The Champs
The Teams
Semi-finalist SFU of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan
Semi-finalist High of BoyzTrek
Quarterfinalist Chance of BoyzTrek
January 19, 2008…
30 players…
6 random teams…
Two rounds of intensive play…
5 merged as winners…
Three time Shuffle Champion and 1v1 Champion Franco “Cocoy” Villaroman of ChiLL,
Jug of 50[ph],
Jomark “Flashweb” Manyalak of Team Chance,
Jeffrey Christian “Badz” Bajado of Team Chance (subbing for Robert Benjamin “Maj” Geneblazo of High), and
Kim formerly of Team Blinque Tech
CONGRATULATIONS BOYS!
ChillYukz of Davao’s famed Team ChiLL owning in a game at the PHIH Room via GG Client.
video by Jose Sarte
The Runner-up: Team High - Ken Dy, Dom Chua, RiorEN Padama, Rez Lim, Maj Geneblazo
So who is Jose G. Silva Jr.??? Does anybody even know? He is no other than Bong, former leader of the disbanded Team Ninja. Also known as Bongertz and Bongbong, this guy is one of the most feared and admired DotA players in the country. At age 21 (birthday: April 22, 1986), he has only graduated from high school recently because he has devoted his time to playing DotA.
In our hit feature on Mineski Team Leader Roro Robins, he spoke extensively about his friendship and working relationship with his teammate, Khen Sy. Kendrick Boris Que Sy, who plays under the nick mski.khen is the other half of the original Mineski Team. (The other is of course, Roro). Khen, 22 years old (birthday: November 11, 1984), is currently a student of the College of Saint Benilde, taking up Export Management. He has only three terms to finish before he graduates. Meanwhile, he busies himself with his favorite games, DotA All-Stars and basketball. His favorite heroes are Bone Clinkz, Rikimaru, and Gondar.
Khen shares that his girlfriend Angelique Aizah “Nissan” Bendero serves as his inspiration as she never stops supporting him.
Khen also made famous the following lines: “mski.Damu-damuhan, mski.kati-kati, mski.hangloose”; “Oh baby baby it’s a wild card”; “Suicidal… Suicidal… Suicidal”; “Pare paano niyo ako nakita nun?”; “Did you know?”; “yacha”; “nyahay” ; “tefez”; calvento files” and many more.
In this interview we get to know more of Mineski’s number one support player.
1. When and why did you start playing DotA? Who influenced you to play DotA?
I played DotA when the brother of RORO told us that there is a new addicting computer game. So Roro, Dave and I tried to play the game around UST and the shop was EVO. I played DotA because I had sudden interest of it and it is fun. I think friends influenced me to play dota because most of us really loved to play the game. We also played most of the time at TOMAS MORATO 168. (Doon kami nagsimula at laging naglalaro). Pagkatapos naglaro kmi sa EVO at doon kmi talaga natuto maglaro ng dota. Our master or teacher of Dota named Nick. A friend of Roro. =)
2. Why did you continue playing DotA?
I continued playing DotA coz most of my friends are playing dota and luckily we made a team. First tourney we played was at 129. hehehe…. =) we enjoyed many people are competing in the tournament. I also wanted to have the feeling of excitement and thrills whenever I play dota. “Kung ang buhay ay may Gulong ng Palad, Ang dota rin may Gulong”. I enjoyed crucial and close games (parang one mistake lng talo na kyo).
3. How did you develop your skills in playing DotA?
I think playing pub games will help a lot! Hahaha….. Like 16 hours of playing dota lol! Hahaha… jk. I think I played a lot of tournament games and pustahan games. And by sharing of strategies of my team mates.
The unbeatable Chen-Sven tandem of Arby Ng and Vinzyre Villeguez.
In a blurb about Team Philippines for the Asian Cyber Games 2007 (ACG), Filipinos’ preference for using Sven as the central hero is highlighted…
Teams from the archipelago are famous for their hyper farmed Sven style…. It is this special style that will be the headache of teams that will face them in this tournament simply because of the fact that it is quite hard to reproduce this special style in any internal simulations a team could make.
Alvin Villeguez of Team Flow, better known as Vinzyre, showcased this Filipino Sven style when he played in the ACG. He is the Sven to Arby Ng’s Chen. The two went beyond the hyper farmed Sven, and popularized the Sven-Chen tandem that has amazed and stumped local and international teams.
Last night, Davao City’s Team Ch¡LL combined forces with CORPOration to play against GG Game’s guest team from Malaysia, Cybertime. Cybertime represented Malaysia in this year’s Asian Cyber Games DotA Championships. They got 2nd place.
Ch¡LL was represented by the farming hitters trio of Bernard “Burnz” Flores, Franco “Cocoy” Villaroman, and Yuki “Yukz” Perez. With them were CORPOration’s think tank Jay “yaJqt” Arabia and King “RiorEN” Padama.
Tomorrow, some of the top DotA All-Stars teams in the country will face-off in what is seen to be the biggest tournament this year: the TSEI 150K Tournament Finals at the Mall of Asia.
As of last update, the following teams will be playing:
1. 129 All Stars
2. Cybertime
3. Flow
4. GL
5. Heavyweights
6. Homeboyz
7. Lalang
8. Locusts
9. Mineski B
10. Mineski C
11. Alchemy (formerly Ninja)
12. Pacific
13. Pacific B
14. Papi
15. PB
16. Project D
17. Rounin
18. Saw
19. Zenith
Rea (rightmost) with friends
Tomorrow, September 21, Rea Lynne “rheadoo” L. Aguinaldo celebrates her 19th birthday. Why, you ask, are we doing a feature on her? Because she’s a gamer, that’s why. Rheadoo, a fourth year student at the University of Sto. Tomas major in Medical Technology, is part of Team Pacific. Her favorite heroes are Lich, Viper, Sven, and Nevermore.
