On friday, minutes before drafting for our quarter finals match against Etny, Musica comes in and wants to try his radical new draft.

It involves Enigma, Juggernaught, Enchantress, KOTL, and Ogre Magi.

We are like "WTF?!" and so after winning the coin toss, promptly choose Warlock as first pick. LuX, noticing that Musica is about to cry from being rejected or something, proposes that we redraft so that Musica can try his radical new draft. Of course, it isn't nice to redraft, so we give Etny both first pick AND sentinel to make up for it.

Etny picks Viper first, and Musica immediately picks Enigma.

Cue surprised looks, Etny doesn't take too long to draft QoP. Musica goes on with Enchantress.

More surprised looks. Etny is either surprised or happy or scared or something. They take a really long time to pick their next hero, THD. KOTL is immediately, without hesitation, drafted for us.

Cue a really long wait before Etny, in a move we actually anticipated, picks Earthshaker.

Tofu:"Ogre Magi. And write Juggernaught down too as our last pick because they won't pick it."

They pick VS, landing Musica's Enchantress soloing mid against Viper by his request (otherwise it would have been me). LuX's Enigma performs well as usual at top, and Tofu's Juggernaught does surprisingly well, albeit with rather bad early game. My Ogre and ice's KOTL go up against VS and THD at bottom lane, and we get off to a rather bad start as well, but soon proceed to own the lane.

Actually it's more of ice getting everything. Where Ignite and Fireblast are used mostly to harrass heroes, ice kills mostly creeps with illuminate (occasionally hitting heroes too, at least). With the exception of one or two ignite burn kills (as a result of ice probably misestimating illuminate damage), about every kill goes to him.

I would probably be pissed except that this is a rather usual situation with ice. Basically, if he stays in my lane, he farms everything at my expense, which is most of the time, a good thing. Take for example, when Viper takes over THD and proceeds to choing me with VS. Ogre with PB being rather fat, I survive for long enough to take the Viper down by a lot of health with whacks, Fireblast, and Ignite, and distract him for long enough for ice to land an illuminate, and walk up to me before MISSING MEKANSM (albeit partially because I got swapped by the VS). Well, it ends with me dead and ice getting a double kill with barely a nick to his health.

On a KOTL, ice farms radiance (for a hero that should spend most of his time staying at the back and illuminating and not being in the middle attacking?) and we push. Juggernaught and Enigma are very well farmed, but lack of reliable AoE makes it rather difficult to push in, especially since our primary late gamer, our dear beloved Enchantress, is pretty much farming badly.

Ice's mana leak does render the QoP pretty much useless though, and with Skadi and nothing else she really lacks damage output. Viper is also useless because he has no damage output. Juggernaught on the other hand has been really farmed, and so is the KOTL. A good catch at bottom lane after a few failed pushes brings us the win, although perhaps not as convicing a win as the previous two matches.