The Team Who Made It Happened: DuskBin.SA
Happening on the 19th & 20th of December 2009, at MOLiCafé at Berjaya Times Square, Kuala Lumpur, 32 teams from the nationwide qualifying rounds that began on the 27th of November and ended on 13th December will converge in a 2-day frag-fest to determine the first-ever SAGC09 Champions of South East Asia! The events has attracted sponsors like TOSHIBA, Steelseries, Red Bull Energy Drink and media partners like GameAxis , PCGAMER , FHM Magazine, GEMPAKSTARZ, Comic King Magazine, GAMES Magazine and MYC! Magazine.
TOSHIBA will be giving out the Champions of SAGC09 with a unit of Qosmio X500 Gaming and also SteelSeries will furnish the top-5 winning teams with SteelSeries Siberia headsets, Kinzu Mice, Sudden Attack-IKARI Mouse and Sudden Attack IKARI Mousepads.
Teams such as "FMJAsiasoft.MY , LZ.ZOWIEGEAR , DuskBin and ODYAsiasoft.sg" will be participating as one of the qualified team.
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Group A
FMJAsiasoft.MY
KlickTwoz-1
Team LZ.ZOWIEGEAR
Rekta
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Si_Jali Trademark PoseIt wasnt really a succes nor regrets. If its brutal truth, then yes i regretted that im no.2. But judging from the lack of tourneys that I joined this year (WCG was the 1st tourney i join this year) it is sumthing I should be proud of. I manage to overcome all the challenges during the tourney and manage to be on top of the game. But I have to congratulate Vin for his magnificent form in the game. Now that I’ve learned my weaknesses and mistakes, I will strive to improve my game play in the future. But it was pretty obvious to me that I need more match training and tourney experience to get myself ready for the big challenge.
During the final i have set my own strategy against Vin. The strategy works in the beginning but too bad I did a few mistakes and was unlucky as well. Though i had the advantage in the Winner's bracket, but i wasted it and commit a few mistakes that shouldnt happened in a professional match. I tried to recover but i guess it was too much for my mind to think at that point. There were a lot of negativity surrounding me at that time but i tried my best to overcome it. Anyway anyhow Vin is really a great player and is a player where no one should be taken lightly from now onwards. Congrats again to him.
Yup! Luckily enough I manage to find sponsors to support me to China. This would be my 2nd chance to beat my previous record (4th In 05) and to achieve my dream which is to be the world champion. Please do pray for team Malaysia bring back medal yea ^^
One thing that I’ve learned from my previous exp is that you gotta go all out. WCG is not a place for you to play around. Its serious business. There is no time for you to keep secrets and everything. Its time to show off your skills. If you do not do that, you will definitely lose because your opponent is definitely playing all out. Maybe some players are concerned on the fact that someone might copy their skills. Well, thats normal. It is part of the game. Thats why you got to be ready for all of this. Preparation and planning is important. You must always have strategies and tactics in place.
The opponent might copy your moves, but they can’t copy your brain.
Do not just focus on the skills. Instead focus on the mind games and mental part. The winner is never the best player, but he is the smartest of all.
Thanks for the wish, first of all, allow me to introduce the team. It consists of Canonzaii, Mikebz, Andy, Shizuma and Papaxiong. 4 of them hail from Penang and Papaxiong came all the way from Johor to join up. To be honest, with the banning of the top 4 teams in the scene right now (Ks, INC-Excello, Keydone.MU and Cybertime 1) the team was formed with the intention of going all the way with Shizuma (the only female participant in the Dota tournament) playing a carry role. However, the caliber of the scene without the top 4 participating is much stronger than we anticipated. Midway into the tourney, we saw Cybertime 2, the eventual winners was just a step ahead of everyone in terms of training, skill and strategy. Their superiority over the other teams was obvious with the stomping of their opponents with relative ease along the winner brackets.
So yeah, we were disappointed of not coming in first but we knew the winner deserved every bit of their glory.
Coming up from the loser’s bracket, we knew we need to win 4 games in a row to have the chance to reach the Grand Finals in Day 2 of the tournament. Leaving nothing to chance, we drafted our A draft from the start of day 2.
I guess Cybertime 2 studied us well from our 4-game rampage to reach the Grand Finals. Losing the first game to us, they too drafted something safe for the first time in the tournament for the 2nd game ; coupled with a certain mistakes made in game from our part, Cybertime 2 managed to take the second game.
Coming from various backgrounds (Papaxiong is the core of the Kingsurf domination of Malaysia for the past 2 years; Mike and Canon forms the core of the current FTZ-Asia team, the top all-Penangite team currently; Andy and Shizuma plays only pubs until the recent switch to clanwar games) and teaming up for the first time, I knew from the get-go that a synchronization in command and draft is crucial. The lack of communication in this vital part almost cost us the tournament when we first lost to Nt.Gaming and then came back from the brink of defeat to beat Fecca-Fey in a pulsating match.
At the end of the first day, no one was happy. Over at dinner, everyone seems worried of our chances to advance further and a clash of ideas ensued over the way to play the game happened. In a flash of brilliance, Papaxiong took up full responsibility of the success and failure of the campaign, making it very clear that it’s his way of the highway.
Surprisingly, everyone complied despite a certain discontentment. Papa then laid down some concepts for all to follow and decided to overhaul the way we think and play the game. Trainings and discussions goes on until 4 am in the morning.
At Day 2, under his command, we played like a team and not 5 individuals and managed to play the maximum 6 games we planned to do. Though we lost the last game but overall, everyone’s Dota improved from the time we first met 2 days ago from the final and it all boils down to Papaxiong’s planning and the professionalism of the others to just listen and do what is best for the team.
I believe it’s down to everyone wanting to do well deep down. The team has no training before we met and the decision to follow Papa’s command took a lot from everyone of the team. Dota is a game where there are many ways to win. To discard off the old habits and adjust to a totally new concept, really is a testament to the professionalism of the players in it. Everyone thought its easy to win with the players we have, but in fact, the more famous the players a team have, the harder it is to integrate. For us to put away our differences and gel within 1 day is something I thought is the key to our run in this tournament.
Looking at the careers of the more successful players/teams, I noticed every one of them have good people skills. They are basically friendly with everyone in the scene. So I guess to be able to have fun climbing the hard ladder to the top, a basic respect of your fellow teammates and people in general are needed. The chances of your team to be a success increases exponentially if everyone just likes you and prefer to train with you more. I guess the Dota scene in Malaysia just kept to this formula and our success in the International scene is a testament to this basic principle.
Shout outs to Cybertime and Lim in particular for bringing Dota back into WCG Malaysia. It is also an honour to be competing alongside the best gamers in Malaysia: Serry, JohnRambo and Si Jali. Just watching them in action is an inspiration of what true E-sports represents.
To me, they are genuine athletes and new icons of our digital society. The emotions we felt throughout the game can be and should be shared among the public audience and that’s the where the future of the industry lies. E-sports are at the crossroads of all the most exciting fields of our generation: sport, entertainment, Internet, new technologies, video games. To be able to be part of its history in Malaysia is truly an honor.
And thank you Spotgamers for the interview.
Alex in a more relaxed moodActually i'm kind of disappointed with myself for doing so badly and got knocked out in the group stage. I'm kind of well prepared for it after winning the MOL Cup but it's a situation that is hard to be explained during One Asia Cup. The moment i played my warm-up matches at the tournament area i felt that there's something different, like there's some kind of slight delay and the player's movements weren't smooth. My worst enemy is a delay gameplay and thus, i've lost the first 2 games out of 3 in the Group Stage. Anyway, it's not an excuse for the exit and i won't deny that the other players from other countries were not easy to play with too. Overall i'm upset with myself for such poor performance in my first international tournament but i'll remember this experience and treat it as another point of improvement for myself to do better in the upcoming tourneys.
Team Vietnam is obviously not a weak team. In my 2nd match in the group stage which i played against Vietnam, i was actually leading 2-0. All of a sudden, the Vietnamese scored 3-4 goals from a same corner style. I couldn't do a thing to stop the player from crossing and it was also my mistake for not knowing how to defend it. The Vietnamese is a strong team as they must have trained and drilled each special move they know, so they are the deserved winners. I think Team Malaysia were weak on the 2v2 side because there was not a proper 2v2 qualifier to select the REALLY best 2v2 teams from Malaysia to compete in SG. However, both of the Malaysian 2v2 teams did quite well and they are considered very good to be able to have decent results against the other experienced 2v2 teams. I'm pretty sure that Malaysia will do even better in the next tourney if we were to have a proper 2v2 qualifier.
It's a same procedure for every gamer. The more you play, the more you train, the more different people you play with as well as exposure to more tournaments will definitely help to improve you. For me, i'll get really upset if i couldn't win in a tourney, be it a small or big tourney, it's a goal that i've made to show that i'm the best. So whenever i lost, it's a point for me to review on my weaknesses and to overcome them. Also it's the spirit and determination that boost the mentality to be calm and to play properly, so i would work on all aspects to push myself to another level as tourneys passed by.
I can see that all of the representatives from the other countries were all well-prepared for the big tournament. Thus, they were showing real top quality to show that they are indeed the best from their respective nations. Thailand was slightly lacked behind but i'm sure they will be better after getting the experiences back home. Singapore, especially the 2v2 team and Vietnam both were consistent and played at their best. It was really a great experience to have played with the quality players and definitely the Malaysia teams have learned a lot, further improving ourselves for the upcoming tournaments.
It's definitely gonna be hard for me as i've not played FIFA09 for a very long time, ever since the MMU CyberFusion '09 event. Due to the different gameplays that FIFA Online 2 and FIFA09 have, i've only fully concentrated on FIFA Online 2 as there were a few tourneys this year, compared to FIFA09. So since the One Asia Cup is over and there's WCG09 and CELgames09 (need to defend my title!) coming, i'll have to convert to FIFA09 now and start training myself up within just a 2-weeks period. I've started training with my clan-mates in the past few days and it started to look good for me. However, I have to put extra efforts to polish up my skills and hopefully, Lady Luck will be on my side too during the tournaments.
DotArians are now welcomed to spend the night at the A’Famosa Resort throughout the tournament 3 days stint with a discounted price set by SMM, offering a complimentary 2 days stay for the price of one (RM 288) at the hotel’s leisure family suite that comes fully furnished with a living room, a kitchen and 2 double-size beds – forming the best possible comfort zone to recuperate and refurbish DotA’s weary warriors, throughout the Grand Finals stage.
Hotel reservations at the A’Famosa resort will be open for signing-up on the 24th of September 2009. Further details on the overall format & procedure will be disclosed shortly at our Official Website. International Participants interested in joining the SGNDT 09’ Grand Finals at the A’Famosa Resort can now make registrations at our SGNDT Registration Page @ International Participants. Upon registration, all International Teams will be short-listed based on eligibility and approval prior to confirmation and/or participation.
