as a competition , the SMM national finals can be considered a succes that did not receive any controversies from gamers complain.

But as a "spectator event", due to the poor treatment given to spectators during the 2 days competition, i give a Grade D in terms of comparing the SMM finals with the WCG ACG Qualifiers.

during the WCG Quaifiers,these spectators that were actually friends or other teams that been knocked out of the competition were allowed in the venue, and not only that they did not interrupt the proceedings of the competition, these spectators also create an electrifying atmosphere during the final match betweem WN-SK and BZ, with both sets of supporters cheering and friendly taunting after each big battle between the teams ensues, making the match an unforgetable experience for both the gamers and spectators alike.

SMM final match left alot to be desired when compare with ACG finals mentioned before, not only were spectators not allowed in the venue, the organizers did a poor job of arranging the "spectators area", whereby spectators were forced to cramped in tiny space under hot and humid condition to witness the final match thru a 17 "LCD display while some disturbing clubbing music were played thru the speakers by the MC working that day that was giving everyone there trying to enjoy the match a bad headache.

Every major gaming event in the world like WCG, WEG, CPL do allow LIVE SPECTATORS, i can speak from personal experience after taking part in a few of these events, so i cant see any reasonable excuse as to y SMM finals have taken this decision to ban spectators.

while the Chief Marshall Mr Ian Mok has given advice to our fellow DOTA gamers to improve their gameplay standard so that we would not fall behind compare to other regions, i would also like to advice SMM to improve their standard of hosting a major gaming event so that SMM do not fall behind to other organizers of gaming event of other regions.

peace out!

This post has been edited by synzo: Aug 22 2006, 04:29 PM

thx for your comment and feedback
we learn who we are from the event

hope everything could become better in the coming year

well well well~~ i promise smm staffs to grade them geh~~ haha.... overall GOOD~~!!! ~~ Hope there are few more tourney going on soon~ with huge amount of Prize~~~!!! wahahaha...~~ Goodjob~ SMM~!! we support u~~~


From : Clan SK

Oh! by the way, to compare our country standard to others country, 1st you have to elimate the 60 minutes rules.

let it be ap and finish till the throne break.

by playing point system its making our imagination just goes for tower breaking.

yea yea yea, 60min game and Throne game are totally different... well is it hard to make throne game for every stage, coz it need alot of time, but maximum it goes only 2 hour... if you 1 day need to play 4 match... tat mean u have to face the dota for 8 hour.. lol (haven't count the second day one) wah.. .vomit

u got play 2 hours game b4 meh ? -.-
it rarely happened la.. normally will be 70-80mins..

no time limit game and 60 mins strat is diff ler..
y dun make it standard.. -.-

i 2nd wat guardio said - elimate the 60 minutes rules
or u go ask whole world follow 60 minutes rules.. buahahaa

assume it is la.. hahahaha...
nvm la.. wat rules also same... you pro enuf, wat rules also no problem, as long as u can adopted it fast than other ppl, then u probably is the champion... no doubt, AP rules is all about drafting skill, u know how to draft you already win it a bit.. you draft a right hero to fight against ur opponent drafted hero, u surely can win... so there no different between 60min game and throne game, all about ur leader drafting skill (still got some different in between 60min game and throne game, coz item build up and hero choosing not same )

erm.. actually throne game is more interesting
if got chance
v might change the time limit to end game
but if there are some contraint of the game play
to some extend, 60 min game is more welcomed by the organiser

Sure is the 60 minute game is more welcome by organiser.

But if you see, i been playing with singaporean lotsa time.

By playing Point system is, get pushing hero normally, while some hero killer.

But for throne breaking, its normally farming hero for late game with teamwork.

You cant compare msia now due to us limit by 60 minute rules.

if you ask singapore go for 60 minutes rules, they will lose to msia also.

If could, make it 1 hour and 30 minutes. i almost ensure there is not much game more than 1 hour 30 minutes.

Even it is more than 1 hour 30 minutes, win or lose should determine by Marshall if you clearly see who gonna win.

If not sure whether who can win by 1 hour and 30minutes, then only go for how many barrack been break instead of tower been break.

Due to the ppl who defend is way hard to attack the opponent that barrack never been break.

By looking at tower, its just looking plain stupid. coz any1 can counter back with the tower.



Either look at barrack and hero kill on 1 hour 30minutes.

Below the time just say who break the throne who will be the winner.

I personally asked few clan's member before but overall they prefer either 60min or ThroneBreak game.
They dun really like the idea of 90 minutes game.
As far as I concern, the SMM tournament is well organised. Delay is not that much and gamers knew exactly what time their next match is.
I prefer no spectators, even if allow spectators there should be quite some distance between them and the gamers itself. I encounter before when the spectators talk bout the game and disrupt the gamers.
Like once the spectator suddenly said "heal!" and the player chen went and heal . . .

This post has been edited by nles: Aug 24 2006, 12:51 AM