17 replies to this topic

[Nothar]

You guys deserve it! Wish you the best of luck guys and hope you can bring it home hard against EMP LOL <3 Australia's behind ya!

Edited by Nothar, 16 October 2016 - 12:01 PM.

[Jay Z]

Cheers mate!

[Terrorsdawn]

I salute you guys. It was an honor to have played against you in the MWOWC. Give them hell at the big show you got at least one Canadian rooting for ya, maybe 2 if my wife gets over all the time I spent on this tournament.

[Ace Selin]

Congrats fellow 228 Oceania dudes. Great work, well done.

[Navid A1]

Give'em hell 228.

I'll be at mechcon cheering you guys.

[Unendingmenace]

Well said Nothar. Congratulations 228! It's been a pleasure competing against you guys on the battlefield, I know it's certainly made us better pilots. Bring on Vancouver, I'll be rooting for you guys!

[1 21 Giggawatts]

Yep, congrats 228 OC!! You lad's are great champions for the OC region! Give em hell boys, you can doo eeet!

I would also like to congratulate ALL the other teams, well played! This whole experience has been lots of fun and thats down to the good bunch of folks in the OC teams!

Looking forward to MRBC now :-)

[General Solo]

Good Luck, go get em,

Edited by OZHomerOZ, 17 October 2016 - 12:50 AM.

[Rathnor1]

Congratulations JayZ and all the Wild Ones on a dominant win. Good luck in Vancouver, you have my support.

And a shout out to all the teams that played in the AP region, thanks for being such good sports and giving us some amazing matches.

Edited by Rathnor1, 17 October 2016 - 01:24 AM.

[mr bear]

Well done Jay Z and the rest of the Wild Ones. Well deserved. Do us proud ye?

Edited by mr bear, 17 October 2016 - 01:25 AM.

[justcallme A S H]

Congrats guys!

[Mr Pataks]

o7 glhf

[UnofficialOperator]

grats

[BanditB17]

Congrats! Well played! Was definitely a pleasure to watch this entire region play

[Wilthanan]

1BTC would like to add to the congratulations to the 228th, you've been an honorable foe. We would also like to tip our PPC's to OMC/SF for their epic efforts in the final. We would also like to acknowledge both teams and the work they have put in behind the scenes working with scrubs like us. To all of the other competing teams a hearty thank-you, you've all been great to drop against. AP region is a small but tight group of teams and I hope we continue to work closely together to push ourselves to improve. So we can stick it to the larger regions.

Good Luck in Vancouver 228, bring it home we are behind you.

See you all on the battlefield!!!!

Wil
1BTC

[ElCadaver]

Well played in the Mechcon. Just watched it.

[Alby1976au]

Well done guys.

Alby [OMC]

[Emdee]

Thanks guys, we were definitely outplayed and outgunned. Both EMP and EON played flawless and made no mistakes whereas we made mistakes, some of them massive.

Nerves were a very big thing and having next to no time on zero ping definitely worked against us as well. We've found there's a ton of subtle things you get used to in Oceanic which are completely different in a local ping scenario. Vertical HSR is the biggest problem, jumpjet calculations are server side, so in Oceanic when people poptart they "float" for a second before hitting the ground. In zero ping, the calculations are instant so the second the jumpjets stop the mech falls. This means that hitting poptarts requires a different mental calculation and caused a lot of our shots to miss what we would normally hit.

We've already suggested to PGI this information, incase of future tournaments and suggested giving Oceanic players access to PC's in advance to get used to this. As it was, 228 spent two days in our hotel room on garbage hotel wifi trying to do co-ordinated pub drops and practice scrims with huge packet loss - all while jetlagged and some of us seriously sick.

Definitely not our A game and definitely not our best match preparation. Our maneuver timing was also a bit out on the night.

All said and done, our last game we loaded up our favourite mechs and decided to YOLO into the enemy team, making sure that we went down in a blaze of glory with smiles on our faces playing the game that we all love.

An awesome opportunity for me and the team. PGI are wonderful people and great to hang out with socially. They treated us really really well and they were always happy to talk to everyone, regardless of how drunk they were. :-)

And George is a legend and a totally nice guy to talk to. My drink card went to a worthy place!