***official deathmatch thread***

OK, tonight we go!!!! I will only wait 10 minutes for pilots to show up. No longer. If you are not there, you forfiet that heat. Everybody bring your A game. The competition will be extreme. You won't get a redo!!!! Good luck to all of you!!!!

All eyes should be on this thread. I will update it after every heat. It is your lifeline to the Deathmatch. Watch it!!!

The second round starts Sunday at 1pm us central time. That is 11am pacific, 12 pm mountain, 2pm eastern, 7pm Europe. I will post the heats immediately after the first round ends saturday night. Plenty of time to rest, especially me! It is your responsibilty to check this page for results and heat times for Sunday. I will send a PS3 message to round 2 pilots Saturday night. That's all I can do. The tournament will not stop Sunday till it is finished!!!!! Plan for it. All deserving pilots should make every effort to see it through Sunday. A true champion must be crowned, both plane and pilot.

[kozzm0]

ok so I don't need to be on hand friday night then, right. Saturday afternoon is all good but I'm completely unavailable Sunday from 10 am to 5pm pacific, unless I quit my job

[dkwookie]

Ok guys I am online now but can't see Any sim matches. Kick off heat in 10 minutes right?

[haitch40]

nice i just lost 50-0 lol
you say anything is allowed so hackings my only chance

I'm sorry my friend. I said it would be brutal.

[dkwookie]

That was good fun. Great tourny lost cause. I reckon should do it again sometime.

[haitch40]

yeh however whats the echo in your hadset lost cause? it sounded like an airport

Thanks guys. This BS with the Sony servers is aweful. It has to be the servers, right? We cant here each other even in a small room. The lag sucks. I had to restart one of the heats because of that. That last match took about 30 minutes to get off because of join errors.

And I had no idea that the highest you can set the kills in dogfight is 100. There is no unlimited selection. Nobody knew this. Mergirvin got 100 points with 1:30 to go and won the game. Damn that! We'll never know how many he can get. That guy is good! And a good guy, too. And the other guys in the heat lost 1:30 of scoring. I really felt like shit over that, but what can we do? It hit the game limits. The show had to go on. That 3rd heat was awesome!!

The leaders did really well.
Several guys had their best scores ever. Thanks so much to the guys available as replacement pilots. Their scores only count toward Top Gun, nothing else. With the number of no shows, we would not have had 6 pilots in every heat. But we managed to do so. SNOWOLF-7 came out of nowhere. He had a simply outstanding night. As Bunny287 also had his best going on. krsansic was excellent in the g6, nailing 2 Top Guns along with SNOWOLF. And SINNSR! And Watermanr7 basking in that Hawaiian sun! And killerhawk had his top game ever. They came out of nowhere also. All these guys brought their A game.

I think lots of guys were nervous. I sure was. The pressure of competition! Lots of disappointed players, but that's the way it goes. The cool, calm guys did the best. This thing is wide open for the taking. I think tomorrow we'll see some really good scores.