Once again we see a major DotA tournament, the SMM Grand National DotA Tournament! With over $18,000 of prize money it will be one of the biggest Asian DotA events so far. Teams such as Rush3d, Kingsurf and EHOME will be attending, as well as our own fnaticMSI.DotA.

fnaticMSI.DotA is one of the big favourites for the event, coming from a victory at the Make Games Colorful 2008 tournament, beating all their major rivals.

SMM will be kicking off at the 21st of November, and will end at the 23rd of the same month. It is hosted at the Berjaya Times Square, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The same weekend will also play host to the Intel Extreme Masters Continental Finals America. The fnaticMSI.WoW team will be attending the event in Philadelphia along with the best World of Warcraft teams that America has to offer.

EM Philadelphia will offer $80,000 in prize money for the WoW and CS attendees; however, the most valuable prize for the top placed teams will be the opportunity to compete at the Grand Finals.

The event is sure to prove challenging for the fnaticMSI team, especially with teams like Pandemic and Gravitas Gaming in attendance. Gravitas Gaming in particular will be hungry for redemption after their defeat to fnaticMSI.WoW at MLG Dallas.

• Update: fnaticMSI.WoW did not make it to the playoffs after losing to Gravitas Gaming in the relegation match.
  

• Update #2: The DotA team got knocked out of SMM after losing to Kingsurf in the fourth round of the lowerbracket.
  

Latest Score Overview

Time	Game	Team	Result	Opponent		Stage	Tournament
Finished		fnaticMSI.DotA	[00:01]	Ks		LB Round 4	SMM
Finished		fnaticMSI.WoW	[02:03]	Gravitas		Relegation	EM Philadelphia