October 22, 2008

Intel Asia PC Gaming Showdown: Jali Off To Hong Kong!


Si_Jali Winning The Malaysian Prelim




Last month, Intel held its 1st Asia PC Gaming Showdown for Media and Gamers. The Champion in each country stand a chance to go to Hong Kong and compete with the other participating country to win their own set of Intel Ultimate Gaming PC. But only the Top 3 in Asia will be able to go to Hong Kong.


Our Malaysia Champion, Rinie “Si_Jali” Ramli manage to put himself among the Top 3 in Asia and will be representing Malaysia against the other Top 2 country which is Thailand and Philippines. It is something to be proud off since other big gaming country such as Korea and Singapore fail to make the cut.


We manage to contact Si_Jali before he leave to Hong Kong this Thursday morning:


Spotgamers: So how is your preparation so far?

Si_Jali : So far so good. I've been practicing quite consistently in all 3 games and I think my preparation is doing well so far.

Spotgamers: Do you have any kind of secret tactics or strategies?

Si_Jali : If I told you it wouldnt be secret anymore right? LOL

Spotgamers: Come on share with us since we all know that you are playing all 3 games and not just FIFA. Definitely its not easy to master it
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Si_Jali : Well basically im aiming on FIFA and NFS to seal the deal. If I can be on top for this 2 games im 80% closer to be the champion. I just need to get more extra points in Crysis to get my victory. Hopefully it works.

Spotgamers: What are your target in this tournament?

Si_Jali : Everytime I joined a tournament, I always aim for the gold. Nothing else. Because that is where the girls would come to me and scream “ Jali! Jali!” LOL. Anyway its not true though. Only in my dream. I'll definitely try my best.

Spotgamers: Haha well all the best Jali. Make Malaysia proud yea!

Si_Jali : Yeah thanks~

Si_Jali will be updating us time to time with the latest news in Hong Kong. All the best to Jali.
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October 21, 2008

ESWC Master Athens Overview



ESWC Master of Athens 2008 Day 1 Recap

The ESWC Master of Athens began yesterday in Athens, Greece. Only two games are being played over the period of 2 days which is Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne and Quake 3 Arena. Each game consists of 4 Greek Champions and 12 International Players which are invited. All 16 will be participating for the prize money of 30,000 USD and the top 2 for each game will book a place in next year’s ESWC Finals.

Day one has ended and the top 2 players from each group will go through to the Second Group Stage. Unfortunately, all Greek players are out of the competition, leaving only the International players in the second group stage which will commence later today.

Starting with the Quake 3 Arena tournament, Champion of the ESWC Finals in San Jose California is back to hold his title as the best Quake player. Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevksy will be showing the world what skill he has in the game. The Belarus player wins all 3 games in his group leading the table ahead of Swedish player Spart1e.

Other group sees Chinese International RazerJ taking the lead in his group after winning all 3 matches with Serious Gaming member AV3K coming in second place. Swedish player Fox also won 3 games in front of US player Rapha. Finally, Group A sees Austrian player Noctis taking 3 games leaving K1LLSEN , the German in second place.

All this players will be going into the second group stage later to battle out for who will go into the Semi-Finals and the Finals. The second group stage is as the following:

Group A

Group B

Noctis

Cypher

Fox

RazerJ

AV3K

K1LLsen

Spart1e

Rapha

In the other game, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, both German players Spicy and Yaws did not make it for the Masters, leaving group A and B with 3 players. Group A saw Champion of the ESWC Finals, mTw.AMD.Who come in second place behind teammate Check. In group B, Korean Night Elf king, MYM]Moon fell to the Toddler, GG.Tod in the last match making him fall to second behind French rival Tod. Group C saw the Orc player Grubby beating Remind 2-1 to gain first in front of Remind. The last group saw the Korean Orc, Lyn taking first place ahead of GG.Hot from the Ukraine. The group stages will be a tough one especially group A.

Group A

Group B

GG.Tod

Check

MYM.Grubby

Lyn

mTwAMD.WHO

MYM.Moon

GG.Hot

SK.Remind

Day 2 will commence at 12.00 (GMT +3) continuing for where they left of and eventually end with the finals TODAY!

Photos from the events:



Cypher and Av3k with their leader.


Group Photo. All 32 players.

The reigning champion? Tod during the match vs Moon which he won.

Final Day Recap

The final day of the ESWC Master of Athens so many disappointments. The final day came to an end at around 2200 hours GMT +2 in Athens, Greece.

As said, the Prize money for the competition is 30,000 USD and the top two for the two games, Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne and Quake 3 Arena will have a place at the ESWC Finals in France next year.

So starting of with Quake 3 Arena. The groups are as the following in the end:

Group A

Group B

AV3K

Cypher

Spart1e

Rapha

Fox

RazerJ

Noctis

K1LLsen

In the end, the top 2 will be fighting each other in the semi-finals. However, there were disappointments in this game. Firstly, World Champion Av3k was drawn against Rapha and Cypher with Spart1e. Things turn out real bad for both Serious Gaming players when Av3k lost to Rapha 2-0 and Cypher, the ESWC Champion also lost 2-0 to Spart1e. The 2 gamers, being the best in the world has lost. Both of them battled for 3rd place which saw Av3k taking it from his teammate, score 2-1. The finals were played later and Rapha was crowned the Master of Athens beating Spart1e 2-1.

Over in the Warcraft 3 scene, there were also disappointments. The group are as the following in the end:

Group A

Group B

GG.Tod

MYM.Moon

mTwAMD.WHO

Lyn

GG.Hot

SK.Remind

MYM.Grubby

Check

Disappointment for Dutch player Grubby as he only managed a win. The top 2 advanced into the semi-finals. The brackets are GG.Tod vs Lyn and MYM.Moon vs Who. GG.Tod fought against the toughest Korean player in the tournament but only managed a win and failed to advanced to the finals losing 2 games to Lyn. Moon, from a recent interview said that he is going to win this tournament. But spills the first game to Who but strongly hold on to himself and take back 2 more to play Lyn in the finals, score 2-1. Third placing when to Tod who pulled 2 games out of 1 from Who the ESWC Champion and what a disappointment for him. The finals saw Lyn having no mercy beat Moon 2-0 and claim the title.

Our local WC3 player the 1st runner up in WCG.MY 2008 SiN[Pin.zz] were following very closely on the tournament.

For him who was also an Orc user, it was mere luck that the Orc races were lucky through out the tournament:



”It was just lucky for Orc to win. Orc usually cookie cut all the time where Orcs only go with one strategy which is Raider and Spirit Walkers. But Orc has no change in the new patch. There were no nerf and buff towards the Orc race but there are nerfs like the Staff nerf and Tower nerf which may affect that specific race. And the new maps that are released supports Orcs but not all maps do.”

Congratulations to all the winners.

Sources:

www.eswc.com/masters/athens2008

www.sk-gaming.com



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October 4, 2008

WCG 2008 Group Draw

Group E:

Malaysia [TeamLZ]
Finland roccat
Pakistan
Macedonia SimpleX
United Arab Emirates
Taiwan HiNet-UMX

As u know the strongest opponent definitely will be Roccat knowns as GameTv from Finland.I've no idea the team about Pakistan.SimpleX from Macedonia http://www.simplex.insomniapro.com pay a visit to their website.UAE probably the same players that represented Dubai Mirage back into CGS PanAsia 2008 months ago,Taiwan HiNet-UMX also cannot be underestimate.I predict my own team should be no problem passing a group stage and qualified as 2nd in the group ,wish us luck :)

Lam Wai Loong "gavin"
Lau Chee Teik "syck"
Lian Kong Chian "nitroN"
Graham Matthew Chin Siew Weng "StaiN"
Ng Yew Siang "hix"
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October 2, 2008

Interview : FIFA08 Champion, [WInDs] Vin

Spotgamers manage to meet up with vin which is the FIFA08 champion for this year WCG. Lets have a look on his victory in WCG and also his preparation for the World Finals.
Here it goes :

Spotgamers : Hi, can you briefly introduce yourself?

Vin : Hmm.... I'm who I am ;)

Spotgamers : Congratulation on your victory at the WCG.MY 2008. What is your feeling after winning your first WCG title?

Vin : It was unbelievable that i avenged after losing final against my clanmate, loonatic in WCG06 and of course I'm pleased to win my first WCG title.

Spotgamers : I guess this is your second title after WGT 2007,do you think the victory and experience of winning WGT 2007 help you to achive this year WCG title??By the way, will you be joining this year WGT to defend your title?

Vin : Yeah, it's my second title after WGT07, and yes, experience is very important on every matches especially stage game. Yupz, I'll be joining WGT08 to have a warm up before leaving to Germany for WCG Grand Final and will try my best to defend my WGT title.

Spotgamers : So, u finally had your revenge after losing to Loon4tic in WCG2006 after taking a HUGE lead in the final and conceeded the victory to him that year. Does the score line this year make it a sweeter revenge as u beat him in the winner's bracket final and also the final with a big margin?

Vin : Haha, our war record now is 7-7 if not mistaken.

Spotgamers : The Grand finals for WCG is approaching soon, how is your preparation for it(What do you do for your training?How long do you train?...etc)

Vin : It's coming very very soon but i only have 1 month for my training due to my final exam. Luckily i got my friendly [WInDs]bros giving out their time to have an intensive training with me to prepare for the Grand Finals.

Spotgamers : This will be your first international tournament. We know that you are an experience player, but do you feel nervous ?or more excited?

Vin : Can play with many of the other top gamers from different countries, of course i feel more excited than nervous lolz...

Spotgamers : What target do you set for yourself for the Grand finals? How confident you are to achive it?

Vin : I just hope i can go through the group stage, then anything can happened. Hopefully i can get a medal back for Malaysia.

Spotgamers : Who is your favourite player in fifa08?Why??(let me guess....Messi??=P)

Vin : Thierry Henry, i like it when he places his shot. The pattern and style are totally same as real life, shoot to far post ^^. Evra also not bad, i like to use him when i'm using France.

Spotgamers : You will be going to germany soon, looking forward to the competition, and also german chics i assume??=P.

vin : Hahahaha....

Spotgamers : Lastly, our best record in World Grand Finals is top4, do you think u can go further than that??

Vin : The best record was made by my teammate, [WInDs]Si_jali. I hope i can go further than that :D

Spotgamers : Thanks for the interview, we wish you all the best for the Grand finals in Germany, hope you enjoy yourself and would bring some good news back for us in Malaysia!

Vin : You're welcome, i'll update you guys on the latest news if my laptop is able to access to the internet there :D.
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October 1, 2008

Selamat Hari Raya from Spotgamers

Hello and good morning to all fellow readers of Spotgamers website. We at Spotgamers firstly would like to Wish all the Muslims Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri. We hope you all are enjoying yourselves whereever you are.



Before I close some short news. To all World Of Warcraft(WOW) fans, the release date of Wrath Of The Lich King has been announced ( although some of you might have known), so to curious players who wanna start after this expansion is release, prepare to spend your money on the 13th of November. Thats a month away. So save your duit raya to spend on it baby.

You know the features of the new expansion such as , Death Knight, Level 80 and a chance to Kick ARTHAS in the butt. So before I end, here's the trailer to the new expansion.



Blizzard never upsets. So enjoy yourselves people
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