April 20th, 2008 Thyton/ArchsageVal
Garena, formerly GG-Client, the most important thing every DotA player needs, has also a very dedicated and active staff. After ADC I & II, ENADC and lot more various tournaments they have successfully released, they launch an event addressed directly to Chinese DotA players - GOA, which states for Glory of the Ancients.
Some basic information about the tournament include that Garena as a gaming platform is of course mandatory, but also www.Garena.CN will be the main sponsor along with DotACN. Registration is open from now, tournament will start 18 of April and is scheduled to finish 31 of May. GGTV streams will be available along with news coverage. Head administrators will be GG.yklfish and DCN.onlyyou.
There will be a limit of 32 teams, including overseas teams, that will then be divided into eight groups. Organizers will also seed eight teams. Games in group stage will be -xl bo1, top2 teams qualify to playoffs. First round of playoffs will be single elimination bo3 -xl matches, that will determine the final four. Last four teams will play a short double elimination this time bo1 -xl.
Tournament Prizes
Champion
1. 1200 Yuan (~110 EUR)
2. GOA league tournament first season champion certificate as well as champion ring
3. Garena Premium Membership for 1 month for each
4. Garena Exp 10000 for each
Second place
1. 1000 Yuan (~90 EUR)
2. Garena Premium Membership for 1 month for each
3. Garena Exp 8000 for each
Third place
1. 800 Yuan (~70 EUR)
2. Garena Premium Membership for 1 month for each
3. Garena Exp 6000 for each
Best of luck to all participants, let’s hope for another great tournament by Garena!
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April 20th, 2008 Thyton/ArchsageVal
After less than two months the first 5on5 DotA-Tournament of E-Challenge is finished!
E-Challenge.ch, a site known for a lot of CS 1.6 tournaments and a lot of small and big tours in Swiss and Germany recently finished their first DotA 5on5 Tournament, even with a small prizepool compared to tournaments and leagues like MYM PDL and DBL/ENADC the signup got filled pretty fast and when the tour started, we have been happy to have over 60 teams from 15 countries in the brackets, featuring names like Mousesports, XsK, SK-DotA, mymF, eXcello, w4sp, redSkyand many more.
Overall the teams played their games in the schedule and so the tournament went smooth and without big delay untill the Grand Final between Mouz and XsK, over 400 people tuned in at GGTV to watch the final games and after a long fight Mouz managed to win the tournament and will take home the 5 QPads.
Even though the QPads arent the biggest prize ever seen in a DotA tournament, still this win ment a lot to the still very young team Mouz, which has been in the news quite a lot, so we caught up with their leader for a small statement:
Kim ‘Drayich’ Larsson:
“When we lost the games in Pride 9 we were in horrible condition, both skillwise and spiritwise. We didnt have fun and we didnt create anything good, i decided to take over the team at that point when Kog left and we have worked alot on both the spirit and the individual skill during this time. Finally we get something for our efford and it feels like we are a strong team now, strong and hungry for wins”
Because of the big popularity of DotA nowadays, E-Challenge.ch decided to host the next 5on5 Tournament very soon, this time with more prizes, more teams and a bigger coverage!
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April 20th, 2008 Thyton/ArchsageVal
Xero Skill after increasing their roster some time ago wanted to give themselves a moment to get the chemistry with the additions up. Seems like it worked out nicely, as XsK is recently performing very good!
Roster changes
After embodying the additions, former SK-Gaming Swede ZeBob and Team Canada Leader mO-, they seem to have a strong team spirit and coordination. Hence further reinforcements of another former SK-Gaming player, Edvin ‘KwoM’ Börjesson, also Swede. Moreover, Argentinian Alex ‘Metro’ Katz joined XsK as their new manager.
Last game
KwoM was fast incorporated, and in the last game, third place tie breaker in ESL I against eMazing, he was fielded in starting five. eMg recently might lost some players, but they are still a force to be treated with highest respect. Pulling a straight 2-0 win, Team XsK proved to be in good shape and KwoM to be a good addition. You can find replays with ban/pick order in our database, Game 1 here and Game 2 here.
Future
With such a huge roster XsK can participate in vast majority of events that are going on at the moment, and with their current high form we can expect them to lay a lot of good DotA. Although one thing is still uncertain - ESWC requires at least three players from same country for national qualifiers, XsK can field two at most, and international qualifiers are at the moment uncertain. Time will tell, let’s hope we will see them participating in the offline finals!
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April 20th, 2008 Thyton/ArchsageVal
One of most well known American multi-gaming clans is returning to DotA.
Throughout the history of competitive DotA Check-Six Gaming had several teams, their roster underwent numerous changes, last lineup faded shortly after Yoda, Samurai and Zujio left. Final roster, called by prejudiced the ‘most unmannered team’ consisted of JollyJoker, Mike, ezy, HighTimes, SwissBeatZ and OwnaGe-JuiCe.
Now Check-Six returns to DotA, picking up no other than hi2u. Some players have been in the organization before, like merc and Inspire also known Yoda. That leaves the current roster looking as follows:
Tim “iSH” Chin (Leader)
Alex “wtfmate” Nguyen (Co-Leader)
John “merc” Pham
Richie “YuRiTag” Woo
Jimmy “Demon Ho”
Eugene “Chouji” Sung
Steve “durty” Nam
Orie “Inspire” Guo
GosuGamers wishes best of luck to the new Check-Six!
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April 20th, 2008 Thyton/ArchsageVal
Mousesports decided to add one more name to their roster, after having the known WC3 player ToD playing for them in some matches, they now added a well known CS player to their roster!
Not only Norwegian Jørgen “XeqtR” Johannessen is a living, yet retired, legend when it comes to Counter Strike, as it turns out. He was seen playing DotA for the Norwegian National team in last Prime Nations. After playing some good games in IHCS, got approached by Kim “Drayich” Larsson, who added him shortly.
“I am sure he is gonna be a good addition to the team
- Drayich’s statement about XeqtR
Mousesports roster:
mouz|Drayich (Captain)
mouz|blutgeiL
mouz|Fragalot
mouz|Miracle-
mouz|PlaymatE
mouz|Twisted
mouz|XeqtR
Here is a short statement from Mousesports Captain, Kim “Drayich” Larsson:
As a DotA team you really need to have a lot of players, and I knew that we needed one more player already when I’ve added twisted. XeqtR has worked very well and became a member of the mouzfamily during his “tryout” period and I am sure he is gonna be a good addition to the team.
GosuGamers would like to wish XeqtR best of luck on his new way of DotA.
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April 20th, 2008 Thyton/ArchsageVal
Some days ago myMYM has announced the sign-ups for yet another version of their tournament Prime Defending.
“The community’s thirst for blood is so strong that we couldn’t delay MYM Prime Defending 10 any longer! It is time for the tenth edition of DotA’s largest international tournament where the competition just got a lot higher. Just recently we announced a new league, MYM Prime Defending League in which six teams were invited.
This Prime Defending tournament will serve as a qualifier to the league. Six more teams will be added to the league at the end of this tournament. Stay tuned for more epic battles and thrilling plays here at myMYM.com!
Every team that wants to participate in the tournament may feel free to sign up - the team’s registration doesn’t even cost anything!
The signups will be open until Wednesday, 26th of March 20:00 CET.
- myMYM statement
Prizes:
1st Place
- 400$ Prizemoney
- 5 x Sennheiser PC 161
- 5 x 3 Months CLUB MYM Accounts
- 5x MYM profile PriDe winner icons
2nd Place
- 250$ Prizemoney
- 5 x Sennheiser HD-series
- 5 x 1 Months CLUB MYM Accounts
3rd Place
- 150$ Prizemoney
- 5 x 1 Week CLUB MYM Accounts.
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April 20th, 2008 Thyton/ArchsageVal
Well heres your chance the ESWC USA qualifiers are coming up this next month. The winner gets a ticket to the finals in San Jose, California.The Electronic Sports World Cup is one of the best tournaments out there for DotA and WC3. They host players from all around the world for qualifying tournaments, and then the grand finals. This time around its the United States turn to show off, it looks to be promising.
USA Qualifier
Today ESWC announced that the US qualifying tournaments will be held online from April 7th-June 5th. The winners of this tournament will be heading to San Jose for the 6th edition of the ESWC Finals! Eight hundred of the worlds finest players will gather late this August to give it their all. They will be collected by the way of qualifying tournaments, taking place in over 50 countries across the world.
Registration
As you can imagine many people want to play in this tournament and luckily registration is open to the public. Beginning March 24th you will be able to register for any of the games that are being played, but spots will fill up quick so make sure to get yours early. 1200 players will get the chance to fill a spot on Team USA, start practicing!
Get ready
Warcraft 3 and DotA are both going to be played in these tournaments, and we know that you guys have got what it takes. Remember registration will fill up fast so get in there quick if you want that free trip to California, not to mention the fame and glory. Below are the links necessary to get your self started, but remember registration begins on the 24th and closes on the 4th of April. Good Luck to you all!
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April 20th, 2008 Thyton/ArchsageVal
Virtus.pro has announced a new line-up. After poor results in their last matches a lot of rumours went around of Virtus.pro disbanding. The rumours only grew stronger when Sergio ‘ARS-ART’ Revin left for SK-Gaming.
Instead of disbanding Virtus.pro has announced a changed line-up. Both Igor ‘Admiration’ Khalnish and Sergio ‘Smile’ Revin left Virtus.pro. The two new players are Vladyslav `blowyourbrain` Morozuk and Dimitri `LighTofHeaveN` Kuprianov, who is one of the most famous russian players ever and recently performed very well in clan Begrip.
Full roster:
Vasilii ‘Jolie’ Pepelyaev (Team Captain)
Yaroslav ‘NS’ Kuznetzov
Ivan ‘vigoss’ Shinkarev
Dimitri ‘LightOfHeaven’ Kuprianov
Vladyslav ‘blowyourbrain’ Morozuk.
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April 20th, 2008 Thyton/ArchsageVal
The DotA-VIP Cup has announced their first season. The main admin is Kasper ‘TasteMeAcc’ Nielsen who has also been a supervisor in the clanbase tournaments/leagues. The tournament will start the 31th of march with the sign-ups closing the 30th.
Every team can enter, professionals and amateurs from every timezone. This tournament might turn out to be very interesting. Two big teams STB (Simply The Best) and xLo (excello.dota). This is one of the first tournament for the team formerly know as Hardteam.
The rules are standard DotA rules (some TDA exceptions, but normal clanwar rules). The two most important sections of the rules:
General
The mandatory is GGC, but Hamachi, LC or DC can be used if agreed by both teams.
DotA v6.48b
-pick draft (1-2-2-2-2-1) - lineup will be told in channel, sentinel starts each draft.
Items restrictions per team:
Two Eul’s Scepter of Divinity or Guinsoo’s Scythe of Vyse or one of each
One Arcane Ring
One Necronomicon
Two Mekansm
One Refresher
All rules
If you would like to sign up: Sign-Up page
Contact details:
IRC: #dota-vip.cup @ Quakenet
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April 20th, 2008 Thyton/ArchsageVal
Meet Your Makers has just announced a new DotA League called the Prime Defending League, which is ofcourse based on the Prime Defending Tournament.
“Prime Defending League (PDL) will consist of the 12 best teams in the world, of which 6 have been directly invited for the first season of PDL. The remaining 6 teams will be found via Prime Defending #10, which will serve as the qualifier for PDL.
- myMYM statement
The 6 teams current invited:
MYM.DotA Confirmed
KingSurf
SK Gaming
Virtus.Pro
Wolker Gaming
TeG
The remaining spots will be decided on the results of Prime Defending 10.
“Keep an eye out for Prime Defending #10 - The qualifier for the Prime Defending League, which you and your team should not miss out on.
- myMYM statement
Also the prize money was confirmed:
2,000 US$
1,000 US$
500 US$
”
PDL Season #1 Grand Finals will be held online and we are working on having PDL Season #2 Grand Finals as a LAN event somewhere in the world.
- myMYM statement
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