timbermen and Nouns reach Ace North American Masters Spring 2024 playoffs
The Ace North American Masters Spring 2024 has seen it's first night of action come and go. For the uninitiated, there is a four-team group stage with Bo1 matches and then a single-elimination bracket where the winner will get a spot in the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown.
Group A began last night seeing timbermen qualify in first with two wins, while Nouns followed in second with two wins and a loss against timbermen. The two squads are now waiting in the semifinals for their Group B opponents who will be found out today.
The day started with Nouns comfortably beating Rocket on Anubis 13-5 as both Carson "nosraC" O'Reilly and Jeorge "Jeorge" Endicott ended the map with 15 kills each. timbermen had to face BOSS and despite being down 8-4 at the half on the T-side of Ancient, Wyatt "snav" Phillippi and co. came back with a 9-1 half to claim the 13-9 win.
Nouns and timbermen would then meet in a lengthy match to decide who would reach playoffs undefeated. The two teams had a 7-5 T-side half, which meant overtime had to be played. What both teams didn't expect was that they would play another 24 whole rounds as no one could get more than three rounds per half until timbermen did it on overtime #6.
With timbermen advancing to playoffs with no losses, Nouns would meet the winner of Rocket vs. BOSS for the final spot there. BOSS easily dispatched Rocket with a 13-3 Ancient, despite Damian "EMIYA" Boulware's (formerly known as droid) best efforts, putting up a 1.67 rating. From the winning side, Brett "brett" Rhein was the one topping the leaderboard with 22 kills and a 1.93 rating.
Finally, the match that would decide the last team from Group A to reach the playoffs would be between Nouns and BOSS. Inferno would be the venue and Nouns would go onto the T-side with a 6-6 score after a good offense from the BOSS boys. BOSS couldn't replicate the same performance during the CT-side, as Nouns easily won the second half and closed the map 13-7.
Nouns joined timbermen and now both are waiting for Group B to be played to discover who they will face. Group B is comprised of Party Astronauts, Wildcard, NRG, and Carpe Diem. The group's first game is between Wildcard and Carpe Diem, today at 04:00PM.
NounsBOSS| Nouns |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Paytyn 'junior' Johnson |
17 - 12 | +5 | 78.6 | 95.0% | 1.35 |
| Christopher 'cJ dA K1nG' Jones |
15 - 12 | +3 | 81.9 | 90.0% | 1.22 |
| Carson 'nosraC' O'Reilly |
12 - 12 | +0 | 80.0 | 75.0% | 1.19 |
 Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado |
16 - 14 | +2 | 91.2 | 65.0% | 1.10 |
| Jeorge 'Jeorge' Endicott |
15 - 12 | +3 | 76.2 | 75.0% | 1.10 |
| BOSS |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew 'd4rty' Paplawskas |
13 - 14 | -1 | 70.5 | 80.0% | 1.09 |
| Josh 'PwnAlone' Pigue |
13 - 15 | -2 | 78.2 | 70.0% | 0.98 |
| Brett 'brett' Rhein |
12 - 16 | -4 | 75.7 | 60.0% | 0.92 |
 Adam 'freshie' Paterson |
12 - 16 | -4 | 70.5 | 65.0% | 0.90 |
| Matthew 'Cryptic' Whitmore |
11 - 16 | -5 | 44.8 | 80.0% | 0.75 |
