Saint Francis University White was able to gain an easy victory last week as their opponent was forced to forfeit. This week, they came in well-rested and ready to get their season back on track. Standing in their way was the University of Albany A-Team, who had a similar 1-1 record on the season. SFU took a big risk in bringing a deck that would likely require them to reverse sweep Albany. However, with big risk often comes big rewards, and that is exactly what happened on Thursday night. Saint Francis was able to successfully come back from a 2-1 deficit to win the series.

Game 1

As per usual with the lineups, Tyler "Clutch" Tomechak started off the night for the White Team. However, this is one of the only games that I have ever seen Tomechak know that he would almost certainly lose. See, the Red Flash came in with a unique, risky strategy this week, the likes of which have never been seen before in Saint Francis University Hearthstone history. The strategy was to intentionally play their worst win-percentage decks to ensure that they have the best possible chance of pulling off a reverse sweep. With this in mind, if Tyler ended up winning game one, it would have been a miracle since his chance of winning was under 10%. However, the game looked surprisingly good right off the bat for SFU; they were able to go up 30-24 with a confident swagger that has not been present since last season. There was constant, open communication among the team which could prove more useful than even winning this single game. This communication led to the Red Flash going up 30-14; however, they needed to finish off Albany fast. They were unable to do this due to their deck simply being outmatched and were eventually forced to concede due to an enemy getting a lucky draw. This put Albany up 1-0 in the series.

Game 2

         For game two, SFU decided to sub in Anthony "McBucketzzz" McFeaters. SFU was in a bit of a precarious situation in this game. They had expected the enemy to select a different deck than they did, so this meant that they had to win this matchup. On the bright side, they had a 91% chance to win the game, so there was not a whole lot of fear within the team. Luckily, the enemy was also drawing bad cards from the beginning of the game, so victory was almost a given. Despite this, there was a small amount of pressure on McFeaters' pride as, if he lost this game, he vowed to quit Hearthstone as a whole. However, Anthony did not have to worry too much as a few rounds later, Albany conceded.

Game 3

Feeling good after their win in the last game, Saint Francis University decided to sub in Logan "Spiritshard" Huff with the hopes of winning this series faster than they had predicted. This was the first time this season that Huff was in control, and he refused to do anything other than prove why he belongs on the team. Despite some bad draws at the beginning of the game, he was able to establish a solid 24-11 lead by the sixth round. All Logan needed was to draw fire sale to secure the victory and that is exactly what he did. No more than two turns later, the Red Team was up 2-1 in the series and had an abundance of momentum going into game four.

Game 4

         The cycle through the players continued for game four as Tomechak reentered the game playing in another low win-percentage matchup. Surprisingly enough, Tyler started off with a hot start, going up 30-23 during just the first few turns. This hot streak continued as the Red Flash were able to chip away at Albany's health pool, eventually bringing the HP pools to 30-9. Once again, however, Albany just proved to have the better deck in the matchup. Saint Francis knew that they had to keep Albany from healing, but were unable to do so. Once fully healed, Albany started to apply pressure to SFU and eventually forced them to concede, allowing the series to go to game five.

Game 5