The third season of the Intel Extreme Masters unlocks a new level of eSports and entertainment. The Intel Extreme Masters Season III features events on three continents: Asia, America and Europe. The world's best eSport clans will be playing on highest peforming Intel Extreme Processors on Alienware Systems from Dell's Gaming group competing for a prize money of 750,000USD. Counter-Strike 1.6 and World of Warcraft are the disciplines.
For the previous seasons of the Intel Extreme Masters the games Counter-Strike 1.6 and Warcraft 3 were the two main disciplines. For the third season we are exchanging one game. Instead of Warcraft 3, the world's most popular MMORPG, played by more than 10 million players, will be the second title: World of Warcraft. At the Blizzard and Intel Warcraft Weekend in Hamburg and at the Intel Extreme Masters at DreamHack the ESL presented two major tournaments that introduced WoW to the eSports audience. We are looking forward to see World of Warcraft as a part of the Intel Extreme Masters.
After two exciting seasons of Intel Extreme Masters featuring several events in Europe and the Global Challenge in Los Angeles it is time to take the next step: The third season of world's greatest eSports tournament is featuring events in Asia, America and Europe. The American and European continental league seasons will culminate in a continental final. Individual country finals will be hosted in Peoples Republic of China and the Republic of South Korea. The start of the third season will be at Games Convention 2008. In early 2009 the world finals will determine the world’s best teams at CeBIT 2009!
Further information about the play mode, the qualification system and of course the events will be announced
on the new Intel Extreme Masters website soon!
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Today the ESL proudly announced the launch of the Electronic Sports League (ESL) in the United States of America. Europe's biggest computer gaming league will start in the USA. Play Counter-Strike 1.6, World of Warcraft and Bomberman Online on ESL America. Enjoy the league that matters since 1996 finally in the USA. Furthermore qualify for the Intel Extreme Masters Season III with 750,000USD prize money!
Counter Strike 1.6: 150,000USD
World of Warcraft: 90,000USD