[b]Demonic Colts[/b] v.s [b]DooM Raiders[/b]<br /><br />Certainly a tale of two different stories from where we last left these two last season. However, DMC is coming off of a somewhat surprising victory whereas DMR is coming off of a disappointing tie. Nautilus is solid, Saber is good and they&#039;re going to need their 3rd (whoever it may be) to play some big-time minutes of they want any sort of chance to win this. I can see DMC playing an extremely aggressive style here to keep the pressure on in an attempt to slow down LB/Coll, but I&#039;m not sure it&#039;ll work. The issue with DMC throughout this season is finding someone to defend as all 3 of their starters make decent runners/mid. If DMC can play well and DMR undervalues this squad, we could be in for a really close series here. And at the same time, the duo of LB and Coll haven&#039;t looked all that great (although they&#039;ve only realistically ran with each other for one week) this season but I think this could be the week they both have big-time games as a combo. I look for this to be a 2 round series with DMC possibly playing a tight round, possibly even both. But I don&#039;t see them winning.<br /><br />DMR wins 2-0<br /><br />[b]Sexual Panther&#039;s[/b] vs [b]Spread Eagles[/b]<br /><br />A match-up of two of the top three in the WDC takes place as SPE is reeling off of a dismal performance against BSK while SXP got on track last week with a victory over a stellar KGB squad. The Nosturi addition seems to give this SXP team more firepower but with Bones living in Cali and Blair being a pinger to TT with Nosturi&#039;s Euro ping, this could be a team prone to strong fragging teams. SPE hasn&#039;t shown me that&#039;s what they are yet, they haven&#039;t really shown much of anything in terms of an identity. This is a big match that will have play-off implications and I would argue SPE needs this more for the sake of confidence than SXP does, although neither squad wants to fall to 1-2 with BBC starting out fast at 2-0. I can see SPE doing just enough to get by but I&#039;ve got a feeling telling me Blair will have a big-time game. If that happens, with Bones/Nosturi playing stellar, this could get ugly. I still think it&#039;ll be a close series and could go either way but unless SPE figures out their coordination (or currently through the first two weeks, a lack thereof) they aren&#039;t going to win. So with that said, I&#039;ll take SXP as I see them being a little more well put together currently. <br /><br />SXP wins 2-1<br /><br />[b]Fnordy Niners[/b] vs [b]Flag Steelers[/b]<br /><br />KNF got a gem in week one when Blair decided he was too cool to show for SXP. Last week, their biggest problem was vastly exposed: their lacking ability to frag. While FLS isn&#039;t a great fragging team themselves, they&#039;ve got Chew who could literally outfrag the entire KNF squad himself. I honestly think FLS will pull this one off but Legion and Mando need to play better. Chew can&#039;t do it all, someone needs to step up. Even then, I don&#039;t think it&#039;s required as Chew could possibly carry FLS to a victory over KNF by himself. I think that&#039;s what will happen. <br /><br />FLS wins 2-0<br /><br />[b]Techno Vikings[/b] vs [b]Broke Back Cowboys[/b]<br /><br />After having a disappointing opener, Rus redeemed himself with a monster game week2. While the talk for the first 2 weeks has been about teams like DMR and SUC, BBC flies under the radar as the only 2-0 team in the IDL. Stall is a monster fragger and Prime is playing fairly well as an all-purpose guy with madv running. While I think BBC is better than people may realize, I just don&#039;t know if they have the firepower to score on the Rus/X-Ray combo. turSKA is one of the most unappreciated players in the IDL with his high level play and with an aggressive Rus push, I definitely see it giving Stall problems. I think he&#039;ll slow TKV down but I don&#039;t see BBC having the firepower to score on TKV very often, if at all. That&#039;s why I like TKV in 2.<br /><br />TKV wins 2-0.<br /><br />[b]SuperChargers[/b] vs [b]Berserker Packers[/b]<br /><br />I think I may go ahead and call this my upset special of the week if there is one. SUC on paper is one of the top teams in the IDL but with Ralph not always around to practice, they sometimes tend to look a little confused. Rust and Xen frag well enough to overcome that with Ralph&#039;s great running. BSK showed last week that they won&#039;t be anybodies push-over and stunned the Spread Eagles but they&#039;ll have a much more daunting task this week. Gilga is a decent defender and I think a map like the classic map01 style provides, is a map Gilga can excel in defensively as he likes to play a bit more aggressively and attack flag runners. However, Clim could be up-to-bat on defense as well making a unique approach to this match. If Gilga spends time in mid and stays aggressive, I can really see BSK pulling this off. I love what Rust can do but they have to get more practice in if they want to be the team they think they can be. If SUC is well practiced though, this one will be a landslide victory for them. But I don&#039;t think they will be so I&#039;ll call the upset here and say BSK wins 2-1.<br /><br />BSK wins 2-1. 