Korea's CJ Entus Blaze bested China's OMG/Positive Energy combination in a two game series to secure first place in the 2013 World Cyber Games.
Just like at IEM Singapore, the World Cyber Games saw a Korean CJ Entus team face a Chinese team in the final. Both OMG and CJ Entus Blaze looked strong throughout the entire tournament, and it surprised few that they would be the last teams standing. They took the main stage after World Elite took third place against Lyon Gaming in a two-game series.
The first game saw a showdown between Chinese Fiddlesticks and Korean Nunu. Unlike in the finals for IEM Singapore, however, Blaze's DayDream used Nunu to pick up early towers by buffing Emperor's Lucian top in a 2v1. The first turret went down for CJ Entus Blaze in less than four minutes. In addition, by six minutes, DayDream's Nunu secured the Koreans the first dragon of the game, creating a pretty comfortable gold lead early on. Meanwhile, due to good ward coverage by CJ Entus Blaze, Lovelin's Fiddlesticks was unable to get ganks off.
Still, after a handful of lost fights, OMG were not out of the game. Sicca's Sona got a successful flash Crescendo while CJ Entus Blaze attempted to bait the baron buff. OMG extended pressure during this brief window to get three kills and the top turret. Unfortunately for the Chinese team, however, Ambition's Nidalee was able to consistently land spears on Cool and Sicca, forcing them off objectives. They picked up baron at twenty seven minutes, and Flame's Tryandamere became a strong force split-pushing in the top lane. Blaze continued to come out ahead in skirmishes and the objective-based game all the way to OMG's nexus.
The second game was an even more one-sided affair. While in the first game, both teams had excellent reactions in objective trading, OMG failed to apply as much pressure on the map the second time around. They picked up high priority Korean picks like Thresh, Gragas, and Lucian to give them skirmish as well as team fight potential. In addition, they banned out Nidalee, but that left Kassadin open for Ambition. OMG likely knew they would have to end the game early, and Gogoing picked up first blood on an invade. OMG opted into 2v1 lanes, and Sicca and NaMei picked up a kill top on DayDream's Nunu. Ambition's Kassadin, however, picked up a kill mid fairly early on in the first five-vs-five faceoff.
The game continued to teeter in fights until around fifteen minutes when Blaze made a risky play for dragon without Nunu. Though they had to burn summoners, they secured their gold lead, and Kassadin became strong enough to split push top and pick up straggling kills. OMG had no answer to Emperor's farm lead and a snowballing Kassadin in the late game, so Game Two, like Game One, slowly escaped their control. Gogoing's Kennen and LoveLin's Fiddlesticks were unable to effectively combo their ultimate-stacking engage until CJ Blaze were too far ahead for OMG to win fights, and the Chinese lost their base and the series.
Though Nunu failed to make a case against Fiddlesticks' strong ganking at IEM Singapore earlier today, the WCG finals displayed how strong Nunu's objective control can be, while LoveLin's Fiddlesticks failed to pick up kills for his team. It was clear that, though the Koreans may have taken more than their fair share of risks in their early games at WCG, they deserved their win against OMG, much to the discontent of the home crowd at Kunshan.
