Can I get the CCS title while fighting b3nni?! | CCS Hall of Celestials | Events with N0X

It was time for Hotep to play another CCS game. He had had a few rough matches in the past, so he was hoping for something better. Somewhere where he could actually do something and also get some kills. His cav CCS badges were already full red, so he did not greed for tokens. Instead, he wanted fun.

The map he was on was in a late morning time, ideal for Hotep to play. The map was far from ideal, though. b3nni was the clearly strongest account, and all the accounts that could match him and were on the map were in the same faction. Hotep had seen other cav leads like Tardis when scouting, but they did not seem to show up, meaning dealing damage to him would be very hard.

Hotep did not have many options and did not want to just join b3nni and sit in the hall for an hour, so he instead joined the strongest cav lead he found on the mao, Stalkerz379 in his shell alliance. He did not really think Stalkerz could win a rally, but at least they could try.

As expected, it was not a win, but the damage was not that bad either, so they tried a few more rallies after, although they had similar results.

Hotep got access to one of those reports, showing that they did deal good damage but were losing twice as much in return. Stalkerz was not weak at all but was not strong enough to compete with a maxed inf account like b3nni, especially since Stalkerz was missing some key weapons. They definitely needed some more than this to get some good wins, but they had nothing, meaning they had to wait until b3nni swapped to the next holder and hope that one would be better.

There was one more thing Hotep could do, though, and that was sniping the swap from b3nni. Not that he could use it for anything; he never had been close to any rank in the occupation rankings, but he might as well distract them.

He did not make it in the first try, but the second worked out, allowing him to get into the hall.

Hotep would even get two defensive victories from players not expecting to meet actual troops in the hall. He only survived for a few seconds until two spear solos from Syler and Orval kicked him out.

Orval was spear, and so Stalkerz could not kill him for sure. To not just wait, they went in and tried a full t1 rally, but they did not do much damage through it.

They would have to wait for the next swap. There were no more strong leads after, so the third one should be more diable.

N3O switched again, and this time Hotep was unable to snipe. Hotep had never heard of the name before, and after checking the gear for a second, he realized this was probably not the intended rally leader, and so he just went in and soloed with full t3 to test the defense.

The result could not have been more decisive. Not only was this not the designated rally lead, this was a F2P account. With full t3, he wiped the defense and got another hit in right after.

The holder then disbanded on someone, and Hotep was right there, ready to snipe once again.

He would get soloed out rather quickly, but with partly wrong troops and Hotep only sending t1, this was to be expected. STORMZ took it and would later swap it onto Syler.

Syler was not weak, but missing Gregor and the high-star weapons and advisors b3nni had, and so Stalkerz got an easy win on him with his first rally.

Since the rally went so well and Stalkerz was already quickly going through rallies, Hotep got asked to set up a rally too and just try it out, and so he did. He had never ran a serious rally in CCS before, and he would take the chance when he got it.

Hotep would lose but also dealt good damage, preventing it from being a full loss. It was clear, though, that Hotep still had a lot to work on. With Stalkerz winning hard and him just dying, it should be the difference between the accounts, and Stalkerz was far from maxed as well.

With 3 minutes left, N3O had their top 3 secured and swapped in Tweety to get the title on the account. Hotep knew Tweety was weak and had not been spent on in years, and so he instantly asked Stalkerz to solo with him

Hotep would get the building the first time but got kicked instantly, and when N3O swapped Tweety in again, Stalkerz was the one taking it this time.

b3nni and Orval had already left the map, and since Stalkerz was much stronger, he could not be soloed out.

All the N3O accounts besides Tweety had left the alliance already and joined the alliance of a CCS winner of a previous map to dodge the title, and so Stalkerz was now the player to take the title if he did not dodge. He wanted to dodge, which would have given Hotrep the title, but he failed to do it correctly in time, and so he ended up getting it.

Hotep would have lied had he said he went into the match expecting to get the title, but at the end when he was top before Stalkerz passed him and then again when he said he would dodge, it had definitely turned into his goal.

Due to the failed doge, he did not make it, but it had shown he should start taking the occupation rankings more seriously and work on sniping more aggressively. He had a great talk with Stalkerz during and after the match, and it was just a mistake, so there was no bad blood between them. The opposite actually: the shared battle had turned them into friends.

While the first 50 minutes had been rather meh, the rallies on Syler and the solos on Tweety had been a lot of fun, putting CCS back at the top of his personal ranking regarding events. He could only hope to get a map like this again, and this time the occupation rankings would be his main goal…

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