Introduction:
It was on the start of the June month when the company formally announced about our coming “Sportsfest” event and tournament. I didn’t really took it seriously at first as I thought that it would just be the same and ordinary “Sportsfest” event that we will be celebrating for this year in which I don’t often participated in the previous years.
I never have though that our company will be organizing an online event intended for the employee for the Company Sportsfest celebration since we haven’t done it during the previous years when the pandemic started. The event was organized to showcase the talent of each of the employee has in the company. There were several events organized for the said “Sportsfest’. Below were among the events/games organized:
Official Animal Symbol for this year’s Sportsfest:
Events/Games:
· Hands and Feet Hopscotch Game
· E-Hurdle
· Minute To Win It
· Online Chess Tournament
· Mobile Legends Tournament
Among all the organized events, the Mobile Legend Tournament was the most prestige and expensive tournament game ever sponsored by our company wherein the overall cash prizes reached 45,000 for the best teams. They also hired "shout casters" from the different radio stations from MOR and Y101 and set-up a beautiful placed to conduct the final game just to come up a good venue for the live game.
This is the event where my officemates and I build up the team of Mobile Legends players and named it as “ANZ Legends” and we got participated to that event. We have worked hard to go through and reached the top 3 spot. The game comprises of 13 teams with 5 players each from different departments (e.i., sales, productions, marketing and customer support) with a single match elimination round and 3 teams were already listed on the waiting list for the 2nd match. We managed to won the 3 straight games and managed to defeat our opponents for each and every round and ended up on the top and advances to the semi-final immediately, together with the other 2 teams who also managed to advances on the final. The top the three team battle for the championship for the double elimination.
Prizes:
· 20,000 for the first prize (Champion)
· 15,000 for the 2nd prize (2nd Placer)
· 10,000 for the 3rd prize (3rd Placer)
ML Tournament Bracket (First Stage of Elimination):
1st Stage of the Match:
The game started @ 7:00 PM but our match was scheduled @ 9:00 PM in the evening since the other team and our main opponent are on the graveyard shift so they often awake on the night and asleep in the morning. Everyone was excited in the game but the rest of my team and I were a bit nervous when the game started as it was just actually our first time in my whole life of participating a live game contest. The game was broadcasted live in FB and also being watched live by our fellow employees here in the office with a huge television set. We managed to defeat our opponent and advances on the next bracket.
2nd Stage of the Match:
The 2nd game was scheduled on the next day after the first game facing the new team who happen to have the advantage over us. The same goes for our 3rd matched against the winner team (E = mc2) of the strong bracket. Fortunately, we managed to win our last 3 games and ended up the elimination with 3 wins and 0 loss standings.
ML Tournament Bracket (Last Stage of Elimination):
Semi-final Stage of Match-up:
The first game of the Semi-final elimination was between our rival “Blockout” who also happens to have the same standings with our team. The team was indeed good especially on the draft picks and selection of the hero’s part. We didn’t know that have been stalked days prior to the main event. They were able to identify our main hero and banned those heroes during the pre-selection stage. The rest of the team ended up picking hero secondary to our main hero. Though, we managed to exclude in the selection some of their main hero as well but I guess that wasn’t enough as they know better and even more prepared than us during the match-up. They were able to utilized the advantage and defeat us in the battle. The same thing happened in the next game against also the strong opponent who proven themselves worthy by undergoing a very tough battles against the losing teams during the elimination round and even reached the semi-final. We were defeated by them and they ended battling for the championship round and was even proclaimed as the champions of the tournament.
My Received Award aside from the cash prize:
You can watch and view the over-all battle (from elimination until the final) here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/esports2021/permalink/531477994930357/
Closing Thoughts:
It’s quite an experienced for me of joining and participating for that event. It’s like getting out of the box for long years of being hidden. I enjoyed the game and indeed have fun and know myself better and makes me closer to them too. I have also managed to know my team well during that times. The event bonded our interest in the game more and we often times played the games together even after the tournament.
Having the opportunity to showcase your talent on things was indeed a great blessing for us in which it doesn’t happen more often. So you must try and grab each and every opportunity that comes your way regardless of how certainties will bring you. Every opportunity counts and important - that you should take the risk and gamble for it. Who knows – that opportunity might be your stepping stones on achieving your goal and ambitions in life right?
Hope you enjoy reading the article.