Bracket

Group A
Nirvana.cn
	-
Yamato
		-
paiN!
	Lost.eu
Lost.eu
-
Group B
AEON.sg
	-
OK
		-
WssM
	DTS
DTS
-
Group C
MYM
	-
Competo
		-
DG
	-
MCiTY
-
Group D
The Retry
	The Retry
Tribal.int
		-
KIS
	LGD.sGty
LGD.sGty
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16 Teams, Different Countries, Who will win? Stay tuned!

Discuss here.

The only tournament sharing this large amount of prize pool is the very famous SMM Grand National DotA Tournament which is held yearly in Malaysia.

The tournament is divided in to two parts: An online qualifier and an offline finals which will be played in Wuhan, China.  The online qualifier is also divided into four regions: Europe / America, Asia, China (University), China (Professional). Only four teams from each qualifier will head to China and to play for the offline finals. The 16 teams that will be playing in the LAN tournament will be divided into 4 division. The top two teams from each division will be qualified for the playoffs or also known as the knock-out round.

Match Bonus: For the top 8 teams that will be reaching the Grand Finals, they will be rewarded 10,000 RMB for the efforts that they have done to reach the finals.

Discuss here.

Numerous speculations arises when his trademark heroes, Queen of Pain and Priestess of the Moon, were seen during the last season of European Elite DotA League. These conjectures were given a decent answer after the V-God were added to LOST.eu’s official roster on some websites.

LOST.eu’s current roster:

Andreas ‘Ducky’ Søgaard (captain)
Rasmus ‘MiSeRy-’ Filipsen
Jon ‘13abyKnight’ Andersen
Alex ‘Santa’ Koltan
Ivan ‘Vigoss’ Shinkarev (stand-in)

Statement  Andreas 'Ducky' Søgaard, Captain of LOST.eu:

“This is not a joke – but as the picture clearly states he is a standin. Vigoss has been playing with us recently and been doing extremely well. That’s why we didn’t hesitate to ask him to fill the gap that mirakel left in our roster. The reason for him not to stand as a regular member is that he isn’t sure wether he wants to join the “pro” dota scene again. He still wants to play with us in scrims as well as official games and that’s why we added him to the roster as a “stand-in”. I beg of you guys to settle down and let vigoss think about what to do – this is his choice, he is more then welcome in the team, but if he chooses not to join the competative scene then its a choice we should respect.
We hope of course vigoss chooses to come back to dota, so we can present him as a regular member of the team, but for now and as long as it will take him to choose he will stay as a standin at our rooster.
We will also be representing a 6th man soon, our goal is to be as active as possible so that we can make the appropriate preparations for the upcoming LANs.
Hope you will keep supporting us, and respect the situation.

Thx all. Ducky “

Source: Gosugamers.net

The only 3 Philippine Teams has advanced in the Asian Group out of 10 Teams are the following:

• Mineski – Dota
• Execration
• Jai-ho

Group A	W	D	L	Pts		Group B	W	D	L	Pts
MassPro	0	1	1	1		Tribal Int	0	0	2	0
Akatsuki	1	0	2	3		cG|DPP	3	0	0	9
HiiB	1	2	0	5		MIC	1	0	2	3
Ks.Nirvana	1	1	0	4		Citadel	1	0	0	3
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Group C	W	D	L	Pts		Group D	W	D	L	Pts
Druidz	2	0	0	6		3DMAX	0	1	1	1
EARTH	2	0	1	6		MYM	2	0	1	6
GOON	0	0	3	0		US	1	1	1	4
Jai-Ho	1	0	1	3		tivkoPeam	1	0	1	3
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Group E	W	D	L	Pts		Group F	W	D	L	Pts
DTS.Chatrix	2	0	0	6		bNet	0	0	2	0
PENTIA	2	0	1	6		snT	1	0	2	3
kill 4 fun	0	1	1	1		att	2	0	1	6
proA.DotA	0	1	2	1		Mineski-DotA	2	0	0	6
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Group G	W	D	L	Pts		Group H	W	D	L	Pts
LOST	3	0	0	9		nordic	0	1	1	1
no eXcuse	0	0	3	0		FUBAR	1	1	0	4
youBoat	2	0	1	6		Nv.GiGa.cn	2	0	0	6
YamatO	1	0	2	3		ZvM	0	0	2	0
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Group I	W	D	L	Pts		Group J	W	D	L	Pts
Sky	2	0	0	6		DDT	0	0	2	0
GC	2	0	1	6		OK	1	1	0	4
Ink	1	0	2	3		1!^h8dNEW	1	1	0	4
AEON.cgc	0	0	2	0		AlienwareDG	0	2	0	2
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Group K	W	D	L	Pts		Group L	W	D	L	Pts
TeG	0	1	1	1		seppo	0	0	3	0
COMPETO	1	1	0	4		LOST.ru	1	1	0	4
TLDR	1	0	0	4		Execration	2	0	0	6
HighQuality	0	1	1	1		Artyk	1	1	1	4
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Group M	W	D	L	Pts		Group N	W	D	L	Pts
Mojawi	0	1	1	1		Binary	0	0	2	0
Ostriy Nozh	0	2	0	2		paiN!	1	0	0	3
New World Order	1	1	0	4		MARKAS	1	1	0	4
KiS|mYpL	0	2	0	2		Faxe Kondi	0	1	0	1
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Group O	W	D	L	Pts		Group P	W	D	L	Pts
Tribal.Fr	2	0	0	6		XBOX	0	1	1	1
GoD	1	0	1	3		diXi	0	1	1	1
Micro	1	0	1	3		GDT	0	0	1	0
AzN	0	0	2	0		LGD.sGty	3	0	0	9
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The very famous MeetYourMakers who won the 3rd place in ESWC will take on the LOST.EU for a best of 3 Showmatches to be held on Sunday, August 29. It will be a very exciting match and will serve as an preview of what will happen on RGC and MYM PriDe whenever this teams will face in the said tournament.

The teams will be playing the latest version v6.68c and will use the mode -cmub which will make the games more exciting and interesting. Be ready as you will see the remade and buffed heroes to be played competitively as well as the new heroes which will be played by your favorite players. New strategies and lineups are to be expected every week.

Matchticker
	0:0
MYM		LOST.eu

GosuGamers and myMYM will be announcing the teams that will play every week as well as an live coverage by TobiWanKenobi with his mystery co-caster in dotacast.com

Ready your bets and popcorns! Vote here.

Image source: myMYM.com

And it all started when…

My name is Lon a.k.a mski.Chunkie, I’m currently involved in Mineski as the head of their events team and from time to time a contributor of some DotA news to the website. The creation of this column goes back from one of our brainstorming meetings. We at Mineski thinks that this column will be a sort of a diary, to see, check and if possible look back on how e-sports here in PH shape up… So much for the introduction let’s start the discussion of my first chronicle

E-sports and the World Cyber Games

E-sports by definition may be a general term that describe the playing of video games as a professional sport. This may differ from gaming platforms (PC, PS3, laptop, Wi, Xbox 360) and the game itself . The rise of professional gaming in the globe may be attributed to the all time great game Starcraft.  Then the list of other games goes on. In our country, the prevailing game is now DotA, however some notable games that grabbed our PC monitors years ago was Counter-Strike and Ragnarok. How the heck did e-sports evolved into what we see now? The answer is WCG

One of the most anticipated events all over the world is the World Cyber Games. Now on it’s 10th year this event helped sparked the needed drive for the world to see that gaming is not for casual fun anymore, it has become really competitive. Every year a different country will host the event but to join it requires the gamer to win their respective national qualifier. Yes you heard it right, the players that will be sent to WCG are the nation’s best of the best. Just think about this as the Olympics in gaming.

Covering the Asian Cyber Games without any Filipino reps is disheartening

No Qualifiers 2 years in a row

Media Men. Spotgamer's TPK (right) and Gosugamers' Mr.Jerry (left)

Last July 9 we went to cover the Asian Cyber Games (mini version of  WCG only for the Asian Region) that was held in Singapore. Together with Mineski CEO Ronald Robins and his brother Rick. The event surely has it’s ups and downs. As part of the media crew we have experienced it too. (Click here to understand more) Despite what happened we are more excited and happy to see so many pro-gamers from the region…but there’s a team missing. Where the heck is the PH team?

Below is the team gallery for the DotA Teams that joined in the ACG 2010

Nirvana.My – Malaysia

AlienwareRdG – Indonesia

AeonSports – Singapore

Diety – China

PEIN – South Korea

The other countries that particapted in ACG are

Thailand

Chinese Taipei

Sri Lanka

Vietnam (Overall champions 2009 and 2010)

Bangladesh

New Zealand

What now?

It turns out that there has been no WCG National Qualifiers that was organized for the last 2 years in our country. Simply put:

No National Qualifiers in PH means

No PH team to compete in ACG and

No PH team to compete in WCG (this year it will be held in Los Angeles, USA)

Another missed oppurtunity for the Filipino flag GG !

What really happened on the organizing committee on PH’’s cybergames? Well we have no clue. As far as it goes the 2 years of absence coupled with some nasty rumors of some of our players not getting fair treatment and allowances on their journey to represent our country is still haunting our former reps. We just hope that we can come back from the 2 year slump and participate again. So someone…I mean anyone just organize our WCG again.

The PH e-sports community is patiently waiting.

Discuss here!

The groupstage will be played from August 5 to 22. Expect an action packed matches of your favorite teams from all over the world. Epic battles will once again commence as the DotA community’s finest like AEON, MCiTY, Ks.Nirvana, Tribal.Int, LGD  and MYM, engaged in mind-boggling strategies for them to pull-off to bring home the bacon. And of course, Philippines has it’s representative too, our very own Execration (former Team Prime).

Hats off  to all the participants in this upcoming event and goodluck.

Group A	W	L	Pts		Group B	W	L	Pts
LGD.sGty	3	0	9		AEON.cgc	2	0	7
StarsBoba	1	2	3		MCiTY	1	0	4
PT	0	2	0		Ks.Nirvana	1	2	3
Nv.GiGa.cn	2	1	6		Execration	0	2	0
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Group C	W	L	Pts		Group D	W	L	Pts
Competo	1	0	5		LOST.eu	3	0	9
paiN!	1	0	5		Akatsuki	0	2	1
Artyk	0	0	3		pX	1	2	3
V.inv	0	2	1		DG	1	1	4
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Group E	W	L	Pts		Group F	W	L	Pts
MYM	3	0	9		DTS	3	0	9
mG	0	2	1		KIS|PlayLife	2	1	6
3DMAX	0	1	2		Devilmice	1	2	3
YamatO	1	1	4		OD	0	3	0
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Group G	W	L	Pts		Group H	W	L	Pts
LOST.ru	1	0	5		OK	2	1	6
TeG	0	3	0		Tribal Int	2	0	7
pub[gamers]	1	1	4		hp	0	2	0
wssm	2	0	7		No friends	1	1	4
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Stay tuned at Mineski.net for fresh updates

Playdays:

Playday 1: 8-11th July.

Playday 2: 12-16th July.

Playday 3: 17-25th July.

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Group 1
-
Nirvana.my
	Nirvana.my
bye
		PT
bye
	PT
PT
			-
iTz.La
	WCTF
WCTF
		iNc.xLo
bye
	iNc.xLo
iNc.xLo
-
-
Group 2
-
bye
	HBCC
HBCC
		HBCC
bye
	OmG
OmG
			LGD.sGty
Unstop
	wH
wH
		LGD.sGty
bye
	LGD.sGty
LGD.sGty
-
-
Group 3
-
MCiTY
	MCiTY
bye
		MCiTY
bye
	Oz
Oz
			MCiTY
SGaming
	SGaming
bye
		SGaming
bye
	Like
Like
-
-
Group 4
-
bye
	iLsY
iLsY
		RDM
eR^
	RDM
RDM
			AEON
bye
	Happyfeet
Happyfeet
		AEON
bye
	AEON
AEON
-
-
Group 5
-
Ks.LGD.MuFc
	Ks.LGD.MuFc
bye
		Ks.LGD.MuFc
HaiLongGaming
	HaiLongGaming
bye
			Ks.LGD.MuFc
FFF
	FFF
bye
		FFF
bye
	PiPN
PiPN
-
-
Group 6
-
HCity
	HCity
bye
		sR^
bye
	sR^
sR^
			-
SH
	SH
bye
		Nirvana.cn
bye
	Nirvana.cn
Nirvana.cn
-
-
Group 7
-
Diety
	Diety
bye
		Prime
Prime
	Prime
bye
			-
Oh!
	Oh!
bye
		proA.DotA
proA.DotA
	proA.DotA
bye
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-
-
Group 8
-
YaSu!
	YaSu!
bye
		StarsBoba
StarsBoba
	StarsBoba
bye
			StarsBoba
bye
	ToII4uTPaBy
ToII4uTPaBy
		MineskI-DotA
bye
	MineskI-DotA
MineskI-DotA

Momochi (Gouki) and Choco (Blanka) one of the best Street Fighters in the world

Choco showing off her skills to the Singaporeans

This is the event for the best of the best in Singapore, while we here in PH we will see who’s the best in our country on July 17. We invite you all to check out the WGT-ASUS tournament that will happen on SM Manila.

Discuss here

Early tomorrow morning, WCG Asia will be kicking off the group stage for their main event which is DotA wherein 13 Asian teams are divided into four groups playing in a round robin format. The top two teams of each group will advance to the Quarterfinals! The other remaining two game titles which are FIFA 2010 and Forza will be played on the afternoon.

Matches from WCG Asia will be streamed live on Garena TV and telecast on Mineski eSports Channel.

Defense of the Ancients

Quarterfinals

*Top four teams will proceed to the Semis

Malaysia
	Malaysia
Indonesia
		Malaysia
Korea
	Korea
New Zealand
			Vietnam
Singapore
	Thailand
Thailand
		Vietnam
Chinese Taipei
	Vietnam
Vietnam
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Battle for 2nd
Korea
	-
Thailand
-

Match updates:

• Indonesia < Malaysia
• Korea > New Zealand
• Malaysia > Korea
• Nirvana.MY destroyed AlienwareDG early on QF
• PEIN got a rape-game from Nirvana.MY

• Vietnam > Chinese Taipei
• Singapore < Thailand
• StarsBoba defeats CHT
• BBH ended AEON’s dominating streak on WCG Asia

• StarsBoba vs Nirvana.MY on finals!

• StarsBoba, the team from Vietnam successfully defended their title!
• Due to technical issues, Korea and Thailand shares third place.

Group Stage

*Top two teams of each group stage will proceed to the Quarterfinals

Group A	Win	Los	Pts		Group B	Win	Los	Pts
Malaysia	2	0	6		Korea	1	1	3
Japan	0	2	0		Australia	1	1	3
Chinese Taipei	1	1	3		Thailand	1	1	3
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Group C	Win	Los	Pts		Group D	Win	Los	Pts
Singapore	2	0	6		China	1	2	3
New Zealand	1	1	3		Vietnam	3	0	9
Bangladesh	0	2	0		Sri Lanka	0	3	0
					Indonesia	2	1	6
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*blue – 1st in bracket
*green – 2nd in bracket

Match highlights:

• Vietnam > China
• China < Indonesia
• Indonesia < Vietnam
• Chinese’s team Deity fails to qualify for the next round.

• Korea + Thailand + Australia
• 3-way tie (decided based on the number of hero kill counts)

• Malaysia > Japan
• Japan < Chinese Taipei
• Chinese Taipei < Malaysia
• TKN from Japan was already out having a score of 0-2.

• Singapore > Bangladesh
• Bangladesh < New Zealand
• New Zealand < Singapore
• Crowd’s favorite AEON successfully surpassed all their matches.

FIFA 2010

*Top two teams of each group stage will proceed to the Quarterfinals

Group A @3:30pm	Win	Los	Pts		Group B @3:30pm	Win	Los	Pts
Chinese Taipei	0	0	0		Bangladesh	0	0	0
Korea	0	0	0		China	0	0	0
Vietnam	0	0	0		Australia	0	0	0
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Group C @5:30pm	Win	Los	Pts		Group D @5:30pm	Win	Los	Pts
Sri Lanka	0	0	0		Malaysia	0	0	0
Thailand	0	0	0		Singapore	0	0	0
Indonesia	0	0	0		New Zealand	0	0	0
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FORZA Motosrports 3

*Top 4 players of the group stage will play off in the Quarterfinals

Group A @5:00pm	Win	Los	Pts		Group B @6:30pm	Win	Los	Pts
Vietnam	0	0	0		China	0	0	0
Singapore	0	0	0		Indonesia	0	0	0
Korea	0	0	0		Sri Lanka	0	0	0
Australia	0	0	0		Chinese Taipei	0	0	0
Bangladesh	0	0	0		Malaysia	0	0	0
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Check out the official discussion thread for more updates!