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4PL allegedly closing in 2013

<p>According to reports of the German page TheOrigin.de, 4PlayersLeague will be shutting down operations this year. 4PL is run by the Gaming magazine 4Players, which was bought by the Nuremberg publishing house Computec in 2012 after the bankruptcy of 4Players&#39; previous owner Freenet.</p>

Star Series VI announced with 50% increase in prize pool

<p>$7,500 increase in prize pool for Star Series as Starladder announced more details on their sixth installment of their prestigious league. The tournament is set to begin on the 19th of May before returning to Kiev for the offline finals.</p>

Neo.Int disqualified from TI3 East qualifier

<p>Following the announcement of the departure of Michael &#39;ninjaboogie&#39; Ross earlier today, a reliable insider who would like to remain anonymous us that Neolution.Int has been disqualified from the Eastern qualifier of The International 3.</p>

sOAZ Grilled: ''Wickd is better than Korean top laners''

<p>In this episode of &quot;Grilled, Paul &#39;sOAZ&#39; Boyer makes some bold claims about Europe and also gives his opinion on other top laners as well as his thoughts on the LCS.</p>

WCS NA: North American's Revenge

<p>With a large amount of premiere league being dominated by Korean players, the challenger league has shown some early success for Americans. With Theognis taking out Jaedong 2:0, and Vibe defeating Sage.</p>

Zenith and TongFu to face in AMD Premier League finals

<p>In today&#39;s matches, TongFu and Zenith proceeded to the finals after taking out RisingStars and MUFC 2-0 respectively. The two TI3 invitees will face off tomorrow in a best-of-three finals. It is not a surprise to see these two teams face off as they were amongst the favorites. The match is scheduled for 14:00 CEST, but prior to that, MUFC and RisingStars will fight it out for third place at 12:00 CEST.</p>

Ninjaboogie removed from Neolution.int

<p>Ninjaboogie has reportedly been removed from his team, NeoES.Int. This came in just two days after his team competed on a LAN tournament in Manila, Philippines, where they finished fourth out of eight teams.</p>

Code S Ro8: sOs stands as the last Protoss hope

<p>&nbsp;After a day of PvZs only, the balance between the two races is equal as sOs and Soulkey advanced, leaving Parting and Losira behind.</p>

LongDD returns to LGD as coach?

<p>LongDD allegedly claimed that he will be returning to LGD.cn, not as a player but a coach. We also reached out to LGD regarding the matter but was told that they have not finalized the decision.</p>

Stephano ends career in August

<p>As promised in the past, the French Zerg ends his run in StarCraft 2 this summer in order to focus on his studies. He pointed to the 15th of August as a specific date.</p>

YamatoCannon and Malunoo leave Dragonborns

<p>After failing to qualify against MeetYourMakers for another season in the LCS split, the two decide to part ways and form their own team for future aspirations.</p>

Korea head to Shanghai for the LCS All-Stars

<p>Today, Riot released the Korean video of the LCS All-Star team.[/hnice] In the video you can see the thoughts and goals of Ambition, Shy, Pray, MadLife, InSec and their coach Reach.</p>