IEM Season VIII - Sao Paulo

[e][h]IEM Season VIII - Sao Paulo

League Information

Series:

IEM

Organizer:

Electronic Sports League

Sponsor(s):

Intel
BenQ
Kingston HyperX

Game version:

Heart of the Swarm
Patch 2.1

Server:

North America

Type:

Offline

Location:

Sao Paulo

Format:

Group stages
Single elimination bracket

Prize pool:

$25,000 USD

Start Date:

2014-01-29

End Date:

2014-02-01

Liquipedia tier:

Premier

Links

Player breakdown

Number of players:

28

9

10

9

Maps

Alterzim Stronghold • Heavy Rain • Habitation Station • Frost • Polar Night • Daedalus Point • Yeonsu

Chronology

Singapore

Cologne

Tournament Information[edit]

IEM Season VIII - Sao Paulo is the fourth event of IEM Season VIII, organized by ESL and held at Parque Anhembi during Campus Party Sao Paulo. It will be a Tier 2 event, giving 4000 WCS points for 2014 WCS Global Finals.^[1] The event will be hosted by Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner and the commentary done by James "Kaelaris" Carrol, Shaun "Apollo" Clark, Yoan "ToD" Merlo and Kevin "RotterdaM" van der Kooi.^[2]

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 Qualifier.
4 spots in the American Qualifier.
2 spots in the Asian Final Qualifiers.

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 based on the WCS Ranking.
- 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

Map Pool[edit]

Prize Pool[edit]

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

The champion herO with his trophy and cheque

* Players must advance one round in order to claim WCS points for that placement. Being seeded through qualifiers counts as advancing one round.^[3]

Participants[edit]

Stage 1 players (14)
Protoss (4)	Terran (4)	Zerg (6)
Dual tournament #1 (8)
valterlorran	Kelazhur	Nika
TerminatoR	~~Barba~~ ^[4]	SaintSeiya
	trOt ^[4]	Ferllo
		DakkoN
Dual tournament #2 (6)
Polenguinho	~~bush~~ ^[5]	Erik
Tonho	elivolts	~~MoSkA~~ ^[5]
	Gadernal	Shakti
Stage 2 players (16)
Protoss (5)	Terran (7)	Zerg (4)
From Dual tournaments (4)
	Kelazhur	Shakti
	trOt	Erik
Invites (4)
MC	Bomber	Tunico
ABomB
Through qualifiers (8)
hellokitty	jjakji	TLO
puCK	MajOr
herO	Polt
	Bbyong

Results[edit]

Stage 1[edit]

Dual Tournament #1[edit]

Click [show] on the right to view

Upper Bracket Quarterfinals

UB Quarterfinals

UBQF

Upper Bracket Semifinals

UB Semifinals

UBSF

Upper Bracket Final

UB Final

UBF

Qualified

Lower Bracket Round 1

LB Round 1

LBR1

Lower Bracket Quarterfinals

LB Quarterfinals

LBQF

Lower Bracket Semifinal

LB Semifinal

LBSF

Lower Bracket Final

LB Final

LBF

Dual Tournament #2[edit]

Click [show] on the right to view

Upper Bracket Quarterfinals

UB Quarterfinals

UBQF

Upper Bracket Semifinals

UB Semifinals

UBSF

Upper Bracket Final

UB Final

UBF

Qualified

Lower Bracket Round 1

LB Round 1

LBR1

Lower Bracket Quarterfinals

LB Quarterfinals

LBQF

Lower Bracket Semifinal

LB Semifinal

LBSF

Lower Bracket Final

LB Final

LBF

Stage 2[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group A
January 30, 2014 - 10:00 BRST
1.	Bomber	2-0	4-0
2.	jjakji	2-1	4-2
3.	puCK	1-2	2-4
4.	Erik	0-2	0-4

Group A Matches

Group B[edit]

Group B
January 30, 2014 - 13:45 BRST
1.	MC	2-0	4-0
2.	TLO	2-1	4-2
3.	Shakti	1-2	2-5
4.	hellokitty	0-2	1-4

Group B Matches

Group C[edit]

Group C
January 31, 2014 - 10:00 BRST
1.	Polt	2-0	4-1
2.	herO	2-1	5-2
3.	Kelazhur	1-2	2-4
4.	Tunico	0-2	0-4

Group C Matches

Group D[edit]

Group D
January 31, 2014 - 13:30 BRST
1.	MajOr	2-0	4-1
2.	ABomB	2-1	4-3
3.	Bbyong	1-2	3-4
4.	trOt	0-2	1-4

Group D Matches

Stage 3[edit]

Quarterfinals (Bo5)

Semifinals (Bo5)

Finals (Bo7)

Finalists MC and herO with host ReDeYe in front of the crowd

Racial Distribution[edit]

Protoss

Terran

Zerg

Group Stage

5	7	4

Quarterfinals

3	4	1

Semifinals

2	1	1

Finals

2

Champion

1

View Games[edit]

Streams[edit]

Official ESLTV Stream

VODs[edit]

/r/SpoilerFreeSC VOD Post
Spoiler-free VODs on SC2Links.com
Spoiler-free Official YouTube VODs at SC2Casts.com

External Links[edit]

References[edit]

↑ Michal Blicharz (December 10, 2013). "IEM Sao Paulo will give WCS points". Twitter.com. Retrieved December 10, 2013.
↑ IEM (January 15, 2014). "StarCraft II action in Brazil presented to you by..". Intelextrememasters.com. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
↑ "2014 WCS Player Handbook". Blizzard. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 messioso (January 29, 2014). "trOt plays in Open Bracket as Barba didn't show up". TL.net. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 messioso (January 29, 2014). "WM & elivolts get a default win as two players did not show up". TL.net. Retrieved January 29, 2014.

[1] Michal Blicharz (December 10, 2013). "IEM Sao Paulo will give WCS points". Twitter.com. Retrieved December 10, 2013.

[2] IEM (January 15, 2014). "StarCraft II action in Brazil presented to you by..". Intelextrememasters.com. Retrieved January 15, 2014.

[3] "2014 WCS Player Handbook". Blizzard. Retrieved 2014-01-31.

[trOt_plays-4] 4.0 ^4.1 messioso (January 29, 2014). "trOt plays in Open Bracket as Barba didn't show up". TL.net. Retrieved January 29, 2014.

[players_did_not_show_up-5] 5.0 ^5.1 messioso (January 29, 2014). "WM & elivolts get a default win as two players did not show up". TL.net. Retrieved January 29, 2014.

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