TSM picks : Nocture, Kayle, Janna, Graves and Karthus

TSM bans : Alistar, Soraka and Urgot



CLG picks : Nautilus, Shen, Galio, Ryze and Corki

CLG bans : Kennen, Vladimir and Morgana

THE WINNER

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TSM picks : Graves, Nautilus, Janna, Kayle and Karthus

TSM bans : Alistar, Nidalee and Urgot



CLG picks : Shen, Leona, Ezreal, Yorick and Cassiopeia

CLG bans : Kennen, Vladimir and Nocturne

THE WINNER

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TSM picks : Janna, Ashe, Mundo, Olaf and Morgana

TSM bans : Alistar, Yorick and Urgot



CLG picks : Soraka, Shen, Kog'maw, Malphite and Ahri

CLG bans : Kennen, Vladimir and Morgana

THE WINNER

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TSM picks : Graves, Janna, Nautilus, Karthus and Kayle

TSM bans : Alistar, Shen and Soraka



CLG picks :Nocturne, Taric, Cassiopeia, Corki and Yorick

CLG bans : Kennen, Vladimir and Urgot

THE WINNER

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TSM picks : Soraka, Graves, Karthus, Maokai and Jax

TSM bans : Alistar, Shen and Urgot



CLG picks :Nidalee, Kassadin, Nautilus, Vayne and Sona

CLG bans : Kennen, Vladimir and Nocturne

THE WINNER

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TSM picks : Janna, Corki, Nocturne, Karthus and Kayle

TSM bans : Alistar, Shen and Soraka



CLG picks :Nautilus, Graves, Nidalee, Kassadin and Sona

CLG bans : Kennen, Vladimir and Urgot

TSM is The champion of MLG Spring Championship 2012!

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a picture of TSM after the last match against CLG

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The first match of the 'best-of-three' series: Team SoloMid vs.The first game was pretty overbearing in the favor of TSM.First blood was picked up by Andy 'Reginald' Dinh on Peter 'DoubleLift' Peng with some help of TSM's bottom lane. Some minutes later thanks to Brian 'TheOddOne' Willey 's great ganks on top lane, TSM gains small gold advantage. At 12:30 Marcus 'Dyrus' Hill gets ganked by 3 enemies, but meanwhile bot lane takes an advantage of that and grab an uncontested dragon.At 18 minute mark TSM picks up some kills on botlane giving them another uncontested dragon and setting their score to 10-1. After that they start to roam around the map looking for possible kills. They succeed in catching CLG off guard in their own jungle. Not so long after that TSM pushes down two inhibitors and finally gets the nexus.The first match ends after 28 minutes with a score of 23-5The second match of the 'best-of-three' series: Team SoloMid vs.The second game of 'best-of-three' starts with a lane swap between top and bot lane, which means xHazzard who is filling up for Joe 'Voyboy' Esfah﻿ani﻿ is going to play 1 vs. 2 bot lane, while Peter 'DoubleLift' Peng and Steve 'Chauster' Chau are going to play duo top. This swap grants xHazzard a great level advantage throughout the whole game. Peter 'DoubleLift' Peng picks up the first blood on Marcus 'Dyrus' Hill with a help of George 'HotshotGG' Georgallidis and Steve 'Chauster' Chau just before 4 minute mark. Brian 'TheOddOne' Willey manages to finish off Peter 'DoubleLift' Peng turning it to an 1 - 1 exchange. By active ganking and some big plays CLG sets themselves on a small gold advantage with a score of 6-2.Once again TSM shows their great dragon control by picking up the first dragon before 15 minute mark, making the gold gap a little bit smaller and hoping to catch up. Laning phase is about to end and both of the teams are wanting to pick some objectives. CLG manages to pick up baron at 28 minute mark and they start to roam around the map for dragon and some turrets.With the help of baron buff CLG is able to finish off the first inhibitor.Not too long after that baron spawns and CLG is able to pick it up again and go for the last push for the nexus.Second match of 'best-of-three' ends with a score of 27 - 12 at 43:20Third and the final match of the first 'best-of-three' Team SoloMid vs.Both teams are calmly farming till Andy 'Reginald' Dinh gets firstblooded by George 'HotshotGG' Georgallidis . TSM manages to pick up their first kill at 7:50 on Ahri.Once again TSM showing their great dragon control by picking up the first dragon at 16 minutes and second one at 22:40.Even though TSM gets all the dragons so far they can't hold up against CLG and end up losing baron to them at 27:52 which leads to a CLG roaming around the map picking up objectives such as TSM's first inhibitor.Not so long after that CLG goes for the final push and ends the game at 33 minutes with a score of 14 - 6, which means there's gonna be another 'best-of-three'.The first match of the second 'best-of-three' series: Team SoloMid vs.First blood goes to Peter 'DoubleLift' Peng on Shan 'Chaox' Huang , but he manages to land his ignite before dying and turns the situation into an 1-1 exchange. Around 11:30 the first dragon gets picked up by TSM with no contest. TSM takes the gold advantage and keeps it by taking the second dragon just before 18 minute mark.After that they are controlling the whole map and just a bit later Shan 'Chaox' Huang picks up a quadra kill with the help of his team. TSM starts to roam around the map to destroy some turrets and finally all the inhibitors, which leads to a final push for the nexus.The second match of the second 'best-of-three' series: Team SoloMid vs.At the start of the match Peter 'DoubleLift' Peng gets caught off guard near the dragon pit and is forced to burn his summoner flash.Shortly after that Shan 'Chaox' Huang picks up the first blood on Steve 'Chauster' Chau , assisted by Andy 'Reginald' Dinh and Brian 'TheOddOne' Willey First dragon is picked up by TSM at 13:50. 16 minutes in game CLG seems to catch up a bit by taking 2 kills. At 20:20 TSM picks up another dragon, they have been showing some great map control throughout the whole game.Both teams are ready to fight for the baron buff but that fight turns into favor of CLG, cause they managed to turn the game around with a 4-0 exchange and also getting baron buff.Shortly after that CLG breaks down 2 inhibitors and kills dragon, which leads to a final push to ace TSM and take down the nexus not much later.The third and final match of the second 'best-of-three', which means this match decides which team's gonna be The Champion of the MLG Spring Championship ! Team SoloMid vs.The game starts with TSM catching xHazzard off guard near the baron pit and with a short chase they are able to finish him off. This first blood given to Andy 'Reginald' Dinh causes him to gain an extra amount of gold and an early-game advantage on his lane. Once again he is going to be on top lane, since he and Marcus 'Dyrus' Hill were switching lanes. At 10 minute mark TSM picks up their second kill with an awesome gank on bot lane. Once again perfect dragon controlling by TSM, CLG only manages to pick up one single dragon during the whole game.At 25:20 TSM picks up four kills on CLG and right when they're about to get baron George 'HotshotGG' Georgallidis comes in and steals it with a smite.CLG's first inhibitor goes down at 35:30 and TSM already has a 10k gold advantage over CLG. Soon after that TSM takes down the second inhibitor which leads to a push for nexus, and it goes down.