I note with an amount of sadness that some of the followers of my old blog were disappointed that I was no longer writing there. Rest assured that I myself must suffer the greatest pain of not being able to write with a full amount of freedom, and that I am highly grateful to Drew and the rest of the staff that at least I can still have a lease of blogging life even though I no longer write on my own.

On that old blog, I issued a challenge 4 versions ago - 6.59 - that Dota-ers should prove to the frog that certain buffed heroes back then would really make it into the league. And I myself predicted that one such hero would be highly used (and banned) by leaguers - even though, I can tell you, I have no s**t amount of league experience at all. My crystal ball of looking into the future is my own gut instinct, and common sense.

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Selected replays of the Advance Atittude Tournament are now available at our Premium DotA Replays Center. To access the downloads, register at our forums or log-in if you are already registered.

Team Outdated: Arby, Vinzyre, Jojo, Vini, and Rejz

Last week, Project D overwhelmed newly-formed Outdated. Today, they faced off again in the finals of the Wiz Team2Beat Tournament in Pacific, and Outdated won. Outdated led by Arby Ng Jao and composed of Alvin “Vinzyre” Villeguez, Jojo Uy, Regie “Rejz” Ragel, and Vini Caños.

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ChillYukz of Davao’s famed Team ChiLL owning in a game at the PHIH Room via GG Client.

video by Jose Sarte

Last night, the Philippine DotA Improvement Project commenced with the first match of the first week of the Right to Fight Round. Fighting for the chance to battle with the best teams of the Philippines were Teams Pag-ibig of Metro Manila and TNS of Cebu. They played a single match in the Extended League (-XL) mode, in v6.49b using patch 1.21. Pag-ibig won the toss coin and picked the Sentinel side.

Bans:

TNS: Bristleback, Nerubian Assassin, Queen of Pain

Pag-ibig: Shadow Fiend, Skeleton King, Priestess of the Moon

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Finally! After months of losing to Team Ch¡LL in various scrimmages and tournaments, The CORPOration won and earned the right to be called as Mindanao’s Top Team… for now. Tonight, Ch¡LL and CORPO faced off in Game 3 of the Mindanao Qualifiers Finals of the GGC Philippine Regional Wars.

Games 1 and 2 were played last night, with Ch¡LL taking Game 1 and CORPO taking Game 2.

Tonight, Ch¡LL’s Christopher “Top” Lopez, John Rovic “Yukz” Perez, Bernard Dale “Burnz” Flores, Franco “Cocoy” Villaroman, and Ridgeway “Bhoymax” Julakit were overwhelmed by The CORPOration. CORPO played without their captain, Jay “yaJQt” Arabia. The team was headlined by Jester “Jeztah” Ching and Richard King “RiorEN” Padama, with members Duke “dDUKEe” Dalumpines, Christian “Chian” Coronel, Bryan “Subang” Padilla. Playing with them is probationary player Paul John Kabigting.

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Last night, Davao City’s top two teams started the battle for the top spot in Mindanao. Team Ch¡LL faced The CORPOration in the finals of the Mindanao Qualifiers of the GGC Philippine Regional Wars.

Game 1
Bans (in the order of banning)
CORPO - Shadow Fiend, Priestess of the Moon, Silencer
Ch¡LL - Nerubian Assassin, Sven, Sand King

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Team Mineski representing Philippines registered a win over Thailand representative Team ng.Gz in the GG Game Asian DotA Championship Tournament.

In Game 1, Mineski banned Nerubian Assassin, Rexxar, and Zeus; while ng.Gz banned Bristlebackm Puck, and Tinker.

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I was browsing for videos and captures of local DotA games when I stumbled into this…

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Once again, Philippines’ Team Mineski suffered a loss in the GG Game Asian DotA Championships. This time, they faltered versus Indonesia’s XcN.

In Game 1, XcN totally dominated over Mineski. To add to their woes, Mineski’s Carlos “Caloy” Mangco aka Holyman had problems while playing using Puck.

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