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[e][h]IEM Katowice 2020

League Information

Series:

Organizer:

Sponsor(s):

Intel
Vodafone
Acer Predator
MTN DEW GAME FUEL
EURONICS

Game version:

Legacy of the Void
Patch 4.11.4

Server:

Europe

Type:

Offline

Location:

Katowice

Venue:

Format:

1v1
Round-Robin Group Stage
Single-elimination bracket

Prize pool:

$400,000 USD

Start Date:

2020-02-24

End Date:

2020-03-01

Liquipedia tier:

Links

Player breakdown

Number of players:

76

34

20

22

Maps

Ephemeron • Eternal Empire • Nightshade • Simulacrum • Triton • World of Sleepers • Zen

Chronology

IEM Katowice XIII

IEM Katowice 2021

Format[edit]

Qualifiers[edit]

4 Server Qualifiers allow 11 players to qualify to the main events Group Stage.
- 3 slots for the European server qualifier.
- 3 slots for the American server qualifier.
- 5 slots for the Korean server qualifiers (3 + 2).
Each Server Qualifier consists of an Open Qualifier and a Final Qualifier.
- Open Qualifier
  - These qualifiers are open to all participants, with no region restrictions.
  - Single-elimination Bo3 until Round of 16.
  - Deciding matches Bo5.
  - Top 8 Advance to the Final Qualifier.
- Final Qualifier
  - 8 players from the Open Qualifier and 8 seeded players.
  - Double-elimination Bo3.
  - Deciding matches Bo5.
  - 3 Players qualify to the main events Group Stage. (Via the second Korean server qualifier only 2 Players.)

Round of 76[edit]

Held offline at the ESL Arena.
64 players divided into 4 double-elimination brackets.
Top 3 players from each bracket advance to main tournament group stage.

Round of 24[edit]

Group Stage:
- Four groups of six players played out in round robin format.
- All matches are Bo3.
- First place in each group advances directly to the Quarterfinals.
- Second and third place in each group advance to the Round of 12.
- Ties are broken in the following order:
  1. Overall map difference
  2. Overall number of map wins
  3. Match wins amassed between the tied participants ('Mini-League')
  4. Map difference between the tied participants ('Mini-League')
  5. Number of map wins between the tied participants ('Mini-League')
  6. Tie breaker matches
  7. Coin toss
Bracket:
- Single-elimination bracket of twelve players.
- Round of 12, Quarterfinals, and Semifinals are played in Bo5.
- Grand Finals is played in Bo7.

Map Pool[edit]

Ephemeron	Eternal Empire	Nightshade	Simulacrum	Triton	World of Sleepers	Zen

Talents[edit]

English Broadcast
Remote Broadcast
Community Broadcast
Show All

Hosts
- Kaelaris (James Carrol)
- Smix (Sue Min Lee)

Observers
- GGHasu (Dominik Powroźnik)
- MapuTV (Kevin Kremser)

Commentators
- DeMusliM (Benjamin James Baker)
- Maynarde (Leigh Mandalov)
- PiG (Jared Krensel)
- RotterdaM (Kevin van der Kooi)
- ToD (Yoan Merlo)
- Wardi (Jonathon Ward)
- ZombieGrub (Jessica Chernega)

~~MrBitter (Ben Nichol)~~¹

English B/C-Stream Commentators
- Grant (Grant Hill)
- Kuro (Anna Kundera)
- Light_VIP (Lloyd Sanchez)
- Quirky (James Quirk)
- Steelmold
- Yakuzaku (Dylan Tay)
- feardragon (Ravi Pareek)

¹MrBitter was unable to attend and was replaced by Wardi.^[1] Wardi's B-Stream was hence covered by feardragon.^[2]
feardragon was unable to broadcast on the first day of the Round of 24 and was replaced by the Ducklings (Light_VIP, Yakuzaku, Quirky, Steelmold and Kuro) on that day.
GGHasu was dismissed of his observing duties after day 1 of the Round of 76 hence MapuTV was the only observer from day 2 onwards.

German Commentators
- Belair (Mario Maske)
- Marth (Martin Braunmiller)
- NarutO (Silvano Bovo)
- Sittingbull (Paul Sittinger)

Spanish Commentators
- Adrrich
- Dysix (Juan Cortés Jimenez)
- HorussTv (Enrique Palomino)
- JimRising (Jaime Arturo Duran Silencio)
- OliPatrick

Swedish Commentators
- Exonym
- Robzki (Robert Elfström)

French Commentators
- Funka (Alexandre Verrier)
- Koka (Thibault Le Gall)
- Pomf (Alexandre Noci)
- TKL (Rémi Hibon)
- Thud (Hadrien Noci)
- YoGo (Pierre-Marie Humeau)

Taiwanese Commentators
- AzureRush (Zhuan Baolong)
- Rex (Lei HaoChen)
- TopRush (Wu Junyou)

Polish Commentators
- Indy (Igor Kaczmarek)
- Zedd (Michał Bogacz)
- Ziggy (Szymon Filipek)

Russian Commentators
- AllHailLulu! (Mikhail Zakharov)
- Basset (Sergey Anisimov)
- Bee (Pavel Zhigarev)
- Creed (Andrey Romanov)
- Medoed (Vyacheslav Zhurin)
- Unix (Aleksandr Solyakov)
- kabyraGe (Vladislav Perchik)

Bulgarian Commentators
- Exalted (Luchezar Kamenov)
- msrm (Mihail Mihaylov)

Other Language Commentators
- CranK (Choi Jae-won)
- Divinesia (Juha Nurmenniemi)
- Mage (Zhang Luyan)
- VicentiN (Vítor Vicentin)

English Community Commentators
- Beastyqt (Aleksandar Krstić)
- CreightonOlsen (Creighton Olsen)
- YodaSlim

Prize Pool[edit]

The base prize pool is $250,000 USD.
In addition, it has been increased by a further $150,000 USD from ESL Pro Tour Prize Money boost, totaling $400,000 USD in 2020.^[3]
The winner is awarded a Global Finals seed.
$400,000 USD and 9,000 EPT Points are spread among the players as seen below:

Base prize money
Place	Prize
1st	$150,000
2nd	$65,000
3 - 4th	$25,000
5 - 8th	$10,000
9 - 12th	$5,000
13 - 16th	$3,000
17 - 20th	$2,500
21 - 24th	$2,000
25 - 28th	$1,550
29 - 36th	$1,250
37 - 44th	$900
45 - 60th	$600
61 - 76th	$0

Group Stage winnings
Player	Victories	Winnings
Dark	4	$800
Dear	4	$800
Maru	4	$800
Rogue	4	$800
Serral	4	$800
Zest	4	$800
Hurricane	3	$600
INnoVation	3	$600
ShoWTimE	3	$600
Solar	3	$600
sOs	3	$600
Stats	3	$600
TY	3	$600
Cure	2	$400
Elazer	2	$400
PartinG	2	$400
Reynor	2	$400
SpeCial	2	$400
Trap	2	$400
Armani	1	$200
Patience	1	$200
soO	1	$200
Has	0	$0
Lambo	0	$0

In addition to the base prize money, players also receive $200 USD for each Bo3 win in the Group Stage.
RagnaroK was awarded 2 Major Penalty Points and fined $250 USD for watching a stream for a few seconds^[4] (without gaining an advantage) in the break of his match against uThermal. The $250 USD were spread among the other participants.

Participants[edit]

Seeded into Group Stage from 2019 WCS Global Finals (1)
Protoss (10)	Terran (5)	Zerg (9)
		Dark
Seeded into Group Stage from Online Qualifiers (11)
PartinG	Cure	Elazer
Stats	Maru	Reynor
Zest	TY	Rogue
		Serral
		Solar
From Round of 76 (12)
Dear	INnoVation	Armani
Has	SpeCial	Lambo
Hurricane		soO
Patience
ShoWTimE
sOs
Trap

Results[edit]

Round of 76[edit]

Main article: IEM Katowice 2020: Round of 76

Group Stage[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group A

1.

1–0

2–0

+2

1.

1–0

2–0

+2

3.

1–0

2–1

+1

4.

0–1

1–2

-1

5.

0–1

0–2

-2

5.

0–1

0–2

-2

1.

▲2

2–0

4–2

+2

2.

▲2

1–1

3–2

+1

3.

▼2

1–1

2–2

0

4.

▲1

1–1

2–2

0

5.

▼4

1–1

2–2

0

6.

▼1

0–2

1–4

-3

1.

▲3

2–1

4–2

+2

2.

▲3

2–1

4–2

+2

3.

2–1

4–3

+1

4.

▼3

2–1

4–4

0

5.

▼3

1–2

3–4

-1

6.

0–3

2–6

-4

1.

3–1

6–2

+4

2.

3–1

6–2

+4

3.

▲1

3–1

6–5

+1

4.

▼1

2–2

5–5

0

5.

1–3

3–6

-3

6.

0–4

2–8

-6

1.

▲1

4–1

8–2

+6

2.

▼1

4–1

8–3

+5

3.

3–2

7–7

0

4.

▲1

2–3

5–6

-1

5.

▼1

2–3

5–7

-2

6.

0–5

2–10

-8

Group A Matches

February 27, 2020 - 12:00 CET

February 27, 2020 - 12:45 CET

February 27, 2020 - 13:45 CET

February 27, 2020 - 14:30 CET

February 27, 2020 - 15:20 CET

Group B[edit]

Group B

1.

1–0

2–0

+2

2.

1–0

2–1

+1

2.

1–0

2–1

+1

4.

0–1

1–2

-1

4.

0–1

1–2

-1

6.

0–1

0–2

-2

1.

2–0

4–0

+4

2.

2–0

4–1

+3

3.

▲1

1–1

3–2

+1

4.

▼2

1–1

2–3

-1

5.

▼1

0–2

1–4

-3

6.

0–2

0–4

-4

1.

▲1

3–0

6–2

+4

2.

▲1

2–1

5–2

+3

2.

▼1

2–1

5–2

+3

4.

▲2

1–2

2–4

-2

5.

▼1

1–2

2–5

-3

6.

▼1

0–3

1–6

-5

1.

▲1

3–1

7–2

+5

2.

▼1

3–1

7–4

+3

3.

▼1

2–2

5–4

+1

4.

2–2

4–5

-1

5.

▲1

1–3

3–6

-3

6.

▼1

1–3

2–7

-5

1.

4–1

9–2

+7

2.

4–1

9–4

+5

3.

▲1

3–2

6–5

+1

4.

▼1

2–3

5–6

-1

5.

1–4

3–8

-5

6.

1–4

2–9

-7

Group B Matches

February 27, 2020 - 16:00 CET

February 27, 2020 - 17:45 CET

February 27, 2020 - 18:25 CET

February 27, 2020 - 19:25 CET

February 27, 2020 - 20:25 CET

Group C[edit]

Group C

1.

1–0

2–0

+2

1.

1–0

2–0

+2

3.

1–0

2–1

+1

4.

0–1

1–2

-1

5.

0–1

0–2

-2

5.

0–1

0–2

-2

1.

2–0

4–1

+3

2.

▲2

1–1

3–2

+1

3.

1–1

3–3

0

4.

▼3

1–1

2–2

0

5.

1–1

2–2

0

6.

▼1

0–2

0–4

-4

1.

3–0

6–1

+5

2.

▲3

2–1

4–2

+2

3.

▼1

1–2

3–4

-1

4.

1–2

3–4

-1

5.

▼2

1–2

3–5

-2

6.

1–2

2–5

-3

1.

3–1

7–3

+4

2.

3–1

6–3

+3

3.

2–2

5–4

+1

4.

▲1

2–2

5–6

-1

5.

▼1

1–3

4–6

-2

6.

1–3

2–7

-5

1.

▲1

4–1

8–3

+5

2.

▼1

3–2

7–5

+2

3.

▲1

3–2

7–6

+1

4.

▲1

2–3

6–6

0

5.

▼2

2–3

5–6

-1

6.

1–4

2–9

-7

Group C Matches

February 28, 2020 - 11:45 CET

February 28, 2020 - 13:00 CET

February 28, 2020 - 13:25 CET

February 28, 2020 - 14:20 CET

February 28, 2020 - 16:00 CET

Group D[edit]

Group D

1.

1–0

2–0

+2

1.

1–0

2–0

+2

3.

1–0

2–1

+1

4.

0–1

1–2

-1

5.

0–1

0–2

-2

5.

TY

0–1

0–2

-2

1.

2–0

4–0

+4

2.

▲1

2–0

4–1

+3

3.

▼2

1–1

2–2

0

4.

TY

▲1

1–1

2–2

0

5.

▼1

0–2

1–4

-3

6.

▼1

0–2

0–4

-4

1.

3–0

6–0

+6

2.

TY

▲2

2–1

4–2

+2

3.

▼1

2–1

4–3

+1

4.

▼1

1–2

3–4

-1

5.

1–2

3–5

-2

6.

0–3

0–6

-6

1.

3–1

6–2

+4

2.

TY

3–1

6–3

+3

3.

▲1

2–2

5–4

+1

4.

▼1

2–2

5–5

0

5.

2–2

5–5

0

6.

0–4

0–8

-8

1.

4–1

8–2

+6

2.

▲1

3–2

7–5

+2

3.

▲2

3–2

7–6

+1

4.

TY

▼2

3–2

6–5

+1

5.

▼1

2–3

6–7

-1

6.

0–5

1–10

-9

Group D Matches

February 28, 2020 - 17:15 CET

February 28, 2020 - 17:30 CET

February 28, 2020 - 18:15 CET

February 28, 2020 - 19:30 CET

February 28, 2020 - 20:30 CET

Playoffs[edit]

Round of 12 (Bo5)

Quarterfinals (Bo5)

Semifinals (Bo5)

Finals (Bo7)

Distribution[edit]

Race
EPT Region
Country
Show All

Protoss

Terran

Zerg

Round of 76

34	20	22

Round of 60

27	13	20

Round of 44

20	9	15

Round of 36

15	9	12

Round of 28

11	7	10

Group Stage

10	5	9

Round of 12

6	2	4

Quarterfinals

3	2	3

Semifinals

1	1	2

Finals

1	1

Champion

1

Europe

North America

Latin America

Asia

Oceania

Round of 76

43	4	2	26	1

Round of 60

31	3	2	24

Round of 44

17	2	2	23

Round of 36

10	1	2	23

Round of 28

7	1	20

Group Stage

5	1	18

Round of 12

2	10

Quarterfinals

1	7

Semifinals

1	3

Finals

2

Champion

1

Europe

North America

Latin America

Asia

Oceania

Round of 76

1	1	1	2	1	5	6	1	3	8	3	3	6	2	4	1	1	24	2	1

Round of 60

1	1	1	5	4	1	3	6	3	1	4	1	3	1	1	22	2

Round of 44

1	1	1	4	1	2	3	1	1	2	2	1	1	21	2

Round of 36

1	3	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	21	2

Round of 28

1	3	1	1	1	1	18	2

Group Stage

1	2	1	1	1	17	1

Round of 12

1	1	10

Quarterfinals

1	7

Semifinals

1	3

Finals

2

Champion

1

Maps Statistics[edit]

		vs.				vs.				vs.				Mirrors
Map	#	Σ			%	Σ			%	Σ			%
Ephemeron LE	90	11	7	4	63.6%	19	9	10	47.4%	24	12	12	50.0%	4	7	25
Eternal Empire LE	69	10	6	4	60.0%	15	8	7	53.3%	23	10	13	43.5%	5	5	11
Nightshade LE	79	8	6	2	75.0%	22	13	9	59.1%	17	11	6	64.7%	4	7	21
Simulacrum LE	45	7	4	3	57.1%	17	10	7	58.8%	8	5	3	62.5%	2	4	7
Triton LE	93	15	6	9	40.0%	26	12	14	46.2%	21	11	10	52.4%	1	10	20
World of Sleepers LE	42	3	1	2	33.3%	13	8	5	61.5%	5	3	2	60.0%	2	5	14
Zen LE	18	3	2	1	66.7%	6	3	3	50.0%	-	-	-	-	1	3	5
Total Sum (Σ)	436	57	32	25	56.1%	118	63	55	53.4%	98	52	46	53.1%	19	41	103

View Games[edit]

English Broadcasts[edit]

ESL Streams

Community Streams (Round of 76 only)

Language Streams[edit]

VODs[edit]

Spoiler-free VODs on SC2Links.com
Spoiler-free Official YouTube VODs at SC2Casts.com

Replays[edit]

Replay Pack (76 MB)^[5]

External Links[edit]

References[edit]

↑ Wardi replaces MrBitter
↑ feardragon covering C-Stream
↑ "ESL Pro Tour Upcoming Events (icluding Prize Pool Boost announcement)". pro.eslgaming.com. January 7, 2020. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
↑ Clip of RagnaroK watching stream
↑ IEM Katowice 2020 Replay pack

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