Job Well Done Jeztah Ching!
Sunday, July 6th, 2008In a heartfelt letter to his former teammates, mentors, and friends, John Jester “JEZTAH” Ching bids farewell to competitive gaming:
First of all, I would like to congratulate Nomets.. You guys really deserve the win, nice game!
For those of you who don’t know me, my name is John Jester Ching and have been playing DotA since March of 2005. I have been using the nick “JeZtAh” ever since. I first started playing at battlenet USWest, I played everyday and whenever I played with a pro player, I would save the replay and analyze his moves. I mainly built my foundation of skills on battlenet since I wasn’t familiar with Boystrek and dislike spending money on cafes.
During freshmen years, I formed a team with my classmates who love to play dota also. We would skip classes or skip lunch just to play dota. We only practiced on pub games since we were not familiar with any teams in Davao. We joined the Metreon tournament but lost to Ding’s team. After the tournament, I disbanded my team since I saw no progress and other members weren’t as committed as I was.
Weeks after, yAJQt approached me asking if I wanted to join RiorEN’s team since they were lacking 1 member. I was only a substitute player but was happy to be invited and had accepted the offer. It was in Blinque and the only faces I was familiar with were yAJQt, RiorEN and burnz. I didn’t know my other teammates who were laser, adi and chris. We defeated the defending champion that time which was “DC Clan”. I had average skills that time but what I lacked was experience. We easily got up to the finals. The team we faced that time was team “Qt” which was again headed by Ding. We lost and I saw the big gap of skills and experience in our team. After the tournament, RiorEN asked me if I wanted to join their team and become a regular member, I was happy that time.
Our team “Class SS” practiced always mostly thru pustahans and playing GG at Boystrek Ilustre (GG client wasn’t available at BT Jacinto during those times). We contributed innovation to dota here in Davao, we introduced new heroes which were never used before.
