Seeds 1-4 - The four Intel Extreme Masters Season 9 winners
Seeds 5-8 - The four Intel Extreme Masters Season 9 runners-up
Seeds 9-14 - The six players that went through the online qualifier without a loss
Seeds 15-16 - The two players that won the third place deciders in the Korean and European online qualifiers
The top seed will play seed 16, seed 2 will play seed 15 and so on and so forth in this pattern until all seeds are paired.
The only restriction in place was that no Season 9 Intel Extreme Masters winner could meet his respective final opponent before the grand final of this grid, for example Life versus Maru (first versus second at Intel Extreme Masters Taipei) could not end up in the same half of the grid. This ensures that we won't see a replay of any of the Season 9 finals until the grand finals of the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship.
Looks amazing, only thing I'm sad about is the possibility of Bbyong vs herO teamkill on 2nd round. Flash vs Fantasy could happen on 2nd round as well :D Pretty unlikely though.
On March 04 2015 01:36 Zealously wrote: This bracket is pretty good for Life. Would be really fun to see him in the finals against either Maru again or Fantasy/Taeja
Naah, this will be a repeat of MLG 2 years ago, with Life being the only Zerg all the way to the finals, where he faces Flash and wins 4-2.
Only way this could have been better is if there was one token foreigner there. Nobody can argue that this isn't among the most stacked lineups imaginable but somehow there's usually more hype with the "can Snute/Scarlett/Bunny do well in a stacked tournament?" storyline (even though the answer is almost always 'no (s)he gets 3-0ed in the first round')
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IEM Season IX - World Championship starting next week (March 12-15). (source)
