Live From Suntec Singapore : WCG Asian Championship 2008 Day 1

August 9, 2008 by Chapree

The stage already set and the game is on! Welcome to the first day of WCG Asian Championship 2008 here at Suntec Singapore. Everybody in Team Malaysia are healthy today, nobody is sick and stuff. So, it is green light for all of us here.

Let’s jump straight to the update then!

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WCG Asian Championship 2008

DoTA

Kingsurf Gaming, represent!

11:50am: Kingsurf won their first match against Taiwan. They are going to face Korea after this.

1:16pm: Kingsurf is victorious against Korea! With that, Team Malaysia already booked themselves a place in the Elimination stage. Ks still have one match left though, which is against Vietnam.

3:09pm: Kingsurf just started their match against Vietnam - after 2 hours of delay. Apparently, there was some problem during Vietnam’s previous match which caused the delay.

4:00pm:Kingsurf match against Vietnam already finished, which sided Kingsurf as expected. They will continue their Elimination stage tomorrow at 9:00am, against Impreza of Singapore.

FIFA’08

Si_Jali with his Japanese counterpart, side by side

11:50am: [W|nDs]Si_Jali are doing quite well in his group. He overcome Japan with a very comfortable margin 6 - 0. Next match will be against the Indonesia.

1:16pm: Indonesian player’s controller is having some problem with the game, so that match that supposed to be on stage was brought back to the tournament area.

3:09pm: As expected, Jali terrorized all his opponents in his group - 8-0 against Indonesia and 3-1 against Singapore. He is currently waiting for his first elimination stage opponent, Australia.

8:00pm: Si_Jali defeated his Australian counterpart! That win entitled him a spot at the semi-finals against Vietnam tomorrow.

Guitar Hero III

12:00pm: Malaysia are scheduled to compete in Group C against Thailand and Japan starting 2:00pm. Don’t worry, will be defeated very fast. XD

1:16pm: GH match has been postponed to 4pm. Mehhh

8:00pm: Yup, I managed to finish my GH3 mission successfully without losing my fingers. Yours truly did quite ok against Thailand but lost to Japan for a place in the quarter finals. Ironically, all of us were not a competitive Guitar Hero player. Thailand’s player was actually a Starcraft player and the Japanese rep was actually part of WCG Japan organizing team. What are the odds!

NFS ProStreet

12:00pm: FoRza first match are scheduled to start at 4:40pm against his Philippines counterpart at 4:40pm and against Japan at 5:00pm. Tune in later then!

8:00pm: FoRza won all his group matches and later proceed to Quarter Finals where he again managed to overcome the opponent which is from Australia. NFS ProStreet Semi-Finals onwards will also be played tomorrow at 9:00am, where he will meet his counterpart from Thailand.

Virtua Fighter 5

sna@ke getting some lesson from the famous Tetra of Singapore.

12:00pm: Team Malaysia campaign for VF5 has ended quite early. sn@ke was overpowered by all his opponents from Singapore, Australia and Indonesia which all of them are pretty much ready to compete with their arcade stick all.

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WCG Singapore 2008 Open Category

Call of Duty 4

RVG did quite well in the first match

1:15pm: I’ve just found out there are three Malaysian teams competing in CoD4. They are: [ESP]axe, [ESP]wow and RVG. The tournament used round robin format with each group having 3 teams in it. Currently, both ESP teams lost their 1st match, RVG won their 1st match and currently leading in their 2nd match.

3:09pm: CoD4 group stage has just finished. Two out of Malaysian teams managed to qualify to the next stage: RVG - 2 win and [ESP]axe - 1 win & 1 lose. [ESP]wow was defeated in both group matches.

7:27pm: I’m sorry to for the late update, guys. Got caught up in the GH3 match, if you know what I mean. Anyway, 2 team will be chosen from this stage onwards which uses round robin league format. [ESP]axe currently trailing behind with 2 defeat while RVG has better luck with 1 win and 1 defeat.

8:26pm: RVG is in the middle of their third match and [ESP]axe is preparing for their third match on stage.

9:00pm: According to a marshal I met, RVG won their third match. On stage right now is [ESP]aXe vs BF.nut and things doesn’t looked really good with that 0 - 8 score. More coming soon.

9:46pm: The match between [ESP]aXe and BF.nut has finally its end with a huge defeat for ESP side with 14 - 0 and 14 - 2 score for each round. This is ESP third lost in the league stage. Meanwhile for another Malaysian team RVG, their final tally in the league stage is 3 wins and 1 lost which shined some hope on podium finish. The competition will be continued tomorrow.

DoTA

DNA-SK chilling while waiting for their match to start

1:15pm: Tbun-W4si became the first Malaysian team to proceed to semi-finals. New Cybertime GoV managed to proceed to Quarter Finals, while the last update I recived from DNA-SK is that they are still playing in Quarter Finals.

3:09pm: Good news! All the teams is already in Semi-Finals. Currently, DNA-SK is having a match with Tbun-W4si and New Cybertime GoV is meeting xtc of Singapore. If GoV able to win this match, we will have an all-Malaysian finals at WCG Singapore 2008 DoTA Open Category.

4:00pm: Tbun-W4si won the match against DNA-SK and is the first team to reach the finals! Since GoV - xtc match is not yet finished, DNA-SK opponent for 3rd/4th place is not yet known.

8:00pm: xtc managed to stopped an all Malaysian finals by defeating GoV in the semi-finals. So, tomorrow will be a Singapore vs Malaysia affair between xtc and Tbun-W4si for WCG Singapore 2008 DoTA Open Category.

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That’s all for today, folks. It has been a very long day. I’ll see you tommorrow!

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