IEM 5 EC Groups Announced
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21 Oct 2010, 18:14
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The qualification rounds have come to an end and finally the groups for the ESL Intel Extreme Masters Season 5: European Championship were drawn for Quake Live and StarCraft II. Next week the online groupstage will begin, all matches are played in Best of 3 format, the winner of each match picks a $50 bonus and the top 2 of each group will advance to the European Championship Finals where the main part of $114,400 prize money is at stake. For participating the Finals each player also gets another bonus of $150.Groups for Quake Live
Group A
av3k
k1llsen
winz
GaRpY
a1r-r41dGroup B
Spart1e strenx
xrebzy
spartaz0rd
BalkGroup C
noctis fazz reload
Nitrino daxioGroup D
Cooller stermy GoHLinK
draven assignGroup E
Cypher calipt
dem0n madix serakGroup F
fox
guard
krysa UwU CnyGroups for StarCraft II
Group A
HasuObs Tarson
Kas jimpoGroup B
MorroW Socke ServaNt PredYGroup C
Naama SjoW
SaJeR
SkrufGroup D
DeMusliM dimaga merz KroLuGroup E
Naniwa GoOdy SarenS NbsGroup F
White-Ra Brat_OK ClouD
DeathAngelUpdate: Since
Cny will remain banned from Quakelive, it was decided to remove him from the tournament. His slot will be handed to the winner of a match between the 2 players who finished at 4th rank during the last chance qualifiers: plaZmaa vs zsx . The match should be played Saturday 23rd around 22:00 EEST.Quake Live will be played every Wednesday at 22:00 CET. ESL TV will pick the best match of the day and present it at their Wednesday Quake Live show. StarCraft II is going to take place on all upcoming Thursdays at 19:00 CET right before our weekly Counter-Strike playdays get started, where the second one will be held tonight.
Source: ESL IEM5 Groups Announcement
wheres Voo!
if it was lan - YES, but don't forget that this is online tournament
considering the latest results each group has 2 players that are way better than the rest 3
each group.. except for cypher's group...(well maybe also reload could surprise in group C considering his last week perfomance)
Group E has 4 fucking players each of whom got into ZOTAC/GDATA top3 several times
Cypher has awful ping on EU lately(90+), you can barely see him playing on european servers, eventhough he participates in most russian quick-cups with <50 ping to here
dem0n has great shape lately, winning last week IEM quali means a lot already.
calipt, well assuming it's played on .de and his aimboost with a fresh made frankenmouse he also looks fucking strong
madix, well u should never underrate that guy, he won cypher who had okish ping several times and i dont see any barrier for him not to repeat that again
this honestly that isnt clear, i wouldnt be surprised if he doesnt win the 1st group place and has problems with winning 2nd. Though i dont get why cypher isnt invited to LAN finals but this somewhat qualifying stage.
and this time it's gonna be held in
will still watch the games :s