Posted by polar on July 8th, 2008 | Viewed 908 times, 1 so far today
Despite the pains and heartaches you’ve caused me, alam niyo naman mahal ko kayo! I have never been this emotional in making a video. 4 hours, dugo at pawis sabay iyak na rin. NAKS! IYAK NA BOYS!
Seriously, I am behind you 100%, as is the entire DC Clan and the DotAStrategy.com family. Bear in mind that you bring with you, not just yourselves and your team, but the entire DotA Community of Davao City and Mindanao.
Posted by polar on July 6th, 2008 | Viewed 502 times
3 weeks of intense DotA games, over 32 teams in contention, more than 150 players in battle, the the Second Davao Cyber Games of the Davao Cyber Expo 2008 was successfully concluded in three days of championship games.
June 21 and July 1, teams converged at eight cafes in Davao City to earn a spot in the Grand Championship. Among the 32 teams who joined, sixteen emerged as the toughest: Yogen and Yogan of Tagum City; Nomets, High, Wei and DC Clan of BoyzTrek; Humore, Maxim, Fur, and 50ph of Jimbers’; Bratz.Pro, Axis, Blink, Crazy, and Styx of Sequel; and Bytes.
These sixteen teams were then divided into four independent brackets. Each bracket consisting of four teams playing in a double eliminations format. The champion for each bracket will then proceed to play in the FINALS Rounds. The teams were bracketed as follows:
Bracket A: Yogen vs Nomets, Humore vs Bratz
Bracket B: Yogan vs Blink, Fur vs DC Clan
Bracket C: Crazy vs Bytes, Wei vs Maxim
Bracket D: Axis vs 50ph, High vs Styx
Posted by polar on July 6th, 2008 | Viewed 463 times, 2 so far today
In a heartfelt letter to his former teammates, mentors, and friends, John Jester “JEZTAH” Chingbids 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.
