the ECP dota compy final 8 fight it out today at virtualland @ east coast park.
the teams namely dn* xqr micronology foosa knightmare gamersinc.alpha firetoad , last one i forgot sorry.

Round1
xqr vs dn*
knightmare vs team (iforgot)
foosa vs micro
gia vs firetoad.

Round2
xqr vs knightmare
micro vs gia

Round 3
Micro vs knightmare
GIa vs XQR

1st micro/knightmare
2nd micro/knightmare
3nd GIA
when i left the place micro and knightmare was still fighting out over the champion title. In 3rd placing was GIA ,4th XQR. i neva expected a micro/ knightmare finals.In fact i foretell a XQR -MICRo finals.NOT to be mistaken, knightmare was performing quite well in recent compies,Just that i feel that xqr was stronger draft wise. For the past few days i played with xqr full online.3 match in fact. Their draft consist of qop potm furion bm tormented soul. It works pretty well when i drafted a fast push against them(all 3 round). Bm send bird to middle, spam axe, furion spam wrath of nature was really damaging in early game.The advantage of bm and furion nc and pulling back creeps meant higher hero lvl and gold. Dn* lose to xqr in a similar manner , chosing to draft a fast push of BB,omni,zeus,pugna,warlock against them. when i saw the draft, i know it was half over.

GIA vs firetoad.
GIa had sandking tormentedsoul silencer beastmaster and qop while fyretoad had warlock zeus es sf na.GIA was sentiel fyretoad was scrouge. Na soloed silencer-_- , Sf+ES vs sandking tormented at top,beastmaster +qop vs zeus+warlock. We controlled sf +es at top pretty well, mid silencer was farming` , btm was fairly abit on qop/bm side` with the aides of bird and creep lure. A strange lane combination, i would prefer na going tgt with sF than sf+es. ES didnt even attempt to block us or spam at us, which i dono why.He was moving around the forest touching no creep at all while attempting to find a nice spot to block but ended up getting caught by us(sk+tormented).After top lost control and zeus dcing at 13-14min mark SF went btm to party, leaving poor es to solo and constantly tortured and kill by sk+ts. under 20minutes top lane sentiel kills amounted to 6-7.

later in the game after i got my dagger(sk) around 20mins with bottle, i went around catching with beastmaster while tormented continue farming at top and qop at btm.Scrouge fyretoad got caught several times at mid` one of the part i like most was mi chasing es+zeus past tower even though i hear my mates telling mi to back. just straight after the fissure animation appear i burrowstrike both zeus and es at max range of 700.Meaning i skip the stun duration.Follow by a global silence, i epic-ed and double kill.NA kept hunting down qop at btm lane with a dagon. vendatta hit, stun, manaburn,hit, dagon.dead. At one point of the game Na was at the highest level of all(mainly bcuz he killed kid'qop 3times )-level17, when i was at 11.After a few sentries and catching na, we push and the game was over.

MICRO vs FOOSA
Micro scrouge , warlock sandking enigma bb qop. Foosa sentiel omniknight razor rk slardar . Only saw parts of here and there , foosa was losing badly. micro had such precise timing that u 're gone in under 2sec. Either they caught u offguard when they are in the fog OR when u wander too outside and get focus u start to B, ur mates crowd tgt with u trying to hex or stun for u, enigma or sandking jumps in tgt with the rock and stuff all under 2sec. usually is sandking who start the engage, epic blink in or walk in burrowstrike 2-3 follow by rock and bh. common sense when they epic was to B and when u B its usually a crowd.And it spells GG for u either way.

2nd round
xqr vs knightmare , xqr drafted their usually potm silencer and sandking and stuff, while knightmare drafted beastmaster qop.. smt lidat. Not sure how the match proceed cuz i' was fighting micronology on the other end.All Kh told mi was "we picked bm and xqr were lost on wat to do".


gia vs micro
gia scrouge sa zeus/ qop / tormented soul rk vs micro spectre warlock / tinker/ sf bm. sa and zeus at top couldnt do much to spectre with warlock constantly harrasing and healing spectre while shawn tinker at mid was slightly abit higher lvl than kid qop. sf was farmiing well at btm with elq tormented soul slightly ppoorer than hyhy sf. with the help of bird, it was almost impossible for mi(rk) to stun him at close range.at around lvl3 i went off to mid and hide in the forest for at least 2-3 creep wave. when tinker finally came out i stun and he play around with the fog and poof off he go-_-. qop was on low hp and couldnt aide` mi. damn he was left with red hp. after two stormbolt. Hyhy had dagger at round 13mins lvl8-9 i couldnt rmb.. he went off to nc after he almost got 2k +.The spelling of GG starts at the first engage at first tower of scrouge mid, where by we tped down one by one for the sake of one tower. zeus came down follow by tormented then mi. sf blink away from sa ssmoke and manage to uti and cast afew raze.with 4 of us down sf money at least went up by 1.2k. Next bad engage happen at scrouge dragonspawn.GIA engaged without mi, mi being at the other side - scrouge nc. K zeus was seriously underleveled to deal any dps to Micro. rep zeus end game was lvl12 arcane ring boots dagger . ok during the engages zeus was downed too quickly (like 1-2sec?),sa had diffusal while sf had heart bot dagger ` and i only had dagger and bracers and threads. We were unable to deal enough damage to down sf quickly` and that engage at the dragonspawn lead to rax being downed.GG


3rd round xqr vs gia
xqr scrouge sandking rk phantom lancer , tinker , qop
gia sentiel spectre warlock / zeus /sf bm

xqr 3-1-1 wasnt really doing very well . top 3 sandking rk pl exchanged kills with spectre warlock with warlock being fb and sk died.rep told mi that darkwish sandking`
was indecisive when it comes to burrowstrike , ended up in taking freehits from rep` warlock . at one time rep manage to hit a total of 7hits+ shadow word and darkwish flyed away.Right at mid, tinker was leading zeus by 1/2 a level , the dominance ended when rep came to mid at lvl3 to aide zeus , bolt word 2hits tinker fly away`.qop and sf was both farming at bottom with elq sf earning 3.2k right when martell had only pers. i was constantly pulling the creeps and axeing qop once in a while`.when it proceeded to 30+mins , sf had heart ,spectre had midas radiance, warlock had guinsoo, i had book3 bottle boots , zeus had dagger arcane, we opted for a push. at that point of time sandking had no dagger and rk was just as poor` with bracers, while qop had linked and eul or smt (i couldnt rmb) pl had diffusal wraith bands.After a roar, sf jumped in followed quicky with warlock rock and linked bond` zeus spam and xqr sandking rk tinker pl was down`.MId rax was downed and the dominance of the game is obvious.Either xqr wasnt really playing their best after they lost knightmare or they are like wat kH said "pick bm and they are lost of wat to do".Beastmaster is seriously a cheap hero` free bird with a big scout range, boar with a 30% slow, axe which deal 360damage for 2 axe and can be able to cast at far range, roar which leave u disable for 5sec and lastly a high base damage.Most of the time we can foretell wat xqr was doing simpily by moving the bird around and tp towers and wait for them to take our bait`.

Lastly the prizes are as follow:

1st prize $500 cash +mobo (a P965 MSI Neo 2motherboard which cost around 200` its a lousy board and if the lanshop is using that AHAH gg )
2nd prize $300 cash + ram stick
3rd prize $200 cash + acebell 450w power supply 20+4 pin($80 only i think)