IEM Season VI - World Championship

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Intel Extreme Masters Season VI - World Championship [edit]
League Information
Organizer:	ESL
Server:	Europe
Event Type:	Offline
Location:	Germany
Format:	Group + Playoffs
Prize pool:	$100,000
Start Date:	2012-03-06
End Date:	2012-03-10
Links:	Website
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IEM Season VI - World Championship in Hanover was 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 clashed in Hanover, Germany, in March 2012, for a total prize money of $283,000.

Overview

The IEM Season VI - World Championship took place in Hanover, Germany in March in the same venue as the CeBIT computer expo. This was the ESL's Intel Extreme Masters series' final event of its 6th season. 12 teams qualified for this World Championship by earning ranking points in the IEM Global Challenges throughout the season. The matches were played on the Nautilus patch with the Shen hotfixes. Main casters for this event were Phreak, Zenon, Deman, and Joe Miller.

Qualifiers

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

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

Teams in Brown are qualified based on points.

Rank	Team	Points
#1	Counter Logic Gaming	180
#2	SK Gaming	150
#3	Team SoloMid	140
#4	FnaticRC	135
#5	Moscow Five	90
-	Team WE	90
#7	Dignitas	60
#8	Sypher	55
#9	Millenium	40
#10	Curse Gaming	30
#11	EHome	25
-	Invictus Gaming	25
#13	Team ALTERNATE	15
#14	Against All Authority	15
-	v8 Esports	10
-	myRevenge	10
-	Frag eXecutors	10
-	White Lotus	10
-	CrossGaming	10
-	Flash	10

Format

• Group Stage - Round Robin Bo1
  • 2nd & 3rd Place advances to Ro8
  • 1st Place advances to Ro4
  • Playoffs - Single Elimination - Bo3

Prize Pool

$100,000 USD (Approximately €76,000 EUR) is spread among the teams as follows:

Place	Prize (USD)	≈Prize (EUR)	Riot Circuit	Team
1st	$ 50,000	€ 38,000	+400	Moscow Five
2nd	$ 20,000	€ 15,200	+200	Team Dignitas
3rd	$ 8,000	€ 6,080	+125	Counter Logic Gaming
4th	$ 3,800	€ 2,888	+75	against All authority
5th-6th	$ 2,800	€ 2,128	+50	SK Gaming
				Team Curse
7th-8th	$ 2,200	€ 1,672		Team SoloMid
				Team ALTERNATE
9th-10th	$ 2,100	€ 1,596		Team Sypher
				Fnatic
11th-12th	$ 2,000	€ 1,520		EHOME
				Millenium

*Converted prizes calculated on March 6th, 2012 with a currency rate of 1 USD = 0.76 EUR provided by http://www.xe.com/.

Participants

against All authority  MoMa    nRated    YellOwStaR    Linak    sOAZ   [Show/Hide Roster] Counter Logic Gaming  HotshotGG    Bigfatlp    Doublelift    Saintvicious    Chauster   [Show/Hide Roster] Curse Gaming  SYDTKO    Nyjacky    Cop    Elementz    Crumbzz   [Show/Hide Roster] EHOME  Pdd    MAX    Air    IMBA    TS   [Show/Hide Roster]

Fnatic  Shushei    CyanideFI    xPeke    LamiaZealot    Mellisan   [Show/Hide Roster] Millenium  HawkDon RV    Hmmer    hyrqBot    Haydal    kujaa   [Show/Hide Roster] Moscow Five  Alex Ich    Diamondprox    Genja    GoSu Pepper    Darien   [Show/Hide Roster] SK Gaming  Ocelote    Dedrayon    Kev1n    Candy Panda    Nyph   [Show/Hide Roster]

Team ALTERNATE  unso    leofromkorea    Forellenlord    fisch    cliff   [Show/Hide Roster] Team Dignitas  Scarra    L0cust    IWillDominate    imaqtpie    Voyboy   [Show/Hide Roster] Team SoloMid  TheRainMan    Xpecial    Reginald    Chaox    TheOddOne   [Show/Hide Roster] Team Sypher  Moopz    Lyumi    Lounet    ShLaYa    Skyyart   [Show/Hide Roster]

¹  Team ALTERNATE and  against All authority replace  Invictus Gaming and  Team WE as Invictus Gaming and Team WE could not participate because of visa issues.

Results

Group Stage

Group A Group A 1.  Team Dignitas 4-1 2.  Counter Logic Gaming 4-1 3.  against All authority 3-2 4.  Team ALTERNATE 2-3 5.  Fnatic 2-3 6.  Millenium 0-5 Group A Matches dignitas 1 0 CLG aTn 0 1 aAa Fnatic 1 0 M M 0 1 aAa Fnatic 1 0 dignitas CLG 1 0 aTn Fnatic 0 1 aAa CLG 1 0 M dignitas 1 0 aTn Fnatic 0 1 aTn dignitas 1 0 M CLG 1 0 aAa Fnatic 0 1 CLG aAa 0 1 dignitas aTn 1 0 M Group B Group B 1.  Moscow Five 5-0 2.  SK Gaming 4-1 3.  Team Curse 2-3 4.  Team SoloMid 2-3 5.  Team Sypher 1-4 6.  EHOME 1-4 Group A Matches Crs 1 0 TSM M5 1 0 EHOME Sypher 0 1 SK EHOME 0 1 SK TSM 1 0 Sypher M5 1 0 Crs TSM 0 1 M5 Crs 0 1 SK EHOME 0 1 Sypher EHOME 0 1 TSM Sypher 0 1 Crs SK 0 1 M5 TSM 0 1 SK M5 1 0 Sypher Crs 0 1 EHOME

Playoffs

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Finals
					M5	2
	Crs	0
					CLG	0
	CLG	2
									M5	2
									dignitas	0
									3rd place match
					dignitas	2
	SK	1					CLG	2
					aAa	0
	aAa	2							aAa	1

Regional Distribution

	North America	Europe	Asia
Round of 12	4 7 1
Round of 6	3 3
Round of 4	2 2
Final	1 1
Winner	1

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Group Stage

Group A Dignitas v. CLG Dignitas v. aAa CLG v. FnaticRC Team ALTERNATE v. FnaticRC Dignitas v. FnaticRC CLG v. Team ALTERNATE aAa v. Team ALTERNATE Team ALTERNATE v. Millenium Dignitas v. Team ALTERNATE CLG v. Millenium aAa v. Millenium FnaticRC v. Millenium Dignitas v. Millenium CLG v. aAa aAa v. FnaticRC Group B Moscow Five v. SK Gaming Moscow Five v. EHome SK Gaming v. EHome Team SoloMid v. Sypher Moscow Five v. Curse Gaming SK Gaming v. Curse Gaming Curse Gaming v. Team SoloMid Team SoloMid v. EHome Moscow Five v. Team SoloMid SK Gaming v. Team SoloMid Curse v. Sypher Part 1Part 2 Sypher v. EHome @43m10s Moscow Five v. Sypher SK Gaming v. Sypher Curse Gaming v. EHome

Playoffs

Quarterfinals Curse Gaming v. CLG SK Gaming v. aAa Game 1 Game 1 Game 2 Game 2 Game 3 Semifinals Moscow Five v. CLG Dignitas v. aAa Game 1 Game 1 Game 2 Game 2 3rd Place Match CLG v. aAa Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Finals Moscow Five v. Dignitas Game 1 Game 2

Additional Coverage

• Riot Coverage Portal

Trivia

• The finals were able to pull in over 267,000 concurrent viewers for IEM, breaking its previous record of 247,000 achieved at Kiev.

See Also

• Electronic Sports League
• Intel Extreme Masters
• Tournaments Portal
• Premier Tournaments

External links

• IEM Homepage
• IEM VI - World Championship page on IEM site