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IEM AC Groups drawings & EC Cashprizes (81 comments)

( Major News: CS QL)

Posted by xou @ 15:33 CDT, 8 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Yesterday the ESL announced the Groups Drawings for the IEM Quakelive American Championship regular season. The drawing will take place on ESL TV at 13:00 CDT along with the American and European CS Groups Drawings. The Quakelive duelers will be randomly picked from the following seeding pools into 4 groups of 4 players:

Update: The American QL groups will be as following:

Regular Season Groups

Seeding pools

Also another news was posted about the prizes for the European Championship competitions. These will be the same as the American for Quakelive with a total of $10,600.

Main Round - $2,600

Finals - $8,000

Sources: Groups Drawings - European Cashprizes - AC Groups

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ESL welcomes 16 Star Players to Dubai (339 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 11:26 CDT, 2 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

The ESL just announced their 16 invites for the Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge Dubai from 17th to 19th October 2009, those 16 players will face each other in four groups of four players each and the top two of each group will reach the playoffs, which will be a eight player single elimination ko-stage. They also announced a change of prize money, because due the large amount of interest and sign ups the amount of players was increased from 12 to 16.

Invited Players

New Prize money distribution

The ESL also unveiled the map list that will be used for the tournament, it will be: qzdm6, qzdm13, qztourney7, qztourney9 and ztntourney1.

Source: Official ESL World announcement

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ESL US IEM Qualifier #4 (24 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 16:32 CDT, 1 October 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Tonight the last qualifier for the Intel Extreme Masters American Championship will start and with it the last chance for players to qualify for the American Championship. Again 64 players in a single elimination bracket will battle for the last two slots. Tonight starting at 20:00 CDT the first three rounds will be played, the remaining rounds will be played tomorrow, also starting at 20:00 CDT.

Update: The final is not scheduled yet, we will update the news as soon as a date is available.

Already Qualified Players

Final Rankings

Results

Streaming: The matches of Qualifier #4 will be streamed and broadcasted by Quake Live TV.

Source: Participants - Brackets - American Championship Info

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$6,500 Quake Live Tourney in Dubai (348 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 11:08 CDT, 29 September 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

The Electronic Sports League is proud to announce that Quake Live will be part of the Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge Dubai. The event will feature a 12 player (might be reduced to 8) Tournament with Quake Live players from all over the world fighting for a share of $6,500 prize money. The event will be held at the Gitex Shopper from 17th to 19th October. The tournament will be played on LAN Servers provided by id Software.

Prize Money Distribution

Also everyone interested in participation and flying to Dubai can apply on the ESL website until 08:00 CDT, 2 October 2009.

More details about the schedule and confirmed players will be released prior to the event in the next two weeks.

Links: IEM4 - Global Challenge Dubai announcement - Signed up players (not confirmed)

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ESL US IEM Qualifier #3 (17 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 18:35 CDT, 27 September 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Tonight it is time to find another two players for the ESL Intel Extreme Masters American Championship. The ESL America Quake Live IEM Qualifier #3 is on schedule and 64 players are trying to earn two of the eight spots for the American Championship. All players will meet on

#esl.quakelive.

The sign up for #4 is still open. Use your chance and qualify for the Intel Extreme Masters American Championship.

Already Qualified Players

Final Rankings

Results

Stream - by JUDGE // by gator
Links: Brackets - ESL News

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Intel Extreme Masters returns to Dubai (4 comments)

( News: ESR)

Posted by azxx @ 04:27 CDT, 24 September 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

After Global Challenges in Cologne and Chengdu, the next Global Challenge of IEM4 is to be held in

Dubai, once again. Yay!

They also mentioned:

Furthermore there will be a Local Pro/Am competition in an unnamed discipline which remains secret for now.

Let's hope this is Quake Live, maybe then id will consider servers for the region.

Official news release can be found here.

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American IEM Qualifier #2 (76 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 19:00 CDT, 23 September 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Tonight is the first playday of two in the Intel Extreme Masters Qualifier #2. All players will meet on

#esl.quakelive. The tournament will feature around 50 players and the top two will be invited for the American Championship.

The sign up for Qualifier #3 & #4 are still open. Use your chance and qualify for the Intel Extreme Masters American Championship.

Final Ranking

Results

Update: Tonight's matches, starting at 20:00 CDT, 23 September 2009 with Round 4, will be broadcasted on livestream.com. Check the results or brackets to see what exciting matches are coming. As

whaz can't play this Wednesday, the 2 remaining matches will likely be played tomorrow evening.

Update 2: whaz/walter will be played tonight at 18:00 CDT, and the final against JUDGE right after that.

Links: Brackets - ESL News- Live Stream

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IEM Qualifier #1 - Vo0 wins! (42 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 14:49 CDT, 20 September 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Tonight the first Qualifier for the Intel Extreme Masters will take place at 17:00 CDT, 20 September 2009. All players will meet on

#esl.quakelive. The tournament will feature 32 players and the top two will be invited for the American Championship.

There is also good news for everyone who missed the sign up of the first cup, the qualifiers cups #2, #3 and #4 were expanded to 64 players, because the 32 slots were already filled yesterday. So now is you chance to still sign up to qualify for the Intel Extreme Masters.

Final Standings

Results

Participants

Links: Member Overview - Brackets - ESL News
Downloads: Vo0 demos - 3rd Place Match demos

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ESL IEM American Championship Invites (88 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 10:56 CDT, 18 September 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Yesterday the Qualifiers for the Intel Extreme Masters Quake Live American Championship were announced and today it is time to announce all eight invited players. The American Championship will feature 16 players in four groups. 8 of them have to win a qualification tournament, the other 8 are more lucky by get invited directly.

Invited Players

On Monday we will know which two players will be the next to join those eight in the American Championship. More information can be found on the Intel Extreme Masters website or on ESL America.

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Intel Extreme Masters embraces QuakeLive (125 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 14:42 CDT, 14 September 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Quake Live is now officially part of the Intel Extreme Masters Continental Championship Season. That means that there will be regional Quake Live Championships in at least Europe and North America for Quake Live. The tournament system for both regions is already announced, but it's still open if the the Quake Live tournaments will be completely online or will end together with World of Warcraft and Counter-Strike 1.6 in offline finals.

In both regions eight players get directly invite to the Continental Championship and the top two of four qualification cups will also go to each Continental Championship. The Continental Championship will be played in a system of four by four groups. The first player of each group advances directly to the Continental Finals, while the second one faces the third one of another group for a slot on the finals.

The official website says that the North American Championship qualification will start on September, 20th, so we can expect more details pretty soon.

Sources: Official announcement - European Championship Overview - North American Championship Overview

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IEM Pro/Am Challenge - rapha wins (411 comments)

( Major News: QL)

Posted by Rondrian @ 05:20 CDT, 22 August 2009 - iMsg

Event: IEM4

Scheduled: 05:35 CDT, 22 August 2009 to 06:30 CDT, 22 August 2009
Schedule: Passed

The $1.000 Intel Extreme Masters Pro/Am Challenge on gamescom in Cologne will start tomorrow with 16 players, the players will play from gamescom on the ESL Intel Arena. The tournament will be single elimination and each match will be best of three, while the final will be best of five. The final match will be broadcasted at 05:35 CDT Friday on ESL TV.

Results

tournament details

players and seedings

Coverage: ESL Coverage Site, Brackets

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