I'm gonna post my most memorable matches from each season, maybe not necessarily favorites. A few losses in here. This isn't an exhaustive list, I liked many more matches than this.
Season 1 - Wildcard Playoffs - vs StarDust Crusaders
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My last time playing with RottKing. We won in 4 rounds on SDC's homefield in a nearly 40 minute game. Back then, it was one map every single round. We won the first round, then lost 5-0 in the second. From then on, we took control and chipped away at them. Starrk played a great defense. Unfortunately we went on and lost to ADD in the finals, but that was a fun season in the WDL's infancy.
Season 2 - Week 4 - vs Giant Pea Shooters
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This was a hard pick. Our starters this season were mostly me, Bones, and Perro. Tony was also on our squad but didn't play a ton. It was Bones' first season in the league after the IDL ended. In week 1, we smacked the shit out of Water and his brother but my favorite match was actually against rookie captain Stab, WDL rookie Jwarrier, and Legion on map31. I remember a lot of trash talk and we were able to narrowly beat them in two rounds which put them out of the playoffs. We got bounced too but, yea, suck it boys.
Season 3 - Wildcard Playoffs - vs Giant Pea Shooters
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Hey, another game against Stab. This is one of the best games in WDL history. If there was ever a list, this is on it. We smashed GPS early in the season on our homefield, but they actually figure out a strategy and steal a round from us to start the game. We lose the game in 6 rounds in a game that lasted 57:22. There were a lot of ups and downs in this game on both sides and it's one of the games that I remember most. I was also proud of Stab for finally sticking it to me after I beat his ass in the prior two meetings. Bones and Starrk were a fun team to play with - this was also the season where Dranzer started to make a case to start.
Season 4 - Week 3 - vs Overrated ScumWads
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Hey, this wasn't the most exciting game ever. We played against Alpha's squad of TurSKA and Xenaero. This was a team where I managed to draft Blair and Tony and every single thing clicked this week. We practiced a very specific offense and we put it down hard on a very good team of fraggers. In round 2 we ran the offense we had hid most of the week and won in about 5 minutes with two scores in the first minute. Not great for spectators, but great for our team.
Season 5 - Week 3 - vs The Dream Team
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I thought I had a good draft this season with Caution and Tony - but we didn't do shit. I think it's the only time I've ever missed the playoffs in a full season. Alpha didn't end up making it to this game, I was out at a party with Tony and Tony had to play drunk. DemonSphere, turSKA, and dingdang whooped our ass. Probably the worst loss I've ever been a part of. Sad!
Season 6 - Week 5 - vs Super Dank Memes
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The season of the live, in-person draft. A lot of fun. Starrk was captain of SDM with Caution and Xenaero and I had traded to have a team of Blair and Tony again. In the final week of the season, a lot of playoff hopes were on the line. I was able to score in the 3rd round with 17 seconds left on the clock to push us into the win column and cost SDM a point. Because they lost that point, they went from making the playoffs to being ELIMINATED. Hell yeah. Sorry boys. We went on to lose the next week to DS and TDT, but it was a great end to the regular season.
Season 7 - Wildcard Playoffs - vs Regulators
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Not my favorite game ever, but the most memorable from this season for me. I drafted Dranzer as the main piece on my squad and he delivered. We had used Hopes and Dosu throughout the season and they did well, but we were going to start Hopes in the playoffs against the Regulators. Anyway, Hopes no-showed me and Dranzer because the concept of an alarm is foreign to him even though we talked about the game time like 20 times the night before. We signed dastan from free agency that morning and played our playoff game and lost. However, considering we never played with Dastan prior to this game, we still won a round once we got rolling. Dranzer played like a beast and Dastan showed that he's the real deal. Hopes never apologized despite having some sort of excuse.
Season 8 - Semi-Final Playoffs - vs Techno Vikings
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A hard fought game that we should've win, but we came up short. Our team was me, Jwarrier, Souler, and SkullRush. I started all 4 players because SkullRush earned his chance to play a meaningful game with his work earlier in the season. We picked Souler up in week 4. Caution, Zakken, and Infer played great and we had them against the ropes, but Caution made the most clutch play of his career and scored with 2 seconds remaining in round 3 to tilt the round count to 2-1. Had he not done that, we would've had a much higher likelihood of winning. Props to him. Anyway, we lost and that sucked but TKV was a great team and they went on to be the only team outside of #1 to win the title.
