MMU ConvoFest 2009

EoG will be entering the MMU ConvoFest LAN Games Competition 2009 (link) in the DotA section tomorrow (01/08/2009). If you're near or able to travel there, please do. We need all the support we need! LoL.

EoG knows it's going to be hard, and we will be trying our best to perform tomorrow.

Exclusive News - Good & Bad

EoG has decided to recruit Muhammad "zeYRoe" Haffizy who is formerly from the clan STDN. He will be joining us ASAP as his middle semester is looming around the corner.

The bad news is, another of our player, Abdul "Putih" Fareez has officially been pronounced inactive as he has gone to KPM (Kolej Profesional MARA) in Beranang to further his studies.

So, I hereby welcome our addition zeYRoe, and all of us at EoG wishes good luck to Putih in his future endeavour.

4th in Surfer DotA Tournament

Firstly, sorry for the delayed update of the blog. As of popular demand, here I am posting anew.

Last weekend EoG went for Surfer DotA Tournament and we achieved 4th place behind MU.Gold.Mski, Cybertime, and MU.bL respectively. It is considered a success but I'm confident EoG still needs much more work to be done in order for us to disrupt the top sides.

All of us from EoG would stress our appreciation to our stand-in player used for this particular tournament, BreadM. He performed quite admirably that day.

Pictures will soon be available. (They need to be processed first! XD)

Update: Pics here! (taken from here)

Champion : MU.Gold.Mski

1st Runner up : Cybertime

2nd Runner up : MU.bL

4th place : EoG

The Marshalls and Organizers

Dedicated marshals

Inside the Surfer Cybercafe

New Sponsor for EoG

Jack, from Syaza Design, his own company, has come forward and agreed to sponsor EoG for our tournaments' fees starting Surfer DotA Tournament this coming Saturday.

He, automatically, has been appointed the manager of EoG starting today. We welcome you to EoG, Jack.

Update: The Surfer Cybercafe has also agreed on sponsoring EoG. Details are yet to be confirmed.

Another update: The Surfer Cybercafe will only be providing EoG with exclusive T-shirts as Jack is covering our tournament related expenses.

Surfer DotA Tournament

It is confirmed that EoG will be attending Surfer DotA Tournament (details) this Saturday.

EoG Team Profiles

MANAGER

Jack
Norsafwan Khairi Bin Nazir Ahmad
D.O.B.: 30/06/1985
Played DotA since: July 2004

Favourite Hero: Terrorblade
Favourite Item: Sange & Yasha
Favourite Player(s): Loda, Miracle, Puppey



CAPTAIN

iMkSeR
Mohd Irfan bin Hasan
D.O.B.: 10/07/1987
Played DotA since: July 2006

Favourite Hero: Priestess Of The Moon
Favourite Item: Divine Rapier
Favourite Player(s): Miracle, Loda, Azen





PLAYERS

Jynxie
Tunku Izzat Bin Tunku Abdul Muthalib
D.O.B.: 12/03/1988
Played DotA since: Nov 2005

Favourite Hero: Geomancer
Favourite Item: Kelen's Dagger
Favourite Player(s): KuroKy, vigoss, Puppey






xZapple
Ali Rifdi bin Rosli
D.O.B.: 25/07/1993
Played DotA since: Nov 2007

Favourite Hero: Butcher
Favourite Item: Guinsoo's Scythe of Vyse
Favourite Player(s): Kuroky, Loda, Azen






BlitzKreig|
Mohd Afiq Hilmie Bin Mohd Reduan
D.O.B.: 28/12/1988
Played DotA since: Aug 2006

Favourite Hero: Priestess Of The Moon
Favourite Item: Dagon Lvl 5
Favourite Player(s): Monzai, Yamateh, Merlini





Putih (Inactive)
Abdul Fareez bin Hashim
D.O.B.: 06/04/1989
Played DotA since: Dec 2007

Favourite Hero: Faerie Dragon
Favourite Item: Kelen's Dagger
Favourite Player(s): Pemakandunia, vigoss

CaPiQ
Mohd Noor Shafiq Bin Zakaria
D.O.B.: 28/03/1986
Played DotA since: July 2004

Favourite Hero: Random
Favourite Item: Observer Ward
Favourite Player(s): Stdn players, Vigoss



zeYRoe
Muhammad Hafizzy Bin Yusof
D.O.B.: 10/05/1988
Played DotA since: May 2004

Favourite Hero: Slayer
Favourite Item: Kelen's Dagger
Favourite Player(s): Papaxiong, Vigoss, Akke

Roster

This is the lineup that went for the Rakan Muda Grand Final:

EoG ` iMkSeR - Drafter, supporter
EoG ` Jynxie - Carry
EoG ` BlitzKreig| - Semi Farmer
EoG ` Putih - Ganker
EoG ` CaPiQ - Ganker

All went well for this tourney..
Hope we can do well in our next tourney..
Thanks for the support from all of our friends..

Here's a solitary picture from the tournament. (courtesy of spotgamers.blogspot.com)



EoG ftw!!

Top 8

The second day of Rakan Muda E-Gig for us started with EoG playing St.Ftw who themselves defeated Show in the second round. Again it was a full Chinese team against us (the last match were also against a full Chinese team; it saddens me to see a sport greatly loved by us Malays but somehow we always managed to be incompetent enough to fail).

Our draft was exactly the same as the day before with Undying, Demon Witch, Tidehunter, Faerie Dragon, and only our last hero was changed from Admiral Proudmoore to Priestess of the Moon. We eventually won by quite a margin and henceforth advanced to to last eight of the competition.

Only one hour later we were sitting in front of Malaysia's representatives (InC.xLo) in the last WCG Asia where they achieved the runner-up spot. It was intriguing and at the same time intimidating. Even though we kind of expect to be beaten by them, but some mistakes in our draft and poor coordination in game led to a disappointing heavy loss.

That's not to say we are putting all the blame on our leader (as he does the drafting), because all of us take some part in contributing ideas to him too. After this loss, EoG does not take interest in self-pity and we even trained again tonight.

Let's hope this Top 8 achievement would spur us on for more!

EoG FTW!

Helluva day

Yesterday, all of us arrived at Kompleks Rakan Muda Puchong quite early at 11.30 a.m. with the place packed with lots of young people hosting various events such as live band performances, breakdances, shufflers, netball, plus numerous video games. We were informed (unofficially) that the our game will commence around 2-3 p.m. but a series of problems occured as 10 of the desktops that the organizer brought was faulty and they were literally struggling to call on the teams as live bands are performing at the same time!

Things then turned sour as we had to wait until 7 p.m. to play our first game of the day. I could not remember the name of team that we fought but even though all 5 of us were flattened out by the agony of waiting and scorching heat of the day, EoG stuck to the plan and succeeded admirably. It turned out to be a pretty one-sided game.

Personally I would predict today's game(s) to be a lot harder for us but as we always do, we'll take these challenges head on. Certainly EoG would be needing all the luck in the world. =)

PS: Sorry no pics, all our team members were unable to get our hands on a camera!

EoG FTW!

Training

It's been a while since last trained together, so starting yesterday, we started training with various teams in the hope that we will be ready for upcoming tournament at Kompleks Rakan Muda Puchong. This tournament is set to feature some of the top teams in Malaysia (see here) who shall be competing for the top prize which is RM 3K. Yesterday was a great day overall as we swept five teams with ease. I wouldn't go as far as to say that we have achieved anything, but, nonetheless, our teamwork & communication (which i think are the most important aspects in DotA) is greatly improving barring minor scuffles and in-game disagreement.

Today however, ended in a minor disappointment as one of our players was constantly lagging as a result of the Cybercafe where he's at was experiencing connection problems and we practically cancelled our last match.

Anyhow, we shall be trying our hardest to perform at the upcoming tournament.

EoG FTW.

Losing never feels good

EoG clan, after a week of scrimming against various teams in Malaysia DotA Clan War Room,
we have been beaten by Ftz Penang. =)

Kinda feels like we're back on earth. Let this loss be a lesson to be learned as we still have much to be improved, teamwork-wise and skill-wise too.

EoG FTW!!

EoG a.k.a. Essence of Greatness

EoG, which stands for Essence of Greatness is a newly formed Defense of the Ancients (DotA) clan which consists of young Malays. Although we don't have any other races in this clan, this should not prevent other races to join us, only if they are up for it, that is. This clan is formed as a result of several clans disbanding beforehand such as ex-S7, ex-STDN and ex-DC| and we are now working hard towards improving ourselves and be a respected clan in Garena, Malaysia and the world nevertheless. EoG clan will only be recruiting players (IF we want to) that has sufficient potential which should further our game as a whole. These are the list of our current roster:-

• ImKseR - Irfan
• Putih - Fareez
• Jynxie - Ijat
• roxsteady - Soda
• BlitzKreig| - Apit
• CaPiQ - Capiq
• xZapple - Ali

Finally, if anyone would like to engage us in a clan war just PM Irfan / Fareez via their Yahoo Messenger's which is irfan_hasan23@yahoo.com / aku_spidermanz@yahoo.com respectively.