The Amateur team wins the first match of CEVO Season 5 competitive play. CEVO offers some of the premier competition in the community and the team has been looking forward to playing this season.
Match Summary
Radium started out on defense after losing the knife round due to a 2v1 situation where the team allstar who goes by a different name everyday blocks  BigEasy which resulted in his horrific death. Radium's roster was fielded by BigEasy, Sammeh, Chub, Marian, and MFX. After preparing throughout the week we felt good about our chances against No Aim Gaming. On defense we had Marian and MFX running the B side defensive front with Sammeh and BigEasy handling our A bombsite coverage, rounding out the roster was Chub handling middle defensive duties.
This was the second match with the roster together in a live competition match so we're still trying to get our chemistry down together, however regardless of the positioning problems and little other things to work on we ended with a 7-5 lead going into halftime.
Switching to the harder side for the 2nd half Radium felt good about their chances to secure the win, after some pretty solid play by No Aim Gaming the team started getting a bit jittery, No Aim was able to grab 6 rounds to take the lead 11-10 over Radium the final 3 rounds ending in Radium's favor to tie the match 12-12 and send it to overtime.
Radium was hungry to start off the official season with a win and did just that by making a few small necessary adjustments, very nice play by Chub and Marian helped the team to victory.
Post Match Wrap
How did Radium prepare for the match?
We tried a mixture of different strategies throughout the week against various teams. Ultimately we decided on to combine the best aspects of each of those strats that we felt worked for our team and the skill set we have to work with.
What did you learn from the match?
We need to work on movement and positioning, we failed to capitalize on some 2v1 situations that could have allowed us to secure a more solid win.
What did you do well?
Calls were very good and at the right times, especially from our team scope Marian. The chatter was kept to a minimum which allowed us to focus on what areas to concentrate on attention on.
What surprised you most about the opposing team?
Their ability to capitalize on our miscues. Due to this they were able to secure 5 rounds in the first half on the harder side.
What did you do differently in overtime to secure the win?
We secured B alley with some impeccable play by Marian, this allowed the rest of the team to focus on the other zones and provide good support and cover for each other. We wanted the win and we fought together to secure it.
 
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