It is a late monday afternoon, we are a week away from Halloween. While people are finishing their costume and watching some horror movies, MYM|Araneae came to me with an idea.
What ? You do not know who 
Alvar 'Araneae' Martin is ? Let me clear it : Alvar is the captain of 
MeetYourMakers' League of Legends team. Reknowned for playing and streaming his games, he will now be co-writing an article which is very rare for a player to do the job of an editor.
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Let's get back to the aticle. So Araneae told me about his idea. He wanted to make a recap of the whole team's results of the past month, with him helping me write the article as well as commenting it with statements. The idea sounded great, so we decided to give it a try.
Welcome to Alvar's weekly blog : Araneae takes the pen.
The team's main achievement of the past month is obviously them qualifying for the WCG Grand Finals which will take place in early December, 2011 in South Korea.
They picked up their great friend Enrique 'fnatic\xPeke' Cedeño Martinez to play with them under the Spanish flag of Smart People. After a really successfull online qualifier, they managed to beat Vendetta whose captain was SK-Gaming's Carlos 'Ocelote' Rodriguez Santiago. MYM's newly recruited Dani 'Shad' Gonzalez Soler won't be able to fly to 
Busan as he joined the team after the WCG team was made.
Alvar's feelings about WCG and the team, Smart People :
The sensation when we won the WCG.es qualifiers and we knew that we were going to travel to Korea was something I can't describe with words. Smart People is a super strong team for WCG, MYM and the experience of xPeke is just great. I am really confident for WCG. (smile)
The team shouting "DEMACIA !"
From left to right : Babeta, Exterminare, Araneae, heiN, xPeke, Leoliopop (Spanish Riot Community Manager)
WCG.es 2011 League of Legends teaser
Spanish interview of Araneae and xPeke (translated)
Translation of the interview by Araneae :QUESTION: An intense final, hard final, 2 games, and champions, you won a Korean travel, what's around your head at the moment?
Araneae: As I already said, that was our main goal. For us Korea, the WCG, it is too much, and at the moment, we just want to travel to Korea, play against the best teams around the world, and try to get back home the WCG championship.
QUESTION: xPeke, final vs Vendetta, do you remember the interview we did to you last days? Finally there were no Vendetta...
xPeke: No, finally no Vendetta, it went all fine for us haha.
QUESTION: Was it an easy victory?
Araneae: No, not at all. To be honest, we studied them so hard to see what they can pick and what they can ban, so for me it was more a strategical victory. Because individually, they had really good players.
QUESTION: Before the Grand Finals, what are you going to do? What are your plans?
xPeke: For me, I want to keep training, at least 3 or 4 days a week, because I think we can do a really good tournament with this team.
Araneae: For me, the actual team we are travelling with to Korea, is my dream team, since xPeke is for my best friend on this game, and I am really happy to play with him in this tournament.
Go4LoL, one of ESL's major tournaments is a place where our players can achieve great results as out of 3 cups, they did it to 3 finals where 2 of them are still to be played.
Making it to the finals means beating 6 or 7 teams without a single loss, which would otherwise cause a disqualification.
Below are the finals :
Go4LoL #55
MeetYourMakers vs. 
fnaticMSI / 
Tom (ESL)
Go4LoL #56
MeetYourMakers vs. fnaticMSI / 
Sypher (ESL)
Go4LoL #60
MeetYourMakers < 
Gameburg Team (ESL)
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