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Canada15958 Posts
Following the Season 9 kick-off in Shenzhen, the World’s Best Gamers will make their way to Canada. Here’s information about who can qualify and how to!
Intel Extreme Masters returns to Canada on August 28-31 of this year and brings StarCraft II back to the north! Qualifiers in Europe, America and Asia are set to determine the eight players seeded directly into the tournament's group stages. With two slots for Europe and Asia respectively and three slots for the Americas, one slot will be reserved for a Canadian champion.
Each of the qualifiers start with an open stage, which allows hopefuls from every region to try and qualify. Successful participants in the open stage will then join seeded players in the second and final stage of the qualifier, where the first participants for our Canadian stop are determined.
Once again, an Open Bracket prioritized in accordance to WCS rankings will take place at the event, and will determine four players out of the sixteen participants to be seeded into the Group Stage. The final four, to make up the full sixteen, will be wildcards.
An overview of the qualifiers can be found below.
Qualifier dates
• European Open Qualifier - July 12th 2014
• European Final Qualifier - July 13th 2014
• American Open Qualifier - TBA
• American Final Qualifier - TBA
Details for our Canadian and Asian qualifiers will be announced shortly!
Here's an overview what the main tournament will look like:
• Two players from European Qualifiers
• Three players from American Qualifiers
• Two players from Asian Qualifiers
• One player from Canada
• Four players from the Open Bracket
• Four wildcard players
In total, there will be sixteen players in a Dual Tournament Group Stage, followed by an eight player Single Elimination Bracket.
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Great seeing IEM going to Canada! With those fans from previous events I think all visitors will have a great time. Best of luck all players  !
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have they decided on a venue yet?
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Canada's a big place... where in Canada?
Toronto?
Montreal?
Vancouver?
Calgary?
Ottawa?
Edmonton?
Halifax?
Winnipeg?
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No mention of a location... Does anyone know where it will be held?
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please be Toronto, please be Toronto!!
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IEM Montreal was sick in 2008, needs to happen again!
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Also wondering here where in Canada it will take place, perhaps Newfoundland?
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Awesome. Maybe it's in Toronto since there is Fan expo from august 28 to 31, and IEM usually have done their events during conventions
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Yes!! Please come to toronto :D
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Curious how they'll determine that lone Canadian player. As much as I love open qualifier, I think for this event a Scarlett invite would be better.
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On July 02 2014 01:31 QCD wrote:
Also wondering here where in Canada it will take place, perhaps Newfoundland?
I doubt NF, flying in is ridiculously expensive and organizing a venue would probably also be expensive. Probably Toronto again, but somewhere in the maritimes would sure be beautiful.
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On July 02 2014 01:21 mojo_ca wrote:
Canada's a big place... where in Canada?
Toronto?
Montreal?
Vancouver?
Calgary?
Ottawa?
Edmonton?
Halifax?
Winnipeg?
Just all of Canada, though I would assume Toronto or Montreal (Quebec isn't Canada joke here)
What is strange is that they are holding the event in the middle of the week though. I could possibly have made it up there if I didn't have to take off three days of work minimum to go.
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Hm, I would like to see more Canadian presence but hopefully there will be enough players seeded into the qualifiers since lan open bracket isn't really the IEM style...
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A lot of people don't realize how big Canada actually is.
I've heard stories of visitors suggesting a day trip from Toronto to Vancouver... (a 5 hour flight, and doesn't include the time it would take to drive to the airport, and get through security)
Just for comparison, according to wikipedia, Canada is larger than Europe.
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This is a sign for you, Scarlett ! :D
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On July 02 2014 01:36 Pino wrote:
Awesome. Maybe it's in Toronto since there is Fan expo from august 28 to 31, and IEM usually have done their events during conventions
Ugh, I hope not. I've played events during Fan Expo and it sucks. That was back when no one cared about esports though so maybe its different these days.
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