About - TeleTrip

The Start of TeleTrip

TeleTrip started in 2018 as a dream to teleport gamers outside of Singapore to have a different gaming experience by Pauline and Ruth of SOOS OIO LLP.

The opportunities of gaming with friends in person decreased significantly as the comfort of gaming at home increases. TeleTrip was started with a simple desire to gather gamers to game socially in person. The first ever TeleTrip was to KL, Malaysia to play DOTA 2 for 3D2N in Sept 2018. We had our first batch of 10 TeleTrippers who went to KL Pantheon, a gaming arena. We were very thankful to have a simple goodie bag for each TeleTripper and a simple prize of a customised winner tags for the champions.

TeleTrip evolved into a full day onsite gaming event as few are able to go overseas together which we called TeleTrip Express. Tertiary campuses like NUS, JCU and SUTD eventually opened up for TeleTrip Campus where gamers bring their own devices, mobiles or notebooks and we had good fun together. The pandemic in 2020 did not stop us. We went online and gathered even more gamers to play together at one time with TeleMatch. The number of game titles we played increased from one to multiple popular titles.

Events of TeleTrip

TeleMatch

TeleMatch is a one-day community competition. Here’s some of our unique features:

No FRO (First-Round Out) with our round-robin group stage format.
Players can register as a team or solo, leaving the matchmaking to us.
TeleMatch is livestreamed and casted by community casters.
Prizes are not only for the winning teams but also for those who display teamwork and perseverance.
Our unique tournament system allows for hundreds of player to play simultaneously during group stage. A massive play together!

Keep a lookout for the game titles for TeleMatch.

TeleTrip

TeleTrip is the full community gaming experience of face-to-face bonding and learning.

TeleTrip only allows for individual registration where players are shuffled into balanced teams. TeleTalk kickstarts TeleTrip with fundamentals of teamwork and roles in the game. The teams will pit against each other in TeleMatch. After each game, a short team coaching will be provided to every team. The day ends over dinner together.

TeleTrip can also be in the form of a fun trip, usually overseas, to a major gaming event.

TeleTrip Festival

TeleTrip Festival brings together TeleMatch game titles for a massive game play during the Finals. This is to encourage interaction between players of different games.

Outreach

Social Service Agency, Youth Centres and Youth Organisations

For youth centres, social service agencies and organisations that want to engage your communities through gaming, TeleMatch allows your organisation to be part of TeleMatch while having your youths in your premise, taken care by your own staff. Contact us for more details.

Special Thanks To...

TeleTrip continues to run and grow because of the support of TeleTrippers. On top of that, we are also very thankful and appreciative of each organization and company who has come alongside to make TeleTrip better and more exciting. Below are the list of organisations and companies whom we want to thank sincerely for going on this crazy journey with us, even if it is for a season.

National Youth Council

Past Events

TeleTrip Festival Finals - Brawl Stars and Roblox Super Striker League 29 May 2022 - Heartbeat@Bedok as part of Digital for Life Festival — TeleTrip Festival Finals - Brawl Stars and Roblox Super Striker League 29 May 2022 - [email protected] as part of Digital for Life Festival

TeleMatch Roblox 28 May 2022 - Heartbeat@Bedok as part of Digital for Life Festival — TeleMatch Roblox 28 May 2022 - [email protected] as part of Digital for Life Festival

TeleMatch Brawl Stars 22 May 2022 - Suntec Convention Centre as part of Digital for Life Festival

TeleTrip Workshop Brawl Stars 21 May 2022 - Suntec Convention Centre as part of Digital for Life Festival

SGPlaysTogether TeleMatch DOTA 26 May 2020

TeleTrip Express MLBB 13Mar2021 - Sports Hub Library

TeleTrip Express MLBB 14 Mar 20 - Heartbeat@Bedok — TeleTrip Express MLBB 14 Mar 20 - [email protected]

TeleTrip Campus TP League of Legends 11 Nov 2019

TeleTrip Express DOTA2 5 Oct 2019 - Bountie Arena

TeleTrip Campus JCU League of Legends 20 Jul 2019

TeleTrip Campus SUTD Mobile Legends 15 Jun 2019

TeleTrip Campus Informatics MLBB 23 Mar 2019

TeleTrip Express DOTA 2 2 Noc 2018 - Gam3.Asia @ Marina Square

The Initiators of TeleTrip

Pauline Phoon

CEO & Founder of COMEBACK

Pauline Phoon is the founder of COMEBACK PTE LTD and SOOS OIO LLP. Pauline noticed the societal and relational gaps that were being formed with the meteoric rise of gaming, and so she began to first plug those gaps with simple engagement activities for gamers. As her understanding of the psychology of games and gamers deepened, she developed various training programmes which continued to expand over the years. Her programmes and events are continually being refined as she factors in the changing landscape of the gaming world. Pauline is mindfully aware of the potential of the positive, as well as negative, benefits of gaming, and aims to maximize the former, while being fully cognisant of the latter. Ms Phoon has been in the forefront of Youth Culture for more than a decade through Monsoon Productions Pte Ltd and Soulmanna Live Pte Ltd. She was the first to introduce the YouTube wave from the United States into the Asia Pacific, working with first generation Asian American YouTubers like David Choi, Ryan Higa, Wong Fu Productions, etc. In her leisure time, Pauline loves to sketch and draw amongst her other hobbies, and is also looking forward to enjoying more travels in the near future.

Ruth Lim

Former Esports Coach/Events of SOOS OIO

Ruth was on staff with SOOS OIO as an Esports Coach and co-developed TeleTrip, an offline gaming community event. She conducted DOTA 2 foundational classes and workshops for Esports Academy under SCOGA and also taught the module “Team Management” in Informatics Diploma for Esports and Game Design. Ruth Lim coached a competitive DOTA 2 team TenTwenty in 2017 that won CPL Championship DOTA 2 Edition 2017, came in 1st in Dew Challenge 2017 and represented Singapore in Asia Pacific Predator League in 2018. Ruth managed Team Impunity FIFA Online 3 who got 3rd in EA Champions Cup (EACC) Winter Cup 2016 representing Singapore. In 2017, she coached Team Impunity FIFA Online 3. Ruth graduated from Temasek Polytechnic with Diploma in Games & Entertainment Technology and SIT-University of Glasgow in Bachelors of Science with Honours in Computing Science. She also holds a CoachSG coaching certificate. Well recognized in the DOTA 2 community, Ruth attended numerous international gaming tournaments, got to know and learnt from many of the top players worldwide. Ruth hopes to share her knowledge and experience to gamers in Singapore and beyond.

TeleTrip is a community effort by COMEBACK under its Engagement Division.

COMEBACK is a social enterprise under raiSE.