IEF 2009
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| IEF 2009 [edit]
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| Event Type: | Offline | ||||
| Start Date: | October 30th, 2009 | ||||
| End Date: | November 1st, 2009 | ||||
| Winners | |||||
   Stork
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| Player Breakdown | |||||
| Number of Players: | '29' | ||||
'11'  '7'  '11'  '0'
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| Maps | |||||
| Carthage • Destination • Outsider • Byzantium • Heartbreak Ridge | |||||
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[edit] General Information
The International Esports/entertainment Festival was hosted 2009 in Souwon, South Korea. It featured Korean professional players, top foreigners and Chinese stars. With a prize pool of over $15.000 this tournament was one of the major events. StarCraft Brood War was one of the official titles.
The Korean broadcasting station OnGame.net covered the event for the foreign scene. As special treat famous K-Pop bands like Girl's Generation, SHINee and IU performed during the event.
The foreign players and the Koreans were invited directly. The Chinese players had to qualify in a satellite Qualifier first.
And additional tournament for a lower prize pool was hosted for some of the foreign players.[1]
[edit] Prizes
| Place | Prize (USD) |
| Champion | $10.000 |
| Runner-up | $5.000 |
| Third | $3.000 |
| Total | $18.000 |
[edit] Foreigner Tournament
| Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||||
 Artosis
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| G5
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| Artosis
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 SEn
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| SEn
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| incontrol
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| Artosis
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 Strelok
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| Strelok
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 RedSkirt
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| Strelok
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| Nazomen
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| Nazomen
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| Strelok
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 Never
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| Gretorp
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| Gretorp
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| Machine
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| Machine
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| Gretorp
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| 3rd place match | ||||||||||||||
| Never
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| Slog4
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| JayStar
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| JayStar
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| Never
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| LBH
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| Never
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[edit] Chinese Qualifiers
Sixteen players started in the qualifiers. Four groups were generated, with the best two advancing in a single-elimination tournament.
[edit] The Groups
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[edit] Tournament
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||
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| Super
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| F91
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| Never
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| Never
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| Vulture
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| Never
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| LBH
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| LBH
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2 | LBH
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| JayStar
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[edit] The Final Tournament
The final tournament started with five groups from which only the first of the groups advanced. To determinate who had to play the additional quarter final game a game of scissor-paper-rocks was played.
[edit] Group Stage
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| Rank | Player | W | L |
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| 1 | White-Ra |
4 | 1 |
| 2 | G5 |
4 | 1 |
| 3 | Boxer |
3 | 2 |
| 4 | Never |
2 | 3 |
| 5 | Nazomen |
2 | 3 |
| 6 | Rekrul |
0 | 5 |
| Group E Matches |
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[edit] Play Offs
- Quarter Final Match
Terror > Pj
| Semifinals | Finals | |||||
| Terror
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| White-Ra
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| Terror
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| Stork
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| Stork
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| Idra
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0 | 3rd place match | ||||
| White-Ra
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| Idra
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