The Cinnamon Challenge

So I dared Andy ‘Iceman’ for $50 to swallow a lid full of cinnamon - no spoons around, had to improvise! You’ll notice in the video he thinks it’s the easiest $50 he has ever made. Oh rofl

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Once exams are over..

(At least for me lol) I’ll be holding another cash game.When: Either the 16th of November [Friday night] or Saturday 17th [Saturday]

Type: Cash game

Blinds: $.25/$.50

Buyin: $20 minumum, $50 maximum

Possibly a BBQ if theres enough interest, looking to start it in the AFTERNOON if it’s on Saturday

Map 6.48b

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DOTA 6.48b

6.48b Changelog
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* Fixed a bug when reloading saved game with Leshrac or Storm
* Fixed a big but rare MAC only (PPC not Intel) bug relating to Abaddon
* Lowered Puck’s Intelligence gain per level
* Increased cool down on Waning Rift
* Slightly reduced Shapeshift’s cool down
* Increased Reverse Polarity cool down from 120/100/80 to 120/110/100 seconds
* Increased Enigma’s base armor
* Rebalanced Chronosphere
* Fixed various Silence durations on non-hero units
* Fixed converted ghouls’ capacity to attack trees
* Slightly lowered Puck’s movement speed
* Fixed a rare fatal issue with Aphotic Shield that could happen in -sh or with converted units
* Increased Yurnero’s base armor
* Fixed a typo in Sanity’s Eclipse tooltip
* Increased Rooftrellen’s Agility per level
* Changed terrain command to be a host entered game mode (-ts/-terrainsnow). Please advertise this when you are hosting a game, not everyone likes a different terrain.
* Increased Tidehunter’s movement speed
* Restored the old duration based Shallow Grave
* Fixed fogged units not getting stunned from Dream Coil
* Fixed game mode parser to not error “invalid game mode” when a non-gamemode option is entered before the game mode itself (like -weather snow before -ap for example)
* Fixed Dragon Knight’s revive name
* Fixed Soul Assumption visual effect
* Increased Lycanthropy Wolves’ base armor
* Fixed a recent bug with Multicast Bloodlust
* Fixed various other minor typos
* Fixed damage type on Double Edge to deal magic damage instead of pure damage to yourself
* Added some better feedback text to -swap
* Slightly lowered Bristleback’s base armor

YES I KNOW THIS MAP HAS BEEN OUT FOR AGES.. It’s just news so there is an article under ‘dota’

ACNC MELBOURNE QUALIFIERS #1

UPDATE:
DICE have just defeated SnC on de_nuke and has secured an invite to the ACNC National final.As some of you already know, the team that is being fielded this week isn’t the full lineup but however a mix of players from the DICE community. The team that will be seen this weekend will be as follows:

George ‘beedee‘ Zhu
Jim ‘peKi‘ Jaeggi
Andrew ‘Evolution‘ Tran
Andrew ‘][ceman‘ Luong
Kevin ‘LOL‘ Ator

We wish them the best of luck in the hope of securing a spot in the ACNC Nationals later on in the year.

RESULTS:
DICE [16:08] MYR (de_train)
DICE [16:11] SNC (de_nuke)
DICE [03:16] IMMUNITY (de_inferno)
DICE [04:16] REDUX (de_train)

COVERAGE:
Brackets: http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=244608
HLTV: #1 | 203.88.117.154:27030 #2 | 203.88.117.154:27032

AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY NATIONAL COMPETITION (ACNC)

What is the ACNC?

Short for the Australian Community National Competition, the ACNC is a Counter-Strike 1.6 competition that will be held for the community by the community. There will be qualifiers held around Australia and New Zealand to determine who gets to attend the finals held later this year in Queensland.

There are a number of organisations and teams working behind the scenes to make this the biggest and best national competition seen in Australia. So far it’s been very successful in doing so as dates for qualifiers have already been released after a month of preparation. We hope to see the success of ACNC continue throughout the following months.

DICEVIP will be attending the first and possibly second Victorian qualifier in hope to score tickets to the finals. Held at ZoneAdrenaLAN Melbourne on the 13-14th of October you can find the team in action against other hopefuls in the first of two qualifiers.

The Queensland final will be held on the 24-25th of November. We hope to see you there!

OFFICIAL LOGO ANNOUNCED

As the topic states our trademark logo is officially here. It will become the main focus of branding for the team and will be seen in any form of media concerning the team. This will include images, videos and future clothing the team will be investing in.

For a proper look of the logo click here.

GOTGAMES 1.6 ZAM OPEN COMPETITION

With Winston ‘eck0‘ Ho temporarily in Darwin working the team will be using Jim ‘PEKi‘ Jaeggi formerly from PT to fill his shoes. He has been around the scene for quite some time now and with his wealth of experience and knowledge of the game he seemed to be the perfect fit for the current lineup.

DICEVIP Roster:
George ‘beedee‘ Zhu
Tony ‘tnyvo‘ Vo
Andrew ‘_andrew‘ Bui
Justin ‘Jing‘ Law
Jim ‘PEKi‘ Jaeggi

The team will be in action this Sunday at the 1.6 open competion held at ZoneAdrenalan Melbourne along side 5 other teams. This will be the first competition the team has attended after their dismal showing at the WCG.AU event last month, so be sure the team will be coming in hungry to win.

For more information about the event click here.

UPDATE:
The day has ended with the team coming 2nd behind the dF team. After previously defeating dF earlier in the day the team couldn’t repeat their performance in the final map. It was a good day all round, great games to all that attended.

(PEKi drinking peri peri sauce)

WORLD CYBER GAMES 2007 Weekend Recapped

What an eventful weekend it was up in Sydney, long delays and steam errors ruined the first day of the Counter-Strike 1.6 competition which had looked so promising. However the venue itself was simply amazing, gaming booths, hardware performance booths, fast cars and even a boxing ring filled up the venue.

The weekend began with the long drive up from Melbourne with very limited food. It took just under 11 hours to get to where we needed to be, the Sydney Tower’s.

(Apartment room)
After settling into our 5 star apartment room we had a little exploring session of the city and had a quick look at the LCC competition. This was pretty much all that was done on the first day as we were all knackered from the trip up.

(Sydney)
Second day began at 7.30am where we got our game faces on and headed out to the WCG venue for the opening ceremony and our first match at 9.30am. This wasn’t the case though due to all the delays there was no opening ceremony and our first planned match, well that just never happened. After 11 hours of waiting and having nothing to eat the competition format was changed from group stages to a double elimination bracket. DICEVIP finally had their first match against MERGE at 8.30pm where we were defeated 16-06 and after another hour of waiting around we played our loser bracket match against Alternate where we won 16-04.

The team quickly got out of the venue and headed straight for china town where we indulged in some Asian foods, no longer having grumbling stomachs we went back to our room and crashed out.

The final day of competition saw the team get defeated by ENEMY 16-12 and that was it for the DICEVIP team. Taking some last minute tourist photos and saying our farewells, the long WCG campaign had ended and it was time to head back to Melbourne.

Almost crossing the boarder back into Victoria we were extremely excited and ecstatic that we were out of NSW, but wait what’s that in the rear view mirror… blue and red lights lit up the mirror and we got pulled over. “Sir did you realise you were going 123km/h in a 100 zone”, said the officer. Received a speeding fine of $238 which could’ve been spent on plane tickets instead, how ironic. On that note the team all arrived back in Melbourne safely.

Sydney was a great experience overall, never seen a state that sold so many cars and had so many tree’s planted on the one strip of road. Driving across the Harbour bridge and seeing the Opera house was an experience of its own. Even though the team’s performance wasn’t as good as we had hoped for, the weekend away from Melbourne was great.

(DICEVIP WCG Team)Special thanks go out to the Vol Priv guys who showed us around the city and the Immunity guys for allowing us to use their keyboards.

Photos can be found in the media section of the website.

WORLD CYBER GAMES 2007 FINAL

“With around 70 countries worldwide competing in this global annual event, the National Finalists will be representing Australia in the PC games, Counter Strike 1.6 and WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne, and the console game, Dead or Alive: 4.

The Australian National Finalists will be gaming against 700+ players from 70 countries around the world. This includes countries such as China, Germany, France, Mexico, Korea, Japan and Russia. Gathering together at Quest Field, the world’s best gamers will fly to Seattle in October, 2007 to participate in the world’s most prestigious e-Sports competition.” - WCG.au

With just over a week to go before the official start to this years World Cyber Gamer national finals in Sydney, we take a look at the CS 1.6 competition and the team lineups that will be competing to represent Australia in Seattle later this year.

Victorian Qualifiers:
immunity - kram, coke, benor, yaman, snoopy
dice - beedee, tnyvo, bui, eck0, evolution
PT - gazr, peki, jnsie, andyoslo, destiny
snatch - dave, funboy, focus, gamz, coop

Sydney Qualifiers:
noX - kruz, jays, rook, nixske, bgz
5g - sommi, busta, choobie, inspire, george
volatile - heavyh, jairs, oxey, pingu, lukeft
monks - b0ostske, cheung, fear, pendejo, blarzee

Queensland Qualifiers:
RS - bal-scout, sponny, krowbar, doc, inc
athletico - burton, unpro, guru, joinus, swing
SG - davio, diggity, nath, spitty, rumil
enemy - byron, chode, fez, gonzo, TBA

Western Australia Qualifiers:
DNA - azza, ferg, flametroy, snyper, adz
merge - spunj, shinrisen, spanke, heno, TBA

South Australia Qualifiers:
alternate - zest, rish, mayhem, talon, rumeboy

AINC 2007 NATIONAL FINAL

With the AINC National Final only a nights sleep away we take a closer look at the team and the group they’ve been drawn in to.

DICE Team:
George ‘beedee’ Zhu
Andrew ‘bui’ Bui
Winston ‘eck0′ Ho
Justin ‘jing’ Law
Tony ‘tnyvo’ Vo

Group 2:
Merge
Enemy
NoxNoctis
Dice
2i

Merge (WA) and Enemy (QLD) come in to this group as the clear favourites to take out the 2 top spots, but this will not be a push over group. NoxNoctis (NSW) and 2i (VIC) have a very strong will to come out of these group stages on a positive note and have been consistently practicing leading up to this event.

With different styles of plays from each state competing, this will be a tough draw to pick who will come out on top. Watch the team compete for a spot in the final 8 tomorrow 2pm - 7pm AEST.

Coverage:
GotFrag?: http://www.gotfrag.com/cs/story/38912/”>http://www.gotfrag.com/cs/story/38912</a>
AINC: http://ainc.anythinginteractive.com
IRC: #ai.score1 - #ai.score2 - #ai.score3 - #ai.score4 #ai.score5 - #ai.score6

UPDATE:
Unfortunately the team has been knocked out of group stages after several close matches. Defeating Enemy (QLD) in the opening match it was looking promising for the team. However with a 13-17, 14-16 defeat by the hands of NoxNoctis (NSW) and Merge (WA) the team had no chance of prevailing from the group stages. Overall it was a great effort by the team.

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