In response to the lack of leagues, proper communities and competitive scenes within South East Asia, the Sea Inhouse League (SIL) was created.

Soon after it’s birth the admins were quick on their feet to organise a tournament. Dubbed SIL Season 1 Captain’s Draft, the competition has garnered the attention of many eager teams and individuals. It was indeed, a great success for SIL as they not only managed to create a friendly community but greatly improved the quality of game play for it’s members.

Fast forward a few months, and SIL is back with Season 2! To get more information on the matter, Try Hard Gaming has interviewed the admins of SIL and the here’s the results!

First of all, thank you for having us in this interview. We are grateful to have more exposure through your platform.

1. Could you tell us more about SIL, what are your goals and aims?

A: Our goal is to bring in more well-behaved players who feel like they deserve to play in an environment that is better than the toxicity of the pubs of the South-East Asia server.

Our aim is to make the environment of the guild much more user-friendly, livelier and more accepting. This includes our in-game guild chat, lobby games, subreddit, TeamSpeak 3 server and other platforms SIL has to offer. – croutons5 (Syamil)

2. Why did you create SIL?

A: Dota 2 is an awesome game that I love. However, I felt at that time there was a lack of a conducive environment or community for Dota players in SEA who wanted a friendly and toxic-free place to make friends and hangout. Furthermore, as a follower of the competitive but with a lack of inhouse leagues in SEA, it inspired me to create this guild. It has been much more than what I had expected and it is an awesome experience doing this. I hope our guild SIL will grow bigger and be the guild for everyone to have a good time. – XYZ (Bunchana)

3. What have you guys achieved so far?



A: We have accomplished our main goal of creating a nice, non-toxic environment that we wanted in the first place. We also provide multiple platforms to people to interact, such as Reddit and Teamspeak with little to no financial support. We have over 900 members in our guild now. Since we have accomplished our first milestone in gathering members, we wanted to set up new goals to further improve the community, by hosting our first tournament, SIL Season 1 Captain’s Draft, with more exciting activities on the line.

Speaking of that, one of our admins, Thawne (Stephen), came up with the idea of a MVP system within the guild. This provides members an incentive to play inhouse games, where players with good manner and do well in-game will be rewarded. – Aaaaaaa.L (Alex)

4. How did SIL Season 1 go for you guys?

A: We were all really excited for SIL Season 1 when it started – all the administrators and members who had heard about the tournament. However, I would say there were some flaws in the tournament such as scheduling issues, hosting issues and team issues that I think we could have avoided.

But overall, I’d say it was a pretty good run for our first tournament. I really do not think we could have done it without our sponsors TryHardGaming and LogicalIncrements. – croutons5 (Syamil)

5. You had a few problems with people dropping out in the last tournament, do you have any plans on dealing with that?

A: We acknowledge the problem there. As for a solution, we might be collecting participation fee for Season 2 to motivate players to not give up easily and as a sign of commitment to participate in the tournament. – Aaaaaaa.L (Alex)

6. Are you able to disclose any details to us about Season 2?

A: We will keep the details to us now, but do expect more exciting stuff in Season 2. ;) – Aaaaaaa.L (Alex)

7. Can we expect anything different or unique for Season 2?

A: Despite being the first tournament we have ever hosted with none of the organisers having any prior experience in making an event, I personally feel that we were extremely systematic and did a great job running it from the start to the end. As for the 2nd season, the team of admins and officers have held many meetings to discuss the plans for Season 2. With Season 2 coming up really soon, it will be the same awesome experience that we had for Season 1, but better with the improvements and adjustments based on all the feedback so far. Also, we will have the tournament on Captain’s Mode instead of Captain’s Draft this time round. – XYZ (Bunchana)

8. Where are we able to find more information?

A: You can find out more about us and SIL Season 2 (coming soon) over at our blog or our subreddit /r/sealdota2.

9. Does SIL have a community that people can join?

A: Players could join by following few simple steps here. As of June 26, 2015, we accept all people, no matter if they’re old or young, men or female, 1k scrub or 7k god! To wrap it up, it’s an open community. We welcome everyone. – croutons5 (Syamil)

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