BCL NEWS W20/20
We are certainly living strange times. DICE announced there will be only one update left and then Battlefield V is basically done. This hit the BF community big time. Some of the so far loyal teams have now abandoned the game and BCL, what is creating some additional challenges on the leagues.
Leagues
Both PS4 EU T8 and T5 leagues are moving forward. T8 is a bit ahead, since I had to hunt down several T5 results before moving to knockouts.
EU PS4 T8
Many of the teams who started the league have dropped out since. We had to do some manual adjustments, for the ones left in the league.
After all the adjustments it ended up in the situation, that there was only one knockout game left LaW vs. GV. The match was just played and it was tight and there was round wins on both sides. We had the luxury of having a proper caster aWildeTime to cast the match live.
The First Arras round looked like it’s gonna be an walk in the park for GV. They toon an early double and started draining the LaW tickets slow but steadily. GV was on a lead of 101-14 when LaW put in a new gear and capped all the flags. LaW managed to get a good momentum on the end of the round and they hung in there with just a few tickets for a long time. In the end the ticket difference was a bit too much and GV took the first round home with only 31 tickets left.
LaW’s good momentum continued to the second round of Arras and they took an early tripple, leading into almost 60 ticket lead after just 5 minutes of gameplay. GV managed to get their shit together and narrowed the LaW lead to only about 20 tickets or so, but in the end LaW managed to get it home with 28 tickets and even up the match to 1-1 after the two rounds in the Arras.
Moving into infantry heavy Devastation in thrilling 1-1 draw situation. Devastation started very evenly. No obvious edge on either team. LaW did have a bit of a lead the first half of the round, but through out the mid point GV started grinding the kills and kept a two cap all the way to the end.The first Devastation went to GV with clear numbers 64-0.
The second Devastation was an exhibition match for GV. They took the double A & B cap right from the get go and just kept LaW on C throughout the round. LaW did some good pushes and tried relentlessly on different lines, but GV didn’t have any of that and took it home with solid 126 ticket win.
So we have our Finalists: GV vs. BEGA. The date for the final is not set yet, but when it happens it will be a true thriller. Hoping to get mr WildeTime to cover the final too.
EU PS4 T5
The group phase is finally done. We were missing a lot of results but they are all settled now. It looks like the T5 has lost some teams too. The qualified teams for the Knockouts so far are
- XceeD Gaming [XcD]
- Vulcain Esport [FDA]
- BEGA ELITE [BEGA]
- PhalanX Competitive [pXc]
- We Are The LaW [LaW]
- M4L eSports [M4L]
- RuN eSports [RuN]
- eQual eSport [iQAL]
We would need to all attending teams submit their rosters to #t5-scqs1-roster channel on BCL Discord. Please do so, by the 22nd April, so we can start making the matchups. If there is no roster for a team we are assuming the team is out.
If all teams play, this is the plan
Depending on the attending teams this plan is subject to change.
