DuC at the AGASA Weekend Cup (July '09) Online Tourney (02-05 Jul 09)

Here's a link to the Group-Stage of the July AGASA tourney... --> Link <--

Pool B Consists of...
-North West Gaming Clan
-DUCoRe
-2 Pro 4 You
-Pawn Starz

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Game 1 (DuC vs pRo)

Date: 02/07/2009 22:21
Map: DotA Allstars 6.59
Game mode: -cm
Host name: pRo^LiQuiD
Game length: 50:15

Spoiler:

Game score: 21/43
Winner: Scourge

Sentinel:
Top:
Rhasta - pRo^bwn2pwn, level 12, K/D: 1/8, CS: 57/3, build: 5155 gold, items: , APM: 100, left: 49:30
Scorp - pRo^LiQuiD, level 12, K/D: 2/9, CS: 78/13, build: 6020 gold, items: , APM: 98, left: 49:25

Mid:
Zuez - pRo^C0nFu3, level 13, K/D: 7/9, CS: 34/4, build: 4464 gold, items: , APM: 79, left: 49:40

Bot:
Obs Des - pRo^ZaBuZ4, level 18, K/D: 8/5, CS: 136/4, build: 9928 gold, items: , APM: 91, left: 49:18

Sent Bush:
Enigma - pRo^Nyad, level 14, K/D: 3/12, CS: 41/3, build: 5756 gold, items: , APM: 100, left: 49:28

Scourge:
Scourge Bush:
Axe - [DUC]NeoN, level 21, K/D: 11/4, CS: 75/0, build: 12190 gold, items: , APM: 107, left: 49:30

Top:
Bane - [DuCoRe]Edge, level 19, K/D: 8/2, CS: 64/7, build: 8850 gold, items: , APM: 109

Mid:
Coco - animeDemon, level 22, K/D: 9/4, CS: 119/17, build: 12100 gold, items: , APM: 109

Bot:
Naix - [DUC]Legend, level 20, K/D: 12/4, CS: 92/15, build: 13145 gold, items: , APM: 122
THD - Shau, level 15, K/D: 2/7, CS: 44/5, build: 6846 gold, items: , APM: 65

Comment:
Knew pRo were gonna be tough moving in as they had bwn2pwn, who clannies a lot at 'em Durban comps. Than just before the game-time I see ZaBuZ4 come to our channel asking if we ready, was like... O_o (had no idea he's in their clan too - he's pretty imba, played a few pubbies with him).

Playing on the stable 6.59d map, the Axe bush was back on the table... oh yeah!. Didn't get a chance to gang top alot though, was either bad timing by me or my hp was too low for a proper gang.

with pRo going for Enigma, who would most likely bush for that imba 10-15 mins blink of his, Legend and Shau made sure to keep him in check. Things started off on a good note for DuC with Enigma creep-pulling early-game, giving his posiition away, thus followed by Naix taking him down for 1st blood.

pRo did a lot of roaming around mid-game, leaving their Obs Des to perma-farm a lane. This had it's ups and downs... DuC counter-ganging and taking out the remaining four pRo-roamers.

The rest of the game was pretty stock-standard. Save for three vital moments...

The 1st being when pRo tried taking our level 2 mid tower. We had no wards in the Scourge bush but knew they were there. Demon got caught out of position and all hell broke loose...

33:17 Scourge middle level 1 tower was destroyed by pRo^bwn2pwn.
33:37 animeDemon was killed by pRo^ZaBuZ4.
33:43 [DUC]NeoN was killed by pRo^ZaBuZ4.
33:45 pRo^Nyad was killed by [DuCoRe]Edge.
33:48 [DUC]Legend was killed by pRo^ZaBuZ4.
33:53 Shau was killed by pRo^ZaBuZ4.
34:36 Scourge middle level 2 tower was destroyed by pRo^bwn2pwn.

(No ULTRA KILL sound-effect though )

The 2nd key moment was when pRo tried taking out DuC's level 3 mid tower. We knew they had the 2x blink-initiators so we kept our distance from eachother, as well as the level 3 tower. Not sure if it was cause of Fog of War, but SK did an epic fail blink ulti missing everyone. With his ulti almost completely wasted, the rest of pRo move in but cause of height advantage (and phase boots), we got into better position and...

47:39 pRo^bwn2pwn was killed by [DUC]NeoN.
47:39 pRo^LiQuiD was killed by animeDemon.
47:41 pRo^Nyad was killed by animeDemon.
47:41 pRo^ZaBuZ4 was killed by [DuCoRe]Edge.
47:47 pRo^C0nFu3 was killed by [DuCoRe]Edge.

Immediately after that DuC pushed to finish off the mid ranged-rax (as the melee one was taken earlier sometime). Than moving for the top rax. Can't recall exactly how this went down but...

48:57 pRo^LiQuiD was killed by [DUC]Legend.
49:00 pRo^Nyad was killed by [DuCoRe]Edge.
49:04 pRo^C0nFu3 was killed by [DUC]NeoN.
49:06 pRo^bwn2pwn was killed by animeDemon.
49:13 pRo^ZaBuZ4 was killed by [DUC]Legend.
49:17 [All] pRo^ZaBuZ4: Gg wp
49:18 pRo^ZaBuZ4 has left the game.
49:19 Sentinel top level 3 tower was destroyed by [DUC]NeoN.
49:22 [All] Shau: gg wp
49:25 pRo^LiQuiD has left the game.
49:26 [All] [DuCoRe]Edge: ggwp
49:28 [All] pRo^bwn2pwn: gg
49:28 pRo^Nyad has left the game.
49:29 [All] pRo^bwn2pwn: wp
49:30 pRo^bwn2pwn has left the game.
49:30 [DUC]NeoN has left the game.

For some reason I was the only one from DuC who got disconnected after the host left. O_o 30 secs later Sent's Tree was down and it all comes to an end.

ggwp!

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Game 2 (DuC vs NWGC)

Date: 04/07/2009 20:11
Map: DotA Allstars 6.59
Game mode: -cm
Host name: Shau
Game length: 39:52

Spoiler:

Game score: 54/3
Winner: Sentinel

Sentinel:
Top:
BM - animeDemon, level 16, K/D: 5/0, CS: 76/14, build: 8835 gold

Mid:
Bane - [DuCoRe]Edge, level 18, K/D: 13/1, CS: 31/8, build: 7038 gold

Bot:
Naix - [DUC]Legend, level 17, K/D: 18/0, CS: 96/13, build: 11530 gold
CM - Shau, level 16, K/D: 6/1, CS: 33/2, build: 5713 gold

Scourge Bush:
Axe - [DUC]NeoN, level 17, K/D: 12/1, CS: 82/1, build: 8685 gold

Scourge:
Top:
Coco - Sonk0s, level 12, K/D: 1/10, CS: 29/6, build: 2385 gold

Mid:
ES - TOLLIE1, level 10, K/D: 0/11, CS: 34/5, build: 2665 gold
Sniper - bitch123, level 9, K/D: 1/13, CS: 22/0, build: 2100 gold

Bot:
Bambi - Sou1Co11ector, level 10, K/D: 0/11, CS: 32/0, build: 2575 gold
Abba - VmAnsFTW, level 9, K/D: 1/9, CS: 16/0, build: 2085 gold

Comment:
With NWGC having a pretty solid line-up I was expecting this game to be a challenge - them scoring ES on their 1st pick, which we didn't elim as we wanted him.

Some good rune communication by Edge ensured perma ganging by me. So Mid and Bot got to see a ton of action, with Demon doing his own thing. >_<

The score was 18-0 before NWGC got their 1st kill to make it 18-1. Gotta say that luck was on our side, with Edge and myself escaping a number of times with min HP (enough to die with one more hit).

DuC played really well, wp guyz.

Not much else I can say.

gg!

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Game 3 (DuC vs Pawn Starz)

This was a strange one, after no communication from them I emailed the captain, he than replied...

slobber wrote:Something weird is going on as we never entered this, and if we had we sould have entered as Clan Pawn Starz. Take the -ff I guess.

Having finished top of the group stages, we made it thru to the single-elim held on Sunday.

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DuC vs dedA

Date: 05/07/2009 13:56
Map: DotA Allstars 6.59
Game mode: -cm
Host name: Shau
Game length: 43:45

Spoiler:

Game score: 41/27
Winner: Sentinel

Sentinel:
Top:
Rhasta - BonKerS, level 15, K/D: 9/6, CS: 69/3, build: 11075 gold, items: , APM: 98
Coco - ClitsybananaS, level 17, K/D: 4/2, CS: 122/2, build: 11583 gold, items: , APM: 110

Mid:
Zuez - glitch, level 13, K/D: 12/6, CS: 47/7, build: 8911 gold, items: , APM: 84

Bot:
Bane - Tenko, level 12, K/D: 4/7, CS: 20/4, build: 4183 gold, items: , APM: 112
potm []CryT_T, level 20, K/D: 10/6, CS: 67/9, build: 9390 gold, items: , APM: 111

Scourge:
Top:
Naix - [DUC]Legend, level 16, K/D: 3/7, CS: 49/4, build: 5870 gold, items: , APM: 114
THD - Shau, level 11, K/D: 2/10, CS: 30/2, build: 3728 gold, items: , APM: 71

Mid:
Axe - [DUC]NeoN, level 17, K/D: 13/7, CS: 77/1, build: 8925 gold, items: , APM: 121

Bot:
Puck - [DuCoRe]Edge, level 12, K/D: 2/12, CS: 47/3, build: 3595 gold, items: , APM: 95
Scorp - GaskooN, level 14, K/D: 7/5, CS: 24/8, build: 5421 gold, items: , APM: 104

Comment:
1st off, thanks goes out to GaskooN for subbing for us - Demon was away with his family for lunch.

dedA opted for a roaming potm this game, and CryT_T scored quite a few of his arrows (infact I never saw him miss any). wp!

Early-game was going well for DuC, with the level 1 FB on potm - who was probably distracted by the action happening at the top rune. (wp SK/Puck) We wanted to have strong lanes against dedA so it was decided for Axe to solo mid. Having not done that before, I was a lil worried but Zuez was trying to save his mana for level 3, not spamming at all. This let me harrass him with Helix - which eventually paid off when I got the chance to use Call. Wasn't all good new though, I messed up big by clinking on a Void Stone instead of the HP Ring early-game. X_x :/

Top was suffering, with Rhasta harrassing Naix senseless - the potm gangs only made things worse. For some reason, we didn't get to ward the runes at the 0 minute mark even though both top and bot lane bought wards, so that didn't help. :/

SK and Puck were doing incredibly well bot-lane, with SK getting his blink in no time at all. I went for phase boots before blink, which was clearly the wrong move, and costly - as pointed out by the guyz. :/

dedA ganged a lot, rather than pushed. And with anti-wards, they always had better positioning, usually initiating with a well-placed potm arrow. Only occured to me after the game, Edge could have auto-cast the puck-phase to try tank incoming arrows.

Clitsy farmed up imba, getting his BF pretty early on. Rhasta also farmed up quite a bit, tanking Axe (which came as a... O_o), giving his teamies time to do as damage as they can.

Reading thru dedA's chatlog yesteday, Legend found out that Illy actually "rAge quit" and his bro took over...

23:21 [Allies] Tenko: lol
23:27 [Allies] Tenko: ryan
23:29 [Allies] Tenko: you fag
23:30 [Allies] Tenko: "
23:33 [Allies] []CryT_T: zz
23:34 [Allies] Tenko: im playing for
23:38 [Allies] Tenko: louis now
23:39 [Allies] Tenko: :>
23:40 [Allies] []CryT_T: =\
23:42 [Allies] Tenko: his over it
23:42 [Allies] Tenko: :/
23:45 [Allies] Tenko: im like :<
23:48 [Allies] Tenko: he walked away
23:49 [Allies] Tenko: so ya
23:52 [Allies] Tenko: ....
23:53 [Allies] ClitsybananaS: good 1
23:54 [Allies] ClitsybananaS:
23:56 [Game Command] [DUC]Legend: -ma
24:00 [Allies] Tenko: anything
24:03 [Allies] Tenko: i must get
24:04 [Allies] Tenko: wards
24:05 [Allies] Tenko: ?
24:14 [Allies] Tenko: items
24:15 [Allies] Tenko: ?
24:19 [Allies] glitch: lets get mid tower
24:19 [Allies] []CryT_T: necro book
24:22 [Allies] Tenko: yeah

And they wonder why I don't trust 'em. >_<

Late-game, SK was struggling to get his blink-ulti off with Zuez's ulti messing up blink, which made team battles incredibly tough. DuC made some silly errors, dedA played well, and that was that...

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I watched this game,let me give my input!

-Your teamwork was wd.
-You should top the group,i believe this game will be your hardest.
-I got confused as to who you were carrying o_O,legend farmed well in the end,getting deso relatively early.
-I don't believe you guys ward enough(counter including)as i saw a couple deaths where you would've been saved had you had a ward in place.I'll refer to an incident where you(neon) got killed in the bush by zeus while you were bushing.Had you had a standard ward in river you would've been fine.
-Im glad you made bane solo,i think making bane lane with someone is suicide!
-Thd was a nice pick,i enjoyed seeing some variety,and is a good lane partner if you want to be aggressive(which is what legend and shau did).

Conclusion : I really dont see you guys losing any games in this group,you have more experience as well as better players.

Gl for the restzor.

Sweet man, we might need you in action for us tho if Demons isnt available

I think Pawn stars will be the hardest match tbh

Ok i'll try be online,dont mind subbing.

Thanks dude.

Yeah, that gang by Zuez was sorta my fault as I was focusing on the bot-lane battle and not my character - when I went back to my char he was dead, with Zuez walking away. O_o

We didn't really assign a specific carry-role, everyone just sorta farmed up in their own way - with Legend usually going deep into enemy territory (either their bushes or in a lane). But I think we did try and leave towers for Naix.

Reading GaS' post it reminded me why the top-lane early-game gangs failed... I kept attacking the sleeping dude, which woke him up and let him get away. X_x lol. >_<

I didn't specifically watch your gangs top,but i think what would have been quite simple is...

Bane Sleeps hero -> Axe runs up to hero and calls->Bane saps for the kill.

That's the way i see it going down.

That was the plan, but I don't know why, I kept trying to attack the dude before he woke up. :/

:/ Eish,but i think that can happen quite a lot to people.Just have to learn to use stop/hold better.

lol, but wat i dont get is ur hero wont attack the sleeping guy unless you click attack.....Just click to walk next to him, then no worries with the sleep

I've updated the 1st two posts in this thread with the remainder of the games.

Ta for letting my sub,i enjoyed the match thoroughly and personally i believe its the only way DuC will get better...By playing these better clans.

End of the day we mustn't be hard on ourselves,we went up against 4 saihl players to none,and imo we did content work.I mean look at eN vs DedA,they couldn't even get one kill and were rage quitting.Something tells me DuC deserved to be in the semi's.

SK+Puck lane imba(wp edge + drafter).Top lane might have struggled due to no good disable :/.

On a personal note,i fucked up early game by getting hit by zeus and therefore resulting in a shit ulti which didn't help the team at all and made me look a fool >_<.

GG NT WP

Yeah thanks for the comments. We did ok-ish, still think we can beat them. Looking back on it we shudda rather gone for stronger lanes, like bot lane was awesome, sk + puck rocked, but maybe a better solo, even tho Neon did well against the zeus, but top lane was a poor effort, and had them on the back foot perma. Leaving a bad farming experience for naix, lol. Looking back, think we shouldve rather gone for a lion or dazzle. But there's always next time, and pretty sure it'll get better

Spoke to Ben about that whole subbing story, he agreed with me about it being a gentlemans agreement on the registered subs thing and was disappointed in them for doing what they did. But i said its done and dusted, bt he wants to keep it for future reference