a fairly one-sided affair as the NS - QoP combo played by a pair of the best individual players in China annihilated NA. NA appears to be on its last legs after its poor results in the previous ACE league, failures in G-1, and an inability to transition effectively to Dota 2. The team also recently lost it's sponsor. The second game featured a very shaken NA in a desperate struggle, running Weaver mid and using a Juggernaut against a very standard lineup from VG. Needless to say, it did not end well.For Love 2:1 Invasion.intTongFu 2:1 Natural9Both series were somewhat unimpressive, with a pair of now middling Chinese teams facing foreign foes. In both cases, reasonably convincing first game victories on the part of the Chinese werereversed easily in game two.The third game of FL vs Invasion.int involved FL drafting the "facerush" lineup of NS, BH, and Sven and rolling over their opponents in a rather humdrum fashion. On the other hand, TongFu vs N9 developed into an hour-long slugfest between a pair of teamfight-oriented lineups anchored by Naix and Syllabear, respectively. The game was reasonably exciting and was continuously back and forth until TongFu found a series of good team fights which they then developed into a lead, and then a win.LGD walked over Mineski due to scheduling problems and miscommunication.MUFC 2:1 OrangeThis series between two longtime rivals of the SEA scene gave us perhaps the best games of the G-League preliminaries so far. We saw yet another round of the familiar clash,