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In 14 days the American Championships for IEM will take place in New York during the ComicCon. IEM and National ESL have released the official groups for the event. The two groups will play with the top two in each group moving on to a single elimination Semi Finals and Grand Finals.
Here are the Groups:
Group A
MurDeR
HuK
drewbie
suggy
Group B
qxc
CauthonLuck
KiWiKaKi
Fenix
The basic schedule will be Group Play on Friday (10/8), Semi Finals on Saturday (10/9) and Grand Finals/3rd Place Game on Sunday (10/10). You can come out and check out the event by getting tickets to ComicCon or check out live stream by ESL TV all weekend!
Here is the full press release below and more details here:
+ Show Spoiler +Groups for American Championship Finals
Who will make it to the semi finals?
The groups of the American Championship Finals are drawn. Watch the competition for the American Champion title and additional prize purse of $60,200 live at New York Comic Con or at ESL TV October 8th to 10th. The best of them will qualify for the World Championship taking place in early 2011.
American Championship Finals Counter-Strike Groups
This season the North-American teams get company from their southern neighbors. Will Team EG be able to defend their Championship title or are the Brazilians from compLexity (former Firegamers) strong enough to gain the second title after MiBR won in 2008?
Group A
Artyk-Gaming
Area 51
Firegamers
Team Ruins
Group B
Team EG
Loaded
Backfire
Punto cL
American Championship Finals StarCraft II Groups
This will be the first continental StarCraft II showdown of the Intel Extreme Masters. Who is going to make history and win the first title?
Group A
MurDeR
HuK
drewbie
suggy
Group B
qxc.640
CauthonLuck.483
KiWiKaKi
Fenix
American Championship Finals Quake Live Groups
These eight players survived the regular season and will now face each other in New York. We are looking forward to see Quake legends such as czm or Zero4, PainKiller hero Vo0 as well as the reigning Intel Extreme Masters champions rapha and DaHang on site, and so should you!
Group A
Chance 'Chance' Lacina
Brian 'dkt' Flander
Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager
Paul 'czm' Nelson
Group B
Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson
Josh 'ziel'
Tim 'DaHanG' Fogarty
John 'ZeRo4' Hill
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Looks like I'll be going all three days. Do you know if they have a time-period put up yet? :x
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sick gl hf gg guys looking forward to this ^^
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On September 25 2010 03:32 Zhou wrote:
Looks like I'll be going all three days. Do you know if they have a time-period put up yet? :x
Nothing official yet but Group Play will take most of the day (9am-5pm EST) while Saturday and Sunday will be later in the day for SC2. The games are spread out so people can watch CS, QL and SC2 semifinals and finals.
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HuK! Do good! Make sure to wear your hoodie!
*edit* and man, I haven't paid attention to CS in forever. Don't recognize a few of those names.
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No Zerg  Still looking forward to this!
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Lol I was planning to go to New York anime festival, which is supposed to take place the same area as the NY Comicon
So now my ticket is for anime, comicon, and starcraft =D
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HuK vs KiWiKaKi in the finals ( assuming brackets line up perfectly ). Rematch from MLG Raleigh finals 
New season of GSL + MLG DC just a few days after IEM aswell, a sick month of sc2.
And I even forgot about Blizzcon and the TL Open
wowow :>
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Fenix is gonna take this home =D
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I'll be there Saturday and Sunday. I have to work on Friday with the rest of the Drones...
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ROFL. No Zerg. Luckily I LOVE TvT even though I myself am a frustrated Zerg player. I really like how the ROOT Terrans play so I'm hoping one of them has a breakout performance. All of them are equally qualified but I've always been a huge fan of CauthonLuck and he's my big pick.
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Kiwi vs Huk in finals 
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On September 25 2010 03:33 HuK wrote:
sick gl hf gg guys looking forward to this ^^
Who wouldn't be looking forward to this in your position? You escaped the group of death. Group B is gonna be brutal.
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Murder fighting! Can't wait :D
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Will be watching stream. Would have loved to see at least one Z (sadface) but looking forward to some great matches.
gl hf
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if you are going post in this thread
also does anyone know what time the games will start?
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Holy fricking crap...that was the one that I was planning to go to! This is fucking awesome!
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What's the prize structure for this? All I canfind is the combined pool for all the esports, around $60k.
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
huk 1
drewbie 2
kiwi 1
fenix 2
Those are my predictions.
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prize distribution should be more top favored, i think a 10k 1st prize would be cooler ;D
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The fact that there are no zergs makes me more interested in Quake Live. It is a really messed up feeling.
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Go Protoss!
The quake live brackets are pretty sick too such tight competition.
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well looks like KiWiKaKi and HuK will be meeting again!!! KiWiKaKi FIGHTING!!!! :D
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This will be awesome! Each and every match will be worth checking imho.
Does anyone know who will be casting these matches live? And will the VOD be available afterward? I fear I won't be able to tune in live since I'm on a trip at that time.
My prediction : HuK vs qxc and probably HuK winning!
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On September 25 2010 03:48 theqat wrote:No Zerg Still looking forward to this!
Surprise, surprise.
gl to all participants. Will there be streams? I hope so. ;P
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On September 25 2010 03:33 Liquid`HuK wrote:
sick gl hf gg guys looking forward to this ^^
Good luck Huk! any plans on going to GSL season 2 or 3?
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On September 28 2010 02:38 Kazeyonoma wrote:Show nested quote +On September 25 2010 03:33 Liquid`HuK wrote:
sick gl hf gg guys looking forward to this ^^ Good luck Huk! any plans on going to GSL season 2 or 3?
Refer to the news on the TL home page about Huk joining liquid.
Anyways, gunna be coming down to NYC for the finals with a friend. Hopefully get to cheer on Huk in the finals. Best of luck to whoever gets there though!
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Can't wait for this!
It's a shame we won't be seeing any zerg, but the games will be spectacular regardless. Good luck to the players!
P.S. Great banner.
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Full schedule for all SC2 games is available here: http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season5/newyork/news/135900/
Also including which games will be streamed live on ESL TV (commentated by Day9 and GunRun).
On September 25 2010 09:02 Xeris wrote:
prize distribution should be more top favored, i think a 10k 1st prize would be cooler ;D This is just the American Championship Final, there will be more prize money at stake at the World Championship in March 2011.
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On September 29 2010 13:03 Drakan wrote:
Where is Fenix from ?
Peru
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Awesome!!!! Good luck to my neighboor! i really hope he beats them all YEEHHH! Southamerican power :D...
i wasn't sure if he was from peru or not hehe thanks for the answer.
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go go Kiwi :-) hope the streams are good :-)
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Anybody know wha ttime the games start? Any information would be appreciated.
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Semis and Finals bo3 and bo5?
I'd also like the know what the prize distribution is.
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On October 01 2010 11:36 sksyen wrote:
Anybody know wha ttime the games start? Any information would be appreciated. Just have a look at the official tournament page: http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season5/newyork/
There is already one news, which contains the whole schedule for StarCraft II including the games which will be commentated live by ESL TV (with Day9 and Gunrun): http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season5/newyork/news/135900/
On October 01 2010 11:52 gozima wrote:
Semis and Finals bo3 and bo5?
I'd also like the know what the prize distribution is. Best of Five
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I'll be there. So psyched. Definitely rooting For HuK to take this.
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Whats the addrerss of comiccon? i cant find it!
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On October 01 2010 11:52 gozima wrote:
Semis and Finals bo3 and bo5?
I'd also like the know what the prize distribution is.
Groups are best-of-3. Playoffs are single-elimination & best-of-5
StarCraft II ($10,000)
1st - $4,000
2nd - $2,000
3rd - $1,200
4th - $800
5th/6th - $550
5th/6th - $550
7th/8th - $450
7th/8th - $450
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Oh man I can't wait for this Murder fighting!!! Just 1 more week :D
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gogo HuK!!!
isn't dkt supposed to retired after quakecon 2010? anyway rapha will probably take 1st
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Did Idra not qualify? Or did he opt to not participate in this?
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Hmm - TheGunrun will be casting with Day[9]? That makes me so sad, I love Day[9] but TheGunrun I find very annoying and not a good caster. Does anyone feel this way or is it just me?
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On October 02 2010 16:05 GetToDaChopa wrote:
Did Idra not qualify? Or did he opt to not participate in this?
Idra dropped out in the qualfier because of conflicts with GSL I believe. (The final is on the same weekend as the season 2 gsl qualifier)
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This is going to be siiiiiiiiiiiick
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the hours are here: http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season5/newyork/
08/10/10 16:00 CEST - Group A - HuK vs. suggy live at ESL TV
08/10/10 16:00 CEST - Group A - MurDeR vs. drewbie
08/10/10 17:05 CEST - Group B - qxc vs. Fenix live at ESL TV
08/10/10 18:10 CEST - Group B - CauthonLuck – KiWiKaKi live at ESL TV
08/10/10 19:15 CEST - Group A - MurDeR vs. suggy live at ESL TV
08/10/10 20:20 CEST - Group A - HuK vs. drewbie live at ESL TV
08/10/10 21:25 CEST - Group B - CauthonLuck vs. Fenix live at ESL TV
08/10/10 22:30 CEST - Group B - qxc vs. KiWiKaKi live at ESL TV
08/10/10 23:35 CEST - All Round 3 matches of Group A & B live at ESL TV
09/10/10 20:30 CEST - Semi Final #1 live at ESL TV
09/10/10 22:20 CEST - Semi Final #2 live at ESL TV
10/10/10 18:15 CEST - Game for 3rd Place
10/10/10 20:40 CEST - Grand Final live at ESL TV
*CEST is is 6 hours ahead of EST in new york
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So to ask a question. When I first looked at the schedule for stream only like 3-4 games were being streamed. Now all but Murder vs drewbie are being live casted? Or are all going to be casted now? :O
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I hope HuK does us protoss proud! go HuK FIGHTING!!!
@Blade
I can't seem to find that game also :/ Doesn't seem to appear on the schedules for the ESL here.
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