Maraqua Mauls Mountainers - Sweeps a plenty in the first day of the Altador Cup

[NixtheWatcher]

Welcome back to The Daily Neopets’ daily report on the Altador Cup. Once again, I'm Miko reporting live from the TDN Sports Center. Well sports fans, the inaugural day did not disappoint as we saw sweeps, surprises, struggles and a whole lot of action! Let's start off at the Alabriss bracket.

The first match of the day was between Darigan Citadel and Lost Desert, and it was a sweep for the Mummies, with one point wins in all categories against the Minions. Lost Desert is once again in a commanding position and Darigan Citadel fans are once again saddened at the lack of improvement. Shenkuu and Mystery Island face off in the second round and though Mystery Island won the Yooyuball event, the Ninjas' amazing performance in the support games clinched the win. Natives' fans were left fuming at this."We won the main event fair and square!" One particular Techo fumed. But the leader of the pack was the Tyrannian Fossils, who swept the Virtupets Robots with clean margins in all four events. Once again, Tyrannia is showing an amazing start to the event, which proves that they are ones to watch this year as well.

Now let's go over to my colleagues for the rest of the results. Over to you guys.

Miko pauses for a few moments, waiting for the transition but suddenly turned his head to look at an offscreen personnel.

Wait… You're telling me what?!... What happened?... So I have to do all of them?... Okay fine...
*cough* Well, viewers… turns out our Altador Cup team is a little short staffed this year. So I'll be doing all the reporting. Now where's the other results…

Miko ducked under the desk and pulled out several objects including a Faerie Paint Brush, a Pirate Draik Egg and several picnic baskets labelled "Miko's Snacks" before finally pulling out the file.

Ah, here we go! Now where we… The Minitheus Bracket… The matches in the group were extremely close but once again sweeps were plentiful. Starting off with Krawk Island and Altador, the Pirates pulled off a sweep, but Altador held strong and in the end they only lost by one points in all 4 games. We can expect strong showings from both teams in the coming days.

The second match saw last years winners and losers clash and once again the Haunted Woods Zombies were swept by the Kiko Lake Kikos. After their devastating fall from grace, the Zombies seem to be struggling with regaining their footing, while the Kikos remained strong from last year, defying the Winner's Curse. Will their ranking remain the same? We will have to find out later. Finally, we have the Faerieland Faeries and Moltaran Magmas and it was a repeat of the Shenkuu-Mystery Island match, with the Magmas taking the main event but Faerieland stealing the title with the support games. And the result was the same - angry fans from the Magmas' side.

And finally we have the Vaeolus Bracket - or the curbstomp bracket as it should be called. First, came the Brightvale Wizards, with their great win over the Rooligans of Roo Island. The Wizards' goalkeeping was on point as they scored more than double of what the Roos achieved. Next up, and even more one sided was the Kreludor Moons with a decisive victory against the Meridell Knights, who were hoping to get a running start, but was left biting the moon dust as Kreludor roared the house down in Make Some Noise.

But the game of the day has to be the utter devastation of Terror Mountain by Maraqua. All four events were won by the Mermaids with eye-popping margins. The results are a major victory for the Mermaids, who have always been a middle bracket team. Earlier, I sat down with Maraqua Team Captain Elon "The Black Hole" Hughlis about this amazing win.

Miko: Captain Elon, welcome to the show and wow. Wow.
Elon: *grinning brightly* Thanks, Miko.
Miko: What a day it has been for Maraqua. A sweep - no, a total domination of the Terror Mountain Chillers. Nearly double points in Yooyuball and Shootout Showdown; Triple points in Slushie Slinger; and a record breaking quadruple in Make Some Noise. How are you guys feeling right now?
Elon: Amazing. We all felt like this was going to be our year, but the results today were better than any one of us expected. I really have to thank all of our fans. That Make Some Noise victory goes out to them.
Miko: You guys now have a target painted on your backs, and all the teams are going to be out for you. How does that make you feel?
Elon: Bring them on I say. We Mermaids have the best start in many years and we are not going to let it go to waste.
Miko: Good luck this year and thank you for coming to the program.

And that was Captain Elon fo the Maraqua Mermaids; and with that, we end our coverage for today. I'll see you again tomorrow and until next time this is Miko, signing off. Good night Neopia and keep your Chillers chilled.

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[voteforpedro333]

Excited to see the strong start from Maraqua. They've had victory a long time coming! (And they've been my predicted winner for many a year now... XD)