The Wipeout HD Cup

[erich123]

SECOND ROUND MATCH VULTURE GROUP.

ERICH123 VS ZOTH OMMOG:

ERICH123 TRACKS:
MET FORWARD (ZOTH)
CP FORWARD (ZOTH)
SOL2 FORWARD )ZOTH)

ZOTH'S TRACKS:
MOA REV (ERICH)
CP REV (ERICH)
SEBENCO REV (ERICH)

ANULPHA PASS DEFAULT TRACK (ERICH)

ERICH 4- ZOTH 3.

My tracks was 10 rounds zoth 5 all phantom weps on

Thanks zoth for a great battle

[KGB]

Can anyone shed any light on Expitarius? JFthebestjan sent me a message a while ago that he hadn't been on line for a while. Has he said anything on the Arena?

Haven't been a good Raptor lately, sorry

[mic-dk]

ERICH 4- ZOTH 3.

Bloody good show winning each others tracks, and deciding it in the, well.. decider!

[Jav]

Haha yeah, that's remarkable!

[kanar]

no no kgb no worries, my bad, I'm far worse than you lol; contacted both of 'em, JF told me he was sick so he could be available so I contacted expi to check a few afternoon in order to meet him then well... We're friday lol. I'll contact 'em both tonight or tomorrow. They're both awesome pilots jeeeez. Really hope they could arrange their meeting asap. Can't imagine any fastpath there.

I'll update the whole stuff tomorrow, once again MAASSSSSIIIVVVE thanks for the reports here, thanks for the awesome show.

[Medusa]

Wow, awesome races nutcase and Woopzilla! Especially Anulpha Reverse and Metropia Reverse...very close!! (the AG-SYS matchup was nice to watch I must say)
And I echo the ^^ at Erich and Zoth's races...you two must have wondered what was going on! Wish you had vids too...or even better I wish HD had a built-in recorder on the PS3...*dream*

[OBH]

As far as I'm aware it's you, Spinninggenius, Woopzilla, nutcase, Peh-Hok, Bazzman, ACE-FLO, Shawnfrecle, jasmin-jade, Dark_Phantom_89 and that's about it.

Thank you kind sir! Good to see still plenty flying the flag!
KBG makes a good call with Peh-Hok too. A very fast and funny guy

Also congratulations to Woop and Erich.
Erich vs Zoth sounds like the greatest race yet!

[Zoth-Ommog]

They were great races with Erich truly, and the old pattern repeated itself once again. The tracks you feel comfortable with, are most likely to fail on you Like i said to Erich, i'm sad only because we met so early on the cup!

Good luck for everyone who advance to the next round!

[blackwiggle]

A result for Buzzard group.
Bombel2000- 4 beat Imre92 -3

I'm not sure what the story is with these races, or what the tracks/speed class ended up being, but as I understand it from various messages received between the two of them bombel2000 refused to race on Imre92's selected Fury tracks [Imre92 told me this] and also didn't want to race Phantom[Bombel2000 told me this], so Imre92 changed his selection, which I think is very gracious on his part, but just as equally given a unfair advantage to Bombel2000.
The results could of been quite different if Imre92 had raced his original chosen selections.

Kanar you might want to investigate with Imre92 about what occurred and if he feels he was disadvantaged [language barrier] , and if he wants a rematch, as if this is actually what happened then it's a HD CUP rule violation on Bombel2000's part as I see it.

[OBH]

You cant refuse someones choices Im confused a bit though. Did bobel refuse to race imre's traks and speed class, or was it imre asking for a different speed class?

I know a few people have changed their choices gracefully for the other player, and kudos to them, but you definitely shouldnt be forced to.

[Cyberio]

Finally i racedwith lolode1978
i lost.

After:

metropia forward rapier
modesto heights reverse flash
ubermall forward flash
vineta k reverse flash
combat zone syncopia 45
the amphiseum forward rapier

all weapons/br on, pa off

i lost 5-1. The only one i could win is the combat zone mode. the other ones were won by lolode1978 with 8-10 seconds. a really really great skill. very well played!

i enjoyed a lot playing this cup, and i look to get into another cup/league like this one.
see you later.

[Jav]

If he "refused" to race phantom races, it's him who should be disqualified because the opponent can choose whatever damn tracks and classes he likes.

[Challenger #001]

From what I can tell from the French WipEout pages, imre92 said that bombel refused to race the Fury tracks, so imre changed Modesto to Vineta, but he stood firm on getting to race his own tracks on Phantom. But the final race was Rapier at Sol 2 for some reason. :/

He said that he wasn't happy with having to do Flash, nor for the final races to be 'russian roulette' Rapier. He said he would prefer the final event to be Modesto, Chenghou or Sebenco Reverse, real pilots' circuits, on Phantom. Frankly, I don't blame him.

[amplificated]

Just played my Round 3 match with Aka-Sho. Was a GG, the phantom races in particular were quite close!

Amplificated vs Aka-Sho
Aka's tracks:
Metropia>, Phantom, Weapons On - Aka-Sho wins
Metropia<, Phantom, Weapons On - Amplificated wins
Talon's Junction>, Phantom, Weapons on - Amplificated wins

My tracks:
Tech De Ra>, Venom, Weapons off - Amplificated wins
Tech De Ra<, Venom, Green Race - Amplificated wins
Sol 2>, Venom, Weapons off - Amplificated wins

Amplificated wins, 5-1! Good races; I was worried about this one

Videos (of all 6 tracks this time! ) are incoming!
Edit: video links added. Here's the playlist.

[Aka-sho]

Round 3 Results

Amplificated vs Aka-sho
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Aka-sho Choice:

Metropia - Aka-sho
Metropia Reverse - Amplificated
Talon's junction - Amplificated

Phantom; 5 Lap; Weps On; BR On
_____________

Amplificated Choice:

Tech De Ra, Venom SR weapons Off - Amplificated
Tech De Ra Reverse, Venom SR Green Race - Amplificated
Sol2, Venom SR Weapons Off - Amplificated
______________

Result:

Amplificated [ 5 ] - Aka-sho [ 1 ]


Amplificated-san

You are so fast and great racer, I'm happy to race with you.
I will enjoy to watch your video

Arigatou-gozaimasita.

Aka-sho.

WipEout Japanese fan site admin.
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconVa.../7230/wipeout/

[amplificated]

added video links in my post above ^^

[blackwiggle]

I've just been reading Imre92's posts at Arena.

It's the first time I've read a full report, I had only just got snippets of what was happening between these two in PSN messages when trying to get them to race.

I had contacted Imre92 and he said he had been trying to get Bombel2000 to race of several occasions, but that he had told him he either needed more practice, been too tired or too stoned.

It's only when I sent Bombel2000 a ultimatum of race within 7 days or lose by default that they raced.

It appears each won their respective selections, Imre92's were all Phantom even if they weren't the Fury tracks he wanted to race on, so it's a moot point if he was disadvantaged.
And Bombel2000 won all his Flash speed selections.

It's why the final deciding race which should of been Rapier>Anulpha Forward was changed to Rapier>Sol 2 that is the question of rule breech.
I don't know, but if they both agreed then I see no problem.

From what I'm reading it seems that Imre92's stance is that he feels that the slower speeds should not be allowed in the Cup generally, and that a true test of a pilots skill should be measured at Phantom speed alone.
This especially in the 7th and deciding race, which he feels should be Phantom on either Sebenco,Chenghou or Ubermall.

So I'll leave the result as it is, as I see this more as Imre92's problem with the actual HD CUP format rather than a problem with an opponent.

[SaturnReturn]

Why wasn't he able to race Fury tracks? Did his opponent not have the Fury add-on?

[OBH]

I'd be surprised if he doesn't. You'd think if he didn't have fury he'd have mentioned that immediately?

I know that rules have been 'bent' already; many people have picked the same race type for all 3 choices, and in my own race accidently had Rapier>AP with no weapons, but Bombel2000 wanted Imre to change his track choices, speed class choices, and the default race?

Think I'll demand I can choose CP, CP, CP and default race CP in my next race if thats the case *sarcasm!*

[Aeroracer]

play your opponents choice tracks or hit the road..

ive played and lost crap tracks i never wanted to play but then my opponents played mine tracks and they probally never liked them either..

world cup is no place for one trick ponys..gotta be hot at everything or your down the road with tail between legs...