Last Sunday, February 16 2020, the Rainbow Six Siege Invitational Final took place, a game between Space Station Gaming (SSG) and Ninja’s in Pajamas (NIP). The game was play to best of 5, with the winner needing 3 map wins. SSG came into the games with a 1 map advantage because they stayed in the winners bracket, NIP came in at a disadvantage because they were in the losers’ bracket. However, NIP showing little remorse, completely destroyed SSG on their first map, even though SSG chose the map which is normally an advantage. On the second map SSG put up a fight however they still lost to NIP. With NIP at game point, 2 maps to 1 map for SSG, SSG needed too pull themselves together and that is exactly what they did.
The Final map was bank, a map that has been in the game since release and would likely be a slug-fest between the two teams as both have much experience on it.
With SSG taking the first 3 rounds, it was looking like SSG had pulled themselves together and were likely going to defeat NIP.
After the halftime, SSG was up by 2 rounds and NIP was looking to push back however, SSG were going to have none of it.
After a time out from NIP, SSG took match point and finally, the game as they beat NIP and took first place at the Invitationals. This is significant because for the past 2 years, a player on SSG, Canadian, has been trying to win first place. With his age showing, Canadian and SSG finally got the first place they wanted and delivered to the Siege community one of the greatest comebacks ever seen in the game.
Live tweeting this event was fun, because I had knowledge on how the game worked and knew the background of the teams it made examining the actions of the teams and players a lot easier. The way the matches were timed and how each round played out also let me live tweet the games easily, as each round had enough downtime to tweet on the state of the match.
Clinton's life 