Showing posts with label Dota-2-Malaysia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dota-2-Malaysia. Show all posts
Monday, 10 June 2013
Introducing the all-new, all-Malaysian, six-man DuskBin Dota 2 team
From left: Jian Shen "Dy-" Chong , Jason "Jny-" Siew , Shi Yuan " Shiyuan" Soh, Kelvin "MtR-" Chong, Jun Wei "BoyZ" Gan, Kok Chun "MissyZ" Wong
DuskBin, a local (Malaysian) eSports team who specialises in multiple other games have recently unveiled its new Dota 2 team roster. The team has been inactive for quite some time but has made a statement that they will be back in both the local and international Dota 2 scene with a more experienced and strategic lineup and also most importantly a consistent training schedule.
DuskBin.Dota 2 will feature an all-Malaysian, six-man roster boasting of Jny, MissyZ and BoyZ who were all from team FishBall. Mtr, Dynasty and 6th-man Shiyuan will then make out the rest of the all-new DuskBin, led by an experienced Jny.
But forming a new team and even a polished brand image will not immediately mean success, and to this DuskBin have set up a dedicated training facility in Petaling Jaya, Selangor with top-notch gaming equipment sponsored by i-Rocks. In-house trainings are carried out every week from Friday to Sunday, while weekdays will see the team having to train online due to their personal commitments.
In a statement on their official team website, DuskBin has also unveiled plans to compete in the upcoming E2MAX qualifiers in Singapore, and have also announced their commitment to compete in as many tournaments as possible.
Friday, 25 January 2013
Neolution Orange reformed with new 2013 DOTA 2 team roster
After a series of rumours, transfers and in particularly seeing the move of Yamateh to Team Zenith, Orange eSports seemed quite lackluster, much to their fan's dismay. But contrary to a few believes on Orange's not-so-bright future and some words of worries, the management team has came out with a surprise reformation on the team.
For a start, after very recently gaining an invaluable platinum sponsorship by Neolution eSports, what used to be know as Orange eSports will now be officially known as Neolution Orange. With a whole new name and ultimately a new brand and a fresh image, the team will see (for most ways) a new lineup, and a formidable one too.
Chan "Winter" Litt-Binn and Chua "Ice" Chee Cai have officially left Orange, while Neolution Orange will see both Lim ‘Net’ Wai Pern and Mushi's profoundly-known disciple Khoo ‘Ohaiyo’ Chong Xin completing its 2013's DOTA 2 roster along with Mushi, Xtinct (captain) and Ky.xY. Hopefully, this will be a finalised, stable one.
Official words of its reformation, welcomes and thankyous by Orange:
Orange Esports extends our welcome to Lim ‘Net’ Wai Pern and Khoo ‘Ohaiyo’ Chong Xin who will be completing our 2013 DotA team roster. On the other hand, we parted ways with Chan "Winter" Litt-Binn and Chua "Ice" Chee Cai. Like Yamateh, Winter and Ice are also top quality DotA players and accomplished a great deal during their service with Orange Esports. We wish them best of luck in their next stage of DotA career and they will be missed by many of us.
We also take this opportunity to announce our new partnership with Neolution E-Sport who will come in as Orange Esports Platinum Sponsor for 2013. We like to thank the CEO of Neolution Group, Mr. Satean Boonmanant for his generous supports. The sponsorship will complete the new pay package for our Professional DotA players like never seen before in South East Asia. In recognition of their sponsorship, Orange Esports DotA team will be known as “Neolution Orange” in 2013.
Here's to hoping that this will continue to be Neolution Orange's roster for the rest of 2013, and bring even greater success for pride of our local eSports scene! *cross fingers*
Friday, 18 January 2013
ADGSA 2013 - Malaysia
If you're based in Malaysia and would like to give a shot at it, up to 64 teams will be given the chance start the 25th of January in the first Malaysian qualifier.
Malaysian Qualifier #1·Venue: Online tournament
·Date: 25th, 26th and 27th January 2013
·Team limit: 64
·Tournament format: For 64 team slots, first and second stage will be single elimination and the top 16 will be double elimination.
·Top 4 teams qualify to the National Final
Malaysian Qualifier #2
· Venue: FTZ ASIA.NET internet café (Jalan SS 15/8a, SS 15, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor)
· Date: 1st, 2nd and 3rd February 2013
· Team limit: 32
· Tournament format: For 32 team slots, first stage will be single elimination and top 16 will be double elimination.
· Top 2 teams qualify to the National Final
Malaysian GRAND FINAL
· Venue: The Summit, Subang USJ
· Date: 22nd – 24th February 2013
Register your team at armaggeddon.net/adgsa-2013-registration/
Stand a chance to be sponsored by Armaggeddon at DOTA 2 Grand Slam Asia 2013
If the rather recent DOTA 2 The Asia wasn't itself a feast for our eyes on our regional DOTA 2 eSports scene, you will be glad to hear that even more action will be taking place as up and coming gaming gear manufacturers Armaggeddon will be organising a huge tournament regionally, or in their own words, a 'DOTA 2 Grand Slam'.
At first glance, what will catch your eye would probably be its prize pool of up to $20,000 for its Grand Slam finals in Singapore (and the RM10,000 allocated for the Malaysian Grand Finals). Though well this is not the biggest amount an eSports tournament has offered before, it is ultimately still a large sum of money and would forseeably attract some of our top talents, regionally and locally.
But what is more interesting, and definitely worth a shot, is Armaggeddon's offer for an exclusive sponsorship contract with them and their 'corporate alliance' with some of the top brands in the industry like AMD, Asus and Valve.
Quite obviously, Armaggeddon is scouting for an up and coming DOTA 2 team to fully-sponsor, support, and nurture while bringing their company's brand up as well. With that, they have opened the Grand Slam tournament around Asia for the usual SEA countries and even extending to Sri Lanka, though noticeably missing out huge countries like India and China.
The Grand Slam finals which will determine who the company will ultimately sponsor is set on the 9th of March at Singapore, Marina Bay Sands. But meanwhile, Armaggeddon has opened up registrations for its very first sets of qualifier in Malaysia and Singapore which will begin as early as (at the point of writing this) exactly next week - 25th January.
Interested? Get to know its tournament FAQs here at Armaggeddon.net
Monday, 24 December 2012
DOTA 2 The Asia: The Results
1st place: LGD (China)
Last weekend was one heck of a blast at KLCC (Convention Centre) as two major events Comic Fiesta 2012 and TGX 2012 were held at the same venue, despite in different halls. Though we can not rid yet of how awesomely packed the place was with gamers, cosplayers and comic-enthusiasts alike, this post will first serve to highlight one of the biggest regional esports tournament this year, DOTA 2 The Asia held in conjunction with TGX 2012.
Attracting and bringing all the top talents of DOTA 2 around this region and even renown shoutcaster Toby 'TobiWan' Dawson in one venue, The Asia was set to be a massive sight and a must-go event for all DOTA and esports fans. True enough, though sound systems backtracked the event a little, it indeed soon proved to be one heck of a festival for both avid fans and onlookers alike.
But in midst of all these, are the true carry-ers, gankers and supporters in the game, focusing hard and working as one to grab an edge over the other team. All dedicated whatever they had, all played with profession and sportsmanship, but some were less fortunate, while some, advanced.
After the two days long tournament, after rounds of hard battles and overcoming some serious ganks, team China's LGD eventually took the lead against Malaysia's very MUFC in the finals, taking home the tournament title along with $15,000, while MUFC had to settle with 2nd place and $9,000. Meanwhile, Orange Esports, after succumbing to co-country team MUFC during the semi-finals, proceeded to take hold of the Philippines' MiTH-Trust, gaining 3rd place and $6,000.
I would also like to use this opportunity to commend both our boys Orange eSports and especially MUFC. MUFC gave a pretty solid performance from the very start, being the only team in the competition who was completely undefeated during the group stages and obviously, before the finals. Both of our teams had done Malaysia very proud for taking 2 out of the top 3 places, among all the top talents an in such a competitive regional scene. Keep it up!
2nd place: MUFC DOTA (Malaysia)
3rd place: Orange eSports (Malaysia)
Thank you, RGN for the photos!
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
DOTA 2 The Asia to have multiple-language streams
DOTA 2 The Asia, one of the most prestigious regional tournament yet, is set to go from the 22nd till the 23rd. A total of 12 teams will be battling it all out right in the middle of Malaysia's hub Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre for a total of USD 15,000.
With an important tournament as such, the organisers have also managed to bring one of the most popular commentators into the scene, plus attracting several other commentator streams in the many languages of South East Asia.
Official Channels:
[English] Toby 'TobiWan' Dawson and Joshua 'Jtan' Tan (live onsite):
http://www.twitch.tv/rapturegaming
[Thai] Pinkle: http://www.twitch.tv/raptureth
[Vietnamese] Pewpew: http://www.twitch.tv/rapturevn
[Tagalog] Marlon: http://www.twitch.tv/raptureph
Other channels:
[English] Toby 'TobiWan' Dawson and Joshua 'Jtan' Tan (live onsite):
http://www.joindota.com/en/live/tobiwan (Stage matches)
[English] David 'GoDz' Parker and David 'LD' Gorman: http://www.twitch.tv/beyondthesummit
[Chinese] 啃西咯: live.neotv.cn/live/pipe-20 (LGD matches)
[Chinese] Kent and Rihou:
- http://www.fengyunzhibo.com/tv/kentdota2.html
- http://www.twitch.tv/rihou1648 (LGD matches)
Thursday, 13 December 2012
[DOTA 2 The Asia] Official group stages and schedule
DotA is arguably one of the more popular, if not the biggest game in Malaysia, South East Asia and especially up north China. To acknowledge the fact and to celebrate all the top talents from each countries around the region, DotA 2 The Asia has been organised.
DotA 2 The Asia will be held from the 22 to the 23rd of December in conjunction with TGX (The Game Expo) Malaysia 2012 and its group stages and schedule have recently been announced.
I would say that both groups are fairly balanced, with probably LGD or MUFC (if they perform at their best) taking the lead in Group A, while Zenith and Orange having a good chance in Group B. But don't get me wrong, all the other teams are equally competitive, but track records have shown that China's LGD and both Malaysia's Orange and MUFC to be the better contenders for this year's one of the biggest regional DotA 2 tournament.
The official schedule, click image to enlarge.
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Malaysia's Orange Esports finishes 4th in WCG DotA 2 finals while Invictus Gaming crowned champions
Definitely no pressure at all but our boys from Orange Esports DotA is arguably Malaysia's strongest Esports team yet. The team, who is also strongly supported and sponsored by Razer, are multiple champions for various tournaments in local ground. However, their international records have yet to be as successful though at many a times, they often only miss their footing at the very last moments. Unfortunate.
In their latest major international attempt, Orange Esports advances into the 2012 World Cyber Games (WCG) DotA 2 Championships. Despite having a pretty good set in its League games, the team unfortunately then were set up against now-champions Invictus Gaming from China (they also won The International 2012) and proceeded to play 3rd placing playoffs against DevilMice from Belarus.
Despite being favourites in the game, Orange Esports gave in 0-2 to DevilMice, finally finishing the annual Games in 4th place.
The team's dissapointment was in any case, evident but I as a huge supporter for the Esports industry in Malaysia and for the team Orange Esports themselves who really are progressing in each tournament, really do believe that the day will come when we will overcome and make a bigger name, internationally.
Keep it up, Orange!
Friday, 16 November 2012
[DOTA 2] Introducing Live Player Activity Map
If there is one game any PC gamer in the world would know of and has played before, that would probably be DOTA 2. DOTA, since its inception as a Warcraft in-map game created by IceFrog, has been growing tremendously and is now indisputably one of the most well-known and popularly-played online game in the world.
To celebrate the continuously demanding reception to enter (still in beta) DOTA 2, Valve has set up a dedicated page to live-track the traffic and players online to give an overview of the number of live games played at any current moment.
As seen in the picture above, the popularity and current player activity is measured in its size and frequencies of orange heat spots, which at the time i'm posting this is particularly heavy in the Europe and South East Asia.
Keep in mind that DOTA 2 is in beta mode so there still is a whole pool of players waiting to enter. And when DOTA 2 officially opens up to everyone and anyone in the public, then THAT will be interesting to see...
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Imagine DOTA based on Marvel Characters. It's coming, sort of.
You should definitely have heard of Defence of the Ancients (DOTA), probably know League of Legends (LOL), and may or may not know Heroes of Newerth (HON). These games and its 'genre' MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) are arguably one of the more popular online games these days headlining almost every major competitive gaming event.
Hopping on the scene would be Disney Interactive as the company recently signed a contract with Korean developer Smilegate in plans to develop a MOBA-based title featuring Marvel characters. Yup, a whole legion of Marvel characters, set to unleash in 2014 for Asia only.
And oh, i'm assuming the Hulk will be a tanker, probably Centaur-like, Captain America as erm Sven, and Thor as, Zues-like? What other Marvel heroes can you relate them to?
Source: MMOCulture
Friday, 26 October 2012
Centaur Warrunner comes to Dota 2
I was actually pretty surprised when I realised that when Dota 2 first started, Centaur wasn't a hero option there then. Centaur to me seemed like a classic hero and a commonly-known one throughout the original Dota, so it seemed natural for the big guy to be in it. Nevertheless, here is that freaking tank (or at least used to be) as the latest addition to the Dota 2 hero lineup.
However, this may come as a surprise to you as I would say rather important changes has been made and this in particular (very obvious too) in his ultimate. Instead of Great Fortitude, it is now replaced with a new skill Stampede. This grants you and all allied player units on the map max movement speed and zero unit collision for a short duration. Any enemy units you or your allies come into collision will take some damage and get stunned, though enemies can only be affected by the stampede impact once.
For the details of the new ultimate, along with the rest of the changelog, see here.
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
WCG Asian Championship 2012 To Be Held In Malaysia For The First Time
Competitive gaming, or more professionally known as E-Sports, is gaining popularity and fan support in Malaysia through recent years, which was especially accelerated in 2007 when the first WCG (World Cyber Games) Asian Championships was introduced to this part of the world.This year, it is set for a huge change and would definitely heighten up the E-Sports scene in Malaysia as the WCG Asian Championships 2012 has recently been confirmed to take place at Kuala Lumpur. Or more specifically, from the 7th to 9th of September, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.
After years of hosting the annual championships in either Singapore or Indonesia, the day has finally come for Malaysia to show what we got.
As depicted on the poster above, Dota 2 has been confirmed to be part of one of the official tournament games. However, that is all the information available and when the rest of the games are unveiled, we will be updating further. Stay tuned, for the largest gaming showdown in Malaysia yet.
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Counter Strike: Global Offensive Releases August 21
Valve was pretty quiet this E3, but they at least did announce the official release date of Counter Strike: Global Offensive. CS:GO has been in beta for quite some time so it's kinda expected that they will be releasing the game soon. It will be available via Steam, PSN (PlayStation Network) and XBLA (Xbox Live Arcade) for only around $15 (RM45).
That said, Valve made no announcements on the availability of Dota 2 unfortunately.
Friday, 1 June 2012
DOTA 2 Confirmed as Free-to-Play with Dota Store
When DOTA 2 was first announced quite some time back, Valve mentioned that the game may need players to pay. Of course, most of us were rather disappointed as after all, we've played (the original) Dota for a long, long time, all for free.
But nevertheless, it's beta was free and since we've got an invite, we didn't really complain much. But now that the beta has been going on for quite some time speculations and rumors have arise that Valve may have changed their mind about getting players to pay.
Fortunately, Valve did. On their official Dota 2 blog, Valve recently confirmed that Dota 2 will be a free-to-play title. But if it is free-to-play, then how would Valve get their money back? Would they use a system like League of Legends or their (in my personal opinion) copycat rival Heroes of Newerth's, who restrict players access to certain heroes?
The short answer is no, all heroes would be available free of charge. However, similarly, players will have the option to buy new skins for the heroes, or for this case, 'cosmetics' for 'customisation' which would be available in their newly-introduced Dota Store (which we would talk about it in more detail later).
Till then, happy gaming!
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Dota 2 Updated, Gets New Better Interface (Thank God)
Honestly, Dota 2's first user interface was just horrible. Everything seemed so crammed and tiny and mini and I simply couldn't imagine people with smaller-sized screens playing this game, because other than its gameplay, its visual display is just bad. Real bad.
Luckily, finally, Valve made an effort to update their UI (user interface) switching it back to a more classic Dota-like display which I would definitely say is more visually appealing to the eyes. Yes, it's THAT much better.
The courier UI now allows item delivery with just a single click; but its still so damn small! but i guess it's ok since its just a courier...lol
And yes, a the item icons are finally bigger; but the icons in the shops are still darn small!
So to the developers of Dota 2, if this post ever reaches you, please take heed the 'suggestions' of a mere player like me. And to all the Dota 2 gamers out there, if you agree in what nonsense I've just rambled about, do give us a like.
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Dota 2 Debuts with The International Championship at Gamescom
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