IEM Season VII - Katowice
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IEM Season VII - Katowice
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Sponsor(s):
Game Version:
Server:
Europe
Type:
Offline
Location:
KatowicePrize Pool:
$29,000 USD
Start Date:
2013-01-18
End Date:
2013-01-20
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
Participants
Number of Players:
24
8
6
10Maps
Chronology
The seventh season of Intel Extreme Masters, the premier league of the Electronic Sports League, takes off with its third event at Spodek in Katowice, Poland. $29,000 will be awarded to the 24 players who qualified from all over the globe.
About[edit]
The IEM Season VII - Katowice is the third tournament in the Intel Extreme Masters Season VII, taking place at Spodek in Katowice, Poland. For the first time in IEM's StarCraft II history, the tournament will be held in Poland. The tournament boasts a $29,000 prize pool distributed across all 24 participating players and will be cast by Apollo, Kaelaris and Khaldor with Jarett Cale as host with ToD and qxc as game analysts.
Prize pool[edit]
Offering $29,000 spread among all players as follows:
1st
2nd 
3rd-4th 
Format[edit]
- Open Bracket:
- A 32 player Open Bracket, consisting of 4 double-elimination brackets with the top 2 players qualifying to the Group Stage.
- Group Stage:
- Group Stage consisting of the 16 qualified players and 8 players qualifying via the Open Bracket.
- 1st place advances directly to the Quarterfinals.
- 2nd and 3rd places advance to the Round of 12.
- Playoffs:
- Single-elimination playoff for the top 12 players.
- All rounds are best-of-5.
- Single-elimination playoff for the top 12 players.
Participants[edit]
1 Stephano was given a seed by finishing at the 8th place of European Qualifier, since Nerchio already won a seed by winning EPS Poland. Later it was announced that Socke replaced Stephano, who could not attend.[1]
2 Dream replaced Maru, who could not attend due to his age.
3 Siphonn replaced KiLLeR, who could not attend.[2]
Distribution of Seeds[edit]
- 8 Seeds were given to the Open Bracket
- 7 Seeds were given to the European/African Qualifier
- 4 Seeds were given to the Korean Qualifier
- 3 Seeds were given to the American Qualifier
- 1 Seed was given to the SEA Qualifier
- 1 Seed was given to the National Champion of the Host Country, as determined in ESL Pro Series Poland - Season V
Results[edit]
Open Bracket[edit]
January 17, 2013 12:00 CET:
Click [show] on the right to view the Open Bracket
Bracket 1[edit]
Upper Bracket Quarterfinals
Upper Bracket Quarterfinals
UB Quarterfinals
UBQF
Upper Bracket Semifinals
Upper Bracket Semifinals
UB Semifinals
UBSF
Upper Bracket Final
Upper Bracket Final
UB Final
UBF
Qualified
Qualified
Qual.
Q
W
L
0
2
2
0
W
L
L
W
1
2
1
2
Lower Bracket Round 1
Lower Bracket Round 1
LB Round 1
LBR1
Lower Bracket Quarterfinals
Lower Bracket Quarterfinals
LB Quarterfinals
LBQF
Lower Bracket Semifinal
Lower Bracket Semifinal
LB Semifinal
LBSF
Lower Bracket Final
Lower Bracket Final
LB Final
LBF
Qualified
Qualified
Qual.
Q
L
W
2
0
L
L
W
L
2
0
1
2
Bracket 2[edit]
Upper Bracket Quarterfinals
Upper Bracket Quarterfinals
UB Quarterfinals
UBQF
Upper Bracket Semifinals
Upper Bracket Semifinals
UB Semifinals
UBSF
Upper Bracket Final
Upper Bracket Final
UB Final
UBF
Qualified
Qualified
Qual.
Q
W
L
W
L
2
0
L
W
L
W
L
W
2
0
Lower Bracket Round 1
Lower Bracket Round 1
LB Round 1
LBR1
Lower Bracket Quarterfinals
Lower Bracket Quarterfinals
LB Quarterfinals
LBQF
Lower Bracket Semifinal
Lower Bracket Semifinal
LB Semifinal
LBSF
Lower Bracket Final
Lower Bracket Final
LB Final
LBF
Qualified
Qualified
Qual.
Q
L
L
W
L
L
L
W
L
L
W
2
0
Bracket 3[edit]
Upper Bracket Quarterfinals
Upper Bracket Quarterfinals
UB Quarterfinals
UBQF
Upper Bracket Semifinals
Upper Bracket Semifinals
UB Semifinals
UBSF
Upper Bracket Final
Upper Bracket Final
UB Final
UBF
Qualified
Qualified
Qual.
Q
W
L
2
1
2
0
L
W
L
W
0
2
2
0
Lower Bracket Round 1
Lower Bracket Round 1
LB Round 1
LBR1
Lower Bracket Quarterfinals
Lower Bracket Quarterfinals
LB Quarterfinals
LBQF
Lower Bracket Semifinal
Lower Bracket Semifinal
LB Semifinal
LBSF
Lower Bracket Final
Lower Bracket Final
LB Final
LBF
Qualified
Qualified
Qual.
Q
L
W
2
0
L
L
W
L
2
0
2
0
Bracket 4[edit]
Upper Bracket Quarterfinals
Upper Bracket Quarterfinals
UB Quarterfinals
UBQF
Upper Bracket Semifinals
Upper Bracket Semifinals
UB Semifinals
UBSF
Upper Bracket Final
Upper Bracket Final
UB Final
UBF
Qualified
Qualified
Qual.
Q
W
L
2
1
2
0
W
L
L
W
2
1
2
0
Lower Bracket Round 1
Lower Bracket Round 1
LB Round 1
LBR1
Lower Bracket Quarterfinals
Lower Bracket Quarterfinals
LB Quarterfinals
LBQF
Lower Bracket Semifinal
Lower Bracket Semifinal
LB Semifinal
LBSF
Lower Bracket Final
Lower Bracket Final
LB Final
LBF
Qualified
Qualified
Qual.
Q
L
W
2
0
L
L
W
L
2
0
0
2
Group Stage[edit]
[edit]
January 18, 2013 12:00 CET:
   Group A
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dream
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4-1 | 8-3 | |||
| 2. | TLO
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3-2 | 8-5 | |||
| 3. | Grubby
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3-2 | 7-6 | |||
| 4. |  mOOnGLaDe
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3-2 | 6-5 | |||
| 5. |  Snute
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2-3 | 5-7 | |||
| 6. | Tarson
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0-5 | 2-10 | |||
Group A Matches
2
0
2
0
[edit]
January 18, 2013 12:00 CET:
| Group B
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | PartinG
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4-1 | 8-2 | |||
| 2. |  LucifroN
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3-2 | 7-4 | |||
| 3. | MaNa
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3-2 | 6-4 | |||
| 4. |  Bly
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3-2 | 6-6 | |||
| 5. | Tefel
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2-3 | 5-8 | |||
| 6. |  Siphonn
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0-5 | 2-10 | |||
Group B Matches
[edit]
January 18, 2013 12:00 CET:
| Group C
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Socke
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5-0 | 10-2 | |||
| 2. | YoDa
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4-1 | 9-4 | |||
| 3. | Nerchio
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3-2 | 7-4 | |||
| 4. | Verdi
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2-3 | 6-6 | |||
| 5. | jookTo
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1-4 | 2-8 | |||
| 6. | DieStar
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0-5 | 0-10 | |||
Group C Matches
Playoffs[edit]
Bracket[edit]
Round of 12 (Bo5)
Quarterfinals (Bo5)
Semifinals (Bo5)
Finals (Bo5)
Racial Distribution[edit]
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| Round of 24 |
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| Round of 12 |
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| Quarterfinals |
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| Semifinals |
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| Finals |
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| Winner |
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Map Statistics[edit]
| vs. | vs. | vs. | Mirrors | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Map | # | Σ | | | % | Σ | | | % | Σ | | | % | | | |
| Antiga Shipyard | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% | 4 | 3 | 1 | 75.0% | 4 | 3 | 1 | 75.0% | - | - | - |
| Cloud Kingdom | 41 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 25.0% | 15 | 3 | 12 | 20.0% | 8 | 5 | 3 | 62.5% | 4 | - | 6 |
| Daybreak | 42 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 42.9% | 17 | 5 | 12 | 29.4% | 10 | 6 | 4 | 60.0% | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Entombed Valley | 25 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60.0% | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33.3% | 8 | 3 | 5 | 37.5% | 5 | 1 | - |
| Metropolis | 18 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 57.1% | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.0% | 6 | 3 | 3 | 50.0% | - | - | 2 |
| Ohana | 29 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 75.0% | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33.3% | 10 | 5 | 5 | 50.0% | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Unknown | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Whirlwind | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0% | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25.0% | - | 1 | - |
| Total Sum (Σ) | 172 | 34 | 17 | 17 | 50.0% | 52 | 15 | 37 | 28.8% | 50 | 26 | 24 | 52.0% | 13 | 5 | 18 |
Trivia[edit]
Sick Nerd Baller Award[edit]
The Sick Nerd Baller Award for the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the tournament went to Socke.
Free For All[edit]
Participants[edit]
Protoss (3) Terran (4) Zerg (1) 
1 
1 mOOnGLaDe won the match by holding the Xel'Naga tower at the 45 minutes mark for 10 seconds.
View Games[edit]
ESL TV 1 (VODs)- ESL TV 2 (VODs)
- Spoiler-free YouTube VODs @ SC2Casts
- Spoiler-free VODs on SC2Ratings.com
- ESL Poland (VODs)
- ESL CIS (VODs)
- TaKe TV (VODs)
aAa TV (VODs)- ESL Spain (VODs)
Replays[edit]
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Socke to replace Stephano at IEM Katowice". ESL.net. 2013-01-14.
- ↑ VirgilSC (2013-01-13). "Siphonn to replace KiLLeR at IEM Katowice". TL.net.
