14 July: GO.esc is unveiled to the world.



DREAM-HECK!!! Brrrrr, Sweden is mighty cold in winter.

1st August: At the Indie Youth Fest'09 Kick-Off event, GO.esc announced the addition of Casual Games Category is added to GO.esc. These game will not win you a trip to Sweden though and will only be played at the main event in One Utama on October.

- Bejewelled (Facebook)
- Bookworm Deluxe (PC)
- Grand Theft Auto IV (PC)
- Trackmania (PC)
- Tetris (Mobile Phones)

Registration fee is RM 20 per person for each game.
Online registration for Casual Games: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl...Nkt1aUs1aHc6MA..

Online registration for Dreamhack Malaysia CS1.6 has been opened as well: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl...cS12aUJYMUE6MA..
Registration fee for each team is RM 100 whereby, two confirmed qualifier locations has been announced too:

15 - 16 August: FTZ Penang
September: Gizmo Gamers, Kuching
10 - 11 Oct: FTZ Subang

This post has been edited by chapree: Aug 5 2009, 02:13 PM

SFIV FOR PC
RAWR

wow

thank you

self fund means air tickets, shelter, food sendiri keluar? hehe..

Ya lah, but they help you to find a place to stay, DH ticket and stuff like that.

bro chapree..wat story with the shirt tat u promise?

get me everything,i'll pay for the flight ! haha
lets go chap

Wat shirt? No free shirt in teh opis yet, macam mana nak pass through?
My flight too? Let's go!

is it only open for malaysians ?

nice one lah~!! xD

tempting nih...

yoshh. Finally, a cs big compy !

hopefully there's waaaaarrrrcraft 3

I wanna go!
Can sponsor me? hee hee

Gene pay u go la.

Gene can shove the money up his a$$. Im no longer attached with UC pro

Hello guys,

Here's some updates on GO.Esc provided by Jasmine Low, managing director of Go.

Registration for Dreamhack Malaysia Qualifier (CS 1.6) and GO.ESC has been officially opened. Log on to http://www.indieyouthfest.com for more information.

At this moment, they are working hard to add more games for qualification to Scandinavia (you know where ). So, watch this space.

As for other games, don't fret yet as they are conducting negotiations with the publisher to include more game titles in GO.ESC.

Again, watch... this.. space!

Is this tourney have DotA?

I try to get back to Jasmine if there's any state qualifier from Sarawak, Johor or Penang.

Currently they're in negotiation with SMM, so as usual, watch this space

Moar updates on http://spotgamers.blogspot.com

Will they be kind enough to add old game like Starcraft?

This post has been edited by genryou: Aug 2 2009, 10:53 PM

i just registered for the casual games. seem interesting.

but i dont know anything. where to read?
have to use siapa punye hp?
no prize? ( i dont care prizes ) lol

i'm wondering what kind of prizes they're setting for the "casual" games >,<

and also of course, which tracks they'll be using, since according to the website they were planning to use ESWC2009 tracks, but since the ESWC servers are now defunct...

This post has been edited by strife_personified: Aug 3 2009, 12:24 PM

Hi Guys, For more info you can always check our website and our blog for more info now you can check the link below:

http://indieyouthfest.wordpress.com/activities/e-sport/

Firstly, a big thank you to our partners this year. Sendi Mutiara Multimedia and E-Club Management will be assisting us in building this newly launched tournament –
GO International E-sport Cup (GO.esc).

What kind of games will be played at GO.esc?

Gamers, take note. There will be the following games offered so far – we will announce more games later as negotiations are still underway. These are for national competition at GO.esc to be held at GF High Street, 1Utama Shopping Centre. Qualifiers will be held from 14-16 October, with the Grand Finals held on 17 & 18 October. Over RM70,000 worth of cash and prizes to be won!!!
The official GO.esc games are:


• Trackmania [platform - PC]
• Tetris [platform - Mobile Phone]
• Bejewelled [platform - Facebook]
• Bookworm Deluxe [platform - PC]
• Grand Theft Auto 4.0 [platform - pc]
• Register to Play.


The Official GO.esc // DreamHack Malaysia games are:


•Counter Strike 1.6 gamers, please Register. to play at least 72 hours before each State Qualifier.
•One single player game – to be announced later because DreamHack has not yet announced the full game list as yet. Thank you for your patience. Meanwhile, please give us your feedback on which game you strongly feel Go International Group should nominate as our next official game for DreamHack.


The winner of the Official GO.esc // DreamHack Malaysia games will WIN a trip to represent Malaysia in Sweden. Go International Group will sponsor flight, accommodation and seats for one champion team of each of the official games to Jankoping, Sweden for DreamHack Winter from 26-29 November 2009.

NEWS UPDATES

Go International Group has secured a partnership with World’s Largest LAN party and computer festival, DreamHack Sweden.
Organisers of Indie Youth Fest will be putting together an independent homegrown tournament for pro-gamers. Get ready for the Go International Electronic Sports Cup 2009, also known as GO.esc. In partnership with the Largest Computer / Digital Festival in the world that also threw the most enormous LAN party as recorded by Guinness Book of Records (2007), GO.esc doubles up as the DreamHack Malaysian Qualifiers.
Games line-up include Counter Strike 1.6 and several other games to be announced on 1st August. Teams are invited to register in person, or online from 1st August onwards. We’re sorry! Requests before that date will not be entertained.

Go International E-Sports Cup(2008)

In 2008, Indie Youth Fest was held in collaboration with the Electronic Sports World Cup 2008 Malaysia. This was an international tournament where Team Malaysia headed to San Jose, USA for the global grand finals and came home with a Silver Medal. This also created the opportunity for the pro-gramers, Team Kingsurf who play DotA to meet with the Prime Minister! Thanks to the industrious team at Go International Group for helping make history as they were the FIRST VIDEO GAMERS TO MEET A PRIME MINISTER in Malaysia.The sad news is that in March 2009, ESWC’s main organiser GAMES SERVICES based in Paris, France announced that the company had gone under receivership and will no longer be able to hold the international tournament. That news left the world shocked and saddened as it was the ‘indie’ big brother of video games championships. We are still awaiting news on the possibility of ESWC being revived…
– visit our blog www.eswcmalaysia.wordpress.com



This post has been edited by Indieyfest: Aug 3 2009, 05:51 PM

vote for fifa plz.............

Wah got GTA4. If dint got fifa then join GTA4 also can.

vote for dota pls heehee

DoTA? No worries la, it's gonna be in the competition since whoever at the kick off event should be able to spot SMM logo on the stage's backdrop.

But going to Sweden? That's depends on their funding and sponsorships, I guess. Because last year, CS were left behind while DoTA was given the ticket to San Jose for ESWC GF and Go.Int promised that 2009 will be CS1.6's turn. But unfortunately since ESWC already GG, DH became the subs loh.

My vote for the single player game for DH would be Trackmania, because the game together with CS got ditched by WCG Malaysia. So, DH (if they decide to put TMN on their list of course) would be the only international event for us.

But of course, I know the fact that so little competitive TMN drivers around and somehow DH Sweden also haven't announced their Winter games, let's just see then.

of course TMNF gets my vote as well

its kind of sad considering TMNF has been a good platform for competitive play for so long, yet there arent very many FAWESOME type players around. how's practicing going chaps? i managed to beat your Dualtech time though =X

fifa ! ekekke

i didnt vote for trackmania
lulz

yea!vote FIFA

uragiri, you voted for SF didnt you fiend.

well if there's TF2 in the list, would u vote for TMNF?

Prektis? Apa tuh?
Good good, I'll try again later later.

ooo prektis senyep2 eh
hmm maybe i'll have TMNF a go for a few rounds

YES I STILL WOULD!!!!1111one11ichi! single player games are much easier for recluses like myself

oh no, i shouldn't have said anything =x i havent practiced in a week though, need to brush up as well once RL is not so busy lol
btw moots, add me up on TMNF when you're in game, mein ID ich strifemare

This post has been edited by strife_personified: Aug 5 2009, 11:24 PM

no dota?

yea,vote if u wan dota

What if I voted for Starcraft in "Others"? Any chance they will add the game? XP

er.. where should i vote ?

click >>>> HERE

This post has been edited by genryou: Aug 11 2009, 12:46 PM

Results vote on 10 august

DotA (5-persons) 3% (12 votes)
FIFA09 (single player) 17% (71 votes)
Streetfighter (single player) 6% (26 votes)
Guitar Hero (single player) 1% (6 votes)
Trackmania (single player) 1% (4 votes)
Blogger 1% (4 votes)
Indie Band 2% (10 votes)
Other: 69% (290 votes)

damn! fifa vote down!
who vote Other?

This post has been edited by syafiq93: Aug 11 2009, 02:47 PM

HOLY SHIT!!

What kind of game is voted?

They didn't vote games, they actually vote for themselves. MUAHAHAHAHA

haha, that wasnt a bad idea, I might as well vote for myself X9.

But seriously, just 2 days ago when I look at the result, it just 2% on Other.
In less than 50 hours, it turn into 68%, make me curious what kind of game (or person XP) is voted

yea,i agree coz only 2 days (tak masuk akal)

I still believe sending a DotA squad would be a better idea if possible. And if DH winter supports the game.

This weekend will be the 1st road tour for Dreamhack Malaysia Qualifier.

It will held at FTZ Penang, CS1.6 qualifier. Top 2 will then qualified to the Malaysia Finals at 1Utama 14-18 October.

After Penang there will be Sarawak/Johor/Selangor, each will qualify 2 teams.

The Final 8 Teams will then compete at 1Utama for the tix to DreamHack Winter.

hi all! thanks for your support so far...

Although it's only the first year for GO.esc, we truly believe that this tournament is meant to grow up to become a nice annual regional / international (in two years) event which will attract casual and pro-gamers alike.

For our qualifiers this year, we're offering Malaysian Counter Strike 1.6 gamers the chance to represent our country in Sweden at DreamHack. Since we also received good feedback and also requests from CS teams from Hong Kong, Brunei, Australia etc, we will be opening up another segment where regional teams can come and play with local Malaysian teams. We will announce the format of this in the next few weeks.

Meanwhile, yes, we ran a poll asking who should we send to Sweden aside from the CS team... and here are the answers!

Other (Starcraft: Broodwar) 66%
FIFA09 (single player) 15%
DotA (5-persons) 8%
Streetfighter (single player) 6%
Indie Band 2%
Guitar Hero (single player) 1%
Blogger 1%
Trackmania (single player) 1%

Results for our other poll about "I compete in e-sports tournament for...":
-- Chance to compete internationally 42%
-- Fame & Recognition 19%
-- Money 18%
-- Career enhancement 11%
-- Sponsors Prizes 10%

Come join in the fun!
www.indieyouthfest.com
*** the largest independent digital festival ***

I didnt know about this poll.

LOL, there are peoples who voted for Fame & Recognition

This post has been edited by genryou: Aug 14 2009, 02:14 AM

macam eswc ni.. change name d? or i outdated

so...starcaft added?

wer got get the demo?

I will rent out my apartment for an affordable price to the winners

ps. I've been to DH almost every year and it roooockssss!

Hi guys,

This is the update that I've found from DreamHack Winter 2009.

Personally, from my own view, we have to wait for more games to be announced before Go.ESC can make any decision to include more games for qualifier for DreamHack.

More games to come as we wait for any confirmation from Go International Group.

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How To Register?

add tf2 & l4d so i can play 3 games @ the qualifier =D
lose 1 can play another 1.. lose @ all 3, quit gaming.

Judging from the new list, IMHO the second team to DH should be DoTA, as local teams has proven themselves numerous times before. But then DH gave an impression at the end of the announcement that there could be more games, so I support TPK view that it's better to wait for more. But then also, time is ticking...

On another news, China also got their own DH qualifier through CPL. The official game is...Street Fighter IV. Ok m00t, you know where to go compete alrdy.

Fuh...tamak betul...

sigh if only airasia route to chengdu opens 2 weeks earlier
id go and have a blast in china

cheapest route is by transit to singapore

backup plan ler. plan B & C kekeke =D

wuuaa...siap ade plan lg tu..aku pon nk ikut lah..hehehe

Say hello to Trackmania Nations Forever for DH Winter'09.



This post has been edited by chapree: Aug 30 2009, 02:02 PM

hello

This post has been edited by syafiq93: Aug 30 2009, 11:53 PM

any latest update on this tourney ?
qualifier dates for 2 locations are still TBA

We are waiting for the organizers to make an announcement next week. I have spoke to Jasmine and she told us to be patient as she would be making those announcements next week.

After all, kitorg pun nak raya jugak

sapa mau lemang,dodol,serunding atau kuih raye sila tempah kat saya,thanks
raya raya raya

This post has been edited by syafiq93: Sep 8 2009, 09:50 AM

hello there .. how come the date for the Johor qualifier haven't been announced yet ?

Speaking of Johor qualifier, may I know how many teams in Johor are interested to join the Johor qualifier? Sources said that there might be not enough teams to compete in Johor Bahru

For the teams who haven't registered your teams, please click on this link to register your teams:-

DreamHack CS 1.6 Qualifier Registration Form.

For the other games, feel free to click this link to register yourself for other games:

GO.Esc Games Registration Form.


This post has been edited by TPK: Sep 14 2009, 10:21 PM

whats going on, no new updates. i have a bad feeling about this. same thing happened 2 wcg, hot in the beginning when it was first announced, then went silent and look what happened now.

As far as i'm being told, they are cooling down for fasting month, and will be at Kuching for the next qualifier on 3 October.

JB qualifier might be scrapped off if there are lack of teams there and will be replaced by another qualifier in KL.

I try my best to get the news from them as soon as possible. Keep all of you posted about this.

fasting month's over. and i think why very little teams registered for jb quali is because the date wasnt announced. there are ppl who are willing to travel, but they need to know the dates early so plans can be made.

I know, since they wanted to know how's the response from JB. They even asked Ks Cybercafe (if i'm not mistaken) to get the participants. So far, only one team registered online for JB qualifier. That led to the possibility of JB qualifier might be scrapped.

With WCG is on this weekend, it gonna be a serious hell of month for gamers '

ok thanks tpk.
but i seriously think its cause everyone's waiting for the date. should've announced it earlier instead of being so ambiguous (TBC sept/oct). lets hope they release the schedule for the finals in 1utama early

http://www.dreamhack.se/global/news/996-welcome-singapore
marilah kita bersama-sama
INVADE SINGAPORE!!!!

edit: belum ada confirmation yang orang asing boleh menyertai atau tidak
edit2: my BM sucks

This post has been edited by gM | Mutsumi-san: Sep 29 2009, 06:47 PM

Don't tell me my team is the only one registered for JB...=.=...
Hope it wont get scrapped!! T_T

sory,still have fifa?

Er, we will have a meeting with the organizers. Anything, as usual la, either here or SpotGamers

my team also got register at johor .

So, kch's qualifier round is over for CS, now wad's next?

AhBzaiFTW, they have decided to cancel Johor qualifiers due to unforeseen circumstances.

Well, since Kch's qualifier is over, the next stop will be FTZ.Asia Subang on the weekend. The final chance to qualify for DreamHack would be at 1 Utama, days before the GrandFinal itself.

could you post the results? any demos from the kch qualis?

1st Place: Team Rv
2nd Place: Team A (*cant remember the name, from KL)
3rd Place: Team Gizmo

tat should be the results. but i might be wrong with the team names.

btw how to register for this weekend qualifier?

You can go to http://www.indieyouthfest.com to register, or you can go to http://www.spotgamers.com where we have the direct link to the registration form

Hurry, registration for each qualifier closes 3 days before the event!

This post has been edited by TPK: Oct 6 2009, 09:30 AM

TPK,

Are you part of the organising team for DreamHack??

too bad the Dreamhack crash with SGNDT'09...

Er, not an organizing team. SpotGamers is the official media for DreamHack Malaysia

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Added on October 8, 2009, 9:29 pmGuys, this is a very important announcement

FTZ.ASIA SUBANG WILL BE THE FINAL QUALIFIER FOR DREAMHACK

Which means 4 teams will qualify from this qualifier, joining the other 4 teams who have qualified previously (2 from Penang and 2 from Kuching)

And please take note that with that decision, the planned 1 Utama Qualifier has been CALLED OFF.

I will update the news at SpotGamers and this is an official news. Thanks

This post has been edited by TPK: Oct 8 2009, 09:29 PM

Cancel another qualifier. Epic phailed.

Want go dreamhack better join



Rumors they are sending more than a team to Sweden.

Don't ask me mate. I am too powerless to persuade them this and that. What to do la

Next week is the finals already. I can see GO is doing a great job for other youth stuff except the gaming part.

Well Sienzation. Let see what we can have from them this weekend and next weekend as well.

Anyway, last minute registration is still open for all teams. See you tomorrow at 11 am at FTZ Asia SS15

This post has been edited by TPK: Oct 10 2009, 02:32 AM

updates on cs matches plz <3
also hopefully the organizers can released their final decision on rules and regulations on all the games

As I leave the area around 6-ish, the tournament is still not over yet. Maybe once I get the results from the organizers, I'll post on SpotGamers

Wow, 2 days event? how many teams joined? Suprise to see still have so many cs teams lying around.

only 10 teams

result for FtZ (subang) qualifier ?