Essence Of Greatness

Dota 2~!

2011-11-22T19:23:00.003+08:00

Hello guys. School holidays have started and my 6 days leave just started as well so I'd like to take this opportunity to update you on what's happening with the team now.

During the streaming of the first ever Dota 2 tournament few months ago, I happened to notice one advertisement of Steam about putting down my name to be able to play Dota 2. I did and a month ago I filled up one kind of survey that Steam asked to fill in order to be able to play Dota 2 and a week ago, I installed Dota 2!

Now here I am, with the game in my PC, and I also managed to give two of my EoG teammates, Dejamoon and iMkSeR, the chance to experience the game together. But oh how we did not expect it to be hard with the shops in the base being crammed into one, the graphics as elaborate as HoN is, and most of all, the delay of playing with other countries.

I hope after a few weeks of training we can somehow polish our Dota 2 skills and initiation to an extent of being able to terrorize enemies once more.

P/s: Quoting Dejamoon: "gimme a month, I'll be so pro in Dota 2" - let us see after a month what happens. :)

16 Months

2011-09-07T20:56:00.000+08:00

Oh my god, it has been 16 (yes, six-effin'-teen) months since our last update. Sigh. I even forgot totally about the blog since we were no longer active in DotA scene.

But what now? There have been suggestions by the team captain, Dejamoon, on the idea of getting the boys back together. Shall we see the return of EoG? If yes, will we carry the same name or will we be competing with a new, perhaps, less cheesy name? How will the roster looks like and is there any chance of oldtimers such as Putih or CaPiQ getting back in the team? Stay tune for the updates folks.

Most of EoG players watched the live streaming of DotA 2 and frankly speaking, the game seems awesome in every aspect, except of course, the sudden upgrade of the graphics rendering all teamfights look exactly like HoN! We explored the idea of playing DotA 2 later - of course how much it will cost will have a significant effect on whether we are going to play the game or not.

Some bonus replays for you guys to feast on.

Replay 1 (1.24e)
Replay 2 (1.26a)

Cheers.

Back from the Dead

2010-05-22T19:47:00.006+08:00

Hello everyone out there, Jynxie here.

To tell you the truth, everyone from EoG are doing just great nowadays. From the previous update, up until recently, yes we've been concentrating more on personal matters, sorting out everything and what-not. Now that everything is in order, we have geared ourselves on to returning to the big scene again. This time around we would like to be of more impact than last year did as this year would probably spell the end of some of our careers in DotA to be honest. Time's catching up inevitably. People move on. That's it.

BUT, no worries, we are still here to dazzle you guys (fans & haters) with our skills and determination, plus exclusives from the players from time to time. I expect us to do well this term with the help of a new member on board, QueenCondom or better known as "Mole". =.= Well what do you expect, he chose that nickname. Putih is officially out of the clan, while CaPiQ is pretty much inactive, BlitzKreig has left EoG because of our inactiveness, and xZapple is concentrating with his studies (SPM this year), so roxsteady has been drafted back into the lineup.

iMkSeR
Jynxie
DEJAMOON
QueenCondom
roxsteady

Back to the topic, well we've been training everyday nowadays. Expect to see us in Clan War rooms at night. Everyone has been busy contemplating/formulating new strategies or play-style. We should be in Ipoh's SMM Qualifier, Insyaallah. I for one, am certainly hoping for the best from the event.

Well that's it from me right now, will be updating more often now, don't worry. I just ran out of ideas that's all. =)

Updates!!

2010-02-10T20:02:00.002+08:00

This is the official statement from EoG itself..

Currently the players from EoG are resting and focusing more on their life..

Basically EoG are still here to play.. But at the moment, we are inactive..

Shoutouts to the fans and haters..
U guys are the one who makes EoG better..

Thanks to clan members and stand-in..

If u guys wanna have a scrim.. Just add our player ym atm..

jat_kolej@yahoo.com
irfan_hasan23@yahoo.com

Tournament, tournament, tournament.

2009-11-25T07:05:00.005+08:00

Wow. It has been more than a month after this blog was last updated. In that frame of time, it is safe to say a LOT has happened, especially to EoG.

Advancement from the 1st round in MHLR Retribution #11

I'm going to start off on our participation in various tournament. Last Friday, we competed in the first round of the MHLR Retribution #11 in which the result favored us thus resulting in EoG advancing to the next round (bracket). Unfortunately, there was no replay available as the game was reloaded once after a player dropped.

2nd in Raksasa Dota Mini Tournament

The day after that, we went to another tournament, this time an offline event somewhere in Selayang. The first day was a walk in the park, leaving the second day with only 3 teams vying for top spot. It was not to be as we were stomped in the first game against Aiman Tak Kisah. Morale was at a particular low at that time, so we composed ourselves (kinda released our frustation of previous defeat) and defeated SpL soundly to claim the second spot. The day ended with the organizers treating everyone associated, either directly or indirectly with the tournament, with light meal and beverages. Again, no replays are available.

As for this weekend, EoG WILL be going to SMM in Melaka. Although we are not really the expected winner, anything can happen at an offline event. Wish us luck though! I expect us to enjoy our time there.

To end this long-awaited post/update, I hope more of the community could attend SMM as I feel it's imperative for this kind of global event to supported. We here at EoG would like to thank all our fans who have been tremendous over this past couple of months.

On a different note, I would kindly stress that obscene words in the ShoutMix will not be tolerated (post deleted, IP banned).

Charity DotA Tournament - Top 16

2009-10-04T20:41:00.011+08:00

EoG had entered a tournament in FTZ Asia.net Cafe, Subang Jaya this past weekend (3rd & 4th October 2009). Visit these sites for information on this particular tournament.

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1174403/+0
http://www.empire.com.my/showthread.php?t=677
http://charitydota.blogspot.com/

A week prior to this tournament, we were facing dilemmas as Blitzkreig wasn't available as he's approaching his midterms so we decided to let "fGm.DeJa^Vu|Wan" from the clan fGm to be our stand-in player and with CaPiQ's unavailability for SMM Selangor in the following weekend of this tournament, CaPiQ himself decided to give way for our new recruit "xacrifizers" to train with the team.

So, this is the lineup that played in the Charity DotA Tournament.

EoG-_-Jason (iMkSeR)
EoG-_-Jynxie
EoG-_-Zapple
EoG-_-ZxC (xacrifizers)
EoG-_-Tw|GieS (fGm.DeJa^Vu|Wan)

On the day of the tournament we arrived at FTZ Asia.net Cafe around 10 o'clock in the morning and registered successfully. After the arrival of all teams who registered for this tournament, the games commenced and we were up for our first match against the team LuVz. It was a pretty close game but in the end we won.

LuVz vs EoG

The second game was against Mz. For us, the game was really hard as we were stomped by them and thus, we lost it.

Mz vs EoG

The last game in the group was against Hot Rangers was (no offense) a stroll in the park for us.

HOT! vs EoG

The next day, in the following round after the group phase, we we paired with the team Xenon. It was a pretty much dissapointing game as we lost dreadfully. Nevertheless, here's the last replay.

EoG vs Xenon

All of us at EoG would like to thank fGm.DeJa^Vu|Wan for his contributions and apologize for our dismal performance in this tournament. Thanks for all of your support towards EoG.

Even Soda (roxsteady) was there to spectate plus a female friend from our college named Nadd who volunteered to be our photographer. Here's the pics.

iMkSeR testing his mouse while Jynxie watches on

Waiting for our 'little' ace to enter the game. =.="

EoG-_-Jason

EoG-_-Jynxie

EoG-_-Zapple

EoG-_-ZxC

EoG-_-Tw|GieS

From left to right: Shah, Wan, Irfan, Ijat, Ali, Soda. Nuff said.

Let the games begin~!

FTZ Asia.net Cafe, the tournament venue

The prizes being displayed at the counter

EoG gathering just after drawing our bracket for the 2nd round

Fully concentrating upon our 2nd round match against Xenon

BgL Cup Final

2009-09-11T17:52:00.004+08:00

As the match that was heavily anticipated by EoG's players as well as our fans proceeded, the night turns out to be a night to forget. EoG has had to settled for 2nd place in this tournament.
As for the assessment, it was agreed that we weren't outpicked, but effectively outplayed by Leap Gaming.

Sorry guys for the late update, I was kinda busy these few days. Here's the replay.

EoG vs Leap

Replay Sidebar Now Available

2009-08-29T00:36:00.004+08:00

In light of the few requests for a section on the side of this blog to be made especially for EoG's replays, CaPiQ have succeeded in doing so.
You can now access all of our replays on your right hand side just below the Chatbox.

BgL Cup Semi Final

2009-08-28T23:26:00.004+08:00

EoG had advanced to the Semi Final of the BgL Cup and we faced the team 19 Heaven. It was a surprisingly one-sided game and without further ado, here's the replay.

EoG vs 19 Heaven

Enjoy.

BgL Cup 2nd Round

2009-08-25T01:06:00.008+08:00

In the 2nd round of BgL Cup, EoG faced the team OutsideSettle in a best of 1 match. Nothing much to comment on except that we won, "xacrifizers" were used as our stand-in as Afiq "BlitzKreig" Hilmie was unavailable and here's the corresponding replay.

Enjoy.

EoG vs OutsideSettle

Happy Fasting Month

2009-08-22T02:27:00.003+08:00

There was no available replay for the online tournament that we entered as our opponent forfeited the match due to some of their team members being unavailable. We are still waiting news of the following bracket.

All of us at EoG want to take this moment to wish every Muslim (especially our loyal fans :D) a productive fasting month.

LOGO

2009-08-12T14:51:00.004+08:00

A picture says a thousand words, so does this logo. I just wanted to share it with you guys. Special thanks to Ez for his work on this logo.

For your information, EoG is participating in an online tournament this Friday at 10 p.m..

Result and replay will be posted ASAP.

Replay Archive

2009-08-07T02:03:00.002+08:00

I don't know how to upload it here, let alone put a sidebar especially for our replays, so this is the least I can do for now.

MMU ConvoFest (1.23)

EoG vs Noname

Surfer (1.21)

EoG vs Milky
EoG vs T.K.C.
EoG vs Tapai
EoG vs MU.Gold.Mski
EoG vs MU.BL

Rakan Muda (1.21)

EoG vs St.Ftw
EoG vs InC.xLo

MyGarena Tournament (Online) (1.23)

mSI vs Nct

First Team Roster

2009-08-07T01:53:00.002+08:00

As of this moment, this is the considered the first team for EoG.

iMkSeR
Jynxie
xZapple
BlitzKreig|
zeYRoe / CaPiQ

The reason of the undecided final slot is because we are still considering as to who is going to hold on to that place. Selection will be based on future performances and availability. Putih and roxsteady are unavailable due to their studies.

Disappointment T_T

2009-08-02T16:56:00.006+08:00

EoG were pretty confident when we arrived in MMU for the Convofest Dota Tourney held in Cyberjaya. The time was around 10.45am when we registered our team and we were pit against NoTeamName. While we were waiting for our match, we hang around the area and bought few snacks + drinks to keep ourselves pumped up.

Around 11.45, the corresponding marshall called EoG and NoTeamName to enter the match area to begin our match. While we were setting our gears for the match, there's a match progressing in the room and you guys surely can hear the most famous quote in DotA tournament nowadays that is "NICE AHHHH". Back to our game, we loss the coin toss and they picked First Pick and we choose to go with Sentinel side.

I guess its just not our day, very lousy engagement + errors really costs us the game. Anyhow, let this loss be a lesson to be learned as we still have much to be improved, teamwork-wise and skill-wise too.

After our game ended, we drove to the nearest cafe to have our lunch and to discuss what went wrong and etc. Chitchatting + mocking was really the main thing that was discussed and we felt like we need to spice things up, so we went to Shah Alam, Surfer Cybercafe to be precise, to hang out with friends + having pizzas + inhouse scrimming to get our moods back up.

So that concludes our day. Hopefully you guys enjoyed reading as you were part of it too.

Lastly, EoG is really sorry for our bad perfomance in MMU Convofest Dota Tourney. We will train much harder to be the best.

EoG FTW!!

MMU ConvoFest 2009

2009-07-31T20:50:00.007+08:00

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

2009-07-20T19:09:00.006+08:00

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

2009-07-20T18:57:00.012+08:00

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

2009-07-14T23:58:00.006+08:00

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

2009-07-14T21:17:00.004+08:00

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

EoG Team Profiles

2009-07-14T17:06:00.028+08:00

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

2009-07-14T15:44:00.006+08:00

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

2009-07-13T01:26:00.001+08:00

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

2009-07-12T05:59:00.000+08:00

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

2009-07-08T02:05:00.001+08:00

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

2009-07-02T08:06:00.000+08:00

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

2009-07-02T07:38:00.002+08:00

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.