DotA101: Sportsmanship

Just like any game, DotA will only have two results which is to win or to lose. In this kind situation, sportsmanship is the most important. In playing the game you need to be sports to avoid having enemies in the game. Be friendly during the game and be cold-tempered in order to play well. Be sensitive to each other to avoid arguments and listen to someone trusted by the team.

Trashtalk is one of the signs that a player is not a good sport. Trashtalking happens when a player speak disparagingly, insultingly or abusively about a person or the team. This is a bad attitude during the game because you can hurt someone’s feeling and might affect his performance in the game. This sign can cause trauma and might lowered his self-esteem. I already tried being trashtalked at trashtalking to other people. It feels so superior when you trashtalk to others but also feels so down when you are the one being trashtalked. So better watch out for your comments because it might be a trashtalk to them.

Playing fair is also part o f being a good sport. This is somewhat related to trashtalking because being a trashtalker is not playing fair. A fair game is played when it is peaceful; no pin-pointing of faults, no trashtalk and everyone is having fun. Play with your best at always to avoid irritating your teammates, this can cause an imbalance game if you refuse participate in full skills. Fair games might be rare but if all players have a good sense of sportsmanship then this might be common.

Whenever you experience those situations, don’t take it so serious Go on and play the game as what you are. Nevermind those people who trashtalk or cheat on the game. Just let them and play fair. The time will for you to avenge t hose kind of players. Anyway, we all learn from our mistakes. So just stay calm and DotA.

Intro: Dota101

DotA 101

(Defense of the Ancients)DotA is basically a multiplayer online battle mod for the video game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its expansion, the Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, based on the "Aeon of Strife" map for StarCraft. The objective of this game is to destroy all defending towers of each team and destroying the center building called The Ancient. Players are to choose a hero among all of the powerful heroes which will be their character for the game and will be assisted by AI-controlled fighters called creeps”. As a role playing, game players are to level up by earning battle experiences from killing the enemy creeps and heroes. As they kill the creeps and heroes they earn gold points which will be used to buy items and supportive supplies to accomplish the mission.

This game can be played alone or a team which is a five versus five which will be divided into two parties namely, “The Sentinel and The Scourge”. In the start of the game (5 versus 5), each players will have a staring gold of 603 and 4021 if played alone. After they pick a hero they should choose one among its four skills to be learned first, and the most useful in an early fight. In the map there are three lanes namely top, middle, and bottom. In the middle of the game, massive team fights are born which players call the “clash or war”. If they are put into this kind of situation, their eyes are the most useful organ that they can use. It keeps an eye for their hero to avoid it from getting killed.

     

We can learn many things in DotA which can be used in our everyday life. It teaches us how to be observant and a critical thinker. Observant in a way that we need to check the map every now and then to avoid ambush from the enemy heroes. A critical thinker in a way that we need to know what the enemy is planning to have a counter attack.

This game can also train leadership and teamwork among us, because it must be led by a leader who commands properly, and has a good understanding and knowledge with the game to bring victory to team. And of course leadership doesn’t stand alone in this game since a team should have a good sense of sensitivity and must understand each other. Therefore I can say that in order to win the game, you should have knowledge about it and have the right attitude when playing it.