Malaysia 1st Gamers Gath At PWTC!

Hi everybody!



We are here to invite everyone to join Spotgamers at Youth 09 Festival, the largest youth festival in Malaysia more than 50000 people and over 100 activities to participate.

Spotgamers have been invited to join up with the other youth community around Malaysia in the Youth 09 Festival 9-11 January at PWTC. This is the chance for the gaming community to get the exposure and also maybe even future contacts to help the gaming community grow.

What is Youth 09?


YOUTH'09, Malaysia's largest youth lifestyle event[/B] is a 3 day festival to be held on 9th-11th January at the Putra World Trade Centre, bringing together youth communities from all over Malaysia for a range of exciting activities. Themed "Malaysia's Largest Youth Lifestyle Revolution", 50,000 young Malaysians aged 16 to 28 from different backgrounds and youth communities will be coming together to organize and participate in over 100 activities involving fashion, dance, music, entrepreneurship, personal growth, career and other youth interests.

You can view the trailer, event details, and meet youths who are going at www.youthmalaysia.com/youth09



So what are the activities we gonna do?



At our booth we gonna have: History Of Competitive Gaming in Malaysia
: A guide through on how to be a pro-gamer.
: A guide through on how to create a gaming clan.
: Free play for selected games such as Guitar Hero,FIFA 09 and etc etc

It looks nice right? But WAIT! We still havent announce our main event! Our main event is...

The 1st Official Gamers Gathering in Malaysia

Date:Sunday, 11 January 2009
Time:6pm-8pm
Venue:PWTC (Hall will be announce soon)


Yup guys its the 1st ever gamers gathering in Malaysia! We will be having food and drinks for everyone(unless u guys are very hungry!) and a place for us to just chill around and have fun together.

But we wont waste this opportunity just for a meet up. We will be adding 2 more cool event which is:

1.Friendly Matches Between Pro-Gamers:

The suggested games are CS 1.6,FIFA09,COD4,NFS and DOTA.

At the same time we will be having Predict The Winner Contest. Those who guess correctly stand a chance to win some cool prizes as well. So u wont go back empty handed.

And the 2nd main event is:

2. Spotgamers Gamers Award Ceremony

This are the award we will be giving away:- Spotgamers Gamer Of The Year
:- Spotgamers Clan Of The Year
:- Spotgamers Newcomer Of The Year
:- Spotgamers Largest Gaming Community During The Gath Award.


Just like The Grammy and AIM, Spotgamers will be conducting our own award ceremony to our best gamers in Malaysia.


Not just that, we will be giving away freebies so that you guys wont go back empty handed! You guys will receive a free 2 hrs play at selected cybercafes as well as a membership card for u to play at selected cybercafes for just RM1/hour! And many many more other great freebies to give away.


So what are you waiting for? come join the fun! ^^

Register here to get your free pass.

Video: Best Goal Eva!

Sorry im getting more busy with my other project which need more of my attention. But thats why i introduce the video section in The FIFA Blog! :P


Check this out you wont believe this goal can happen!

Err.. are you sure its a goal ref?

Err.. the ball is err...

LOL the ball is on the net! And its a goallll!!! Best goal ever baby!


So play beautiful football! ^^

Video: Sneaky

Im going to add a new features which i believe many of guys have been waiting for, which is the video section!

Yup im going to show clips which would help you understand better the game. As well as showing some entertaining video too.


So lets start with our 1st video: Sneaky Anelka!

What did Anelka just did? Let us see closer..

Isnt that a push? Its not a foul?

Yes he did push... and there is no foul for that!




LOL this is one of the proove that this version is so random. There is always something unexpected going to happen. Almost like real football!


So play sneaky.. i mean play beautiful football!

FIFA 09: Newbie Here!

Many people ask me, what should they do in this new version? what should they practice? should they go through the level difficulty step by step or just skip and play the hardest? Usually when it comes to new version, we all always ask this type of question.



There are actually 2 ways to start on new version:


Newbie In FIFA


This method is for those who never play FIFA before. The best way to get to know the game is by going step by step through the difficulty level. Yes i know it might make u bored but this is the best way. Everytime you level up you will notice the difference in terms of attacking and defending. From here try to observe on what the AI tends to do. Usually what the AI can do you can do it too.


Experience In FIFA


For those who play FIFA 08 previously, what i personally do is to try to experiment the high efficiency move in 08 into 09. Then 1 by 1 i will research which moves/combo that is still effective and can be done in 09. By doing so you can still keep your precious style in 08 and create a new one in 09.



I have to admit that in FIFA 09 there is plenty to learn. Though its almost similar to previous version but they have improvised a lot of changes in it. So expect some unbelievable move to pop out later on.


So play beautiful football! ^^

I, Rinie "Si_Jali" Ramli Resign From W|nDs Clan

First of all I would like to say thanks to Allah SWT for giving me this opportunity to live up my dream through W|nDs. Also would like to say thanks to Nigel who invite me, guiding me, and giving me advice in the competitive gaming scene. Not to forget my fellow W|nDs mate who has been through a lot together in joy and sadness. All of you guys are truly the best and will always have a place in my heart.


My departure from W|nDs was not a decision I made in just a few weeks. It wasn’t an easy decision for me as well. There were too many memories in W|nDs that I cherished and will never forget. But the decision I made was base on my analysis of the current situation undergoing in my life, in W|nDs and in the gaming community as well. I am attach to many responsibilities and I feel that its time for me to move on and experience new adventure that patiently awaits me. With great power comes great responsibility. I owe a lot to the community and its time for me to do my part.


Will my departure be good or bad to me? Would it affect W|nDs and the FIFA community? I don’t know. There are many things I myself couldn’t answer but all I know is even with my departure judging from the history of both W|nDs and the FIFA community, things are always gonna look positive even if the odds are not that good. History proved itself that no matter what happen, the FIFA community will always grow.


Although I resign from W|nDs, that doesn’t mean im going to stop competing. I will still compete to achieve my dream as the no.1 FIFA gamer in the world. That I can promise you. Will I create my own clan or remain independent? Only time will tell. But I’m interested to continue my youth project outside of W|nDs. And of course if there is a very very good offer like million gazillions dollars joining other clan then why not. Remember, only million gazillions dollars ok. LOL


It is not easy for me to write this. The thought of resigning are too hard for my small brain to handle. At times my hand stun and my legs numb. I feel like im floating in the air. And I don’t know where this would lead me. But I always believe in following my heart.


My resignation was not influence by certain people or has not been thought carefully. The decision was solely my own decision. I believe many of you guys know that im the type which always make my own decision.


I wish everyone all the best in the future. It was an amazing adventure and a journey which I will tell my children and my grand children and my grand grand children. (if i live that long of course or if I ever get married).



From now on, I, Rinie “Si_Jali” Ramli resign from any position in the management of W|nDs as well as a member of W|nDs.




Regards,


Si_Jali

My Achievement With W|nDs:

2005
CEL Games 2rd Runner up
WCG Malaysia 1st Runner up
WCG World Grand Final Top 4

2006
WCG Asia Champion
WCG Malaysia No.4

2007
CEL Games Champion
WCG Malaysia Champion
CGS Malaysia Top 16
WGT Malaysia 1st runner up

2008
CGS Malaysia Champion
CGS Pan Asian Top 4
WCG Kick Off Malaysia Champion
WCG Asia Champion
WCG Malaysia Top 32
Intel Malaysia PC Gaming Showdown Champion
Intel Asia PC Gaming Showdown Champion

WCG 09: Vote Or Cry!

Ever wanted play your favourite game in front of millions of people?

Do you want to be the next gaming superstar and be known by almost everyone in the world?

Do you want to be the envy of every single life cells(ok little bit exaggerate here) in the world that you are earning money just by playing games?

The 1st step to glory starts with voting!



Yup its that time again. Time to vote for your favourite game to be contested in the prestige World Cyber Games 2009.

It has been a tradition that gamers and the public are allowed to vote for which game to compete in WCG. Basically games with the most amount of vote will be selected to be the featured game for the international tournament.

Be it the old Starcraft or the new Warhammer, its up to you to decide.

The Legendary Starcraft or Brutal Warghhhhamer?

So vote now! Or cry like a little girl cause you deserve it for not voting.


Click here to vote now!



Source: www.wcg.com

WCG GF 08: Korea Overall Champ, Malaysia Dream Over

The Malaysian dream ended up 2 days ago when our NFS Pro Street Player, H3aven lost in the top 16 bracket against home team Germany ATTaX_Sliver. The rest of the team had a good fighting spirit but failed to qualify from their respective group. Favourites to qualify from the group, [W|nDs]Vin and UCPRO.LZ only manage to get 3rd in their group. Kudos to them for their never give up fighting spirits although the odd seems impossible.


Korea manage to clinch the title as the overall champion with an amazing medal tally of 3 Gold, 3 Silver and 1 Bronze. While USA and host country Germany both get a medal tally of 1 Gold, 1 Silver and 3 Bronze putting them 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Will The Trophy Ever Reach Our Shore?
Courtesy of www.wcg.com

On other notes, our neighbour from Singapore proved the contribution effort done by SCOGA worthwhile when they clinch 1 Gold from mobile game Asphalt 4 and 1 Silver from Virtual Fighter 5. Maybe its time Malaysia too taken the steps to bring up the mobile games into our gaming community.


Overall, it has been 8 years now and we still failed to prove ourself worthy to be called The Best. What keeps us from improving? Why are we still at the same place since 8 years ago? The question still remains and the answer still unfound.


Would like to give your own thoughts? Please feel free to comment.

Intercafe FIFA Challenge!

Yeap yeap i know its been awhile since i last update The FIFA Blog. Well there is a reason why and a very good reason indeed. I've been pretty busy setting up our clan baby project. Introducing: Intercafe FIFA Challenge!








Stand a chance to win the grand prize: [4 Days 3 Night Trip to HK DISNEYLAND FULLY SPONSORED!!!



Participating Cybercafes*

Autosurf Cheras: 20,27 and 28 of September 2008
Map
Autosurf Subang(SS15 nearby FTZ Asia): 20,27 and 28 of September 2008.*


*Any changes will be inform later.

A registration fee of RM20 will be charge to each participants. With RM20 you can go to Disneyland! WOW!

*More cybercafes will be included later. Other cybercafes who are interested are welcome to join as well.


Champions of each cybercafe will represent the cybercafes and fight for honor at the grand final and stand a chance to win a trip to HK DISNEYLAND!


Slots are limited. So what are you waiting for? Sign up now! ^^


Want to register? Contact our person in charge [W|nDs]Si_Jali 017-3020087 or [W|nDs]Leoninho 012-3990790 or send an email with your personal details to didotido@hotmail.com.

You can also walk-in register on the day itself but we prefer earlier booking since the slots are limited.

So sign up now! ^^


Support Your Local Tourney and Have Fun! ^^

Preparation For WCG Asia 08

Hi guys! Sorry for the long absence. Have been very busy with preparation for WCG Asia 08. For this purpose, i will be taking a few days off from The FIFA Blog to get ready for the tourney of the Kings Of Asia!


In case you didnt know, WCG Asia 08 is a tournament where each country in Asia will send representative from each game to compete to be No.1 in Asia and bragging rights among the best of the best in Asia.


This is the last year WCG Asia will held in Singapore. So if you guys free this weekend, come on down to Singapore Suntec City and support your local team!


Malaysia Boleh! ^^

Attacking: Secret In Positioning

Positioning is one of the key to a successful attack. Players out of position couldnt harm the defense much. But not many people actually know that 1 player position will create a breakthrough for his team.


For example:

Bad Position

If the midfielder pass too early to the wingback, the opponent defender will mark the winger. So the attack stop at the wingback and thus could not release the winger for a devastating attack.



But if the player is smart and wait till the wingback in a good position like below:

Good Position

The defender will auto mark the incoming wingback thus leaving the winger empty. The wingback can just turn and pass easily letting the winger to be free and gone like the wind.



Although it seems to be simple but many like to pass the ball around without taking into consideration on the position. 1 simple pass with good position can destroy the entire team defense system.


So dont just pass the ball around until the end. Play beautiful football ^^

WCG 08: Register NOW!

After a long wait and just a few weeks till WCG Malaysia 08 officially launch, now everyone can register!


The games are:

1. Half-Life™:Counter Strike: 32 slots
2. Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath™: 32 slots
3. FIFA Soccer 08™: 128 slots
4. Need for Speed™: Pro Street: 64 slots
5. StarCraft®: Brood War™: 32 slots
6. WarCraft® III : The Frozen Throne™: 32 slots

The registration will start on Thursday, 17th July 2008 at 12:00am. So quick book your place fast since the slots are limited.

Login to WCG Malaysia 2008 website for more info

Any clarifications needed, e-mail august@in2.com.my

Attacking: Direction Through Passes

Through passes is a feature that was introduce in FIFA 03 or FIFA 04 if im not mistaken. In the previous version before 03 all the passes are the same. Its either you do a straight pass or a curling ball.


Now one thing nice about through passes is it is powerful. You can charge up the power and do a powerful through passes from one end to another. Plus the benefit of through passes is you can caught your opponent by surprise. Its direct powerful approach makes it suitable for fast play with fast striker.


Now there is a trick in through passes. Through passes was created in order to release the player in a running motion. Instead of the ball pass directly to the player, in through passes the ball being played to make sure the striker will run and get it leaving the defender a few pace back.


One of the trick is the through pass must be send according to the intended player's body motion. For example:

Red Arrow Indicates The Direction Where The Striker Is Facing

As you can see, the ball was pass according to the direction where the striker is facing. By doing so, the striker will auto run to get the ball and keep him in a running motion which give him space to do whatever necessary in that position.


In order to do this, must focus and observe the motion of the striker properly. 1 mistake will send the ball the wrong way and you've lost the possession.


So play beautiful football! ^^

Motivation: Im Not Superman

I believe we all when we were young wanted to be as strong as Superman. How we could wish we can fly around the world at supersonic speed, shoot laser beam eye, kick some bad guys a$$ and be the one who make all the girls fainted.Aahhh~



Smack back into reality it is impossible to be like Superman. Well maybe we can still go around the world by plane and still make girls scream our name by becoming a rock star or celebs but hey.. it doesnt matter in the end.



I wanna share with you guys a poem that inspire me a lot. A poem that tells us that to be successful being strong or have big muscle doesnt matter in the end. Its not about who can do awesome moves or do 100% success rate in shooting. What matters is in our mind. If you believe you can win, yes you can! If you believe you can be rich, yes you can! If you believe you can be a FIFA Champion, yes you can! Its all in the state of your mind.



I would like to dedicate this poem to all the readers here and to all my friends who are going into a tough time. If we all keep our minds together believe that we shall see the rainbow at the end of the day. And for those of you who feel you are not good enough, there is no such thing. If you believe in yourself there is nothing you cant achieve.


So enjoy~ ^^



If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you dont.
If you like to win, but you think you cant,
It is almost certain you wont.


If you think you'll lose, you're lost,
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will---
Its all in the STATE OF MIND.


If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.


LIFE's BATTLES DONT ALWAYS GO
TO THE STRONGER OR FASTER MAN,
BUT SOON OR LATE THE MAN WHO WINS
IS THE MAN WHO THINKS HE CAN.

Mentality: Defend,Attack and Counter.

Defending,attacking and counter attack. This is the basic of football. A good player is a player which are good in all 3 areas. A player might be specialize in certain area for example defending or attacking but it is often those who win are those who are good in all areas.



Now from my own experience, there are more attacking players rather than defensive players. Well it is more exciting to play attacking football with all those amazing passes and dribbles but attacking players often make a mistake in defense. When ever they are defending, they always want to grab back the ball as fast as they can. They just rush out to get the ball from the opponent legs. In other words, their mind is still thinking to attack although its their time to defend.



This is what i want to share today. The mistake that most player did; wrong mentality. When its time to defend, went the ball is not with us, we must defend. Do not rush out to get the ball as fast as you want. First you make sure your defense line is in order. Only when the defense line is in place then you can think of getting the ball. What most people did is they just go out and get the ball because they are still in the attacking mentality. Because of this there are a lot of holes and make it easier for the opponent to score. So when its your turn to defend, you defend like The Great Wall Of China.



The same goes to attacking and counter attack. Most people when they get the ball they just straight away pump the ball to the striker regardless of the number of defender at the back. This is also a wrong mentality whereby counter attack means attack as swift and as fast as you can. The perfect timing to counter is when there are only 2-3 defender at the back. But most people just pass the ball to the striker although there are more than 4 at the back. Which in the end result in a failure to counter and thus giving away free possession to the opponent. If there is more than 4, build up your play slowly. If there is less, counter as swift as you can.



So it is important to understand and to have the right mentality. Although it seems simple, believe me there are many player who forgot to think of the right mentality. In the end it comes down to who has the strongest basic.



So play beautiful football ^^

Defending: Manual Switch Player Button

Something new to FIFA 08 compare to the previous version is the ability to select any player you want during defending. You can even select the furthest player at the back even if your at your opponent half. This is the benefit of this switch button.


The switch button on keyboard is shift+Q and on gamepad its the right stick. Certain gamepad doesnt have this feature because you need to install the gamepad program 1st.


So whats the benefit of this button? Guess what, this button was design to block long ball! In the previos version long ball seems to be the move that always inflict pain in the ass. So EA has come up with a brilliant defending move which is Manual Switch Player Button.


How to use it?


1st: Select your last defender

Red: Opponent Blue: You

Then move to the back slowly as far as you can but not too far. If you saw the striker running then i suggest you start follow him as well. By doing this he wont have any free space to run forward anymore.

Dont Pressure Just Go Back

Although it seems simple but most people forgot to do this act of defense or even sometimes didnt quickly change to the last defender. Get use to it and you can block any long ball that comes into you path.


So play beautiful football ^^

Attacking: Running

It is very important to know how and when to control your players to run. If you want to attack, you need people to run up for offensive measure. We all know the importance of making runs when we saw last night match between Spain vs Germany.



Now im going to share the direction to make your players run. There are 2 direction which is direct and indirect.



Direct:



Direct means you point your movement key base on where the position of the players that you want to run. For example:





So by actually pointing towards the midfielder and the winger, they will start to run into their respective position. This is what most of us always do.



Indirect:



For indirect, instead of pressing the run button which is Q on keyboard for indirect you press Q to the direction of the outside line. For example,






If you press Q once, the winger will be running first. But if you press Q twice, the winger and striker will run too. So this is indirect Q.



This are the 2 common direction that can be use to control your players to run nicely. Try experiment with it to get the right timing for your own play ^^

Mentality: Its Your Brain That Matters

In mentality section, we will discuss the brain part of the game. This is the hardest part to train since it requires a lot of understanding through practice and experience. But dont worry. That is why The FIFA Blog is here for you ^^




Normally we have the perception that those who can perform amazing movement such as Ronaldo dribbling skills or Lampard amazing long shot will win the game. Like for example if you can do "360" movement or unblockable crosses its consider as an amazing thing. But unfortunately football doesnt just revolve on 1 thing. It involves everything.




I learn this during WCG Grand Final 05 in Singapore. In the quarter final im going against Troll from Austria. He is very strong and he beat Gel (Malaysia No.1) in the group stage eventually top the group. Everyone regard him as the favourite of the tournament because his ability to do his crosses almost 100%.




During the quarter finals, i already had a plan in my mind to play mind games with him. Since i know he depends a lot in his crosses, i just let him come in the danger zone and just wait to block his crosses. Everytime i saw his ready to do his cross, i start my defensive movement to stop him. The 1st game prove that my strategies work when i beat him. But he was also unfortunate because i manage to injured his Henry accidentally. France without Henry is useless.



But in the 2nd game, his crosses still needs to be feared when he manage to trash me 5-1. Luckily it was best of 3 games. So the 3rd game was the decider. He was leading with 2 goals in the 1st half then an unfortunate event happen to me when my Joe Cole got send off for dangerous sliding. Yup im playing with 10 men now. But i've already practice playing with 10 men before in Malaysia because during that time i am well known to be so aggressive that i always get red card in a match.



So i still maintain the same way to defend his crosses thus making him not able to slot any more goals pass my goal. And i revert into an counter attacking tactic everytime he fail to do his crosses. This in the end put him under pressure and he started to do lots of mistakes in the end when i slot my 1st goal in the 2nd half. Then in the last min i manage to get an equalizer goal!



We continue into the extra time with silver goal ruling. From his play he is starting to get frustrated on the draw and start to commit lots of people to attack. And he keeps on doing the same crosses trick which i gladly anticipate to block. He keep on repeating the same cross on and on and on eventhough he know he cant score. It looks like he just had a mind block and i took full advantage of this when i slot the winning goal in extra time. Again i was playing with 10 men.




So as you can see it is not what you can do that matters. Its what your brain can do that matters. So when you play always remember that life dont always go to the strongest or fastest man, but often the man who win is the man who THINKS he can!



So play beautiful football ^^

Defending: Goalie

In defending section, we will cover all the stuff about defending. Although i am not really that good in this area but at least i can still help with the basic.



I believe everyone here have undergo a situation where you have to defend 1 on 1 or a situation where it is most likely you gonna concede. And the only one who can stop you from concede any goal is your GK. But i believe everyone can see that sometimes they are not reliable as well.



Well here is some trick that i wanna share with you using graphics below:

1 on 1 Situation

During 1 on 1 situation or similar situation to this, you must be ready to use your GK as your last resort. It is very important to anticipate the speed and the position of the striker. The striker is most dangerous when he is walking because this show that your opponent is anticipating any movement from your GK. So be very careful when he is walking.




Now when the striker is this near to your box, it is time to bring out your GK. When you bring out your GK, do not bring him out from the small box yet. At this moment you will be playing mind games with him. Plus by keeping your GK in the small box it will reduce the chances for the striker to score because you are closing the angle for him to shoot. But if you come out of the box and the striker is still a distance from your GK, its gonna be a piece of cake for the striker to score.

Anticipation Time

When your GK is about to come out from the small box, try to anticipate the striker movement. See is he going to shoot or still moving forward. If he still moving forward then bring out your GK all the way to grab the ball. If the striker wanna shoot, pull back your GK to cover up the space expose at the far post. This should be enough to stop a few goals from going in.



Now there are disadvantage by using this method. If the striker do a dummy shot then most probably it will result in a goal in the end. Even the striker can also do a chip shot if your opponent is good at it. But all of this can be minimize by doing a lot of practice using this method. You might be expecting a few free goals when you 1st started using this method but once you've understand the concept you can make Julio Cesar into Buffon in no time. You can also stop any other common finishing by using this concept as well if you've already understand the concept.



In the end practice makes perfect. So play beautiful football ^^

Attacking: Mix Your Passes

In attacking section, we will discuss on the attacking area obviously.



Now some of us has this feeling that playing long ball is consider as cheap shot. Because of this we seldom do long ball and play more passes on the ground. Saying that its beautiful football to play without long ball and makes it more realistic.


I dont wanna debate on beautiful football because everyone has its own opinion about this issue. But what i would like to share is the benefit of mixing your passes.


Normally when we play just with ground passes, formation such as 433 and 424 can easily pressure the defence thus producing passing mistakes. So the only way to get out of this pressuring trap is to do a long ball to your midfielder.

424 Attackers Pressuring The Defense

It seems like there is no way out for the defender rite. The only way out against 424 is to play a longball to the midfielder.

1 Longball And You Free Yourself

As you can see, just by doing 1 simple long ball, you are set to demolish 424 defense with 6 attackers vs 6 defender. Now if you mix your passes correctly, you will be able to launch a successful attack against the defender even before they can react to your longball.

Mixing Up Passes And You Just Unleash A Deadly Attack

Just applying something simple to your play, you've just manage to punish any defensive mistake. If just focus on one type of passes, it is almost unlikely to do the above scenario. Besides that, mixing up passes does create what we so call beautiful football.


Hope this help everyone to understand the importance of mixing up your passes. So play attacking football ^^

New Structure For Better Quality

Starting from today, The FIFA Blog will be using a new structure. This is to ensure that The FIFA Blog will be able to produce article daily and to satisfied the readers need. This is also to thanks all the readers who have been supporting the blog.



The new structure is as follow:

• Monday:Motivation
• Tueday: Attacking
• Wednesday: Defending
• Thursday: Mentality
• Friday: Discussion And Debate

So by implementing this new structure, this will ensure The FIFA Blog to meets its 1st objective which is to give the latest and exciting tips and tricks for FIFA. At the same time, The FIFA Blog will be able to cover all aspect of the game. So no part will be left out.



Hopefully this will help all the players to improve more of their gameplay. Last word, play beautiful football! ^^

Attacking: Loopholes

Everybody likes to play attacking style of football rite? We love to see fast play, nice passes and deadly finishing. When we get the ball the only thing we think is the goal. If you like to do such thing, here is a tip that might make ur wishes come to true.


A good gamer is a gamer who knows how to find loopholes in their opponent's defence. Although every opponent have their own defending style, but every formation have their loopholes as well.


For example:

The arrow indicating the loopholes

As you can see 442 have loopholes in between their players. Passes that revolves around this loopholes is very hard to def because it is their natural weakness. That is why formation like 433 can easily penetrate 442 because their natural position revolves around 442 loopholes.

433 position are naturally at 442 loopholes

Every formation have different loopholes. Passes that you normally do against 442 doesnt really work against 433 because of different loopholes. Passes that you normally do against 433 also doesnt work on 442. That is why it is very important to understand every formation advantage and disadvantage.



So to be a good gamer you must understand both your opponent and yourself. With this knowledge, any defense in the world even if its like a brick of wall you can penetrate easily.


So play attacking football! ^^

Spotgamers

In Malaysia, currently we have a few medias who actually doing coverage about gaming. But sadly there not much exposure done for the gamers. So the gamers are always left out and became unknown to the public. This in the end harm their way to attain sponsorship because there are not much publicity done for the gamers.


So this is where Spotgamers come around. Spotgamers- Your Delicious Gamers News, is the only online media in Malaysia that only focus on gamers. Imagine MTV+ESPN+E! Entertainment channel. Spotgamers going to interview gamers, do match review, write hot gossips and hot stories, give coverage to tournament and much much more. By doing this, Spotgamers hope that this will allow more exposure for gamers in Malaysia to be known to the community.



For more info about this, why dont we go to their website at http://spotgamers.blogspot.com ^^

WCG And CEL Games Prelim

For some reason, it seems that this year there are just tons of tourney for us to grab. There are so much improvement and happening every year. It is a good positive sign for the gaming community.


This weekend itself, we gonna have 2 major tourney in Malaysia which involve FIFA which is WCG Final and CEL Games. Here are the dates for each tourney:



CEL Games:

21st June: Tbun, Wangsa Maju, KL
28th June: FTZ Asia.net, SS15 Subang Jaya
11th/12th July: Midvalley Megamall, KL (Prelim and Final)


WCG Malaysia:

College Preliminaries

APIIT College TPM
Date: 21st June, 2008, Saturday
Games: FIFA Soccer 2008 & Counter-Strike 1.6
Register with: thegekkostate@gmail.com

KLMUC (Cosmopoint) Jln Sultan Ismail
Date: 28th June, 2008, Saturday
Games: FIFA Soccer 2008 & Counter-Strike 1.6
Register with: Cik Aminah from Student Services

KDU College
Date: 30th June 2008, Monday
Games: FIFA Soccer 2008 & Counter-Strike 1.6
Register with: Ms. Stephanie, Student Services

MMU Cyberjaya
Date: 4th July 2008, Friday
Games: FIFA Soccer 2008 & Counter-Strike 1.6
Register with: Eddie, kumhon@gmail.com

Sunway University College
Date: 28th July 2008, Monday
Games: FIFA Soccer 2008 & Counter-Strike 1.6
Register with: Victor, 012-9777519

Cyber Cafe Preliminaries

EXC Cafe, Pandan Perdana
Date: 21st June 2008, Saturday
Games: FIFA Soccer 2008
Register with: Kong, 0126099276
Address: NO 9-GM, Jln Perdana 4/1 , Pandan Perdana, 55300 Cheras KL

EXC Cafe, Pudu
Date: 29th June 2008, Sunday
Games: Counter-Strike 1.6
Register with: Kong, 0126099276
Address: NO 14 , Lorong Brunei Dua, Off Jalan Pudu, 55100 KL

EXC Cafe, Seri Kembangan
Date: 12th July 2008, Saturday
Games: FIFA Soccer 2008
Register with: Kong, 0126099276
Address: NO 30-1, Jln 4/1, Tmn Bukit Serdang, Seksyen 4, Seri Kembangan, Selangor

EXC Cafe, Kuchai Lama
Date: 19th July 2008, Saturday
Games: Counter-Strike 1.6
Register with: Kong, 0126099276



Different than CEL Games, WCG also doing prelim at colleges around Klang Valley. So for those of you who are still studying at college, lucky you!


For more info about registration and other stuff you can login to each respective website at my.worldcybergames.com and www.celgames.com.my

Clan?

What is the role of a clan?


Why do people actually create clans? Izzit to dominate the gaming scene? To be the best? To be in a gang? To encourage more competitive gaming? Or To be gay with each other?


Now the reason of a clan being created can be varied. It can either be all of the above or none of the above or might the last one on the above. lol


But what i know is clan was created by a group of gamers who play the same game or might have different division of game as well.


For me, the clan role in the gaming community is to ensure that the gaming community will remain strong,healthy and growing or you can say productive.


For example, in the previous years there was hardly any tournament around. Even if there was a tournament, its pretty hard to fill it up the slot. Imagine if you are not in a clan, you alone will not do much help for the tournament itself. But when your in a clan, you go there as group and thus can confirm that at least 10 spots will be fill.


Now this is only if 1 clan. If we have 2-3 clan? Then up to 30 spots can be fill up easily. So to get the spots fill easily will not be hard anymore. Plus the clan in Malaysia are not picky as well. Even small tourney and oversea tourney we still join as well. For example last year there was a FIFA tourney in Dotcom8. Up to almost 60++ ppl turn up in such a small tourney! Even this year MMU Cyberjaya held their own cybergames tourney and it was a success. Thats show how we trully appreciate the organizer effort to held a tourney.


Plus being in a clan is fun! Your in a group with the same people who have the same interest with you. You can share skills, joke fool around or even go to karaoke together. Even when times was hard in the gaming scene we all can still stand together because everyone is supporting each other. If you were playing alone, you dont have anyone to support you or to motivate when you were down. Many people said that gamers are not good in communication skills. But if you were in a clan, this will help you tremendously because you have to interact with your clanmate as well. For me, although i am from an english speaking family but I learn how to speak english better because im in a clan. And currently starting to pick up some chinese language as well. Ni Hen Piao Liang, Wo Ai Ni. LOL


And clan will produce great gamers as well because you will be able to practice and share skills together with your clanmate. This you can see from other clans as well where most of the top gamers in Malaysia are from a clan. Not just in Malaysia but the whole world as well. This will help the gaming community to produce a world class gamer that everyone in the world would look up to.


Although its good that all clan will always participate in any tourney, but to be more professional the clan must also give back something to the gaming community as well.


For example, W|nDs has develop our very own W|nDs Youth Academy which would teach the younger generation how to play FIFA. Plus W|nDs has also develop a policy where from now on we are going to accept players only from the W|nDs Youth Academy. So we will not going to accept anyone above 21 at the moment. With this youth academy. we can confirm that there the tradition will never die after the veteran has retired one day. So there will always be a streamline for new blood.


Another example is The FIFA Blog which i have created to share my knowledge in FIFA to the public. You guys can check it out at rinieramli.blogspot.com.


So this is how the gaming clan help the gaming community by making it strong,healthy and growing or you can say productive. The clans are not here to dominate but rather to set up a benchmark standard for others to follow. At the same time gaming clans in Malaysia must also find out ways to help the gaming community beside joining tourney. Because our community is not big, we must be creative and find out ways to make our gaming community the best in the world.


So i hope that this will clear things out about our existence here as a clan. Although there are a sign of dominance of a certain clan in the gaming community, we are here to help the gaming community, not to destroy it. Just like Eminem lyrics in his song Toy Soldier " Why must we destroy the things we help build?"


And I hope that this will encourage more gamers to create their own clan as well. Come together we will change the gaming community and make our gaming community the best in the world. Together we are strong! ^^

Computex 08-Part 2

Sorry for the long delay. There are just tons of thing i need to catch up since i came back from Taipei. Anyway here is the moment that you have been waiting for... pics!!






Amazing




Trying Guitar Hero in 3D




Sorry man cant give you the motherboard freely.lol




Outside




Our organizer and frens




Night in Taiwan




AMD guys.




dance




another dance




With Abit Strongman




Cosplay




errr... hehe...




Flying without wings.




Cheerleader




Cosplay again.



The Crowd




Guy and girls




Being gay for a moment~ lol




Taipei 101




Dog show




Playing on stage




With the emcee


Orait thats all folks! Sorry i cant show too many show girls pics because it would be off topic from The FIFA Blog. LOL But if you guys would like to see more can always get it from my friendster.



So what do i learn from this experience? I learn no matter where you are in this world, the most important and the only thing you need to do is to...


Smile ^^




Looks like a real footballer eh? lol