MultiVersus’ hit detection will be getting a “big overhaul”, its game director confirmed today.
Tony Huynh tweeted about a new online-only update that had been added to the game, which fixed bugs affecting certain moves for Jake and Tom & Jerry.
One follower replied by asking if Finn would be getting a nerf in the future, claiming his moves seemed to break through opponents’ defenses too easily.
Huynh replied that Finn would be getting tweaked, but that it would take place in phases because the team was working on a larger overhaul of the hit detection system.
“We’ll be looking at Finn in sections,” Huynh said. “We are working on a big overhaul of our hitbox / hurtbox system, so don’t want too many moving parts.”
Hitboxes and hurtboxes are the two essential components of a fighting game’s hit detection mechanics.
A hitbox is an invisible box that is created when a character performs an attack, and shows the range of space the attack covers. A hurtbox is another invisible box which sits on top of a character and determines where they can be hit.
If a character performs an attack and their hitbox overlaps the opponent’s hurtbox, the attack lands. By making either one or both of these boxes smaller, it becomes harder to land attacks (because overlaps are less likely).
An overhaul to the hitbox and hurtbox system, then – such as the one being planned for MultiVersus – could make it either easier or harder to hit opponents, depending on how the boxes are altered.
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Season 1 of MultiVersus was expected to officially begin on August 9, along with the release of Morty from Rick & Morty as the game’s 18th playable character.
However, it was announced earlier this week that Season 1 and Morty have now been delayed, with the new date still to be confirmed.
“We know this might be disappointing for some and want to assure our Community that we are dedicated to delivering new and exciting content that delights players,” a statement on the game’s official Twitter account read.
“We’ll let you know the timing as soon as we can. We appreciate your patience & enthusiasm and look forward to unveiling Season 1 very soon.”
Champions Bayern Munich fired five goals past woeful Eintracht Frankfurt in the first half on the way to an electric 6-1 victory in the Bundesliga season opener on Friday.
The Bavarians put down a marker at the start of the campaign as they look to land an 11th consecutive league crown, and outclassed the Europa League winners, who face Real Madrid in the Super Cup next week, with new signing Sadio Mane on target.
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Mane, who netted in last week’s German Super Cup win over RB Leipzig, was among five different scorers in a scorching first half with all Bayern’s goals coming in a span of 38 minutes.
“The first half was outstanding I must say,” Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann said. “I don’t think it will always be like that but after two matches we can be satisfied.”
“The energy we have in our game is really good,” he said.
Joshua Kimmich opened their account with an audacious free kick that went in off the post and Benjamin Pavard drilled in their second six minutes later just before Eintracht hit the woodwork through Tuta.
Thomas Muller had what could become one of the misses of the season when he hit the post from close range and then also failed to score on the rebound.
But Mane did much better in the 29th, heading home to Serge Gnabry cross to make it 3-0. He then sent Muller through to set up Jamal Musiala for their fourth in the 35th with a simple tap-in and the Eintracht defense in tatters.
Gnabry also got onto the scoresheet two minutes before the break, burying any thoughts that Bayern may struggle in attack after the departure of striker Robert Lewandowski to Barcelona.
Eintracht, who will play in the Champions League this season, were livelier after the break as Bayern eased off and they pounced on goalkeeper Manuel Neuer’s error outside the box to score through Randal Kolo Muani in the 64th.
Musiala, however, wrapped up the scoring when he latched onto Leroy Sane’s assist to slot in his second goal of the evening seven minutes from time to complete the route.
A new advertisement for Representative Liz Cheney’s re-election campaign features a leader of a bygone era in the Republican Party excoriating the leader of the current one.
“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual that was a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Ms. Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, said in the ad, released less than two weeks before Wyoming’s primary elections on Aug. 16.
He praised Ms. Cheney, who has become a pariah among Republicans for her criticism of Mr. Trump and her work as vice chairwoman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, for “honoring her oath to the Constitution when so many in our party are too scared to do so.”
The one-minute ad landed with a bang Thursday on social media, where to single copy racked up seven million views. But in Wyoming, where Mr. Trump won 69.9 percent of the vote in 2020 — more than in any other state — it is highly unlikely to sway any significant number of voters in Ms. Cheney’s favor.
For decades before Mr. Trump transformed the party, Mr. Cheney was one of the most influential Republicans in the nation: He was the White House chief of staff under President Gerald Ford, secretary of defense under President George HW Bush and vice president under President George W. Bush, a position in which he wielded uncommon power and was an architect of the US invasion of Iraq. But the Republican Party of 2022 bears little resemblance to the party he held power in.
At least six of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Mr. Trump will be leaving Congress in January: Four of them are retiring and two were defeated in primaries, with another two still awaiting primary results several days after voting ended in Washington State. It would take an astonishing political turnaround for Ms. Cheney to avoid joining them. In a Casper Star-Tribune poll last month, she trailed her opponent, Harriet Hageman, by 22 percentage points.
In light of those numbers, the ad, like many of Ms. Cheney’s public statements as a leader of the Jan. 6 committee, seemed more of an appeal to history than one to the electorate.
Mr. Trump “tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him,” Mr. Cheney said in the ad. “He’s a coward. A real man would not lie to his supporters of him. He lost his election and he lost big. I know it, he knows it, and, deep down, I think most Republicans know it.”
Of his daughter, he continued, “There is nothing more important she will ever do than lead the effort to make sure Donald Trump is never again near the Oval Office — and she will succeed.”
LG launched the LG Ultra Tab as its new Android tablet. LG Ultra Tab is an Android 12 tablet with 10.35 inch IPS LCD screen, Snapdragon 680 chipset and 7040 mAh battery. The tab’s IPS LCD screen comes with a resolution of 2000 x 1200 pixels and a refresh rate of 60Hz. There are four speakers on the sides of the screen and it also supports the LG Wacom stylus. Users also get a 5-megapixel selfie camera on the front and an 8-megapixel main camera with autofocus on the back.
This is the price of LG Ultra Tab The Android tablet has been listed on the LG Korea website. The tablet comes with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, the storage of which can be expanded via a microSD slot. The company says it is rated to the US Army’s MIL-STD 810G standard for strength.
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The LG Ultra Tab comes in a single charcoal gray color scheme and is priced at KRW 4,26,000 (around Rs. 26,000). There’s an open sale going on in South Korea, though it remains to be seen how long it will be available in other markets.
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LG Ultra Tab Specifications The LG Ultra Tab sports a 10.35-inch LCD screen with an aspect ratio of 5:3 and a refresh rate of 60Hz. It is equipped with a Snapdragon 680 chip, coupled with 4GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage. The tablet gets an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 5-megapixel front camera for selfies and video calls. It has a massive 7040mAh battery that supports 25W fast charging. The Ultra Tab runs Android 12 out of the box. In April last year, LG officially announced its withdrawal from the smartphone business, followed by a shutdown of manufacturing activities at the end of May.
Calls for several local stadiums in Sydney to be upgraded will only grow louder after shocking footage emerged of a grandstand collapsing at Leichhardt Oval.
Radio host Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald was attending a high school rugby union match between St Joseph’s College and Riverview on Saturday and he shared a video of an ugly incident on Twitter.
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In the clip, a Joeys player goes over for a try to the delight of the packed crowd in attendance.
But the video then shows a railing at the front of a small grandstand collapse under the weight of the fans, causing a number of them to faceplant onto concrete meters below.
Fitzgerald wrote: “Do you reckon Leichardt Oval needs an upgrade?”
It’s unclear if any of the spectators were injured. Channel 9 reported paramedics were at the scene.
The collapse happened in front of a crowd of around 15,000 and brought the game to a standstill.
The unfortunate incident will only heap more pressure on the NSW government to commit to funding upgrades to three Sydney stadiums including Leichhardt Oval, the traditional home of the Wests Tigers.
This week it emerged Sydney is on the brink of losing the NRL Grand Final after the state government reportedly walked away from an $800 million pledge.
The agreed upon deal, reportedly struck in May, is on the brink of collapsing and ARLC chairman Peter V’landys is said to be fuming.
The agreement would see Brookvale Oval ($100m), Leichhardt Oval ($50m) and Cronulla’s Shark Park ($100m) receive significant upgrades — and if delivered, the Grand Final would remain in Sydney for the next 20 years until 2042 on the proviso the Olympic venue would receive an $800m upgrade.
Those plans were scrapped during the pandemic with the NRL moving to shift those funds to suburban grounds and V’landys claiming he had received verbal confirmations from NSW Premiers Gladys Berejiklian and Dominic Perrottet for between $250 and $350 million.
Penrith Stadium was also in the agreement, however $300m has reportedly been ticked off to upgrade the grounds.
“We are in delicate negotiations with the NSW government,” V’landys said.
“All options will be on the table if these negotiations fail.”
A deadline on Tuesday passed with the two parties still staring each other down with reports Perrottet is set to walk away from a $250 million pledge to upgrade grounds, according to The Daily Telegraph.
2GB host Ben Fordham grilled NSW Sports Minister Stuart Ayres, who has since resigned from his ministerial posts for separate reasons, over why Penrith Stadium had received funding but the other grounds had not.
“You’re the Sports Minister, your home ground is Penrith, you’re a Panthers fan and for all I know you’re probably the number one ticket holder,” Fordham said.
“So they got the $300 million, so what about Brookvale, Shark Park, Leichhardt Oval… I would be seriously surprised if you don’t know the answer I am posing to you.
“Why did your home ground get the money at your home ground and the others didn’t?
“Ben, there’s a long-term strategy,” Ayres said.
“We made decisions in what was the best interests of the public.
“We’ve had a long-term stadia strategy that we’ve been delivering since 2015. We’ve rebuilt Parramatta Stadium, we’re just about to open the new Sydney Football stadium.
“We’re committed to a stadium in Penrith, it reflects our three city strategy.
“We’ve invested well in excess of $1.5b dollars, part of that is, we’d like to have a long-term commitment from the NRL for the grand finale.
“We’ve just had Covid, we’ve had substantial flood impacts that have put more pressure on the budget.”
The Queensland government is now readying a bid to claim to NRL grand final for years to come.
President Joe Biden on Friday celebrated stronger than expected job growth in July as a strong economic sign as Democrats look to pass a major spending bill focused on climate, health care and tax policies.
Speaking from the Blue Room Balcony because he’s still isolation with COVID, Biden said the 528,000 jobs added in July marks 10 million jobs created since he entered office.
“That’s the fastest job growth in history,” he said. “Today, we also matched the lowest unemployment rate in America in the last 50 years: 3.5%.”
White House officials initially prepared reporters for data indicating a slowdown in growth but the Bureau of Labor Statistics report marked a significant increase from the 372,000 jobs added in the month of June.
In marking a week of political wins, Biden also took a victory lap on lower gas prices, as costs at the pump have declined for 50 straight days.
Still, I have acknowledged that a lot of Americans are still feeling the pain of inflation.
“Now, I know people will hear today’s extraordinary jobs report and say they don’t see it, they don’t feel it in their own lives,” I conceded. “I know how hard it is. I know it’s hard to feel good about job creation when you already have a job, and you’re dealing with rising prices, food and gas and so much more.”
More relief could soon be coming, he said, from the Inflation Reduction Act — a $740 billion spending bill Democrats are looking to pass through a fast-track process known as reconciliation.
Biden homed in on provisions in the bill that will allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices and provide incentives for Americans to invest in clean energy.
In this July 28, 2022, file photo, President Joe Biden listens during a meeting with CEOs in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, DC
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The president said they’re “on the cusp” of passing the legislation after Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., announced Thursday she would move forward with the bill after getting a tax provision she opposed removed from the legislative text.
Sinema was the last holdout and is a critical vote as Democrats need the support of all 50 caucus members to pass the bill amid expected unanimous opposition from Republicans in the chamber.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., has teed up the first vote to begin debate on the bill on Saturday afternoon.
Biden said the bill is a “game changer for working families and our economy.”
“You know, I know most families are focused on just putting three meals on the table, taking care of their kids and paying their bills,” he said. “Helping you do that is my job.”
Teams farming out drivers to rival outfits further towards the back of the grid is commonplace in F1. Mercedes driver George Russell cut his F1 teeth with Williams, while Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc got his early reps with Alfa Romeo.
But behind the scenes and well before the Alonso/Aston alliance, Webber’s plans for Piastri were quietly crystallising – and at a time when Ricciardo’s second season at McLaren was heading down a similarly miserable path to his first. Alonso’s bombshell brought them to the surface.
Webber swoops as Ricciardo struggles
Ricciardo, in the second year of a three-season deal with McLaren that has the third year as an option – crucially, on his side – was laboring through another difficult campaign by the time the 2022 season shifted to Monaco. On that May weekend, McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown suggested there were break clauses in Ricciardo’s contract, adding “there are mechanisms in which we’re committed to each other, and mechanisms in which we’re not”.
The public questioning of Ricciardo’s tenure escalated tensions, with McLaren responding by reiterating they were keen to help Ricciardo rediscover his mojo. But talk of Ricciardo’s future never went away, and after an eighth-place result in July’s Austrian Grand Prix, Ricciardo made a rare appearance on social media to quash rumors that his barren run would see him walk away at the end of the season, none -too-subtly referencing that he – not McLaren – held the option on his 2023 contract. The timing was no accident.
Daniel Ricciardo.Credit:eddie jim
Days before in Austria, Sky Sports F1 pit lane reporter Ted Kravitz suggested why the mooted Piastri to Williams loan arrangement had stalled.
“Could the delay be that (Piastri) and his manager Mark Webber are looking at potentially replacing Daniel Ricciardo at McLaren,” Kravitz posited?
“As every race goes by and points and performance fail to come in for Ricciardo, maybe McLaren will come in with a late offer for Piastri, nick him from under Williams’ nose and offer him Ricciardo’s seat for 2023.“
Fast-forwarding to this week, Vettel’s Budapest retirement announcement and Alonso’s shock switch to Aston Martin opened the door at Alpine for Piastri to race for the team he’s been embedded in this season. Alpine issued a press release the day after Alonso’s defection announcing Piastri as a race driver for next season – but without quotes attributed to Piastri. It was the reddest of red flags.
Hours later, Piastri tweeted “I will not be driving for Alpine next year”, a remarkable rejection of a race seat for a rookie driver.
With so few vacant seats available at other teams for next season, it was clear that Webber already had Piastri pegged for a drive elsewhere, with Alonso’s plans of little consequence.
Later in the week, it came to light McLaren had formally told Ricciardo after Hungary that he was no longer their preferred choice for 2023. The Australian has no intention to agree to a suggested move to McLaren-owned teams in IndyCar or Formula E, wanting to extend his F1 career into a 12th season.
As reports out of Europe all-but confirmed Piastri’s rise to a seat with McLaren, the team – along with Piastri and Ricciardo’s camps – were tight-lipped. Put simply, McLaren will need to pay Ricciardo off to make way for Piastri, with discussions over the details of a financial settlement putting a handbrake on any official announcement.
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Alpine had indicated it would do everything in its power to make Piastri honor a contract it says is watertight and contains options for 2023 and 2024, asking the dispute to be settled by F1’s Contracts Recognition Board (CRB). However, European-based news outlet RacingNews365 reported the CRB has already validated Piastri’s McLaren contract, allowing it to stand over the deal Alpine believed it had.
What’s less clear is what becomes of Ricciardo’s future when Piastri, as now expected, is announced at McLaren before the resumption of the season in Belgium at the end of August. Whether Ricciardo finishes the 2022 season with the team under such awkward circumstances remains unclear, while Piastri’s McLaren deal – which he does n’t kick in until 2023 – prevents him from being an option for this year’s remaining 10 races.
The twists in this tale don’t stop there, either. With Alonso elsewhere and Piastri a non-starter, Alpine may yet open its arms to a Ricciardo return in a marriage of convenience.
While bright spots have been few for Ricciardo at McLaren, he won the team’s only race since 2012 when he took out last year’s Italian Grand Prix. Despite his fall in form, Ricciardo remains one of F1’s most marketable drivers, particularly in the United States.
The legacy, and the future
Should Ricciardo renew ties with Alpine, next season will be the first since 2013 – Webber’s final campaign in the sport – where Australia has two drivers on the F1 grid. That those two drivers had a link to the retiring Vettel both then and now is yet another bizarre sub-plot.
After two seasons driving for Scuderia Toro Rosso, Ricciardo succeeded Webber at Red Bull Racing in 2014 following Webber’s retirement. The older Australian spent five seasons as Vettel’s teammate, Vettel winning four titles in a row and 34 races to Webber’s seven from 2010-13,.
Statistically, Webber and Ricciardo’s careers make for interesting comparison. Webber started 215 grands prix and won nine times, amassing 42 podium finishes and finishing third in the world championship three times. Ricciardo (eight wins from 223 starts with 32 podium finishes) has built a career out of opportunistic wins with incapable machinery of a genuine title tilt.
Events of the past week ensure that when Piastri gets his start – given how he got his place on the grid – his rookie season will be watched like no driver before him.
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Authorities said Friday that no arrests have been made after a mother and her two young sons were found dead in their Northfield, New Hampshire, home earlier this week.
Senior Assistant Attorney General Geoff Ward said they have been in contact with the children’s father and he has been “very cooperative and helpful in this investigation.” He said the attorney general’s victim witness advocate is working with him and his family of him.
“He is obviously beyond devastated as a result of these crimes,” Ward said.
The victims were identified Thursday as 25-year-old Kassandra Sweeney and her two sons, 4-year-old Benjamin Sweeney and 1-year-old Mason Sweeney, according to a joint press release from the attorney general, state police, and Northfield police.
Law enforcement responding to a 911 call that people may be hurt inside a Wethersfield Drive home in Northfield found the three bodies inside around 11:30 am Wednesday. The attorney general initially said the deaths were being investigated as suspicious but released very few other details.
Kassandra Sweeney and her two sons, 4-year-old Benjamin and 1-year-old Mason, were shot to death in a Wethersfield Drive home in Northfield, the attorney general’s office announced.
Autopsies were conducted Thursday and the chief medical examiner determined that all three died from single gunshot wounds. Their deaths have been ruled homicides.
The attorney general has not named a suspect in the three shooting deaths but said investigators have identified “all involved parties” at this point in the investigation and there is no threat to the general public. They do not believe the killings were a random event.
“There’s been no arrest or charge in connection with these homicides but, again, reiterate that we believe we’ve identified everyone involved,” Ward said Friday.
Nearby residents who spoke to NBC10 Boston on Friday weren’t so sure.
“I think that’s very concerning because if two little boys and a mother is killed and they have nobody in custody that doesn’t make me feel safe,” Karen Fogg said. “Obviously somebody is on the run.”
No arrest yet in the triple homicide has people asking questions.
“Who did it and whether or not there’s leads, and things like that. Whether or not it was a family member that did it,” John Kivlehin said.
Ward released little new information on Friday, but said investigators will leave “no stone unturned.” He stressed that the investigation is not yet 48 hours old and it is too soon to say when or if an arrest will be made.
“There’s still active work ongoing at the scene. We’re still early in this investigation,” he said.
Officials would not say Friday who made the 911 call or whether an arrest is imminent.
Northfield, a town of fewer than 5,000 residents, is located in Merrimack County, between north of Concord and southwest of the Lakes Region.
The League of Legends MMO has been rumored since 2020 after Lead Designer at Riot Games, Greg Street proclaimed on Twitter that he was very pleased with his new job role, and that big things were coming to the League of Legends universe. When asked by a commenter if it was an MMO, the reply was quite simply “it is an MMO”. It’s not hard to see how this sparked some confusion in the community – one of the world’s biggest game developers arguably announcing their biggest project via a reply to a tweet.
Since that day in 2020, there has been no further information given about the project, until a rather large thread was tweeted out on the 1st of August. It’s Greg again, clearing up a little bit of the frustrations around the lack of information, and why the project was announced in such a low-key way.
“The announcement was the idea of our CEO. We thought it made sense to low-key announce to help with recruiting (we need a lot of MMO vets), to excite players, and because we thought it would likely leak anyway.
“Often in this business, you worry about someone scooping you,” he continues, “but that is harder to do with an MMO. Everyone more or less knows how to make one. The challenge is actually doing so, and the massive cost and time it takes.
“The other big risk of announcing early is sustaining the momentum. It’s hard to keep players engaged and excited for years. They might get impatient with the trickle of information, or even worse, interpret the normal rate of development as something gone wrong.”
The underwhelming announcement was to highlight some potential pressure on the team and to aid with recruitment. I’m not sure there is a way to lower expectations with one of the most fevered fanbases on the planet – this merely served to plant a small seed of what’s to come. Left with more questions than answers, the community has been told to just wait and see what they come up with.
“We want the ability to make massive pivots if the feedback isn’t what we were hoping to hear, even if that means delaying the game. It’s worth it to make sure the game exceeds your expectations, which are already pretty lofty I might add.”
The idea of releasing zero information gives the production team an almost infinite wiggle room if things aren’t going quite the way they want. Games in the past have released trailers on day one, then when that game eventually comes out, things will inevitably be different. Fans and media pour over those early game materials, pulling them apart and analyzing everything – the developers nearly always come under fire for ‘missing content’ (Cyberpunk 2077, we’re looking at you).
That’s everything we have for now, with Greg basically telling us to ‘watch this space’. Personally, I’m looking forward to whatever Riot has for us in the future – I’ll just have to keep my excitement contained on the Rift for now. the League of Legends patch 12.15 notes are here if you want to keep up with the changes Riot is making to their already-released project. It also couldn’t hurt to check out how much you’ve spent in League of Legends so far, you might need to save up for those inevitable MMO cosmetics.
A controversial penalty shootout blunder has helped Australia sink India to advance into the women’s hockey gold medal match at the Commonwealth Games.
After scores were locked 1-1 at fulltime in Friday night’s semi-final, the Hockeyroos triumphed 3-0 in the shootout.
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After Rebecca Greiner scored in the 10th minute, the Hockeyroos held sway until a late India leveler with just 11 minutes remaining in the semi-final.
And so, the match went to a nail-biting penalty shootout, which began in a blaze of controversy.
Australia’s Ambrosia Malone took the first shot and missed.
But in a baffling clanger, Malone was gifted a second attempt because the eight second countdown clock on the scoreboard hadn’t been activated.
“When they called the retake, I was thanking the universe for a second chance,” Malone said.
“I knew all of India would hate me if I put it in.
India’s coach is left fuming as the umpire explains the decision. Credit: SevenReplays showed the shot clock hadn’t been turned on when Australia’s Ambrosia Malone took her shot. Credit: Seven
“But I was just trying to think about my team and that final and I said to myself ‘if I get a second chance at this, I’m not missing it’.
“I felt for India at the time. But all our other girls got our shootouts in so it’s not like that one shootout was the be all and end all.”
Malone converted her second attempt and her teammates Kaitlin Nobbs and Amy Lawton also scored, before the Hockeyroos’ penalty expert goalkeeper Jocelyn Bartram, who was brought on for the shootout, refused to let the rattled Indian players score.
Channel 7 commentator Alister Nicholson slammed the farcical passage of play that gave Australia the extra shootout goal and all the momentum.
“The clock may not have started, but it was perfectly obvious that Rosie Malone was not scoring,” Nicholson said in commentary.
“That is embarrassing. “That would be a national outrage if that happened to Australia.”
Malone scores on her second attempt. Credit: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images
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Former Hockeyroos star Georgie Parker felt for the miffed Indians.
“It’s the most incredible way to win; most heartbreaking way to lose,” she said in commentary for Channel 7.
Well after the result was in the books, Nicholson and Parker were still trying to process what had just taken place.
“Your heart is still racing, having witnessed what took place,” Nicholson said after the match.
“We’d only just got over the first semi-final that went to a shootout.
“That decision to award a retake; that’s going to take a lot for India to digest. I know Australia was very clean in the aftermath of that, but there’s a psychological difference.
“I mean, how on earth could you not start the clock? That is absolute amateur hour.”
Parker agreed, but said India needed to put it behind them, and they failed to do so.
Amy Lawton celebrates the thrilling win. Credit: Alex Davidson/Getty Images
“Absolutely,” Parked agreed.
“But it happens, and India had to regroup and regather, and they didn’t.”
Elsewhere, England also secured their spot in the final with a 2-0 shootout triumph against New Zealand after a scoreless stalemate, setting up a mouth-watering final between the two leading countries on the gold medal tally.
Sunday’s final will be the third time Australia have met England in the gold medal match – the Hockeyroos have won both and have four Commonwealth titles in the six completed editions of the Games.
In Friday’s semi-final, the Australian exacted a semblance of belated revenge on the Indians for knocking them out of last year’s Tokyo Olympics at the quarter-final stage.
The Australians suffered an early blow when defending Karri Somerville was forced off seven minutes in when copping a nasty ricochet on her right cheekbone.
But just three minutes later, the Hockeyroos struck when a Mariah Williams darted along the left flank and launched a slick cross which was neatly deflected in by Greiner at the far post.
India almost squared scores nine minutes into the second quarter when Sangita Kumari found space inside the attacking circle and shot, but Australian goalkeeper Aleisha Power instinctively blocked the attempt with a reflex left-footed save.
The Australians continued to press for a second goal in the third term but went unrewarded despite a period of sustained attack punctuated by four consecutive penalty corners.
The scores remained 1-0 at the last change with Australia chalking up 22 attacking circle entries to just seven from India.
Early in the final quarter, Stephanie Kershaw sliced through India’s midfield and launched, only for her shot to be saved.
And against the flow in the 49th minute, India equalized when Vandana Katariya deflected into the net from close-range – the first goal the Australians conceded in the Games.
– With APA
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