R0ck4tr3ss Runner Rumble Reviews:
「𝔾𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕚𝕟 𝕊𝕙𝕖𝕝𝕝」vs ᴴ̷ᴬ̷ᴹ̵ᴹ̷³̵ᴿ̴
Initial Bookies Odds:
Ghost [2-0-0-0]
-300
1/4
Draw / NC
+50
3/2
Hamm3r [0-1-3-0]
+500
6/1
The fight was pretty awful as far as spectacle was concerned.
Hamm3r proved unable to access the mini-map and take advantage of terrain knowledge of the arena despite his previous similarly lacklustre bouts.
The problem was that while his one draw and three defeats were all due to taking on opponents and making n00b mistakes leading to a quick bout and forced jack-out, GitS decided that she was going to play with her food.
The end result appeared to be her making light jabs to test his defences and see what his playstyle was - up to and including letting him take his best shot at her - only for him to rapidly show signs of rapidly running out of RAM due to all his daemons de-rezzing.
The fact she merely waited while she as functionally invisible to her opponent and didn't capitalize on any of his openings was borderline criminal.
The only notable thing was that Ghost, who is rumoured to be the notorious Netrunner behind the Laughing Man identity, was able to inject hitherto unknown daemons into the root system server itself alongside a parallel attack on various daemons.
The lack of flashy ICE, barrier apps or any of the barrage of programs used by Ghost in her previous team bout meant that this was a snorefest running nearly 20 minutes long when most rumbles feel like your typical three-to-five minute Friday Night Firefight BD with this level of mismatch.
Honestly, you'd be better off watching one of those than going through the logs of this one-sided fracas. If you're looking for recommendations, Inner Universe is doing the rounds if you can pick up a copy from someone in Watson.
Winner: Ghost by way of forced jack-out.
Tagline: Stray Cat's Student fights a tomato can.
Rating: (0.7/10.0)