The sixth season overall and the second season with StarCraft II of the Intel Extreme Masters is going to kick-off at the world's largest trade fair and event highlight for interactive games and entertainment: gamescom in Cologne. Last year's tournament was the first major live event in StarCraft II's history and we are looking to top its success this year!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUfmrBpaxr8

Groups:

Group A:
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Kas

Beastyqt

KiLLeR

MC

Group B:
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Socke

DieStar

SeleCT

Killer

Group C:
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Tarson

Nerchio

mOOnGLaDe

HuK

Group D:
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Stephano

SaSe

MaNa

PuMa

Format:

Groupstage: Round-Robin, Best-of-Three. Top 2 of each group advance to playoffs.

Playoffs: Best-of-Five. Single-Elimination. 1st placed players from each group are seeded randomly against 2nd placed players from other groups.

Schedule:

Wednesday, Aug 17 7:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) - 17:00 GMT (+00:00): Group A & Group B
Thursday, Aug 18 8:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) - 18:00 GMT (+00:00): Group C & D
Friday, Aug 19 9:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) - 13:00 GMT (+00:00): Quarter Finals
Saturday, Aug 20 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) - 13:00 GMT (+00:00): Semi Finals
Sunday, Aug 21 2:30pm GMT (GMT+00:00) - 16:00 GMT (+00:00): Grand Final

Prize pool:

$6.500
$3.300
$1.750
$1.250

Overall: $21.000

Mappool:

ESL GSL Terminus SE
ESL Metalopolis
ESL The Shattered Temple
GSL Dual Sight
Shakuras Plateau
Tal'darim Altar LE
Xel'Naga Caverns

Results:

+ Show Spoiler [Groupstage] +

+ Show Spoiler [Group A] +

MC 3-0
Kas 2-1
Beastyqt 1-2
KiLLeR 0-3

+ Show Spoiler [Group B] +

Socke 2-1
SeleCT 2-1
Killer 2-1
DieStar 0-3

+ Show Spoiler [Group C] +

Nerchio 3-0
mOOnGLaDe 2-1
Tarson 1-2
HuK 0-3

+ Show Spoiler [Group D] +

MaNa 3-0
PuMa 2-1
Stephano 1-2
SaSe 0-3

+ Show Spoiler [Playoffs] +

5ukkub

Poland507 Posts

August 12 2011 11:47 GMT

Qualifications were sooo competitive, i don't know if my body will be able to withstand the actual event 0_o

and of course:
Polish invasion coming!!

Nerchio

Poland2633 Posts

August 12 2011 11:50 GMT

Predictions:
#1 Nerchio
#2 Tarson
#3 Mana
#4 MC

Looking forward to it though it will be really hard to achieve anything at this lan :D

Heathen

Philippines351 Posts

August 12 2011 11:53 GMT

I want Stephano and Idra to the finals.

Titorelli

2492 Posts

August 12 2011 12:04 GMT

Why did they change the groups? (Puma now group D instead of A)

maze.

Germany1392 Posts

August 12 2011 12:05 GMT

The Korean Invites are different from the last announcement. So i think MC is replacing MKP and therefore we have different Groups and a Idra vs Mc rematch in Group A.

Group A and B will be played on wednesday, but gamescon is only open to public from thursday to sunday.

RageBot

Israel1530 Posts

August 12 2011 12:12 GMT

...wow.

This is gonna be crazy.

nYaLa

Uzbekistan295 Posts

August 12 2011 12:13 GMT

This is going to be casted by RotterdaM and MrBitter I assume?
Can't wait for this event, some awesome players. (hope for some Idra vs MC/Huk/MaNa action huhu :D )

sleepingdog

Austria6145 Posts

August 12 2011 12:13 GMT

IdrA vs MC...both not on top of their game, this should be epic

fAiryqt

Russian Federation138 Posts

August 12 2011 12:15 GMT

#10

group A is a sickness

Influ

Germany780 Posts

August 12 2011 12:17 GMT

#11

I'm so sad that I have to work all week including the weekend ;(

Will be interesting to see if Nerchio can improve his offline play allready and if Socke stops making stupid stuff when it matters.

Shawngood

Germany473 Posts

August 12 2011 12:33 GMT

#12

On August 12 2011 21:04 Titorelli wrote:
Why did they change the groups? (Puma now group D instead of A)

See here: http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season6/cologne/news/167964/

Unfortunately we have to replace one of our recently announced Korean invites for next week's Global Challenge Cologne. MarineKing won't be able to travel to Germany. Nevertheless, his substitute isn't less popular or successful.

Two-time GSL champion MC from SK Gaming and oGs is not only a great addition to our tournament, but will also even out the overall ratio of Protoss and Terran with 6 representatives each. MC won't be placed in group D. He will start in group A and PuMa moves to group D instead, to avoid having two groups with three players of one race. This was done in agreement with all affected players.