ESR - Coverage

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Posted by xou @ 11:41 CST, 1 March 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

The first day of the IEM5 World Championship Finals is starting Tuesday morning at 03:30 CST. Below you can find the schedule and streaming informations.

For more details and links, please check the IEM5 World Championship Finals Coverage post. Results and VODs will be added to the coverage as soon as known.

Update: Day 1 is over! The ESL TV VODs are available, as well as the Level Up TV VODs. POV demos can be found on the matches pages, also you can get some spec demos from Trance. The cfgs will come shortly!

Day1 Schedule

Stream links

IRC:

#lvl^

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rapha: "I really like playing Cypher" (46 comments)

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Posted by Thorin @ 04:20 CST, 28 February 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

In a video interview from his pre-IEM V World Championship bootcamp SK Gaming's

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson discussed the groups and his mindstate going into the tournament.

What was rapha's initial reaction to seeing the group drawings? Why does rapha really like playing

Cypher? Is it a foregone conclusion that

av3k will win group A? How has the layover since DreamHack affected rapha's level?

The interview can be watched at SK Gaming.

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IEM5 World Finals Previews (19 comments)

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Posted by xou @ 02:45 CST, 28 February 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

The IEM Season V World Finals are taking first step tomorrow morning at 03:30 CST. Sadly again, nobody on ESReality used the Contribute link to try and write a preview of the competition. But a few writers from the community shared their thoughts about the Group Stage through various websites.

Over at TEK9,

Bcrbo put up another great piece where it's hard to see any top3 emerging and questioning the format of the tournament.

On FNATIC.com,

frequency reviewed the two groups and their favorites, without putting too much focus into the team's players.

And finally on ESFI World,

d1ngdong released the 3rd part of his Quakelive preview which is dedicated to

Cooller,

rapha and

dandaking. The 4th and last part should come shortly!

Update: Better late than never,

SwitchbacK posted his preview on SK Gaming during the night!

Links: TEK9, FNATIC.com, ESFI World

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Pre-IEM interview with czm (29 comments)

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Posted by d1ngdong @ 06:43 CST, 27 February 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

We were able to speak with

Paul "czm" Nelson a few days before his trip to

Hanover to participate in the IEM 5 World Championships. Although he hasn't been able to find enough time to prepare for the event as he would like, he said simply that he'll do his best and has been taking each practice match one at a time.

Excerpt

Read the full interview at esfiworld.com.

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Win 15 HD Premium passes for IEM5 Finals (183 comments)

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Posted by Trance @ 13:37 CST, 24 February 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Scheduled: 13:00 CST, 27 February 2011 to 13:30 CST, 27 February 2011
Schedule: Passed

Level Up TV is pleased to announce that once again it will partner with ESL to bring you coverage of the entire Quakelive tournament at this year's Intel Extreme Masters World Finals taking place between March 1st-5th at CEBIT, Hannover.

Level Up TV will be providing a total of 3 streams for this event, a free and premium Stream (TV1) coupled with an additional free stream (TV2) that will showcase most of the games. Since you will need a premium ESL TV subscription to watch the premium stream, we have 15 HD premium passes courtesy of ESL to give away.

How to win a premium pass

Level Up TV coverage schedule

Direct stream links: lvl TV1 (free), lvl TV1 (premium), lvl TV2 (free)
Related: Level Up TV Website,

,

,Youtube Steam Group

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IEM5 World Championship Finals Coverage (8 comments)

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Posted by xou @ 19:47 CST, 23 February 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

The IEM5 World Championship Finals are taking place at the CeBIT 2011 in

Hanover from the 1st to the 5th of March 2011.

The competition will use 2 Groups of 6 players (bo3) where top2/3 players will advance to Quarter Finals, and top1 players to Semi Finals. The playoffs will use a Single Elimination Bracket (bo5).

The map pool consists of Aerowalk, Blood Run, Dismemberment, Furious Heights, Hektik, Lost World and Vertical Vengeance.

From this coverage page, you can have access to:

- Page 1 - List of Quake Live Participants
- Page 2 - Streamings links & informations
- Page 3 - Coverages, Interviews & Galleries links
- Page 4 - Quakelive Groups Rankings
- Page 5 - Day 1 Schedule, Results & VODs
- Page 6 - Day 2 Schedule, Results & VODs
- Page 7 - Days 3, 4 & 5, Playoff Schedule, Results & VODs
- Page 8 - Rankings and Prize money

Official links: QL Groups, QL Brackets, Main page, Complete schedule, Gallery -

Spraying:

#lvl^

Article Page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 || next page >>

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ESFI's IEM "3-a-days" - Quakelive Part 2 (22 comments)

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Posted by xou @ 04:14 CST, 23 February 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

The second part of the IEM5 Quakelive Finals preview by ESFI World has just been published yesterday. This new piece focuses on Group A, and more specifically on

fazz,

strenx and

av3k.

Here is a short excerpt of the little conclusion on strenx:

The majority of Quake fans will have no second thoughts in placing their bets on Baeza finishing in the top three to advance out of this group [...]. Along with Av3k, the pair seem like locks to move on, and it's not a stretch to have strenx at the very top above Av3k.

The integral write-up can be found on ESFI World.

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"I was like wow I've got a hard job" (27 comments)

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Posted by M05 @ 13:17 CST, 22 February 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Getting the chance to sit down with

Daniel "dandaking" De Sousa before we fly out to Germany on Friday, for the Intel Extreme Masters Season 5 World Championships. Dan answers some questions from his local fans and shares with us his opinion on the Australian competitors, changes he has made since Quakecon 2010 in regards to practice regime and config, equipment he will be using for the event, what he is most looking forward to in his matches and his goals for the tournament. Then in the next video we take a look at a more in-depth analysis of his tournament predictions, thoughts on the strengths and weakness of the opponents within his group and map selections.

Links: Video Intervews (1, 2), 4sg
VOD: Oceanic IEM Championships (Grand, Semi's, Quarter's part 1, 2)

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ESFI's IEM "3-a-days" - Quakelive Part 1 (49 comments)

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Posted by xou @ 12:07 CST, 19 February 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

The preview of the IEM5 World Finals already started at ESFI World. For each day left until the beginning of the competition, they will review the chances of 3 competitors from SC2, CS and QL. The first part of this preview series is covering Quakelive with 3 duelers from Group B:

Cypher,

spart1e and

czm.

Here is a short excerpt of Cypher's intro:

To put it simply, Alexey 'Cypher' Yanushevsky is one of the top three favorites to win the IEM 5 World Championships. Anyone not betting on Cypher to finish in the podium would need to in turn bet against a plethora of supporting evidence that says he won't disappoint.

Head yourself off to ESFI World for the real thing.

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IEM V World Finals - $145,000 Prize Pool (11 comments)

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Posted by Cyn1c @ 14:23 CST, 17 February 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

The ESL has announced a whopping $145,000 Prize Pool for the IEM 5 World Finals to be held at CeBIT in Germany from 1st - 5th March. Prize purse will be distributed across 4 e-Sports disciplines namely QuakeLive, Counter Strike, Starcraft 2 and League of Legends. With several roster changes and upsets at the IEM 5 European Finals in Kiev, Counter-Strike tops the charts with the highest overall prize purse. However, since the 1st prize of $35,000would be split among a team of five, Starcraft 2 takes the spot for the highest individual 1st prize at $13,000 with QuakeLive first prize at $8500.

Prize Allocation

QuakeLive ($20,000)
1st. $8,500
2nd. $4,000
3rd. $2,500
4th. $1,400
5/6th. $600
5/6th. $600
7/8th. $400
7/8th. $400
9/10th. $400
9/10th. $400
11/12th. $400
11/12th. $400

Counter-Strike ($80,000)
1st. $35,000
2nd. $17,000
3rd. $8,500
4th. $4,000
5/6th. $2,500
5/6th. $2,500
7/8th. $1,750
7/8th. $1,750
9/10th. $1,750
9/10th. $1,750
11/12th. $1,750
11/12th. $1,750

StarCraft II ($30,000)
1st. $13,000
2nd. $6,500
3rd. $4,000
4th. $2,500
5/6th. $800
5/6th. $800
7/8th. $400
7/8th. $400
9/10th. $400
9/10th. $400
11/12th. $400
11/12th. $400

League of Legends ($13,500)
1st. $4,750
2nd. $2,750
3rd. $2,250
4th. $1,750
(+ $200 per win)

Source: ESL-World

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Strenx Post-IEM Europe Interview (44 comments)

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Posted by Cyn1c @ 13:06 CST, 17 February 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

K�vin "strenx" Ba�za sits down with Phil in this post-IEM European Finals interview and talks about his infamous match against

Cooller, his win over

Cypher for the 3rd place, the upcoming IEM 5 World Championship Finals in Hanover along with his preparation for the same and his plans for 2011.

An excerpt:

I knew I can beat Cypher even if I had 1% chance to do so. He was disappointed because he lost to Av3k. But it's not really an excuse because I should be the most disappointed guy after what happened against Cooller. After our match he (Cypher) came to me and said I wasn't playing my best but at the World Finals, I'm going to play a lot better.

Link: Full Video Interview

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IEM5 QL Lets take a look shall we? (34 comments)

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Posted by M05 @ 22:38 CST, 12 February 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

Whilst sitting here organizing our trip and counting the sleeps until the IEM5 World Championships, anticipating thoughts are running through my head. As suspected in all of our heads that same iconic question. Who will be crowned the Quake Live World Champion?

Excerpt: Last years struggle over the doubtfulness that the games interest would once again become a 'starvation' for players has been answered. The liveliness of the game has grown a lot in the past year, and the decisions of those from 'ye old times' whose minds were once balanced between playing seriously or disappearing, have made their moves. With the exception of one unfortunate soul, and arguably a few �invitation allocation decisions�, these World Championships contain, at this current time, the best Quake Live duelers the world has to offer.

Read the full write-up on 4seasonsgaming.com.

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IEM EC caption contest (10 comments)

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Posted by Carmac @ 05:55 CST, 29 January 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

With ESReality being the best website for photo captions, it might be interesting to some of the users here. The Intel Extreme Masters Facebook page has got a caption contest with a Razer Carcharias headset and three Razer Goliathus mousepads up for grabs.

All you need to do is pick out any photo from the ESL's gallery of the IEM European Championship finals in Kiev (all four days), add your caption and post it on the wall of the IEM Facebook page. The best entries will be awarded prizes.

The photos in the gallery were taken by Pawel Bownik, an artist photographer renowned for his series "Gamers". The gallery is worth browsing through even if you are not interested in the contest itself.

You've got time until Monday 23:59.

How to do it

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IEM5 World Championships - Groups (4 comments)

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Posted by Dronar @ 18:10 CST, 27 January 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

ESL has just now released the groups for the World Finals at CeBIT in March

All groups of the World Championship are drawn. These teams and players qualified via continental finals our qualification tournament and will face each other in five weeks. The competition for the World Champion title will take place March 1st to 5th at CeBIT, Germany.

Quake Live

StarCraft II

Links: ESL IEM5

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IEM5 World Championships - Groups (354 comments)

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Posted by Dronar @ 18:07 CST, 27 January 2011 - iMsg

Event: IEM5

ESL has just now released the groups for the World Finals at CeBIT in March

All groups of the World Championship are drawn. These teams and players qualified via continental finals our qualification tournament and will face each other in five weeks. The competition for the World Champion title will take place March 1st to 5th at CeBIT, Germany.

Quake Live

StarCraft II

Links: ESL IEM5

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