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Anub1ss Rules DM-DE_Ironic with Rockets and Combos

Jano struck the first spark, but Anub1ss soon turned Ironic into a private firing range.

DM-DE_Ironic opened its narrow corridors and short firing lanes for 559 seconds of pure Deathmatch, and four entrants quickly learned that a safe corner is merely a corner that has not yet received a rocket. Vybuch eliminated himself after 16 seconds through an unknown cause and left the action on -1, so the real contest remained with Anub1ss, Trajbalajka and Jano. First blood belonged to Jano: at 25 seconds he caught Anub1ss with the Stinger from three metres and moved ahead 1:0. It was a promising opening, but also the last moment when the eventual winner had anyone to chase.

The first turn and a rocket warning

Anub1ss answered at 35 seconds with a BioRifle kill on Trajbalajka and tied the score. After the match's longest quiet spell, 39 seconds without a kill, he hit Jano with the RocketLauncher at 74 seconds and took the lead. That was the only lead change of the entire match. Trajbalajka removed Anub1ss with the Stinger at 83 seconds while surviving on seven health, yet the table already had its direction.

Anub1ss then rotated between Shock Combo, rockets and BioRifle. From 94 to 162 seconds he eliminated Jano five times and added Trajbalajka as well. The oddest exchange came at 111 seconds: his rocket killed Trajbalajka, but the blast also took Anub1ss, leaving his score on four. Trajbalajka followed with suicides at 133 and 140 seconds. Ironic was handing out lessons regardless of who was holding the weapon.

Revenge kept the duel noisy

Jano landed a rocket on Trajbalajka at 159 seconds, but three seconds later Anub1ss stopped him with the ShockRifle. Soon the match developed a dense chain of instant replies: Anub1ss recorded 14 revenge kills, Trajbalajka six and Jano one. It was clearest in the Anub1ss–Trajbalajka duel. At 189/190, 214/215 and 275/278 seconds, retaliation arrived almost at once, as though neither player would allow the final word to remain on the floor.

Yet every exchange pushed Anub1ss farther ahead overall. At 208 seconds he picked off Jano with the SniperRifle, then removed Trajbalajka with a rocket, a Shock Combo and another sniper shot. The longest kill did not belong to the sniper, however: at 126 seconds Anub1ss hit Jano with the BioRifle from 32.2 metres. On a map where most fights happened around ten metres, it was biological mail delivered to a surprisingly distant address.

The fifth minute lost its brakes

The pace climbed by minute through 2, 5, 5, 6 and finally 8 kills. The fifth minute was the busiest. Trajbalajka twice dropped Jano with rockets and twice punished Anub1ss with the Stinger, reaching six points. Anub1ss closed the same phase with BioRifle and LinkGun kills, so at 300 seconds he led Trajbalajka 16:6 while Jano stood on one.

Trajbalajka found a useful rhythm against Jano in the middle phase: LinkGun at 316 seconds, then ShockRifle hits at 347 and 366. Jano surprised Anub1ss with the ShockRifle at 357. The leader always returned, though. He caught Trajbalajka with the LinkGun at 350 and sent him back to respawn with rockets at 371 and 378. Those two shots began the run that finally separated the winner from the rest of the field.

Twelve kills and two double seals

From 371 to 552 seconds, Anub1ss collected twelve kills without dying. He hit Trajbalajka with rockets, Shock Combos and the FlakCannon, while repeatedly catching Jano with Shock Combos. At 428 seconds he removed Jano and Trajbalajka at the same timestamp for a Double Kill. The second Double Kill came between 461 and 464: Trajbalajka first, Jano next, both through Shock Combo. With Anub1ss sitting on 100 health for many of those kills, the sequence looked less like desperate survival and more like systematic control of space.

Trajbalajka still reached ten points, but a ShockRifle suicide at 512 seconds returned him to nine. He then killed Jano with the FlakCannon to recover ten, only for Anub1ss to land a rocket from 21.7 metres two seconds later and move to 29:10. Jano recorded his third rocket suicide at 538, yet he also ended Anub1ss's twelve-kill spree with a BioRifle hit at 552. The final word belonged to the leader: at 559 seconds he caught Jano with the LinkGun and closed the score at 30:10:3.

Momenty zápasu

• Jano claimed first blood with the Stinger at 25 seconds and led 1:0.
• Anub1ss took the lead at 74 seconds and never gave it back.
• The fifth minute produced a match-high eight kills.
• Anub1ss scored the longest kill with a BioRifle hit from 32.2 metres.
• Shock Combo delivered two Double Kills for Anub1ss.
• Only Jano stopped Anub1ss’s twelve-kill spree, at 552 seconds.
• The final LinkGun kill at 559 seconds set the score at 30:10:3.

Anub1ss finished with 31 kills, nine deaths and one suicide, leaving a winning score of 30 after the self-inflicted point was removed. Trajbalajka collected 13 kills, but three suicides and 23 deaths held him to ten. Jano had six kills, three suicides and three final points; even so, he owns two honourable marks from the match—first blood and the hit that ended the longest spree. Ironic did not deliver a close finish, but it offered a very clear demonstration of how an early reversal, a broad arsenal and a controlled closing phase combine into a dominant victory.