1) hi gals, pls let me know who wants to go work for this. i think asta, sheep and i cant commit because we're working.
Regarding our upcoming events – Games Convention Asia 2007, AsiaSoft is going to push our new game title- Darkness and Light (www.darknessandlightsea.com) we need to hire promoters ( we call it DAL angels) who know how to play strategy games. I hope that you can help me to check with your girls team who want to work for this event, pay will be $7 per hour. And before the event AsiaSoft will conduct a training session for DAL angels.
Events detail:
Date: 6-9 Sep
Venue: Suntec Convention Hall 601-603
Event Title: Games Convention Asia 2007
Working hour: 10am -8pm (10 hrs)
2) friday meet at 8pm at GG katong. i will be a little late cos i end work at 8. asta has church til 10, so she'll be down after that.
3) saturday shopping! who wants to go where? and meet what time? i need to alter some clothes at far east plaza, and have dinner at vivo with some uni friends.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Sunday, August 12, 2007
One week from WCG seems enough time to look back and talk about it.
This WCG was probably the most well organised tournament I have ever seen, and I think the result of this was that player welfare was... well... shitty. It seems to be a fair tradeoff.
For such a long drawn and tiring massive tournament though, the marshalls for the most part maintained a surprising amount of friendliness. Problems were resolved directly, and they always helped as much as they could while rushing the schedule.
Some people should know though, that it really, sincerely, truthfully, DOES take more than 15 seconds to draft a hero.
I'm pretty sure gamesync and gg-game.com did more than enough coverage for our matches for me to do anything here.
On a final note though, to anyone ELSE who is going to ask "Why didn't Ant play for WCG..."
I DID! JUST NOT THE FINALS.
And no it probably would have made no difference, but I like living with the feeling that perhaps I could have.
This WCG was probably the most well organised tournament I have ever seen, and I think the result of this was that player welfare was... well... shitty. It seems to be a fair tradeoff.
For such a long drawn and tiring massive tournament though, the marshalls for the most part maintained a surprising amount of friendliness. Problems were resolved directly, and they always helped as much as they could while rushing the schedule.
Some people should know though, that it really, sincerely, truthfully, DOES take more than 15 seconds to draft a hero.
I'm pretty sure gamesync and gg-game.com did more than enough coverage for our matches for me to do anything here.
On a final note though, to anyone ELSE who is going to ask "Why didn't Ant play for WCG..."
I DID! JUST NOT THE FINALS.
And no it probably would have made no difference, but I like living with the feeling that perhaps I could have.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
ok there goes the age old argument about RGN sucking and marshalls sucking and all that. in the end, i've always taken bryan's stand. rules are there for a reason, for everyone to read. if you cant read, you can get someone to read it to you, so there's no real excuse you can give when you are penalised for a stated rule.
anyway, back to bryan. bryan btw, used to work with RGN, but he has since moved on to another job.bryan always stood by the rules, rules are black and white, and they give you no room for dispute. so, even if some idiot picks up a teammate's voidstone for fun then puts it down a second later, that a DQ. of course, ant will think otherwise. but i feel, that giving players the benefit of a doubt means that you will be taken advantage of. if you want to argue about it more, such a dumb act is simply against sportsmanship. like... why are you fooling around in a competition? are you not taking it and its rules seriously? if so, then you definitely deserve to be DQed!
i've been on the otherside of the registration table before, and players can a great pain. its really up to the marshalls to keep everyone in check, especially since most of them are little boys who have some kind of attp and expect the world to kneel at their name.
being a player myself, it does exasperate me greatly that marshalls can be so unyielding too. i remember capl a few seasons ago... our team didnt get to play many many matches til the last one by virtue of the other teams not being present. so these auto walk overs meant that we were totally un warmed up. e2max was freezing, and we were all sleepy, having been there since about 10. so we requested for coms about half an hour before we were due to play... at 4 i think, and we were rejected, for no real good reason. those coms were arguably, rightfully ours to use, since we were supposed to have been playing since 10, and the bulk of the matches were already over.
then when the match came, we needed to warm up a while, but the marshall (JS was the marshall of this match!!) kept hurrying us to join the game because they have a schedule to stick to, they rented the place for a certain time frame only, if overshoot the time, then gotta pay more and all that. i grumpily snapped back, "i need to warm up, my creeps havent even reached each other how do i try my last hit? you all dun want us to warm up earlier then too bad u gotta wait now."
both sides unhappy, both sides can't really help it.
so with that anecdote.. i hope both sides start understanding each other better. in the end who loses? the players stand lose more because they are the ones who want to play, and to win. whereas the all-powerful marshalls have the last say, remember?
anyway, back to bryan. bryan btw, used to work with RGN, but he has since moved on to another job.bryan always stood by the rules, rules are black and white, and they give you no room for dispute. so, even if some idiot picks up a teammate's voidstone for fun then puts it down a second later, that a DQ. of course, ant will think otherwise. but i feel, that giving players the benefit of a doubt means that you will be taken advantage of. if you want to argue about it more, such a dumb act is simply against sportsmanship. like... why are you fooling around in a competition? are you not taking it and its rules seriously? if so, then you definitely deserve to be DQed!
i've been on the otherside of the registration table before, and players can a great pain. its really up to the marshalls to keep everyone in check, especially since most of them are little boys who have some kind of attp and expect the world to kneel at their name.
being a player myself, it does exasperate me greatly that marshalls can be so unyielding too. i remember capl a few seasons ago... our team didnt get to play many many matches til the last one by virtue of the other teams not being present. so these auto walk overs meant that we were totally un warmed up. e2max was freezing, and we were all sleepy, having been there since about 10. so we requested for coms about half an hour before we were due to play... at 4 i think, and we were rejected, for no real good reason. those coms were arguably, rightfully ours to use, since we were supposed to have been playing since 10, and the bulk of the matches were already over.
then when the match came, we needed to warm up a while, but the marshall (JS was the marshall of this match!!) kept hurrying us to join the game because they have a schedule to stick to, they rented the place for a certain time frame only, if overshoot the time, then gotta pay more and all that. i grumpily snapped back, "i need to warm up, my creeps havent even reached each other how do i try my last hit? you all dun want us to warm up earlier then too bad u gotta wait now."
both sides unhappy, both sides can't really help it.
so with that anecdote.. i hope both sides start understanding each other better. in the end who loses? the players stand lose more because they are the ones who want to play, and to win. whereas the all-powerful marshalls have the last say, remember?
Monday, August 06, 2007
Saturday, August 04, 2007
im damn tired after 3 days of marshalling.. but i just felt like blogging this down.
ACG today didnt went off quite well. in fact, there were incidents where other countries (actually only china), who threatened rapture that they will bring the issue up to wcg organisation. its not exactly what happened that bothers me. its the attitude.
so as many have heard, there was a 3-way tie for AOE3 between australia, china and hongkong and base on the rules, the win was given to australia, for having the highest total score. china was unhappy and demanded for an explanation. 3 people were sent to explain. first, the AOE3 in charge, then the chief marshal, then the rapture management. the guy who was in charge of the china players was SO RUDE. he started shouting very loudly that its unfair and that singapore management sucks and all that, despite the 3 people telling him very nicely that they are doing things according to rules, and that now that they are in singapore, they should follow the rules of singapore. furthermore, before they even started any games, marshals already brief them on what is going to happen if there is a tie. buy hey, we all understand that they flew all the way from china and if im the guy, i wouldnt want to give in so easily. airtickets aren't cheap. but the way the guy shouted.. its just bad. furthermore, he started PUSHING people. thats just, argh. doesnt reflect well on their country la.
on top of the bad attitude, the players werent very mannered. they came down early yesterday, the last day of singapore finals. took photos with the ACG scoreboard. and guess what they did! they were pointing middle fingers to other countries as they took pictures. like, hello? =.= that's just plain rude la. and they just bang into the competition area like its their home, demanding that they should be allowed to use the coms as and when they like. and you might have already heard that there was a dispute when micronology played against china's team. micronology typed "gg". and they assumed that micronology conceded and thats it, end of game, they win. then they kicked a fuss when they realised that "oh no, its not the end of the game!" they raised their voice at the marshal on duty, demanding for the rules of dota. first of all, its already hard to communicate with them in chinese. like how do you translate FROZEN THRONE in chinese? yah, just nice i walk past and heard what happened so i tried my very best to tell them in chinese that the only way a game is considered ended is when the throne or tree is down. thank god they understood me. and guess what, they glared and rolled their eyes at me after hearing me said that.
so my point is! basic manners should be observed when you're overseas. doesnt reflect well on the country. at end of the day, dont blame everyone for condemning your countries just because of that few black sheeps.
ACG today didnt went off quite well. in fact, there were incidents where other countries (actually only china), who threatened rapture that they will bring the issue up to wcg organisation. its not exactly what happened that bothers me. its the attitude.
so as many have heard, there was a 3-way tie for AOE3 between australia, china and hongkong and base on the rules, the win was given to australia, for having the highest total score. china was unhappy and demanded for an explanation. 3 people were sent to explain. first, the AOE3 in charge, then the chief marshal, then the rapture management. the guy who was in charge of the china players was SO RUDE. he started shouting very loudly that its unfair and that singapore management sucks and all that, despite the 3 people telling him very nicely that they are doing things according to rules, and that now that they are in singapore, they should follow the rules of singapore. furthermore, before they even started any games, marshals already brief them on what is going to happen if there is a tie. buy hey, we all understand that they flew all the way from china and if im the guy, i wouldnt want to give in so easily. airtickets aren't cheap. but the way the guy shouted.. its just bad. furthermore, he started PUSHING people. thats just, argh. doesnt reflect well on their country la.
on top of the bad attitude, the players werent very mannered. they came down early yesterday, the last day of singapore finals. took photos with the ACG scoreboard. and guess what they did! they were pointing middle fingers to other countries as they took pictures. like, hello? =.= that's just plain rude la. and they just bang into the competition area like its their home, demanding that they should be allowed to use the coms as and when they like. and you might have already heard that there was a dispute when micronology played against china's team. micronology typed "gg". and they assumed that micronology conceded and thats it, end of game, they win. then they kicked a fuss when they realised that "oh no, its not the end of the game!" they raised their voice at the marshal on duty, demanding for the rules of dota. first of all, its already hard to communicate with them in chinese. like how do you translate FROZEN THRONE in chinese? yah, just nice i walk past and heard what happened so i tried my very best to tell them in chinese that the only way a game is considered ended is when the throne or tree is down. thank god they understood me. and guess what, they glared and rolled their eyes at me after hearing me said that.
so my point is! basic manners should be observed when you're overseas. doesnt reflect well on the country. at end of the day, dont blame everyone for condemning your countries just because of that few black sheeps.
Friday, August 03, 2007
Asterisk has been featured in today's issue of TODAY. (I hate how weird that sounds when you say it. ._.Will scan and post up the picture soon. Meanwhile, here's a picture taken during our interview.
From left: cass*, Astatine*, d4wn*, furryfish*, =pinksheep*, flawed* who was marshalling but joined us right on time to appear :D
Hime wasn't there yet so unfortunately she didn't get to be in the picture.
Was an exhilarating experience, at least for me, a complete noob to the competitive scene. I would have to say we played really badly, even by our own standards! Was not one of our better days. Girls please fill in the blanks, my memory fails me!
First game: Asterisk*(Scourge) vs m2f (Sents)
Lineup: SF(Cass), Veno(Asta), Zeus(D4wn), Beastmaster(Tammy), Warlock(Dawnsheep)
versus
Bristleback, Tinker, Qop, Lina, Sandking
We were pretty devastated when the opponents picked the bristleback which we had intended to take. Ended up losing pretty badly with me being blicked half the time just before or just after I pull off a poison nova. After the first game we were rather frustrated - A problem with our brackets meant we'd have to win both games, or we weren't advancing.
2nd game: Asterisk*(Scourge) vs AxG(Sents)
Lineup: Viper(Cass), VS(Asta), Sandking(D4wn), Bristleback(Dawnsheep), QoP(Tammy)
versus
Warlock, NA, Veno, Zeus, Tinker
In this game we had a good draft - Ice, Ant and Wan were advising us on the sidelines, while Shan was there with us discussing the drafts. The last draft was a fight between silencer and VS, both my heroes, and it ended up with VS. Needless to say I was pretty worried as my VS is still in need of lots of training. Me and D4wn ended up farming horribly - So much of my gold was spent on wards that kept getting destroyed, and eventually I just fed. Dawnsheep had to farm and farm and wasn't able to be part of our engagements, D4wn didn't get her blink dagger up so there wasn't a single epic due to it being cancelled, or just not being cast. My chasing timing was wrong so I didn't help kill much and I was running around too often to gain any significant exp, and Cass was farming well as usual, but was somewhat distanced when it came to the engagements.
With that failure on our hands, we wandered aimlessly around before D4 went off, then we went to eat. Later we went training and just playing lan pubs together, after drawing up a list of heroes to use.
There is no 'i' in team. We definitely need to forget about what we like to do, what we feel like doing or don't feel like doing, if we intend to ever make progress. Ie. It's not enough for me to say something like, "I can't farm so I won't play a farmer." All of us need to get sufficiently versatile, both in heroes and roles. And if we continue to be just focussing on what we like doing, we won't succeed.
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
WCG 2007 starts tomorrow, and right now we're still feeling... grossly unprepared. I take it the guys aren't too peachy either judging by the number of times I've seen Ice tell them, "I am psing you now, byebye!" or something to that extent.
For all of us in Asterisk*, it will be our first time getting something to wear from our sponsors, and for some (well okay, me) a maiden voyage in competitive gaming. Besides dreading and longing for tomorrow all at once, I have been mentally playing out Dota games in my head while going through files at work. I'm starting to feel regrets already at being only able to competitively play a limited number of heroes, and wishing I had been able to train more over the past couple of months. Work pwns us, and I miss those days when my life was pretty much made up of gaming and boyfriend. Now it's a chore to fit in a single game a day, let alone more.
After hearing Tammy declare, "We have too much of a life!" and hearing my boyfriend tell me that real competitive players eat, sleep and breathe gaming, the jitters start coming in and the scary thoughts, "I'M NOT READY!!"
On a great note, dear Hime, who's been gamely training with us over the past couple of months, has agreed to join us, at least for WCG, which entitles her to a new garment too! HOW WE LOVE BEING SPONSORED! <3
So to Tammy, Dawnsheep, Cass, D4wn and maybe now Hime, if tomorrow doesn't work out, I hope we still continue to stay together as a team and keep playing, at least for a long, long while. <3 and emoness.
For all of us in Asterisk*, it will be our first time getting something to wear from our sponsors, and for some (well okay, me) a maiden voyage in competitive gaming. Besides dreading and longing for tomorrow all at once, I have been mentally playing out Dota games in my head while going through files at work. I'm starting to feel regrets already at being only able to competitively play a limited number of heroes, and wishing I had been able to train more over the past couple of months. Work pwns us, and I miss those days when my life was pretty much made up of gaming and boyfriend. Now it's a chore to fit in a single game a day, let alone more.
After hearing Tammy declare, "We have too much of a life!" and hearing my boyfriend tell me that real competitive players eat, sleep and breathe gaming, the jitters start coming in and the scary thoughts, "I'M NOT READY!!"
On a great note, dear Hime, who's been gamely training with us over the past couple of months, has agreed to join us, at least for WCG, which entitles her to a new garment too! HOW WE LOVE BEING SPONSORED! <3
So to Tammy, Dawnsheep, Cass, D4wn and maybe now Hime, if tomorrow doesn't work out, I hope we still continue to stay together as a team and keep playing, at least for a long, long while. <3 and emoness.