Hitman Bingo 2

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**Hitman Bingo 2** was a HITMAN 3 event hosted by Providence. *Tournament assets are provided by Mando, GKPunk, Crewdy and Gunther, with the event being sponsored by In4Fun.*

After a successful first edition, Providence bought live hitman bingo back, 8 months after the first tournament. Due to feedback from the last tournament, aspects from the original ruleset changed. The any suit start still stood, however, player's loadouts would now be a silenced ICA19 Pistol, Coins and now a lockpick, replacing the fiber wire used in HB1. Non-lockout bingo was still claiming any 2 lines on the board and was still able to claim same tiles as your opponent. The main changes came to the lockout bingo. Where in HB1 once you claimed a tile, that was it, you had it and you're opponent couldn't claim it. You could restart and still have it, you could replan and still have it. This changed in HB2, although it was still first to 10 tiles, if you restarted, the tile would still be yours but it would be a half-tile, meaning you'd have to do the tile again in your run, just your opponent couldn't claim it. The other big change came with replanning. If you replanned to a new starting location, all tiles you had would be lost and up for grabs again, this was to stop players quickly loading in multiple starts to get 1 or 2 quick tiles from an available starting location. Similarly, the bracket become double elim with FT3 games. Even after this somewhat major changes, the tournament still lived up to the great expectations held above it.

The reigning champion, Phanium, kick started the tournament with the first game against Linux\_penguin. After a very close Paris where a slight scare from Linux\_penguin could've caused a first map upset, a misjudgment of exits meant that Phanium was able to take Paris comfortably in the end. Bangkok was were it nearly went wrong for Phanium as multiple NTKs occurred for him with the restaurant chandelier kill on Ken. Fortunately for him, Linux\_penguin could put the final pieces of his run together and Phanium went through to the second round, after a shacky performance on his standards. Our second game of the tournament saw a close battle between In4Fun and MattySpice04. After a long runs on Sgail and Hokkaido, both players retained their map picks and we were set up for a decider on Whittleton Creek. A close run it was with both players going well 7 minutes into the board, a costly use of a loud pistol elimination kill onto Janus from MattySpice04 gave In4Fun plenty of breathing who calmly collected the final few tiles of his 2 lines to take the decider and start what would be a great winner's bracket run. The final game of the opening day was between TK47 and Nezuko Chan. After TK won his own map pick of Paris, a 25-minute Berlin came in favour of Nezuko who held their own map pick to send us to our second decider in three games. Despite being typically known for being quick, Dartmoor proved challenging in it's first competitive bingo outing. After 10 minutes of real time and no rips from both players, it was TK47 who came out on top. Nezuko had 2 lines down but Alexa Carlise and the case file still needed killing and collected, a thriller of a decider wrapped up Day 1 as we headed into an even busier Day 2.

And Day 2 certainly didn't disappoint. An early contender for game of the tournament started the day off with Yannini Vs Meekah. After a respin being needed after 15 minutes of action on Paris due to a Meekah crash, Yannini won it by the skin of his teeth to again take a 2-0 lead after his own map pick. Meekah flew out of the blocks on his pick of Miami which ended up to be arguably the best performance on a map in the tournament, having 7 tiles in the first 1 minute 30 seconds of his in game time, it took just 6 and a half minutes of RTA to take map two and made us head to a decider for the third game in a row, the only time we saw Chongqing played in the tournament. Despite it's popularity in HB1, Chongqing didn't get much love in the second tourney with no one picking it throughout, this decider was the only game to play it with unfortunate restarts from Yannini and a calm 10:18 first time run from Meekah which saw him travel the entire map, Meekah was the one to advance to face Jokerj in round 2 with Yannini dropping to the LB. Our next game of the day saw the runner-up of HB1 in action for the first time, in Some Random Person Vs SupremeCommanderIke. After a shacky 30-minute Santa Fortuna win for Some Random Person, it was him who was to also win map 2 of Sapienza in similar fashion to Santa Fortuna. An expected win from Some Random Person, but not in the manner we may have expected.

## Matches

Day 5 - 24 Dec, 2022

Day 10 - 29 Dec, 2022

Day 11 - 30 Dec, 2022

Day 13 - 01 Jan, 2023

Day 15 - 03 Jan, 2023

Day 18 - 06 Jan, 2023

Day 20 - 08 Jan, 2023