| Swamp Foxes | 2 |
| Plague Rats | 1 |
Match starts at 6:53 on video.
Match #1
The battle starts with a ton of mobility. Both teams move all over the field and the fight is spread out across the entire list. Plague rats take the advantage at twenty seconds in when they get the first take down. The same fighter immediately takes another Swamp Fox down, across the field a third Swamp Fox goes down in a suicide take down with PK now at a 4/2 disadvantage. At 45 seconds into the fight, a Swamp Fox fighter gets a takedown and the Plague Rotten advantage is reduced to 3/2. When that fighter rolls and steps backwards off the rail he’s pushed down. Plague Rotten loses a fighter in the press and they carry a 2/1 advantage. The next several minutes area great show of a Swamp Fox fighter staying up despite the disadvantage. The fight is timed out and won by Plague Rotten due to a 2/1 final advantage.
ANALYSIS
The fight shifted to favor Plague Rotten at the first takedown. When a PK fighter put his back to the arena, he was quickly taken down by an approaching opponent. The same Plague Rotten fighter was able to do a head lock takedown of the other PK fighter on that rail almost immediately. Two PK fighters showed fortitude and smarts when they stayed tight to each other and fought off the rail. Plague Rotten crowded them because they didn’t have a two handed weapon to deal damage. When PK was able to quickly reduce the advantage to 3/2, they should have pressed hard and fought back to back against the rail. Stepping away from the rail lost the fighter for PK. PK Swamp Foxes showed incredible resilience and ability to stay up on the rail. Plague Rotten did not have a fighter switch out to a two handed weapon despite their advantage. Doing so would have likely ended the fight sooner to their advantage.
