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EGFL 2005: The grand final

Summer is gone and the EGFL 2005 finals are here. Last year's champion Blood will fight it out against OurFreedom, a squad which recently formed and is a 1:4 underdog to Blood if we can believe EG forum predictions.

Blood surprised everybody by shutting up Silence, making them dissolve after Blood won both semi final games in the best-of-3 series in less than 1 hour combined. Game 1 was done in 32 minutes and those who expected a close game 2 or even a third game in the series were deeply disappointed. Blood brought it home by winning the second game in less than 26 minutes, even shorter than the first game.

Silence never got to unleash their full attack power and was constantly forced to defend, resulting in a quick loss for the squad that many expected to be the EGFL 2005 champs.

OurFreedom, on the other hand, was facing a completely different semi final series. Being caught off-guard by Mutiny in game 1 where Mut constantly flanked early, they never managed to recover from losing attack fast enough to be a threat to Mutiny attack who became better after about 60 mins into the game, but they were overall disappointing. None of the squads seemed to have the necessary means to beat the other team for a long time. Finally, Mutiny had the advantage of clearing home often enough to progress up to 80%. After choking once (even though they had a brick in key position before the long flagroom bombline), they finally took it with Dazz and Alcatraz taking out the enemy ships almost single-handedly. The final attack by OurFreedom did not cut it to make the series 1-0 in Mutiny's favour.

A video summary of game 1 can be found at SubSpace-Filefront. It is around 90 MB.

In Game 2, OurFreedom seemed to be better prepared for the defensive Mutiny squad and won the game in less than 40 minutes to force Mutiny to play a last semi final game.

Game 3 I didn't watch, in fact barely anybody played the whole time let alone spec the whole time which would probably have been equally boring. It took a whole 4 hours and ended with OurFreedom turning the Mutiny lead around to enter the finals against Blood.

Strange enough, OurFreedom has enough RisinBlood players to make up for the last season where there was no RisinBlood squad participating. To make it worse, Blood is still with the old roster from EGSC days so one cannot deny the feeling that it's "Blood vs. RB" yet again.

May the better squad win, to be decided this Saturday and Sunday...

How to legally play World of Warcraft for free...

So it looks like we found a flaw in Blizzard's charging.
A guild mate and me cancelled our WoW subscribtions some time ago and they both expired around the end of last month.

Now, we can still play for free on the official servers for the new patch as the test realms don't seem to be connected to the main billing center of World of Warcraft. The test realms also didn't pick up my new password when I tried to set a new one which supports this theory.

I am actually melting faces with my shadow priest PvP build as I write this... for free. I have 3 other lvl60 chars on the realm so I get enough diversity and action without all the grinding boredom which were reason enough for us to cancel our accounts.