UnFreeZe Tournament Summer 2026

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ok guys it happened, the tournament has finally concluded with a draw between the second and the third that resulted in a split outcome, ilm keeps the second place of the second leg and dt takes the second place of the tournament thanks to the point advantage they got over ilm in the first leg, maximum excitement. I think it's pretty clear both read these comments and check the stats as if they had missed on thawing on previous games this night they based almost their entire strategy on thawing and it showed. the first map was a clear, almost one sided, win for ilm despite being a dt pick however what followed was very different once olc showed and dt assembled in full. the keys were the second and third maps were despite trailing in the scores almost all the time dt never conceded and ultimately completed two legendary comebacks that are indeed worth a more than disputed second place of the tournament. finally in the last map ilm managed to hold their edge over dt till the end to secure a draw that gives them a notorious second place of the second leg as well. overall a very exciting and epic match to enjoy and close the tournament in a positive note, one of the most balanced overall, so congrats to both on the second places respectively and thank you for participate, well played that was quite a show. ok, as usual I now go update and post all this and probably later at night after the dinner I'll post here all the usual awards, comments and the highly anticipated follow-up all-star event for those that might interested so stay tuned.

[fernandinho1337]

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yes, unfortunately the same fight that opened the tournament closed it this night, which is highly unusual btw, but still I think it has been a epic tournament. easily one of the best editions so far here so thank you and congrats to everyone on completing it. ok, finally everything complete now, it definitively took me quite a while to add and review everything this time, very difficult picks. so as for the results and takeaways, as already known, ass finished first in the second all the same as in the first and then finally this night ilm secured the second place over dt with the draw (same points/maps but higher round/score difference) and then followed ofp and tto in fourth and fifth respectively. this time it wasn't as disputed as the first leg since both ass and tto won and lost everything but as I said, it's what it's, that's the way it played out. it's not like I made any changes or anything over the first leg, those were the actual results. in that regard before moving on into the honors I'd like to remark that I neither build nor encouraged/promoted these teams, all these formations were exclusively the result of your own choices. this time I neither cut nor add anybody so now it's up to you as well to determine whether your choices made sense or not. for another edition some people have already suggested to simply add a draft and setup the teams in a similar fashion to how the all-star game is organized. we'll see first how the upcoming all-star game turns out to begin with and then we might discuss it for another edition. overall I'm on the opinion that I already offered it other times and that was actually the indeed the way the first tournament here was organized and people systematically scrap it in favor of building their own teams. that being said, I have no problem in setting that up in the future if people prefer that format. as said, so far that's just a commentary since no other tournament is gonna be organized at least in months. the earliest, I'm looking at for another edition would be after the Christmas holidays to start February/March, as usual, if nothing bad happens and just as a reference, and then we can probably decide. I think that probably rather than scrapping everything, the most reasonable would be just make a few adjustments and hopefully get a sixth team. for the most part that's only real improvement I'd see for this edition, a sixth team, so every one play every week and there's no this kind of random breaks that just completely mess up rhythm. speaking of that, since it was also a topic of debate, now that it ended I stand by what I wrote, don't expect any drastic changes in terms of activity for another edition, more or less is gonna be something like this (i.e. a serious months long tournament with weekly schedules). I'm not gonna change it, the only thing I'll take and keep from this edition will the extra mid tournament justify and properly announced free player change to account for potential unforeseen circumstances or even straight up penalization that given the case at some point it could happen that someone gets straight up kicked and thus would need to be replaced. other than that from my side just expect the usual minor adjustment here and there but that's all.

well, let's move to the second leg results that I opened the post almost with the conclusion. as for the second leg individual awards after accounting for everything this is the list for the best eight of the second leg in order *DT*Miroslav, -=ASS=-LITHY!!!, [ILM]ironmonkey, -=ASS=-G3RMAiN!, -=ASS=-Infin!ty, [ILM]Sarasti, blrskj[OFP], *DT*olc and with Miroslav as surprise mvp over lith. I wrote in italic as it should not really come as a surprise but with sensible underperforming team he has literally topped lith in every single metric, jumped like 600 rating points in the ranked stats and it's even listed player number one at the moment there and that's even without accounting off-game behavior/leadership etc that it's like it doesn't even compare this time so I personally don't think there should be any controversy there this time. the only argument in favor of lith for the mvp is that his team won the tournament which is why he will take the tournament mvp but in the second leg beside some moments here and there he wasn't as decisive as he was in the first leg. in the other hand if it wouldn't have been because of miro dt would have been disqualified to begin with and in-game just this night was the key player that made possible the dt final second place in the tournament against a team with higher averages over the tournament. matter of fact, the dt second place can only be explained individual as overall ilm performed better in the stats than dt which is another important takeaway.

ok, now for the grand results that you all have been waiting for these months. finally after adding everything here it's the final list for the best eight of the tournament in order -=ASS=-LITHY!!!, *DT*Miroslav, blrskj[OFP], -=ASS=-G3RMAiN!, *DT*olc, [ILM]ironmonkey, [ILM]Sarasti, *DT*lihensior with now lith as mvp of tournament as anticipated due the actual win and better performance all around. liha that could have been notoriously missing from previous list finally makes it since as opposed to infinity or cTh that mostly only stood out in one of the legs he has proven one of the most stable players of the tournaments so congrats on making it that far as well. the rest are exactly the same names as in the legs just some in some order or another so no surprises I guess. finally for the usual tournament sportsmanship award this time it clearly goes for The Team One that despite the results not only completed all games without a single incident that they even finished it earlier so once again thank you for participate and looking forward some reinforcement for another edition, ggs.

ok and I think that's all for today while I wait to upload the YouTube videos. tomorrow I'll probably post the all-star draft to played within the next weeks and I guess I'll write some more and that should be all for this edition then.