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Are new clans rising in the DGL?

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Last year’s results were fairly predictable at the DGCs. The major Multi Gaming Organizations (MGOs) won the top awards as expected, with only a couple things going contrary to expectations. This year, we saw one major upset, and a couple clans seem to be making a name for themselves.

First up, the usual names. Energy and Bravado were still the most dominant at the DGCs. Energy picked up top spots at COD and LoL, as well as the number two slot at Dota 2; Bravado grabbed first in Dota 2 and Counter Strike, with a silver for COD. However, it’s the upset that’s most interesting.

Battlefield 4 was predicted to go to one of the top seeded teams – Bravado or xTc. For those who forgot, xTc made up the majority of that Southern Barbarians team that was top in the world for Battlefield. However, xTc only played two games at the DGC, getting knocked out of the championships early on. Bravado was also eliminated, beaten twice by APG (Aperture Gaming). APG would go on to take the BF4 championship in a major upset.

In-finity Gaming didn’t manage to grab the top spot for any game, but they did get second prize in Counter Strike and fourth place in Dota 2.

Sure, the local eSports landscape is still dominated by some familiar names and faces, but we are seeing a bit more diversity in this latest tournament. There was some controversy surrounding the BF4 results, as expected during any upset, but it’s still great to see how teams perform in the LAN championship environment – much like how international teams show different levels of performance at The International compared to other tournaments.

Beyond the excellent news that more and more clans are growing and improving, the best news to come out of the DGC weekend was how smoothly the championships ran. The organizers actually seemed calm as everything ran according to schedule and planning. With such a large scale event, it’s fantastic to hear how well organized and executed the whole thing went. Now, if only the thousands of attendees at rAge could have seen it.

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Last Updated: October 16, 2014

42 Comments

  1. Alien Emperor Trevor

    October 16, 2014 at 15:17

    Why was there controversy? Did someone have his Redbull switched out for Redbull Lite?

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    • RinceThis

      October 16, 2014 at 15:21

      Go gods man! Did they prove that?!

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    • Hammersteyn

      October 16, 2014 at 15:28

      No, some clans showed up with consoles at a PC event O_o

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      • RinceThis

        October 16, 2014 at 15:28

        Burn them!

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          October 16, 2014 at 15:32

          They burnt themselves when they bought a console. BOOOOOOOOM!

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          • RinceThis

            October 16, 2014 at 15:33

            0_O

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            October 16, 2014 at 15:35

            It felt so good letting that out. Ever since the restraining orders…

          • RinceThis

            October 16, 2014 at 15:36

            What did she say when you did? Another 10 years?

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            October 16, 2014 at 15:42

            And an extra 200m.

          • Admiral Chief 0

            October 16, 2014 at 15:41

            Oh snap!

      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        October 16, 2014 at 15:31

        Eish, are they okay? That must have been what JHB people feel like when coming to CT.

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        • RinceThis

          October 16, 2014 at 15:32

          Ask Martha, she’s on her way here now…

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          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            October 16, 2014 at 15:37

            Goddamn tourists! Git orf mah beach!

          • RinceThis

            October 16, 2014 at 15:39

            Asked Geoff to set his GPS for THAT area…

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            October 16, 2014 at 15:41

            Funny how they always end up in THAT area…

        • Hammersteyn

          October 16, 2014 at 15:37

          hahahaha

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      • Aidan Biet

        October 16, 2014 at 15:39

        It is a PC tournament yes. But DGL catered for Xbox COD because it’s a rapidly growing community and it’s the main platform internationally for COD. Activision themselves host the world champs for cod every year on the Xbox platform. Xbox is the future for COD. And only for COD. I do understand the confusion of seeing console players at the event ????

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  2. Blah

    October 16, 2014 at 15:28

    Re the controversy:
    Regarding the team that won BF4, their coach was seen tapping players on the shoulder at crucial moments, to indicate the direction the opponents were pushing, thereby being able to counter the attack. It was reported to tournament admins but little could be done about it. People were continuously told to stand back from players after this. I do not know if it continued nor if it influenced their result in any matches.

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    • RinceThis

      October 16, 2014 at 15:29

      Wow that is hectic man. Their damn coach? Wtf?!

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      • B4d R0b0t

        October 16, 2014 at 16:29

        Yup they had a coach who worked with them the whole year, he is based in Denmark a flew out on his own buck to attend the event and assist the team. The guy has a long standing reputation in the EU BF community, is a producer at http://www.twitch.tv/levelbf and an active member of the CTE team with direct contact to David Sirland. I can assure you he would never act in such a manner.

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      October 16, 2014 at 15:38

      That’s not cool if that’s really what he was doing.

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      • Mark Treloar

        October 16, 2014 at 16:08

        Yeah its like when you die, and then you get to control the cameras and drones so that you don’t get bored while your team mates are still playing.

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    • B4d R0b0t

      October 16, 2014 at 16:22

      @Blah Actually This is not true. The shoulder tap from Coach to the player who makes the call-outs was setup by me in the bootcamp. The reason for it was to keep the player “Toxicbunny” vocal and motivating the team, he tends to stop talking when he is dead or looking at the map overview and the logic was that he should constantly be vocal to keep up the tempo of the game. There were also rumors it had to do with screen watching but really all of this was started by a few players who were upset at loosing. Also to clarify the tournament director said there was no problem with the coach interacting with the team but because BVD complaied to the admins prior to their first game APG elected to stop doing this, BVD went on to loose the game anyway.

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      • Blah

        October 16, 2014 at 16:32

        If thats true, then its cool, no stress and congrats on winning. I suggest you find another way for your coach to relay a message. You need to understand from the perspective of people seeing this how it can get confused with possible cheating.

        Really glad you took down the monopoly clan. Please dont join them now that you’re the best – thats the only way they’re able to maintain “being the best”

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        • B4d R0b0t

          October 16, 2014 at 16:35

          Yea it was changed from a physical message to a verbal shout, but by that time the event was so noisy it made no difference to the other players. Initially at the bootcamp it was so quite that a shoulder tap was deemed best, as noted below the noise gets really bad near the end of the event anyway.

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          • Jonathan Edwards

            October 16, 2014 at 17:01

            Not to harp on the matter at hand, but just to maybe confirm what Badrobot said. I am in ApG and this so called tapping was not intended on being used to give “crucial moments, to indicate the direction the opponents were pushing” etc, it was purely used to motivate our caller (Toxic) and in-turn motivate us to play better. This is a problem that APG face, we go quiet and start playing worse (no calls are made etc). I’ve pretty much said the exact same thing on Facebook, our Coach stopped the tapping before our first bvd game every game after that we won. From then onwards our captain didn’t tap our captain on the shoulder he insead shouted at us to get motivated. 🙂 Hope you understand.

          • B4d R0b0t

            October 16, 2014 at 17:08

            Edit coach in you noob eddy!

          • Jonathan Edwards

            October 16, 2014 at 17:11

            Done 😉

        • Sean McCalgan

          October 16, 2014 at 17:55

          “Please dont join them now that you’re the best – thats the only way they’re able to maintain “being the best””

          ^ lol. Our line-up (Bravado BF4) has only acquired two new members in the past three-four years.

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          • Blah

            October 17, 2014 at 14:42

            The comment wasn’t aimed at your team. Ur likely going to get replaced by the new top team, so BVD maintains its “being the best” for the next season

          • Jonathan Edwards

            October 17, 2014 at 16:18

            Sigh….

      • noxville

        October 16, 2014 at 18:32

        Hey Miles, but why was a non-player interfering at all with the players? Like, everyone external to the game should remain external (including managers/coaches who can chat between games/matches).

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        • B4d R0b0t

          October 16, 2014 at 19:09

          Heya Ben, I think DGL/DGC Tournament director would be better suited to answer why they allowed coaches/mangers into the area or at least stand behind and interact with the teams, having said that ApG was not the only team to have a manager/coach stand behind them.

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          • Jonathan Edwards

            October 16, 2014 at 19:13

            Apparently an admin was spoken to by one of the teams saying that they didn’t like it how our coach was tapping Toxic on the shoulder, that admin spoke to a higher power. The “higher power” didn’t have any problem with it and said it is fine. (This is what I heard, so I am not going to say this is factual).

            When we heard about players complaining we stopped.

  3. Spaffy

    October 16, 2014 at 15:40

    WU-TANG!

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  4. Danie Nell

    October 16, 2014 at 15:41

    “Now, if only the thousands of attendees at rAge could have seen it.”
    The players at DGC make a lot of noise screaming and cheering.
    Its quite hectic and i dont know if it would be everyones cup of tea.

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  5. Spaffy

    October 16, 2014 at 15:51

    I like the “wheres-matty-i-havent-written-about-esports-in-so-long” tag at the bottom lol

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  6. Svarupa Singh

    October 16, 2014 at 17:41

    iFG <3<3<3

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  7. Sean McCalgan

    October 16, 2014 at 17:56

    xTc majority SB now it seems. ?!

    Grats again ApG.

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    • B4d R0b0t

      October 16, 2014 at 19:10

      Yea I saw that and was a bit confused, maybe someone from SB can supply the lineup with team names to LG for clarity.

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  8. Peter Pan

    October 17, 2014 at 08:33

    RsD: Relentless Defiance is on its way up. Expect them in the premier division soon!

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  9. jeck

    October 25, 2014 at 22:22

    So is setting up your pc’s the week before rage going to be allowed for everybody or only APG and friends?
    I have made a ticket with DGL asking the same question but seems nobody is willing to talk about it.

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