EG's Ho Joon 'PuMa' Lee has repeated as champion of NASL, winning the Season 2 LAN final with a 4:2 series win over Song Hyun 'HerO' Deok. Beating the Liquid man, and Dreamhack Winter champion, earned PuMa $40,000 and pushed him all the way up to fourth on the all time SC2 winnings list.

The final was a rematch of the Dreamhack Winter from a week prior, though that time HerO came out on top after seven maps.



PuMa's LAN finals began shakily with a full five map series vs. Sheth that the Korean edged. In the next round he met up with EG team-mate Gregory 'IdrA' Fields, who was leading the all-time series between them coming into the match. PuMa blew his American colleague out of the water with a three map sweep. The semi-finals saw Marcus 'ThorZaIN' Eklöf push PuMa to a 1:2 defecit, but the EG man won the next three maps in a row to reach the final.



PuMa's rise began in the first season of NASL, when he became the surprise winner after a seven map series against MC in the final. In August PuMa beat out MC in another final to win IEM VI GamesCom. Following that PuMa had a run in which he placed 5th at MLG Raleigh, 3rd at IEM VI Guangzhou, 5th-8th at IPL 3 and 2nd at Dreamhack Winter.