A week prior to this, I didn't really show any interest in joining the tournament. Some of us (Kenggee) was already 'training' with 'his team' to enter the tournament. My team, well... I had no idea if I even had a team to begin with. So I didn't even bother.
Thursday, 2 days before the tourney, everyone was sort of mentioning about it. I didn't really show much interest. Not even when during the Halloween party on Friday night did I gave any second thoughts about not joining it even after Wooi Hau invited me to his team.
Saturday 10.30am,
I received a call from ZiTing or was it Kenggee to join their team in the competition. Knowing that there's gonna be 2 Malaysian teams, I feel that I can't be left out. So I got up and ready for the tournament...
Saturday 12:00pm,
Arrived at the designated location only to find out the organizers was late. Also to find out that we'd need to bring out own rig (as usual for US Lan Parties but many of us didn't know about that. I knew). We met Ped-ro a cocky player who won the last tournament against us (bad memories which I'd rather not recall) with his team of a very cocky korean (I think it was him)...
We can't lose to them. I refuse to lose to them.
1:30pm,
Dota tournament starts at 2pm, my team had went out for lunch and to buy me lunch. We're running out of time. Then again, organizers are still managing the brackets. By this point, I found out my team is short of one player. We need another player and had to borrow from the other Malaysian team.
3:00 pm
Apparently it took that long for us to start due to the other team having problems setting up their warcraft versions... Never the less, the match started with , Me, Eu Roy, Wooi Hau, Kar Leong and birtday boy Zi Ting.
Tournament is to be played out as knockout stages in a best out of 3 match.
We'd decided on our roles before each game.
Me : All round supporter
Eu Roy : Balanced
Wooi Hau : Nuker/Spammer/Ks King
Kar Leong : Farmer/Late Gamer
Extra : depending on situation
Round 1 First match :
Mode : Captains mode
Me : Ogre Magi
Extra Player : Zi Ting birthdayboy (Warlock)
The match isnt very hard as they had noobs on their team which consists of a low level Anti Mage , a feeding Nessaj and lack of teamwork was all it takes for their whole team to leave the game by the 28th minute.
Round 1 Second Match :
Mode : Random Draft
Me : OmniKnight
Extra Player : Lan Yeng (Warlock)
Apparently the other team who was willingly agreed to captains mode in the first match decided to opt to random draft mode. Probably thinking that their loss was because we had a better team from having to choose the heroes we wanted. That wasn't the case. They were thrashed so badly resulting in the whole team leaving again by the 30th minute mark.
Round 2 First Match :
Mode : Captains Mode
Me : Ogre Magi
Extra Player : Lan Yeng
This time we were up against the organizer's team. We expected a challenge as we'd firgured they'd definitely be formidable opponents if they are organizing this event. They're definitely better than the first round team but still fall short of being a threat to our team. Also, they had better sportsmanship than the previous team who left before the game ended.
Round 2 Second Match :
Opposing team forfeited
We advance to the final round
At this point, around 6pm, the other Malaysian team who had a free ticket to the semi finals finally played their first match. It was against team JFA, the champions of the previous tournament.
Team Malaysia was Sky, ZiTing, Kengee, Kudut and LanYeng. Sadly they were thrashed and thus team JFA advances to the finals against Team Malaysia 2 (aka Team Roy =.=).
Watching the game, team JFA's Luna was a fucking cocky bastard dropping items and trash talking all the way. We (team roy) need to let them know their place.
We all took an hour break for pizza before the finals. Being such good friends and great supporters, team Malaysia 1 went off for steaks.
The finals approaches, both teams are worn out and agreed to play just ONE match to decide the winner.
FINALS :
Mode : Captains Mode
Lineup Sentinal:
Me - Treant
Eu Roy - POTM
Wooi Hau - Zeus
Kar Leong - Spectre
Kenggee - Lina
Lineup Scourge:
Ped-ro - Puck
Baron - Nerubian Assasin
The cocky Luna - Shadow Fiend
Unknown - Warlock
Unknown - Omniknight
Match started with a first blood onto Puck which made the whole team happy inside but didn't really express it. The whole game was evenly matched with score difference is around 2 kills/deaths. One mistake was all it takes to bring our team down. We prevailed, endured and was patient.
Eyes and wards were planted, zeus and spectre using their ultimates to find out their locations. Having experienced against their team in the past, we know that they LOVE to gank heroes altogether( 5 of them moves together) but we had the upper hand, the eyes of God (eyes/wards/zeus/spectre). Alot of time was wasted on their part as they ran around searching for victims only to find none and wasted precious exp if they had just farmed.
In addition to that, NA who was hunting heroes at our neutrals was hardly doing anything since there were eyes watching to see if he does come.
About mid point of the game, we almost lost but was lucky as they pulled back from attacking the base. Then 50th minute, everything changed, having a refresher orb on a treant, their team is practically sitting ducks to spectre who can kill them all at once.
It was our victory 10 minutes after.
The cocky luna who was the cocky SF in this game spurted out a sore loser remark which should be beaten up by this teammates IMO. Quote SF "Worst Team Ever"
Our prize for the competition : Walmart gift card + extras
but no doubt the grand prize was beating Ped-ro's team
Below is the picture of where Team Roy sat : From left to right,
Kar Leong, Wooi Hau, Eu Roy and myself (Team Laptops)
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