In 14 days the American Championships for IEM will take place in New York during the ComicCon. IEM and National ESL have released the official groups for the event. The two groups will play with the top two in each group moving on to a single elimination Semi Finals and Grand Finals.
Here are the Groups:
Group A
MurDeR
HuK
drewbie
suggy
Group B
qxc
CauthonLuck
KiWiKaKi
Fenix
The basic schedule will be Group Play on Friday (10/8), Semi Finals on Saturday (10/9) and Grand Finals/3rd Place Game on Sunday (10/10). You can come out and check out the event by getting tickets to ComicCon or check out live stream by ESL TV all weekend!
Here is the full press release below and more details here:
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Groups for American Championship Finals
Who will make it to the semi finals?
The groups of the American Championship Finals are drawn. Watch the competition for the American Champion title and additional prize purse of $60,200 live at New York Comic Con or at ESL TV October 8th to 10th. The best of them will qualify for the World Championship taking place in early 2011.
American Championship Finals Counter-Strike Groups
This season the North-American teams get company from their southern neighbors. Will Team EG be able to defend their Championship title or are the Brazilians from compLexity (former Firegamers) strong enough to gain the second title after MiBR won in 2008?
Group A
Artyk-Gaming
Area 51
Firegamers
Team Ruins
Group B
Team EG
Loaded
Backfire
Punto cL
American Championship Finals StarCraft II Groups
This will be the first continental StarCraft II showdown of the Intel Extreme Masters. Who is going to make history and win the first title?
Group A
MurDeR
HuK
drewbie
suggy
Group B
qxc.640
CauthonLuck.483
KiWiKaKi
Fenix
American Championship Finals Quake Live Groups
These eight players survived the regular season and will now face each other in New York. We are looking forward to see Quake legends such as czm or Zero4, PainKiller hero Vo0 as well as the reigning Intel Extreme Masters champions rapha and DaHang on site, and so should you!
Group A
Chance 'Chance' Lacina
Brian 'dkt' Flander
Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager
Paul 'czm' Nelson
Group B
Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson
Josh 'ziel'
Tim 'DaHanG' Fogarty
John 'ZeRo4' Hill
Who will make it to the semi finals?
The groups of the American Championship Finals are drawn. Watch the competition for the American Champion title and additional prize purse of $60,200 live at New York Comic Con or at ESL TV October 8th to 10th. The best of them will qualify for the World Championship taking place in early 2011.
American Championship Finals Counter-Strike Groups
This season the North-American teams get company from their southern neighbors. Will Team EG be able to defend their Championship title or are the Brazilians from compLexity (former Firegamers) strong enough to gain the second title after MiBR won in 2008?
Group A
Artyk-Gaming
Area 51
Firegamers
Team Ruins
Group B
Team EG
Loaded
Backfire
Punto cL
American Championship Finals StarCraft II Groups
This will be the first continental StarCraft II showdown of the Intel Extreme Masters. Who is going to make history and win the first title?
Group A
MurDeR
HuK
drewbie
suggy
Group B
qxc.640
CauthonLuck.483
KiWiKaKi
Fenix
American Championship Finals Quake Live Groups
These eight players survived the regular season and will now face each other in New York. We are looking forward to see Quake legends such as czm or Zero4, PainKiller hero Vo0 as well as the reigning Intel Extreme Masters champions rapha and DaHang on site, and so should you!
Group A
Chance 'Chance' Lacina
Brian 'dkt' Flander
Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager
Paul 'czm' Nelson
Group B
Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson
Josh 'ziel'
Tim 'DaHanG' Fogarty
John 'ZeRo4' Hill