The weekend is now over, and so is our DotA bootcamp. It's been a great weekend, with many matches succesfully played and a lot of practicing has been done. Additionally the whole social aspect should benefit the team, when talking on mumble and ingame!
To end off things, we've made a short interview with the team leader and DotA-manager
HoBBiT , to hear his thoughts of this reunited team!
Hello HoBBiT, about 6-7 months ago your DotA team parted ways. Today you're all gathered again, what has happened since then and what made you all reunite?
I've been concentrating a lot on the 2v2-team and I did that for a couple of months, then I wanted to start a HoN-team because it seemed to become the new big thing, but I decided not to, as I preferred DotA, for it being the original game.
Cookie and
Jui had been playing on another DotA 5v5-team, but
Cookie decided to start playing HoN and
Jui had little to no time due to school, but
Cookie grew tired of it, and there came a new version of DotA and in the same time I started to ask him if he was interested in getting some serious DotA-gaming up again. Then we decided to start a team again.
ViciouzOne has been attempting to get a new DotA community-site up and running, but he didn't have the time to finish it. What reunited us as a team, was the fact that we missed playing some serious DotA and we had one hell of a time back then, so we wanted to start it up again.
And at last, what are your plans for the team? What will happen in the future?
Our first goal is to compete in the incoming Pick-League season. Our second goal is to end up as the 3 best teams in our division, so we can compete in the playoffs to Division 4. In the closest future we will get as much practice as possible, so we can compete in the next Pick-League season, and we will be trying to have as many bootcamps as possible. We are hoping to have 1 bootcamp each month, so we can get ready.
Additionally we asked
Cookie , the main tactician and drafter of the team, what he learned during the bootcamp.
Hello Cookie, as the main tactician of the team, what have you been focusing on during this weekends bootcamp, and how would you describe your play style now compared to earlier?
First of all I've been trying to find out what heroes we can use in our team, and to define each of our player’s roles in this new line-up. That i did by doing a lot of experimental picking, to see which heroes our players are strongest on, and to keep picking the heroes that the individual players did good on. You could say that what we've been doing this weekend have been to define our play style and to practice it.
It's actually really difficult to compare our current play style to the one we had on our old team, due to the fact that it seemed kinda random what we did back then. I guess it's because we didn't have much experience playing competitive DotA back then, so our play style would have seemed more like a public play style rather than a competitive play style. Our play style now though, is a lot better than it was back then. We have a much greater knowledge of the competitive play style, and we focus on improving the things we've already found ourselves to be strong at.
Once again, thanks to all the players of the team who made a great effort to improve as a team, and hopefully be able to represent Clones-Inc even stronger now!
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First of all, we're getting back from summer holidays now, and are slowly planning and looking forward to the autumn season of esports! First thing this season is the latest addition to our warsow team, as
seeker has decided to join us, and we hope that we are able to find more active and skilled players to fulfil a roster able to play in upcoming CTF, TDM and BOMB cups.
Additional info is that our webserver will be relocated Friday, 06:00-10:00, which means that you will not be able to access our website in those few hours. More news will most likely come up the following weeks, as we're working on several new projects! Stay tuned!
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Hello everyone, we know that there has not been so much activity here this summer, as most of the members and myself currently are doing various of other stuff. Our DotA team just finished the Razer Global Challenge tournament, which means that there are no leagues or tournaments going on for any of our teams right now, and we will most likely not be hosting any tournaments in the next 2-3 weeks.
Expect us to be back again in early/mid August, take care - and we hope that everyone enjoys the summer, that seems to be rather hot in all of Europe!
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