NINE BATTLES
FOR NINE CITIES
TERRITORY CONQUEST · DAY ONE

This is a new kind of custom I built for BROGGUA. The idea is as simple as a door: Erangel is split into nine cities, every city has an owner, and each time one team goes out to fight for a specific point on the map. Win — the city is yours. Lose — you hand over your own. No abstract points to keep in your head: after every map you look at the map and see straight away who holds how much.

Yesterday we played the first day — nine maps back to back. My impressions are good, and so is the feedback from the guys. If I'm scoring it honestly, I'd give it seven out of ten: the mechanic works, the thrill is there, but there's stuff to tighten up.

What landed best is the hot spot. You don't run half the map through the bushes: you drop straight into a fight, because everyone knows which city they're fighting for. The second buzz is the feeling of conquest itself. Winning a lobby is one thing; coming to take someone else's city, or holding your own when they're coming for it, is something else entirely. That gives the whole thing a charm an ordinary custom just doesn't have.

And separately: it's simply fun to scrap with your own people. Measuring yourself against guys you know, when what's at stake isn't an abstract place in a table but Sosnovka, specifically. Now — briefly through each of the nine battles.

The first battle of the day — and straight away for the island. Sosnovka belongs to Razor Brothers, and they came out to defend what's theirs.

On kills the map wasn't theirs: Team Witness stacked six kills and 756 damage against three for the hosts. But the format counts who's left standing, not frags. kozzza__ took l0ca- down from 105 m with a Mini 14, and BrozoraTV himself put the full stop on it — a UMP from eighteen metres into bikuta32 at 7:56. The author of the format defended his own city with the last shot of the day. Sosnovka stayed home.

The first change of owner on the day — and the fastest finish of all nine.

Team Kopchoni went out for their own city and held exactly until 6:08. Then came the thing replays are worth watching for: bikuta32 with an AUG took down four in a row — MADNESS-__-, Skirta5, Good_Aress and CHORNA_PANTERA — and all of it fit into ONE second of telemetry. A whole squad vanished from the table on a single magazine.

Georgopol moved over to Team Witness. Their run started on this map.

The shortest range of the day: dz1ubenko took kozzza__ down from TWO metres in the second minute — one of those scraps where you stop aiming and just hold the button.

After that Rozhok was Team Witness territory end to end: eight kills, 761 damage, and W1nd3r with a SCAR-L put away four, the last two in one second at 8:10. bikuta32 got CHORNA_PANTERA from 103 m with an SKS. The hosts gave up nothing.

A map won by a single rifle. CHORNA_PANTERA took down five — and all five with the Beryl M762: dz1ubenko, BrozoraTV, l0ca- from 69 m, welect and bikuta32 point-blank at 5:17.

Team Kopchoni took eight kills and 852 damage. Razor Brothers didn't make a single kill and went out third — Mylta changed flag for the first time on the day.

The map opened with a shot from MADNESS-__- — a Kar98k into welect from 141 m — and then three seconds of chaos: three more went down on a single tick.

Team Kopchoni farmed the most damage on the map — 858 — and still handed the city over. l0ca- settled the question: at 6:15 he took out CHORNA_PANTERA, MADNESS-__- and Good_Aress with an AUG **in one second**, switching the hosts off entirely.

Razor Brothers played their worst map of the day here: zero kills and 24 points of damage for the whole team. Primorsk went to Team Witness.

Fourteen minutes twenty seconds — twice as long as the average map of the day. After the first kill at 4:53 came silence all the way to 8:28: everyone sat and waited to see who would flinch first.

BrozoraTV made the break: first he took down dz1ubenko, then at 10:59 he cleared out CHORNA_PANTERA and Skirta5 with a Beryl double. kozzza__ finished it off — the last kill into bikuta32 at 14:19.

Razor Brothers took their first city off somebody else. l0ca- put Good_Aress down from 111 m with an FN FAL along the way — just so the map wouldn't seem completely quiet.

The most damage on the day — 870 for Team Kopchoni. They didn't just take Pochinki, they took it apart.

Good_Aress opened the scoring with a grenade on dz1ubenko, MADNESS-__- with an RPD took down l0ca- and bikuta32 in one second, then got BrozoraTV. Team Witness left the map with zero kills — a rare day for them. CHORNA_PANTERA put the full stop on it: a Winchester into DenysKsh from five metres at 10:15.

Razor Brothers lost their second city of the day and were left without a single kill for the second time.

The longest shot of the day: W1nd3r took BrozoraTV down from 159 m with a Mini 14 at 4:02. Over the map he put away four and closed it himself — MADNESS-__- at 8:48.

Along the way welect did the thing that looks tastiest on the kill feed: walked up to Skirta5 at six metres and dropped him with the double-barrelled Berreta 686. bikuta32 added a kill from 102 m with an M16.

Zharki passed to Team Witness — the fourth city taken off someone else in their collection.

The last battle of the day, and the hosts let nobody spoil anything: six kills, 789 damage, first place.

bikuta32 took down three, l0ca- two, and even Good_Aress found time to set DenysKsh alight with a molotov. Kameshki stayed with Team Witness, and with that the board froze until the next day.