Tag Archives: iG

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

ACE Dota Pro-league 2012 Season 1 Grand Finals today!

The grand finals of ACE Dota 2012 season 1 is going to be at 19:00 Chinese time on Sept 14, 2012. The finalists, iG and LGD, will be playing for a prize of 200000 RMB, or roughly 30000 USD. Read on to find out more.

Want to watch? Tune in here in at 11:00 UTC/19:00 Beijing time (may need to install plugin): http://live.pcgames.com.cn/1202/2454004.html or http://www.fengyunzhibo.com/tv/gtvyouxi.htm

Original: http://ace.pcgames.com.cn/news/1209/2634730.html

(Dotaland note: only partial translation for this, to get key relevant information out)

On September 14, 2012 at 19:00 [Beijing time], ACE Dota TV professional league 2012 season 1 Grand Finals will take place.

iG advanced to the semi-finals after placing in first in regular season matches, and in the semi-finals defeated Dt to advance to the finals. Up to now, iG’s overall record is 8 wins, 1 draw, and 1 loss.

LGD advanced to the semi-finals on a third place result in regular season matches. In the next elimination stage where 4 teams advance out of 6, they defeated team For.love to get into the other semi-final and faced TongFu. After defeating TongFu to make it into the finals, LGD’s overall record currently stands at 8 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses.

These two teams will once again step onto the stage of the ACE finals and battle it out for the championship.

With results this similar thus far, and equally star-studded lineups, it will be strategy and hero picks that are the keys to the ultimate result. Which heroes will go to these 10 legendary players in the final battle, we’ll only know after the fighting begins.

GTV will see you at 19:00 on Sept 14. Real competition creates real winners, AMD brings explosiveness to your gaming world! For live broadcasting options please visit: ace.pcgames.com.cn.

Ever since starting competition, the ACE Dota TV pro league has seen widespread popularity. Pretty much every match day has fans coming from faraway lands, and tickets for the grand final sold out within 2 hours of going on sale. Because of huge demand and interest, we have decided to add an additional batch of live tickets for sale. They are first come first serve at the GTV headquarters in Beijing.

DC’s Seattle Dota Diary #5: Analyzing TI2 Elimination Matches

As promised! This is the 5th on-site analysis ‘diary’ entry from big time Chinese commentator DC from during TI2. It covers the first half of TI2. Doesn’t seem that he wrote another one for the end of TI2, but entries 4 and 3 have both been translated in earlier entries here, and here, respectively. Some good insight on all the Chinese teams halfway through TI2, as well as a look at opinions on many EU and NA teams.

Original: http://dota2.sgamer.com/news/201209/147013.html

Continue reading →

iG releases a ‘commemorative’ highlights video of their TI2 victory

Yeah, this is a bit of fluff. But maybe it’s a bit of interesting, useful, fluffy fluff. Because when even Dotacinema’s TI2 highlights fail to have anything of iG’s, maybe this can fill some of the void. Anyway, this is from iG’s official Youku account. Ignoring the cheesy music and effects, it’s a decent few minutes showing some of iG’s big plays from the Grand Finals of TI2.

The new week will bring more translations – Sgamer’s TI2 player evaluations, and more!

Original: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDQ4MTg2MjUy.html

Translated transcript (nothing special here):

September 3 2012, Seattle, USA – We stepped onto the grand stage carrying the hopes of our countrymen – Fight! For the glory of victory – Applause, the highest praise for Chinese e-sports – Let the 5-star flag fly high and bear witness to an unforgettable night!

Victory, the only belief – Pride and glory of the nation – An unforgettable night in Seattle – That moment when dreams became reality – A never say die mentality – Bringing cheers and applause to China – We are the most hard-working dreamers – Our name is iG

Sgamer TI2 player evaluations: #2 position

Here we’ve got Sgamer’s evaluations of the top CHINESE performers from the #2 position on teams at TI2. Positions 3, 4, 5 to come in the coming days, and the 1 position is currently available here.

(note: I neglected to add that this is focused on Chinese players, hence an overall lack of any foreign players making the list)

Original: http://dota2.sgamer.com/news/201209/147056_3.html

Continue reading →

Reflections of an old-school Dota pro: from 500 yuan to 1000000 dollars

Written by Quanquanquan, former Nebula member (team from early Chinese Dota), this is an amazing introspective, insightful, and emotional piece from an insider who watched and participated as Chinese Dota went from nothing to the world-beating juggernaut that it is today. It’s long but absolutely worth the read, so click through! Hope you enjoy, I did.

Original: http://dota.sgamer.com/201209/news-detail-148764.html

After seeing the images of iG celebrating their win, seeing DK’s pain after losing, something in my heart stirred, reminding me of the days when the flame of my youth fueled a passion for Dota — that Dota that we all loved!

Continue reading →

Chinese site 17173 ranks the best players at TI2

Two large Chinese gaming sites, 17173 and SGamer, have put up summaries of Chinese fan analysis of the top players in their respective positions at The International 2. This is the 17173 version, I skipped a bit in the middle where it was joke rankings for random stuff. Sgamer’s version is very different and will be coming later.

Continue reading →