Turkey shoots down North America

If Day 2 of the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational will be remembered for anything it will almost certainly be the monumental upsets that occurred. First, China's Royal Never Give Up took down Korea's SKTelecom T1. Now, the IWCI winner from Turkey, SuperMassive, bulldozed their way to a decisive victory over North America's Counter Logic Gaming.

When everyone was told that the Turkish team didn’t stand a chance of winning a game here at MSI, clearly SuperMassive didn’t get the memo. Dumbledoge was landing clutch Cosmic Bindings with Bard, Achuu repeatedly solo killed Stixxay, and Stomaged was everywhere that CLG didn’t want him to be on Kindred.

SuperMassive didn’t just win -- they looked great doing it.

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“To be honest we were also expecting to win against Flash Wolves. We had high hopes, so losing that game was really bad for us," said Dumbledoge. "But we always thought that if we can forget the defeat and focus on the next game we can make it happen. We tried our best to win and somehow it happened.”

It all started with first blood on Huhi. A well timed gank from Stomaged put Naru and SuperMassive in the lead. From there, they picked up more kills, snowballing their carries into scary territory. While the gold was even (CLG pulled ahead at times), SuperMassive maintained their composure and continued to notch up kills -- eventually pulling ahead to the point where CLG had no chance of catching up.

“When I checked the score and we were like 6-5 or something, I said, 'I think we are going to win this game. This is the game we are going to win,'" said Dumbledoge.

"I’m glad we had control all game and didn’t throw it -- and at some point we were like, yes, we are ahead, but we can’t throw it. We shouldn’t force anything. We should control the game, go slow, and win the game. GG.”

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But this isn’t the end of the road for SuperMassive. They still have plenty more games to play at MSI 2016, and will be looking to ride this momentum to more victories. Today they proved that just because you’re from an IWC region, it doesn’t mean you’re going to step down in the face of adversity.

“In the previous games we were kinda scared," Dumbledoge admits. "But as we stepped into this game we decided not to be afraid. We were going to play our game. If it doesn’t happen it’s not the end of the world. There are more games, and if there are not more games, there are more MSIs, and we have nothing to lose.”

And who knows? Maybe we’ll see Turkey earn a top four seed at Worlds. Keep following the Mid-Season Invitational and show some love to Turkey on Twitter with #MSI2016.