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Event 11, overtakes - 69th

After the arduous seige to the top 25 in the previous event, team kinda decided pre race to take this battle easy.. Elcap, feeling as Napoleon surely once must have, rode up and down the lines on his (sturdy) horse, encouraging the battle weary troops of the pending assault.. He was a tad surprised by the steely tone eyes of his troops, as although most nodded to his "take it easy" mantra, there was an unnerving glistening glaze there also.. These are professional army now after all, so some exuberant "top 200 guys" sits not at all comfortable with these souls:)

And so the troops went about the meticulous pre battle preparations, ... stocking up on ammunition and coffee, polishing the guns and charging the devices, having that last nervous smoke.. Seriousness of the carnage to come prompted some to even logg out of facebook, last flashes of selfies rang into the quite night:)

The IRA team welcomed two new members on to the battlefield.. Ian and Whatsup.. Some troops were nervously excited by the sight of Ian arriving to the trenches, his 500+ medals shinning all sorts of rainbow lights off of his chest.. He attempted to calm and assure us that he is "not very good", which had a credibilty akin to a 6'8" black fella saying "no, no, really, im not that good at basketball":)

And so it bagan..

GH again got us off to a flier, with Ian, Whatsup and Tank leading the first wave.. Elcap, seeing how we quickly moved to around 50th, tried in vain to slow the assault, almost getting trampled to death by the overatakes numbers stacking up:)

TK arrived a bit latter, and set about his customary 'no prisoners' approach, pulling off amazing numbers, with Larry covering the backs of many a soldier with a super steady effort.. Tuan also decided to turn in a pearler of an effort, with Stan, GH, Ash, Whatsup and Sirebel setting about enhancing our team backbone with great driving..

These collective 'sweep & clear' efforts from our mid to top guns allowed the lower part of the table to proceed with ease, taking advantage of the free service to hopefully add another machine to the garage and completing the series..

Being a captain can sometimes lie heavy on a gentle soul as mine, so with a heavy heart i now retire to my bunker to try and figure out how to get Guille back into the team, as promised before he went travelling.. I am inclined to work on a potential "drop zone" system where the last 2 spots of our average results tables are opened to the cruel mercy sometimes required to build and steady a great team..