Blizzard created an excellent platform of “craft” series in which refers to Starcraft series and Warcraft series. There are also several games providing this but i guess Warcraft is the best. With the cap limit of 90 food, u must optimize everything in order to achieve victory.

Comparing to Dota, Warcraft original series games requires more macro (of course). Im not here to condemn dota but its a fact why Dota is not qualified to be a competitive gaming to enter the official WCG. You can witness the debate between Dota and the original Warcraft series gaming format by peeping into MYM and SK’s website. There is no fuss about playing dota and the players does not need to be discriminated cuz there are still some professional Dota players who micomanages uber well.

Here is a 10 ten list of all time pro dota players : http://www.gotfrag.com/dota/story/40429/

Let me list it down here -

10. Jolie of Virtus.Pro
9. Hit0mi of eMazing Gaming
8. Hanni of Meet Your Makers
7. LightOfHeaven of sP[Palit]
6. Ars-Art of Virtus.Pro
5. FearDarkness- Retired
4. Loda of SK Gaming
3. Maelk of Meet Your Makers
2. Merlini of Meet Your Makers
1. Vigoss of Virtus.pro

Those players deserves respect, they play Dota with uber micromanagement skills. Watch their replays. They are equipped not only with micro skills, they have super fog control, accuracy, “valid” high APM (not by spamming), great animation cancellation tech, leadership, and great team play.

What we often see in pubs is that late game heroes farm to death that leads to GG. Think about it, are those players deserve to be called a pro? Thats why drafting mode is invented to balance the game and if the game ends up GG with a fat jungle farming troll, blame urself for not warding those creep spawn areas n make use of the wards to gank them so that they wont be able to smell the air of late game arena.

Draft game are made to balance the game. Banning heroes not only for imba heroes, ban heroes that  will give threat to ur team. Thats a strategy and this balances the game. If you ban theirs uber wicked heroes, u gain advantage and force them to re-organize their line up. And the same thing goes to the opposing team, they have the rights to ban urs fav too and this is a fair deal for both sides. Dota is getting balance, its not all about micromanagement only. Dont ever think playing dota is for newbies. On the other hand, if youre a pro dota player, can u micromanage well to play warcraft? Only minor of these individuals are capable of it. Respect the pro and never call urself one, cuz there r still who is much better then u.

The WCG ’08 National preliminary round officially concluded yesterday at Kovan CC. The main highlight of the was the DotA Match between Team KingSurf and Team EtERN|ty. Team KingSurf, which boasts one of the largest fan bases in the world, is currently Malaysia’s top team and a DotA powerhouse in Asia. On the other hand, Team EtERN|ty , is a reformed team, led by Star player NutZ in a bid bring EtERN|ty back to stardom.

After an hour of gruesome battle, Team KingSurf eventually managed to dethrone Team EtERN|ty and went on to defeat Epicentaur and Evolution to be crowned the champion. (Do watch out for the replays) Team KingSurf is the 2nd team to be seeded following team -XtC- who won their seeded spot at SAFRA Mt Faber 2 weeks ago.

Here are the results:

DotA Quarter-Final (Top 8)
Team KingSurf > Team epicentaur aka FazeTheMusic
Team sweety! > Team Behind the Escalator

Team Evolution RoL > Team Xenochrophis
Team zEn|th > Team EVO

DotA Semi-Final (Top 4)
Team KingSurf > Team sweety!
Evolution RoL > Team zEn|th

Dota Final (Top 2)
Team KingSurf > Team Evolution RoL

Results
Champion – Team KingSurf
2nd – Team Evolution RoL
3rd – Team zEn|th
4th – Team sweety!

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Changelogs coming soon.. just leaked