It's not often, in AusDoD:S, that there's the prospect of a hard-fought, intense, tight encounter between two goliaths of both skill and strategy; of a collective genius mind pitted against another collective genius mind - each with six limbs pulling and struggling to get the overarching entity over the line; of differing strengths and weaknesses - the uniquity of each style being drawn into stark contrast at every collision; of the kind of perennial heroism that makes those fortunate enough to be in SourceTV bask in the glow of such magnificence.

And this game is, predictably, no exception.

Featuring some actual good players (and also Saber) who were involved in winning last season's SCG, nWo would be the neutral's favourite in this encounter. However, eXile-5 ( + erazeR + a couple of CS:S randies) have decided to shake off their months-long DoD:S hangover and get back into rehab. Quite how playing DoD:S is supposed to elicit any kind of improvement in an individual's physical or mental constitution is yet to be determined, and this analogy has been stretched to its limits.

Which segues crisply into this next paragraph, in which lineups/key matchups are discussed: The Believers (led by the unbelievably curly-haired rock-star and bona fide genius Matthew Burton) are presently doing their level best to recreate ipx-era uprising by deploying one SMG smoke-rat (the aforementioned M. Burton) to smoke things and be an irritating, runspamming colon fairy. Nofsky will likely being soloing the heavying duties with three rifles and a sniper deployed alongside. With netch recently recruited, it would seem likely that the rifles featuring would be LoRDo, erAzErRZzereRZERr and netch, with Rusty getting some more Natcol-level directing experience, to aid his future career, by filming proceedings from the bench.

The Believers will be heavily reliant on Nofsky's experience and ability to gravitate towards the action and make a difference to the outcome of key battles at clutch moments. erazeR will carry the rifles and somehow get 35+ kills each half despite seemingly not doing a lot and downcast will maintain a 3:1 ratio in one half and a 1:2 in the other. Matthew Burton will shout a lot about the pitfalls of single-parenting in Vent, LoRDo will blissfully ignore the mm1 rule and netch will probably be wasted at all times.

Swinging on over to the nWo camp, dmX's band of grammar haters are somewhat of an unknown quantity; while containing well-known multiple-title-winning legends of the game such as , they did manage to overpower uR 2-1 in the previous SCG competition. On paper, reputations speak for themselves and, despite the inactivity of the last 18 months of their opponents, nWo cannot expect a victory simply due to the hyperactivity of the opponents during the last 18 days.

I have absolutely no idea who nWo are going to field as I have no idea what class everyone plays these days. Apparently, winnyreds is the new Adam "DreamTeam" Davis on the heavy, moX and dmX have the token "random capital letter" aliases, the latter of the previous two steadfastly refuses to use his spacebar at any time other than sprint-jumping around corners with a heavy, and Deliverance is the token member who should be playing every game, due to his ability, but probably won't be due to other commitments (and winnyreds).

David of Defeat's hot tip: The Believers to win by at least two caps, despite Santos being fairly difficult to cap on. nWo will need mystery players who are actually rather underrated and good (like Seb and bronx) to put in mammoth shifts if they don't want to be pinned on their first flag all game.

David of Defeat's hot tip for players to watch: If you want to be entertained, watch Burton, because if you don't laugh at him you'd probably cry. Downcast should pretty resoundingly win the sniper battle as Santos is one of his favourites and will give a masterclass on map control. Nofsky will four down in the space of two seconds at least once.

If you enjoy watching the type of movie-films where two or more guys touch their dicks together in a warm bubble-bath, you could do worse than watch Saber doing something horrifically AIDS at some point. I'm told that Bantu cheats, but I have no idea - either way, The Sheriff has decreed that there be a warrant out on the kid and if you feel like speccing him to figure out if he cheats or is actually good doesn't cheat is your choice.

I for one don't care and am already over this article. Hopefully you all die.

Edited 3 times, last edited 30/4/11 - 2:36pm.

haha shd be a close game

Hahaha, excellent work.

WHAT THE **** THERE IS AN MM1 RULE....

You had me at 'Super-serious-face', I love you Holley you toasty shithead.

theres more content in this article than the entire of 08-10 combined

burtons got nothing on ipx

True, stevepx will always be the original assault ******.

I like a good pre-game snifter

nWo to win by 2+ caps, expect a boring game, with nWo ripping the believers to their suicide altar at every matchup.

I can only say from experience, that Believers beat us by 1-2 caps whenever we play Santos. nWo lead by 9-0 and start using pistols at half time, so it is pretty obvious to me who is going to come out as victor in this one.

Edited once, 1/5/11 - 8:19am.

I'm pretty sure that "deliverence" doesn't play dods anymore and neither does antwa, these are "fake" ones sigh

DODS will be the real winner at the end of the game.

NWO by 5.

I'd laugh so hard if your team lost

...wut?

Get ready for the baneling bust ******s