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The Intel Extreme Masters American Championship Group Stages will begin today, September 4th! The groups are as follows:
Group A
Bubba
TTOne
Fenix
SUGGY
Group B
HuK
KiWiKaKi
LastShadow (ajtls)
Machine
Group C
Silver
qxc
ThisIsJimmy
Murder
Group D
Drewbie
Painuser
Cauthonluck
Artosis
Bubba
TTOne
Fenix
SUGGY
Group B
HuK
KiWiKaKi
LastShadow (ajtls)
Machine
Group C
Silver
qxc
ThisIsJimmy
Murder
Group D
Drewbie
Painuser
Cauthonluck
Artosis
Today's play schedule is as follows (all times EDT):
Round 1
14:00h MurDeR vs ThisIsJimmy
14:00h Bubba vs Fenix
14:00h HuK vs KiWiKaKi
15:30h suggy vs TT1
15:30h Lastshadow vs Machine
15:30h drewbie vs CauthonLuck
17:00h qxc vs Silver
17:00h PainUser Artosis
Round 2
17:00h Bubba vs TT1
18:30h MurDeR vs Silver
18:30h drewbie vs Artosis
18:30h HuK vs Machine
20:00h ajtls vs KiWiKaKi
20:00h qxc vs ThisIsJimmy
20:00h PainUser vs CauthonLuck
20:00h suggy vs Fenix
Tomorrow's (Sunday, September 5th) play schedule is as follows (all times EDT):
Round 3
14:00h Bubba vs suggy
14:00h Fenix vs TT1
15:30h HuK vs Lastshadow
15:30h KiWiKaKi vs Machine
17:00h MurDeR vs qxc
17:00h ThisIsJimmy vs Silver
18:30h CauthonLuck vs Artosis
18:30h drewbie vs PainUser
The top 2 winners of each group will advance to the event in New York City held on October 8th, 9th, and 10th.
Here are the rules for the group play (they are DIFFERENT than IEM Europe):
Check-in: 1:30pm EST
Matches Start: 2:00pm EST
Group Stage Matches
- Round Robin Scheduling
- 4 Groups (Groups A,B,C,D)
- 4 Players in each Group: 1st seed will be pre-determined, the rest will be a random draw
- Best of 3 series, maps chosen through downvotes
Main Group Stage
- $50 per match win
- $100 to the Top Winner of each group
- Top Two in each group (8 total) will advance to the Intel Extreme Masters LAN Finals in NYC
Streams
Coverage will begin at 14:00 EDT on iCCup TV and GLHF.tv:
http://www.ustream.com/channel/iccup-tv
http://www.glhf.tv
Results:
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All games for the Group Stages have been played!
Official standings page: http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season5/america_sc2/
Group A:
Fenix 2-1 Bubba
SUGGY 2-0 TTOne
TTOne 2-1 Bubba
SUGGY 1-2 Fenix
SUGGY 2-0 Bubba
Fenix 2-0 TTOne
Group A:
SUGGY and Fenix advance!
Group B:
HuK 2-0 KiWiKaKi
ajtls 2-0 Machine
Machine 2-0 HuK
KiWiKaKi 2-0 ajtls
KiWiKaKi 2-0 Machine
HuK 2-0 ajtls
Group B:
HuK and KiWiKaKi advance!
Group C:
Murder 2-0 ThisIsJimmy
qxc 2-0 Silver
Silver 2-1 Murder
qxc 2-0 ThisIsJimmy
Silver 2-1 ThisIsJimmy
Murder 2-1 qxc
Group C: qxc and Murder advance!
Group D:
drewbie 2-1 CauthonLuck
PainUser 2-0 Artosis
drewbie 2-0 Artosis
CauthonLuck 2-1 PainUser
CauthonLuck 2-0 Artosis (via no-show auto-forfeit from Artosis)
PainUser 2-1 drewbie
Group D: Three-way tie results in three more bo3's being played:
drewbie 2-0 PainUser
PainUser 2-1 CauthonLuck
CauthonLuck 2-1 drewbie
Which would make the tiebreak standings look like this:
drewbie 3-2
CauthonLuck 3-3
PainUser 2-3
Group D: drewbie and CauthonLuck advance!
The round of 8 in New York City will be: SUGGY(P), Fenix(T), HuK(P), KiWiKaKi(P), qxc(T), MurDeR(T), drewbie(T), and CauthonLuck(T)
Official standings page: http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season5/america_sc2/
Group A:
Fenix 2-1 Bubba
SUGGY 2-0 TTOne
TTOne 2-1 Bubba
SUGGY 1-2 Fenix
SUGGY 2-0 Bubba
Fenix 2-0 TTOne
Group A:
SUGGY and Fenix advance!
Group B:
HuK 2-0 KiWiKaKi
ajtls 2-0 Machine
Machine 2-0 HuK
KiWiKaKi 2-0 ajtls
KiWiKaKi 2-0 Machine
HuK 2-0 ajtls
Group B:
HuK and KiWiKaKi advance!
Group C:
Murder 2-0 ThisIsJimmy
qxc 2-0 Silver
Silver 2-1 Murder
qxc 2-0 ThisIsJimmy
Silver 2-1 ThisIsJimmy
Murder 2-1 qxc
Group C: qxc and Murder advance!
Group D:
drewbie 2-1 CauthonLuck
PainUser 2-0 Artosis
drewbie 2-0 Artosis
CauthonLuck 2-1 PainUser
CauthonLuck 2-0 Artosis (via no-show auto-forfeit from Artosis)
PainUser 2-1 drewbie
Group D: Three-way tie results in three more bo3's being played:
drewbie 2-0 PainUser
PainUser 2-1 CauthonLuck
CauthonLuck 2-1 drewbie
Which would make the tiebreak standings look like this:
drewbie 3-2
CauthonLuck 3-3
PainUser 2-3
Group D: drewbie and CauthonLuck advance!
The round of 8 in New York City will be: SUGGY(P), Fenix(T), HuK(P), KiWiKaKi(P), qxc(T), MurDeR(T), drewbie(T), and CauthonLuck(T)
