Earth Rumble VII Skud Pai Sho Tournament

[Cannoli]

The board finals are over and tonight we get to watch the Grand Final match! The last match was TheRealMomo vs Liam_Keaggy, and it was a nail biter! Be sure to watch Dallin's coverage on his youtube after this.

LOSERS BRACKET PRE-FINAL

TheRealMomo vs SpinxKreuz was a quick and decisive match! Spinx began the game with the usual 4-5 opener, which Momo promptly mirrored. Spinx focused on maintaining control of the Southern gate, planting a rose to the East and moving out before he touched his W4. Momo stayed up North, moving more quickly by planting her rose up top on harmony bonus. In response to Spinx’s opener, she brought out an orchid, placing it under his rose and blocking his first ring threat. Spinx tried to pressure this threat, planting his lotus to maintain control in the South, but Momo continually kept him blocked, first with a knotweed, and once that was boated away, with her rose. This rose block signalled Momo’s first ring threat, and Spinx was forced to switch to defense. After Spinx used his own knotweed to block his opponent, Momo took advantage of the placement and formed a harmony as she moved out of its range, planting her lotus on harmony bonus. As she moved her lotus out, she used one of her boats to remove Spinx’s knotweed, providing both an offensive and defensive threat, as her orchid was now ready to capture. Spinx easily blocked the former, harmonizing with Momo’s lotus and planting his orchid on the bonus, but the latter threat proved to be devastating for him. Momo used her orchid to quickly disassemble the remnants of Spinx’s offensive threat, removing his jade and rose from the board. Originally using his orchid to block rather than capture, Spinx was pressured into sacrificing his orchid to remove Momo’s lotus, effectively ending her capturing rampage. By then, however, Spinx was left powerless to stop Momo’s offensive push, and she completed her harmony ring unobstructed on turn 18, moving on to the LB Finals!

LOSERS BRACKET FINAL

In case you missed it, here's how it went down. Right off the bat TheRealMomo took over 3 gates leaving Liam_keaggey13 to build up a glut of flowers at the south gate. He also planted a knotweed to buy time, and TheRealMomo was not able to assemble a threat until turn 9. The pressure was still on and TheRealMomo cleared the knotweed on turn 12. Liam_keaggey13 put her back quite a ways with a rock so out came the orchids, both of them wild and ready to fight! Liam_keaggey13's orchid took out a flower, but ended up getting captured freeing up TheRealMomo to go on a killing spree. At turn 22 TheRealMomo set up a second threat ring, and Liam_keaggey13 had to further scatter his few flowers to keep things moving. Liam_keaggey13 got a little revenge with a clash capture bit TheRealMomo kept the pressure on hard threatening to win with one or another ring almost every turn! TheRealMomo sent her orchid on another rampage, clearing the board as Liam_keaggey13 struggled to block and flee. On turn 39 TheRealMomo was in full control of the board and made a winning ring just by clearing a rock. What an incredible and shocking match!

Don't forget to tune in later TODAY for the first Grand Final match! TheRealMomo will be facing Cannoli, and if she wants to win the title of Earth Kingdom Rumble Champion she will have to beat him twice! Will Cannoli sweep the tournament undefeated? Will TheRealMomo rise from the Loser bracket to become the champion? Only time will tell so watch it all tonight at 16:30 pacific! Available on pay per view, livestream and on skudpaisho.com!!!! Don't live under a rock, be there when the battle everyone will be talking about happens!

- Written by BaronAlbatross and Cannoli