedule and there was only little time for the match. Eventually the match was pushed aside waiting for better times.

In December 2007 k1ller saw r0jer of MyrmidonI in-game and asked whether he was interested in the match. The match was pushed in motion again. After few days of negotiation the match date was set to January 12th at 18.00 UTC.

Preliminary preparation

Unlike the original idea of ad hoc game, the upcoming match was going to be played with official CEVO league lo3 settings and no handicaps.

The game had to be broadcast to large amount of spectators too. Because of the bad past experiences of SourceTV, the whole SourceTV system was going to be different this time. Usually when it’s not expected to have more than 250 spectators watching the game, it’s easy to use the CS:S server’s own SourceTV to broadcast the game. However, in the previous matches where there had been about 20-30 spectators, the spectators caused noticeable lag on the game server and the spectators also reported the SourceTV did not work well.

The new SourceTV setup was more like big professional league style. On the actual game server there was only one SourceTV, which was broadcasting the game for SourceTV relay. The relay proxy was running on its own process set to low priority. In a bigger game the relay proxy, or proxies, could’ve been completely on their own servers. This way the actual game server process was isolated from the load generated by the spectators.

Various lineups for Setti team

Setti team had trouble finding stable lineup for the match. Here are all the lineups from the original September 2007 lineup to the final day.

2007-09-05: k1ller, Ghost, Maksa, Perplexer, essim0n, Saatanantaja
2007-09-09: k1ller, Ghost, HellKid, Fakfeijs, essim0n, Saatanantaja
2007-12-25: k1ller, Ghost, Maksa, Fakfeijs, essim0n
2007-01-05: k1ller, Ghost, Michaellsland, Fakfeijs, essim0n
2007-01-06: k1ller, Ghost, Perplexer, Fakfeijs, Zeicko
2007-01-11: k1ller, Ghost, Toble, Zadick, andicks000n

Toble was already in 2007-01-06 lineup as backup member, so he took part in all the training sessions. Toble also created the tactics for the match.