On March 1-5 Hanover's CeBIT trade show will stage the event of the year for ESL – the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship. The event of the year in all of esports, perhaps.
The Intel Extreme Masters World Championship is the climax of a story that started in July. The season was a long series of events that consisted of international Global Challenge exhibition events (Shanghai and Cologne), national qualification to the Continental Championships, then the Continental Championships themselves.
Intel Extreme Masters structure
And now the World Championship. The very best participants from those events have qualified to fight for a prize purse of $143,500 for StarCraft II ($30,000), QUAKE LIVE ($20,000), Counter-Strike 1.6 ($80,000) and League of Legends ($13,500).
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I am the Intel Extreme Masters product manager. For the upcoming seven days, I have hands down the worst job in the world. This week I should be either sitting at my couch and watching all the streams, or trolling around the stage at CeBIT with some pop corn, watching the games there. The world can be so cruel...
We will be streaming this event in English, German, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Polish and Chinese (and hopefully one more language) on a minimum of 14 channels. 10 of those channels will be available in HD for ESL TV Premium ticket holders. The streaming quality will be very high – check it out here. We've never done anything close to this before.
Arguably, the visitors of CeBIT will have it even better – we have got an entire trade show hall to ourselves. Inside we have built an enormous stage with two major screens showing the matches in Full HD (ESL TV's stream A content will be showing all the stage matches).
Crowd at IEM World Championship 2010
Dennis “TaKe” Gehlen hosting the show and our favourite casting crew will help get you more excited: Kevin “RotterdaM” van der Kooi, Sean “Day[9]” Plott and Dario “TLO” Wuensch.
If you come to CeBIT, make sure to make a sign for your favourite player and bring it with you. You may just win yourself a $1,500 CPU (see TL sponsored threads later today or go here for another one). Hell, bring your signs just to make this event even more awesome with your excitement.
Did shangai happen before sc2 came out?, Also im soooo pumped for this, luckily it coinsided with my reading week in college, so week off + this is gonna be epic:DD
On February 27 2011 21:10 shaunnn wrote: Did shangai happen before sc2 came out?,
Shanghai took place as SC2 was coming out (it had CS and exhibition events for DotA and WC3), but considering SC2 has only just been approved in China and not released yet, we couldn't have had SC2 this season in China.
i want to know whats the time frames of paying players because i hurd that players still haven't been payed yet for the previous tournaments? and how will this affect there decision to skip or overlook this tournament for other that pay in a more reasonable time frame such as MLG (4 months ) or other such Lans?
On February 27 2011 21:28 DISHU wrote: i want to know whats the time frames of paying players because i hurd that players still haven't been payed yet for the previous tournaments? and how will this affect there decision to skip or overlook this tournament for other that pay in a more reasonable time frame such as MLG (4 months ) or other such Lans?
The players have been paid out for Cologne and New York City. Kiev will be paid out within weeks (3 months from event is our target time).
StarCraft II ($30,000), QUAKE LIVE ($20,000), Counter-Strike 1.6 ($80,000)
Damn it annoys me to see that the CS price-pool is so much bigger than the SC2 one =/
Will be a fun event to watch anyway!
That's split between the 5 players on the team, so it comes down to 16000 per player, which is less than SC2.
Both the StarCraft tourney and the Quake Live lineups are full of interesting matchups. I can't wait to see how the likes of WhiteRa, Ace, Moon, moonglade, czm, Vo0, and dandaking perform!
If you wanted to contradict him by that, I'm pretty sure not all of the 80k go to the first place finisher in CS, so it is more per player in Starcraft.
will vods be uploaded? if so how fast will they show up? The match times are quite problematic for me and i guess many other europeans with work/school.
If you wanted to contradict him by that, I'm pretty sure not all of the 80k go to the first place finisher in CS, so it is more per player in Starcraft.
no contradiction, just posting the prize pool for people i agree with him
On February 27 2011 21:28 DISHU wrote: i want to know whats the time frames of paying players because i hurd that players still haven't been payed yet for the previous tournaments? and how will this affect there decision to skip or overlook this tournament for other that pay in a more reasonable time frame such as MLG (4 months ) or other such Lans?
The players have been paid out for Cologne and New York City. Kiev will be paid out within weeks (3 months from event is our target time).
Anyways, don't see why one game having more prize money than SC2 always has to be a big deal. CS1.6 showed at EU finals that it's just as capable of generating as much viewers as SC2. In fact the amount of viewers was much higher during the CS finals, but then again there are some factors that could have come into play for that.
Im sorry but I cant find the information about when the finals will take place, could anyone tell me please? In addition, I would like to ask if there will be VOD's (and replays live updated, so we wont have to wait weeks or months for them) available to watch?
On February 28 2011 01:34 Xiron wrote: Im sorry but I cant find the information about when the finals will take place, could anyone tell me please? In addition, I would like to ask if there will be VOD's (and replays live updated, so we wont have to wait weeks or months for them) available to watch?
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