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Leenock Wins MLG Summer Championship 2012


Photo Credit: Teamliquid.net's Silverfire

Lee "Leenock" Dong Nyoung has become the second person to win two MLG Championships. Reviving the early aggressive style that delivered him his 2011 MLG victory over Naniwa, Leenock looked dominating taking an early 3-0 lead over his opponent: IM's Kang "First" Hyun Woo. His aggression backfired on the fourth map where his nydus stategy was scouted and quickly defused but Leenock refused to have his momentum broken and took the final map with standard long term focused broodlord infestor play.

Final Score:
Leenock 4-1 First

Standings:
1. Leenock $25,000
2. First $15,000
3. Teaja $7,250
4. TheStC $7,250

Full Brackets | VODS

Further Coverage:
MLG Summer Championship Information
KnightLighT @ MLG Summer Championship
MLG Summer Championship on Liquipedia
MLG Power Rank on Teamliquid.net

Quick Comments

	Fairyking:	First won less than 3rd/4th place? :P
	x5_Potter:	First won less than 1st.

[SFTAElessar]

thats unexpected wanted Teaja to win

[nirvAnA]

Leenock played so beastly, he demolished First in most of the games

[TABjornbrandr]

Hard to believe he's barely 17 and he's bending people over for a quick touch so easily.
Always liked his ultra aggressive style, it's fun to watch.
Sort of a shame about the 4-1, always nice to have a really climactic finals.

[syfCrimson]

Was really impressed by Leenock, his games contained some fantastic aggression. G1 and 2 vs First were really nicely played, and the mass muta game on Antiga vs TheSTC was ******* fun to watch.

Quick Comments

ROCCAT_Savior:

The antiga game with infestors into Mutas was awesome

[inFeZa]

Congrats to LeenockfOu

[Dox]

The other really big news that emerged from MLG is that after Curse defeated Dignitas in the League of Legends finals, both teams had their ranking/prizes stripped from them, and awarded to 3rd & 4th places.

This was because both teams went All-Random & All-Mid for the Grand Final and agreed to split the prize pool between them regardless of the outcome. In SC2 terms, this would be like if Leenock and First pulled their 6 workers and battled in the middle of the map to determine the winner.

This has been a topic of discussion in the past (ie. Naniwa GSL Probe pull) so I thought I'd highlight something that some people don't seem to acknowledge or respect.

* If you're gonna share the prize pool with your opponent, keep that shit private. It happens a lot in Australian tournaments, but we don't go around broadcasting it to the admins / live stream.

* Fans all around the world tune in to these events for up to 3 days at a time to watch their favourite team/player battle it out against the other best team/player of the day as tension & anticipation continues to build for the duration. Some of these fans even pay money for spectator passes at the venue. After 3 long days, a grand final like this is extremely underwhelming to the people who keep these events afloat.

* Teams and players spend several hours, days, weeks and even months practicing and preparing for events of this scale. It's disrespectful towards them as professional competitors to rob them of a clean, legitimate victory and - in some cases - a match that will be revered for years to come.


Stuff like this can be a slap in the face to the industry. People need to conduct themselves properly!

[NOM]

Now Leenock can afford a fat burning machine. :P

Quick Comments

	ROOTPetraeus:	HOW DARE YOU QUESTION OUR GOD.
	Dox:	too busy burnin' nerds

[Fairyking]

Leenock so gosu I love his balls to the wall aggression.

Quick Comments

Dox:

"i love his balls" lolololol :D

[Unstable]

Originally Posted by Dox

The other really big news that emerged from MLG is that after Curse defeated Dignitas in the League of Legends finals, both teams had their ranking/prizes stripped from them, and awarded to 3rd & 4th places.

This was because both teams went All-Random & All-Mid for the Grand Final and agreed to split the prize pool between them regardless of the outcome. In SC2 terms, this would be like if Leenock and First pulled their 6 workers and battled in the middle of the map to determine the winner.



Stuff like this can be a slap in the face to the industry. People need to conduct themselves properly!

I'm trying to remember the analogy that someone brought up, something along the lines of once NBA teams have confirmed their playoff spot its not uncommon for their stars to sit out the next few games for rest and only play B teamers whcih is accepted practice.

This is similar to playing an ARAM game in game 1 and game 1 only, the other games of the series were played out properly and were good games to watch.

The ARAM game itself had nothing to do with it, it was the collusion that forced the DQ

From what I understand atm, the "collusion" happened on day 2 to play ARAM in finals if they made it, (which is within the rules) but the sharing prize money/matchfixing which they were DQ'd for and curse has refuted that.

I can get over the fun ARAM game in set 1 since they played the rest of the series properly which alot of people had fun watching, but even IF they decided to split the prize money you dont tell anyone, thats just stupid.

The rankings for S2 final had no bearing for curse and their placement in this tournament, and doing all this for what? 1.3k per person, seems far too little for them to realistically risk all of this.

We'll see how it ends up

TLDR: can get over playing 1 aram game but the rest is not acceptable in any circumstance