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Week 1 SMM Tournament

2007-02-07T21:51:00.000+08:00

Week 1 SMM Dota Tournament RM500

Look at the draft for us.Imo, its good! If we do well, we could meet up with Cybertime! LoL... Roa = Reign of Anniliation. Magi is looking forward to draft some gosu heroes for us ^.^ . For more information about each individuals/participants of each team, visit .:here:.

Training III

2007-02-06T15:12:00.000+08:00

Training among Team 1 and Team 2 where we were trying hard and thinking a way to counter Chen with his constant gangbang which proves to be lethal in matches. Its up to Skylord, the man for this sort of thing. He manage to bring in a marvelous draft to counter Chen creeps and seal a win for us.

Team Auto ( Sentinel )
Chen, Venomancer, Viper, Crystal Maiden, and SandKing

Team Auto - Fun ( Scourge )
Akasha , Warlock, Vengeful Spirit, Zeus and Techies

The lanes was pretty tough for me ( Akasha ) up againtz Viper and Maiden. *Viper was already hard to handle but having a Maiden was even more stressful* . Viper got a big advantage over me seeing that I could venture no further then top's lane forest. I could not even move an inch to take creep. I was just trying to gain mutual experience from the denied creeps. Middle lane was interesting as Venomancer soloed Warlock and Sand King + Chen combo soloed bottom. Team Fun, famous for its Vengeful + Techies made a great start by killing Chen even before the creeps spawn. Those 3 were on the upper hand where SandKing could not do much in the lane. Vengeful and Techies soon became more aggresive and hit in middle lane where landed a more advantage + farming lane for Warlock. When top lane's Akasha was starting to lose badly, the famous moved to top to even the fight. Maiden and Chen seems to be useless through out the game as their items was stalled by the VS+Techies combo. Maiden and Chen had a mere 800 hp in which Warlock could feed on them anytime. Viper on the other hand, had a pretty buffed up items. Having a Reaver and Vit booster in hand made life harder for VS+Techies to kill him. As soon as Warlock had his refresher up, we were pushing and started to take on towers. We took the barracks after 3 consecutive battles in mid lane. Not long after that we manage to pull off another victory in bottom lane and thus the barracks was downed. But the game wasn't done as Viper is pretty buff up with Radiance, Heart, and Black King Bar on his inventory. He virtually denied us in taking the top barracks for 4 consecutives pushes in a row. Great play by Team Auto in denying the barracks to be fallen. But we finally got what we came for when Venomancer did a bad mistake in leading a swap by VS and we finally was able to take the barracks.

MVP : 17-2 Zeus (Team Fun' Handy)

Joke

2007-01-28T22:52:00.000+08:00

I just remembered this while eating the other day with my friends. We name them A and B . We were talking about dota and stuff like how we get owned in blueserver and my friend bring this up.

Friend A: Mahai, the other day I was damn farking tulan (pissed) wei with the players when I was playing Zeus. Damn tulan di then I straight go buy that that one with the energy booster.

Kev : err Arcane ring?

Friend A: Yayayaya.. Arcane ring!!

Friend B: Apa lanciow! People tulan buy Aegis Rapier or some GG items! U tulan you buy arcane ring... Wtf wei..!! -_-

Kev : *laughs*

This shows how gosu is arcane ring.. >.<"

PX Sri Petaling Tourney

2007-01-22T21:55:00.000+08:00

Cybertime took the first place which is worth RM1500 while home team PX took the second place. Netcity from Penang took in third place shocking everybody in the tournament! I didn't get to play with my team tho, but helped choonyeah's team to play one match.
I think i did allrite as i farmed one heart at lvl 13 around 24 minutes, and one Eul later on. Got 6k in hand which i didn't notice until i died. =p LoL .. well.. We lost to PX anyway.. hahaha great games and very chi kek tourney. will do a match report tomorow!

Timing

2007-01-14T17:16:00.000+08:00

Ahhh... we had alot of matches going on and things aren't looking pretty good I guess. We are stilll very weak in terms of coordination, teamwork and hero drafting. I will post the match reports soon enough.

A Start II

2007-01-11T17:44:00.000+08:00

Okay.. heres the summary for the second match

Training Match 2

Gaya ( Sentinel )
Warlock, Viper, Visage, Rhasta and Vengeful Spirit

Fun` ( Scourge )
Pugna, Twin Headed Dragon, Venomancer, Zeus and Akasha

We were somewhat control in lanes as Viper Vengeful were up againtz Akasha, Warlock was mid with Pugna while Rhasta and Visage was bottom lane with Zeus. Twin Head and Veno tried to create an opportunity to firstblood middle lane but was unable to do it after some great positioning by the Warlock. Thd soon head to bottom lane while Veno assist Akasha at top lane. Great play by Visage and Rhasta landed them both first blood and kill but both of them were taken out in the battle by Zeus (before he died) and Pugna with haste. So the score was 2-2. Lane were totally dominant for top lane as Akasha could do nothing more then just farming at top. But a miscommunication by top lane made Akasha killed Viper and Vengeful got killed by tower. Akasha was left with 2 HP running away.. Lucky brat.. Bottom lane continued to dominate their lane with great partnership by Odin and CR land them and extra few kills. Great play by those 2 lads. As the game goes on, it seems like Fun` was planning to play a all Necro strat. Scores were pretty even then. Warlock had his refresher at lvl 13 which made us pretty easy to defend againts the all Necro strat. A couple of pushes granted us the advantage of drastic change of kills. We were up like 5 kills or so. They kept pushing towers in order to get money. Quite a game where we exchange lots of kills during battle. A drama where micro was much to be seen in this game.

MVP - Warlock (fearz)

A Start

2007-01-11T04:31:00.000+08:00

Alas, we actually won our first training match. *jumps around happily* everybody was so relieve, you could tell it from our faces. We played 2 matches and we won both of them againtz Skylord's team. Our drafting was pretty good. Well, actually i force them to not take QoP to let us take since we never had a Queen for quite some time. Here's how the draft was like :

Training match 1

Fun` ( Scourge )
Warlock, Venomancer, Syllabear, Sand King, Chen

Gaya ( Sentinel )
Viper, Queen Of Pain, Zeus, Vengeful Spirit, Visage

Lanings were Queen and Zeus up againtz Sand King at top lane, Viper againtz Warlock in mid, Visage and Vengeful up with Sylabear at bottom while Veno and Chen were roamers. Top were pretty one sided for Sand King as he was heavily harassed by Viper and Zeus. But a mistake by Zeus cost him a first blood and made Sand King closer to his dagger. Visage and Vengeful were totally dominating bottom lane as Sylabear could do nothing more then just leech experience. But fast alertness by Veno and Chen to aid the Sylabear made the lane slightly more even. Whenever Veno and Chen roam, it made their Sand King felt pathetic as he could do nothing more then watching the creeps die right in front of his eyes. By level 6, Queen obtain a preserverance and it alarms Skylord's team to actually do something to do the Akasha. A couple attempts to kill the Akasha was failed miserably. Poor coordination I would say. Mid solo heroes were exchanging kills whenever someone send a backup. When Akasha farmed a Battlefury, he too start to roam and make way for Zeus to farm. Kills were slightly even as far as I know. Sand King got his dagger and started to roam too but could not deliver the package. He was often caught by wards and could not blink and epi. Through out the mid game, Fun` started to push mid when Bear had radiance and after a couple of push they setup a beautiful catch over in mid to kill Visage when he was on the way back to the tower. Without Visage as a tanker, it was pretty much easy for Fun` to take out the rax. Epi blink land them 4 kills and they did extremely well taking out the towers and rax. But the game was just about to begin, as we could defend pretty easily in mid lane even with 2 rax down. Queen farmed a Skadi and started to catch heroes such as Chen who is farming the forest. Visage started to get his items such as Guinsoo, Meka and Viper had Vanguard, Radiance and BkB. Well Queen had Aegis, Mkb, Guinsoo(sold battlefury in exchange for this), and Skadi. Well we finally decided to push when we caught one of Fun`'s hero lurking around and took the rax in middle. Sand King and Bear had pretty buffed items such as Aegis and Heart but could do nothing when they are hex. We defended pretty well againtz a team who had the advantage of taking the mid rax early game and I would say our Vengeful was a correct pick as he swapped the correct heroes that we wanted to take out. (Note: He did a silly swap early game where he swap Venomancer into us. *laughs*) Game ended at 100th ++ minute. Pretty long game and I could not describe all the exciting moments all here. Overall, we manage to pull it off and it was a pretty close game.

Will describe the second game on the next post.

2007-01-08T18:49:00.000+08:00

It's being really a tiring week as I could barely sleep much this few days. It's not so easy to actually make a team to be a team. I am so used to join a team which is already well established and I just get slotted in like just a click.. Very easy.. But now it seems really hard as each of us doesn't have a thing on what's going on during battles, lane control and even drafting which is far by the most important element. Currently, I am actually playing supporting/roamer in the team, which is the total opposite of what i usually do, "farming". *laughs* Hopefully I could deliver some nifty backup and try to deliver for the team. But to think of it, if I were to play secondary Ace, it would be much pressure for me I feel. Lets see how our team gets together as a team first of all and then just be a team.

Training was pretty bad. We are still getting trashed alot. Have been losing all the games since we are as a team. CR and James is really commited as I could see James complaining last night as CR was talking strats with him. It was like what, 3 am? omg.. LoL.. But I admire these two.. really bersemangat.. kaykay.. will be blogging sooner or later.. we will have a match again later on..

Team Assembled

2007-01-07T16:11:00.001+08:00

Recently Gaya has been reassembled. The players who are playing are CR, fearz, Xantrian,b3n, and me. It looks like we got a nice trashing from SK for our first game of 60 Deaths to 5 kills. "laugh out loud" pretty bad coordination and heroes drafting. Next game we were slightly much more better abit la, *Coughs* like erm 29 deaths to 13 kills. LoL overall we are trying to get the pace of the game as we haven't played together before and our style of playing is completely different. Lets see how it goes in tonite's training.

Ponder

2007-01-05T16:00:00.000+08:00

It seems like we are losing every single match in blueserver. LoL luckily its not a lan game.. Well, it might be hero drafting problem or maybe players could not fit the heroes. I have seen some interesting combos lately where Bristleback is used just like clan coL and a full AOE team such as Warlock, Enigma, Chen ( with 4-5 Satyrs ), Rhasta and Death Prophet. We should actually play Pugna to counter this heroes but we went for Enchantress to counter Chen which was a bad mistake it seems. I also actually made Odin lost his first game in 3 months. *laughs*

Friendly

2007-01-02T02:48:00.000+08:00

Jeng jeng.. tonite we had a friendly match with Fran's team in blueserver. Players in the team were Stormie,y3k,xander,fall3n and me. our drafts were the following: (First to last)

EmO : QoP, Venomancer, Zeus, Viper, Alchemist (Sentinel)

Avox : Warlock, SandKing,Thd,Lich,Enigma (Scourge)

I specifically wanted to try out Alchem because i was joking bout using him in a clan match earlier in the afternoon and see how well we will go with him.

Lanings were pretty tough for us as Warlock were up againtz Viper, Qop vs Thd Enigma and Alchemist Zeus vs Sand King and Lich. Venomancer and Viper tried to rake in a first blood for the team but failed as theres isnt much fire power to do that. On the other hand, Zeus made a mistake in level 1 which cost him and gave first blood to the Lich. Their lanes were pretty dominant and slightly around lvl 8ish Warlock got a "triple kill" in mid which all of our heroes went one by one. But Veno did made the Warlock killed himself. Akasha's early farming was much pressured by a 2 heroes combo which renders him useless until Veno came to backup and killed them both. Zeus was constantly pressured at bottom which made his items at stalled after Lich had his dagger and constantly hunt Zeus and roaming. After we started to rake in some kills for the team, they finally made a decision to stick and push mid. It proves to be a fatal decision as our combo did really well and Akasha triple killed in that battle. We took the first mid tower and backed. We farmed out our items and Qop had her skadi at the 40th minute. *cough, very slow*. To my surprise, they kept sticking. This thus led us do our combo to perfection. Our Akasha triple killed again and this time we took off their rax. Game was pretty much done then.

MVP : y3k ( Akasha )

PS: score for akasha, i really dont know =p forgot

Farming, Harassing and Timing

2007-01-01T15:25:00.001+08:00

i receive a message from someone to post something about farming. well, lets see what i can help you with this post.

Basically in farming, we need to know in heart the projectile speed,hero movement speed, range of projectile, and the most important thing of all "timing". This is something i cannot teach but i can teach the different methods of farming.

Some people often says this method is much better then another or this method is the utmost best farming way. Actually, its just your playing style. Whichever suits you best, you use it. I will tell you the pros n cons of each farming way. Well this is truly my opinion and you could comment back. I may capture and learn a few new things or 2.

The S
"s" is the shortcut key for stop. some may prefer this method as they spam the "s" key till the creep is dying and kills the unit.
Well, if to me if your position for this method is awful, you would be greatly harrassed by the opponent and this style is note to be very easy to spot and can be easily denied instead of you farming.

Hit And Move
This is where your hero constantly moves outside the "area of damage" and gets potshots to get creepkills. "aod" is whereby you will not be constantly harass by the opponent. This style is more likely a desired style of farming but could be very well backfired if the opponent is very well versed in denying.

The Higher Standard
This is something which everybody wants to achieve. creep control, great farming , great harassing and denying. How do we achieve this? well, when we are really well versed in projectile speed and movement speed, you could move nearer to the creep and get the last hit instead of being denied. Once you do this, you try to get a potshot to the opponent's hero. If you notice the opponent is timing for the last hit of your creeps, give him a few potshots. Move in front and try to push him back and gain control of the lane. Of course you must know the delay of your animation in order to do this.
"ie: QoP,Viper and Warlock is perfect in doing this."

Once you controlled your lane, its considered as free farm. A key of advice is always know what your opponent can do to you and know your limits of your hero. Dont die for a creep, but creeps die for you when you have mastered in last hitting.

Training

2006-12-30T13:05:00.000+08:00

ytd we had back to back training match with 2 teams, Clan PX ( Point Xtreme ) and Clan Avox ( Blueserver Team). Our match starts off againtz team PX with us in the Sentinel side. Our hero drafting for this match was

Sentinel
Warlock, Venomancer, Chen, Skeleton King, and Pugna
Scourge
Qop, Zeus, Vs, Thd and Viper

Top was pretty tough for me as I was Pugna soloing againtz Zeus VS. Middle was Warlock soloed Viper and bottom lane we opt for a 3 1 1 which includes Chen,SK, and Veno vs Thd Qop at bottom lane. Veno SK and Warlock made a really impressive move by ganking Viper at mid at level 1 made the lane at ease for Warlock later on as Warlock had more advantage in terms of experience points. By lvl 6 Zeus had his dagger which was extremely fast but proves to be deadly againtz a Pugna with lvl 4 ward. Zeus couldn't stand lane as his items was only a dagger and nothing else. VS contant roaming was countered by wards and made him pretty useless in the game. Bottom lane was owning as Thd could not do much when getting SSed and Stun + lots and lots of centaur stun. This game was pretty much one sided till the end.

MVP : (Jun`) Chen - 8-0

Second match
Sentinel
Warlock, Venomancer, Zeus, Pugna and Chen

Scourge
Qop, Viper, Enchantress, Rhasta and Vs

I would say this is far by the most exciting and interesting match of the year so far. Well, we start off by Akasha (me) vs Zeus Venomancer at top lane. Viper soloing bottom againtz Warlock Chen and Enchantress soloing mid with Pugna. Both Enchant and Viper made quick lane changing after seeing that they could not win the lane. Rhasta and VS .. err they dont have a lane i guess.. They were roaming and hunting and farming neutral..=p Both Rhasta and Vs unpredictable style of ganking creates massive opportunities for the solo heroes to farm. We were winning in kills but not in towers. Towers went down one after another. It looks like we couldn't defend the game after Warlock got a Refresher Orb. We manage to counter Chen with Midas but forgot to counter Warlock. -_- we got our diffusal really late. We lost our 2 rax in mid at mid game and 15 minutes later we lost our bottom rax. We were down by four rax and defending. My items was pretty messed up as I kept buying back to defend the rax. After we successfuly countered a push i manage to cheese bottom tower. Later on, Enchant whose items were radiance,dagger and aegis took the bottom rax. We finally caught up with the pace and manage to hold the last 2 rax and kept them from coming in. Game ended with a fatal error. So we don't know how far we could have gone. I had 5k in hand. Opting to buy Necromiticon and cheese more ^_^.

MVP : Warlock (Team PX Member)

Roles in Dota

2006-12-29T03:14:00.000+08:00

Roles in Dota

Found something quite interesting.. Mainly heroes could be divided into :

Initiator / Engager - Heroes that start the fight.
eg: Vengeful Spirit, Sand King, Enigma, Leviathan,Treant,Venomancer

Disabler/ Support - Heroes that disable the opposite team disablers/carrier.
eg: Rhasta, EarthShaker, Crystal Maiden, Lion,Venomancer and etc

Tanker - Heroes that mainly has high hp and able to tank in battle.
eg: Pugna (Heart), Visage (Heart), Viper (Heart)

Carrier - High DPS (Damage Per Second) heroes and often opt as Ace.
eg. Bone Fletcher, Viper, Visage, Queen of Pain

Quote by Mi2-Dotrk " You dont really get to play what u're best heroes are in Dota at competition.Its the heroes chose u not the other way round "

Cybertime Dota Tournament 11 November 2006

2006-12-28T17:56:00.000+08:00

Cybertime (OUG) Dota Tournament ( 11 November 2006 )

Cybertime vs Autosurf-Fun

Cybertime (Sent) : Akasha , Viper , Lich , Sandking , Zeus
Auto-Fun(Scourge) : Warlock , Chen , Twin Head Dragon , Vengeful , Venomancer
This is the second round match which Cybertime dubbed as the toughest match of their campaign.Sk and Lich vs Chena and Vengeful top , Zeus and Akasha come up against Veno and THd bottom while Viper soloed Warlock at mid. Early game was quite even in terms of kills where both sides score some nice kills over each other. Sandking got dagger by level 7 , THd opting for Dual Breath and stats which i think is not wise as it forgoes Ice Path which would ultimately cost Auto-Fun later.
A battle at Sents mid tower shows how powerful THD is in team battles. Still , the lack of Ice Path level denied Scourge an outright victory. Chen spent too much in the game without any creeps with him which i think is also a negative point in their game. 30 mins gone and the Warlock got his Refresher Orb and scored some nice team battle victories with double inferno. Vs also got its Aegis by then. From the outset, things are looking quite good for Auto-Fun.The Warlock seems to be very pumped with a bkb and point added into its items at the 40th min push.
Once again , Cybertime stopped their push and delayed the game a bit more. The push by Scourge at the 44th min presents their best chance to win the game. The lack of stun by Scourge really wasted alot of opportunities for them and they still cant breakthrough. A few more pushes only serve to let Cybertime farm out more items. By the hour mark , with Sandking and Zeus got thier diffusal blade , Lich got its Mekanism , Akasha got its Aegis , it is clear that Scourge cant win.A counter push by Cybertime after a failed one by Autosurf at the 11th min after the hour resulted in mid raxes of Scourge got destroyed hence ensuring a Cybertime victory.Autosurf could have done better with this mass AOE strat. Chen having more creeps and THD maxing Ice Path early could have well changed the tide of the game. Cybertime did well by defending the base ensuring them ample time to farm out nice items.
Final score : 40-31
MVP : Warlock (14-6) :SkylorD.Auto