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Trajbalajka survives rocket chaos and rules DM-Deck

Six lead changes, rockets everywhere, and a winner who stopped giving away free points when the match mattered most.

DM-Deck delivered exactly what a Normal Deathmatch on this map tends to promise: rapid exchanges, harsh punishment for mistakes and a scoreboard that refused to settle. The first logged event belonged to Fraghound, but it was a suicide after four seconds; the authoritative first blood came at 0:22, when Bourak killed hemeroid with the Link Gun. From there the match produced six lead changes. hemeroid led for long stretches, Jano built the longest spree of the game, and GermanicWinter arrived late but immediately disrupted the leaders with the Shock Rifle and Shock Combos. Trajbalajka eventually won because, in the decisive phase, he stopped donating points through mistakes and converted his kills into clean score.

Bourak struck first, hemeroid took control

Bourak followed the first blood at 0:22 with a second point at 0:56 before Jano stopped him with the Flak Cannon at 1:11. Then hemeroid accelerated. Rockets, the Bio Rifle and the Redeemer carried him into the lead; at 3:57 he killed Jano and Trajbalajka with the Redeemer in the same instant for a Double Kill, although he immediately lost a point himself. By 6:35 he had nine points while Jano and Trajbalajka were both on five.

The central trap of the match was already visible: suicides. hemeroid repeatedly cut into his own advantage, while Jano also began losing points, so raw kill totals stopped matching the actual scoreboard. Trajbalajka stayed close without paying the same tax. The contest increasingly became less about who could fire fastest and more about who could turn aggression into points without handing any back.

Jano's five-kill run compressed the lead

Between 10:07 and 11:27 came Jano's best stretch. He killed hemeroid, Trajbalajka, hemeroid again, Trajbalajka again and then hemeroid once more: five kills without dying, the longest spree of the match. At 11:27 Jano led on eleven. hemeroid ended the streak with a Rocket Launcher kill at 11:53, then benefited from Jano's slime suicide at 12:58. The longest quiet spell followed as well: 55 seconds between the kill at 12:36 and the next one at 13:31.

Meanwhile Trajbalajka kept closing the gap. He tied hemeroid on twelve at 14:02 and reached thirteen at 14:32. GermanicWinter first appeared in the kill log at 15:15 and immediately started scoring; the Shock Rifle quickly became his main weapon. hemeroid added his second sniper headshot at 15:16. At 16:03 Jano pulled the front group level on thirteen, but in that very same second Trajbalajka killed hemeroid with the Shock Rifle to move to fourteen. That was where the match began to break open.

Trajbalajka broke the three-way fight

After 16:03 Trajbalajka never surrendered the lead. By 19:35 he had climbed to 22 through a mixture of Bio Rifle, Rocket Launcher, Redeemer and even Slime kills. The standout hit came at 19:06, when his Redeemer killed Jano from 60.3 metres, the longest kill of the match. The 18th minute was the busiest with seven kills, exactly during the period when the pace rose and Trajbalajka built the gap that ultimately mattered.

Jano and hemeroid were meanwhile the most frequent head-to-head pairing: 27 mutual kills, with hemeroid edging the duel 14:13. At 21:02 hemeroid produced his second Redeemer Double Kill against Trajbalajka and Jano, then punished himself in the same blast sequence. Both chasers finished with seven suicides. That is why Jano's 29 kills became only 22 points and hemeroid's 26 kills became 19, while Trajbalajka's 30 kills remained a clean 30.

GermanicWinter stirred the finish, the leader closed

GermanicWinter played only 678 seconds but made the ending much faster: Shock Combo and Shock Rifle kills carried him to 17 points. Between 23:52 and 24:22 he took three points in quick succession, two directly from Trajbalajka. The leader answered at 24:41 with a Shock Rifle kill on Jano and then launched his final push through Stinger, another Stinger and the Bio Rifle. The Rocket Launcher still dominated the whole match with 48 kills, and Trajbalajka scored fifteen of his kills with it.

The last oddity came at 25:43. hemeroid killed Trajbalajka with the Impact Hammer, but in the same second Trajbalajka killed hemeroid with a rocket and reached 29. Jano closed his own score at 22 in 26:07. Two seconds later Trajbalajka killed GermanicWinter with the Rocket Launcher for the target score of 30. He also finished with the most items collected, 28, an average kill distance of 19.7 metres and 19 immediate revenge kills, the highest total in the match.

Match moments

• Bourak earned first blood at 0:22 against hemeroid with the Link Gun.
• hemeroid landed a Redeemer Double Kill on Jano and Trajbalajka at 3:57.
• Jano recorded the longest spree, five kills from 10:07 to 11:27, before hemeroid ended it.
• With the leaders tied on thirteen at 16:03, Trajbalajka immediately moved ahead by killing hemeroid.
• Trajbalajka produced the longest kill of the match, a 60.3 m Redeemer hit on Jano at 19:06.
• hemeroid and Jano traded 27 direct kills, with hemeroid narrowly winning that mini-duel 14:13.
• Trajbalajka ended the match at 26:09 by rocketing GermanicWinter for his 30th point.

The final line of 30:22:19:17:2:-1 looks calmer than the match actually was. Trajbalajka had to survive Bourak's start, hemeroid's long spell in front, Jano's five-kill surge and GermanicWinter's late arrival. The decisive stretch began after 16:03, when the three front-runners were compressed around thirteen points and Trajbalajka immediately separated himself. He did not lead the damage table, but he committed zero suicides, averaged 55 seconds per life and collected the most items. In a match full of self-inflicted losses, discipline became his sharpest weapon.