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hemeroid rules DM-Deck with rockets and steady nerve

Deck became a rocket workshop, and hemeroid kept the steadiest hand when the score began to stretch.

Match 149 on DM-Deck opened with a curiosity: Ranar lost a point to a suicide at 0:14, but the authoritative first blood arrived four seconds later when Presnak hit Raketak with the Bio Rifle. The table then moved rapidly. Jano scored with the Rocket Launcher, Raketak answered with a Redeemer blast, and hemeroid announced himself with the match’s only headshot. The opening two minutes produced ties and brief lead changes, but at 2:19 hemeroid hit Raketak with a 50.9-metre rocket to move 5:4 ahead. From that point, the lead became something he could build rather than merely borrow.

No clear owner at the start

Presnak took first blood at 0:18 and briefly occupied first place. Jano joined the board at 0:40 by rocketing hemeroid, then Raketak used the Redeemer on Jano from 50.5 metres four seconds later, only to lose the gained point to the same explosion. At 0:51 hemeroid landed the only headshot of the match with the Sniper Rifle and began scoring with several different weapons.

Raketak still grabbed a short lead at 1:57 with four points, but hemeroid responded quickly. His 2:19 rocket on Raketak from 50.9 metres made it 5:4, and the scoreboard never truly reset after that. Presnak interrupted him with the Stinger, yet hemeroid immediately found another point around the slime. The pattern was forming: Raketak could challenge, Presnak could punish, and Jano could force close fights, but hemeroid kept producing answers.

The gap grows while Deck gets louder

From the fourth through the tenth minute, hemeroid turned a narrow advantage into controlled separation. He reached 10 points before five minutes, 13 before six and 19 by 9:33. Raketak stayed closest but repeatedly hurt himself with explosive weapons. Jano worked mostly at short range, while Presnak played the longest lives in the field, averaging 61 seconds and leaning on Flak Cannon, Link Gun and patient cleanup.

At 9:23 the contrast was perfect. hemeroid rocketed Jano from eight metres, but in the same second Raketak shot hemeroid with the Shock Rifle from 60.8 metres. It was the longest kill of the match and fit Raketak’s 25.7-metre average kill distance, the highest of all players. hemeroid averaged 22.9 metres, Presnak 13.2 and Jano only 9.8. DM-Deck offered every range, yet the lead kept pointing to hemeroid.

Raketak accelerates, hemeroid answers with a spree

Around minutes twelve and thirteen, Raketak finally raised the pressure. After another Redeemer self-kill at 11:56 he immediately killed Jano, then added an Enforcer frag and two rockets. At 12:36 those rockets hit Presnak from 49.4 metres and hemeroid from 49.9 in the same second, producing the only Double Kill of the match. Raketak reached 14 while hemeroid remained on 20.

The reply was decisive. Between 14:28 and 15:31 hemeroid assembled the longest spree of the match, six kills: Bio Rifle on Jano, rockets into Jano and Presnak, then more pressure through the same congested section of the map. The computed data records no player as the one who ended that spree. Minute 15 was the busiest with eight kills, and minute 16 also contained eight events. In that storm hemeroid jumped from 22 to 28 points and largely removed the comeback window.

Twenty-nine, a mistake, then a cold finish

At 16:06 hemeroid used the Sniper Rifle on Presnak to reach 29. One second later Raketak stopped him with the Stinger, and the match entered its longest quiet spell: 56 seconds without a kill after 16:07. Raketak then killed Presnak with Flak Cannon, while at 17:06 hemeroid blew himself up with a rocket and dropped from 29 to 28.

Raketak used the hesitation to rocket hemeroid at 17:29, and Jano added another Rocket Launcher kill twenty seconds later. Still, hemeroid did not unravel. At 18:11 he returned to 29 by sniping Raketak, then at exactly 18:30 he ended the match with another Sniper Rifle kill, this time on Jano. Final score: 30:19, with Jano and Presnak both on 15. It was not a clean win, but it was a resilient one.

Match moments

• Presnak claimed first blood on Raketak with the Bio Rifle at 0:18.
• hemeroid took the lasting lead at 2:19 with a 50.9-metre rocket kill on Raketak.
• Raketak hit hemeroid with the Shock Rifle from 60.8 metres at 9:23, the longest kill of the match.
• Raketak produced the match’s only Double Kill with two rocket kills in the same second at 12:36.
• hemeroid built the longest spree, six kills between 14:28 and 15:31.
• The longest dry spell lasted 56 seconds after 16:07.
• After dropping himself back to 28, hemeroid closed with two Sniper Rifle kills for a 30:19 win.

The 30:19 finish looks more comfortable than the opening felt. The match contained three lead changes, frequent revenge sequences and a genuine mid-game push from Raketak, who also owned the longest shot and the only multikill. The difference was hemeroid’s sustained output: 34 kills, a six-kill spree and 16 immediate revenge kills. Even four suicides could not erase that production. After his late rocket mistake dropped him to 28, he stayed composed, returned to the Sniper Rifle and took the final two points cleanly.