Sixteen teams fought for the first place and 1000$ in prizemoney, but the Ukrainian formation takes the cake.
Fnatic looked very strong throughout the tournament, not losing a single match, but had to bow down a well coordinated
Natus Vincere in the final.
In case you missed it, here’s a recap of the final match.
Congratulations to Natus Vincere on winning the SK Trophy and a big thank you to all the competing teams, casters and fans for making this a great tournament. See you next month!


In case you missed it, here’s a recap of the final match.
Game1Game one got underway with an impressing start from Natus Vincere. Aggressive jungler
Alvar 'Araneae' Martin Alenar (on Alistar) harassed Fnatic from the very beginning. His ganks proved especially painful for toplaner Samux (filling in for
Maciej 'Shushei' Ratuszniak on Kennen), who lost his tower to Shyvana early in the game. After a team-fight in the mid area, Na’Vi took Baron after 27 minutes and headed straight for victory. The absolute highlight of this first game was the following team-fight for Fnatic’s mid inhibitor. Two members of each team dropped in the fight and Na’Vi seemed to be retreating, but Araneae turned around for a phenomenal pulverize hitting all three remaining enemies, thus forcing an ace and rendering Fnatic their first loss of the tournament.


Game 2Fnatic was determined not to let this happen again in match-up two, and banned accordingly: Araneae was not allowed on Alistar and picked Lee Sin. He followed the same tactics as in the previous game, playing very aggressive very early on, scaring off Samux on Irelia in top-lane. Fnatic countered by kicking up their aggression and
Lauri 'Cyanide' Happonen putting some much needed pressure on Araneae. The first blood still went to Na’Vi with
Manuel 'Lamia' Mildenberger (Vayne) dropping first in bot-lane. Lamia suffered, losing both the harassing and farming game to Antogyn on Urgot. Not surprisingly Fnatic’s bot tower dropped first with Lamia being at half the cs of
Anthony 'Antogyn' Giniers. Urgot was just too strong in this phase of the match and Na’Vi capitalized by taking the remaining two outer turrets. Baron was contested around the 23 minute mark, as Na’Vi felt secure Fnatic didn’t have the power to step in.
Enrique Javier 'xPeke' Cedeño Martinez on Cassiopeia flashed and ulted in the Nashor pit (much like
Carlos 'ocelote' Rodríguez Santiago's move in the
against All authority game), managing to steal the buff. However, Natus Vincere proved much stronger in the subsequent fight and pushed straight to the enemy Nexus, deciding game two and the tournament in their favour.






Congratulations to Natus Vincere on winning the SK Trophy and a big thank you to all the competing teams, casters and fans for making this a great tournament. See you next month!

aBhorsen
eSports coordinator at Riot Games
SK Gaming - League of Legends Team Manager + Editor
SK Gaming Nov '10 - May 2012.
http://www.twitter.com/aBhorsenn
Events attended:
Insomnia 33-40
IEM Global Challenge Gamescom, Cologne 2011
IEM Global Challenge Kiev
MLG Anaheim
DreamHack Summer '12
ECC Poland, Warsaw
Season 2 Regionals, Gamescom
Season 2 World Championships, Los Angeles
Tales of the Lane, Paris
DreamHack Winter '12
IEM Cologne '12
IEM Katowice
S3 EU Qualifiers, Warsaw
IEM World Championship '13, CeBIT
EU LCS road trip: Lille
Riot S3 EU Summer Promotion
All-Star Shanghai 2013
OGN OLYMPUS Champions Spring
LCS Tenerife
Gamescom 2013
S3 World Championships, L.A


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