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Weekly Highlights
Welcome to the weekly highlights post where I'll try to write up a summary of each week's action in such a way that it doesn't give away the contents of the matches.
Week 1
Master's Match of the Week
Kicking us off this week we have the Season 16 champion Fazzz against one of the newly promoted players from Minions, milkman. The RAGL ladder puts these two about 600 rating points apart from each other, but despite this it was a very competitive series.
Fazzz vs milkman (Masters)
Game 1: https://ragl.org/replay/735e43aa89e410e ... 72cbc36ead
Game 2: https://ragl.org/replay/b41204ddd5ffef9 ... 9712280d35
Best of the Rest
The next two matches on my list are both from Minions and both feature Tailix. This is Tailix's 12th season in RAGL, which is the joint third most after anjew (17) and Upps (13). In this match he's up against fellow veteran spetsnaz who's into his 10th season. This is the fifth time they've played in RAGL, with Tailix currently 5-3 up before the match.
spetsnaz84 vs Tailix Killa Mentor (Minions)
Game 1: https://ragl.org/replay/1ccabe6c0eae853 ... aa89007092
Game 2: https://ragl.org/replay/03859f2a7a0f269 ... ce93bf1da7
The second Tailix match is against newcomer Ashley, who is probably better known for writing the OpenRA map generator.
ashleynewson vs Tailix Killa Mentor (Minions)
Game 1: https://ragl.org/replay/1bc56b2b806cd40 ... 383f9290a3
Game 2: https://ragl.org/replay/5eeead51758e43b ... 4792a0c4e0
Honourable Mentions
There have been a number of new players joining Masters from the top of the ladder this season. In particular sir (4th), Gargamel (5th) and gg (6th). FiveAces has been running an incredibly long shoutcast series of some of their ladder games, but if you can't get enough of the pairing your should check out this match.
gg vs sir123 (Masters)
Game 1: https://ragl.org/replay/2a654dc2ef2ba1f ... 47e0ff3268
Game 2: https://ragl.org/replay/255ac377c491c8d ... 5657924e93
Duke Bones and bete are another two RAGL regulars and both were in Masters last season. This season they're two of the favourites for Minions champion.
bete vs Duke Bones (Minions)
Game 1: https://ragl.org/replay/8bfe35cfd408c11 ... 3d687fc0c6
Game 2: https://ragl.org/replay/45779b6bac91672 ... 3293bd215b
Other Casts
Last season milkman managed to cast every game, and he's made a start on casting this season too (see his Twitch channel). Here I'll maintain a growing list of any other games which have been cast from this week:
Gargamel vs Mo (Masters)
Cast by milkman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUUsPe2s9HE
Fazzz vs Mo (Masters)
Cast by milkman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzMoDLEVUt0