slashLEVEL take Boston Underwatch LAN
The two-day Boston LAN run by N3rd Street Gamers and Underwatch came to a on Sunday with Main team slashLEVEL taking home the title and their $2,750 share of the $4k up for grabs.
Held within the Balance Patch Video Game Cafe in Masschusetts, an MDL/Advanced mix built by Jimmy "Nurfed" McFadden and Michael "agM" Abood called Big Frames attempted a lower bracket run to get themselves in the money, as they bested a 13-3 Open squad called eufnbu (apparently pronounced "f-new-boo").
Anthony "Nervous" Boring headlined the top of the scoreboard against eufnbu closing out Nuke 16-12 with 25 total frags.
Big Frameseufnbu| Big Frames |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Anthony 'Nervous' Boring |
25 - 18 | +7 | 90.3 | 92.9% | 1.36 |
| Bryce 'PureR' Lovell |
22 - 17 | +5 | 89.1 | 75.0% | 1.25 |
| Michael 'agM' Abood |
23 - 17 | +6 | 80.4 | 75.0% | 1.21 |
| Colton 'BASE' Musella |
23 - 19 | +4 | 97.5 | 75.0% | 1.19 |
| Jimmy 'Nurfed' McFadden |
17 - 19 | -2 | 67.2 | 60.7% | 0.99 |
| eufnbu |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin 'Benji' Coiff |
23 - 23 | +0 | 88.2 | 67.9% | 1.08 |
| William 'oof' Anderson |
20 - 21 | -1 | 74.5 | 64.3% | 1.01 |
| Leif 'leif' Von Phul |
20 - 21 | -1 | 75.3 | 60.7% | 0.89 |
| Victor 'Yum' Rodrigouz |
16 - 23 | -7 | 61.9 | 67.9% | 0.84 |
| Christorphor 'Yeti' Hernandez |
11 - 23 | -12 | 51.5 | 53.6% | 0.59 |
Beating the nonsensically pronounced eufnbu, Big Frames moved onto the consolidation final against Northeast Mayhem, who beat out the defending champions Vivency in the quarterfinals earlier in the tournament.
The relatively unknown Mayhem squad, composed of players from IM through Advanced might have seemed like an underdog coming into the match against the semi-pros, however didn't blink in the face of adversity. Mirage was a PUG paradise for Rossein "Conan-Kun" Choeng as he dropped 31 frags with the rest of his crew cleaning up the scraps for a 16-9 victory, leading into a Winners Finals rematch against eventual champions slashLEVEL.
Northeast MayhemBig Frames| Northeast Mayhem |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rossein 'Conan-Kun' Choeng |
31 - 12 | +19 | 119.7 | 80.0% | 1.96 |
| Bron 'bron' Mills |
20 - 17 | +3 | 84.8 | 80.0% | 1.25 |
| Charles 'chops' Schopperle |
17 - 13 | +4 | 64.7 | 80.0% | 1.23 |
| Joe 'Lonewolf' Pustorino |
16 - 17 | -1 | 82.8 | 80.0% | 1.17 |
| Josh 'jkar' Cardia |
17 - 12 | +5 | 68.2 | 72.0% | 1.07 |
| Big Frames |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryce 'PureR' Lovell |
23 - 20 | +3 | 83.1 | 60.0% | 1.03 |
| Jimmy 'Nurfed' McFadden |
18 - 21 | -3 | 83.4 | 72.0% | 0.93 |
| Anthony 'Nervous' Boring |
14 - 18 | -4 | 66.2 | 60.0% | 0.89 |
| Colton 'BASE' Musella |
8 - 21 | -13 | 47.2 | 52.0% | 0.58 |
| Michael 'agM' Abood |
8 - 21 | -13 | 51.6 | 44.0% | 0.43 |
Due to coming from the upper bracket, slashLEVEL were gifted a 1-0 advantage, which meant very little to the mix, once again being able to play Mirage. With the map driven mostly by each sides CT-side, it was a Joe "Lonewolf" Pustorino 1v1 clutch to push the game to map point, later taking it 16-13.
While fragging well on the previous map, it was on Train that KiiroKami was able to dump 28 kills in 23 rounds to take the map and title against the Mayhem.
slashLEVELNortheast Mayhem| slashLEVEL |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua 'KiiroKami' Kim |
53 - 33 | +20 | 112.6 | 80.8% | 1.61 |
 Alfonso 'krZ' Fiorani |
43 - 30 | +13 | 82.5 | 75.0% | 1.29 |
| Jonathan 'n0swal' Lawson |
33 - 41 | -8 | 74.3 | 73.1% | 0.96 |
| Sam '4sh0t' Mariano |
31 - 29 | +2 | 59.7 | 69.2% | 0.94 |
| 'phx' |
30 - 39 | -9 | 59.9 | 63.5% | 0.82 |
| Northeast Mayhem |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe 'Lonewolf' Pustorino |
39 - 35 | +4 | 90.6 | 67.3% | 1.17 |
| Bron 'bron' Mills |
40 - 38 | +2 | 76.7 | 71.2% | 1.09 |
| Rossein 'Conan-Kun' Choeng |
31 - 36 | -5 | 66.2 | 59.6% | 0.96 |
| Josh 'jkar' Cardia |
34 - 41 | -7 | 59.5 | 76.9% | 0.92 |
| Charles 'chops' Schopperle |
28 - 40 | -12 | 67.6 | 61.5% | 0.89 |
The prize distribution and top four look as such:
- 1st - slashLEVEL (KiiroKami, n0swal, krZ, 4sh0t, phx) - $2,750
- 2nd - Northeast Mayhem (jkar, vicious, Conan-Kun, chops, Lonewolf) - $1,000
- 3rd - Big Frames (Nervous, PureR, agM, BASE, Nurfed) - $600
- 4th - eufnbu (Benji, oof, leif, Yum, Yeti)
The full bracket can be found here.
