IEM Season VIII - World Championship
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IEM Season VIII - World Championship
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Sponsor(s):
Game Version:
Server:
Europe
Type:
Offline
Location:
KatowiceFormat:
Single-elimination bracket
Prize Pool:
$100,000 USD
Start Date:
2014-03-14
End Date:
2014-03-16
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
Participants
Number of Players:
16
9
3
4Maps
Chronology
IEM Season VIII - World Championship is the final event of the Intel Extreme Masters Season 8. It takes place in the Spodek Arena in Katowice, Poland.
Tournament Information[edit]
Format[edit]
10 spots are reserved for the winners and runners-up of the five events of the Intel Extreme Masters Season 8:[1]
- 2 spots from IEM Shanghai.
- 2 spots from IEM New York.
- 2 spots from IEM Singapore.
- 2 spots from IEM Sao Paulo - Just 1 because herO was already qualified.[2]
- 2 spots from IEM Cologne.
The seven remaining places will be decided as follows:[3]
- 1 spot from the Asian Qualifier.
- 1 spot from the American Qualifier.
- 1 spot from the European Qualifier.
- 2 spots from the Open Bracket Qualifier.[2]
- 2 spots from invites.
Main Tournament[edit]
- Single-elimination bracket of sixteen players.
- Matches are best of 5, Grand Finals is played in best of 7.
Map Pool[edit]
Prize Pool[edit]
$100,000 and 7,000 WCS Points[4] are awarded as seen below. The purse will be winner-takes-all, but the rest of the top 16 will receive WCS Points:
1st
2nd 
3rd-4th 
 | This is a legacy prize pool. Please use {{Template:SoloPrizePool}}, {{Template:TeamPrizePool}}, {{Template:DuoPrizePool}}, {{ArchonPrizePool}}, {{TrioPrizePool}}, {{QuadPrizePool}} or {{Template:AwardPrizePool}} instead. |
Winner sOs with the trophy
* Players must advance one round in order to claim WCS points for that placement. Being seeded through qualifiers counts as advancing one round. IEM Shanghai, IEM New York, IEM Singapore, IEM Sao Paulo and IEM Cologne do NOT count as qualifiers as shown on the WCS portal. http://wcs.battle.net/sc2/en [5]
Participants[edit]
Protoss (15) Terran (7) Zerg (10)Open bracket participants (16)
Qualified for main tournament (0)
To be determined
Through online qualifiers (3)
Through open bracket qualifier* (2)
Invites (2)
* herO was already qualified after winning IEM Season VIII - Singapore, so his seed from IEM Season VIII - Sao Paulo is replaced by an additional seed in the Open Bracket Qualifier.[2]
Results[edit]
Round of 16 (Bo5)
Quarterfinals (Bo5)
Semifinals (Bo5)
Finals (Bo7)
1
0
1
0
NaNiwa forfeited after game 1
1
4
1
4
March 16, 2014 - 16:15 CET
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Streams[edit]
VODs[edit]
- Spoiler-Free Official YouTube VODs @ SC2Casts
- /r/SpoilerFreeSC VOD Post
- Spoiler-free VODs on SC2Links.com
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ IEM (January 27, 2014). "StarCraft II World Championship to be US$100,000 Winner-Takes-All Tournament". Intelextrememasters.com. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 @IEM (February 1, 2014). "Open Bracket will give 2 spots". Twitter.com. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
- ↑ IEM (January 29, 2014). "IEM World Championship in Katowice StarCraft II Open Qualifiers". Intelextrememasters.com. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
- ↑ Michal Blicharz (March 7, 2014). "The $100,000 #IEM World Championship event will be a 7,000 points #WCS Global Event". Twitter.com. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
- ↑ "2014 WCS Player Handbook". Blizzard. Retrieved 2014-01-31.