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The foreigners' failures to take a championship in 2013 continued in Fragbite Masters. After powering through Vortix and MC, Naniwa went on to face StarDust in the finals but suffered a 0-3 defeat that placed him second.
The tournament that started mid-September finally came to a close last night as eight players gathers to play the online playoffs of the Fragbite masters. The line-up featured an equal Koreans-to-foreigners ratio and that tendency was retained till the very last match of the tournament.
HasuObs and Naniwa were successful for Europe in the quarter finals, the German beating Korean Terran sC 2-1 and Naniwa taking the same score over fellow foreigner Vortix. StarDust and MC balanced the ratio as they triumphed over Arthur and MC, respectively. An all-Protoss round of four was thus formed.
HasuObs took the early lead in the first semi final series against StarDust but the DreamHack champion came back 2-1 to become the first grand finalist of Fragbite Masters. He was soon joined by the Swedish superstar who ousted MC with a perfect score.
Once in the grand final, the Korean Protoss come on strong, eager to grab the $12,300 first place check and further assert the Korean dominance in 2013. After three maps, the mYi player awarded Naniwa his third silver medal for this year and sent him home with just $6,200.
It will be a few quiet days of StarCraft competition now that Fragbite is over. The next event scheduled to hit the streams is the Acer TeamStory Cup playoffs, starting on December 14 with Acer vs Team Liquid and Western Wolves vs Axiom. The very next day will mark the start of the EPS Germany Winter playoffs where Heromarine plays HasuObs and Showtime faces Socke in the first round.
