The round started as usual. Damonte lead a squad of mostly 3rd SFD with ReaperAssault, GlobalWarmin, AugustusGloop, Lyramion and Sc1ence on the EU team. On the other side was the formidable 9th MID. ZWood15, Pfeil2281, DaddOfThree, Heavy<313>, Ven=2142, nuckj, spiff913 and BZ55. Oh yes, and Cymba from the 4th was on the PAC team as well.

The round started out slow with the 3rd squad taking a leisurely start. Running a buggy around the south side via the out of bounds route, Damonte arrived at Eastern Docks to find it completely empty. It was quickly captured. However, the 9th had done almost the very same in mirror and captured Junkyard. Power Station fell to the PAC team as well.

For fifteen minutes the rest of the EU team was unable to dislodge the invaders from Junkyard while the 3rd held onto Eastern Docks against very light attacks. Seeing that the EU team was down about 25 tickets, Damonte decided to move west over the boat and flank the 9th from the rear. While en route, he received information from the commander that Power Station was very lightly defended. His squad was quickly redirected to move on Power Station and the flag was captured. Naturally, Eastern Docks fell without any defenders.

Augustus Gloop procured a buggy and Damonte and Sc1ence raced around to Eastern Docks, leaving a fireteam of Lyramion and ReaperAssault to defend Power Station. With the help of GlobalWarmin who spawned in, Eastern Docks was retaken. At this point, EU was now down by about 30 tickets.

Seeing that Junkyard had never been removed from PAC hands and that the score was somewhere around 60-90 in favor of the PAC, Damonte gave the order. Abandon Eastern Docks and move on Junkyard. Over the boat again they went. The 9th was caught between the attackers from the EU UCB and the 3rd squad. Junkyard was quickly recaptured.

Not content to rest on this small victory, Damonte ordered a double-time run back across the boat to recapture Eastern Docks. Stuff resistance was encountered and the 3rd squad went down. Revives were traded as the squad struggled valiantly against the rocket and LMG fire. When all seemed lost, GlobalWarmin came out of nowhere to revive the SL and allow the 3rd squad to maintain their advanced position.

Pressing in close to the flag, the 3rd squad was able to recapture the Eastern docks flag with assistance from another EU squad that had come up from the south. After clearing out the remaining defenders, Damonte observed the score was 40-10.

"Good job squad. We didn't win, but we did an excellent job. Good work." The round was considered over. But was it?

The score became 38-8, 35-6

31-4. Surely the game would soon be over.

24-3 - "Wow, we're going to take a bunch of them with us."

21-3 - "Huh"

18-2 - "Are you kidding me?"

17-1 - "Oh, we're going to lose now."

15-1 - "Yup, good game guys."

11-1 - "OMG... are you serious?"

8-1 - "Do you think we might.."

5-1 - "C'mon!!!"

3-1 - "OH please OH please OH please!"

1-1 - ... twitching silently...

0-1 - ... much screaming and cheering in the TS channel.

EU comes back from a 30 ticket deficit in the last minute and a half to win by one ticket.