Asian Gaming League’s first offline COD4 LAN in review.
The Asian Gaming League (AGL), an organization established in the beginning of 2011 had very modest plans of hosting an online league cup which has reached out to most of the players throughout the continent of Asia, certain Australian teams and even gathering the interest of South African teams.
During the second season of the Asian Gaming League, it managed to gather the interest of up to over 90 teams registering and nearly a hundred participants. With the success and reception the online league recieved, the management of AGL decided to take their organization a step further and organized the very first offline tournament for both Call of Duty 4 PROMOD and Dota under the AGL brand name. AGL also revived the offline tournament scene for PROMOD Malaysia after the game took an almost one year hiatus from offline competition.
Orange Cyber Cafe and eSports organization, a fellow reputable multigaming organization amongst the Asian community, well renowned for their championship winning teams of their respective genre’s were the venue sponsors for this offline LAN.
The LAN managed to gather the interest of 19 teams, a result beyond the expectations of the organizing management, as COD4 Malaysia has taken such a long break. Other high points include attracting participants from Pakistan, Indonesia and Korea to play along with the Malaysians.
For the first tournament running, Thermaltake eSports decided to join in the party as the main sponsor for prizes. Tt eSports generously provided awesome gaming peripherals as prizes for the top three placements for the event, making the winning value for the event bump up even more.
Aside from a strong and healthy turnout in numbers for the tournament, the level of gameplay has also bumped up alot. There were several upsets in the tournament, well established names such as teams FHM and SWL aBuse were knocked out in the early stages. Team Power Gaming II which was also establised fairly recently managed to knockout local Malaysian favoriates Orange eSports COD4 which recently took the Indian nVidia GeForce LAN convincingly, but only managed to finished in third place in this LAN after a very tough journey themsleves.
Gamestah JEDI Death Adder
Gamestah’s very own JEDI DA from Singapore, lent us his voice for the tournament, and is well reknowned throughout the South East Asian eSports community for providing highly vibrant commentary. On behalf of the organizing committee we would like to thank DA for his efforts and we also apologize regarding the technical difficulties his PC faced while casting; DA didn’t manage to cast certain matches and especially the very tight and climatic loser’s final. 
Power Gaming, Champions of AGL Kuala Lumpur’s First offline tournament.
All in all, it was a very succesful tournament for both the organizers and participants, with Power Gaming taking the crown.
To the rest of the community, we urge you to continue playing the game you love, practicing and keeping up with all other members in the community to further improve yourselves. The level of gameplay has gone up over the recent months of non-competitive play, and it still has much room for improvement and even more upset stories.
On behalf of the management and organizational community, we would love to thank the sponsors yet again for generously providing the event with such awesome new products. Thank you to the venue sponsors for providing us with very capable computers. Thank you to the supporters who supported the event in form of participation and just turning up to support friends. Finally thank you to the viewers who watched the stream of the games casted, and please remember to create a free account with Twitch.tv which takes less than five minutes to follow us at www.twitch.tv/agltv for more future content on Asian eSports in general. This form of support will not only support our stream but our organisation and eSports in Asia as a whole.
From the management, thank you very much and cheers!
Till the next tournament, see you boys and girl.
