This is the first part of a brand new series exclusive to the Red Alert Blog of Boo. In it I will be comparing 2 closely matched players and doing a "Top Trumps" style evaluation of their play in order to decide who is the better player right now, as of March 2021. No sitting on the fence. I'll say it like it is and give my absolute honest opinion. Hopefully this series will lead to some much needed Bo9s in the community!!!! If any of the players dispute what I say then they can prove me wrong by having a Bo9. So without further Ado let's make a start in comparing these 2 titans.
The 5 categories which will be judged out of 10: Tanking (Shift, Q/GQ,Stacking,Positioning, Rushing), Building (Teslas,Base Crawl, Turrets, Chrono etc), Infantry (scouting, guarding, engineers, grenadiers, thieves), Teamwork, Map knowledge. Each of the 5 categories will receive a score out of 10 and we will get to a total at the end.
Red Corner: K0bra
Country: England
Clan: A
Best Known as: 1 dimensional tanker
Tanking: 8.75/10
Building: 7/10
Infantry: 7.5/10
Teamwork: 8.75/10
Map Knoweldge: 8/10
Notes. Very solid tanker who will spam tanks and is a hard match in a tank battle for anyone. Definitely struggles if he has to transition to tesla or turret spam however. Infantry is pretty solid I have not seen him lose any very fast games, but similarly I have never seen him do anything special with engineers, grenadiers or thieves - he just plays a,b,c solid rifles so I think a score of 7.5/10 is fair. Teamwork not quite a 9 but he does play very well in tournaments so give him his due. I think this is also a fair score. Map knowledge is a good 8/10, there's some maps I've never seen him play so I think he deserves a score of 8/10 for having a good all around grasp of most standards and all of the classic 2v2 maps we play.
Blue corner: Leigh
Country: Scotland
Clan: cousin
Best known for: coaching cousinad to be pro, also living in Crush & Blitz's shadow.
Tanking: 8.75/10
Building: 8/10
Infantry: 8.25/10
Teamwork: 8.75/10
Map Knowledge: 8/10
Tanking is very solid like K0bra, I literally couldn't split them. I think they are legitimately 50-50 with very even games so I gave them the exact same score of 8.75/10. Leigh is not known for his 10 cy game and oldpr0 will tell you he is a total nubenator in a P4 long game situation for example. However, it is true that he is pretty capable with turret use on maps such as T-dawg so I definitely think he has an edge on Kobra in this department so I rated him higher. Leigh's infantry use is also pretty solid and he has been known to use sneaky grenadier attacks on standard maps, and has impressed on occasion with last minute engineers. His infantry use is definitely more adventurous and better than Kobra's. Teamwork Leigh has also performed very admirably in tournaments - sometimes winning several tournaments in succession. However he has also had some very bad tournaments as Muad Dib (aka everyone's favourite Mad Dog) will tell you! I think on balance their tournament record and teamwork is very finely poised. Finally, the map knowledge of Leigh is very good when it comes to maps like Arena and general 2v2 maps, however I think there is still room for improvement as you will never see him jump in a 2v2 P4 or a goldrush/rasta game so I think on balance 8/10 is fair.
Final average totals - K0bra 8/10
- Leigh 8.35/10
Leigh wins the match!
Overall, a very very close match. Hard to call with 2 closely matched players. I think on balance Leigh is the slightly stronger player with more "strings to his bow" so to speak. I think these 2 players are extremely closely matched.
I hope you enjoyed the first part of this series! Stay tuned for more! Please let me know if you would like to volunteer to be compared to someone, maybe your biggest rival? Go on, be brave!