[b]#2 [color=purple]Techno Vikings[/color] (4-4-1)[/b] vs [b]#3 [color=brown] Killing Browns [/color](4-4-1) [/b]<br /><br />Regular Season Series: tied 1-1 <br /><br />Techno Vikings: Rus, Nostar, DrNoob and turSKA <br /><br />Killing Browns: Tai, Whiteboy, Madv, souler<br /><br />With both teams having regular season success in map17, this one might not be the clear cut victory for TKV as most people anticipate. While Nostar plays some stellar defense here, it&#039;s crucial for Rus/DrNoob to be even better on offense. TKV was successful with 2o on offense against EBL and there&#039;s no reason to think they&#039;ll do anything different. On the other end of the coin, the Browns played a 2d line-up mostly with occasional pushes. In order for the pushes to be effective against TKV, KGB will have to be very coordinated and also stay disciplined on D. If they can do that, they&#039;ll probably hold TKV to a very low scoring output with Tai and Whiteboy on D. However, they are asking a lot out of Madv to beat Nostar on D enough to give them a victory, so I think KGB&#039;s best approach here will be to play a bit more aggressive with Tai doing the push. Whiteboy&#039;s defense is good enough to withstand 2o here on occasion so long as Tai/Madv are damaging/making him aware of their position. If they can&#039;t manage to get a successful push, they&#039;ll have to hope for MadV to man up and play the absolute best game of the season to defeat Nostar&#039;s D. Even though KGB has a seemingly much stronger fragging team, I&#039;m not sure they&#039;ll be coordinated enough to pull it off. I like TKV here but in no way do I think it&#039;ll be easy. KGB is going to make it tough on them.<br /><br />TKV wins 1-0 and advances to the IDC Conference Finals<br /><br />[b]#1 [color=red]Berserker Packers[/color] (7-1-1)[/b] vs [b]#4 [color=hotpink]Sexual Panthers[/color] (3-4-2)[/b]<br /><br />Regular Season Series: BSK 1-0-1<br /><br />Berserker Packers: Jenova, DevastatioN, RottKing, RedShirt<br /><br />Sexual Panthers: HumanBones, Killingblair, MassVC, Reckless<br /><br />With the Pack&#039; being the only team to select a map not played in the regular season, this match-up will be much harder to predict. In the early season, BSK had their way with SXP but by the end of the season, they simply couldn&#039;t shake BSK off and ended the second match-up with a tie. The Panther&#039;s are a much better team now than what they were at the beginning of the season but in order for them to defeat the defending champion Packers, they&#039;re going to have to find a way to stop the IDL&#039;s leading flag runner, Jenova. That being said, they&#039;re going to have to also find a way to exploit the duo of DevastatioN and RottKing, a team that has looked somewhat invincible at times. However, SXP does have a few things going for them: they can frag at every position. This could be a huge advantage here if they can manage to slow down Jenova enough to get some flags on their end. With the map being what it is, it seems 2o might be SXP&#039;s best bet and I wouldn&#039;t be surprised to see BSK run more of a conventional map04 2d line-up to assure themselves of no defensive issues. If SXP can manage to muster some caps, they have a chance to win. Humanbones should probably run as Mass probably isn&#039;t going to be effective on offense here. If that is the case, Mass will have to D it up and play a great game to slow down Jenova. He&#039;s capable of doing it but it will be very hard. On the other end, if BSK goes 2d, then Bones and Blair will have to be well-coordinated to penetrate the defense of Rott and Dev. With some success, they could also help Mass on D by making Jenova slow down enough to help return a flag on occasion, making things chaotic for BSK. It&#039;ll be tough and SXP will have to play their best game of the season but with the old tandem of Blair and Bones, anything is possible. At the end of the day though, I just don&#039;t see them being able to produce enough on offense to get by the defending champs.<br /><br />Prediction: BSK wins in a grind-out match to advance to the Conference Finals<br /><br />[b]#2 [color=blue]Brokeback Cowboys[/color] (7-2)[/b] vs [b][color=teal]Fnordy Niners[/color] (5-4)[/b] <br /><br />Regular Season Series: BBC 2-0<br /><br />Brokeback Cowboys: Stallion, LordBritish (MVP), Xenaero, OurHero<br /><br />Fnordy Niners: Strangle, Mikehail, Collision, Devisin<br /><br />A rematch of week3 takes place on BBC&#039;s homefield - the same homefield where KNF suffered one of their worse losses of the season. The Niners will certainly have their work cut out for them as they try avoid repeating recent history here. In week 3, LB absolutely went off with 8 caps as they routed the Niners in two games. The one bright side for KNF to look on is that Collision had the most frags, giving the Niners something to possibly build off of. The only way I can see them slowing LB down is by playing a deep, campy defense. By doing so though, they&#039;ll be sacrificing mid and possibly the control over the blue armor which could play a significant role in the match-up. By doing that though, their hope will be on whether Xen is required to rush along side LB to get quality touches. If they can do that, they&#039;ll give mikehail an open middle to work with at times. It will be crucial for mike to control the blue armor and not give Stall a moment to catch his breath on D otherwise this could end in the same manner week3 ended in. The Niners haven&#039;t been intimidated by anybody all season and they&#039;ve had good defensive play at times, so it&#039;s not far-fetched to believe they could muster up a great defensive effort here. However, if LB and Xen can get quality touches and Stall can hold his own on D, this one will end fast. I really like the pedigree of BBC but this won&#039;t be a push-over match-up either. KNF will play better and won&#039;t make life easy on LB this time around and it&#039;s going to require a total team effort for them to get past the pesky Niners. In order for KNF to win though, it&#039;ll be crucial for mike to score some flags and make life miserable for Stall. And you know what, I think that&#039;s exactly what he&#039;ll do! I know, it&#039;s a very off-the-wall pick, but I just have this gut feeling that Strangle/Coll will play some amazing defense and shut down the MVP and co. while mike makes some heroic caps to seal one of the more memorable upsets in IDL history. That&#039;s right, you heard it here first. KNF will win in a shocking upset and send the Cowboys packing early!<br /><br />KNF wins 2-1 and advances to the Conference Finals<br /><br />