1. Kingsurf' Papaxiong (Dota)
I always like to compare Dota with a chess game that requires skill for you to move the pieces. While skill can take you some distance in the scene but its the brains that determines the championship victories. Everyone who plays high level Dota should already know by now that the brains behind Kingsurf's countless victories effectively putting Malaysian Dota on the map is this man. Arguably the best drafter and game analyser Malaysia has ever produced, at the peak of Kingsurf's dominance , he can literally shut all your planned strats after the ban session is over and totally destroy your chances of winning the game after the picking phase. That explains why those so called top western teams fell like flies to his drafts at ESWC even though they only have 2 days training prior to flying there.

2. Kingsurf (Dota)
Probably the most publicized team of the year. From achieving 3rd at the largest Dota tournament online : MYM Pride (the best achievement Asian teams reached so far) , getting themselves falsely accused of maphack in MYM Pride (fanboys will say they too pro) , representing Malaysia in Asian WCG (3rd placing) , ESWC (2nd placing), achieving 4th in SMM 2008 (highest placing for a Malaysian team) and winning an international online Dota tournament : Farm4fame 4 (The first for an Asian team) . Appeared in online and offline media multiple times. They showed what pure skill in a game can take you and still seeks to break more barriers of what the general populace thinks is impossible.

3. No comment.

4. Got a feeling it will be UC.PRO

Thats my opinion for all to discuss.

Thanks

This post has been edited by underminer: Dec 31 2008, 01:12 AM

Haha totally missed the word "individual". Well if based purely on international results , the best gamer would probably goes to you for representing Malaysia and taking the gold medal at Asia WCG this year.
However, as what chapree mentioned, if there is a conflict of interest of presenting this award to yourself then I would back UC.PRO Serry for this award based solely on the fact that he broke Paulyan's seemingly endless domination of Warcraft 3 ( 5 or 6 years ? Cant remember ) in WCG Malaysia this year.

As for newcomer of the year, would probably back Flizzardo's team to clinch it. No one , and I mean NO ONE would have thought a group of ragtags of unknowns formed ad-hocly for a tournament 1 week before SMM could have almost take their first tournament victory and played as if they have been together for years. Their SMM run is no short of amazing clinching 8th place ahead of much more experienced teams such as Impreza , Sg Mineski , DNA-SK and Cybertime GOV. They even beaten the team that got second place Evo Xtc at the group stage. If the team managed to stay together for some time more, perhaps they will make the scene more interesting in the future.