IEM Season IX - San Jose

[e][h]IEM Season IX - San Jose

League Information

Series:

Intel Extreme Masters

Organizer:

Electronic Sports League

Sponsor(s):

Intel
BenQ
Kingston HyperX
GIGABYTE
ROCCAT

Game Version:

Heart of the Swarm

Server:

North America

Type:

Offline

Location:

San Jose

Prize pool:

$25,000 USD

Start Date:

2014-12-03

End Date:

2014-12-07

Liquipedia Tier:

Premier

Links

Winners

herO

Rain

Jaedong

Bomber

Player Breakdown

Number of Players:

25

9

7

9

Maps

Catallena LE • Deadwing LE • Foxtrot Labs LE • King Sejong Station LE • Merry Go Round LE • Nimbus LE • Overgrowth LE

Chronology

Toronto

Taipei

Tournament Information[edit]

IEM Season IX - San Jose is the third event of IEM Season IX, organized by ESL and held at SAP Center. It marks the seventh IEM event in the United States of America since 2006. It is also the first IEM standalone event in North America.^[1]

With the changes made by Blizzard to the 2015 StarCraft II World Championship Series, ESL announced on November 26 that IEM San Jose would be a Tier 2 WCS Event and offer 4,000 WCS points for the 2015 season, even though it was not originally planned.^[2]

Location[edit]

San Jose, California

Sap Center

Format[edit]

Qualifier[edit]

There are 8 spots for players from all over the world divided to regions as follows:

2 spots in the European and African Qualifier
3 spots in the American Qualifier
1 spot in the US Qualifier
2 spots in the Asia Final Qualifier

Main Tournament[edit]

Three Stages:

Stage 1:
- Two double-elimination brackets of eight players each.
- Top 2 of each bracket advance to Stage 2.
Stage 2:
- Four groups of four players played out in dual tournament format, consisting of the 4 Stage 1 winners, 8 qualifiers and 4 invites..
- Top 2 of each group advance to Stage 3.
Stage 3:
- Single-elimination bracket of eight players.
- Quarterfinals and Semifinals are played in best of 5
- Grand Finals is played in best of 7

Contrary to other IEM events, the open brackets and the first two matches of each group are played on December 3 and 4 at ESL's studios in Burbank, California.^[3]^[4]

Other Language Commentator:
- Sefirofe (Renan Luz Mesquita)

Prize Pool[edit]

$25,000 and 4,000 WCS Points are spread among the players as seen below:

Place	$USD	WCS Points	Player	Team
1st	$10,000	750	herO	CJ Entus
2nd	$4,000	500	Rain	mYinsanity
3rd-4th	$2,000	375	Jaedong	Evil Geniuses
3rd-4th	$2,000	375	Bomber	Red Bull
5th-8th	$1,000	250	Snute	Team Liquid
			GuMiho	Invasion eSport
			ForGG	Millenium
			Revival	CM Storm
9th-12th	$400	125	TRUE	Dead Pixels
			Polt	CM Storm
			Symbol	Jin Air Green Wings
			Super	Invasion eSport
13th-16th	$350	125*	HuK	Evil Geniuses
			First	TCM-Gaming
			HyuN	Team ROCCAT
			qxc	compLexity Gaming

* Players must advance one round in order to claim WCS points for that placement. Being seeded through qualifiers counts as advancing one round.

Participants[edit]

Stage 1 players (15)
Protoss (6)	Terran (3)	Zerg (6)
Dual tournament #1 (7)
Caliber	GuMiho	~~viOLet~~⁴
Super	intense⁴	~~hendralisk~~³
puCK		~~Hydra~~⁴
HuK		Zanster³
Dual tournament #2 (8)
Harstem	TOP	~~Suppy~~²
Seed²		Phog
		CatZ
		Revival
		Symbol
		TRUE
Stage 2 players (16)
Protoss (5)	Terran (5)	Zerg (6)
From Dual tournaments (6)
Super	GuMiho	Revival
HuK		TRUE
		Symbol
Wildcards Players (4)
	Bomber^[5]	Snute^[6]
		Jaedong^[7]
		HyuN^[8]
Through qualifiers (6)
Rain	ForGG	~~VortiX~~¹
herO	Polt	~~Scarlett~~⁴
First¹	~~MajOr~~⁴
	qxc

¹ VortiX could not attend and was replaced by First who finished third in the European qualifier.
² Suppy cancelled his participation and was replaced by Seed.^[9]
³ hendralisk cancelled his participation and was replaced by Zanster.^[10]
⁴ MajOr and Scarlett cancelled their participation due to health-related issues. viOLet and Hydra also cancelled. intense is the only replacement.^[11]^[12] With 2 less players in the group stage, 6 players will qualify from the open brackets.^[13]

Results[edit]

Stage 1[edit]

Click [show] on the right to view the Open Brackets

Dual Tournament #1
Dual Tournament #2
Show All

Dual Tournament #1[edit]

Quarterfinals

intense

2

Caliber

1

Zanster

0

Super

2

puCK

W

BYE

-

GuMiho

2

HuK

0

Semifinals

intense

0

Super

2

puCK

0

GuMiho

2

Winners' Finals

Super

1

GuMiho

2

Losers' Round 1

Zanster

2

Caliber

1

HuK

W

BYE

-

Losers' Round 2

puCK

2

Zanster

0

intense

1

HuK

2

Losers' Round 3

puCK

1

HuK

2

Losers' Finals

Super

Q

HuK

Q

Qualified

GuMiho

Q

Dual Tournament #2[edit]

Quarterfinals

TRUE

2

TOP

1

Symbol

1

Harstem

2

Seed

2

CatZ

1

Phog

1

Revival

2

Semifinals

TRUE

2

Harstem

1

Seed

0

Revival

2

Winners' Finals

TRUE

2

Revival

1

Losers' Round 1

Symbol

2

TOP

0

Phog

2

CatZ

0

Losers' Round 2

Seed

1

Symbol

2

Harstem

2

Phog

1

Losers' Round 3

Symbol

2

Harstem

0

Losers' Finals

Revival

Q

Symbol

Q

Qualified

TRUE

Q

Stage 2[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group A
December 4, 2014 - 12:00 PST
1.	Rain	2-0	4-1
2.	Snute	2-1	4-3
3.	TRUE	1-2	3-4
4.	HuK	0-2	1-4

Group A Matches
December 4, 2014 - 12:00 PST
Rain	2	0	HuK
Overgrowth Merry Go Round Nimbus

TRUE	2	0	Snute
Merry Go Round King Sejong Station Overgrowth

December 6, 2014 - 11:00 PST
HuK	1	2	Snute
Nimbus King Sejong Station Catallena

December 6, 2014 - 12:00 PST
Rain	2	1	TRUE
King Sejong Station Merry Go Round Overgrowth

Snute	2	0	TRUE
Catallena King Sejong Station Overgrowth

Group B[edit]

Group B
December 4, 2014 - 13:30 PST
1.	Revival	2-0	4-2
2.	Jaedong	2-1	4-3
3.	Polt	1-2	3-4
4.	First	0-2	2-4

Group B Matches
December 4, 2014 - 13:30 PST
First	1	2	Revival
King Sejong Station Nimbus Overgrowth

Polt	2	0	Jaedong
Merry Go Round King Sejong Station Overgrowth

December 6, 2014 - 12:15 PST
First	1	2	Jaedong
King Sejong Station Nimbus Catallena

December 6, 2014 - 15:00 PST
Revival	2	1	Polt
Merry Go Round King Sejong Station Catallena

Jaedong	2	0	Polt
Deadwing King Sejong Station Merry Go Round

Group C[edit]

Group C
December 4, 2014 - 15:30 PST
1.	GuMiho	2-0	4-1
2.	ForGG	2-1	5-2
3.	Symbol	1-2	2-5
4.	HyuN	0-2	1-4

Group C Matches
December 4, 2014 - 15:30 PST
ForGG	1	2	Symbol
Merry Go Round Deadwing Foxtrot Labs

GuMiho	2	1	HyuN
Deadwing Overgrowth King Sejong Station

December 6, 2014 - 13:30 PST
ForGG	2	0	HyuN
Merry Go Round Foxtrot Labs Overgrowth

December 6, 2014 - 18:15 PST
Symbol	0	2	GuMiho
Deadwing Overgrowth King Sejong Station

ForGG	2	0	Symbol
Catallena Deadwing Merry Go Round

Group D[edit]

Group D
December 4, 2014 - 17:30 PST
1.	herO	2-0	4-0
2.	Bomber	2-1	4-3
3.	Super	1-2	3-4
4.	qxc	0-2	0-4

Group D Matches
December 4, 2014 - 17:30 PST
herO	2	0	Super
Overgrowth King Sejong Station Merry Go Round

qxc	0	2	Bomber
Overgrowth Merry Go Round King Sejong Station

December 6, 2014 - 14:15 PST
Super	2	0	qxc
King Sejong Station Merry Go Round Catallena

December 6, 2014 - 20:15 PST
herO	2	0	Bomber
King Sejong Station Merry Go Round Deadwing

Super	1	2	Bomber
Overgrowth King Sejong Station Deadwing

Stage 3[edit]

Quarterfinals (Bo5)

herO

3

Snute

2

Jaedong

3

GuMiho

2

Rain

3

ForGG

2

Bomber

3

Revival

0

Semifinals (Bo5)

herO

3

Jaedong

1

Rain

3

Bomber

1

Finals (Bo7)

herO

4

Rain

3

Racial Distribution[edit]

Protoss

Terran

Zerg

Random

Group Stage

5	5	6

Quarterfinals

2	3	3

Semifinals

2	1	1

Finals

2

Champion

1

Map Statistics[edit]

		vs.				vs.				vs.				Mirrors
Map	#	Σ			%	Σ			%	Σ			%
Catallena	20	3	2	1	66.7%	10	6	4	60.0%	4	1	3	25.0%	-	1	2
Deadwing	14	6	2	4	33.3%	1	0	1	0.0%	5	2	3	40.0%	-	-	2
Foxtrot Labs	7	3	1	2	33.3%	1	1	0	100.0%	2	2	0	100.0%	-	-	1
Merry Go Round	21	7	5	2	71.4%	3	1	2	33.3%	4	3	1	75.0%	1	3	3
Nimbus	10	1	0	1	0.0%	7	5	2	71.4%	1	1	0	100.0%	-	-	1
Overgrowth	28	4	4	0	100.0%	12	4	8	33.3%	5	2	3	40.0%	1	3	3
The King Sejong Station	38	8	4	4	50.0%	13	6	7	46.2%	10	6	4	60.0%	-	5	2
Total Sum (Σ)	138	32	18	14	56.2%	47	23	24	48.9%	31	17	14	54.8%	2	12	14

View Games[edit]

Streams[edit]

Official ESLTV Stream

VODs[edit]

Replays[edit]

Complete replay pack

External Links[edit]

Official Schedule

References[edit]

↑ Ella M. (September 15, 2014). "Intel Extreme Masters adds stadium stop at San Jose SAP Center". Eslgaming.com. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
↑ IEM (November 26, 2014). "Intel Extreme Masters San Jose officially a WCS Global Event". Intelextrememasters.com. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
↑ @mbCARMAC (October 22, 2014). "Open bracket to be played in ESL studios". Twitter.com. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
↑ IEM (October 24, 2014). "Sign up for the open bracket of San Jose now!". Intelextrememasters.com. Retrieved October 24, 2014.
↑ @IEM (November 17, 2014). "Last & final wildcard player of IEM San Jose". Twitter.com. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
↑ @IEM (November 14, 2014). "Snute is the first wildcard player of IEM San Jose". Twitter.com. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
↑ @IEM (November 15, 2014). "Jaedong is the second wildcard player of IEM San Jose". Twitter.com. Retrieved November 15, 2014.
↑ @IEM (November 16, 2014). "HyuN is the third wildcard player of IEM San Jose". Twitter.com. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
↑ @IEM (November 25, 2014). "Seed replaces Suppy who has dropped out". Twitter.com. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
↑ @IEM (November 30, 2014). "Zanster replaces hendralisk". Twitter.com. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
↑ @ESLSC2 (December 3, 2014). "viOLet, Hydra and MajOr can't attend IEM San Jose". Twitter.com. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
↑ @IEM (December 3, 2014). "Scarlett and Major have both withdrawn from IEM San Jose due to health-related issues". Twitter.com. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
↑ @IEM (December 3, 2014). "The players that dropped out will be replaced by those from the Open Bracket". Twitter.com. Retrieved December 3, 2014.

[1] Ella M. (September 15, 2014). "Intel Extreme Masters adds stadium stop at San Jose SAP Center". Eslgaming.com. Retrieved September 16, 2014.

[2] IEM (November 26, 2014). "Intel Extreme Masters San Jose officially a WCS Global Event". Intelextrememasters.com. Retrieved November 26, 2014.

[3] @mbCARMAC (October 22, 2014). "Open bracket to be played in ESL studios". Twitter.com. Retrieved October 22, 2014.

[4] IEM (October 24, 2014). "Sign up for the open bracket of San Jose now!". Intelextrememasters.com. Retrieved October 24, 2014.

[5] @IEM (November 17, 2014). "Last & final wildcard player of IEM San Jose". Twitter.com. Retrieved November 17, 2014.

[6] @IEM (November 14, 2014). "Snute is the first wildcard player of IEM San Jose". Twitter.com. Retrieved November 14, 2014.

[7] @IEM (November 15, 2014). "Jaedong is the second wildcard player of IEM San Jose". Twitter.com. Retrieved November 15, 2014.

[8] @IEM (November 16, 2014). "HyuN is the third wildcard player of IEM San Jose". Twitter.com. Retrieved November 16, 2014.

[9] @IEM (November 25, 2014). "Seed replaces Suppy who has dropped out". Twitter.com. Retrieved November 26, 2014.

[10] @IEM (November 30, 2014). "Zanster replaces hendralisk". Twitter.com. Retrieved November 30, 2014.

[11] @ESLSC2 (December 3, 2014). "viOLet, Hydra and MajOr can't attend IEM San Jose". Twitter.com. Retrieved December 3, 2014.

[12] @IEM (December 3, 2014). "Scarlett and Major have both withdrawn from IEM San Jose due to health-related issues". Twitter.com. Retrieved December 3, 2014.

[13] @IEM (December 3, 2014). "The players that dropped out will be replaced by those from the Open Bracket". Twitter.com. Retrieved December 3, 2014.

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Contents

IEM Season IX - San Jose

Contents

Tournament Information[edit]

Location[edit]

Format[edit]

Qualifier[edit]

Main Tournament[edit]

Prize Pool[edit]

Participants[edit]

Results[edit]

Stage 1[edit]

Dual Tournament #1[edit]

Dual Tournament #2[edit]

Stage 2[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group B[edit]

Group C[edit]

Group D[edit]

Stage 3[edit]

Racial Distribution[edit]

Map Statistics[edit]

View Games[edit]

Streams[edit]

VODs[edit]

Replays[edit]

See Also[edit]

External Links[edit]

References[edit]

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