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INC’Excello stomps their opponents to a pulp as they have been crowned the champions for Season one of SpotGamers eSports League.

Coming into the grand finals, INC’Excello was leading with a good nine points followed by Kingsurf and MUFC-Fishnet who tied for second place with four points each and finally Silent Redemption with zero points.

Even with the full Kingsurf roster present at the grand final, they failed to perform to their peak. Kingsurf had to concede defeat to MUFC-Fishnet in just under 16 minutes of game time. The dark horse of the tournament, Silent Redemption, may have only won one game throughout the whole league. But their only game won will be the highlight of the team’s history considering they were able to defeat Kingsurf and ensure that they go out with honor.

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Alienware kicks off their second round of preliminaries at Funan in Singapore this weekend. With the first preliminary ending just last week at the National University of Singapore (NUS), this week’s preliminary promises to be one filled with tons of action.

The first preliminary at NUS was only open to students and thus other outsiders were not allowed to join. Even though registration was limited to the students, there were a number of good games coming from the participants. With heroes like NightStalker picked in the finals of the NUS prelims, it has definitely set the tone for the upcoming matches with other interesting picks to match up to the NightStalker.

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Inc’Excello tops the chart of SpotGamer’s first eSports League, leading by nine points over country rival, Kingsurf.

Although only four teams participated in SpotGamer’s eSports, the end of the league will mark a historic event for the Malaysian DotA scene as this is the first eSports League ever held in Malaysia. The final which has been postponed for two weeks now due to time clashes with MMU Gamefest and Chinese festival Ching Ming is set to be played out on 11th April.

The league is played out in a round-robin format whereby each team will face every other team in a Best of two match-up. Winning two games nets the team three points while a tie nets one point for each team. Finally losing both games, gets you zero points. Currently Inc’Excello stands high on the leaderboard followed by Kingsurf, Fishnet-MUFC and Silent Redemption.

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Just as some people may have guessed from the latest replay of Kingsurf, they have found a new sponsor in the form of LGD.

It seems that the DotA scene has been mushrooming with sponsorship news lately. Alienware sponsoring ADC, zk-Gaming picking up Ftz, PMS adding a new DotA division and the latest Kingsurf gaining a new sponsor in LaoGanDie better known as LGD whom also sponsors SGTY. Under this new sponsorship, LGD promises to provide a monthly salary for the players in addition to providing travel expenses and thus the team have renamed themselves to Ks.LGD.

Besides gaining a new sponsor, Kingsurf’s manager, Ken, confirms that TeKniqZ is now officially part of Kingsurf and will be playing under the new Ks.LGD tag. The recent slump of LGD.SGTY has also forced team captain, 2009, to find new recruits by adding, crystal, to their line-up. Roster for both teams are as follows:

Kingsurf.LGD Roster:	LGD.SGTY roster:
Ks.LGD-Yamateh Ks.LGD-Ice Ks.LGD-XiaoXiaofong Ks.LGD-Sakura Ks.LGD-PapaXiong Ks.LGD-TeKniqZ	LGD.YYF.SGTY LGD.2009.SGTY LGD.ZSMJ.SGTY LGD.crystal.SGTY LGD.Gx.SGTY

With regards to the new sponsorship and roster changes. Statements have been gathered from all parties.

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