ESWC Malaysia - Day 1 & 2 Report

First of all, Spotgamers would like to thank all the team members of Go International Group for letting us have coverage for all 3 days in ESWC Malaysia Finals and special thanks to nles for telling me about the press conference xD

ESWC Malaysia Finals kicks off officially with a bang @ 4.30pm with Encik Kamil Othman, VP of MDEC giving off the opening speech which was quite epic and his best quote was "e-sports community is way better than those loitering teenagers that might end up as bohsia and bohjan". The ceremony continues with a troupe of acrobatic girls followed by a photo session of all ESWC Malaysia sponsors. Later on it ended with all the VIP and sponsors for a short tour around the tournament area and the sponsor's booth.

Moving on to day 2, Spotgamers will focus more on tournament results this time with the addition of Trackmania Nation Forever added to the national finals.

It looks like the veterans of racing games Luige and Chapree and where there as well. It is pretty obvious that they gonna get the top 4 spot when there were only 5 participants register for the event. Nevertheless it was still an exciting match with cars flying here and there even do a wall ride!

The result for top 4 were as follow:

• Luige
• [r0r1]sn@ke.spotgamers
• Chapree
• mattong5000

They will play the final the next day.

Luige Still Looks Sharp

As for Warcraft, the 5 time reigning champion Paul Yan was there to stop anyone from dethroning him from his marvelous sit. At the moment the top 4 were:

• Paul Yan
• Serry
• Pin
• M1-Nox

Doesnt Paul Yan Looks Cool Every Year?

For Counter Strike 1.6, it looks pretty intense with lots of close matches and overtime being played. The favorite of the tournament was Hybrid and Team LZ who just won the qualifier previously. In the end, both team meet up in the final of the winners bracket. Team LZ prove that their title winning in the previous qualifier was not fake when they beat Hybrid by 9-6 in the 1st half. There was 1 incident in the game when Hix from LZ was the only one left standing vs 3 men from Hybrid. With just 30 sec left Hix desperately but cautiously moving slowly towards the bomb site. On the way out he manage to snipe down 1 of Hybrid marksmen from far away. With just 10 sec left he encounter another Hybrid player under the train and manage to shot him down as well. With just 4 sec left Hybrid plant the bomb... AT EXACTLY 1 SEC LEFT Hix MANAGE TO SUCCESFULLY PLANT THE BOMB! Hybrid rush towards the bomb site but was smartly targeted by Hix and seal the round for LZ. On the 2nd half Hybrid show that teamworks matter when they crush LZ hope by winning the round 10-5 and thus book themselves into the top 2 spot with immunity in hand.


The brackets for CS was as follow:

Winner Bracket

Loser Bracket


Hybrid Reaction For Victory

DOTA as all of you know, is the main attraction since there are more than 20 teams participate for ESWC. Big names such as Kingsurf, Cybertime and W4si was there as well. But it looks like the WCG Kick Off 2008 Champion Kingsurf show its dominance through out the tournament when they beat Ice- W4si in the winners bracket. It looks pretty hard to topple them with immunity in hand.

The bracket for DOTA as follow:

Winners Bracket

Loser Bracket


Kingsurf With Their Groovy Hairstyle~

Well it looks like things are starting to heat up and almost into the end. Will there be more actions and dramas? Find out more for tomorrow reports on the Final Day of ESWC 2008 at Spotgamers. ^^