Soul in the Shadows
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
「 The Soul Has Spoken. 8:48 AM 」
Why Singapore can never make it far in WCG

I do not become a critic for no good reason,but for this title,there is a good reason,tats y im making tis post...the answer to the above question will be:too many noobs in singapore.

how do i label a person a noob?there are several criteria which a person hv to enter tis category:
1)arrogance in playing
2)using underhanded means to attain victory
3)using a naturally powerful character to kill a naturally hard to use character,yet feels accomplishment
4)wants everything to be perfect for him in the game
5)call others noobs when he himself plays badly
6)quits when he is at the losing end
7)whines at teammates
8)use a high damage spell casting character to steal the kills of his teammates
9)hurl abuse at the opposing team when he is losing
10)complains of people ganging when it is possible to avoid such situations
11)give all kinds of stupid excuses to cover his lack of skills in gameplay
12)flame others in a forum or community

u see tat i wrote so many points down,a noob hving 1 or more of these points.the more points a person hv,the more noob he is.now lets get back to the topic. In singapore,u practically see such people EVERYWHERE,from all kinds of games...in short,due to a lack of pros(people without any of tis criteria),singapore can hardly hv competent successor for its players.

(non-dota players,pls dun read on,u will die of boredom)
One live demonstration of noob singaporean players happened in cuppage centre lan shop,where my friends and i,after playing some pool,went for some lan gaming. as the seats given to us were opposite another group of 4 ppl(rather gangster looking,but at least not fierce),they challenged us in dota.we had 5 ppl,so they wanted to 4v5 us,but 1 of us,being new,refused the challenge.so its 4v4 now...

first game,we won,not too much,but not too marginal,even though the opponent randomed 2 and picked 2 heros,while our team picked 1 and randomed 3.i got a hero tat i hv not used in real gameplay,and was rather hard out on it...tat was a win as they lacked the teamwork as we hv...

2nd game was omitted as 1 of the opponent had a computer problem and needed a reboot.

3rd game was a win,tis time by ALOT.tis is a full fury game,with them chosing powerful heros(LOA,DW,RK,QOP),while us got (tiny,viper,antimage and SA)...since leo is not gd at SA,he was left out at the first 3/4 of the match farming,while we started owning in midgame...i will not go into the full details of the battle,but i can conclude tat they juz cannot stop us,and got thrashed badly,even though their team can own with their heros...all thanks to tiny,who made realli accurate ava/toss combo,viper,hu fed a lil but managed to support us,antimage(me) hu made qop hv cold feed and reduce greatly the effectiveness of all other heros(mana break),and SA,hu emerge as a gd kser:P

all in all,tis 1 game can see how noob sg players can be,as they left without a gg or handshake or watever u would do if u hv sportsmanship..(oh,and did i mention they were screening?)