Category Archives: Competitions

G-1 Champions League elimination round matchups decided

The G-1 Champions League in China continues its march onto determining who will take home the $30000 grand prize!

 

November 3: After going undefeated in the online preliminary group stage, iG will face Orange.

November 4: LGD, who did well overall but lost against iG in prelims, will be up against DK, who won their group.

November 5: In the lower bracket of the elimination round, MUFC will fight Flash for a spot in the next round.

November 6: In the other lower bracket matchup – EG, who barely squeaked through the preliminaries, and TongFu will duke it out to see who advances.

All matches above are at 20:00 (8pm) Chinese local time.

Afterwards, the offline portion will take place in Fuzhou, China, on November 17 and 18 and will determine 1st through 4th places.

Streams should continue to be at: http://www.fengyunzhibo.com/tv/17173zhibo.htm — http://www.fengyunzhibo.com/tv/beat_kid.htm — http://www.fengyunzhibo.com/tv/8923_1348919582720.htm — http://tl.twitch.tv/beyondthesummit

WCG2012 China region online prelims matchups revealed

Original: http://dota2.sgamer.com/news/201210/147462.html

partial translation

The qualifiers for WCG 2012 China region will be played online.

Competition format: Best of 1 for all matches before top 8, Best of 3 for top 8

Competition time: Round of 16: Oct 21, Remaining rounds: November 5-11

Top two teams will qualify for WCG2012 World Finals. WCG China will pay all expenses for top team, and second place team will qualify but must choose to pay their own expenses.

Match time will be 18:30-21:00 (Chinese time), Round of 8 and beyond will all be livestreamed, and all Round of 8 participants will receive a set of WCG2012 China competitors’ apparel.

brackets below. Note that iG and NA (Noah’s Ark) have received byes into the next round. LGD, DK, and TongFu are also represented.

G-1 League update: DreamZ to rematch ForLove due to ringer, mD and NA both out

Original: http://dota2.sgamer.com/news/201210/147384_3.html

Update: ForLove have won the rematch 2-1 and will face Flash next. DreamZ are now out.

partial translation

Viewers reported that in the DreamZ vs ForLove match earlier, which ForLove lost by 0-2, DreamZ used an unreported ringer to play for them. Apparently, the ringer was from fellow Philippines Dota team Mineski. After discussing with both teams, the G-1 League has decided that for fairness, the matchup has been reset to 0-0, and ForLove has been given a rematch with DreamZ. This rematch will not be streamed (in Chinese at least, seems English twitch stream is going).

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In other news, both other Chinese teams, mD and NA have lost to their respective opponents in the prelims 2-0, with Flash of Singapore and SQL of New Zealand being the ones to go through, respectively.

NA particularly lost badly, with one match going 1-30 in team kills and NA members asking in chat how to leave the game, showing that obviously this is one of the first times NA has ever played Dota2.

Up next on October 15 at 6PM Chinese time: SQL faces EG, and Flash awaits the winner of the DreamZ and ForLove rematch.

Dotaland note: streams are at 6pm Chinese time each night — http://www.fengyunzhibo.com/tv/17173zhibo.htm — http://www.fengyunzhibo.com/tv/beat_kid.htm — http://www.fengyunzhibo.com/tv/8923_1348919582720.htm — http://tl.twitch.tv/beyondthesummit

G-1 Dota2 League prelims update, stream link

Original: http://dota2.17173.com/news/10142012/111234634.shtml

DreamZ knocks out For.Love

DreamZ is an old school powerhouse from the Philippines, and with ForLove meeting such a strong opponent in the first round, sadly Love’s warriors were unable to sink this Filipino battleship, ultimately losing 2-0. In the first match, ForLove picked strong pub heroes Chaos Knight and Ancient Apparition, but were unable to control the match. After going into the second match, they immediately made adjustments, with their combo of Keeper of the Light plus Phantom Lancer winning a lot for them early on. However, because of their opponent Shadow Fiend’s outstanding performance in mid game teamfights, grabbing many kills, ForLove were unable to halt Shadow Fiend’s momentum and lost the initiative for DreamZ. In the end, Shadow Fiend with filled out item slots led the push onto high ground to take towers. ForLove, in the face of great adversity, tried their best to hold out and pulled the match all the way to 50 minutes before they finally typed out gg, thus departing from the G-1 stage. This young team has endless potential in the future, there will be more and more Dota2 competitions domestically, so we hope to continue to see their lively selves in the future. Add oil, ForLove!

EG defeats Mineski

As a strong team in TI2, this time EG’s performance has not caused any surprises. With their experience in online competitions, their 200-300 pings to the server never became a big issue, and they comfortably defeated their opponents 2-0.

Upcoming matches…

Two Chinese teams in mD and NA will be going up against New Zealand’s SQL and Singapore’s Flash.

Dotaland note: streams are at 6pm Chinese time each night — http://www.fengyunzhibo.com/tv/17173zhibo.htm — http://www.fengyunzhibo.com/tv/beat_kid.htm — http://www.fengyunzhibo.com/tv/8923_1348919582720.htm — http://tl.twitch.tv/beyondthesummit

EG, iG, and more to be involved in G-1 Dota2 League, qualifiers schedule announced

Original: http://dota2.17173.com/news/10112012/180656730.shtml

partial translation

iG and N9 are the 6th and 7th invites to the new G-1 Dota2 League. The remaining 3 spots will be determined from a qualifier between 8 additional teams: For.Love, NA, mD (China), DreamZ, Mineski (Philippines), Flash (Singapore), EG (USA), and SQL (New Zealand).

The qualifiers will begin at 6PM Chinese time on October 13 2012 (3AM Pacific time).

The qualifiers bracket is below, top 3 will go on to compete in the League:

The full competitor list is:

DK, LGD, TongFu, Orange, MUFC, iG, N9 plus 3 teams from the 8 qualifier teams.

Alienware Arena brings $37k prize pool to Chinese Dota 2 in open bracket format, with invites to include LGD and TongFu

Original: http://www.alienwarearena.com/event/dota2-cn-open/news/836/alienware-2012-dota-2/

partial translation

Sign up period: Sept 28 2012 – Oct 13 2012

Competition period: Oct 16 2012 – Oct 27 2012

Format: Online

Total prize pool: $37000 USD

Eligibility: China mainland, 18 years and above

Dota2 competition QQ group: 263425930

Includes an open bracket, invites, and a regional grand finals

According to http://dota2.17173.com/news/10112012/175259027.shtml, the invited teams are LGD, TongFu, AgFox, For.Love, HuangZu (royalty), NA, RS, and WIN.

Dota2 hits the Chinese tournament scene this month with 17173’s G-1 Champions League Season 4!

Original: http://dota2.17173.com/news/10082012/152252415.shtml

The G-1 Professional Champions League is 17173’s esports brand, with Dota being the game contested. The first season of G-1 League was held in June of 2011, with CCM (former iG) taking the win, while DK won consecutively the Season 2 and Season 3 competitions. In October of this year, 17173 will push out Season 4 of the G-1 Champions League, and the game being competed in will be the successor to Dota, created by Valve — Dota2. This will be China’s first Dota2 esports league, and the competition’s total prize pool will reach 330000 RMB (roughly 52400 USD), setting a new record for Chinese Dota competition prize pool.

Prize pool details:

Champions: 180000 RMB

Runners up: 60000 RMB

Third place: 50000 RMB

Fourth place: 40000 RMB

When:

Mid October 2012 to Mid November 2012

Commentary team:

Chinese: 2009, Crystal, Pikaxiu (Pikachu)

Chinese guest commentary: Shen!, Anleier

English: GoDz, LD

Competition format:

Online portion: Top 10 group stage, elimination stage

Offline portion (in Fuzhou): Top 4 semifinals, 3rd/4th match, Grand Finals

League organizers will reveal the participating teams in two groups for a total of ten teams, the first group of teams participating in G-1 Season 4 is:

G-1 Season 3 Champions, TI2 4th place: DK

G-1 Season 3 3rd place, TI2 3rd place: LGD

TI2 top 8: TongFu

TI2 top 8: Orange

ESWC Southeast Asia Champions: MUFC

With iG as this season’s champions, the ACE Dota Pro-league 2012 Season 1 comes to an excellent close (official ACE closing statement)

The official summary/statement post from ACE Dota Pro-league regarding the recently-ended Season 1 Dota competition. Includes quote from head sponsor AMD, as well as iG.Zhou.

Original: http://ace.pcgames.com.cn/news/1209/2638168.html

Accompanied by ChuaN’s roar of triumph, the curtains fall upon the ACE Dota televised league first season Grand Finals. By a score of 2-0, iG defeats LG, and upon receiving the sword up on stage, are crowned kings of the Grand Finals of ACE Dota Pro-league Season 1.

Over the course of three months’ worth of regular season matches, iG and LGD were the clubs to come to the forefront in a competition starring over ten teams and stand upon the finals stage. In taking the ACE championship, iG were furthermore coming off a recent victory at the Finals at The International invitational in Seattle, and after the match iG.Zhou revealed, “We discussed this amongst ourselves before, that if this year out of the ACE Dota league, The International, and G-league we could win two championships we’d be satisfied. And now we’ve taken all three championships, surpassing our goal, so we’re very satisfied.”

While congratulating iG, we should also recognize LGD’s fierce fight through the latter half of regular season matches to make it to the Grand Finals in imposing fashion, and thus give all Dota fans a finals matchup between two juggernauts. Even though LGD sadly lost in the end to iG, what cannot be ignored is that in order to make it this far in the LAN environment of the ACE Dota Pro-league, teams must have exceeding amounts of consistency and ability. Therefore, there are no losers on the stage of ACE Dota Pro-league, so let us give our respect and support to LGD all the same, and we hope that next season LGD can once again stand tall.

After iG won this season’s Finals to take home the trophy, a giant ceremonial sword provided by our official graphics card partner AMD, AMD’s Vice President of Greater China Sales, Ms. Wu said, “After this month, through the partnership between AMD and ACE we have fully experienced the magic of esports. We have been thoroughly impressed by the infectious enthusiasm and energy of players and fans, and we are very impressed by and admire these gamers’ drive for constant self-improvement and boldness in challenging new things. This has always been AMD’s brand attitude and focus, the source of AMD’s continuous innovation. This sword represents the highest level of play in the Dota world, and AMD’s purpose in creating this sword was specifically for the heroes who stand victorious in the ACE Finals, and we hope that this sword can become as great of a weapon for gamers as AMD hardware is.”

Real competition creates real winners, brings explosiveness to your gaming universe. This season of ACE Dota Pro-league was brought to you live via TV, internet, and mobile platforms simultaneously. From May 28’s regular season start, to the end of all competition on September 14, over a period of 4 months the ACE Dota Pro-league consisted of ACE alliance members such as iG, WE, LGD, for a total of more than ten top tier Chinese esports clubs. Led by these clubs, more than 50 professional esports competitors participated, and iG ultimately took the championship over LGD as the season drew to a close.

Thank you to our official processor and graphics card partner AMD, and to our official online game and download accelerator partner Xunyou.com for their great support.

Thank you to all our fans for your constant support, thank you all. In the coming days, when you think of this season’s competition, hopefully it can become a highlight for you. In the summer of 2012, we walked together with Dota. Our players and competitors, in the future, will someday be regular people like everyone else, and work, get married, get old…… but in the history books of ACE they have left their marks boldy. They will not be forgotten, because their names are now written in our hearts. Decades down the line, when we talk with our children of these years, we can proudly say, back then, there were those of us that spent our youth in pursuit and fulfillment of dreams. Soon, a new season of ACE Pro-league will begin, so, let us then gather again on that stage to write the next chapter for each of us.

iG at ACE Dota 2012 S1 finals (pictures)

A few pictures with translated captions from iG’s social media from their win at ACE earlier.

The pictures from ACE live that everyone wanted are here now. Much thanks to all those loyal fans on the live broadcasts and at the venue itself. It was with your support that we ultimately won the trophy! The first picture is a picture of the entire team; it seems like ChuaN wants to raise the sword high and declare, “I am He-Man!!”

iG.YYF posing for a shot with a fervent fan. Does that mesmerizing smile and understated elegance tempt your heart? *kiss*

And of course our Zhou’s handsomeness isn’t going to lose out to his teammate’s. His hair, specially styled for the event today, was a contributor to his stable play today, and his calm confidence in holding the trophy is as if to say, “I have the most fans, no one else can compare”

Here we see Faith signing for a fan and taking it very seriously. His reserved and shy demeanor off-stage forms a stark contrast with his fearlessness and fierceness on-stage.

If you were to ask who is the focus of most conversations at matches, the answer is certainly ChuaN. Of course ChuaN’s excitement in celebrating his last Finals victory has not faded; today he seemed more calm, very patiently signing things for fans, and additionally gained the youngest fan at the match venue today.

Source: http://e.t.qq.com/igaming