/vm/ History

World Cup 21

As a new team, there's no better feeling that starting with a bang, shocking your audience, putting on a show but most importantly, not disappointing the people that put their support on you. Thankfully that was the case with our first match against  /k/, which ended on a high energy 2-2 draw, both goals being scored by our star player phoon, result that only undermined the glory /vm/ was destined to. Our first win came out the very next match against a relentless  /c/ that was extremely hungry for a big blowout result, but little did they know that there was a big wall that went by the name of DELETE THIS, saving 8 of 10 shots on target and only allowing 1 goal in, which helped our team to get a VERY IMPORTANT 2-1 win, goals by phoon and our Captain Gregor, putting us at the top of the group by week 2. The last match of groups was a very emotional and nostalgic one against  /f/ on their brand new home stadium. With /c/ winning their match against /k/ earlier, our team would top the group on a win and get by in 2nd place with a draw, but losing would mean an early 3rd place exit, which thankfully didn't happen. An early goal by Gregor would put our team on the driver seat for about 80 minutes until lolicatgirls, /f/'s lead scorer and Gold player, answered back and brought the match back to even. The match would end on a 1-1 thriller, which allowed our team to get 2nd place and reach the knockout stage, a result only two of the four newcomers would get to achieve.

As 2nd placers, our team had to be assigned an opponent out of the hat, and lady luck decided that our Round of 32 match would be against no other than  /m/ on what everyone denominated The /m/vm/ Bowl. After a very sleepy 1st half and 4 saves by our starting keeper DOOR STUCK, phoon with help of brb smoke break and Random Crits are Fair and Balanced scored a brace, allowing our team to come out on top, win 2-0 and get to the Round of 16, where  /c/ wanted to take another stab at us and retake their pride. After an early goal by Hamachi at the 7' minute, the biggest clown shoes match took place on both sides of the pitch. With another stellar performance by our keeper DOOR STUCK and /c/'s strikers not being able to finish their shots properly, /vm/ took a 1-0 victory home, a result that would cement our team between the best 8 teams in the most important tournament yet in the history of the 4chan Cup.

Our next match was against  /b/, a team that was known in this tournament for being very high scoring, not having lost a single match up to this point. Despite the D-Boys blessing on the pitch and everyone's best efforts, our team got shut down completely and our cinderella run came to an end on a 1-3 result, rewarding us with a shared 7th place with previous Elite Cup winners  /n/. With mixed opinions on the team's performance and nothing but everyone's praises for our aesthetic efforts, we now are heading out to Autumn, where our team must show that the World Cup's performance wasn't just an "one off".

Autumn 21

It was a one of! Sadly for everyone involved, our Autumn campaign was nothing short of "outstandingly bad", getting the 35th place out of 40 boards and 2nd worst vidya team in the competition. Our team started losing 5-2 against World Cup Champion  /s4s/ while giving away the first 9.0 in 5 years. Our 2nd match had a better prospect, beating  /bant/ 3-1 with some Halloween magic, but while we were celebrating,  /toy/ and  /x/ quickly deflated our spirits and took away our joy, defeating us 3-2 and 3-0 respectively and eliminating our team from any chances of being Elite. It's been 6 months since then, so what does the future hold for /vm/? Better ping and scores, we hope.