It’s a joy to write this post as I take some time to reflect on the new version. In fact, the new version gives me a lot of encouragement to write this very post.

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Asian Cyber Games 2008 Philippine Preliminaries
July 12, 2008
Mall of Asia

Jojo Uy of Team Flow, two-time Philippine representative to the Asian Cyber Games commentates on the game between Pag-ibig and Ninja. He also gives some input on the state of the Philippine gaming industry.

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In 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.

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Event: ACG DotA Davao Eliminations Day 2
Date: June 29, 2008
Venue: SM City of Davao
Organizers: E2-Events.com

Organizers and Marshalls

Champion NOMETS: Cocoy, Burnz, Jay, Subang, Paul

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Event: ACG DotA Davao Eliminations Day 1
Date: June 28, 2008
Venue: SM City of Davao
Organizers: E2-Events.com

BoyzTrek:Teams High, Wei, DC Clan, Nomets, and the Marshalls

CORPO Reunion (Iyakan moments)

CHAMPION Nomets: Subang, Franco, Jay, Burnz, Paul

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DotAStategy.com proudly introduces its new sponsored team: DC CLAN.

DC Clan is composed of former CORPO players Christian Lorenzo “Chian” Coronel, John Jester “Jeztah” Ching and Duke Dalumpines, former Chill leader Christopher Henry “Top” Lopez, former Chance member Rey Campaner, and former Vertical E.Lit member Hussien Ibrahim.

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My friends(who are ironically, Netopia EGI Taft regulars as well) and I were having a YM conference when w00t sent me a photo that his friend took. Apparently, SM Southmall’s Netopia branch doesn’t think very highly of the DotA players in their area. Was it because of the barbarian-like noises we tend to make when playing intense games? The loud trash talking that often leads to fights? Or the general unruliness of the average DotA player?

In any case, they came up with the perfect solution for their dilemma. By charging “DotA Players” 900php/hr! That’s roughly $21 for an hour of DotA! Lovely, isn’t it?

Special thanks to w00t and the e-numan peoples for taking a photo of their ad and sharing it.

The Champs

The Teams

Runner-up 50ph of Jimber’s

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!