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sOs and TaeJa have been invited to compete at the upcoming IEM World Championshipin Katowice. They will take the tournament's only two invite spots, awarded on the strength of their performances in 2013.
IEM:
...Much like the invites to the rest of our stops, we decided invitations for the World Championship have to be based on performance in major tournaments WCS circuit tournaments. As such, we picked the most relevant tournaments of the past six months and invited the champions of the WCS Global Finals at BlizzCon as well as DreamHack Winter.
These two players will be joining the group of players who qualified by achieving top two finishes within the Intel Extreme Masters from June 2013 to March 2014. With the two players set to be determined at Intel Extreme Masters Cologne next week (February 13th to 16th) another five players are left to be determined as the CJ Entus player herO managed to get two Intel Extreme Masters championships within this season. The spot that has opened up for that was given to the Open Bracket on March 13th (see below for more information), meaning two players will have the chance to qualify on-site...
...Much like the invites to the rest of our stops, we decided invitations for the World Championship have to be based on performance in major tournaments WCS circuit tournaments. As such, we picked the most relevant tournaments of the past six months and invited the champions of the WCS Global Finals at BlizzCon as well as DreamHack Winter.
These two players will be joining the group of players who qualified by achieving top two finishes within the Intel Extreme Masters from June 2013 to March 2014. With the two players set to be determined at Intel Extreme Masters Cologne next week (February 13th to 16th) another five players are left to be determined as the CJ Entus player herO managed to get two Intel Extreme Masters championships within this season. The spot that has opened up for that was given to the Open Bracket on March 13th (see below for more information), meaning two players will have the chance to qualify on-site...
The list of qualified players so far is as follows:
Qualified from IEM Season 8 events:
Oz, 
Revival, NaNiwa, Life, herO[jOin], San, MCInvited:
sOs, 
TaeJaAsian qualifier winner:
RogueSix spots still remain in the tournament. Two will go to the finalists of the upcoming IEM Cologne event, another two spots will go to the winners of the Europe and American qualifiers, and the final two spots will go to the winners of the live, open bracket.
The IEM World Championship will take place on March 14-16, with a winner-take-all $100,000 prize.
