One down, six to go! To be honest, I was happy just to get through the first round in one piece.
Because we’re competing as teams and not individuals, there are some unique challenges to the tournament that force you to weigh things differently. It’s not just about your abilities, you have to make sure that your teammates are able to score high enough to get the group through to the next round.
Getting stuck with the wrong batch of people, could mean game over instantly. And this was my primary concern before the round even got started.
Luckily for me, I had nothing to worry about. They wound up giving me a fantastic team, which is all I could ask for!!! 🙂
The round kicked off with the teams already assembled. I’m not sure why they decided to put players ranked next to each other on the same team, but whatever. I’m cool with it.
When I saw that BestMte, was on our team, I knew we were in good hands. The guy, is unbelievably strong and resilient. Having him as your teammate is like playing doubles with Roger Federer.
I don’t believe he’s peaked yet either. Which is scary to think about.
My other teammates, are very solid too. They did a great job with our first round game, Tobe’s Hookshot Escape.
I really enjoyed playing this one. It immediately brought back fond memories of Cave Chaos. One of my favorite games from the MiniClip channel.
I was hoping there might be some similarities beyond the obvious environmental ones.
Cave Chaos
Tobe’s Hookshot Escape
Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. Tobe, handles much differently than the gremlin (or whatever the hell it’s supposed to be) in Cave Chaos. I had some difficulty adjusting to his game.
Then unexpectedly, a member from the opposing Team Vegito, posted a video tutorial of the game. I’m not entirely sure why he decided to do this but I definitely appreciated it.
In the video, he exposed an easier way of getting a high score. The new strategy, required you to repeatedly swing Tobe, around the platform blocks in an effort to build up the combo meter. Of course the combo resets whenever Tobe, makes contact with the ground, meaning it would take a lot of trial and error to successfully pull this off.
At first, I couldn’t put a decent run together. Try as I might, I could not guide Tobe, to a 99+ combo without making some kind of mistake. Every time forcing the meter to reset itself.
Towards the end of the round, I could feel my rhythm improving. The breakthrough was coming and I knew I was on the verge of nailing it. Then the time ran out and I was stuck with only 100,000. Leaving my team in a very precarious position.
Thankfully, they stepped in and picked up the slack on my behalf. Best and Hero, had to really dig deep but their efforts were enough to secure us with first place.
It may not have been the smoothest round ever but really I’m just glad to be back on top. I only played at about a C level during this round and that was still enough for us to get the job done.
Granted, it’s still very early in the tournament and none of us are playing at our best yet.
I know I will need to improve in a lot of ways, if our team is going to have any chance at the title. However, these Kongregate tournaments tend to be very long and I’ve still got plenty of time to do so.
Until next time.
JoshDragon
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