IEM Season VI - World Championship

[e][h]IEM Season VI - World Championship

League Information

Series:

Intel Extreme Masters

Organizer:

ESL

Game Version:

Wings of Liberty Patch 1.4.3

Server:

Europe

Type:

Offline

Location:

Hanover

Prize pool:

$83,000

Start Date:

2012-03-06

End Date:

2012-03-10

Liquipedia Tier:

Premier

Links

Winners

MC

PuMa

MMA

Feast

Player Breakdown

Number of Players:

24

11

6

7

Maps

ESL Antiga Shipyard • ESL Cloud Kingdom • ESL Shakuras Plateau • ESL Daybreak • ESL Tal'Darim Altar • ESL Entombed Valley • GSL Metropolis

Chronology

Global Challenge Sao Paulo

Cologne

IEM Season VI - World Championship in Hanover Messe will be the sixth event of the global league of the Intel Extreme Masters. Teams of Counter-Strike and League of Legends as well as StarCraft II players will clash in Hanover, Germany, in March 2012, for a total prize money of $283,000.

Overview[edit]

The IEM Season VI - World Championship is a StarCraft II tournament which takes place in Hanover, Germany in March. The tournament is the sixth event in the 6th season of the ESL's Intel Extreme Masters series. Initially the 16 best players from the previous events were supposed to compete in a $83,000 tournament. However, with the announcement of HomeStory Cup IV as further qualifier for the final instalment of the season, the number of participants was increased from 16 to 24.^[1] Main casters for this event are RotterdaM, MrBitter, Apollo and Kaelaris. For Kaelaris it is his first appearance on the main stream of a major event. Some guest commentary and analysis was provided by Grubby, DIMAGA, MaNa, DarKFoRcE and IdrA.^[2]^[3]

Format[edit]

Four groups of six players - Round Robin Bo3
Second and third place advances to the Round of 12
First of each group gets a bye in the Round of 8

Prize pool[edit]

Offering $83,000 spread among all players as follows:

Place	$USD	Player	Team
1st	$35,000	MC	SK Gaming
2nd	$15,000	PuMa	Evil Geniuses
3rd	$9,000	MMA	SlayerS
4th	$4,200	Feast	Millenium
5th-8th	$2,000	JYP	Evil Geniuses
		viOLet	Team Empire
		Zenio	Team Liquid
		Killer	compLexity Gaming
9th-12th	$1,000	HasuObs	mousesports
		DarKFoRcE	Team ALTERNATE
		elfi	Team Acer
		SuperNova	eSahara.oGs
13th-16th	$700	SeleCT	Team Dignitas
		ReaL	Type Gaming
		Nerchio	Team Acer
		Socke	Team ALTERNATE
17th-20th	$650	DIMAGA	mTw
		Kas	Team Empire
		White-Ra	Tt eSPORTS
		KiLLeR	Team Dignitas
21st-24th	$600	MaNa	mousesports
		IdrA	Evil Geniuses
		Grubby	Team Grubby
		Strelok	FXOpen e-Sports

Participants[edit]

Protoss (11)	Terran (6)	Zerg (7)
MC	MMA	viOLet
JYP	PuMa	Zenio
ReaL	SuperNova	DIMAGA
elfi	SeleCT	Nerchio
MaNa	Kas	IdrA
Feast	Strelok	KiLLeR
Socke		DarKFoRcE
HasuObs
Killer
White-Ra
Grubby

* Gatored was planned to participate but had to cancel, Killer will be his replacement. Four days before the start of the tournament Korean players DongRaeGu and FruitDealer had to cancel their participation and will be replaced by DarKFoRcE and SeleCT.^[4] Ret had to cancel due to sickness, White-Ra will replace him.^[5] Sound could not attend due to travel costs, Grubby will replace him.^[6]^[7]

Results[edit]

Group Stage[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group A
March 6, 2012
1.	MMA	5-0	10-0
2.	viOLet	3-2	7-5
3.	JYP	3-2	6-5
4.	Socke	3-2	6-6
5.	KiLLeR	1-4	3-9
6.	Strelok	0-5	3-10

Group A Matches
MMA	2	0	JYP
KiLLeR	0	2	viOLet
Strelok	1	2	Socke
KiLLeR	1	2	Socke
Strelok	0	2	JYP
MMA	2	0	viOLet
JYP	2	1	viOLet
MMA	2	0	Socke
Strelok	1	2	KiLLeR
Strelok	1	2	viOLet
JYP	0	2	Socke
MMA	2	0	KiLLeR
Socke	0	2	viOLet
Strelok	0	2	MMA
KiLLeR	0	2	JYP

Group B[edit]

Group B
March 6, 2012
1.	MC	3-2	8-4
2.	elfi	3-2	8-6
3.	HasuObs	3-2	6-5
4.	Nerchio	3-2	6-5
5.	White-Ra	2-3	5-7
6.	Grubby	1-4	3-9

Group B Matches
MC	2	0	Grubby
HasuObs	2	0	Nerchio
elfi	2	0	White-Ra
elfi	1	2	Nerchio
MC	1	2	White-Ra
HasuObs	2	0	Grubby
MC	2	0	HasuObs
White-Ra	0	2	Nerchio
elfi	2	1	Grubby
MC	2	0	Nerchio
elfi	1	2	HasuObs
White-Ra	1	2	Grubby
MC	1	2	elfi
Grubby	0	2	Nerchio
HasuObs	0	2	White-Ra

Group C[edit]

Group C
March 7, 2012
1.	PuMa	5-0	10-2
2.	Killer	4-1	9-5
3.	Zenio	3-2	7-5
4.	SeleCT	1-4	5-9
5.	DIMAGA	1-4	4-9
6.	MaNa	1-4	4-9

Group C Matches
Killer	2	1	Zenio
MaNa	2	1	SeleCT
DIMAGA	1	2	PuMa
MaNa	0	2	Zenio
DIMAGA	1	2	SeleCT
Killer	1	2	PuMa
MaNa	1	2	DIMAGA
Zenio	0	2	PuMa
MaNa	0	2	PuMa
Killer	2	1	SeleCT
Zenio	2	1	SeleCT
Killer	2	0	DIMAGA
DIMAGA	0	2	Zenio
MaNa	1	2	Killer
SeleCT	0	2	PuMa

Group D[edit]

Group D
March 7, 2012
1.	Feast	4-1	9-3
2.	SuperNova	3-2	7-6
3.	DarKFoRcE	3-2	7-6
4.	ReaL	2-3	5-6
5.	Kas	2-3	5-7
6.	IdrA	1-4	4-9

Group D Matches
DarKFoRcE	0	2	SuperNova
IdrA	0	2	ReaL
Kas	0	2	Feast
DarKFoRcE	2	0	ReaL
IdrA	1	2	Feast
DarKFoRcE	2	1	Feast
Kas	2	0	IdrA
Kas	0	2	ReaL
SuperNova	2	1	ReaL
DarKFoRcE	2	1	IdrA
SuperNova	0	2	Feast
Kas	1	2	SuperNova
IdrA	2	1	SuperNova
Feast	2	0	ReaL
Kas	2	1	DarKFoRcE

Playoffs[edit]

Round of 12 (Bo5)

Zenio

3

SuperNova

1

elfi

1

JYP

3

DarKFoRcE

1

viOLet

3

Killer

3

HasuObs

0

Quarterfinals (Bo5)

MMA

3

Zenio

0

Puma

3

JYP

2

MC

3

viOLet

0

Feast

3

Killer

2

Semifinals (Bo5)

MMA

1

PuMa

3

MC

3

Feast

1

Finals (Bo5)

PuMa

2

MC

3

3rd Place Match

MMA

3

Feast

0

Racial distribution[edit]

Protoss

Terran

Zerg

Random

Group Stage

11

6

7

Round of 12

6

3

Quarter Finals

4

2

Semi Finals

2

Final Match

1

Winner

1

Map Statistics (playoffs only)[edit]

		vs.				vs.				vs.				Mirrors
Map	#	Σ			%	Σ			%	Σ			%
Antiga Shipyard	9	2	-	2	0.0%	1	-	1	0.0%	-	-	-	-	1	1	4
Cloud Kingdom	10	2	2	-	100.0%	1	1	-	100.0%	2	-	2	0.0%	1	1	3
Daybreak	8	2	2	-	100.0%	1	-	1	0.0%	1	-	1	0.0%	1	-	3
Entombed Valley	7	1	-	1	0.0%	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	0.0%	1	1	3
Metropolis	4	1	1	-	100.0%	1	1	-	100.0%	1	-	1	0.0%	-	-	1
Shakuras Plateau	3	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	0.0%	1	-	1	0.0%	-	-	1
Tal'Darim Altar	2	1	1	-	100.0%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Total Sum (Σ)	43	9	6	3	66.7%	5	2	3	40.0%	6	-	6	0.0%	4	3	16

View Games[edit]

Replays & VODs[edit]

Additional Coverage[edit]

Trivia[edit]

After the All-Star FFA gained a lot of popularity at the Global Challenge Sao Paulo, it was brought back in Hanover. MMA, MC, Kas, RotterdaM, Apollo, DIMAGA, Strelok and PuMa played in the first one.^[8] Strelok managed to come out victorious beating RotterdaM in the final battle with a Thortex (aka Thor Toilet).
Feast won the poll as SICK NERD BALLER of the tournament.

Qualifying Leaderboard[edit]

Players in Green are highest ranked in their region (qualified).

Players in Blue have finished top 2 in an IEM (qualified).

Players in Brown are qualified based on points.

Click [show] on the right to view the rankings

Rank	ID	Points
#1	MC	190
#2	PuMa	165
#3	viOLet	145
#4	DIMAGA	120
#5	IdrA	110
-	DongRaeGu	110
-	MMA	110
#8	elfi	100
#9	FruitDealer	80
-	Sound	80
-	SuperNova	80
#12	JYP	75
-	Kas	75
#14	KiLLeR	70
#15	MaNa	65
#16	Ret	55
-	ReaL	55
#18	Socke	40
-	Nerchio	40
-	Strelok	40
-	HasuObs	40
-	Feast	40
#23	Zenio	35
-	Gatored	35
#25	Killer	30
#26	DarKFoRcE	25
#27	SeleCT	20
-	mOOnGLaDe	20
-	Revival	20
-	TOP	20
-	TT1	20
-	MarineKing	20
-	Stephano	20
-	White-Ra	20
-	NaNiwa	20
-	HerO	20
-	Pomi	20
-	DeMusliM	20
-	sLivko	20
#40	Grubby	15
#41	Beastyqt	10
-	Tarson	10
-	YHY	10
-	Rain	10
-	Jim	10
-	Way	10
-	SjoW	10
-	Axslav	10
-	GoOdy	10
-	NightEnD	10
-	TargA	10
-	XlorD	10
-	Snute	10
-	BiGs	10
#55	DieStar	5
-	HuK	5
-	SaSe	5
-	PiG	5
-	XiGua	5
-	Jinro	5
-	iaguz	5
-	Attero	5
-	StrifeCro	5
-	Pokebunny	5
-	Edge	5
-	Naama	5
-	ClouD	5
-	TitaN	5
-	qxc	5
-	Illusion	5
-	Tunico	5
-	DakkoN	5
-	Potiguar	5