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26th April 2008, 16:00

EMS: MYM vs XcN

This is the first time Indonesia XcN has signed up for an international DotA tournament; the ESL Major Series DotA tournament. They have been placed in the same group as MYM and Romania TeG and are set to play MYM right now!

It has always been XcN's dream to face off against one of the top tier teams like MYM, and now they have the chance! Unfortunately, both teams found it difficult to find a suitable host. United State- MYM|Fear ended up hosting which was good for XcN, but it seems Denmark MYM|Maelk and others were spiking badly.

With four stunners on their side, XcN took the advantage early through midgame, constantly killing the weaker heroes like Leshrac, causing him to get severly outleveled. On the other hand, Bristleback was leisurely free farming for a long time, getting a fast hood and radiance.

Although their stuns and spells were enough to sweep out most of MYM's heroes, the Bristleback ended up getting a triple kill at one point because he was just too tough to take out. Sand King couldn't do much with his ultimate anymore once most of the Scourge heroes got their blink daggers.

Bristleback became unkillable with 30+ armor but he could barely enter the Scourge base sometimes because XcN was doing a good job nuking the creep waves and in fights. Although the Bristleback could tank a lot he was constantly getting disabled. Most of the Scourge heroes had blink daggers as well, allowing them to blink away from the Bristleback, heal and then come back.

The game was looking good for XcN from the start, but unfortunately their efforts just weren't enough to stop the overpowered Bristleback. Fear was able to sit and tank through all their damage and hit down buildings, slowly but surely they got all their raxes down!

Game replay: (MUST SEE)

 Indonesia XcN MYM
Banned heroes: Centaur Beastmaster
  Warlock Magnataur
  Nerubian Assassin
Queen of Pain

Picks:


 Indonesia XcN MYM
First pick: Priestess-
 -Shadow Priest Shadow Priest/ Bristleback
 Zeus Lord of Olympia/ Slayer -
 -Necrolyte Necrolyte/Sandking Sand King
 Tiny Stone Giant/Earth Shaker Earthshaker
-
Last pick:-Tormented Leshrac

Lineups:

Sentinel -
MYM
1:0
Indonesia XcN
- Scourge
top
Sandking MYM|MaNia-
-
Earth Shaker XcN-melen
top
top
Tormented MYM|Levent
-
XcN-Lakuci
top
mid
Necrolyte MYM|Maelk
-
Lord of Olympia XcN-BaHaMuT
mid
bot
MYM|Fear
-
Stone Giant XcN-ritter
bot
bot
Shadow Priest MYM|slahser
-
XcN-stamx
bot

 


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Comments (59)

 

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(5 months ago)  #1 MomOsHi
MomOsHi
good game MYM n XCN!
(5 months ago)  #2 noyo
 
well played
(5 months ago)  #3 cychia
 
lol
(5 months ago)  #4 FzeroXx
FzeroXx
We've only been waiting for this game for a year or more, and MYM puts out SP/BB. ZzzzzzZzzZzzzz.
"Koreans Own White Dudes"
(5 months ago)  #51 theLightning
 
best comment on this page :D
(5 months ago)  #5 myMYM|uNder
uNder
gg
even if you lose > never give up !
(5 months ago)  #6 SWEDrayich
Drayich
safe picks wins games :D


mym so raped in start but shadowpriest/bristle played perfectly, its just not possible to beat
(5 months ago)  #28 CdWSouless-Terror
 
KS beat up MYM when they played BB/SP. Even After BB managed to farm so well.
Last edited by Souless-Terror at 27.04.2008, 01:18
(5 months ago)  #7 nM|ctc-noob
ctc-noob
nice game... 200 creps in 37 min... imba bb xD perfectly played

a must see imo
(5 months ago)  #8 myMYM|chenkai
chenkai
NIce XcN gogogo
(5 months ago)  #9 KylinAlexLee
AlexLee
gj for both team.
(5 months ago)  #10 Gawdlike
Gawdlike
Good own slahser/Fear.
Close game.
(5 months ago)  #11 FiveDuragon
Duragon
mym become more and more noobish gj stay like this
(5 months ago)  #12 vatidera
vatidera
Fear won! Imba BB was saving MYM. WP both teams.
(5 months ago)  #13 blaze89
blaze89
well done :DDD
http://www.mymTw.com - Head of Content
(5 months ago)  #14 zdubius
 
Maelk probably knew what the host would be like,so he chose the most suitable line-up.Hero combinations that require precise timing and exact positioning were not viable under the conditions they faced,so he decided to play it safe.
Good game by both teams,looking forward to their ESWC clashes
(5 months ago)  #15 MYM|Maelk
Maelk
That's very insightful, and you could be right, but in reality it was way worse than I had feared. Wouldn't have picked Sand King, I had I know it'd be that bad.

Reason we took BB + SP was simply because neither was banned and we are tired of losing to teams because we leave them Bristle as 4th/5th pick, so we didn't want to leave it to them.

And with all due respect for XcN, cause they are indeed a great team, but only reason they were leading as much as they were was because of the immense lag. Follow any three of MaNia, LevenT or me and you'd easily be able to notice how bad we lagged.

no re
(5 months ago)  #17 vatidera
vatidera
In fact, as reported in local forum, XcN had also bad lag. But, since they use to play in such lag condition, they didn't complaint. Anyway, since host was US/Europe, XcN lag should be worse than MYM.

However, well played by MYM and XcN. MYM FTW...
(5 months ago)  #19 ayam
ayam
soooo true lol, i feel soooo bad for xcn tho. they dominated in nearly all the team battles but then that bb was just tooo much.. tough luck xcn :(
(5 months ago)  #25 naitsirhCseyeR
naitsirhCseyeR
but if you see the replay, you can see that there is no lag,
this is how pro players play... nice game MYM but, fallen to KS ^_^

pupupupumpupumpum! C=(^_^Q)
(5 months ago)  #20 Scream112
Scream112
eeeehm..... it also depends on were in the US that the host is... and other stuff... asians in MANY cases get the better ping/latency towards an US host than ALOT of us Europeans...
(5 months ago)  #22 kentutasu
 
what i heard is, they don't care about lag, cause it is inevitable. they just want the other team lag too, so that it will be fair.
and US host is fair for europe vs asia match.

but the fact that the host is a MYM player, is kinda unfair.

-My might can be matched-
(5 months ago)  #24 alpin
alpin
True. but not only MYM had lag, remember that XcN had lag as well, depends on whose side had the worse. Ive Seen the replay and the game was still awesome though.
(5 months ago)  #31 theLightning
 
You don't have to state it in all chat after you and Mania got clowned by zeus at about 50-60th minute, that just makes you look like a joke. You had lag, they had lag and you had a host player with a carry PLUS another US player who just can't possible lag on that host. So its 3 laggers vs 5.
(5 months ago)  #47 renge
 
Quoting theLightning:

You don't have to state it in all chat after you and Mania got clowned by zeus at about 50-60th minute, that just makes you look like a joke. You had lag, they had lag and you had a host player with a carry PLUS another US player who just can't possible lag on that host. So its 3 laggers vs 5.


Very TRUE.

I have lost faith on you, Maelk. Joo are a JOKE.
(5 months ago)  #50 boyBK
 
I bet you never know how bad normally an asian ping is with Europe or US host. I agree that you guys have lag but you dont need to say as if XCN all have good pings.

Btw, "but ONLY REASON they were leading as much as they were was because of the immense lag" is not a professional player's comment.
(5 months ago)  #55 ciz
 
well no offense, i played indonesian battle net before with satellite T1 as my provider, i spike the whole game just to play with my friends in Singapore. Although MyM lag so bad, XcN lag should be even worst. vatidera was right about that. Before they become such a famous team, they used to play in such a lag environment. Lag is just a matter of getting used to it. GG
(5 months ago)  #36 baowen
 
i doubt indonesia team can get visa for going USA :)
(5 months ago)  #41 vatidera
vatidera
why? i'm indonesian and not hard to get US visa, just hard to earn money to get there :) KS & XcN will be a powerful team in ESWC, trust me.
(5 months ago)  #43 DNRandoyX
andoyX
Alright, in VATIDERA we TRUST. haha.
A world w/o walls and fences - who needs Windows and Gates?
(5 months ago)