DOTASG_PAPA
09-15-2007, 02:57 AM
Latest entry in Micronology's Official Blog (http://micronology.blogspot.com/)by Tru3. Enjoy!
"First off I would like to congrats xqR for clinching the title of CAPL Champs. It had been a long day on saturday, watching zenith vs gachapon till 8:30pm, when the match was scheduled at 3:30pm. It was an intense match and I guessed that gachapon would have won with their given state at one period of time.
But zenith caught up with their star player NutZ, him warding the bottom river cliff, I mean, blinking up the cliff, baited the rk to blink up the cliff, bkb gs and to kill NutZ.
Winning such engagements allowed zenith to come from behind, back into the game.
And so, the game dragged...
zenith would use 3 hexes , burrowstrike epi combo , global silence to constantly hunt the potm down alone. And then the game goes on... and on..
Eventually when the potm gets caught the final time without buyout money, zenith pushes and wins the game. Game Length 120minutes.
Next day, up against xqR in the semi finals. Things went wrong in the game. Mistakes, miscommunication on whether to go or back etc, allowed them to catch us in our weakest position.
One fatal engagement in middle, when the potm commanded back and leaped away to tp, we tried to back but our rk could not run. Hence he bkb gs to fight(spartan anyone?)
We desperately tried to back him up, with potm running full speed from fountain and the just arrived qop.
Needless to say, we lost that engagement and top and mid rax went down.
GG exchanged and there we go, another capl, another disappointment.
Meanwhile zenith had also lost to knightmare in the semi finals. Two major upsets imo. We expected zenith to win capl once again but... this what makes dota so interesting, chemistry/teamwork > skills.
We both gave each other a "haiz... sian la" face. Then Ant said, lets play -allrandom.
I asked them and they said sure why not?
Figuring the cash prize was $500 and $250 for 3rd and 4th respectively, there wasnt much pressure and intensity to really come out top, after all we were good friends irl.
We asked the marshalls and after some discussion they said "no, only -ap mode allowed".
Then we argued further saying what if I wanna draft 1st pick meepo, they naix?
Later on we came to a conclusion that we would -ar mode first, whatever heros we gotten would be the ones we drafted. And a remake would be done to show an -ap mode in the replay.
Tada!
Lineups were
Zenith, naix broodmother treantprotector shadowfiend spiritbreaker
Micronology, meepo skeletonking nerubianassassin silencer troll warlord
Technically our "draft"luck was better then them. and we kept feeding on the naix(or was it nai-zx?)
Was a fun game overall, just disappointed that we arent able to come out tops.
But rest assured we will bounce back from our deflated state and train hard for the upcoming WGT :)"
Source: [ micronology.blogspot.com ] (http://micronology.blogspot.com/)
"First off I would like to congrats xqR for clinching the title of CAPL Champs. It had been a long day on saturday, watching zenith vs gachapon till 8:30pm, when the match was scheduled at 3:30pm. It was an intense match and I guessed that gachapon would have won with their given state at one period of time.
But zenith caught up with their star player NutZ, him warding the bottom river cliff, I mean, blinking up the cliff, baited the rk to blink up the cliff, bkb gs and to kill NutZ.
Winning such engagements allowed zenith to come from behind, back into the game.
And so, the game dragged...
zenith would use 3 hexes , burrowstrike epi combo , global silence to constantly hunt the potm down alone. And then the game goes on... and on..
Eventually when the potm gets caught the final time without buyout money, zenith pushes and wins the game. Game Length 120minutes.
Next day, up against xqR in the semi finals. Things went wrong in the game. Mistakes, miscommunication on whether to go or back etc, allowed them to catch us in our weakest position.
One fatal engagement in middle, when the potm commanded back and leaped away to tp, we tried to back but our rk could not run. Hence he bkb gs to fight(spartan anyone?)
We desperately tried to back him up, with potm running full speed from fountain and the just arrived qop.
Needless to say, we lost that engagement and top and mid rax went down.
GG exchanged and there we go, another capl, another disappointment.
Meanwhile zenith had also lost to knightmare in the semi finals. Two major upsets imo. We expected zenith to win capl once again but... this what makes dota so interesting, chemistry/teamwork > skills.
We both gave each other a "haiz... sian la" face. Then Ant said, lets play -allrandom.
I asked them and they said sure why not?
Figuring the cash prize was $500 and $250 for 3rd and 4th respectively, there wasnt much pressure and intensity to really come out top, after all we were good friends irl.
We asked the marshalls and after some discussion they said "no, only -ap mode allowed".
Then we argued further saying what if I wanna draft 1st pick meepo, they naix?
Later on we came to a conclusion that we would -ar mode first, whatever heros we gotten would be the ones we drafted. And a remake would be done to show an -ap mode in the replay.
Tada!
Lineups were
Zenith, naix broodmother treantprotector shadowfiend spiritbreaker
Micronology, meepo skeletonking nerubianassassin silencer troll warlord
Technically our "draft"luck was better then them. and we kept feeding on the naix(or was it nai-zx?)
Was a fun game overall, just disappointed that we arent able to come out tops.
But rest assured we will bounce back from our deflated state and train hard for the upcoming WGT :)"
Source: [ micronology.blogspot.com ] (http://micronology.blogspot.com/)