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IEM have announced their prize money distribution for IEM Katowice. The prize pool is subsidized by Blizzard with money gained through Warchest purchases. Aside from $150,000 in winnings, the winner of IEM Katowice will be awarded a direct seed into the WCS Global Finals 2018.
At $400,000, the prize pool is the highest in IEM's StarCraft II history. Last year's tournament had $250,000 up for grabs, 2016 was set at $150,000.
Base prize money now covers all players finishing in at least 60th place. Prize distribution in 2017 reached the top 44 players of the tournament.
While the format remains the same — Round Robin group stage format followed by a single elimination bracket stage, a format that was well received among spectators and players — prize money awarded for each map victory has also increased from $100 to $200.
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how's that for a dead game now?!
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I can't wait for $O$ to win this, if he's competing.
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SHIIIIT loads of money  ))))) HYYYYYYYYYPE!!!
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I think we never have same player win IEM Katowice twice so I expect a new winner this year. sOs won it already so I hope he is out!
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Very nice, can't wait to watch!
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Canada8991 Posts
Amazing, Katowice is gonna be amazing!
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I hope this will motivate JinAir to send his players 
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Koreans can play this tournament from open bracket?
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Last year's Katowice was amazing, hoping it will be on a similar level again. This prize money is good news and seems promising for the rest of the tournament.
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I hope this encourages more koreans to fly over and play in the offline qualifier. It was really easy for Stats to get through last year
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On January 12 2018 04:29 Fango wrote:
I hope this encourages more koreans to fly over and play in the offline qualifier. It was really easy for Stats to get through last year
Because Stats is what people should measure themselves by? It was really easy for him to get to the finals of the whole thing, cause that's how good he was. I'm sure there'll be quite a few noteworthy sign-ups though.
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On January 12 2018 04:31 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On January 12 2018 04:29 Fango wrote:
I hope this encourages more koreans to fly over and play in the offline qualifier. It was really easy for Stats to get through last year Because Stats is what people should measure themselves by? It was really easy for him to get to the finals of the whole thing, cause that's how good he was. I'm sure there'll be quite a few noteworthy sign-ups.
If Stats can do it everyone can do it
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On January 12 2018 04:31 Elentos wrote:Show nested quote +On January 12 2018 04:29 Fango wrote:
I hope this encourages more koreans to fly over and play in the offline qualifier. It was really easy for Stats to get through last year Because Stats is what people should measure themselves by? It was really easy for him to get to the finals of the whole thing, cause that's how good he was. I'm sure there'll be quite a few noteworthy sign-ups.
Yeah I'm sure sOs, soO, or Maru would have had a much harder time against those no-name polish zergs
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Finland965 Posts
My boy Dark has this easy.
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$150 WHOLE dollars for first place? 
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fix ur , and . on prize money its saying its only 400 and 150 dollars
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you know if this becomes a thing for large prizepools.
$o$ is gonna be busy.
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I hope Avilo will win this one
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EPT![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Olli/Katowice_prizepool.jpg)
