This article was originally written by Chin “retarded” Wee Ong.
SINGAPORE – DsD upset Micronology to take the crown at the Lan Gaming Festival 2007, organized by the NUS School of Computing, held at E2Max Cineleisure over Saturday and Sunday. GameSync presents an overview of the two days of match action to those who missed out.
Saturday saw top DotA teams proceed to the next stage of the competition after the first and only round played. dN*, Force of Will, Micronology and rEv0 were all drawn into the upper bracket. The lower bracket had relative unknowns with the exception a second rEv0 team and old timers DsD.
DsD was once a strong and well-known team who were famed for using hero combinations that had not seen extensive use before in competition. Last year, DsD stopped competitive play due to 3 of their members having to take their A levels. Recently, they have quietly rejoined the competitive circuit, playing under “smurf” team names such as Team Serious in the recent Intel Gaming Cup.
Sunday was an exciting day as the 4 top teams in the upper bracket met each other in battle.
In dN* vs rEv0’s quarter-final match, rEv0 drafted Bristleback, Priestess of the Moon, Pugna, Queen of Pain and Sandking. dN* drafted Spectre, Venomancer, Viper, Warlock and Zeus. dN* won the game and proceeded to the next round against Micronology.
The dN* vs Micronology semi-final match was problematic, with the game being restarted 5 times due to technical difficulties. 2 times was because of computer timeout, 1 was keyboard hang, another was Mouse hang and last was computer restart.
dN* used a pusher strat against Micronology, using Death Prophet and Pugna. They were successful at the start as they brought down 4 of Micronology’s barracks. However, two minor mistakes of being caught by Micronology turned the tides against dN*. Micronology pressed their advantage gained and they won the game.
Micronology now had only DsD to face in the finals. Micronology had recently won the GXL Mechmaster DotA Tour and were the favourites to win the tournament, especially considering that DsD has not been very active for the past year.
True to form, DsD once again picked a little used draft, consisting of Bristleback, Keeper of the Light, Pugna Omniknight and Zeus, opting for an early push strategy. Micronology opted for a more traditional approach, drafting Earthshaker, Faceless Void, Queen of Pain, Syllabear and Warlock.
Ultimately, DsD upset Micronology, to the shock of the spectators, and were crowned the champions of the Lan Gaming Festival 2007.
Chin “retarded” Wee Ong is also more commonly known as Tard, from FooSa. With additional writing and reporting by Lee “Matafleur” Wei Meng.
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