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    The document introduces Defense of the Ancients (DotA), a popular online multiplayer game where players choose heroes to battle against other players or computer-controlled opponents. DotA was created in 2003 as a custom map for Warcraft III and involves strategy, focus, and quick decision making. With over 90 heroes to choose from, DotA has a mostly male player base across various age groups and countries. The introduction sets up an examination of how playing DotA impacts the academic performance of male college freshmen.

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    The document introduces Defense of the Ancients (DotA), a popular online multiplayer game where players choose heroes to battle against other players or computer-controlled opponents. DotA was created in 2003 as a custom map for Warcraft III and involves strategy, focus, and quick decision making. With over 90 heroes to choose from, DotA has a mostly male player base across various age groups and countries. The introduction sets up an examination of how playing DotA impacts the academic performance of male college freshmen.

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    The document introduces Defense of the Ancients (DotA), a popular online multiplayer game where players choose heroes to battle against other players or computer-controlled opponents. DotA was created in 2003 as a custom map for Warcraft III and involves strategy, focus, and quick decision making. With over 90 heroes to choose from, DotA has a mostly male player base across various age groups and countries. The introduction sets up an examination of how playing DotA impacts the academic performance of male college freshmen.

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    The document introduces Defense of the Ancients (DotA), a popular online multiplayer game where players choose heroes to battle against other players or computer-controlled opponents. DotA was created in 2003 as a custom map for Warcraft III and involves strategy, focus, and quick decision making. With over 90 heroes to choose from, DotA has a mostly male player base across various age groups and countries. The introduction sets up an examination of how playing DotA impacts the academic performance of male college freshmen.

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    Introduction

    The youth nowadays are so in to those computer games. They are losing their interests in
    playing physical and traditional games like tumbang preso, luksong baka, patintero,
    syato, and many more. They are now playing Counter-Strike, Plants vs. Zombies, and
    most especially, DotA.

    Defense of the Ancients (commonly known as DotA) is a real-time online or LAN strategy
    games composing of two to ten or twelve players where you can choose from over ninety
    unique characters (commonly known as heroes) you can play on. It requires focus, strategy,
    quick hands and quick thinking when you are in difficult situations.

    According to Guinsoo, the creator and the first head developer of Icefrog, he and his men
    (including BuffMePlz who had retired a few months ago) created DotA in 2003 as a
    customized game in Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos created by Blizzard Entertainment.

    Dota is popular not only here in the Philippines but also in other countries like Germany,
    United States of America, Canada, Slovenia and England. This phenomenal PC game had
    released many versions, and the latest version of DotA is DotA Allstars 6.70.

    Most of its players are males, for about 94%, and the remaining players are females. From
    elementary, high school, college, out of school youth and even adults, DotA dominates the
    gaming life of most gamers.

    As DotA arises, many issues also arise. It may be about on relationships, peers, foes, and
    most especially, education. This introductory message will begin to tackle the effects of
    playing Defense of the Ancients in academic performance among male freshmen college
    students of freshmen in academic year of 2010-2011.

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