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DM-Deck turns late as Anub1ss storms all the way to 30

Jano struck first and Trhac built the longest spree, but from mid-match onward Anub1ss made DM-Deck his own.

DM-Deck opened without much ceremony, although the first change on the scoreboard was hardly heroic: after twenty seconds Odstrel went into the slime and dropped to minus one. The authoritative first blood arrived at 26 seconds, when Jano hit Poskok with the Rocket Launcher from 6.5 metres. Poskok answered with the Link Gun, later fired a Redeemer at hemeroid and had three points after 91 seconds. Anub1ss, meanwhile, was still waiting for his first frag. What looked like a missed start for the eventual winner would later become the central twist of the match: once he finally moved, the scoreboard began moving with him.

Early leads, early falls and Trhac's surge

Jano opened the scoring, but Poskok quickly proved that he was not there to fill space. Kills on Zamerovac, Jano and hemeroid pushed him to three points before Trhac took over the early spotlight. Between 96 and 175 seconds Trhac recorded five kills without being stopped. Bio Rifle, Shock Combo and Stinger all featured in the run, which became the longest spree of the match. At 171 seconds, after another Shock Combo on hemeroid, Trhac was sitting on five and the early order had been thoroughly scrambled.

Hemeroid ended the spree four seconds later with a Bio Rifle kill from 45.8 metres. That mattered because hemeroid was starting to score more consistently himself. At 212 and 214 seconds he hit Jano and Poskok with the Rocket Launcher, the second shot completing a Double Kill. Trhac then lost points to the slime and to his own Shock Rifle. The match still had several plausible leaders, and the official total of four lead changes captures how unstable the opening phase really was.

Hemeroid takes control, then fifty silent seconds

Around the fifth minute hemeroid leaned on the Bio Rifle. He removed Poskok at 278 seconds and Anub1ss at 304, reaching seven points while Jano continued to work with rockets and Poskok looked for replies with the Stinger. Trhac's early burst was fading from the active contest. Then came the longest quiet spell of the match: after hemeroid's kill on Anub1ss at 304 seconds, no scoring event happened for 50 seconds. On DM-Deck, that almost qualifies as a holiday.

The silence ended with Anub1ss. At 354 seconds he fired the Redeemer into Poskok and Jano, collecting two points and a Double Kill in the same instant. Six seconds later he added Jano with the Bio Rifle and the chase was on. He even killed himself with the Bio Rifle at 368 seconds, but the pace had changed. By 397 seconds he had added hemeroid and Jano with rockets and was closing on the players who had spent the first part of the match building the table without him.

Anub1ss takes the match: flak, bio and Shock Combo

From 418 seconds onward the hierarchy started to flip. Anub1ss hit Poskok with the Shock Rifle, then punished him with the Flak Cannon at 439, 456 and 460 seconds. Jano stole one frag back in between, while hemeroid's Redeemer cost him a point through self-damage even as it also killed Anub1ss. At 464 seconds Anub1ss had ten points; by 523 he had thirteen. His advantage was not tied to one weapon. Redeemer, Bio Rifle, Rocket Launcher, Flak Cannon, Sniper Rifle and later Shock Combo all contributed, preventing the field from settling into one predictable range.

Hemeroid stayed dangerous through longer-distance shots. At 557 seconds he hit Poskok with the Bio Rifle from 68.3 metres, the longest kill of the match. Ten seconds later he took out Anub1ss with the Sniper Rifle and at 574 seconds he added Jano. Anub1ss answered immediately: Link Gun on hemeroid, sniper on Jano, Redeemer on Poskok. At 639 seconds he also produced the match's only headshot, sniping Jano from 21.3 metres. By then his lead was not a temporary swing but the result of sustained pressure.

No brakes at the finish and one last Double Kill

After the eleventh minute Anub1ss had twenty points and kept pushing. He hit Jano twice in succession with Shock Combos, then took hemeroid with the Shock Rifle. Poskok still produced a sharp late burst: at 750 seconds he killed hemeroid with the Rocket Launcher, two seconds later he caught Anub1ss with the Link Gun for a Double Kill, and then added Jano. It was Poskok's best late window, but the leader was already too far ahead. Anub1ss replied with a Shock Combo on hemeroid, more sniper work and further kills on Jano, climbing to 25.

The final minute became a chase for the 30-point limit. Anub1ss took Poskok with a Shock Combo for 26 and then a rocket for 27. Jano lost a point to his own Rocket Launcher at 883 seconds. Fourteen seconds later Anub1ss hit him with the Bio Rifle, then at 914 seconds removed hemeroid with a rocket. One second later came the full stop: another Rocket Launcher kill on Jano, a Double Kill and score 30. Hemeroid finished on 16, Poskok on 10 and Jano on 7. The fourteen-point gap looks comfortable, but it was built after the winner spent the first 353 seconds without a single point.

Match moments

• Jano claimed first blood at 26 seconds with the Rocket Launcher against Poskok.
• Trhac produced the longest spree: five kills between 96 and 175 seconds.
• Anub1ss scored for the first time only at 354 seconds, immediately with a Redeemer Double Kill.
• Hemeroid hit Poskok with the Bio Rifle from 68.3 metres for the longest kill.
• Anub1ss recorded the only headshot at 639 seconds with the Sniper Rifle on Jano.
• Anub1ss's final two kills came at 914 and 915 seconds, with the second completing a match-ending Double Kill.

The 30:16 final score is clear, but the path to it was far more tangled than the table suggests. Jano had first blood, Poskok the stronger opening, Trhac the longest spree and hemeroid both the mid-game lead and the distance record. Anub1ss changed everything after 354 seconds. He recorded 32 kills, averaged 51 seconds per life, produced nine immediate revenge kills and still reached the 30-point limit despite two suicides. DM-Deck therefore delivered a match about patience, sudden acceleration and a finishing run that never eased off before the limit was reached.