Multiplay Live - WCGAC’09: Day 1 Live Updates

July 4, 2009 by Chapree

O hai everybody! We are here at the Suntec Singapore for the WCG Asian Championship 2009. Also, together with the regional tournament are WCG Singapore’09 Open Category and Compaq AMD Pro-Gaming League’09 Summer Season. We got one Team Fortress 2 teams and two DoTA teams competing in the tournament respectively.

Updates continues after the jump, and refresh periodically for the latest updates!

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8:30am: The bus to Suntec Singapore has just arrived at the players village. It is around 10 minutes from Suntec Singapore. Nearer to town, we likey.

12:14pm: Alrighty folks, Team Malaysia has just finished Guitar Hero World Tour group stage. Before the match started, we found out that both of our opponents - Indonesia and Bangladesh actually has a qualifier event for the game despite not being one of Xbox 360’s official country, just like us. Hmmm…

In the first match against Indonesia, our rep managed to won the first round but lost to the opponent in the second round. This lead to a tie-breaker where both players have to play the finger-cracking Satch Boogie by Joe Satriani. We lost once again but we still qualified to tomorrow’s elimination stage as we defeated Bangladesh in the next match with a straight 2 - 0 score.

Earlier on, our DoTA team also won their first group match against Bangladesh. Their opponent basically ditched the game at 32nd minute mark even though there are 4 of their players around compared to Malaysia who only have 3 players in the war, according INC.Excello’s manager - Benny. Team Malaysia next opponent should the toughest opponent in the group - Vietnam.

On other interesting news, our long time friend at Spotgamers - Si_Jali informed us that last year WCGAC champ - New Zealand got schooled by….*drum roll* Korea! Looks like all other DoTA giants got to be aware of them from now on.

Also, we received a news that the Internet connection in the hall already back online. More news coming soon, so stay tuned!

01:16pm: Team Malaysia is currently in the of their DoTA match against Vietnam. According to Benny and the National DoTA Ranking admin - Underminer, it is a very tough match even though our homeboys have better skills compared to their opponent. Vietnam styles suits the map very well said Underminer. Let’s hope Team Malaysia will be able to pull this one.

Meanwhile, Cybertime already won their first match (rather easily, they said) for today in CAPL’09 Summer Season which qualifies them to Top 16 stage. The team expected that their next opponent (TBC) will be a tough one. We haven’t got to meet the other team - Kingsurf, so we are not sure what are their status right now.

Last but not least, our Team Fortress 2 gang - are still waiting for their matches. According to one of their players - Zack, the gaming island having a lot of issues from broken Internet to broken CPUs. More delays are expected.

01:30pm: Good news! Team Malaysia managed to defeated Vietnam in DoTA! It is a huge relief for us here, phewh.

02:30pm: More good news for our camp. Team Malaysia stormed through Sri Lanka in their last DoTA match which made them the 1st place team in the their group. This also means that our DoTA boys qualified to the elimination stage tomorrow.

02:58pm: Oh, we got a news that Chinese Taipei didn’t have a FIFA rep. That means one less match for our FIFA guys - [T2.W|nDs]Lo0n4tic.

…and our TF2 team still haven’t play any single match. Anomaly said that the next match should be theirs.

03:49pm: Hey, what do you know, Anomaly finally get to play and…as expected they bullied defeated PIE with a 5 - 0 score. Total victory.

04:55pm: Managed to (finally) found Kingsurf guys. Ks-Yamateh said that they already won one match today, into the Top 16 stage. Their next match will be at 6:00 and 8:00pm. Get ‘em boys!

05:16pm: Benny of INC.Excello told us that Cybertime has won their CAPL’09 Top 16 match against the 1st Runner Up of WCG Singapore’09 National Finals - Axis.Rsc. Underminer also told Benny (yes, it’s confusing. :lol:) that Cybertime won the match rather easily…again.

Looks like we get to see a number of match at 6pm - Cybertime, Kingsurf and of course, [T2.W|nDs]Lo0n4tic.

05:35pm: We got a confirmation that our TF2 players will be meeting o9K in the next round. Time of match? Unknown…due to the huge delay happened earlier - we heard stories like 5 epic Blue Screen of Death in a row and stuff like that.

07:58pm: Anamoly vs. o9K match currently underway right now, with the score of 3 - 1. Things looked tough at first as o9K scored first but our TF2 guys (and a gurl) managed to recover very fast.

As for FIFA’09, Lo0n4tic seems a little bit nervous since it has been a while since his last competition. He lost 1 - 2 to India in the first match but managed to qualify to the elimination stage after over New Zealand with 2 - 0 score.

08:04pm: …our Team Fortress 2 guys qualify to the Grand Final!! The second half of the game saw Anamoly once again missing the first blood but recovered back to take the win with 2 - 1 score with an aggregate 5 - 2. Anamoly will be back again tomorrow against the current Singapore’s finest team - VCO, at 3:00pm.

08:46pm: Updates from CAPL’09 Summer Season, it is confirmed (by Ks-papaxiong himself) that Kingsurf is already out from the tournament in Top 16 stage. Things are a bit better for Cybertime as they already qualified for the Quarter Finals tomorrow.

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WCGAC’09 Day 1 ends here for Team Malaysia. Almost all Malaysian participants here have managed to qualify to the next stage tomorrow in all three major competition across four games, except for Kingsurf in CAPL. Check back soon for the obligatory pictures post.

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