So today I finished my duel against Blacky. Blacky was another tough one after the first round which was actually just pure lag for him.
Anyway, we decided to play round one with an european host and the rest with Fs.
Round 1: Pinball Arena 2005
Host: Umba
Score: 5-0 for me
My own comments: I agreed to play against Blacky in his own level because I preferred it enough over some other previously used level. Anyway it would have surely been much better score for him if Fs hosted this one as well, but the deal was the deal.
I don't know what's the matter Umba's server recently but anyway this was easy to understand because of the distance. So he couldn't really do anything against me there.
Round 2: Zaitox Station 67
Host: FireSworD
Score: 5-2 for him
My own comments: I actually managed to recapture several times during the game because of me being Jazz+blue. I tried to play careful but it didn't seem to be enough. Though still just curse on my isp or whatever caused the packet losses
and stuff about chat. At the game being 4-2 I was gonna stop the game and reporting Blacky about a possible fake3 but later Blacky told me he hadn't seen me talking anything during the entire duel, nor did I see any chatting after 2-2 or so.
Plus that I got timed out of the server(or actually "connection lost") a moment after that. I don't mind too much that he could have actually continued the game for once more because I actually slowed down while I tried saying stop.
So we, uhh, went to the third round.
Round 3: Random(Mort Myre)
Host: FireSworD
Score: 5-3 for me
My own comments: After suggesting a dozen of levels we just decided going on random as Fs asked about it. After switching the level for twice we decided to go with Fs' picked Mort Myre. This time there was enough time to act after respawn because of this level being so large in width.
It seemed that Blacky preferred going the tunnel-route and taking the rf-pu from middle meanwhile I took both Bouncy and Toaster from above. There was much sniping with rf's and we both even killed each other at the same time for twice. Luck was also needed as both of
us could sometimes seem to hit each other advantagely without receiving damage from another. Guess you know what I mean. I actually took some dangerous chances and he was almost about to make a comeback from 4-1. I anyway took the powerup's instead of running straight
to his base. I finally got use of the sucker tube around the middle at the last moments which earlierly was considered useless by me.
Heh, first I would lose to Squirrel but now I could anyway beat Blacky who had just crushed Squirrel. Well, these do happen sometimes. So, tomorrow dueling Veg.

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