Why this sudden interest in players who don’t have a full-fledged clan?  Well, its very simple, they are the future.  DotA is a game that has a long learning curve.  So many heroes, so many spells and so many combinations.  It’ll take months before you learn everything well enough to enter the competitive arena.  It is also a team game, which means, you need at least 4 other players along with you.  After going through all that, if you go to a tournament, face the best there is and get beaten badly, well, its not exactly a pretty sight.  And this, we believe, is the problem faced by most of the gamers out there right now.  So, its up to the senior players to address this issue, which is exactly what that post is trying to do right now.

The above scenario is what a normal person sees.  But if yout want to beat the best, you can’t be bound to the views of a normal person.  The idea behind today’s gamer in India is very simple. You spend time with your friends, be ready to spend a few hundred bucks, have fun and learn something new from every game that you play or watch.  That is all there is to it.  Gaming isn’t a profession yet in India.  Gaming is neither sponsored much, nor motivated by public or corporates.  Gaming is something we do coz it is our passion.  It provides a medium to have fun, communicate, improve ourselves and struggle together to succeed.  Why give too much importance to winning & losing when participation is the key.

The opportunity provided by such events to face the best is what you should be looking forward too.  Form a team, that is the single most important part of competitive DotA.  Bring together 5 players who want to game, play with them, struggle together, that is how you really have fun.  Find your team & half the work is done.  Then keep finding reasons to stick with them and play hard.  Don’t just think about winning an event, think about winning an event with those 5 players.  Once you’ve formed a team, you are not alone, you can’t give up, you can’t lose and you can do miracles.  Even if you don’t win the event, you’ll still end up having great fun which combined with the competitive struggle is what this is all about.

To do our part in this, Ravi (IndianTiger) from ImbaGamer has proposed to host a purely online event just for the promotion of the game.  Of course, we’ll have prizes but not huge cash prizes.  Depending on the response in the thread, a decision will be taken soon.  Unfortunately, we are not in a position to hold yet another extravaganza right now.  Though there is immense support for ImbaGamer and our last event was a huge success with the gamers, somehow, we seem to be struggling with our finances right now.  But we are not worried about that and we want to help in any way we can.  So, post your thoughts there or here and we’ll come up with something pretty soon..

DotA is the acronym of- Defense Of The Ancients(DotA). It is a custom scenario for Warcraft III: The Frozen throne, based on the ‘Aeon of Strife’ map for StarCraft. Defense of the Ancients involves team work and strategy. It can be played as a 5 vs 5 multi player on a network. Few people test their might upon the infamous AI bots to experience the magic of superheroes in DotA.

Thanks to GG-Game.com for providing the wonderful “GG-client” without which it would have been impossible to get DotA accepted the way it is today worldwide. The success of DotA could be replicated by few other upcoming multiplayer games with Indian content. A DotA version where Indian mythological characters fight each other would be a treat to play.

We start off our endeavour with the DotA online tourney exclusively focussing on giving the new clans in India to test out their skills against the serious clans. The round robin formats give ample scope for each team to try and qualify for the LAN finals in hyderabad.

Online tournaments also provide a chance for gamers in Tier II and Tier III cities where ESWC or WCG might not reach out to. Some so called dead gaming cities are supposedly having more than 500 gamers playing in cafe’s every day. Gaming is never dead in any city, it only goes into hibernation when the visible superstars take a break; or when the local tourneys become insignificant.

We hope our participants all the best for the tourney.

On this Independence Day, we the imbagamer team provide you independence from the monotonous tournaments and their redundant formats in India. We provide gaming events all through the year, across all cities and try to reach out to every nook and corner of the country where gamers have not given up their “pro-gaming” aspirations.

To aid the acceptance of gaming and bring about the long cherished gaming revolution, we bring to you www.imbagamer.com, an opportunity for an exciting future in the field of gaming. We, in all possible ways, will create gateways with the anticipation that YOU would harness your incipient potential, hone your competitive spirit and give your 100 percent. Join us in our effort to widen the gaming spectrum in our country and to reach international standards in all aspects.

ImbaGamer Team