2. You are carrying the nation’s name.
This applies to all aspects of your participation in the main tournament. For example, MCC from New Zealand got thrashed by Ct’ROA at ACG2007, allowing 4 heroes of Cybertime to score a “BEYOND GODLIKE” kill while the last 1 got his “WICKED SICK” ended 2 mins before the match over. Although New Zealand got their revenge at ACG2008 by beating Kingsurf at the semifinals but the memory and pain of the NZ Dota Scene has endured since that embarrassing match.
We do not want our representative to create such painful memories for us, do we?
3. You want to be in Singapore at July 3-5.
This is quite straightforward. Your team should have the logistics ready by the time you step into the qualifiers. Has your passport been made up? Have you taken leave from your parents/school / work in preparation for this event? To answer “no” to any one of those basic question posed above speaks a lot of your commitment to this whole thing and your chances of actually qualifying.
4. You are facing the best.
Do note that you are not joining some Local CC tournament where most of them are just there to play for fun. Every team (and I mean EVERY) you meet at the ACG Finals are the champions of their respective nations. They look like champions, act like champions and play like champions. The competitive atmosphere there is so intense that a person with less fight in him will have a hard time adjusting to the intense pressure by their mere presence. And yet, you are supposed to be there to “BEAT THEM ALL”, “GRAB THE ASIAN CHAMPION” and tell everyone “IT IS MALAYSIA’S for 2009!” China has done those 2 years in a row. Are you ready mentally, tactically and skillwise to grab it this year?
5. You do not give up. You innovate and simply play till the end.
WN-SK won the right to represent Malaysia in ACG2006 coming back from losing 4 raxes in a Dota match 3 years ago facing a seemingly unstoppable Bone Fletcher (it is virtually unheard off for any team to do that in the highest level in that particular map version).
Cybertime 1 (ROA) the undisputed Malaysian champion of the first half of 2007 never won a single training match with XCN in their 10++ training games online yet still went there and upheld the nation’s pride by reaching the finals in spectacular fashion. They managed to overcome the best “Sven Chen” combination in Dota history executed to perfection by the legendary Team Flow of Philippines that that took down XCN in the quarterfinals with an equally impressive “Roaming Qop Sandking Veno” strat that left Xcn’Lakuci who was sitting beside me at that time of the semifinals astonished (for those who do not know the significance of this, Qop was used as a carry farm hero till that point of time, Doldoi was the first Qop to play it that way competitively as far as memories goes).
Kingsurf never beaten Impreza in 4 meetings in the then new 6.52e map and is heading down the same road at the quarterfinals match at ACG2008. An innovative solo mid Omni strat by Ks seems to have failed to prevent Truenetpro’s Luna acquiring Manta, Butterfly, BKB and Satanic, totally negating Ks’ early game gains. However, in yet another backdoor attempt by Luna, Impreza somehow manages to stopped Xiaoma’s Tidehunter from Tping to save his base (which was in normal circumstance, a brilliant strategy to catch your opponent by surprise). The other Ks members who were planning to do the same stopped their town portalling attempts and Xiaoma casted his ultimate on the rushing in heroes of Impreza. Ks managed to clear all 4 rushing heroes and proceed to kill off the defending Luna who somehow decided to defend rather than go straight for Ks’ throne which would have ended the game. The tide of the game change, and Ks was on course to the semi finals after that battle with Yamateh’s POTM ending the game with a “BEYOND GODLIKE” kill.
To win ACG this year, our representative need to evoke no less miracles that what was stated above. Has your team the ability and the mental will to reproduce many of those performance mentioned?
Jul 3 2009, 04:28 PM, updated 14y ago
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when the replays' gonna released?
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