Mineski.net brings you a coverage of the scrim match between Magic 89.9’s Cj “the DJ”, and DLSU Green Archer’s Junjun Cabatu.

Junjun playing Centaur

These two local celebrities are also known as casual gamers in a shop nearby their house at Game Frog Internet Cafe in Metrowalk.  They always play “just for fun” and usually the loser buys a bucket of beer for the winner.  The match was initiated when Cj and Junjun decided to raise the level of their gameplay, after playing for quite sometime in pubs, calling their friends who plays in a tournament environment to battle it out!

CJ and Roro

This is an excellent sign for all the DotA players out there since the game is capturing the interest of many people, even our local celebrities.  In time, we’ll see if the gaming environment will get better.  You just don’t have any idea who you are playing against in LAN games like in Garena… “Malay mo artista na pala yun!”

Anyways, here are the replays of their matches.
Use 1.24b patch and 6.66b map version.

Celebrity Showmatch G1: Cj the DJ vs Junjun Cabatu
Celebrity Showmatch G2: Cj the DJ vs Junjun Cabatu

Enjoy and have fun watching them!

February stats now up!

This month’s tournament and all the compilation of all the player’s statistics are now up.
Thanks to the ever hard working mski.eya

To view more information, check out the stats on www.mineski.net/mpgl-dota

Numbers don’t lie, check out your favorite team and player stats.

AMPGL point system

The point system for each teams who garnered a top spot from 1st to 8th place in an AMPGL evemt are as follows:

• 1st place – 8 points
• 2nd place – 6 points
• 3rd place – 4 points
• 4th place – 2 points
• 5th to 8th place – 1 point

The team with the highest points for the 10 month long tournament will be the one to represent Philippines in the next SMM Grand Finals 2010 at Malaysia.

Teams close to SMM

Mineski (Mski-DotA) still tops the list as the team that is most likely go to SMM as of Season 1 Leg 2 (1-2), however two teams who has both a sister team, Pag-ibig and Prime are on the look out in case Mski-DotA lags behind on Leg 3 (1-3).

AMPGL 1-1 Top 8

1. Pagi-ibig 1
2. Mski-DotA
3. Prime 2
4. RoG
5. DnC
6. Prosty
7. Evil Child
8. Prime 1

AMPGL 1-2 Top 8

1. Pag-ibig 2
2. Mski-DotA
3. Prime 1
4. Battle Grounds
5. Oroboros
6. Evil Child
7. Porn Star
8. Happy Feet 2

Total points as of AMPGL 1-2

• Mski-DotA (12 pts.)
• Pag-ibig 1 (8 pts.)
• Pag-ibig 2 (8 pts.)
• Prime 1 (5 pts.)
• Prime 2 (4 pts.)
• Evil Child (2 pts.)
• RoG (2 pts.)
• Battle Grounds (2 pts.)
• DnC (1 pt.)
• Prosty (1 pt.)
• Oroboros (1 pt.)
• Porn Star (1 pt.)
• Happy Feet 2 (1 pt.)
  

Who will reign supreme in the next tournament? Register your team for the upcoming leg.

Click here to register!

PDECT 2nd Round Brackets for the Round Robin Stage is now released. The latest map will be used in round 2. Each set of games will follow a best of 3 format.  Here is the Round 2 points chart:

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Scores

#	Teams	Points	Win	Loss	Playwk.	Postpone
1	Mineski-DotA	14	5	0	4	0
2	TheOs	10	3	2	5	0
3	Pagibig 1	6	2	2	4	0
4	Synchronize Gaming	5	2	2	4	0
5	Happyfeet	8	3	1	4	2
6	Little Ronz	2	1	3	4	0
7	Hatred	2	0	5	5	0
8	Latos	7	2	3	5	0

Schedules

Teams 20 minutes late from the scheduled match shall receive automatic 1 loss in bo3.  Every team has 2 postpone cards. Click set to view thread for match scheduling.

Roster Change

Edit your post here for roster changes.

Update 1

Released team scheduling for playweek 2.  6.66b will be the map used starting next week.

Update 2

Happyfeet used their first postpone in Playweek 2.  They are required to post their new suggested schedule for that Playweek.

Update 3

Happyfeet used their last postpone card in Playweek 4.

The Schedule for Monthly for Cod4 and Starcraft will be changed:

Call of Duty 4 will be on the May and October Legs (other legs cancelled)

Starcraft will be moved to be ONLINE for the purpose of provincial players having the chance to participate and gain experience with the NCR players.

HoN tournament will be replacing the Minor Event for February Leg on March 7, 2010 @ Mineski Infinity w/c will be Marshalled by Kent

AMPGL 1-2: DotA Champions Team Pag-ibig II

Mark “Mackkk” dela Cruz
Karlo “Karlooow” Sarmiento
Jordan “Jord” Jose
Paolo “Rehg/Papapao” Coral
Ralph Richard “Harhar” Penano

After 1 comes 2

February is love month and it is no surprise that the two veteran teams from Recto are among the favorites to win in the tournament.  i < 3 mackkk shares his thoughts on what happened on the play dates.

“Swerte kami kasi palagi kaming talo (Pag-ibig 1) eh nagkataon andito si RR, hindi namin na expect na mananalo kami mga alamat na kasi sila eh“

Lucky or not what Pag-ibig 2 did was no small feat. They had to slug it out with their sister team Pag-ibig 2 (replay) and had to come up with a brilliant strategy: Early Push/Healer line-up to counter Mineski-DotA who won their first finals game with ease. After getting hacked by Mineski-DotA (bone clinx) in the first game (replay), the pressure was on Pag-ibig 2 who has the twice-to-beat advantage.  How did they overcome the pressure? i < 3 regh shares:

“Wala na kaming naisip, after nung first game stick na lang kame dun sa lagi naming line-up. Pugak (Push type) na lang dun kame sanay eh. Sakto napalabas namin Chen…ayon gumana yung alamat”

The game plan was simple. Get push type heroes, mass healers and finish the game early. It was a risk worth taking as Mineski-DotA cannot help but watch their outer towers go down one by one as Pag-ibig utilized their line-up (Chen, Sven, Dazzle, Necrolyte, QOP) and ultimately win the game in less that 35 minutes of play time. (replay)

Mski-DotA falls short again. Emerging top teams Evil Child and Oroboros, comes in

Lack of gas? Mski-DotA is having problems at the later stages of the tournament

Home team Mski-DotA has performed excellently in the early stages of the tournament but, when it comes to the final stretch they always ran out of gas. This could be seen in the last two tournaments they have always lost in the battle for the twice to beat advantage before the finals. Meanwhile rookie team Oroboros surprised many of the spectators as they took the 5th place of the tournament while, Evil child took the 6th place beating top teams like Prime 2 in the process.

Here’s the list of the top 8 teams in AMPGL-DotA 1-2

1. Pag-ibig II          4. Battle Grounds          7. Porn Star

2. Mski.DotA          5. Oroboros                     8. Happy Feet 2

3. Prime 1              6. Evil Child

Events Team: Bringing Innovation to 1-2

AMPGL loading screen for the tournament

With the second tournament for DotA comes new changes from the Events team that handles the tournament. One big change that were implemented, was a registration give-away to the team that will register and come to the venue on time. The raffle was won by DnC (Dulo ng Cavite).  Mski.Likemike summarizes the major changes on the venues of tournament:

“Nagkaroon na tayo ng sponsors booth, kung saan andun sila may space tapos pwede silang magshow-case ng gamit nila gaya nung ginawa ng Cooler Master and Hitachi. Inayos naman ni Eya yung sa loading screen for the DotA, malapit na ding lumabas yung teams database na ginagawa ni Vinni and Natte. Tapos si Lon naman sa logistics ng tournament. I’m still compiling the waiver forms of all participants and sa stats na hopefully ma-integrate sa website before mag 1-3″

With all these things happening after the second tournament, what will gamers expect on the  3rd stage of AMPGL?

Teams Database of all participants

The Mineski Events Crew! L to R: (mike,vhinayzz, lon,jumbo,eya,banoobs,natte)

Another first in Philippine e-sports gaming, on 1-3 we will open the Team’s Section of the website which will include the following:

* Complete Team profile with corresponding pictures

* Team specific web page (complete with logo and team motto)

* League rankings and other player statistics

This will only be available to those teams who have successfully followed and submitted their waiver forms to this email address: lon@mineski.net

There you have it, 1-2 is already done….who will come out on top on 1-3? Will the sister teams dominate again or will Mineski-DotA eventually break their late-game slump? Stay tuned for 1-3 on March .

Discuss here

]]> http://mineski.net/featured/ampgl-dota-1-2-pag-ibig-2-rises-at-the-top/feed/ 0 http://mineski.net/featured/hon-descends-at-mineski/ http://mineski.net/featured/hon-descends-at-mineski/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:25:16 +0000 lon http://mineski.net/?p=3605 After careful deliberations and much feedback from gamers, we now bring Heroes of Newerth in Mineski. This will be another first in PH gaming as HoN is the fastest rising competitive game internationally. The tournament will be held at Mineski Infinity and it will be part of AMPGL 1-2 guest games, upon which we will organize aside from the 3 primary games (DotA, SC, COD4) that we have from time to time.

HoN PH players it’s time to shine!

HoN @ Mineski

This tournament has been conceptualized ever since HoN was on its closed beta stages. The issues that we taught back then that delayed this tournament was: some hero/item imbalance, bugs and unstable internet connection and a large base of community/gamers.  All the issues has been resolved, so why not delay this great game? We always have a feedback concerning when are we going to host this event. Well the answer lies on March 7, 2010. Who will be the first HoN team to win the first ever HoN tournament in the country?

Here are the details on the tournament proper

When: March 7, 2010
Where: Mineski Infinity
Call Time: 9 AM

Registration Fee: Php 1,000.00 per team
Tournament Bracket: 16 Teams Double Elimination
*If teams reached the max cap of 16 teams, we will adjust the tournament bracket accordingly

Prizes: If 16 teams join the tournament
Champion: Php 8,000.00
2nd Place: Php 5, 000.00
3rd Place: Php 3,000.00
*Prizes are scaled depending on the total number of participants

Rules: TBA (To be announced)
*We will base the rules on international standards.

Register here

Discuss here.