Glory and Hats Awaits in Fame and Fortune




THE FAME YOU LONGED, THE FORTUNE YOU SEEK

The guild has been awful quiet recently. At its prime, SIL has had multiple consecutive lobby games going, with a total of around 30-50 active consecutive players at a time. We have observed that the The International 5 Compendium has changed this. To get our guild up and running once more, we have come up with an idea that will hopefully pique your interest.

Introducing "Fame and Fortune", a MVP system where the players decide who performed the best within their respective games. What's in it for you? Glory. Multiple instances of glory and recognition by your fellow guildmates, and the Treasure of the Nested Cache at the end of the MVP rainbow.



Participation is fairly simple. All you have to do is play lobby game with your SIL guildmates and be the best! 

Procedure:
1. Head into an SIL lobby game (don't forget, pass is silgg).
2. Play, enjoy, and do your best to win it for your team.
3. Vote for who you think was the MVP in your game.

The MVP for a game is determined by the highest number of MVP votes. Players may not vote for themselves. Instead, voting for someone else automatically gives one self-vote.

e.g. Game 1 has Players A, B, C
Player A votes for Player B: A = 1, B = 1, C = 0
Player B votes for Player A: A = 2, B = 2, C = 0
Player C votes for Player A: A = 3, B = 2, C = 1
Player A is MVP of Game 1.

Failure to vote for someone else results in no self-vote.

Players may vote through any means that works best, be it the in-game chat, the guild chat, or a separate chat channel entirely. It's all up to you. Just make sure someone can screencap the post-match results as lobbies do not appear on Dota 2 profiles or other site media. What you do with the screencap and vote results? Email to us at sildota.contacts@gmail.com with subject " FAME & FORTUNE"! Example shown below.


The attached screencap should look something like this.
RADIANT
.Kawolee voted for Tez
Aaaaaaa.L voted for Tez
最牛KICK水哥 voted for Tez
Tez voted for Aaaaaaa.L
Juk voted for Tez
DIRE
Only me voted for Radnedge
Radnedge voted for Tez
WindForce voted for Radnedge
Biksbull voted for Radnedge
Fai D. Flowright voted for Only me

The result shows Tez has 6 votes, including one self-vote upon participating in the voting and Radnedge has 5 votes, including the self-vote. Clear winner for this Fame and Fortune (mock) lobby goes to Tez.

Certain members have been delegated to be in charge of generating lobbies for you to participate in, and head the voting system. But remember, anyone and everyone can host a lobby, so you have no need to wait for a lobby to be created for you. Yes, you can start one yourself! The more lobby games that you join, the higher the chances of being considered MVP. The first round will end on 20th July 2015 tentatively.

Guild rules are still in effect. We are especially strict about abusive and harmful behavior in the community. People who violate the rules will have no chance to be considered MVP, and will be dealt with as per guild rules.

Each game gives one player an MVP point. These MVP points will be tallied at the end of a certain timeframe and the player with the most MVP points at the end wins the prize. There will be multiple timeframes.

Now, don't be too complacent just because you think you're good. The total won't be based off of YOUR games, but the TOTAL number of lobby games played within the timeframe. You may have a 100% MVP point rate, but someone else may have played 4 times as many lobbies as you and gotten just enough MVP points to overthrow you.

What are you waiting for? Start making the plays!

Any inquiries, please approach any of the available admins through Steam or in-game.

SIL-IXDL Private League



EXPERIMENTAL IXDL PRIVATE LEAGUE

As the guild has gone a little inactive in this few weeks, we have decided to rent an IXDL server. We had this server running for few weeks, and only will last for a month unless we decide to continue it. This is an experiment to test run the crowd and dedication to host and play within our guild, before The International 5 and SIL Season 2. Our fund can only support a 25-users server in IXDL currently, and remember this is an experimental league.


As you can see above, we have a list of familiar names in the server. If you are interested in joining us, please leave us a comment or contact any of the available admins in the guild. We are currently full, but we will try our best to make some slots for most members to try it out. To expand the user slots need some funding, and we are in the midst of settling that. Please be considerate on this issue.

Find more information about IXDL here. Any inquiries, please contact us by emailing to us.

Now, the real question. Would you donate us (for example $5 per person) to play on our own IXDL private server, and support us on other costs?

We desperately need some funds to run this server and other costs to maintain our guild, also create more good activities. Please provide us your valuable inputs, we are glad to hear them out. If you like what we are doing here, please support us by donating. You may click the "Donate" button on the right.

Thank you very much. Good game, and have fun.

SIL Season 2 Teaser


LET US ALL BE REBORN ONCE AGAIN, AS FIVE.

Dota or Dota 2, a game that requires a full 5 men cooperation to bring out the best result at the end of a match. When one fall, we will have the other 4 to back you up. A game of teamwork, no one should be left behind.

"Go in as one, and we brace the outcome together, for the good or bad."

As we had a quite successful run on our first tournament, SIL Season 1 Captain's Draft, we will come up with the next install – SIL Season 2. Concrete details will not be released too soon but Season 2 will definitely come after The International 5 and we expect it to arrive on early September 2015. We would like to invite all interested participants to start gathering your teammates and form a solid team before the next exciting season comes.

With 2 more months to go, this allows us to have more time to #polish our final deets and please expect the better from us. We will strive to be the best.

You may have heard or seen news about our SIL-IXDL Private League. Please note this is still on an experimental stage. We will talk more about it in our next blog post.

Any inquiries, do not hesitate to contact us.

SIL Captain's Draft Season 1 Concludes!



CONGRATULATION TO 3 POKEMON 2 SADBOYS

May 19, 2015 - SIL Captain's Draft Season 1 concludes after four long weeks. At first, we had 18 + 6 teams participating in our tournament. Plenty dropped but we didn't stop because we want to see success of our epic series.

On May 17, 3 Pokemon 2 Sadboys showed their worthiness as they rise from the lower bracket up to the Grand Final against Trojan Horse Was a Unicorn. In Game 1, we have invited Xyclopz to cast and he humbly accepted our invitation. Even though it was just one game, we still appreciate on his time and cast before he went off to cast for The International 5's Open Qualifiers.

Trojan Horse Was a Unicorn took the first game convincingly but 3 Pokemon 2 Sadboys strikes back with 3 solid games after their defeat in game 1. Final score shows 3 to 1 with 3 Pokemon 2 Sadboys crowned as our very first SIL Captain's Draft Season 1 champion!

Fret not, the other 2 teams that got beaten by 3P2S. You all will be awarded as promised. All the prizes will be distributed as shown below.


On behalf of the SIL committee, we thank every teams for their participation in this much flawed tournament (but we tried our best). We promise to give back more and organise better tournaments in the following seasons. As Season 1 ends here, we will start preparing for the next. If you have any feedbacks regarding Season 1 or suggestion for Season 2, do not hesitate to comment below or e-mail to us. We will have more updates on our subreddit /r/sealdota2 so stay tuned!

Honorable mentions to all the members who helped us, and they are Chilyn, NaTaN, IndianoJonez, Kate, RandomNoob, and Otomo. Finally, give a round of applause to all the SIL committee members - croutons5, BangBang, Xyz, Aaaaaaa.L, Thawne/Deimos, Tofu, and Aeolus. Without these guy, show will not go on.

Oh! Not to forget about our sponsors. Thank you TryHardGaming and Logical Increment sponsorship in this season.

Any business or tournament sponsorship inquiries, do contact us by hammering the Contact tab above!

The Voidhammer & Black Nihility



BASH ONTO YOUR FACES

May 10, 2015 - We have received a generous contribution moment ago. This player has actually contributed us FIVE(5) The Voidhammer, Faceless Void's cosmetic weapon. He requested to remain as anonymous but let's call him Mr. X. On behalf of SEA Dota2 Inhouse League, a big thank you to this amazing Mr. X.

As good news comes, the winning team of SIL Captain's Draft Season 1 will receive the additional The Voidhammers on top of the two sets. We hope this could motivate the remaining teams in the tournament, and do all your best.

by croutons5

Good news don't stop there. Our sponsor TryHardGaming is hosting a giveaway for the Nightstalker Immortal Black Nihility from the Immortal Treasure I of The International 5's Compendium. One set will never be enough, so there are a total of three sets to be won! You can participate by clicking here and follow the instructions from there.


Other than items, we like to update every participants to take note on the brackets and schedule. As we approach near our tournament deadline, we are forced into a position where we have to schedule the game on a fixed time. This doesn't mean no reschedule is allowed as mentioned before, so you may e-mail us as soon as possible. Reschedule mail(s) after Sunday midnight will be reconsidered. Look at the schedule now https://goo.gl/44pLBj to avoid any upset or misunderstanding.

As you might notice, we have moved ever so slightly on the Lower Bracket. We actually messed up the seeding on the lower bracket so we fixed it before anything goes wild. This arrangement ensures a fairer group seeding.

Before we end this, we wish every team and players all the best. Don't give up but try to give all you can in a game, no matter it's 15 minutes or 2 hours long.

AAP Drops Out



SECOND PHASE, ANOTHER DROPS

May 3, 2015 - SIL Captain's Draft Season 1 has a minor or some would say major to you. Lower Bracket updated as APEX ALPHA PREDATORS or AAP has dropped out from the second phase of SIL Captain's Draft Season 1. Due to this, we have contacted Supreme Leader on the replacement but they are unable to make to the brackets. As they can't make it, we have decided to get the team just below Supreme Leader in the standings. Croutons+4 will be replacing AAP from now on.

Our method on distributing the matchups
This change also made us realise we should reconsider the standings and brackets. As above shown, there are minor changes on the team matchups but games will still go on. We have posted on our subreddit regarding scheduling too. Teams do check it out.


The upper bracket remains unchanged. In fact, we will have a match tonight. Midas or Feed vs. YX FANBOYS from the upper bracket at 9PM (Sunday) in a best of 3 format. You may watch the matches over on DotaTV under Amateur and find "SIL Captain's Draft Season 1".

SIL Captain's Draft Season 1 First Phase Ended!




SIL SEASON 1 ROUND ROBINS ARE DONE

May 1, 2015 - 14 days of SIL Captain's Draft Season 1 round robins have come to an end. Results are out. 12 teams will be advancing to the next phase – Midas or Feed, Trojan Horse Was A Unicorn, T-rex Hates Push-ups, 3 Pokemon 2 Sadboys, YX FANBOYS, APEX ALPHA PREDATOR, Katipunan Elite ForceYOLO, Indomie Goreng, Clueless Int, No Idea, and lastly Team 143 means ily. Unfortunately, we will not have any tiebreaker for the two 12th places. Therefore, Team 143 means ily advances. Reason being Team 143 means ily has won against Supreme Leader in their previous matchup.

**Mistake on standings! YX FANBOYS and 3P2S have the same score of 10-4. YX FANBOYS will be in the Upper Bracket instead, because YX FANBOYS has won against 3P2S in the previous matchup.  Brackets & standings updated. Sorry about that!

The bracket will look like this. (We are sorry for being too stylish on the brackets)

All matches in BO3 except for Grand Final

Second phase matches will be starting as early as on Saturday. To accommodate every teams' desired schedule, we like to propose the idea of scheduling the matches yourself with the time slots we provide.  Time slots provided can be found with the following link http://goo.gl/CektzS.

Teams must contact each other to come into an agreement on a date and time we provide for Best of 3 games (except for Grand Final BO5). For instance, WB1 match's Midas or Feed must contact 3 Pokemon 2 Sadboys and both agrees to choose Saturday 5PM timeslot to play, or vice versa. After that, we will need both captains to e-mail us sildota.contacts@gmail.com the time. Please schedule your matches as soon as possible and you will have more slots in the future without delaying.

Example on e-scheduling

Secondly, we encourage the teams have their 5 main players with an extra stand-in forming a team of 6. In the future matches, we will not allow any stand-ins that are not registered unless emergency (we will judge on the matter). Rosters can be found with the following link https://goo.gl/eul7m5. Please gather and submit your full team asap if you haven't

We have received  several complaints regarding the unfairness of excessive stand-in and one-for-all stand-ins issue. After a few discussion, we will not allow Goguma and lyx standing in for ANY teams in SIL Season 1. We urge teams without complete 5 members to inform us and declare their 5 + 1 official stand-in before the double elimination starts. Any inquiries, you may list down in the e-mail too.

Other than that, our admin, croutons5 has requested the TOP 12 teams to submit their team logos and banners. The purpose of this is to make amazing visuals for the teams in this tournament. E-mail us now (with a proper subject title like "YOLO team logo")!

SIL Captain's Draft Season 1 is sponsored by TryHardGaming and Logical Increments.