November 27, 2009

SMM Grand National Dota Tournament - Day 1



Heyya folks, welcome to Spotgamers live coverage for SMM Grand National Dota Tournament 2009 which is now in action at the luxurious A Famosa Resort, Malacca. I was actually just recovered from a sudden fever but I try my best to give you, the SpotGamers loyal readers

The opening ceremony was being officiated by none other than Dato' DoTA himself, Dato' Dr. Ricky Lim, CEO of Sendi Mutiara Multimedia at 6.35 pm. Before the launching, the audience were treated with a great cheerleading performance by a group called Rebels.

EHOME.GK, the defending champions took the honour to return the challenge trophy to where it belongs where 52 teams will compete each other to determine the DoTA World Champions.

Brackets for the main group was decided after the opening ceremony and WCG Asian runner-up, INC-Excello got themselves a dream match-up against the mighty Europeans, MYM. Alongside with them are PMS|Asterisk and FTZ.Asia Gaming.

Full updates after the jump!

    Group A
  • Cybertime
  • Pokeridol (Canada)
  • Avava (Indonesia)
  • INC.Xiao
  • Quas Gaming (Qualifier Group A)


    Group B
  • EHOME.GK (China)
  • AEON.SG (Singapore)
  • XT Reborn
  • INC.Xiao
  • VS (Qualifier Group B)


    Group C
  • MYM (European)
  • INC.Excello
  • PMS|Asterisk
  • FTZ.Asia Gaming
  • SINO (Qualifier Group C)


    Group D
  • Starsboba (Vietnam)
  • XTC (Singapore)
  • DSD
  • E-VZP Freedom
  • ROL (Qualifier Group D)


    Group E
  • For The Dream
  • Mineski (Philippines)
  • Digi Easy (Indonesia)
  • Irelax
  • E-Wave (Qualifier Group E)


    Group F
  • Kingsurf
  • XGN (Indonesia)
  • XTC.Nyx (Singapore)
  • Cybertime-Fishnet
  • Empire.Team8 (Qualifier Group F)


    Group G
  • CommeDieu (China)
  • MCity (Australia)
  • Tu|par (Kazakhstan)
  • GG M|x
  • NT.Gaming (Qualifier Group G)


    Group H
  • CityHunter (China)
  • Little
  • Digi Resurrection (Indonesia)
  • S.msk
  • NGL (Qualifier Group H)



11.30 PM: QUAS Gaming seal the final spot of the qualifier after beating NERD in their final match. With the conclusion of the match, the top 40 teams are revealed on the main page.

That concludes our Day 1 coverage for SMM Grand National Dota Tournament 2009. See you tomorrow for more live coverage of SGNDT'09. Cheers for now! ^^

11.00 PM: Most qualifying matches have concluded. Check up the main group to see which teams made it to the main group.

10.30 PM: VS qualifies to the Main Group after topping the Qualifier Group B. E-Wave also qualified after winning the best of 3 matches against IG.Gaming in Qualifier Group E.

10.00 PM: NGL sealed their place in the Group H alongside CityHunter, Little, Digi Rex and S.msk after they beat M|P in best of three matches.

9.25 PM: DREAMHACK WINTER 2009 BREAKING NEWS: Sad news for Team Malaysia in Sweden. They have been eliminated from the group stage of DreamHack Winter 2009 after winning one match against 0bites 16-11 in de_dust2 but losing the other two, to Evil Geniuses 16-2 in de_train and wooSai.fi 16-5 in de_inferno

The same fate goes to Team TiTans. They won against Games4u 16-11 in de_dust2, but lost the other two, to Millenium 16-6 in de_train and Team XLBet 16-14 in de_inferno

Well done guys. At least you have made this far. Now back to DotA coverage right now!

9.15 PM: The matches are concluded as follows:-

*Thanks to Mr^Blue at GosuGamers for providing the results as well ^^

Sino won against 5Zone
NGL won against M|P in first match (best of 3 matches)
Maxzone won against XG2
FtzEP won against NERD
VS won against GP
E-Wave won against IG-Gaming in first match (best of 3 matches)
Empire.Team 8 won against Cybertime 2 in first match (best of 3 matches)

Please note that Qualifier Group D, Qualifier Group E, Qualifier Group F and Qualifier Group H will be played in best of three while the other group will be played in round robin.

8.45 PM: Currently we have qualifier matches underway to determine 8 teams that will accompany 32 teams in the Main Group

    Qualifier Group A
  • FTZ.EP
  • NERD
  • QUAS Gaming


    Group B
  • VS
  • GP
  • IG 1


    Group C
  • SINO
  • 5Zone^
  • EOG


    Group D
  • Rhythm Of Life
  • QUOD


    Group E
  • E-Wave
  • IG.Gaming


    Group F
  • Empire.Team8
  • Cybertime 2


    Group G
  • NT.Gaming
  • XG 2
  • Mz_Maxxzone


    Group H
  • NGL
  • M|P




These games are going on right now:
Sino vs 5Zone
NGL vs M|P
Maxzone vs XG2
Cybertime 2 vs Empire
FtzEP vs NERD
VS vs GP
RoL vs Quad
E-Wave bs IG-Gaming

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