The American Championship Finals of the Intel Extreme Masters will take place at the Comic Con in New York City October 8th-10th.

Intel Extreme Masters American Championship is just around the corner, and with SC2 Regular Season coming to an end it was time to draw groups for the Intel Extreme Masters American Championship Group Stage The draw happened on djWHEAT's show "Weapon of Choice" on Sunday August 29th

The matches will start September 4th 20:00 CEST and will continue through Sunday September 5th. By the end of this weekend we will know who of these players will be attending the Intel Extreme Masters American Championship Finals held in New York, NY at the Jacob K. Javits Center.

Anyone attending Comic Con can come and watch this live IEM tournament. Additionally ESL TV will be providing coverage with broadcasters to be announced for each game. You can order your Comic Con tickets on the Comic Con website. Press can accredit for this IEM event at: skl@turtle-entertainment.de

Many TeamLiquid users will be at this event - It will be a good opportunity to see each other and to get to know the players a little bit.

yours

Julia

All photos from the Intel Extreme Masters at gamescom, Cologne

Photos and news from IEM Gamescom

All Day9/d.Apollo casts from Gamescom, all matches, super quality!

**UPDATE**

Intel Extreme Masters New York October 8th-10th 2010

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Schedule and Event Page... of course you can also just go to New York and visit our tournament at Comicon!

For the American Championship Finals in New York, day9 will once more become our Intel Extreme Masters SC2 commentator.

If you do not yet understand the structure of ESL's world championship "Intel Extreme Masters", please find our tournament's structure here.

Go to our website from Friday on and watch the SC2 matches on ESL TV!

This is Central European Time! Don't get confused! ComicCon in the US starts soon, find the schedule in ESL's match ticker, upper right corner. This ticker can see your time zone and will keep you updated!
08/10/10 16:00 CEST - Group A - HuK vs. suggy live at ESL TV
08/10/10 16:00 CEST - Group A - MurDeR vs. drewbie
08/10/10 17:05 CEST - Group B - qxc vs. Fenix live at ESL TV
08/10/10 18:10 CEST - Group B - CauthonLuck – KiWiKaKi live at ESL TV
08/10/10 19:15 CEST - Group A - MurDeR vs. suggy live at ESL TV
08/10/10 20:20 CEST - Group A - HuK vs. drewbie live at ESL TV
08/10/10 21:25 CEST - Group B - CauthonLuck vs. Fenix live at ESL TV
08/10/10 22:30 CEST - Group B - qxc vs. KiWiKaKi live at ESL TV
08/10/10 23:35 CEST - All Round 3 matches of Group A & B live at ESL TV
09/10/10 20:30 CEST - Semi Final #1 live at ESL TV
09/10/10 22:20 CEST - Semi Final #2 live at ESL TV
10/10/10 18:15 CEST - Game for 3rd Place
10/10/10 20:40 CEST - Grand Final live at ESL TV

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Blizzard about the IEM American Finals in New York: HERE :D

vx70GTOJudgexv

United States3161 Posts

September 01 2010 11:33 GMT

Um... Old news? Lol.

Still, awesome to see an SC2 tournament in NYC, hope there are many many more. Wish I could make it to this one. Curse work to hell.

diejule

Germany416 Posts

September 01 2010 11:34 GMT

It is not an old news that the group stage will take place this weekend and I added all videos, photos and news from the previous event

vx70GTOJudgexv

United States3161 Posts

September 01 2010 11:44 GMT

Hope that there's an awesome turnout for the event. Biggest thing that sucks about piggy-backing with ComicCon/NYAF (WCG USA last year) is the cost of those events is ridiculous

Alou

United States3748 Posts

September 01 2010 12:25 GMT

I'm really excited for this. Can't wait to watch some of my favorite players.

Xeris

Iran17695 Posts

September 01 2010 17:02 GMT

why did you link day9 / dapollo casts ? are they casting IEM NA ?

backtoback

Canada1276 Posts

September 01 2010 17:20 GMT

Will the GSL time affect IEM NA??

GenocideRun

United States262 Posts

September 01 2010 17:23 GMT

So, what days is this actually going to be held in NYC? Is it going to be the entire weekend, or Just one day? I can't find any information on this anywhere. NYCCC doesn't have anything on their site about this and neither does ESL.

jambonkingcool

Canada186 Posts

September 01 2010 22:09 GMT

On September 02 2010 02:23 GenocideRun wrote:
So, what days is this actually going to be held in NYC? Is it going to be the entire weekend, or Just one day? I can't find any information on this anywhere. NYCCC doesn't have anything on their site about this and neither does ESL.

from http://www.esl-world.net/masters/news/133384/ :

"By the end of the weekend we will know the eight contestants which will be attending the Intel Extreme Masters American Championship held in New York, NY at the Jacob K. Javits Center from October 8th until October 10th. "

Incanus

Canada695 Posts

September 01 2010 23:31 GMT

#10

Haha, group C is all Terran, and group D is Artosis vs all Terrans...

Superiorwolf

United States5509 Posts

September 01 2010 23:36 GMT

#11

I wish there were more Zergs and Protoss... ^^

Sephyre

Australia111 Posts

September 02 2010 01:26 GMT

#12

lol@group C

TvTvTvTvTvT

ThatsNoMoon

Mexico344 Posts

September 14 2010 16:25 GMT

#13

How do I get tickets for this event?
Bah NVM just read the thread thoroughly...

diejule

Germany416 Posts

September 20 2010 13:03 GMT

#14

yes just go to comiccon and enjoy! .D

Deadeight

United Kingdom1629 Posts

October 07 2010 10:25 GMT

#15

I will be rooting for KiWiKaKi. I love his aggressive play, makes for interesting matches. That, and his picture is awesome.

(From http://www.esl-world.net/masters/season5/newyork/sc2/groupstage/player/1818727/ )

netherDrake

Singapore1831 Posts

October 07 2010 10:37 GMT

#16

Why isn't Idra there? Was he eliminated?

Anyway huk is prolly going to take this.

GTR

51541 Posts

October 07 2010 10:38 GMT

#17

On September 02 2010 02:02 Xeris wrote:
why did you link day9 / dapollo casts ? are they casting IEM NA ?

i believe it is day9 and gunrun.

butch

Belgium684 Posts

October 07 2010 11:21 GMT

#18

q: Huk participating in this means he won't be playing @ GSL qualifiers?

TaKemE

Denmark1045 Posts

October 07 2010 12:20 GMT

#19

On October 07 2010 20:21 butch wrote:
q: Huk participating in this means he won't be playing @ GSL qualifiers?

Yes him and ret are first going to gsl 3.

diejule

Germany416 Posts

October 07 2010 13:41 GMT

#20

The American Championship Finals will take place this weekend at Comicon and you can all watch everything on ESL TV or you can even come and visit our tournament area in New York! It would be really awesome to see you there but of course it is up to you whether you wanna watch from your comfy couch or not - I have now updated this Newspost to give you way more information and the schedule for this weekend - I hope you enjoy!