We do hope teams can confirm their participation as soon as possible as the team is drawing up various plans to stage the finals.

The initial planning is to produce 8 groups in which the top 2 teams of each group will qualify to the last 16 playoffs where the teams will duke it out from there to determine the winners. Due to the inevitable time and physical constraints, modifications to the above format will be done depending on how many teams that confirmed their participation.

We will also be using a seeding system to ensure a much balanced group stage than previous tournaments. The seedings will be given to 16 teams in which a maximum 2 seeded teams will be facing off in each of the groups. The basis of the seedings will be based on the 13 winners of each stage of the SMM Qualfiiers + 3 special seedings.

The 3 special seedings will be based on the performance of teams in selected 3 tournaments in this order :

1. R-Matrix competition,Rawang.
2. Batu Pahat Dota Tournament.
3. ACG Malaysian Qualifiers.


The above is the rough plan of how the Grand Finals will be run. Hope this clarifies some doubts on how the tournament will be conducted. Mygaming' will update any confirmation of the above plans in the first post.

SMM Champion > 3 Special Tournament Champion , 1st , 2nd , 3d runner up (In order) > SMM 1st , 2nd , 3rd runner up


The number of seeded teams will be 16. We will seed based on the order above.

To put it into perspective , the Rawang tournament is the last chance for teams to gain seeding points for direct qualifying into the group stages.

Additional information is available at the first post. All teams that are participating in the Grand Final are required to take note of the latest announcements

There will be also an LCD screen showcasing selected ongoing games live for spectators at the stage area. Do drop by to have a look.

In an ideal situation , the 10 SMM stage qualifier should be placed much more emphasis. But with the various rules changes since the start of the tournament , we decided to place the same emphasis for all tournaments by priotising the winner and the runners-up in order for all 13 stages.

Basically we are trying to preserve the format that Ian Mok devised last year by creating 8 groups in which 2 from each group will advance to playoffs in a single elimination format.
Due to the severe time constraints placed on us , we cant afford to put 5 teams in a group (10 matches needed to finish the group) but can only put in 4 teams (6 matches needed to finish the group). So we devised a plan to fit in all teams into the 8 groups of 4 where the teams that played the least matches , which are the qualifiers will at least play 2 games before going home . Sad as it may sound , but its the best we can come out with based on the circumstances here.


This post has been edited by underminer: Oct 26 2007, 12:56 AM