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After a massive crowdfunding effort, O'Gaming's second edition of Nation Wars concluded last weekend in the prestigious "Le Trianon de Paris". The four remaining nations were Norway ( Eiki,  TargA, Snute), Poland (Tefel, MaNa, Nerchio), France (Lilbow,  Dayshi, Stephano) and Mexico (JimRiSiNg, Maker, MajOr). The French crowd once against brought an incredible energy to the event, reminiscent of the earlier Iron Squid tournaments, which created an incredible atmosphere for the games.
Semifinal 14  Norway
0  Poland
While Norway is typically known for Snute putting the country on his back, it was the little known Eiki who delivered a surprising all kill to open the night. Eiki used a variety of styles in his four games, ranging from an old school blink stalker all in against Nerchio through to drawn out macro games such as the final game of the series on Deadwing. Eiki's shock performance electrified the crowd and had them chanting his name at the conclusion of the series. This performance is easily the stand out performance of Eiki's career to date.
Semifinal 24  Mexico
0  France
Mexico had made the semifinals predominantly off of the strong performance of Major in this tournament, and this series was really more of the same. MajOr looked in dominating form in three of the four games, only having difficulty against Lilbow in the second set. In this game MajOr fell behind early but excellent point defense drone usage and drop play allowed him to stage an incredible comeback. While MajOr had put a small damper on the French crowd's energy, there was some small consolation to come.
Third Place3 Poland4 France
In arguably the series of the night, France took home third place - much to the delight of the crowd. MaNa secured an early lead for Poland after defeating a rather confused looking Dayshi, but a failed cannon rush against Stephano tied up the series 1-1. Stephano defeated Tefel in game three setting up the highly anticipated Stephano-Nerchio match. Stephano's rust showed and Nerchio was able to tie up the series 2-2. The score was quickly turned into 3-2 as Lilbow fell to Nerchio forcing team France to send out Dayshi as their ace. In an epic game, Dayshi was able to edge out Nerchio setting up a rematch against MaNa. This time Dayshi was able to get his revenge and secure third place for France.
Grand Final4 Norway2 Mexico
The first game of the finals between Maker and TargA was the fastest of the night, with Maker going for a 2rax strategy which TargA blind countered with pool first. JimRiSiNg then stepped in and played an exceptionally brilliant ZvZ to even out the series 1-1. In the third match, JimRiSiNg defeated Eiki with a late game mutalisk switch before losing to Snute in the fourth to tie the series 2-2.
This set up, effectively, a Bo3 between Snute and MajOr to decide the winner of Nation Wars II. MajOr decided to go mech on Deadwing but despite gaining an early lead with hellion harass, the game progressed into late game with both sides on relatively even footing. Snute was able to gain a lead with some brilliant fungal growths, but was unable to crack MajOr's defense to finish him off. MajOr slowly chipped away at Snute's army while Snute took most of the map. It wasn't until after the 60 minute mark that Snute was able to get another set of pristine fungals and this time close out the game. The final game of the night had MajOr attempt to all in Snute, who was able to defend and secure the championship for Norway.
Team Norway won over $14,000 by claiming first place and successfully defended their Nation Wars title. Team Mexico took home over $7,000 for their efforts. This firmly cements Norway as one of the strongest Starcraft nations outside of Korea. O'Gaming are in the process of organising a Team Korea vs Team Norway showmatch to be held on September 7th. Korea will be represented by MC, Jaedong and Life (who were chosen by public vote).
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Who would've thought Norway would take this thing back to back, cool performance by the guys.
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Norway and Mexico as finalists sounds kinda funny.
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Still no VODS from the final match?
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The ProLeague format would it be more representative for that kind of a competition?
Because despite Eiki good job in the first match, that just look likes a Snute vs Major in the end 
Very nice tourney! cant wait for the third edition
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Russian Federation604 Posts
Nice! Major was in very good shape on this tournament!))
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Good show.. i love the guys that brought us this and iron squid
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MC Jaedong and Life vs Eiki targa and Snute. No Terran  but if this happens it ll be epic!
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MKP is not top 3 in votes? Either everybody lied in the original thread, or it doesn't make sense to me.
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On July 28 2014 21:27 xN.07)MaK wrote:
MKP is not top 3 in votes? Either everybody lied in the original thread, or it doesn't make sense to me.
er MKP fans are just that much more vocal than others
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What a great day that was ! I'm so glad that I was able to be there. Thank you O'Gaming !
On July 28 2014 21:27 xN.07)MaK wrote:
MKP is not top 3 in votes? Either everybody lied in the original thread, or it doesn't make sense to me.
My theory is that many people voted for one player of each race but there were a lot more terrans so the votes were splitted while the top Protoss and Zergs got a lot more votes.
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Hey Guys
Hope it answers you
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Dq0i4zl.jpg)
RGDS
Kerri
Nation Wars Tournament Director
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On July 28 2014 21:27 xN.07)MaK wrote:
MKP is not top 3 in votes? Either everybody lied in the original thread, or it doesn't make sense to me.
Edit: Just saw the graph.
I have to admit, that the lack of terran is surprising. I thought that either Maru or Inno would get a spot.
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Such a great tournament with a fantastic crowd & venue! Big congrats all around to the organizers, and of course to Norway, Mexico, France and Poland too, for making this such a good show!
Hoping for more of the same in the near future! Many thanks! 
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On July 28 2014 21:40 JoeCool wrote:Show nested quote +On July 28 2014 21:27 xN.07)MaK wrote:
MKP is not top 3 in votes? Either everybody lied in the original thread, or it doesn't make sense to me. Edit: Just saw the graph. I have to admit, that the lack of terran is surprising. I thought that either Maru or Inno would get a spot.
they didn't volunteer for the vote.
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Norway28894 Posts
one more thing norway is best at
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Great games, esp Snute vs Major game 1 :-)
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I miss the times when Sweden used to be the best
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If you have any feedbacks just PM on TL or poke me on Twitter.
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Damn you Norway, the oil moneys and the lusekofte and the fjords and now this. Ah well, at least we're Norway adjacent, we swedes.
/Not envious at all. At ALL.
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I hope that next time ( if there will be). Tournament starts with group stage.
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The business model is interesting, since they're not relying on ads or viewer number. I'm curious to see the viewer count tho,
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On July 28 2014 23:16 TheBloodyDwarf wrote:
I hope that next time ( if there will be). Tournament starts with group stage.
I think it will.
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On July 28 2014 20:52 b0zz wrote:The ProLeague format would it be more representative for that kind of a competition? Because despite Eiki good job in the first match, that just look likes a Snute vs Major in the end
Seriously. At least have one match regular format and one match all-kill format.
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snute is to strong
also major choosed bad strategys as good as game 1 looked it was lost from the start ... snute is no gamer throwing away such games he has patience
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You can't spell Norway without Snute.
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So "mad" that day9's twitch twitched out during the grandfinals, wtf? Cant find any VOD's of it anywhere
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lol that 4-0 against poland doe. Eiki too stronk. Congrats Norway!
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I have never been more proud of my passport. Will buy those guys something if I run into em. All hail captain TargA!
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HURRA for us :D
gratz on a job well done guys
On July 28 2014 23:10 Krugessin wrote:
Damn you Norway, the oil moneys and the lusekofte and the fjords and now this. Ah well, at least we're Norway adjacent, we swedes.
/Not envious at all. At ALL.
ha, suck it Sweden 
finally the correct country is in charge of the north
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United States97277 Posts
It's too bad there's no Terran on team Korea. Would have liked to see one of each race. Grats Norway
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On July 28 2014 20:44 Holloworb wrote:
Who would've thought Norway would take this thing back to back, cool performance by the guys.
I think what makes it even cooler is its the same team from NW1.
Of the 8 returning teams they are 1 of 3 to retain their team from NW1 (the others being Ukraine's Kas/Bly/Dimaga and Spain's Vortix/Majestic/Alastor
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Wow, gogo mexico, nice to see north america got some representation
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great stuff, keep on rocking nations wars! I really look forward to a third edition
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United States7483 Posts
On July 29 2014 03:19 Shellshock wrote:
It's too bad there's no Terran on team Korea. Would have liked to see one of each race. Grats Norway
People couldn't agree on which terran they wanted to see. I wanted Jjakji.
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Wow I completely missed the whole tournament. Sad day for me
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Wow, so proud of you guys!
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congrats norway!
any photos of the event? be great to see photos of the venue/players/crowd too
i guess people have have skipped voting MKP as they thought he would definitely be in...
lets see if Life is any better at team-format when he's representing his country
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On July 29 2014 09:14 worosei wrote:
congrats norway!
any photos of the event? be great to see photos of the venue/players/crowd too
i guess people have have skipped voting MKP as they thought he would definitely be in...
lets see if Life is any better at team-format when he's representing his country
Here are two galleries :
Official Nation Wars album
aAa album
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I am dumbfounded how USA did not win with Stephano
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MC, Jaedong and Life won the vote? Im rather surprised, how close was it? Where can we see the votes?
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On July 30 2014 00:40 Foreverkul wrote:
MC, Jaedong and Life won the vote? Im rather surprised, how close was it? Where can we see the votes?
Look at page 1 of this thread.
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On July 30 2014 02:47 Ballack wrote:Show nested quote +On July 30 2014 00:40 Foreverkul wrote:
MC, Jaedong and Life won the vote? Im rather surprised, how close was it? Where can we see the votes? Look at page 1 of this thread.
So the votes were MC, JD, Life, Terran, other???
Everyone just picked 1 Terran between MKP, Bomber, and Polt, and then voted MC Protoss and JD/Life Zerg?
MC got all Protoss votes, Zerg votes dived by JD and Life, and Terran votes divided by MKP, Bomber, Polt, which meant they didn't get enough votes for any one of them to be top 3 :/
Terran popularity divided their votes, Ugh.
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