Goals and Teamwork – a DOTA Analogy

Have you ever heard people who says that DOTA, Warcraft or Violent Videogames are evil? I mean instrumento daw ng demonyo yada yada? Sabay sundot ng mga Bible Verses na nagpapatunay dito? I guess depende naman talaga yun sa kung paano mo i-digest ang ini-intake mo…kung nagiging bayolente ka pag katapos mong maglaro ng DOTA or ng Counter Strike or ng kahit anong game for the goodness of everybody wag kang maglaro – although personally hindi ko gets kung ano ang gustong message ng GTA (Grand Theft Auto), laro ba yun ng medyo matindi ang pangangailangan ng stress reliever? Nah – kaya hindi ko yun nilalaro.

Of course there can be better analogy stuffs that we can employ to discuss Goals and Teamwork, but for my entry – I’ll be using DOTA hehe… enjoy!

DOTA All Stars – Hindi lang puro patayan :D

Know your goals, whatever it is. Set it up – vision it happening, Plan your course of action, know the requirements and sacrifices, skills or tools you might need and help you might employ. Para sa analogy na to, target nating buwagin ang Frozen Throne, and to vanquish evil forever! Woooooh noble!

Second Thing about Teamwork, Know Yourself – para sa malupit analogy na to, I’ll be using Shadow Shaman -- Rhasta Baby tadah! Know your strengths, know your weaknesses, embrace them both. Your Strengths give you guts and confidence, your Weaknesses keeps you humble and focused that tells you to work smart and efficiently. And so you know yourself. After that know your team, what they can do, their strength and weaknesses. If possible, amplify their strength and cover-up for their weaknesses. Likewise, they will do the same for you and as part of your goal – you must be aware of what you are up against.

Disablers and HP Tanks – Playing to Strengths and Weaknesses

Knowing what you are up against, the team can work efficiently to on who will going to face who, who can work on a certain task according to his strengths. For this game Rhasta chose to face Morphling.

Rhasta vs. Morphling –Keeping it Safe

According to Stephen Covey, the Maturity Continuum can be classified to three levels, Dependence, Independence and lastly Interdependence. Simply putting, Dependence is the lowest aspect of the Maturity Continuum, maybe you don’t have the necessary skills yet – kailangan mo ng alalay, ng tulong, dependent. Independence is when you can take your own task confidently on your own, after being taught or acquiring new skills, Interdependence is when you can finally join in a team because you can give something to the team. You bring your strengths to help the team, it the only way you can be helpful and efficiently grow – staying with your strengths.

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Serpent Wards – Standing your Grounds, Playing to your Strengths

As a member of the team – you should be aware with how the other team members are doing as well. If they need help or anything – likewise keep them updated with how you are doing.

Listening to the sound of the forest – Keeping updated with the Team

You can sometimes encounter hardships – but don’t falter, when you fail, stand up, reflect and move forward

Everybody wants to go to Heaven – But nobody wants to die

With experience, and a positive outlook to failing – you can move forward. and if you encounter something similar, you can do better.

Retreat – Not always a sign of Cowardice

As the team progress, you can finally get Interdependence to work. Synergy does magic, when the team works as one the team can do more.

Synergy -- Working as One

When the team flee because the odds are overwhelming, make sure nobody is left behind.


Fleeing – looking for each other’s back.

Attack smartly and efficiently. Keeping the focus on one goal. No ego-tripping, especially when the life of the team is at stake. Mutual Cooperation is a must.


Focus Fire – Taking advantage of the adversaries’ weakness

When attacked – Stay with the team to defend, it’s in this time loyalty is measured and tempered.


Teamwork and Loyalty – Standing strong through Hardships

With overwhelming Synergy the team ensures its victory.


One Team – Synergized – Unstoppable

And finally, always stay with the team’s objective. Hindi importante ang gumawa ng MVP sa laro, ang importante eh ang manalo ang lahat. Walang paligoy – ligoy. Taking only the objective – and with that the team can win.


Taking the Only Objective – Winning with the Team.

Ayan, so there we have it. Keeping it simple, siemps in real life more factors should be considered. But the importance of the team is to create synergy and forward to a unified goal.