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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.
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.
[edit] Prize pool
Offering $29,000 spread among all players as follows:
[edit] Format
- 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 qualifing 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.
[edit] Participants
(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]
[edit] Distribution of Seeds
[edit] Results
[edit] Open Bracket
January 17, 2013 12:00 CET(GMT+1):
Click [show] on the right to view the Open Bracket
[edit] Bracket 1
RetW
OKai0
HaPe2
ParanOidW
VerdiW
Ret2
HaPe0
ParanOid1
Verdi2
Ret1
Verdi2
OKaiW
ParanOid2
HaPe0
Ret1
ParanOid2
VerdiQ
ParanOidQ
[edit] Bracket 2
TLOW
nordddiW
TroolW
DieStarW
TLO2
nordddi0
Trool-
DieStarW
TLO2
DieStar0
TroolW
nordddiW
Trool-
nordddiW
DieStar2
nordddi0
TLOQ
DieStarQ
[edit] Bracket 3
MaNaW
inLove2
Scoobers1
NoispaxenW
TarsonW
MaNa2
inLove0
Noispaxen0
Tarson2
MaNa2
Tarson0
ScoobersW
Noispaxen2
Scoobers0
inLoveW
Noispaxen2
inLove0
Tarson2
Noispaxen0
MaNaQ
TarsonQ
[edit] Bracket 4
DaisyW
MeGo2
ArtZ1
funkayW
TefelW
Daisy2
MeGo0
funkay2
Tefel1
Daisy2
funkay0
ArtZW
Tefel2
MeGo0
funkay0
Tefel2
DaisyQ
TefelQ
[edit] Group Stage
[edit] Playoffs
[edit] Bracket
MaNa2
MaNa 
TLO
January 19th 2013
TLO3
LucifroN0
LucifroN 
Kas
January 19th 2013
Kas3
Daisy3
Daisy 
Nerchio
January 19th 2013
Nerchio0
YoDa3
YoDa 
Grubby
January 19th 2013
Grubby1
First3
First 
TLO
January 19th 2013
TLO0
Socke3
Socke 
Kas
January 19th 2013
Kas2
Dream3
Dream 
Daisy
January 20th 2013
Daisy1
PartinG3
PartinG 
YoDa
January 20th 2013
YoDa0
First3
First 
Socke
January 20th 2013
Socke0
Dream3
Dream 
PartinG
January 20th 2013
PartinG1
First3
First 
Dream
January 20th 2013
Dream1
[edit] Racial Distribution
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Terran | Zerg | Random |
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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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[edit] Trivia
[edit] Sick Nerd Baller Award
The Sick Nerd Baller Award for the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the tournament went to Socke.
[edit] Free For All
[edit] Participants
(1) mOOnGLaDe won the match by holding the Xel'Naga tower at the 45 minutes mark for 10 seconds.
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