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This weekend saw more exciting matches for Throwdown tournaments, with both the Predator PUBG OCE Open Series and Rocket League OCE Championships heating up.
There were fewer matches in this week’s Rocket League OCE Championships, as the Chiefs took out the first competition against SYF Gaming in a 3-1 match.
This loss is no slight to SYF Gaming though, as Chiefs have only lost one game all season.
Next up, Order overcame Ground Zero Gaming, with some close matches in another 3-1 victory. Ground Zero may be trying their best but Order are finding their feet after their loss last week to Chiefs.
Rookie team Justice then found victory over Legacy Esports due to some supreme work, in particular by Isaac Grupe (Yeatzy) starting an incredible comeback for his team.
The last match of the day went to Tainted Minds, who’ve seen a stellar season and maintain their undefeated record after taking out Avant, whose only win was against Order back in Week 1.
If, however, you’re less into tiny rocket-powered cars playing soccer and more about gunplay, then PUBG might be the esport for you.
PUBG (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds) took the world by storm when it was released, breaking records for concurrent players. It’s the predecessor to Fortnite in many ways, but it has a more realistic slant.
Like Fortnite, it’s in the Battle Royale genre, which essentially means a large number of players (usually 100) are all dropped onto an island where they must find weapons in order to be the last man standing – think The Hunger Games in video game form.
In order to force interaction, a circle appears on the map, which gradually shrinks as the match goes on. Everything outside of this area will take damage and die, so this also keeps the matches from going on too long and weeds out players who are just trying to hide.
These games are often also played in a team, with squads dropping on the map together. In these cases, the last team remaining will claim victory but kills they obtain to get there also make up the points to decide their ultimate standings.
If you’ve heard of players trying to get a ‘chicken dinner’ that’s because the phrase ‘Winner, winner chicken dinner’ appears on the screen of the last team or player alive.
A broad part of the game’s appeal is the great sense of randomness. The weapons and scenarios will be different almost every time, which is why so many people find almost endless entertainment watching or playing over and over again.
The current Oceanic competition taking place is the Predator OCE Open Series, which lasts five weeks and sees squads competing for a share of the $15,000 prize pool. This weekend we saw Week 3 of the closed qualifiers, which means teams are already starting to pull ahead from the pack.
New Genesis took out Matches 2, 3, and 4. This saw them into the final Match 5, close to 800 points ahead of the next team down on the ladder, but they didn’t manage to secure the final win. New Genesis did, however, finish with an impressive overall kill count, 45, making them the talk of the week.
Kills are an important part of the final scoring, with Kanga Esports placing second overall thanks to their murderous prowess. Though the team only managed to place third on their best match, having 50 kills under their belt, pushed them ahead – proving there are more ways to secure victory than merely staying alive.
Though teams still have time to qualify for the finals, even those that don’t quite make it could be chosen as a wildcard based on their kill counts.
The finals will take place on Saturday, October 13, where the 16 top teams from the current stage plus two of those aforementioned wildcards will duke it out for the ultimate chicken dinner.