Guys, the World Cyber Games world finals group drawing is on today. I'm praying for a kind draw..

The draw will go live at 12 noon today at this link :-
WCG Site

This is gonna be tough, 1 game per opponent in group stage, coin toss determines host and client... I hope I get host all the time. Will be gunning for a 7-0-0 result.

This post has been edited by chilaxis: Oct 19 2005, 08:47 PM

Here' are some info I got from searching down the opponents...

Spain no.3, Delfin of the RedCode clan, 15 yrs old. This kid is someone I have to beat to stand a chance to make it into the next round. Not the Spanish no.1, but in the same clan as Spanish no.1. Spanish Fifa btw guys, are just slightly behind Germany in Fifa quality.


The Kid.
Here's a link to their RedCode clan page


Austria no.1, [64AMD]Troll is Mike Resnicek (18). This fella's no joke, popular enough for the German media to do a full page interview on him because of his reputation as a powerful fifa gamer. Although an Austrian, plays in the German Fifa scene.
Here's a link to the Troll interview


The Troll


Korea no.2, ASD-Mas 김성재. 21. A Korean pro-gamer. Nuff said.

ASD-Mas. See how serious he is? Am I in for some fight or what.


Colombia no.1, [Bc]Moe Mauricio Restrepo de Fex of the BataClan (Colombian Fifa clan) with 15 active members, was 2nd favourite going into Colombian final, but managed to upset the no.1 favourite to clinch the no.1 spot and now in the same group as me.
Link to their BataClan page


4 walls to break through...4 more weeks to go...

This post has been edited by chilaxis: Oct 20 2005, 02:49 AM

It's already out pal

clicky here :- http://www.worldcybergames.com/tournament/...matchsch_01.asp

Tried my best, guess it's just not meant to be .... sorry to dissapoint :-/

Turned out to be a pretty even group, virtually everyone in the group
were strong, it was down to tactics and strategy.

First game was Estonia 3-4-1-2 (Possession). The fella is a unique one, uses this formation yet likes to play through middle with lightning Maxsim-like ground moves 80% of the time. Once I caught whiff of his style, straight changed to 4-1-2-1-2 to fight against him middle vs middle. Risky move, but I felt worth it, eventually nicked it 6-5... was an exciting match with much variety in the middle of the pitch on both sides, mixing up varied length of passes and lobs.

Second game was up against Trooll, the cunning Austrian guy first put 4-3-3 as his formation at the start to let me see, then straight change to 4-1-2-1-2 to fight against me. I had the first heading chance, it went just wide. Then came his, his hit the post >.<. Then the first goal .. came from his corner. Does the far-post walking in corner, but instead of just bringing it down/heading to receiver, he does a first-touch with his chest forward towards the near post, keeper comes out, scores. Never seen this corner before, was stunned for a while. Long QAs from two of his sweet spots were his main strategy against my 4-1-2-1-2. From these two spots he is able to control his crosses always for a 50% chance of scoring, he controls whether the cross is just nice (where if bringing keeper out will save), or cross just short (where if bringing keeper out will result in a goal). Now why didn't i use 3-4-1-2 against wing mover like this? This is coz at 1-3 down when i realised it will be too risky to keep on subjecting myself to these stupid QA crosses (I can't help my style of being defending minded >.<) , I switched to 3-4-1-2 in-game at about 60 minutes, but i looked at the screen, it became 4-4-2 for some reason! I wondered why, i checked again just to confirm, there it was, 3-4-1-2, then come back out same thing :-/ tried again the same thing happened.. so I had to play 4-4-2 the remainder of the match... arrrghh...what kind of Fifa network bug is this?? Coming at a time like this somemore. Then onwards I was a goner, muted in attack, and subjected to his barrages of QAs.. ended 2-5 :-/

Going into third game, had to quickly forget 2nd game's dissapointment, for i was facing the Korean no.2 next. As you guys may know, Korea was last year's champion and is no joke to play against. I refocused and fought his 4-1-2-1-2 with my own style of 4-1-2-1-2, switched to 3-4-1-2 for second half (this time during halftime). Was a good tight game between us, especially when I was using 4-1-2-1-2, He could score from any types of A or QA crosses, had to be extra alert to counter them with the keeper. Meanwhile, my attacks were more focused on the side vs him, and was causing him some headaches. 89th minute I had a huge chance on the wing to win it with Pires ready to launch a 'D' long ball, and Henry ready to receive it on the corner, he managed to slide and clip my Pires' leg from behind with his Pires... my resulting freekick was tame.. and so it ended 5-5.
My verdict at this point was that the Austrian player was tougher.

Next came the teenage sensation from Spain, Delfin turned out to be a 4-3-3 user. He is talented ground passer in the mould of Maxsim. Thankfully, Maxsim and Chunky have given me plenty of practice vs. extreme kind of middle moves, so no problems vs. this fella. 6-3, goals coming mainly from long balls+low cross or long balls+A-cross. Davidman and Mkewell was spectating this game and supporting from the side ^^. Thanks guys.

(to be continued...
Gotta stop here coz it's 4.48 a.m. and tomorrow morning need to continue to help Jali continue his drills. There's a big chance for a top-8 or even top-4 placing with his quarter of the draw, The brazilians ain't that good, one of them just won Mkewell by 3 goals to 2. I reckon even Chunky, Highwind are better than him. I'm gonna try my best to help Jali not to miss this opportunity. Ciao for now, will write more tomorrow)


This post has been edited by chilaxis: Nov 19 2005, 04:53 AM

Whoa.. been a while I've been back here, and this is the hot topic right now ..

Hm.. actually at my work, I've created a league system website for e-Games.. maybe it can be catered to the requirements of Fifa players who would support the notion of pay-2-play with real prizes.

But take a look first and let me know what you guys think about the site :- http://arena.e-games.com.my