to

test themselves against the international
opposition, have a critical look at their tactics and prepare
for the upcoming 2014 World Championships to be held in Baku.

The first test
match that the Protea Dota 2 played against, in the current
season, was Egypt. Many valuable lessons were learned.

It is now the time
for South Africa to face Finland.

The Finnish
eSports Federation (FeSF) has selected the top Finnish players
to play for Team Finland in IeSF WC 2014 held in Baku.

FeSF is proud to have Vesa "Welmu" Hovinen from Team NewRoSoft
to represent Finland in StarCraft II. This 20-year old world
class player has been the best Finnish StarCraft II player for
the past two years and arguably one of the top players outside
Korea. Welmu participated Premier League during the last WCS
Season 2 making it to round of 16, visitingshortly Challenger
League to secure a spot in WCS Season 3 Premier League.

The FeSF has
selected Niina "Soyhi" Kahela to represent Finland as their
female competitor in StarCraft II. Niina is a world class
player who, at the 2013 World Championships - Bucharest,
proved to be tha fierce competitor.

For Dota 2, this
year's Finnish line-up consist of such players as Kalle
"Trixi" Saarinen from Fnatic and ex-pro-player Jesse "jerAx"
Vainikka, who still plays world-class Dota 2 and might be seen
again on the pro-scene in the future. Other three players
(Okke, Hopis and fragi) are from the Finnish scene and not as
well known as Trixi and jerAx but play on national top level.
Interesting fact is also that fragi used to play for Finnish
World number 1 placed World of Warcraft guild Paragon during
earlier expansions up to Cataclysm.

The Test Match
will