Raffle's winners decided.

The winners of the recently ended Raffle are decided, check their names and the posts they won with!

Since there were not really much participants, it did not take long to decide a winner. Thanks to everyone who participated. But to not delay it any further here are the winners:

Starcraft: No Winner!

Warcraft 3: infCPriesT

So one of my most memorable moments so far is when I attented a local lan called PNP. 2months before the LAN was scheduled I contacted the organizers to set up a warcraft tournament, I told him that I could be geting 8-10 ppl to come for the tournament for a bigger cash pot size. They offered to also throw in a new razer mouse with various other raffles such as a green ICEPAD. (I really wanted an icepad because i didn't even think they made them anymore due to steelseries buying them out). So if you got first place you get a mouse , 80% of the cash pot. And there were other items for the raffles(including the mousepad). Attending this lan there were a few ppl from wcreplays.com, and some old school players such as Cecil and Sid. Ive known these local FL players for along time and we always keep in touch by going to lans together in florida. There were a few other players I have never seen so play , including this other human player named raj. I really hate playing in mirror matches when I dont know my opponents style(i play human too). So we all set up for the lan as you can see in the first picture. We randomly drew up the brackets in a program cecil used, and whadya know im vsing raj in round 1. This tournament was a double elimination, but I wasn't really expecting to lose because I have never heard of this player before.

Round 1 - Game 1 he kills 2 of my footies from a micro error I made , his tech was slightly faster and he got his MK out pretty quick, pushed me and i lost. Game 2, I was expecting him to do something different but he didnt... He just techs tier2, goes mk and mass breakers. We had a breaker war for about 5 minutes but because i expanded at tier2 and he didnt he was able to destroy me before i could get an economic advantage , I also went panda 2nd to hopefuly creep alittle more to get an economic advantage but he attacked me at the perfect time. So i lost 0-2 in round 1. I swore to my self if I came back to win the loser bracket and face him again I would 2-0 him because I knew EXACTLY what he was gona do everygame.

Round 4 (loser bracket)vs raj. So I meet the person that defeated me in round 1. This time I was preprared and I told my self I wasnt going to lose no matter what. Game 1 was on echo isles, We both straight teched tier2 , he went mk 2nd and i went panda 2nd. This time he did a different strat and tried to put an expo up @ tier2 which is what i was hoping because panda is way better in this situation. I also put up an expo at tier2 just like he did. After he set up his ivory towers at his expo he came straight to my expo hopefully to cancel it, but he lost his MK to a slow surround i pulled off and i was able to defend it with my panda being the game changer. Game 2 was on Secret valley and I decided to get lvl2 from creeps and go creep my goldmine for lvl3 to expand with some guard towers and push him in the down time so my expo can get up. I might say I microed flawlessly this game, everytime we got in a fight i would kill 1 of his foots and i saved 2 of my own and healed them at the closest well. He tried to push my expo and kill my towers but everytime he left his base I was in his base killing all his peasants, I knew this player couldnt adapt like me , sometimes u have to use strategy over micro, but strategy and micro was such a huge strength i had in this game, he had no chance. He ends up puting towers at my expo with some casters while im killing his main, he ran all the way back to his main and i just tped to my expo and killed the remaining towers and he called GG. It was one of the best feelings ive ever had at a LAN because after i lost round 1 to this guy he had a look on his face like he was realy satisfied and he thought he was gonna win the tournament.

Round 5 Loser bracket Final. I ended up vsing sid. Game1 was on TR and he went mass hunts with DR, pushed me and i lost. 2nd game was on SV, i managed to get my expo up and just blizzard harassed him at lvl3 with invisible potion and he called gg pretty early. 3rd game was on TM, I straight teched and won with just hero lvls and knight/gyro.

FINAL MATCH vs this person named desecrate. I had to win 2 bo3's so the pressure was on, first game i just tower rushed him because he straight teched with blademaster. 2nd game he went human and i just pushed him with panda. 2nd bo3 was almost the same way except he won the 2nd game due to a micro error i had on my hero.

I WON the tournament. And whats even more awesome after the whole thing was over they started calling out the prizes for the raffles. The icepad was definately the best raffle prize so it was last, as I hold the ticket in my hand i repeat every number that the organizer says and I won the ICEPAD from the raffle. I went home with about 65$ new razer mouse and a new mousepad. Was pretty happy i got to enjoy all this with my friends too

~Jonathan~

DotA: Isiloki

QPad Special: M4tt

Summer 2009, one of the darkest moments the Europe ever saw.
The governaments of five nations were in a diplomacy war and the Europe was divided in politic point of views, so many people tried to escape from his own government's regimes but it was not easy.
Infact, the concept of regime change was endemic in the 2009. Nations engineered regime changes in foreign states have been common and systematic, demonstrating a pattern and paradigm.
So in June of 2009 in the G-20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, the Germany's governement got an opportunity to show off to the whole world his own strenght through a mental challenge, the future of sports, the new 1936's Berlin Olympic Games, an e-sports competition.

The idea was approved by 56% of the congress, and the contratation of the best players involved so many millions of dollars, infact, the goal of each nations was not really "win" the championship with his own flag, but showing to everyone how his best players, a normal citizen, can carry the world in his own back.

The situation was sadly and the dotA's tournament starts with an atmosphere of cold war, the whole world was watching the matchs and following his heroes and teams, some Germans players who were playing with other nation's teams were reproved by is own teammates, like Kebap, and the diplomatic war between Germany and Sweden was the eye of the hurricane, a point of emminent risk and a good part of Ukrainian's governement voted against the participation of his team in the tournament, the DTS, and the group B was disputed by only three teams: Ravens, Fnatic, Xeo Divine.WolfKing.

The German's DmZ were eliminated in the first group, dissapointing the whole nation, but it was not the nation's end in the competition, infact, Germany was pointing at his strongest player, Kuro, also know as Kuroky playing for Ks.int, with his german teammates Levent and Honey.
Kuro was probably one of the most skilled players of the world and he was playing with one of the best teams the world ever saw, the Ks.int.

And there was the day of semi-finals, Ks.int vs Fnatic, the europe's best teams, the most important e-sport's match of all the times, and there's an important picture that shows how it was a question of life or death for the players, principally for the german Levent, and the symbolic absence, except for his hand, of a myth of a XXI century DotA's myth, Kuroky.
https://static.gosugamers.net/5c/1a/f6/610d90c1635635d242d13e91a825ae1c9c70392cc04725da6bb4835f8d.jpg

It was shot for the best dota's site in the epoch, and it really shows, how e-sports were strong even 65 years ago, and as we know, after the win of Fnatic, the ONU organized a conference of ambassadors of European states and the Congress's final act was signed, know also with the name of Cologne protocol.

QPad Special 2nd: DoOmKiLl