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						Germany128 Posts
						 
 The groups for the first
  Intel Extreme Masters event of the 2012/13 season are revealed. The tournament will take place from the 15-19th of August at gamescom in Cologne, Germany 
 After the online qualification in the Americas, Asia and Europe has concluded, the 16 qualified players have now been seeded into four groups. Each group will receive 2 more players once the 32 player Open Bracket is finished after the first day of gamescom, the 15th of August.
 
 Commentators
 
 
 Group A
 
 
 Group B
 
 
 Group C
 
 
 Group D
 
 
 *August 2nd SuperNoVa will replace MMA in Group D - [Source]
 
 Open Bracket
 32 players will be seeded into 4 double elimination brackets with 8 players each. The top 2 of each bracket advance to the main tournament. Each of the main tournament groups will receive one WB winner and one LB winner from the Open Brackets. All brackets are available at www.intelextrememasters.com
 
 
 Maps
 
  ESL Antiga Shipyard
 Atlantis Spaceship
 ESL Cloud Kingdom
 ESL Daybreak
 ESL Entombed Valley
 ESL Metropolis
 ESL Ohana
 All information about the tournament can be found at www.intelextrememasters.com, on Facebook or follow us on Twitter
 
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				MMA is going to win this tournament, the start of his comeback is at hand.
			
		
		
	 
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				demuslim  will plow through his group ez pz
			
		
	 
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				Inori is pro, demuslim will have his hands full.
			
		
	 
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				Moonglaaaaade! Gogogo. :D
			
		
		
	 
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						Looks good for MMA. maybe violet could do it since he only went down 1-2 to MMA in GSL
							  
						United States97276 Posts
						 
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				Demuslim got a particularly tough group, will be very tough for anyone to advance from that one. mOOnGLaDe has a good shot at advancing and hopefully PiG can play well too :D
			
		
		
	 
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				Good groups, looking forward to it. Player pool is decent, there is an Open Bracket with reportedly some big names attending, looks like this IEM season will be better than the previous ones.
 Now if they didn't use Tal'darim in the map pool, it could be even better.
 
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						Oh wow Demu bro xD i feel for you here. GL GL!!
							  
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						Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
						 
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				hmm, i think minigun can make it out of his group his pvz is amazing ( literly makes the matchup fun to watch ) and elfi is beatable pvp.
 A
 Nerchio
 Inori
 
 B
 Viloet
 Kas
 
 C
 Slivko
 Minigun
 
 D
 Vortix
 killer
 (i hope)
 
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				PiG and Moonglade! AUS represent! They are both playing really well too currently, I hope they go well. Seeing PiG beat BoongBoong on ladder in a best of 3 was a bit of an eye opener, hopefully SEA can finally take on the world a bit.
			
		
	 
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				Good luck to MMA   
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				Come on MMA bring slayers back into glory!!!!
			
		
	 
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				Damn, I had higher hopes for the quality of players. There are some good players here for sure, but overall I don't feel the skill level is where it should be for such a premiere tournament. Heres to hoping some sick players comes through the open brackets.
			
		
		
	 
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				How is the open bracket only 32 players?  Don't these things usually get 100+?
			
		
	 
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