DOTASG now is DotaSG, and has been ported over to new webhost.

We have officially moved to a new webhost courtesy of Lanlab Online.

So this blogsite will be officially decommission until further notice or when there is a need to use for it again.

Sad that we have to leave here but happy that we have a newer home for DotaSG.

So to all who have been visiting us regularly please still enter DotaSG.com to access our Dota community site.

Thank you all. See you there are the new site!!

Love you all.

Ah Beng

Ah Beng n. pl. Ah Bengs

1. Stereotype of typical uncouth and uncivilized person often shown through improper dresscode during social functions or unmatching haircolor during family dinners.
2. A condescending discriminatory insult.
3. DOTA players with poor ethics and bad manners. And tend to suck as well.
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AC: good good. we managed to get into the game
M: hohoho



(The game is full)

Monstakilla: oi, all rdy?

kavmaster: wait host.

Monstakilla: ??????????

kavmaster: wait, i got 3 more friends coming

Monstakilla: fukla, which one?

AC: (wtf??) kick kavmaster. less hassle.

kavmaster: huh don't kick me

kavmaster has left the game.

AC: good kick. 10 9 10 8.5 10

AC: 0.5 for technicality.

(awkward silence)

chilla84 has joined the game.

AC: (To M) they didn't understand...

AC: (To M) dammit another ah beng team..

Pardon the above scenario. I'm just venting my frustration but I think at one point of another we've encountered a team that fits this stereotype. They are semi coherent, uncultured, probably have read only 2 books a year (if flipping through the pages of FHM or COSMO to look for nipple shots is considered 'reading'), taunt you with broken Singlish for the slightest things (like narrowly surviving your Lina combo) and spam the channel with GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGs. Ah bengs.

Of course one might argue that they are just a bunch of immatured children, which cannot be denied either but this is hard to tell when you are trying to visualize the person behind the persona over Battlenet. Then again, it can be said that ah bengs have just about the same mentality as these immatured children, with more spunk.

The thing is, how do we deal with such people? Especially when they begin to hurl insults at you in the game, or threaten to disconnect. Banlists don't scare these people. They may have the articulacy of a washing machine, but they do know how to create a new account on Bnet after having got banned once before for their meticulous disconnective behaviour.

Today I've come up with a list of way to deal with them, which also comes with a figure that indicates the chance of success as based on my past experiences and random observations.

1. Pro Silence

Pro silence is the term I give to people who tend to be excellent in the game, but never once will they utter a word. You can talk to them for hours telling them the plan, and you'll never know if they actually did hear you, but somehow your plan works out and you find yourself winning the game; communication regardless.

In my experience, pro silence does nothing to deter the stereotypical ah bengs, as they will continue to barrage you with insults after insults which in itself does not hurt, but this takes their focus off the game and they tend to die easier. The ultimatum is a downward spiral of the game as dying, the ah beng finds himself blaming you for the deaths even more and thus tries to throw even more insults at your silent name.

The silence makes them uncomfortable. Chance of success: 0%

2. Retaliate!

Sometimes you've had a bad day, or more like your girlfriend has a bad day, and thus you are affected, and as a result when that ah beng pisses you off, you return by lashing out at him in the same common denominator vulgar language that he's so very well versed in.

Like the saying goes, never try to argue with an idiot, he only brings you down to his level and beats you from experience. Chance of success: 0%

3. Be Nice

If the going gets rough, you need sandpaper. Thus when an ah beng decides to make you the sole focus of his uncalled for angst, you should try to resolve it by talking things out with the angry bugger. Every remark is returned with a polite sentence, pretty smilies and all. Give him what he wants, and let him have things his way. Perhaps he'll mellow down.

This method is promising, because after all, everyone knows that ah bengs just want people to understand them, which is to see things their way, which in short means to agree to their every whim. This ultimately fails because Apple's Law dictates that there are always 2 or more Ah Bengs in any given public DOTA game.

Chance of success: 1%

4. Play Psychologist

Perhaps we could try to unravel the mind of an ah beng, and thus be able to understand them which might result in a mutual understanding of their kind with us. However, any attempts to deconstruct the ah beng psyche is dangerous and risky as in trying to do so, you might be sucked into their ever constant playground of a mind and turn into one of them.

In my experience, it doesn't work trying to counsel or console any ah bengs either as they barely fail to understand your language if you do not place cuss words in between every 2 words and type sentences longer than half of their screen. Besides that, their minds automatically filter out words with 6 characters or more. We know that much at least, and it wasn't easy getting that information.

Hence, don't ever try to understand an ah beng. Chance of success: 0%

5. Quit the game

Can't take the mental abuse? Don't like the way your bengnemies are treating you? Can't stand that ah beng with the BKB-ed Naix who keeps destroying Moonwells in your base and then laughing about it as if it were something new? Well, there's always the easy way out. For no stress and effort at all, just press the magic Alt-F4.

But that would make you a leaver. Chance of success: -

6. Discuss it on DOTASG!

Apparently I've run out of ideas, but I'm sure someone who reads this site has better experience at this sort of thing. I mean, forget the Ah Beng part. It's a sour stereotype for such players, but what else do you call these people who lack ethics and in the game.

The DOTA community is growing by day, and it's without a doubt that the bad eggs are just about there in any game for that matter but it's high time we taught these people some manners!

The question is, how?

posted by The Incredible Nobody at 2:00 AM 12 comments

Hmmm..........

MvP wins e-games dota tourney

It has been reported by our contacts on-site that MvP has won e-games dota competition and G.A.M. has came in second. Congrats to both teams for a job well-done :)

New event hot from the oven for 2005 - 2006 crossover!!

There will be a countdown celebration event at E2Max, and two games wil be played. Dota and Wc3.

Below are the information quoted from Warcraft Singapore.

Date/Time: 31st Dec 2005 10pm - 1st Jan 2006 12pm
Venue: Cathay Cineleisure Orchard E2Max
Tournaments: Single Elimination
DOTA All-Stars (16 Teams)
WarcraftIII (32 players)
Registration is FREE and based on a first come first served basis.
Prizes sponsored by Creative (Xi-fi soundcards)

To register, kindly pm Herman in www.warcraftsingapore.com your team/player details as follows:
*DOTA Teams, please provide all 5 members particulars.
Team/Clan Name:
Full Name:
Nickname:
NRIC:
Email:
Mobile:

Source: Warcraft Singapore

Official Welcome to 2 New DOTASG crews.

Let's give a round of applause and warm welcome to our two newest crew member for DOTASG, LooneyToonz and Idel!!!



Welcome to the family.

Top 32 of e-games tourney

Teams that have made it into the top 32 of e-games tourney so far are :

DGN
PoTA
L.I.F.O.S
! Smoke !
TTK
Team Sacrilege
Ravage Team Extreme
SY
Tong Xin Yuan
Snaidn1
TRD
Fated
Pussy Cats
Love Owning
Freshmeat
G.A.M

I will try to go down earlier today to see if i can take some pics or give some report on the day's happenings. No promises though, stay tuned ! :)

Another Dota Competition in Dec?

While browsing through Warcraft Singapore's website, I came across this post about a dota competition at Zion Cyber Cafe. This event was earlier schedule to run in Nov but has been postponed to Dec.

More information about this competition can be found here.

http://www.warcraftsingapore.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2241&page=1&pp=15

Source: Warcraft Singapore

OT: Dual Slayers Championship

Great news for Halo2 players out there who are dying to see some actions. An event supported by Rapture Gaming will me taking place next saturday at X Square(Dobby Ghaut). Here are some informations about the competition.

Location: X-Square Dhoby Ghaut

Time: Saturday, December 17th 2005, 12-6PM

Tournament Type: 2V2 Team Slayer

Tournament Format: Best 2 out of 3 Matches, Single Elimination Format

Tournament Rules: WCG 2V2 Rules, with matches shortened to 15 minutes due to time constraints. A list of unwanted offences will be revealed at the beginning of the tournament. Yellow Card Rule will be used (More than 2 offences throughout the tournament, you're out, no questions asked).

First Prize: One Wireless Xbox Controller each.

Second Prize: One Logitech Keyboard & Mouse each.

Third Prize: One Logitech PC Headset each.

Teams needed: 16

Registration Fee: $10 a team, payable at entrance.

Registration Closes: December 12 2005, 11:59PM, Singapore/BOB Time (shown at bottom of this page) First come, first serve. Once we have 16 teams, registration closes automatically.

Signup slots are filling up fast, check this thread out if you are interested to take part.
http://www.bob.com.sg/forum/showthread.php?t=21418&highlight=rapture

Off Topic: More Lime's Quake 4 Event Information.

A picture tells a thousand words.

About is a scan of Lime's Quake4 event's advert. This event will be held on coming Sat at E2MAX at 9th floor of Cineleisure.

Today will be your last chance to signup for a chance to show fellow quakers your leet quake skill and stand a chance to win some cool prizes.

Signup at http://www.rapturegaming.com/quake4/register.php now.

For those that already signup, remember to turn up at 11am sharp and you are required to bring along one copy of lime magazine.

Good Luck and Have Fun.

SOS: DOTASG's Forum is Dying, Please Save It.

Well *sob* *sob*, if you have notice, our page hit number is ever increasing but our forums are very very quiet. It's so quiet that I can almost hear a pin drop clearly in there.

A recently post brought up the topic about our dying forums and start me thinking what went wrong. If you all have any suggestion on how to make it alive please feel free to let us know.

Thus, I am giving a SOS shoutout to all out loyal visitors, enemies, partners, competitors and most importantly, our DOTA community guys and gals, please try to make use of the forums to communicate with one another. You are welcome to post stuffs in it.

DOTASG and it's forums are create to enable interactions between gamers and clan and provide a place where everyone can chill out and share ideas, game strats and anything under the big yellow(or is it orange) sun.

All the kind souls out there, please give it your kiss of life.

Rapture's DOTA Season 2 and Tekka Mall's ArcticZone Event Results

DotA Allstars:
W Group
1st LoL Lercoaster.
2nd Sacrilege Team
3rd Team Sacrilege

L Group
1st Raging. Pussies
2nd 6600

Warcraft III
1st GosuBay
2nd FlyShow
3rd mVp.ICE

CounterStrike Source
1st Titans
2nd PDM
3Rd Simplicity

Off Topic: Lime Magazine's Quake 4 Competition.

Lime is organising a Quake 4 competition that will take place at E2Max(Cineleisure Level 9) on the 10th of Dec.

Sign up at www.rapturegaming.com/quake4/register.php and brace yourself for the slaughter fest.

No Guts No Glory.