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Parz1val Rules Campgrounds and Storms All the Way to 30

Trhac drew first blood, but Parz1val gradually claimed the rest of Campgrounds.

DM-Campgrounds-U3-Fix started without any ceremonial warm-up. At 13 seconds, Trhac opened the scoring with a Shock Combo on Doom2238, taking first blood and the first lead. Parz1val answered with precision: at 68 seconds he dropped Trhac with a Sniper Rifle headshot, then three seconds later hit Doom2238 from 49 meters. That produced a Double Kill and the longest kill of the entire match. Trhac still managed to level Parz1val at 2:2 with the Link Gun at 110 seconds, but that was the last moment when the top of the table was truly open. From 128 seconds onward, Parz1val dictated the pace, and the match's single lead change was already settled.

From 2:2 to a clean breakaway

Parz1val shifted from sniper accuracy to a more aggressive arsenal. The Stinger removed Trhac and Doom2238, then the Flak Cannon pushed the score through 5:2, 6:2, 7:2 and 8:2. Doom2238 became the main target: Parz1val hit him with Flak, Rocket Launcher and Flak again. At 260 seconds came a Shock Rifle frag on Trhac, followed by a Shock Combo on Doom2238 at 274. At 12:2, the lead had become clear map control.

Doom2238 still resisted. At 326 seconds he surprised Parz1val with a Flak Cannon kill from 46.5 meters, then four seconds later took Trhac with the same weapon. It was his best short burst. Parz1val returned from that death in a mode nobody stopped: from 343 seconds onward he began a spree that would grow to seventeen kills.

Seventeen kills without an answer

The first three entries of the spree were Shock Combos on Doom2238 at 343, 356 and 370 seconds. Parz1val found his rhythm and had the longest average life at 228 seconds. Below him, Trhac and Doom2238 fought for second place with Flak and Stinger exchanges. After Trhac's kill at 458 seconds, the arena went quiet for 75 seconds, the longest pause of the match.

At 533 seconds came the log's strangest entry: Trhac killed Doom2238 with the Flak Cannon, and in that same second Doom2238 killed Trhac with the Bio Rifle. Five seconds later Parz1val resumed his spree with Flak. At 574 he added another Sniper Rifle headshot on Doom2238. Soon after, Doom2238 used a Shock Combo to level his running duel with Trhac at 5:5. Second place stayed open while first drifted away.

Flak, Shock and a sniper safety net

From 617 seconds onward, the pace climbed again. Trhac took Doom2238 with Flak, Parz1val answered with another Flak kill, and at 651 seconds he received the point for Trhac's fall from height. Trhac then hit Doom2238 with the Link Gun, but Parz1val was already beyond twenty. Between 689 and 797 seconds he added eight kills with Flak Cannon, Shock Combo, Sniper Rifle and Rocket Launcher.

The numbers explain the gap. Parz1val scored ten kills with Flak Cannon, seven with Shock Combos and five with Sniper Rifle; all three headshots were his. His average kill distance was 23.5 meters against Trhac's 14.4, yet he still won close fights. The computed data also gives him 14 revenge kills, so his rare deaths were usually answered quickly.

Trhac ended the spree, not the win

The last two minutes contained a separate battle below the leader. Doom2238 dropped Trhac at 805 and 839 seconds, then Trhac replied with the Link Gun at 854. Poskok, who played only 63 seconds, killed himself with the Flak Cannon at 857 and remained on -1. Twelve seconds later Doom2238 added a Rocket Launcher suicide of his own, reducing his score from 8 to 7.

Parz1val earned point 29 at 885 seconds when Poskok died from a fall. Then, at 906 seconds, Trhac finally killed Parz1val with the Link Gun and ended the leader's seventeen-kill spree, which had run from 343 seconds. There were only eight seconds left for any grand comeback. At 914 seconds Parz1val hit Doom2238 with the Shock Rifle and closed the Deathmatch exactly on the 30-point goal. Trhac finished second with 10, Doom2238 third with 7 and Poskok fourth with -1.

Match moments

• Trhac took first blood with a Shock Combo on Doom2238 at 13 seconds.
• Parz1val built a Double Kill at 68 and 71 seconds; the second shot from 49 meters was the longest kill of the match.
• After the 2:2 tie, Parz1val took the lead at 128 seconds and never gave it back.
• Parz1val started a 17-kill spree at 343 seconds, finally ended by Trhac at 906.
• At 533 seconds Trhac and Doom2238 killed each other in the same timestamp of the log.
• The final point came at 914 seconds when Parz1val killed Doom2238 with the Shock Rifle for 30.

The 30:10:7:-1 result says plenty, but not everything. Trhac owned first blood and also scored the final kill on Parz1val before the winning point, while Doom2238 managed to stop the leader once and fought a close private duel with Trhac. The decisive difference was that Parz1val never surrendered the lead after the 2:2 tie. He lived longer, killed from greater range, used the broadest arsenal and turned a seventeen-kill spree into a one-way stretch of Campgrounds. The Shock Rifle finish at 914 seconds was simply the signature under a match decided much earlier.