however, regarding the issue of Sakura saga and a player registered for more than 1 qualifier rounds, i'll provide a full report in the Dreamworld coverage to clear the cloud.

hihi sanko ^^

First of all I would like express my gratitude to the the gaming community especially gamers who participated in our very first MSI Dota Tournament 2010 - Malaysia. Since completing Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru and now Malacca State Qualifier Stages, we have received tremendous and encouraging feedbacks and this will only motivate us to do even better in the up-coming Qualifier Stages and Grand Finals. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the organising crews who worked hard enough to ensure everything is smooth-sailing.

In the recent event, it has come to my attention that there are few claims needed to be answered. Before I go any further, allow me to explain the main purpose of organising MSI Dota Tournament 2010 and I would really like to be totally honest here. Of course the main objective is for marketing and branding of MSI Hardware mainly Mainboards, Graphic Cards and Notebooks. Second is to provide an opportunity to gamers to have fun competing each other in a healthy way and eventually promoting Malaysia gaming industry to a higher level.

First and foremost, I would like to apologize on the misunderstanding in regards of a player/team registered or played for more than one Qualifier Stage. Since the very beginning, we decided to allow a player/team to participate more than one Qualifier Stage as long as they are not the Champion of any Qualifier Stage yet. In other words, one is allowed as many trial as possible to qualify to the Grand Final by claiming victory in any Qualifier Stage. That being said, it also depends on slot availability because priority will be given to other who registered only once. But once a player/team has qualifier to the Grand Final, they are not allowed to participate in any Qualifier Stage anymore. We did not make an official announcement on this clause is to minimize the possibility of mass registration as we would like to maintain 8 competing teams in each Qualifier Stage.

Secondly, we are currently investigating on claims that Sakura together with an unidentified individual replacing two Team ReD players during the Semifinal Match in Dreamworld Qualifier Stage, Malacca. We have contacted Dreamworld Cyber Cafe management to provide us video footage (CCTV) from 6:00PM - 8:00PM, 27 August 2010 to facilitate our investigation. However, we consider Team ReD victory is valid until it is proven otherwise. We urge anyone with any information to contact us as soon as possible. So far no evidence is supporting the claim. According to our Marshal, Sakura did not replace any of Team Red members at any time at all.

Apart of that, once again I would like to apologize to Participating Teams of iRelax Malacca Qualifier Stage because of the food provided was different from other Qualifier Stage. During the iRelax Qualifier, there were plenty of technical issue we had to attend to. For example location of Frozen Throne 1.24e, Warkey Installation, Game suffering lagness, etc. It was the only Qualifier Stage where we finished at around 11:00PM with 8 participating teams. We decided to provide 'economy rice' just opposite iRelax Cyber Cafe because we felt that the game play comes first. We did not want to risk the time to purchase McDonald which normally consumed 1 hour. So far delivery order from McDonald was not an option because of the size of purchase. Therefore we had to go to a McDonald branch and purchase our order there.

Finally the organizing committee would like to encourage the up-coming State Qualifier taking place in Penang and Selangor to try your best and most importantly, enjoy the game and have fun!