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The Nexon Invitational Super Matches concluded its second round last week, pitting Team Dignitas, Speed Gaming.int, and MVP Hotsix against each other. In the end Team Dignitas and Speed Gaming.int both ended the week with a record of 3-1, taking home $10,000 each.



Next week we have Alliance, Team DK, and For Our Utopia going up against each other. Week 3 will be quite a bit different than the rest. It will take place in Busan at the Korean Games Exhibition, G-Start2013. Here are a few changes that you will notice:

Held during the Korean games exhibition G-Star 2013.



Teams play each other once.



Best of Three series.



$7,500 is awarded to the winner of each series.

So each team still has the chance to win up to $15,000 as usual, but it's distributed slightly different than the other weeks we have watched so far.



But before this week's games check out our Week 2 Recap, and some transcribed audio interviews from our very own rkffhk.















Prize Distribution



4-0: 15,000 USD

3-1: 10,000 USD

2-2: 7,000 USD

1-3: 5,000 USD

0-4: no money



Schedule



Friday, Nov 15 4:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

For Our Utopia





Saturday, Nov 16 4:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

For Our Utopia



Sunday, Nov 17 6:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

Team DK



Thursday, Nov 21 9:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

TongFu

StarTale

StarTale



Monday, Nov 25 9:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)

TongFu

StarTale

StarTale Alliance vs. Team DK vs. Alliance vs. Virtus.pro vs. TongFu vs.StarTale Virtus.pro vs.StarTale Virtus.pro vs. TongFu vs.StarTale Virtus.pro vs.StarTale



Hope you enjoy the games, and remember to check out our LR thread.



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Week 2 Recap by TheEmulator



The second week of the Nexon Invitational Super Matches showcased three more teams willing to battle it out for the top prize of $15,000. These teams were none other than Team Dignitas, Speed Gaming.int, and MVP Hotsix. An important note to make is that this was the last matches played by the Dignitas roster before disbanding later in the week.





Great turnout this week



Day One



Speed Gaming came into Week 2 as the top contender, while Dignitas was definitely seen as having a chance they were also seen as the underdogs alongside MVP. But that did not end up being the case, as they won both their games against Speed and MVP, coming out of Day 1 with a 2-0 record. Speed Gaming did win their game against MVP, ending up 1-1, putting MVP at 0-2. Dignitas seemed to mesh well with Winter, who was there replacing Korok who had to stay back last minute for personal reasons.





Dignitas playing well with everyone's favourite SEA player, Winter



Day Two



Day 2 went pretty much the same as Day 1, but with a little reverse with Speed Gaming and Dignitas. With these results we are still seeing dominance from the Foreign teams against the Korean teams, but we are really seeing a lot of growth out of them.



With that both Dignitas and Speed ended up at 3-1 this week, and both took home a prize of $10,000. MVP didn't do so hot, and went 0-4 taking home nothing.







On Scene: Week 2 Exclusive with Speed Gaming (Audio Included) by rkffhk



We had our newest writer on staff down in Korea for the Week 2 games, and this time rkffhk was able to get a really in depth interview with Speed Gaming. Hope you guys enjoy it. We will be releasing more with Dignitas's Bleek, MVP Heen, and the Speed/Dignitas Managers at a later date.



Speed Gaming (All members)



Listen to the Speed Gaming Audio Here





Sing and Aui sporting their new hairstyles from the Nexon makeup lady



You came here to korea a few days ago. Have you guys done anything fun or interesting yet?



(SingSing) No, I think we just chilled and had a lazy day.



SingSing, what was more embarassing... your interview yesterday, or losing to Sneyking 1v1?



(Everyone) What?! You lost to Sneyking? When did you lose to Sneyking? How did that happen?



(SingSing) I don't remember that... wait what?



[several minutes later after brainstorming and rkffhk not remembering the name of the guy, who was supposed to be SunQuest]



(Pieliedie) Okay, so let's say you hypothetically lost to SingSing... how embarassing is it?



(SingSing) It'd be like putting a gun to my head embarassing, jesus...





So Pieliedie, 6.79 came out recently and we see a lot of Midases recently. Why do you think all these Midases are happening right now over in the Chinese scene? Are people blindly following the trend or do they see the reasoning and following suit accordingly?



(Pieliedie)The Chinese just started winning with it and everyone has been taking notice, really.



Is that how most trends in the metagame happen in your opinion?



(Pieliedie) Well yeah, but usually the real "imba-ness" will become more obvious to the teams using the strategy after a few games of trying it out. In the case of Midas, for example, we have heroes like Crystal Maiden who get guaranteed ward money and better right clicking. People have been getting brown boots and Midas early and then just winning the game in 10 minutes with their guaranteed consumable money and attack speed buffs (because most of the supports with slow attack speed, when they get a Midas, all of a sudden have amazing kill potential). Right now, most people are just following the trend blindly, though, and seeing where it leads them.



(EternalEnvy) If it was, say, Na`Vi winning against whoever with Pudge, I don't think anyone would copy that, really. But a team like LGD.int, who nobody really expected to 2-0 iG twice, starts doing this weird Midas thing... everyone's going to notice that and say "Oh, this MUST be imbalanced or something!" and then they try to copy that. It could have just been randomness or because teams just aren't used to playing against Midases and that this whole thing isn't really op at all... but since a team that wasn't so good is beating better teams all of a sudden with this strategy, people are definitely going to play it.





Last week we saw Fnatic play the same strategy pretty much twice in a row and win with it against Team Liquid. Do you expect for us to see something similar here?



(Pielidie) I wouldn't expect it... if anyone were to do that, it'd be us because Dignitas just swapped 2 players and they're all brand new.





Word on the street was that Demon wanted to go a "massage parlor." If anyone of you guys would want to do that, who would it be?



(Everyone) Bone... totally bone... it's so true, though!



(Pielidie) Hell, I would go with you, Bone!





What do you guys think of the Korean teams? Have you guys scouted them out at all or anything like that?



(SingSing) All that research... so much work! ... but no, I haven't looked at anything.





Do you guys expect anything from them or have you heard anything in particular from them?



(SingSing) I only know a few particular players like Febby and March... that's all I know about the Korean scene.





Something I heard in private from another pro player was that if there the Korean teams could take a set off of anyone, it'd be Dignitas. What do you guys think about that?



(Aui and EternalEnvy) No way. Not even close.



(EternalEnvy) I don't know of any star players on their rosters... so I'm not worried at all.





So EE-sama, what are the good animes to watch this season?



Everyone says "Attack on Titan", but I personally only read the mangas so...





CREDITS

Writers: TheEmulator, rkffhk

Gfx/Css: fusefuse, TheEmulator

Editors: TheEmulator

The Nexon Invitational Super Matches concluded its second round last week, pitting Team Dignitas, Speed Gaming.int, and MVP Hotsix against each other. In the end Team Dignitas and Speed Gaming.int both ended the week with a record of 3-1, taking home $10,000 each.Next week we have Alliance, Team DK, and For Our Utopia going up against each other. Week 3 will be quite a bit different than the rest. It will take place in Busan at the Korean Games Exhibition, G-Start2013. Here are a few changes that you will notice:So each team still has the chance to win up to $15,000 as usual, but it's distributed slightly different than the other weeks we have watched so far.But before this week's games check out our Week 2 Recap, and some transcribed audio interviews from our very own rkffhk.Hope you enjoy the games, and remember to check out our LR thread.The second week of the Nexon Invitational Super Matches showcased three more teams willing to battle it out for the top prize of $15,000. These teams were none other than Team Dignitas, Speed Gaming.int, and MVP Hotsix. An important note to make is that this was the last matches played by the Dignitas roster before disbanding later in the week.Speed Gaming came into Week 2 as the top contender, while Dignitas was definitely seen as having a chance they were also seen as the underdogs alongside MVP. But that did not end up being the case, as they won both their games against Speed and MVP, coming out of Day 1 with a 2-0 record. Speed Gaming did win their game against MVP, ending up 1-1, putting MVP at 0-2. Dignitas seemed to mesh well with Winter, who was there replacing Korok who had to stay back last minute for personal reasons.Day 2 went pretty much the same as Day 1, but with a little reverse with Speed Gaming and Dignitas. With these results we are still seeing dominance from the Foreign teams against the Korean teams, but we are really seeing a lot of growth out of them.With that both Dignitas and Speed ended up at 3-1 this week, and both took home a prize of $10,000. MVP didn't do so hot, and went 0-4 taking home nothing.We had our newest writer on staff down in Korea for the Week 2 games, and this time rkffhk was able to get a really in depth interview with Speed Gaming. Hope you guys enjoy it. We will be releasing more with Dignitas's Bleek, MVP Heen, and the Speed/Dignitas Managers at a later date. Administrator